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Slightly off topic, but can you please allow fallback when there is no Flash. The player works, but you have to hack you user-agent string to get it. I don't have Flash in Firefox and the BBC news is only site, that I visit regularly, for which this is an issue.

Sony didn't release any FF mirrorless in that period, in fact the latest FF mirrorless was released Sept 2015. I suspect it was the US discounts at that time.

That's quickly changing, Sony have now overtaken Nikon to become the number 2 seller of full frame cameras in the US. Nikon doesn't make a single full frame mirrorless camera and Sony most known for making them.

https://m.dpreview.com/news/1896381164/sony-is-now-2-in-the-...

You can do HISTFILESIZE=0. That way the .bash_history file is never written to, but you can still get the history that's in memory.

If you write it to disk, it could available on the disk via an undelete tool or via a backup - which is a concern if you ever accidentally paste a password onto the command line.

I think it's referring to Trump, Brexit and the various moves the right elsewhere in Europe, which are dividing people on nationalistic and religious grounds.

The simplest solution would be simply to not to travel to the US. I'm sure it wouldn't be long before the airlines & hotels were lobbying for a change in the law.

I used these stats http://www.npi.org.uk/visualisations/rise-companies-no-emplo.... Also, this backs it up for US businesses http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonnazar/2013/09/09/16-surpris...

More than half of all the businesses have no employees (i.e. It's just the founder) and most of the rest have less than 50 employees. For most companies is social one of many things that they need to do, setup a website, pay taxes, answer the phone, emails etc. because they're is no one else. Whilst for big companies, they perhaps have full time social media or at least communications staff, most companies do not.

Ultimately this is a tool that saves time for, mostly, small companies.

The first two are Elon Musk's companies and he's stated he wants to continue to try to influence Trump directly on this issue in particular: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/827924171661377536

I agree, the transit visa situation is really odd. I wonder how much money the U.S. loses by requiring visa from those travelling from Central+South America to Europe and the rest of the world. I know people personally that can't pick the quickest/cheapest route because it transits through the U.S.

This was not a trivial system for it's time. Do you change your ssh keys and certificates every day?

The enigma had a new encryption code for everyday distributed on paper and torn off and destroyed once used. The were different codes and machines used in different branches of the army/navy and the system was updated through the war.

The British didn't get to see the machines or it's method for many years. There were 159 quintillion possible keys and even a 1 million guesses/second it would take 5 million years to guess a code - and don't forget they changed everyday. Also, remember there were no computers to do this, let alone one that that could even remotely approach 1 million operations a second.

So you ought to able to see at the time people were pretty confident it couldn't be broken, and if they hadn't made some mistake in it's use e.g. distributing weather reports, it might have not been.

We are arguably much more complacent than they were vs. their time. It was only recently that perfect forward security became a thing in HTTPS for example (i.e. different key for each connection).

Most of what you are saying makes sense, except this bit:

> "Maybe the HTTPS site is just broken right now."

In the case of a bank, it's extremely unlikely that they are falling back to HTTP. It's much more likely that sslstrip is in place if you had this. The cost and hassle of someone having access to your whole bank account, is likely much higher than the fines for a late payment.

The 15inch Macbook pro supports 4x 4k monitors (upto 4096x2304), at the same time as the built in display, FWIW.

What if the fake reviews were paid for by a competitor, so they would get banned?

Would you buy shares and throw away the dividends?

They did? I remember numerous Twitter outages due to scale and the infamous Fail Whale. Twitter's issues risked the company losing users or even it's sustainability as a business.

Never remember Facebook having much issue.

That's right they'd probably be struggling to scale Ruby on Rails like Twitter who started 2 years after facebook.

Apple is pretty committed to HTTPS within iOS apps, many of which are created by small companies, so they ought to support it.

Full list of sponsors here: https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/

Good to see most of them using HTTPS for their homepage. Though Cisco and Gemalto don't yet.

I'm not convinced the new iPad pro will even be usable for 5 years.

I gave up on the iPad 1 and iPad mini because they didn't have enough RAM to load many websites. The new iPad pro has only 2GB of RAM and even 5 year old PCs had 4GB or 8GB.

I wonder if this will get updated in September with the other phones or stay out of step with the main release cycle.

Flickr is still the go to site for photographers, there are other sites, but Flickr is the most popular.

However, Adverts on login page suck though and for those that don't pay they have adverts inserted that look exactly like photos. I don't see the later normally, but it's a pretty awful way to make money (though Google search and Facebook advertising are equally bad).

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...

I'd prefer a router with a AA battery slot, so it doesn't go down in the first place.

"simply pass a law forbidding the sale of such devices in the USA"

  1. They can't even restrict sale of guns, let alone ban them.
  2. Banning the iPhone would make the issue headline news.
  3. There'd be riots on the streets.
  4. if they did, it'd back to the prohibition era, more crime, violence etc.

We have way more information stored on these devices than ever before. They want it because it's there, not because they need it.

For example, the first mobile phones, could only store 10 text messages, you'd typically delete them after reading. Modern phones store years of messages, so the governments want that.

Further back, we communicated in person or the phone, for which there was no record of what was said (unless actively under surveillance). Now these conversations are stored forever Facebook messenger/What's app etc.

One solution would be to simply automatically delete messages after reading.

Not everyone has root on their Linux box and even if you do, you ought to be able to install applications as you without sudo'ing anything. Right now most Linux applications guide you to a deb/rpm which runs as root (and who knows if you can trust it).

TBH this is just the start of making applications more secure, they ought to be sandboxed too, so one application can't read the data from another application by default (similar to how phones work).

In living (for some), 80%+ tax rates have been used and tax was very high for about 5 decades:

  - the top marginal rate of tax was 62% in 1932 (up from 25% in 1931)
  - rising to 91% in 1963 (income over $200k)
  - It was at 70% in 1981 (before dropping to 50% in 1982)

http://taxfoundation.org/article/us-federal-individual-incom...

and a graph here: http://visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2010/02/04/historical-m...

Though I can find very little that talks about the affects of this taxation on society.

I'll add:

NFS home directories don't seem to be tested by KDE developers, taking 30seconds or so to start fully everytime you move machine because they generate stuff in /tmp.

Most programs don't take quota into account when calculating free space, and fail in weird ways when it gets exceeded

Cups password authentication can't send a prompt to the user. Windows did this in XP (OSX has this problem too)

Surely with the Pi Zero selling at $5 there has got to be way to do this without Philip's locked in, expensive system?