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wintermute306··on Britain is the most corrupt country in the world?
When it comes to finance it is.
wintermute306··on Britain is the most corrupt country in the world?
The depressing thing about this is that us UK lefties have screaming about this years and years. I know a man who works in politics that is convinced that the Tory party is not privatising the NHS because they Tory party put elections above all else.
wintermute306··on 'Boaty McBoatface' polar ship named after David Attenborough
They totally picked the new name because it would soften the blow, he's a national treasure after all.
wintermute306··on Minecraft to run artificial intelligence experiments
Get your kids to use a free version of it then.

The rest of us will fork out the small price to use the software.

wintermute306··on Netflix cracks down on proxy streaming
The reality of it is, that they don't want to do this but they are being forced to. I suspect they'll put some measures in place but nothing ironclad.
wintermute306··on Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror Attack
I know, it's hilarious and annoying to be honest. It shows how behind the EU really is.

Pretty much all the British digital policies are silly. I think the simple thing they seem to not understand is that the Internet is smarter and moves fast than policy.

wintermute306··on SEO penalties of moving our blog to a subdomain
Can't argue with this really. We're viewed as the used car salesman of the Internet. In fact the majority of us who work for larger brands and don't engage in black hat stuff are really just multi-disciplined online marketers. SEO is dead, long live SEO.
wintermute306··on SEO penalties of moving our blog to a subdomain
Can't agree with that purely for the fact that Google is in the game of providing sly information. You think that HTTPS ranking factor blog didn't have ulterior motives? You think that the disavow tool info isn't just crowdsourcing spam info?

Simple rule for SEO or any online marketing is 'always test for yourself.' be it Google's info you're working off or Search Engine Journals. Blogs can provide a good starting point for non-professional SEOs who don't have the time or resources to do external domain tests. I've been in the game over 7 years now, Moz has always been a good resource.

wintermute306··on SEO penalties of moving our blog to a subdomain
This is complete bullshit. Not reading SEO blogs is a TERRIBLE bit of advice. Read everything, and read it with a pinch of salt (Google's info more than most).
wintermute306··on SEO penalties of moving our blog to a subdomain
It has. Their software is not bad to be honest, a lot of SEOs think Moz is the be all end all but they aren't. There is a ton of hate for them as well which is unjust considering how much they've contributed to the industry.
wintermute306··on A plane that will be able to fly anywhere in the world within 4 hours
I couldn't help but hum the British national anthem while reading this.
wintermute306··on Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone
If this can print, I'll move over when it's read. I adore Sublime Text but having to c&p out of it to print is a bit of an annoyance for me. Otherwise it's a perfect app, I adore it.
wintermute306··on The 30-year-old health sector billionaire
She is dressed like CEO if a dystopian ruling corporation.
wintermute306··on UK goes ODF 1.2, no more Microsoft Office formats
There seems to be some big changes in digital for .gov at the moment, this is some great news. The more Micro$oft has to loosen it's grip on this country the better.
wintermute306··on People (understandably) hate to register
No one likes registering for anything, that is pretty well known.

Getting users to do this though is part of my job and my job is often made easier either by auto-fill options in browsers and good form design.

URL based autho systems are pretty limited in their applications as anything on the other side would have to be of little importance. The security implications of such a system are massive...What if you need to log into an account and you use a work computer? Surely all someone needs to do is press ctrl-h(or access server logs) and visit the same url to gain access to your information.