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Comment It doesn't really make much difference... (Score 1) 244

In-App purchases for Comixology haven't worked properly for me for ages, so I've always tended to buy via the website anyway.

What I'd really like them to do is automatically download subscriptions when my iPad is plugged in and on WiFi. And also keep downloading when the screen turns itself off, under the same conditions.

Comment Re:Ukraine (Score 1) 165

Japan also has a pacifist constitution. They maintain zero offensive capabilities, bar offensive capabilities that could be repurposed. There's not much defensive about a nuclear weapon (aside from MAD arguments).

It amuses me that we (the UK) have actually detonated about the same number of nuclear weapons as China.

Comment Re:Did Fluke request this? (Score 1) 653

Fluke is common here too. They're generally recognizable without seeing the logo: they're basically all yellow and dark grey.

And brand name actually does matter - it's an indicator of expected quality, both in terms of performance and safety. Fluke are known to make good meters with clear displays, quick display update, good continuity test response, and that won't fail spectacularly. They're not the only people with a good reputation, of course; Amprobe are also good (recognizable by basically all being red and dark grey). The fact that Fluke and Amprobe are both part of the same group may have something to do with that (Tektronix and Keithley are also part of the group).

Comment Re:I don't think it was a malicious mistake. (Score 2) 212

I believe part of the point of SELinux is that it approaches the problem from a direction of explicit permission rather than implicit. You explicitly have to say a program can do something, rather than the program just doing it because that's what it defaults to.

Also the people are responsible for installing/configuring the system and the people responsible for installing/configuring the software that runs on the system aren't always the same.

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