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Cyberspy

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    Comment #27433139

    We use Fastly (and our site is down too) but I asked them about this a couple of years ago. It is deliberate. They said it was so they can tell if it is their Varnish service or th…

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    Comment #26565002

    That's OK then, if that's we all have to do to run any devices inside our LAN/home network. Want a NAS box for sharing family files/photos or some other IoT device at home? Just se…

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    Comment #25859540

    I actually bought this T-shirt for my daughter.It said: !false It's funny, because it's true!

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    Comment #25826230

    Reading about this study and the experiences described in other comments, it seems the experiment is a bit limited in its scope. The effect of music depends on the person, the type…

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    Comment #25458603

    I always look for that - and the 'deny all' button. They do not have a 'legitimate interest' to track the hell out of me.

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    Comment #25135116

    Out of curiosity, why do you blocks HTTPS when you otherwise seem very privacy conscious?

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    Comment #24977757

    One of the reasons I don't switch to Firefox full time is that it (still, after many years) leaks memory. Use Task Manager to see how much RAM Firefox is using once it's been open …

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    Comment #24977742

    I doubt many other people here are going to ditch Electron completely - the current 'favourite' dev tool is Visual Studio Code which is an Electron app. Even though Electron is act…

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    Comment #24813701

    TrustPilot has gone the same way. If you look in the clickbait at the bottom of lots of articles, you'll see one advertising a trick that every Android user should know. It takes y…

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    Comment #24810391

    Though less serious, my wife has a similar problem with Amazon. She tried to review a product (first review for a very long time) and was greeted with this message: "! We apologize…

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    Comment #24695761

    The same problem happens with UK phone numbers, where the leading 0 gets chopped off Solvable if there's a space between the dialling code and the number, but when individuals ente…

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    Comment #24695721

    In the UK, the shop Lidl was supposed to be pronounced Lie-del and I think that is how it is pronounced in Europe. But, everyone pronounced it with a short 'i' and now they've adop…

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    Comment #20709561

    It's not a typo - it's 299,792,458 m/s - approx 300,000,000 m/s or 300,000 km/s

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    Comment #19802041

    It doesn't seem though, from the story, that the 'OldTubers' group was exposed. It seems like the 'why' was more important than the 'how'

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    Comment #19801841

    This is why I like to work at small businesses, where I'm either the only developer or one of just a few. Even with annual turnovers, through the website, of approaching $10million…

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    Comment #17024809

    Just read Week 1 of this course - very easy to follow. Although with a different instructor, there are later versions - http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis194/fall16/ seems the most rece…

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    Comment #16785357

    In that case, he must have been logged into Eve's account before he received the email. How did that happen?

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    Comment #16646492

    In May, once GDPR becomes mandatory, we'll all be able to issue data requests to the likes of Facebook and Cambridge Analyitica etc, to find out just what they know about us. The r…

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    Comment #16182891

    Works really on Chrome on Windows 10, on a 3 year old laptop!

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    Comment #15437180

    This is karma for the way they started their 'Windows Smartphone' project, aka 'Stinger' (their internal name). They partnered with UK-based Sendo, who should have been their go-to…

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    Comment #13546624

    So, what wording would you have used?

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    Comment #11835541

    Why would they charge? They get a placement fee based on a percentage of the starting salary. It's in their interest that the candidate gets the best deal possible.