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1231.
by soneil 13y ago
I fear I'll open another can of worms, but here's a rare consideration. If I download, unzip, and then run, on-access virus scanning will hit both the archive and the executable. If I pipe from wget straight to sh, it never hits
1232.
by soneil 13y ago
So by dropping EEC, thunderbolt, the second ethernet port, wifi & bluetooth, he managed to shave $24 off the starting price? I'm not sure what the take-away is here.
1233.
by soneil 13y ago
It's nothing to do with IP; Simply what the market is willing to pay. We're not buying knockoffs, or violating anyone's IP (I'm european). In fact, the article claims the US buys more generics than we do. We just have a
1234.
by soneil 13y ago
However, if you do Ireland -> UK -> EU, you'll most likely only see passport control between UK & EU. Passport controls aren't technically necessary between the UK & Ireland, but few airports in Ireland are architect
1235.
by soneil 13y ago
Really? I find that surprising (re: Europe) - I'm quite surprised the airlines still require ID here, the borders don't. I've taken trains from Hungary to France with less ID requirements than Amtrak.
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by soneil 13y ago
That's the problem; it's not a modern system. eg, the British GPO 332 handset was first issued in 1937 - and still works. It's difficult to demand millisecond timing when you're backwards-compatible with pre-war equipm
1237.
by soneil 13y ago
As I understand it, it's some of the insane backwards compatibility the 'pots' system has to put up with. If you think way back, before dtmf/touch-tone phones, when you dialed a number, the line clicked. You press one,
1238.
by soneil 13y ago
There's a simple but significant distinction here - it doesn't work for Air travel. And there's no tunnel from Russia to Bolivia .. (also noteworthy is that most nations need you to be within their borders before you can app
1239.
by soneil 13y ago
The clever tactic here is that it may not matter if they gain access to the records or not. That's less important than it seems. All they have to do is plant a seed of doubt in the jurors. That's the step that's going to ma
1240.
by soneil 15y ago
I'm in pretty much the same position. I pay for cable, and extra for their DVR. I pay for netflix. I pay for the BBC's international variant of iplayer, even if it is device-specific. Every chance they've given me, I've paid. And I still
1241.
by soneil 15y ago
Not sure this really needs another "me too", but these aren't actually new in the US either. It used to be (circa 2000) that photo requirements for the US greencard required a mugshot at an odd angle, such that a given % of ear (yes, reall
1242.
by soneil 15y ago
I'm in mixed minds about this. For as long as I remember, Australian linux users have been able to download isos from their ISPs own mirrors, without it counting against their cap. Which makes total sense, because it's internal to the ISPs
1243.
by soneil 15y ago
I've been noticing this lately. A lot of stale projects are claiming the same date in 2009. The code hasn't actually been touched since June 2006. This is why, as James says, linking straight to a sourceforge project isn't particularly us
1244.
by soneil 16y ago
There's two authors credited. I assume Stevens maintains credit the portions that he authored, and Fall for the edits & additions.
1245.
by soneil 16y ago
It'd be interesting to see the original dataset. At the risk of stereotyping, what's the chances php programmers simply don't leave useful commits? (and perl programmers don't leave anything parsable ..)
1246.
by soneil 16y ago
I'm UK/EU, but I've travelled around the EU with both my wife, and with friends, all USian (and all white, which I presume is still relevant in some places). The consensus has always been that the most difficult parts of their trip is getti
1247.
by soneil 16y ago
It appears that's exactly what it's doing. Legit, no. The weakest thing I've seen on HN, yes. Come on guys, really.
1248.
by soneil 16y ago
It was just a debate, and one that seemed fairly well-reasoned to me. A back-bencher (represents a local constituency and nothing more) put the quest forward, and was told "We believe in an open lightly regulated internet. [...] Government
1249.
by soneil 16y ago
It's not a "government plan". One MP raised the idea. And was quickly put down. "Devizes Tory MP Claire Perry raised the issue at a special Commons debate, because as a mother-of-three she knew how difficult it was to keep youngsters from