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That casts the "wearing a dead fish" thing mentioned elsewhere in a darker hue.

If they had figure for home working vs in-office, that could really be something worth reading. As it stands, I'm inclined to agree with others who have said there are just too man…

Yes, that was basically my point. There has also been some fairly fevered speculation about epigenetics being responsible for some types of instinct - even "cross-generational memo…

An interesting test of some of the claims about epigenetics...

Police in the UK recommend leaving your car keys somewhere obvious downstairs in your house for similar reasons.

Do you have a link to that Android app? Can't find it and I suppose I ought to prevent the chance of my being tracked by someone for some reason. That said, this abrogates most of …

Just writing their name in reverse would probably work, and be less time consuming.

IIRC VGA was at a000h and text at b800h.

This is pretty funny. We're going to run the entire gamut of different verification technologies for them all to become compromised, forcing us to return to in-person transactions …

To add to the above, early medieval fasting rules in Christianity were brutal, arguably much tougher than comparable rules from other major religions at the same time. Then we got …

Well my comment above is kind of pedantic and tangential, but I do think it's an interesting point.

I'd not seen that part of it before. I think the trick word here is "manifestly", and some sources seem to indicate that this means that the people would have to have expressly giv…

Sorry to be that person , but I think this is probably a good example of something which is covered by the GDPR. OP has built profiles and is storing information about people, whic…

Good point.

They probably heard the term and thought it was cool. But it must be enormously frustrating to people who are involving in making this stuff. That said, it is possible that this co…

Yep, the subject is almost completely unresearchable as a result. It's rather similar to the situation with the "BBC Micro Bit" which horribly polluted the search space for the ori…

This would appear to be a pre-digital example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gVhBxwRqg

An advanced persistent threat. A sophisticated targeted attack.

The DLR (Docklands Light Railway) is autonomous, but it's a pretty slow light rail system. I think that automation is possible because it was built de novo and doesn't interface wi…