thirdsight

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by thirdsight 13y ago
Someone who gets it! I'm doomed to stay with a 2010 vintage Lenovo T-series by the looks.
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by thirdsight 13y ago
I don't enforce parental controls. This is about banner ads and web sites forcing you to download apps from the app store.
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by thirdsight 13y ago
I don't enforce parental controls (restrictions). They are too old for that crap. However I don't want adverts in web pages that have detected an iPad forever redirecting to the app store. Then when you switch back to safari they
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Well my $50 of this was blown on my wife and kids' 3 iPads buying in app upgrades for apps that were supposedly free but weren't and paying cash for apps that supposedly block ads but don't and apps that transfer files that d
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by thirdsight 13y ago
As most of it was Sunday for me, I spent some time working on my IOCCC 2014 entry after reading carefully through the 2013 entries for inspiration. That and r/wtf which is slightly addictive if not completely wrong .
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Similar problem on my phone and you can't Ctrl+F5 to force a reload on this device.
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by thirdsight 13y ago
I just remember stuff.
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Does it really matter if you hear it or not though? My phone is in my pocket. I don't need to respond to every minor notification. The only important one is when it rings and it makes a lot of noise then as well.
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Good for me and I'm no hipster. I've worn a Casio F91W for about 25 years so every decade I'm in fashion at least once :)
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Yep. Considering the recent news etc, he is the proverbial laughing stock.
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Actually the cheap ones were really naff and relied on correctly sized notes and a mask and backlight with a couple of phototransistors. A pretty picture cut to the right size would work. I think it was enough to prevent casual errors rathe
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Similar. A friend of mine used an epson stylus printer (new on the market then) and a scanner to copy £20 notes. They were inserted into the change machine in the local gambling arcade type place. It was stupid enough to accept a single sid
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Hypothesis: Snowden thing?
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Actually I am considering C. It's pretty easy to write a CGI that Apache can call. Process startup is pretty cheap on UNIX and it's secure if you suexec, chroot it and know how to write C code that isn't full of holes. http:
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Yes but it only takes one eval or config flag set wrongly for that to be moot. It's perfectly possible to write a pure C web page that is 100% secure. It just requires experience. The same with all other languages. PHP doesn't pro
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Probably contrary to common belief here but the headline is correct IMHO. However this is because web programming as a whole is a crock from top to bottom. PHP doesn't really add or subtract from that other than lowering the barrier to
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by thirdsight 13y ago
I don't travel with any hardware other than a DSLR and then I mail the SD cards home. I'll use internet cafes and my phone and that is it. It gets broken, searched, x-rayed, fucked up and generally treated like shit. At Zurich air
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Yeah you have to have a lot of engineering savvy to build stuff off blog articles and work out the missing bits. I've built a few things this way including a complicated 20m transceiver and there are many pitfalls. Many a project end
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by thirdsight 13y ago
This doesn't surprise me one bit if its a hypervisor hack. You have to design in this stuff from day one rather than tack it on as an afterthought. To quote Theo de Raadt on virtualization, who I agree with: "x86 virtualization i
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Actually when my friend was burgled, they stuck a Hi-Lift jack[1] on the frame horizontally and cranked it until the frame came off. The police reckoned the door was open in under 20 seconds and their place was emptied of valuable stuff in
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by thirdsight 13y ago
http://hipstercircuits.com/finally-a-working-4-3-hdmi-compat... 0.3" larger than you're looking for but that isn't much.
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Can already get it. You buy it on jolla.com and stuff a SIM from one of the above in it.
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Exactly this. I had the misfortune of working with a salesperson who only read the "yes" part in an email and sold a lemon to a client for not enough cash. I protested immediately after the sale (when I was informed of the technic
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by thirdsight 13y ago
I got lazy. I just drag the files into a Firefox tab because it's already there. Works great if you listen to mix mp3s or are obsessive about picking mp3s.
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Actually I'd rather prefer someone to not invent the next Facebook. It reveals the human trait that despite best intentions, when shareholders get involved, cash is king regardless of the ethical stance the company supposedly takes.
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by thirdsight 13y ago
Not in Europe which means that isn't most locations!
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by thirdsight 13y ago
a) Offline mode is unreliable. I know because I trialled it on a borrowed C720 last week. It's barely usable. Not only that you can't easily shift a document onto an SD for example in offline mode. Try it, then poke it in a PC and
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by thirdsight 13y ago
This is not going to happen. Internet connectivity is a race to the bottom. Think of all the effort that has been put into delivering a fairly unreliable service over existing copper rather than implementing FTTP. Oh and then charging as mu
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by thirdsight 13y ago
I'm glad they mention the HP Z420. The killer for me on the Z420: three-year Mon-Fri 8-5 next business day, parts, labor and 24x7 phone support, They come to me. Edit: to all the naysayers: I'm in the UK. HP here is pretty good.
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by thirdsight 13y ago
That's fine until your Internet connection is down for 4 days and she's due an assignment that needs to be emailed or printed. The device is a lemon then. At least with a normal Mac/PC you can plug a printer in it.

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