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These Toys Send What They Hear to a Defense Contractor(consumerist.com)
10 points by reirob 10y ago|6 comments
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Losses of soil carbon under global warming might equal U.S. emissions(news.yale.edu)
80 points by reirob 10y ago|20 comments
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China Tells Trump That Climate Change Is No Hoax It Invented(bloomberg.com)
1 points by reirob 10y ago|0 comments
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Modern software development is roughly like this(twitter.com)
2 points by reirob 10y ago|0 comments
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by reirob 10y ago
"[..]Alongside its government clients, Endace has many major corporate customers. Endace’s sales lists include finance industry giants such as Morgan Stanley, Reuters, and Bank of America. [..]" What for do finance companies need
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'Cyber terrorist' trades cufflinks for handcuffs(grahamcluley.com)
2 points by reirob 10y ago|0 comments
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Report: NSA hushed up zero-day spyware tool losses for three years(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by reirob 10y ago|0 comments
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Industry Concerns about TLS 1.3(ietf.org)
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by reirob 10y ago
Just found out that this is an excerpt from a video from 2014 [1], which took place at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. The part about Snowden starts around 19:55. However the synchronous translation is not as good at the sub
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Putin Trolls CIA on Edward Snowden(youtube.com)
8 points by reirob 10y ago|1 comments
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Cops Shot Her Boyfriend, She Streamed the Horrific Aftermath on Facebook(thedailybeast.com)
3 points by reirob 10y ago|1 comments
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If you've got money, you vote in if you haven't got money, you vote out(theguardian.com)
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by reirob 10y ago
What about Greek, the family of the Slavic languages like Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Kroatian, the family of Finno-Ugric languages Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, the isolated language Basque and finally the big share of the Germani
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The first law(areben.com)
1 points by reirob 10y ago|0 comments
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by reirob 10y ago
I like the procrastinator's matrix: https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://... Will print it and stick to my wall... Next time when I need to procrastinate.
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by reirob 11y ago
I was disappointed! Reading through the comments, before loading the page itself, I got really interested. Finally I clicked on the page just to find out that it is for Apple devices only. Quelle discrimination in the age of HTML5! If I onl
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by reirob 11y ago
What does Yüz Kitap mean?
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by reirob 11y ago
It's from 2012, should be in the title. Good read though.
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by reirob 11y ago
Yes there is even a company shipping T400 and X200 Thinkpads pre-installed with libreboot and I see they have now an option for a server: https://minifree.org/
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by reirob 11y ago
Make new taxes on automation, robots, AI, Internet business?
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by reirob 11y ago
Quote: > “People were using something they thought was perfectly safe,” he says. “And it isn’t. At least give people the choice. J&J didn’t give people a choice.” Among the most painful revelations, he says, was that in the 1990s, ev
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by reirob 11y ago
The biggest problem was that it didn't have physical buttons above the trackpoint - they very virtual. For trackpoint only users it's unusable, because we often have the thumb on the button for dragging, double clicking etc. Often
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by reirob 11y ago
Got the T450s with an i7-5600U, 20GB RAM, 1TB SSD (bought from another vendor and swapped, much cheaper than the 500GB SSD from Lenovo). Ubuntu 14.04 works like charm. With an additional battery (the thick one), I can spend a whole day with
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by reirob 11y ago
This was the case with non-Apple iPhone chargers that damaged the iPhones. I've seen it on TV in France. I would reckon that it strengthened the Apple brand, because since then more users were afraid to buy non-Apple accessories. Howev
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by reirob 11y ago
Come on, we had this already with non-Apple iPhone chargers. That didn't make Apple change much to my knowledge. Edit: To add: I do not believe it made much harm to the Apple brand.
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by reirob 11y ago
By applying this logic a computer manufacturer should not allow any non certified OS to run on their machines. Writing this on a ThinkPad running Linux. If this comes true I will stop buying Lenovo products. Until today I continue buying Th
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by reirob 11y ago
I just downloaded the Debian packages and installed them on Ubuntu 14.04 following the instructions. The installation went fine and I immediately tried if it would render better some MS Word documents than the Libre Office 4.x something tha
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French law forbids food waste by supermarkets(theguardian.com)
11 points by reirob 11y ago|1 comments
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by reirob 11y ago
The first thing that came to mind: It's almost not possible to buy a computer without Windows, despite many times not needing it or being able to reuse the one shipped with the last computer. Microsoft managed to get in a position wher
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by reirob 11y ago
I am surprised to not see Lagos [0] in the list. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos

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