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How to Remain Secure Against the NSA(schneier.com)
42 points by timw6n 13y ago|11 comments
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In California, I saw the virtues – and vices – of the new economy(theguardian.com)
1 points by timw6n 13y ago|0 comments
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by timw6n 13y ago
Be very careful with modafinil: the side effects can be very severe "later in the evening she fainted from exhaustion and woke up blind. It took the longest two minutes of all our lives for her eyesight to return fully, and she develop
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NSA analysts 'wilfully violated' surveillance systems, agency admits(theguardian.com)
10 points by timw6n 13y ago|1 comments
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The art of peeping: photography at the limits of privacy(theguardian.com)
1 points by timw6n 13y ago|0 comments
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by timw6n 13y ago
Anyone else notice that google.com now seems to force ssl even for non logged in users?
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by timw6n 13y ago
I'm sorry, but there's so much utter nonsense on this site that I'm unable to take this seriously at all. > US Birth Rates Plummet by 310,000 Babies: Responsible Economic Planning or Shadow Depopulation? > FDA: ‘Nuking
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To Steal a Mockingbird?(vanityfair.com)
2 points by timw6n 13y ago|0 comments
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Ocean canoes: How ancient navigation methods are again being used in the Pacific(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by timw6n 13y ago|0 comments
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by timw6n 13y ago
1 US mpg = 1.2 UK mpg and the EU method for calculating those numbers is, so I hear, more lenient than its US equivalent, so those numbers sound more impressive than they really are.
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The other Detroits: Six ways 'shrinking' cities try to survive(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by timw6n 13y ago|0 comments
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Surviving A For-Profit School(therumpus.net)
1 points by timw6n 13y ago|0 comments
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How Microsoft spent a decade asleep on the job(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by timw6n 13y ago|0 comments
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License to Kill: hunting poachers with the latest drone technology(nouse.co.uk)
1 points by timw6n 13y ago|0 comments
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systemd: the biggest myths(0pointer.de)
2 points by timw6n 13y ago|0 comments
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Why everybody loves Tesla(origin-www.businessweek.com)
1 points by timw6n 13y ago|0 comments
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by timw6n 13y ago
The AAIB (the UK equivalent of the NTSB) special bulletin referred to in the article is here[1] with a few more technical details. Looks like it's just unlucky that this happened with a 787, given that the ELT is a standalone component
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Biometric touchscreen recognises fingerprints for first time(newscientist.com)
1 points by timw6n 13y ago|0 comments
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Heathrow fire on Boeing Dreamliner 'started in battery component'(guardian.co.uk)
53 points by timw6n 13y ago|32 comments
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by timw6n 13y ago
A couple of months ago there was an excellent BBC4 documentary about Alan Bond and Reaction Engines called The Three Rocketeers[1], which I believe has been re-posted on the internet. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01
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by timw6n 13y ago
Which is not actually that different from the US, where the conviction rate is 93%, of which 97% accepted a plea bargain prior to trial. Source: http://www.justice.gov/usao/reading_room/reports/asr2011/11
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Valley fever: An incurable illness in the dust (Avenal, California)(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by timw6n 13y ago|0 comments
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Open season on black boys after a verdict like this(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by timw6n 13y ago|0 comments
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by timw6n 13y ago
> while making sure to take in a maximum amount of profits The Guardian is owned by the Scott Trust, a UK non-profit, so perhaps at least some of your cynicism is unwarranted. Of course they will want to keep this running for a while, re
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by timw6n 13y ago
All the Scandinavian countries you list are actually EU members — a better term for your first group would be Western Europe. But, really, I'm not sure how much confidence you could have in any of those countries: The UK's GCHQ wa
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by timw6n 13y ago
Actually it was even earlier than that; adverse inferences could be drawn from silence after the passing of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.
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by timw6n 14y ago
Haven't had time to look at the actual app yet, but the homepage looks very broken on iPad — not only do I need to horizontal scroll for some things, but other things are getting cut off at the viewport width. You need to add a meta viewpor
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by timw6n 14y ago
A shame. Sparrow was one of the few players still innovating in desktop email clients, especially now that Thunderbird has been similarly abandoned. They had already brought us custom smtp aliases, which I really came to rely on, and cloud