sambeau

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CIA 'tried to crack security of Apple devices'(theguardian.com)
4 points by sambeau 12y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 12y ago
"Apple may soon buy up one third of the world’s gold"
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by sambeau 12y ago
"His estimations — admittedly based on the Wall Street Journal predictions, not official figures"
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by sambeau 12y ago
I hope he remembers to negotiate in regular trips to Glasgow University so he can finally carry out his function as Rector.
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by sambeau 12y ago
I loved that mouse. It was the most comfortable mouse I ever had and, if held correctly, you could fling it about with real accuracy. I was sad when they replaced it.
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5G researchers manage record connection speed(m.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by sambeau 12y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 12y ago
On his watch: "You can take in in the bath tub at least once"
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Woz on watches, addiction and being played by Seth Rogen(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by sambeau 12y ago|1 comments
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Where’s Wally? There's an algorithm for that(theguardian.com)
4 points by sambeau 12y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 12y ago
I think that maybe "trigger happy" is an unfair term here - being that they are usually expecting to find a terrorist / hostage situation. But I agree with your main point: it's only a matter of time until someone gets k
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by sambeau 12y ago
Nope. Now you're just trading in insults.
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by sambeau 12y ago
The problem with that argument is that sexism is subjective and it is up to those being discriminated against to decide what is a discriminatory act, not the perpetrators. There is no deliberate misinterpretation. The fact that there are so
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by sambeau 12y ago
The problem here is that if we don't try to change things - nothing will get changed. Our language is currently sexist by default and if we don't try to change that it will remain sexist by default. Why would anyone not want to ch
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by sambeau 12y ago
Before we get into - "Oh not this again!" and "Duh! but Linux Won!" and "Microkernels are still a better design"... Remember, today's lucky 10,000... http://xkcd.com/1053/ Actually, I
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by sambeau 12y ago
A problem I have with this is that blocks so much of the face that it hinders subtle facial gestures. Notice that on all the video calls they show the other person isn't wearing one? (That and it is rather ugly, too.)
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by sambeau 12y ago
Also, I think you need to consider Dermot_Morgan (most known outside Ireland for Father Ted) in the list of important political satirists and Scrap Saturday in the list of groundbreaking satire programmes. http://en.wikipedia.org
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by sambeau 12y ago
Small nitpick. It was The 11 O'Clock Show [1998] that introduced Sacha Baron Cohen (Ali-G & Borat). It also gave us Ricky Gervais & Mackenzie Crook. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_11_O%27Clock_Show
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by sambeau 12y ago
In October 2014, she got an email from Los Angeles city council person Paul Krekorkian. He wasn’t writing to ask her to stop producing LA signs. On the contrary: he wanted her permission to propose her design at the next counci
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by sambeau 12y ago
So, is this good news or bad news for current Glass owners? If it was me I think I'd be upset to see that my expensive piece of kit had effectively (if not officially) been end-of-lifed. (if not for Google themselves but almost certain
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by sambeau 12y ago
Am I alone in being bemused and amused by this: Version 1.0.1 (Beta stability) Surely the main point of a 1.0 release is "stability" and to no longer be "beta"?
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by sambeau 12y ago
Oceans are huge. Where do you send those 50 bits if you are 1000s of miles from anywhere?
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by sambeau 12y ago
More interesting than seeing motor function - being that C Elgans has been shown to exhibit depressive behaviour [1], I wonder if they can observe or trigger depression in the model? That would, to me, show something much more thought provo
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by sambeau 12y ago
Fascinating - I've just written one of these for a project in Go.
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by sambeau 12y ago
Reminiscent of this: http://lukehalliwell.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/project-myworl... long-since morphed into this: http://recce.com
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by sambeau 12y ago
Sorry; I read "avowed" as a deliberate slur. I suspect some of the negativity about him here must have got to me. For an unknown reason I picked on your comment – I now see there are plenty worse :)
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by sambeau 12y ago
>Brian Cox, the presenter and avowed scientist, I think you mean "Brian Cox: Professor of High-energy Particle Physics, member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester, and the ATLAS experiment at the Large H
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Microsoft ditching the Nokia name on smartphones(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by sambeau 12y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 12y ago
What makes you think it won't be Chinese?
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by sambeau 12y ago
Asking has been the only way to get a raise above inflation in any corporation I've ever been at, even after taking on extra responsibilities.
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GoPro camera makes Californian surfer CEO a billionaire(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by sambeau 12y ago|0 comments

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