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by whyleyc 12y ago
This is really well done - congrats. How are you planning to monetize - Will there be a "Pro" version ?
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by whyleyc 12y ago
"Quite simply, businesses who don’t comply face a loss of revenue. If you make a purchase, whether that’s buying goods or a service, on a non-compliant web site, you have the right to recourse through your nearest Trading Standards off
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The Fascinating History of Autocorrect (2014)(wired.com)
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Google's prototype self-driving car will have a steering wheel after all(theguardian.com)
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by whyleyc 12y ago
"There's no reddit without Steve Huffman" Or Aaron Swartz of course.
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by whyleyc 12y ago
At what point will browsing via a VPN become the de-facto way of using the web ?
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Minecraft – 36 times larger on PS4 and Xbox One(theguardian.com)
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by whyleyc 13y ago
Well someone was able to give Cloudflare a heads up last week [1]. It would have been nice if the package maintainers could have had time to build ready-to-roll solutions with Heartbeat compiled out prior to the official OpenSSL fix. [1]
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by whyleyc 13y ago
This doesn't sound like "responsible disclosure" to me - how can Codenomicon dump this news when all the major Linux vendors don't have patches ready to go ?
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by whyleyc 13y ago
It was - registered 2 days ago by Marko Laakso from Codenomicon, the guys credited (by themselves it seems !) with finding the bug: http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=hea...
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by whyleyc 13y ago
Sooo in layman's terms - we only need to be worrying about HTTPS and not SSH ?
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by whyleyc 13y ago
Source ?
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by whyleyc 13y ago
See wikiburner's comment: Damage from an electrical fire on board could possibly explain the first transponder going out, even if the crew wasn't aware of the fire yet
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by whyleyc 13y ago
Yes, if the fire had incapacitated the pilots and the plane was on autopilot.
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by whyleyc 13y ago
Thanks for this. We are a UK-based company and want to have a US "presence" as we have found that charging US customers from a UK payment processor results in greater than expected numbers of declined payments due to the "int
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by whyleyc 13y ago
It does matter because Europe doesn't have a single homogenous healthcare system so I think it is not as easy to generalise about a "European" system.
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by whyleyc 13y ago
Unfortunately we can't fact check your statistics since you didn't provide sources for them, but it's naive and irresponsible to compare "violent crimes" between the US & UK. The definition varies quite substant
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by whyleyc 13y ago
Where is "here" for you ? Europe has a pretty diverse range of healthcare facilities, varying greatly depending on which country you are in.
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by whyleyc 13y ago
You sound like a 10 year old in a school playground :)
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by whyleyc 13y ago
Because ivory tower intellectual debate is exactly what people raw from the emotion of a life changing event need right now. Why not take a step back and ask yourself whether this might be a helpful thing to do in a universe which didn&#x27
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by whyleyc 13y ago
Don't ! BoredBanker is an excellent name - memorable, amusing & not overly long. There's already enough dry, grey, "serious" content associated with this industry - having an offbeat and slightly subversive name will
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by whyleyc 13y ago
Interesting writeup - I've been thinking a lot about this recently, as a member of my family is dealing with an ongoing illness which is poorly understood. I would love for them to be able to monitor their own vital signs more closely
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by whyleyc 13y ago
No it's not - it's a fun side-project using tech we discuss regularly here on HN with interesting links too. Climb down from your horse :)
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by whyleyc 13y ago
Hitting someone with a wrench may well be, but leaning on them as part of a plea-bargain would not be. It's naive to think that if the FBI want the private key they don't have legal ways of pressing you to hand it over.
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by whyleyc 13y ago
It's surely only a matter of time in this situation before the FBI start using rubber-hose cryptanalysis [1] [1] Obligatory XKCD http://xkcd.com/538/
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by whyleyc 13y ago
This problem is addressed by tools like http://www.qureet.com/ Disclaimer: I've met the guy who runs this, but haven't yet got round to trying it out.
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by whyleyc 13y ago
PayPal is fine for a certain class of limited transactions - usually when they involve selling physical or digital products which actually exist and can be delivered today . Rightly or wrongly though they have a very[1] long[2] history[3]
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by whyleyc 13y ago
I didn't mention alcohol - I was talking about caffeine. Alcohol is in a class all by itself in terms of the social issues it can cause.
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by whyleyc 13y ago
No, it's because as a stimulant it has a combination of relatively low addictive properties and is easy to withdraw from when compared to more "hardcore" substances [1] [1] http://www.drugsense.org/tfy/ad
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by whyleyc 13y ago
Except people don't violently mug strangers in broad daylight to get their next caffeine hit ... unless you haven't scored a coffee for a long time :)

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