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It's not surprising that banks are interested in blockchain technology, if not necessarily Bitcoin itself. Patenting technology is very common by these companies and it is almost a…

Someone living near my parents looks to have uploaded a hundred or so "chemtrail attack" videos. I honestly had no idea that people in the UK were into that sort of thing, but that…

Having just gone through all of the tutorials and documentation, I can see this type of thing shaking up configuration management in enterprise environments quite significantly. Th…

Hmm. I must say I'm amazed you could generalise in that fashion - I can't speak for your personal experience, but we certainly don't treat English people as 'the enemy', and to cla…

If someone guessed incorrectly, they still didn't know the answer.

Definitely a pun, the "Night's Watch" is from Game of Thrones.

Reminds me of the Tay House on Charing Cross Podium, a building straddling the M8 motorway in Glasgow, Scotland, near my office: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M8_Bridge_to_Nowhere a…

I have endless TextEdit files strewn around my hard disk with very similar contents, I need to hoover them up every now and again. It's really useful to type something out like thi…

I quite liked the look of EBean, though I haven't really used it much. Even so, it's fairly easy to plug in a JPA manager (in my case, Hibernate) and use the helper classes provide…

I noticed YouTube had started using this (or at least the same idea), very subtle and sleek.

Relating a specific thread to a "subreddit" and not mentioning that _all_ of the discussion was driven by users is a bit disingenuous of the BBC. From an outsider's perspective it …

I've worked next to someone that was extremely harsh on their keyboard - full blown hammering the keys, with the whole desk shaking - and even in a medium-noise office it was infur…

Exploring this took me back to the days of playing the Dizzy series of games, wondering what was beyond the next screen.

Oops, quite right!

You gave it away with a slight error - the sequence is 0, 1, 2, 720... For the curious, the sequence follows factorial (!) applied twice, i.e. (0!)!, (1!)! etc. (3!)! is 720, and (…

It allows you to copy pretty much anything, including "Apps" of which Games are a subtype. PSP hacker websites like Wololo are already poring over encrypted .psvimg files. I know t…

Your second (third?) point is moot, since Sony's own Content Manager Assistant[1] can copy anything from your Vita memory card onto a Mac or PC. The piracy chat from Sony's spokesp…

This, exactly. Most of the TV shows I do watch are American and are shown on TV the next day at best, and never at worst. I don't feel bad downloading and viewing something that I'…

I just had a look at Freelancify and registered, and I'm amazed that you did it all in 12 weeks learning Ruby from scratch. Kudos! Based on your experience, how do you think learni…

It's quite straightforward to dump the entire header in a web log or database, and I'm sure some sites do. They might have put the envelope in the recycling, but they never have it…

The term "ETL" itself is often used in place of "Data Integration" which is much larger, particularly when it comes to data warehouse design. The wiki article is a good drop off po…

Both, really. I work as a consultant for a company that provides consultancy for clients that use ETL products (software/'appliances' etc). Your second comment is true, however the…

It would be interesting to know the identity of the vendor for "DBMS-X". I work in the "enterprise" data warehouse space and I'm trying to advocate moving away from "database appli…

That's all well and good, but removing their Clients page and the Google cache of it is pretty damning. Why cover your tracks if it was all above board? I don't think it really mat…

Has it been deleted? Just get a page not found error, can't see it on the homepage either.