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arstechnica.com 3mo ago

The demise of public key encryption will come sooner than thought, Google warns

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arstechnica.com 2y ago

Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can't handle Leap Day

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arstechnica.com 2y ago

Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot

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www.cbc.ca 2y ago

Ontario plans to refurbish Canada's oldest nuclear power plant

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arstechnica.com 2y ago

Chromium found in lead-tainted fruit pouches may explain contamination

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

JWST has first star image and primary mirror selfie

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www.phoronix.com 4y ago

“Intel Software Defined Silicon” Coming to Linux – Activating Hardware Features

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www.bbc.com 4y ago

International Space Station facing irreparable failures, Russia warns

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arstechnica.com 4y ago

Stingle is a privacy-focused, open-source photo backup application

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www.arch13.com 5y ago

MS Windows Defender and DeCSS

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www.cbc.ca 5y ago

RCMP's use of facial recognition tech violated privacy laws, investigation finds

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

One Fastly customer triggered (not caused) internet meltdown

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www.cbc.ca 5y ago

World class Vancouver recording studio plagued by unexplained radio interference

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

Tulsa massacre: The search for victims, 100 years on

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

HSE cyber-attack: Hackers bail out Irish health service for free

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

Josh fight: Hundreds join friendly battle for naming rights

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

NHS Covid-19 app update blocked for breaking Apple and Google's rules

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www.cbc.ca 5y ago

Toll rises from N.B.'s mystery brain disease

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www.cbc.ca 5y ago

Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass

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Yes, it is.

No ads or previews to skip before each episode. Skip button seems to appear at different times.

No waiting for the skip button for recaps or intros. Sometimes they decide not to appear. If you jump 10s, sometimes they don't appear. Most pirated shows are appropriately bookmarked.

No waiting for the "next episode" button to appear. Sometimes they decide not to appear. If you jump 10s, sometimes they don't appear.

Some services make it harder than it should be to get to the episode/season list.

Must use their player. Usually means controls and subtitles appear on top of video. Screen dimmed on pause. Wack-a-mole controls.

That's not even counting the "few outliers" that I seem to encounter frustratingly often.

"In an argument that appeared to flabbergast a small claims adjudicator in British Columbia, the airline attempted to distance itself from its own chatbot's bad advice by claiming the online tool was "a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions."

"This is a remarkable submission," Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) member Christopher Rivers wrote.""

From https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-canada-c...

The 4 bolts are there to restrain vertical motion of the door which I presume would not involve large forces. They are meant to keep the door on the 4 cylindrical posts and 12 stop pads and it is those posts and pads that take the pressure differential forces on the door and keep it from blowing out. They are way beefier than the bolts and I believe they are still intact on the accident plane.

Considering things from the mobile perspective (but largely true for internet too):

Yes, most of it is empty and unserviced

Well, that's the key, isn't it. Look at the highly optimistic coverage maps from the companies and you'll see how little of Canada is covered. Actual coverage is significantly poorer than those coverage maps indicate outside urban areas.

but building a national network costs the same amount no matter how many users it has

These "national" networks are a few paltry routes across the country and in no way compare to the national networks of other countries.

The most obvious counter to the apologists' landmass argument is the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan where mobile rates were half that of the rest of Canada despite having lower population densities than most of the other territories. They both had robust state-owned companies that competed with the big 3 (likely soon to be big 2) and all 4 profitably operated at these lower rates. In a very controversial move, the state-owned company in Manitoba (MTS) was privatised in 1996 and bought out by one of the big 3 in 2017. A few years later the rates in Manitoba rose to match the rest of the country. This highlights the real reason for expensive mobile in Canada.

His comment in /r/sysadmin:

"Setting a Windows Defender exception to the folder does not prevent the quarantine from occurring. I re-ran this test three times trying exceptions and even the entire NAS drive as on the excluded list."

Windows Defender is overriding the user whitelist?

One of the great pioneers of electronic music, Delia Derbyshire, part of the equally pioneering BBC Radiophonic Workshop, hacked reel audio tapes and machines in the way you describe and much more, to create her sounds. She was so OCD in doing so that it was a bit damaging, and may have viewed the later digital synths as a godsend or with disdain. She created the Dr. Who theme.

https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/pioneering-wo...

Most commercial airplane doors cannot open directly outward. They unseal inward and then twist to clear outward. At altitude the internal pressure will push them directly outward and render them unable to open, even if the locks fail. In this regard they are fail-safe.

The DC-10 eschewed this standard in favour of doors that opened directly outward with catastrophic results if the locks failed.