mayniac

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by mayniac 7y ago
Do you want to explain why you don't think London is English?
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by mayniac 7y ago
"brought in Boris bikes" Boris didn't even do anything with that one. Livingstone set everything up, but he left office before the scheme actually started. Boris just happened to be in charge when it started operating and he
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by mayniac 7y ago
Not far from London then. You should pop by sometime, witness the complete lack of bloodbaths on the streets.
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by mayniac 7y ago
So which US state do you live in, out of interest?
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by mayniac 7y ago
You can switch it to any port you want. Problem is that it's super easy to spot on security monitoring tools. I deal with "SSH not on port 22" alerts at least once a month. It's possible to get around this by tunneling S
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by mayniac 7y ago
>Though if I lived in a more concentrated metro area I might feel differently. I live in a metro area. Physical adverts are the worst type in my opinion. There are methods of eliminating every other type of ad: I use adblockers on my pho
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by mayniac 7y ago
I formed the opinion a while ago that we should go a step further: ban advertising entirely (not exactly a new idea, Bill Hicks came first [1]). Billboards, TV ads, newspaper ads, paid-for articles, promoted Instagram content, all internet
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by mayniac 7y ago
This is kind of a moot point. Unless the parents are security professionals it doesn't really matter what OS they use. A teenage boy will learn how to bruteforce /etc/shadow to bypass a porn filter if they're desperate.
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by mayniac 7y ago
In your case, a dedicated attacker could socially engineer the carrier into changing you and your father's contact details and then port the number. $100k is a lifetime's worth of money in some countries, and it can justify a few
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by mayniac 7y ago
The article mentions this. They're loud and have bright lights. The problem is these disorient the birds, and they struggle to escape in time. Not really surprising, if someone woke me up at 3am with an industrial hoover and a foglight
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by mayniac 7y ago
If anyone has been in a crash while they were driving with this, we won't know about it. Adding a third party, unregulated, quasi-legal modification to your car which can take over steering, brakes, and acceleration will instantly inva
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by mayniac 7y ago
>Any sort of situation that could require you to take control is warned in advance. And what about false negatives, where something happens but it doesn't warn you? The fact that comma.ai pulled out of releasing the comma one when t
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by mayniac 7y ago
>I get on the highway, engage the system, and sit back sipping my coffee for the next 45 minutes. Please, do not do this.
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by mayniac 7y ago
The video[1] says (verbatim): >OpenPilot allows you to be driving hands free and feet free for long periods of time without intervention. Holy fucking shit no. This is completely reckless. If they want their code to be used for research
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by mayniac 7y ago
The sweet candy flavour is mainly a crap load of sweeteners and ethyl maltol. You can make your own liquid at home which uses far less EM/sweetener. It's also remarkably cheap, I pay about £10/month for the equivalent of 20 c
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by mayniac 8y ago
I sat behind someone in business class on the Eurostar who was a C-level exec at another company. He was on the phone with a client and reassuring them that they took data security seriously, used VPNs and safes and FDE etc. He left his lap
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by mayniac 8y ago
Boss at my old company was hot on making people lock their machines. Used to leave notepad windows open saying "lock it" or similar, even when we had just gone to the other side of the room and could see him doing it. After the Nt
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by mayniac 8y ago
The technology already exists: as other people have pointed out you can get test kits for fentanyl pretty cheap. And that applies to almost every drug too, you can buy Marquis reagent which covers most commonly used recreational drugs. But
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by mayniac 8y ago
I got to experience first class in a BA A380 flight once since it was cheaper than business class and my company was paying. This is probably going to sound like the pinnacle of first world problems, but: it's overrated. The main diffe
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by mayniac 8y ago
I couldn't think of anything more horrible than running Windows without a GUI. Why not use Linux at that point?
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by mayniac 8y ago
Then there's also a million other ways to store or transmit images if you use tiny segments. Encode the image in base64 and you can use Twitter, reddit comments, SMS etc. The point is to make it unfeasibly hard to store/send the i
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by mayniac 8y ago
Apologies in advance for the long-winded answer to what looks like a simple question. >Can a 16x16 image be illegal? >What about a 64x64 image? Depends on the case. If you could show the 64x64 image of child abuse to a stranger and th
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by mayniac 8y ago
The easiest solution is probably just limiting how much data you can add to the ledger. There's no real reason why people need to add more than 10kb of information to a transaction. Cryptocurrencies aren't meant to be image hostin
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by mayniac 8y ago
Not specific to philosophers, but Contrapoints has a good breakdown of why the term "postmodern neo-marxists", which JBP uses a number of times throughout the book, shows a complete misunderstanding of modern philosophy. [1] Not r
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by mayniac 8y ago
>The answers are ridiculing the OP for asking a totally reasonable question. Isn't this fairly common for stackoverflow nowadays?
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by mayniac 8y ago
The source does not go into the abortion side other than that quote, and it's hard to judge what actually happens. There's a big difference between "your child is going to require 24/7 attention until they likely die bef
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by mayniac 8y ago
I got one with similar specs. Yoga 730-15ikb. i7 4c/8t, 16GB DDR4, and a Nvidia 1050TI. I've only had it for a week so can't say much but so far, definitely worth it. And £1k less than a MacBook with worse specs.
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by mayniac 8y ago
They don't have to be able to read your messages server-side to pick out keywords client-side and send those unencrypted. It would still be truthful: all messages are encrypted e2e, but the app on your device parses decrypted messages
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by mayniac 8y ago
>Why did they watch it? They could probably say the same about Towering Inferno, or an episode of Game of Thrones or myriad other things. It's all getting ridiculous. ...really????? It was all over the news. We have the BBC on one s
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by mayniac 8y ago
Maybe it's easier for them to increase manpower temporarily if it's outsourced? i.e. there's probably going to be more need to moderate Facebook in the run up to the midterms this November, and even more so with actual electi

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