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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Looks like this has turned into a hot topic as more details have evolved. To my mind, this all seems to be a bit of an academic side-show, given how long ago these events were. What should probably be of concern is that Assange is talking
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
The work round is to spend 3 months in the EU and then return under EU rules and not UK. The case was Surinder Singh but there are subsequent rulings - https://www.freemovement.org.uk/surinder-singh-immigration-r... You&#x
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
You beat me to bringing that one up ! Indeed, it's been a huge bonanza for the local residents as big corporations have rolled into town and spent millions on PR (often as close to the courthouse as they can get). Everyone in town is
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CBC Adds Securedrop via TOR to Protect Sources(securedrop.cbc.ca)
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UK Lincolnshire Council Hit by Ransomware, Shuts Down IT(theregister.co.uk)
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
I have to wear a "life sustaining medical device" (as printed on it and the 'airport' card I was given). The manufacturers are very, very explicit that the unit will be damaged by these scanners and that under no circ
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
I never knew about this until now. That looks pretty amazing and I can see all sorts of potential. There's all sorts of debate above about office 365 (some reads more like slick advertising astro-turf - people really shouldn't bi
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
This is another of those amazing examples of how the super-cramped (by today's standards) hardware of the late 70's and early 80's inspired some amazing efficiency and brilliant programming. Machines with 1,2,4, 8 or super-e
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
The link is to an advert offering bitcoin payments for linking and not the actual article titled. Looks like this is one for the mods to check.
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Heartbleed bug infected more government computers than previously disclosed(cbc.ca)
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Man Uses LifeLock to Track Ex-Wife; Company Didn’t Care(consumerist.com)
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
You're still young at 22 and it's [i.e. having difficulty making /real/ friends] not nearly as unusual or bad as your posting suggests you think and feel. Looking at facebook and seeing people with hundreds of so-called
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
A classic example of organizations (BSA, Microsoft etc.) not understanding the internet and thinking this was going to deter others. Lots of online comment (and views of the video[1]) are supportive of the guy and are viewing to remove the
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Coming from Europe, I found it weird in North America that I get asked for business cards all the time but it's been 15 years since I got asked for one in Europe. The US Border is bizarre, I get asked for a card when I cross almost all
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
I see you being downvoted, but I'm not sure why. Anyway, in the UK, YOU are invoiced for board and lodging upon release[1] [2]. The UK Home Office use it as a method of effectively diminishing any compensation payment to negligible su
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Encryption is hard to do correctly. Even for ransom-ware developers. Thankfully, in this case, it also gave a way for some smart people who understand encryption to fix a potentially serious problem. Ransom-ware seems to be the current big
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
They settled for undisclosed terms - http://fhstheprint.com/2097/news/russian-man-takes-it-to-the... However, he felt his life was under threat, which may have helped the bank's negotiating power - after all
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
You read the story quite differently from me. I don't think he changed how they operated at all. He gave them a program which highlighted the most critical calls for most urgent attention. That's EXACTLY how 911 operators are SUPP
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Unfortunately, policing culture is very territorial and operates at extreme levels of testosterone fueled territory marking. A tech-nerd (with possibly some autistic traits from the descriptions) is never going to get along in that environm
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Alas, not very helpful, from the top of the Google cache page : This is Google's cache of https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=41068 . It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 25 Oct 2015 20
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
TalkTalk spent the weekend in full PR mode claiming the attack was the work of cyber jihadi's[0] and suggesting huge resources were used to target and overcome their defenses (i.e. the "no-one could have withstood this sort of att
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VW and the never-ending cycle of corporate scandals(bbc.com)
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Rather suspicious, repeated, mentions of 23andMe. This reads more like an advertisement in disguise rather than "news".
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
The UK. My role saw interaction across different jurisdictions and the UK seemed better than some (some of the US stuff was eye popping, even based on my experience). I'm sure there are places better than the UK but I can just base t
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
It appears you've never had a real encounter with Police. I've actually worked with the Police. ALL training is about asserting power when dealing with suspects (a suspect is anyone you stop or talk to - no matter what the circ
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Never occurred to me before, but here "substitutes" reads to me as being commutative. I read both as having the same meaning. (i.e. you end up with unicode homographs replacing your ascii) Just me?
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
> I'm also alarmed at the number of European countries using this software... Why? A number of EU countries have set up front companies to re-sell their spy agencies skills in mass surveillance to assorted dictators and despots. T
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
> The guy who was raping little kids in his van shouldn't serve his time in a nice hotel And there's a myth about prison right there. Spoken by someone who clearly has no idea how horrible prisons really are. And how dangerou
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
UCSD Pascal used the p-machine to be machine/architecture independent. All the way back in 1978. [edit: a quick google suggests the p-machine was based on original work circa. 1966] While not the JVM, using a virtual processor setup
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by pascalmemories 11y ago
Totally, in business critical systems for all sorts of stuff. Rewriting it would be enormous effort and provide no business benefit and be full or risk of introducing new (or re-introducing old) bugs in the process of converting to some whi

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