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by tolien 9y ago
I suspect he’d be like Adrian Carton de Wiart VC ([1]; wounded 9 times during WW1, lost an eye, hand, part of an ear but “Frankly, I had enjoyed the war…” and was involved in the WW2 Norwegian campaign on his 60th birthday) and make no comm
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by tolien 9y ago
A little prior to Dunkirk but there is the case of ("Mad") Jack Churchill, the only known member of the British Army to kill someone during WW2 with a longbow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill#Fran
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by tolien 9y ago
Also worth pointing out that a significant fraction of Amazon's (and Starbucks'; perhaps less so Google) staff (and especially the thousands that appear in the headlines when Amazon plants a big shed) are paid minimum wage and the
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by tolien 9y ago
The same applies whether it’s the server or user bandwidth, the volume used by EXIF data is going to be tiny compared to the relatively incompressible image data you’re shifting.
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by tolien 9y ago
That’s true but if there’s very little penalty (continuing the example, TalkTalk made an after-tax profit of £72M [1] so the fine was 0.6% of that) for not fixing it, there isn’t much reason for an already-negligent business to care what th
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by tolien 9y ago
The ICO was the direct result of the EU Data Protection Durectives of the 80s and are replicated throughout the Union, so I’m not sure they’re the best example of the “oppressive regime” in the UK. They’ve also been quite notably toothless,
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Fitbit for the blind: Echolocation-based smartwatch aids sightless steps(arstechnica.com)
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by tolien 9y ago
I didn't mean to post that to correct you! If anything it confirms your point, really.
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by tolien 9y ago
Of course the FDR/CVR might be newer but the airframe is 25 years old: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/c-fkck
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by tolien 9y ago
While it's a relevant point, the risk (in a probability * cost sense, to address your point about terrorists using a nuclear/radiological weapon were one available) of terrorism has to be addressed somehow or you're cherry pi
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by tolien 9y ago
I guess the concern is that other Western countries will get in on the act — TFA refers to Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron saying similar things so, given their level of influence within the bloc, it wouldn’t be hard to see a standard bec
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Decrypting Amber Rudd(ar.al)
159 points by tolien 9y ago|70 comments
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by tolien 9y ago
The lede that's somewhat buried by the title is that 1Password 7 will restore support for standalone vaults although it's not clear (to my reading) whether that'll be a paid upgrade or not...
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1Password 6.7 for Windows: a feature buffet(blog.agilebits.com)
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Lists – a gallery of real content(lists.design)
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by tolien 9y ago
One of their first party wireless router s then.
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by tolien 9y ago
They might still be selling them but it's not wrong that they haven't developed them either. There hasn't been a new one in over 5 years and while most of their hardware has supported 802.11ac for 3-4 years (iMac since 2014,
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by tolien 9y ago
The current isc-dhcp-server package in Debian testing has that comment, although there’s a line missing… # If this DHCP server is the official DHCP server for the local # network, the authoritative directive should be uncommented.
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by tolien 9y ago
> Why is Firefox's CSS styling engine not already "in" the browser? It is, Firefox can do CSS and styles just now. Stylo is a replacement for that. > To me it seems like Stylo is just a parallelized replacement for the
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RIP, Lexar Memory Cards(petapixel.com)
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Flawed Reporting about WhatsApp(theguardian.com)
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by tolien 9y ago
Similar things have happened in the UK, with BT contractors plugging phones in and calling the speaking clock [1] to work out if a copper pair is free for them to use for a new customer, or just unplugging them and hoping for the best. [1]
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by tolien 9y ago
Most of that 1.3M litres is presumably going to be within a 12 hour period, surely? Whether it’s for human use (drinking, washing, flushing) or agriculture. I guess you can produce constantly and store - a quick search suggests that 1.3M li
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Communicating the Unthinkable – A Catalogue of Cold War Ephemera(coldwar.org.uk)
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by tolien 9y ago
It's also unlikely to be worked on by the same group of developers, so this is of the "why don't you do x instead of y" class of comment, where x = {fix media playback,cure Ebola} and y={make JS run faster,send things in
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Minecraft to receive its first top-engine visual overhaul since 2010 debut(arstechnica.com)
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by tolien 9y ago
Similar to the issues with categorisation and while people blame third-party sellers for a lot of the problems, one of the features that would be help would be being able to exclude third-party sellers from search results altogether. When t
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by tolien 9y ago
Yeah, in that respect it’s an unfortunate title - the F-35’s a boondoggle that’s easy to beat on but this is probably one of the (few) common parts.
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Air Force grounds F-35 operations after pilots suffered hypoxia(arstechnica.com)
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by tolien 9y ago
A $13k claim would make that increase in premium quite significant, though, for a <4 mph ding that would normally be settled by both parties without any insurance involvement. For comparison, the average "newer used" (1-3 years

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