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by ptha 11y ago
2FA is now available for Amazon customer accounts: http://betanews.com/2015/11/18/how-to-enable-two-factor-auth... The option is only (at the moment) available for Amazon.com accounts, but if you enable it th
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by ptha 11y ago
If you login to amazon.com and enable 2FA, then when you login to amazon.co.uk (same username etc.) it will ask you for the 2FA code. It seems if you have an account for one Amazon domain you can login to all with the same credentials.
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by ptha 11y ago
Beside by mosquito, apparently it can also be transmitted sexually: "In 2009, Brian Foy, a biologist from the Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory at Colorado State University, sexually transmitted the Zika virus to his
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by ptha 11y ago
The logo has also changed quite a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_logos The one of the recent iteration removed the symbol from the Klingon alphabet to be replaced by a Geʿez character, along wit
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by ptha 11y ago
The majority of the tax to be recovered are actually related to European and not US companies: "While declining to name the companies who benefitted from the tax scheme, Commissioner Vestager said that €500 million of the total tax bi
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by ptha 11y ago
Interestingly from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine#History "An estimated 100,000 Enigma machines were constructed. After the end of World War II, the Allies sold captured Enigma machines, still widel
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by ptha 11y ago
I'm surprised the article makes no mention of Adam Carola's podcast. Possibly due to some of the controversial remarks made by Carola on the show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adam_Carolla_Show_%28podca...
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by ptha 11y ago
There's a lot of scope for this sort of thing with twitter hashtags, one of the best being a hash tag for Susan Boyle's Album Party getting shortened to: #Susanalbumparty http://www.theguardian.com/technology&#x2
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by ptha 11y ago
Some further info from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_radiation_experiments#Ex...
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by ptha 11y ago
Exactly, I had "Firefox 39 available", once I'd updated and checked "About Firefox", it's version 39.0.3
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by ptha 11y ago
Another awful example being the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments which went as late as 1972: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
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by ptha 11y ago
Old (2008) Newsweek article on China's use of human bees: http://www.newsweek.com/stung-bees-91351
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by ptha 11y ago
Perhaps something the countries signing on to the Global Apollo Programme[1] should be investing in. It's priorities are Renewable/Storage/Smart Grids, but I don't think we should be ruling anything out, if 2C is the tar
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by ptha 13y ago
"With the help of Chicago startup and robot writing firm, Narrative Science, algorithms have basically been passing the Turing test online for the last few years." If an article written by a bot is indistinguishable from that writ