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by m0nty 10y ago
Download a password manager like Keepass, Lastpass or Password Safe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_password_managers I use Keepass, it does exactly what I need. Secure the password manager itself with a long pa
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This oft-quoted study at the University of Bath in England: http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/articles/archive/overtaking110906... I'd like to see a more extensive study, although my own experience of using a h
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> Which would you expect to have the most? Cars, by a significant proportion - because there are far more of them than bikes. But what I would "expect" is neither here nor there. (You can find examples of both kinds of law-brea
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You don't have to look far: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... [XLS] That's 8,643 pedestrians killed between 2000 and 2013 on UK roads. It's not even solely wh
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by m0nty 10y ago
> Cyclists need to learn red lights apply to them to. As do motorists. Cars go through red lights all the time but we don't seem to notice, for some reason. If you'd been hit by cars this year, you would have suffered far more
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by m0nty 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07o-TASvIxY Anyone just blindly downvoting snovv_crash should check out the video above and any number of other resources, such as this one: http://www.cyclinguk.org/campaigni
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by m0nty 10y ago
> cyclists tend to be more of a menace than cars That must be why bikes injure 60,000 people per annum in the UK, and kill ~2,000. Then there's the ~40,000 deaths from pollution. Oh wait, that's the cars. Maybe you need to reth
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Non-commercial domain, in this case, on a .org address. But there's all sorts of evil can be done with this kind of thing, yours is another example.
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by m0nty 10y ago
> I had to deal with keeping my server out of over-enthusiastic spam blacklists My domain got blacklisted once. I contacted the service concerned (i.e. the people running the blacklist) and they said my web domain had appeared in the foo
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It's basically just blaming the outgroup.
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> denying a basic common sense human attribute Unfortunately, this kind of thing can end up in court where "common sense" has even less meaning than usual. "Your honour, the police have already categorised this as an accid
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> you'll see the language very precisely target the user, not the device Not to mention, all other users of that device, as in "bloody cyclists, always going through red lights and riding on the pavement" etc. Even more
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I guess that's encouraging, kind of. I've always felt like this whole thing was just an extension of "don't trust the IT guy", a viewpoint a one-time employer was happy to articulate loud and often ... in front of t
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by m0nty 10y ago
Do people applying for other roles get treated to tests like this? Seems peculiar to IT afaict. Having worked in IT for > 25 years, I would have thought my track record would speak for itself, but still I'm treated as though I'
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by m0nty 10y ago
> What's the oppposite of active sabotage? Isn't this exactly what an article like this is attempting to ask in the first place, albeit through irony and story-telling? I agree it's hardly ground-breaking, I guess it'
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Zero-waste bloggers:the millennials who can fit a year's worth of trash in a jar(theguardian.com)
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Experience: I ran a medical trial that went wrong(theguardian.com)
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by m0nty 10y ago
The use of the word "loser" (which has emotional connotations) is mostly what I object to here.
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> if you're an economic loser, I guess left-wing politics (tax the rich!) is appealing That is, in itself, an appalling caricature, albeit some left-wingers might be in that category. It's like saying all libertarians/righ
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by m0nty 10y ago
> one-sided political publication They certainly are left-aligned: they are famous (and notorious) for it. The "Guardian-reading lentil-munching sandal-wearing lefty" is a popular caricature, I've even seen people criticis
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> a general trend in newspaper people It's a trend with the majority of people. There was a case recently where a UK police force (Cambridge) decided to post pictures of poorly-parked bicycles on Twitter. Many people responded by po
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by m0nty 11y ago
Well it's still a very basic effort. If the job it's trying to do is annoy users, it's fine, but if it's trying to limit use of bad language, it mostly fails.
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by m0nty 11y ago
"Huge tits" but not "huge melons", "nigga" but not "niggaz"? Who wrote this thing? I think this is about 0.1% of the "naughty" words out there, and it's futile anyway (former school sys
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by m0nty 11y ago
> Thus, we usually have to write the name of the oil company as "Exxon", though its proper spelling is "e exx o n". (Don't make the mistake of pronouncing "Exxon" like "exon"; you will appear
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by m0nty 11y ago
> why you have been driving like a jackass Or just don't drive like a jackass. It's a serious business, take it seriously.
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by m0nty 11y ago
Funny you mention the Lords ... I wrote a position paper for the Conservative front-bench spokesman for Trade and Industry about the RIP Act 2000. Worked better than letter-writing and meeting my MP. All this because I happened to play cric
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by m0nty 11y ago
I agree, but it's likely to change nothing. I'm not being defeatist per se , but I went through all this with the RIP Act in 2000 and it was futile, even though the Conservatives went through some posturing in defence of civil li
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by m0nty 11y ago
> remember non-compliance — whatever the immediate consequences to yourself — is the only acceptable course of action Seriously, can we get away from these fine-sounding (but otherwise utterly useless) slogans and clarion calls? There ha
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by m0nty 11y ago
Ah, should have looked more closely ;) Thx.
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> And what the article doesn't mention: The country of these assassins was invaded (without provocation) Because it isn't relevant to the narrative in this case. It's not an attempt to justify or even explain the circumsta

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