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Yep, I mean it's much better than the green site and certainly no worse than SoylentNews.

That would certainly block incoming data to the phone at that moment, but what's to stop software on the phone logging undesired information locally for later upload next time you do use it? OK you could monitor the memory and card free space but some data could still be stored in an existing fixed length file.

Downvoted as this is off topic.

I don't think per capita consumption numbers are very relevant. The whole EU is behind the US in numbers of cattle:

http://beef2live.com/story-world-cattle-inventory-ranking-countries-0-106905

Per capita, the U.S. only ranks 16th in milk consumption. Finland is number 1. Are they working on this?

From the looks of it this should have been forked some time ago

Amit Malewar - some guy you know?

http://netflix-australia.com/movies/
http://netflix-australia.com/series/
http://www.allflicks.net/
https://www.finder.com.au/netflix-australia-vs-netflix-us-tv-shows
https://www.finder.com.au/netflix-australia-vs-netflix-us-movies
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/hometech/how-the-australian-netflix-differs-from-the-us-service-20150323-1m60g8.html
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rLXhTvs9sfnQEGoKFjlOT0wmDLbQwcodwk5DRxWZWsA/edit#gid=0
and many more

Sounds Great! I also really enjoy netflix the free way :-). It's great to watch netflix and even better free.

Me too, I think the author here has done a fabulous job of the site, we just need a constructive community to move in and build up the submissions and comments.

To put this level of noise and power in perspective our fast dry hand dryers (in around 10 seconds) have a decibel level that never goes above 75. 80 is pretty load and powerful!

http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/amazons-impending-arrival-means-australian-shopping-centres-have-to-shape-up-or-risk-shutting-down/news-story/66ecd48160d3e9c47c8e684409241513

When eBay goes down people will move to the local Amazon. Easy.

http://theconversation.com/google-trumps-apple-for-australian-mobile-payments-but-for-how-long-52429

despite initial enthusiasm for Apple Pay, persuading US consumers to switch from using physical cards or cash to using Apple Pay has been tough going. A recent survey found Apple Pay use was declining.

Imagine going into your local café to buy two coffees, using Apple Pay via your American Express card, say at $3.80 per coffee. Total cost to you $7.60. If the café charges a 2% surcharge for accepting American Express, then you will pay $7.75. Why pay 15 cents more, when you could use your MasterCard or Visa, credit or debit card? You can easily avoid the surcharge and still “tap and go”.

Oh well

Submitting to The Pipe is free. Give it a try! I am!

I love that this story has more posts. Slashdot is unbearable these days, and I've always held a candle for Pipedot, with fingers crossed that it gains more readers, more stories, and more comments...

Posting this as I am happy to hear that the 3.5mm jack will stay, ambivalent about USB-C, worried about not being able to replace a mobile phone battery or take it out for a force reset if need be, and seriously annoyed with smart phones with virtual buttons in the past. They are a pain in the ass, the touch screen eventually dies, the physical button isn't accidentally triggered, and there must be a market out there for people who like the three physical buttons?

Or never. That link is now dead.
Or the ACT government has been dismantled.
Or the ACT government is highly dysfunctional.
It could be anything really.

Vibrator maker pays out after admiting to tracking users with online app

Come on.
Try harder.

Manufacturer of vibrators involuntarily puts out after tracking user orgasms

Vibrating sensation not tickled by data breach lawsuit loss

Company caught red handed with users private data in class action

Class action against vibrator specialist after hacker string erupted

How did porn come into this?

You can also set each team to start with different specific weapons if you want to test a theory that you could defeat a well equipped military force with your bolt action rifle or crossbow.

That's... cool.

Download is an ISO, which is different for Linux games. A torrent would be good - few trust SourceForge these days.

Consider writing an article about the Linux Game Database - https://lgdb.org/ - because some of us have not ever seen this before

Do we need a tag for #pipevertisements ? :-)

=^_^=

Wow. Two years. Umm. I should like login or something.

It was introduced (and announced) two years ago:

- https://pipedot.org/61RE

All hail the new feature

Did the porn companies do something in particular? All I can see in recent news is the PornHub/Boston deal. I'm not entirely sure people got screwed on that one, but they definitely got plowed.

A SEX toy company has promised to destroy data collected by its smart vibrator after it was accused of storing “highly sensitive” information about women’s sexual activities without their consent

This device likely has a significant male following as well

How unoriginal
Can you spam somewhere else or do we need to DNSBL RBL you?

???

How many of those were contractors?

This is not.

See, this is where we need hashtags so I can put "creepy" on this one

Pipedot has a similar feature! How cool! http://pipedot.org/story/2FWPB/similar

Department of Human Services now nicknamed the Department of inHuman Services
Several cases have been reported where a debt was called against a person for which does not exist
There are quite a few news articles about it

Department of Homeland Security?
Nope... Department of Health Services in Australia.

Wow.. a debt recovery program issuing fake debt claims to citizens. Sounds as bad as those porn companies in the U.S.

We could have beaten them!

Next time, Dr Claw..

As you say, run-flat tires are normal car tires (with air) that are also capable of being used without air for some relatively short distance (50 miles?).

The Tweel is an airless tire-wheel combination with rubber tread elements and a polymer wheel that flexes to absorb bumps. Michelin has been pushing these for low speed applications for a number of years now. Small Tweels have been made for wheelchairs, probably much better than solid rubber or pneumatic tires in this application. Large ones for construction equipment as shown in the lead photo where they probablly replaced pneumatic tires. In other cases they might replace solid rubber tires (commonly used inside factories), for example, a fork lift that goes outdoors.

While Michelin have also been doing research internally and externally (maybe at Clemson U?) to make the Tweel suitable for normal cars this hasn't happened yet. Current Tweels are not low rolling resistance and transmit much more vibration than ordinary pneumatic tires, so they are unlikely to replace very many car & light truck tires in the near future.

I was initially interested in this announcement, but further investigation revealed it to be a terrible marketing cash-in. HMD Global already released the Nokia 150 late last year, and it is a better phone. It seems to me that the market is ready or will soon be for the slate meme to recede, and a real, decent feature phone could carve out a significant niche for itself. This, however a 2G-only phone with only 16MB of storage? Are you kidding? Not even hipsters will take this seriously. I suspect it will be forgotten before it even launches.

I'm not sure about EMPs, but anything with larger bits might be better able to resist cosmic rays. OTOH, it may just provide more area for them to hit.

I went with ubuntu on the desktop and except for systemd don't regret it. Will look into bodhi for next time.

Everyone tapes over the camera. No one leaves it open.

We don't use video calls in office though.

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/snowden-designs-device-warn-iphones-radio-snitches/

Not sure how a Faraday cage is supposed to leak if it is made correctly. The two requirements are sufficient coverage (a mesh can be used, but the maximum spacing is related to the frequency being blocked) and sufficient thickness, to ensure eddy currents can't radiate from the outside.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/02/27/uk-us-spies-hacked-webcams-millions-yahoo-users.html

It's even being done by the "good guys". Disgusting.