richardwigley

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Nigeria 'on red alert' over Ebola death in Lagos(bbc.co.uk)
125 points by richardwigley 12y ago|58 comments
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by richardwigley 12y ago
I would be interested if anyone has used this for project management?
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by richardwigley 12y ago
There was an article on that very subject - in short very unlikely, but if it did Paris would be the location. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/06/25/324941229/could-t...
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by richardwigley 12y ago
My experience was: my ISP was talktalk, under a business account run from home (SOHO?), One day, un-opted, they started censoring sites - dating sites - which would seem to be strict under the BT definition. While that might be as expected
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by richardwigley 12y ago
'Porn filters' while getting your attention isn't the whole story. There's a whole list there. Very few adults would tolerate this much censorship. Categories blocked across the major ISPs include: Dating, Drugs, Alcohol
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by richardwigley 12y ago
This article has a section on Mummy - apparently it had become an accepted treatment for a wide selection of ailments. http://www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brow... Mummy, or “mumia”, was typically the gro
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by richardwigley 12y ago
The Guardian has a data blog of the airliners flying over the region. Top 5 fliers were Aeroflot (86), Singapore (75), Ukraine (62), Lufthansa (56), Malaysia (48). Really could have been anyone. http://www.theguardian.com/ne
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Booking site HotelHippo.com in 'appalling' data leak(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by richardwigley 12y ago|0 comments
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by richardwigley 12y ago
There a smell from the explosives - it's quicker to cover an area for the smell-ee than with a metal detector. ------ "After a few months underground, almost all landmines leak vapours that betray the presence of explosives.&quo
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Google is to start building its own self-driving cars(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by richardwigley 12y ago|0 comments
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by richardwigley 12y ago
I think my favourite example of a "dirty hack that gets the job done" was by the developers of the DOS game Wing Commander. The game worked fine, but when exited, it output a strange error message to the console, complaining about
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Braille e-books: Why can't you buy a budget e-reader?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by richardwigley 12y ago|0 comments
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Reddit downgrades technology community after censorship(bbc.co.uk)
80 points by richardwigley 13y ago|127 comments
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by richardwigley 13y ago
The passport will be obviously forged. A hacker won't have even done a good job it doesn't matter because people don't check. This process was described in a candid interview with a hacker that tried to take over the intervie