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by sveiss 10y ago
There's probably more heat to be removed from what's essentially a small datacentre than from a residential building.
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by sveiss 10y ago
The article is about the UK, where that's the case for about 2/3rds of taxpayers. Unless something's gone wrong, there's usually no bill or refund involved either: the tax authority and employers communicate to try and k
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by sveiss 10y ago
Only one case which I've seen mention of: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25745989 He got an additional four months for the failure to disclose the passphrase, on top of five years three months for Terrorism Act offe
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by sveiss 10y ago
In some voting systems (eg, the UK's), this is a feature, not a bug. Ballot serials are recorded against electoral register entries, and the courts have de-anonymized ballots in a few cases.
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by sveiss 10y ago
It only counts against you for mortgage applications because it reduces your net income, just like any tax does. A rise in general Income Tax rates would have a similar impact. It doesn't show up on your credit report, you can't m
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by sveiss 10y ago
You can, but sometimes the quoting rules differ. For example, bcdedit with its {}-delimited GUIDs breaks in PowerShell without additional quoting, but works fine in cmd.exe. Makes following online instructions tricky if you're not fami
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by sveiss 10y ago
"If the mic wasn’t left on, it would take the app longer to both initialize the mic and then start buffering audio" Leaving aside any privacy concerns, it's reasonable that everybody with this installed loses some battery lif
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by sveiss 10y ago
The MacBook chargers are designed to be safe without grounding. The grounding pin does have a use, though: some cheap powered USB devices will put out a voltage relative to ground on their '0v' lines. If you touch a MacBook that&#
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by sveiss 10y ago
The little circular lugs sticking out of that adapter are grounding tabs. You're meant to connect them to an electrical ground (which is sometimes possible in the US by screwing it into the faceplate of the wall socket). That lets you
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by sveiss 10y ago
A power strip like that isn't connected to the electrical ground in your house -- that would need a three-pin connection, and it only has a two-pin connection. Despite this, it has three-pin grounded sockets for you to connect applianc
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by sveiss 10y ago
Turning off the camera power would mean it wouldn't show up on the bus, so the computer wouldn't know it existed. It would make sense for the camera itself to drive the LED, instead of the computer/drivers doing it. I don&#x2
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by sveiss 10y ago
It's a Sierra thing (and only the most recent update, 10.12.1, I believe).
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by sveiss 10y ago
WSL doesn't actually run a Linux kernel; it emulates the syscalls and process environment Linux offers and provides a binary loader. It's WINE in reverse. So there's no ext4 driver, and no concept of loopback mounts.
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by sveiss 10y ago
"White goods" is a British English phrase for major household appliances (fridge/freezer, washing machine, tumble dryer etc). "White appliances" seems to be a slight corruption of that. White goods don't have t
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by sveiss 10y ago
Yes. So to get something taken down, all you have to do is allege copyright violation. If you're not concerned about perjury in the US courts, the claim doesn't have to have merit. Service providers have a choice: a) follow the
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by sveiss 10y ago
His characterization of Current Branch for Business (the 'Defer Upgrades' toggle in the Update settings pane) as blocking security upgrades for a year is a bit off the mark. CBB defers major feature upgrades, like the Anniversary
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by sveiss 10y ago
The choice seems to be between AHCI and sorta-NVMe, with the latter enabled in 'RAID' mode. Sure, real/standards-conforming NVMe would be better -- and wouldn't require driver shenanigans in either Windows or Linux -- bu
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by sveiss 10y ago
The hardware labs at uni had a couple of ancient (to us -- probably 80s hardware being used in the mid-2000s?) HP logic analyzers with Z80 bus probes. They turned out to be much more reliable and easier to use than the modern USB pod things
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by sveiss 10y ago
Tesco use offline processing in many stores. It's visible to the customer as a much faster process -- you can remove your card around a second after you enter your PIN, instead of waiting 4-5 seconds for authorization.
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by sveiss 10y ago
Yes, they ran a public finger server (which was then scraped and put on the web by third-parties).
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by sveiss 10y ago
They are contractors, and I expect that different airlines will engage them for different purposes. Depending on airline, I've had them do the standard "did you pack everything yourself?" questions and attempt to determine my
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by sveiss 10y ago
If the travel is in the other direction, entering the USA, the penalty for "misrepresentation" is a lifetime bar. Yes, there are potentially waivers available, but lying to border agents -- and getting caught -- can make your futu
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by sveiss 10y ago
Canadian citizens are exempt if they're coming across as a visitor. Pretty much everyone else -- visa waiver program visitors, holders of non-immigrant visas, permanent residents -- get fingerprinted at the border these days. The progr
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by sveiss 10y ago
I appear to have a cookie set or something which makes the root of HSBC's site consistently 500 for me. At least the login still works.
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by sveiss 10y ago
Spaghetti Junction (Gravelly Hill) looks horrid when you see a photograph, but it's well signposted and really easy to drive through so long as you're comfortable merging on a motorway (and if you're not, you really shouldn&#
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by sveiss 10y ago
H-1B status itself doesn't lead to a green card, but it's much more difficult to get a company to go through the 1+ year process of sponsoring an immigrant worker petition (which does lead to a green card) if you're not able
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by sveiss 10y ago
Claiming a header bit for this would require agreement from everyone creating/using ELF binaries. A magic section name is much less likely to run into conflicts. PE has the advantage of one vendor controlling the spec and the implement
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by sveiss 10y ago
This isn't the first time files.fb.com has been publicly reported as having been breached: http://www.nirgoldshlager.com/2013/01/how-i-hacked-facebook-... .
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by sveiss 10y ago
This is still a problem. I attended a talk a few weeks ago by a member of staff on the Square Kilometer Array Science Data Processor project, and they were talking about data volumes on the order of an exabyte... per day. Obviously, an awfu
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by sveiss 11y ago
The text code they list in the "if you have to call a support person" map one-to-one to the old hex codes, and a search on Microsoft's site will get you the hex codes quickly if you need them. The MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH fro

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