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by stordoff 7y ago
> Looking back it’s obviously completely absurd that the University of Cambridge would ask me to judge an economics competition I don't think this really matters all that much. I might click the link anyway to find out what it is, o
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by stordoff 7y ago
_Any_ other domain, and I'm just going to ignore it. A legitimate *.ac.uk domain, and there's a good chance I will click it to find out what it is, even if I don't believe it. At that point, they've won (it's a 0-da
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by stordoff 7y ago
Which one, out of interest? I can imagine all of them being illegal in some member state.
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by stordoff 7y ago
The idea, generally speaking, is escalating fines. If a fine of this level doesn't stop you, you will get a substantially larger fine for the next or on-going infringement.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> (otherwise you wouldn’t be downvoting it, right?) You're assigning a strawman to your downvotes. OP said "I expect" (not "There must have been"), and it is the usual procedure. It's not a _requirement_ as
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by stordoff 7y ago
Not if the analytics companies start being contacted by hardcoded IP address, or the apps otherwise avoid DNS. May not by a common technique now, but it could become one.
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by stordoff 7y ago
Generally, no, but if you have a mains-powered wireless phone as your only phone (as my grandparents have for over a decade, it essentially is. This isn't necessarily something you can rely on (unless you specifically plan ahead for th
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by stordoff 7y ago
> During the investigation of the Stirland murders, police found that corrupt BT workers had given out details of where the couple had moved. As a direct result, Gunn was able to track them down. Of note, not witness protection: > The
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by stordoff 7y ago
FWIW, I ran Pi-Hole on a RPi for about six months, and it was flawless (long enough for me to forget the root password :p). One option would be to set up two Pis, and distribute both IPs in DHCP. If one is down, or can't resolve, clien
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by stordoff 7y ago
It'd be interesting to see a study of the _net_ effects of them this. They are not only a positive. For example: > Moreover, air-conditioning in the U.S. may have more indirect but nevertheless dangerous impacts: Whereas Europeans h
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by stordoff 7y ago
FWIW, Limited Run games are now on their last 16 Vita games, and AFAIK all of them have been manufactured.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> come live in hundred-degree Texas summers without it and then tell me to give [air-con] up [...] we will adapt to a hotter earth if need be Are you sure about that? It seems like we'd adapt by using more power, deepening the probl
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by stordoff 7y ago
> pretty much every site whose politics I disagree with will get a downvote If this happens to all sites, wouldn't only the poorer sites stand out? I don't see why one strand of politics would be significantly more likely to do
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by stordoff 7y ago
> the story of splicing a 500kW cable Do you have a link to this? I've tried googling "splicing a 500kW cable" (and variants) and haven't found much relevant.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> 1) "What I can tell you is..." "What I can tell you is that I did not cut" but I did step off the track, and that might be against the rules, so I can't say I didn't cheat - seems like a phrasing you could
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by stordoff 7y ago
Reminds me of The War of the Worlds: > The program has become famous for supposedly tricking some of its listeners into believing that a Martian invasion was actually taking place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_W
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by stordoff 7y ago
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "that's basically just network maintenance" - could you explain?
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by stordoff 7y ago
> it instructed the interrogator to attempt to obtain knowledge through the torture that only the guilty could have This (AIUI) is currently used in Japan (without the torture). It's not a cast-iron guarantee against false confessio
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by stordoff 7y ago
Similar in the UK. My old dogs were registered as something like "Amyandas Golden Hind" and "Amyandas Golden Blend", which are obviously not their 'actual' names.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> I wrote my thesis in 1993, and in that time period, my anecdotal observation was that the students who used LaTeX generally took longer to finish. How much of that is down to the choice of tool, and how much is down to people choosing
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by stordoff 7y ago
To be fair, he did called it a personal workaround. If it works for you, it doesn't really matter if it is common.
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by stordoff 7y ago
Wouldn't you still need the fake controls? It reduces the problem, but doesn't get rid of it entirely.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> As you mention 'happy social drinkers' and that is not the same thing as sitting at home alone with a drink Why? Most of my drinking has been done at home _in groups_ with retail bought alcohol. I don't see this is a pro
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by stordoff 7y ago
FWIW, drinking age in the UK is 18. There will be plenty of teenagers buying those legally.
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by stordoff 7y ago
You could give every single IPv4 host its own complete IPv4 address space, and you would _still_ have enough addresses for 2 * 10^19 planets[1]. 2^128 is _absurdly_ large. [1] 2^128 / (2^32 * 2^32) = 1.84 * 10^19
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by stordoff 7y ago
Sky Sports also periodically burn in a nine-digit identifier into the consumer streams (presumably to identify the source of illegal streams). https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/How-to/What-s-that-9-digit-numb...
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by stordoff 7y ago
Sure, it's not a silver bullet, but I suspect the risk model is better understood (post it away from me if geographic region matters, be careful of fingerprints and hair). It also has to be preemptively intercepted, rather than crypto
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They encourage developers to include their SDK: > Monetize your mobile app or game with our SDK, without showing intrusive ads or requiring annoying subscriptions and in app purchases. https://luminati.io/sdk They approa
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I _have_ multiple times walked away from a purchase due to reCAPTCHA at the login form (Sony - PSN). It makes me think "You know what, this isn't worth it", and I don't want to help Google out anyway.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> door is open, come on in. Door is closed, don't come in Same protocol at Cambridge (UK), at least in the rooms with two doors (outer door open: come in, outer door closed: do not disturb/I'm out). Lock picking wasn'

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