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"Once I've opened my RSS reader, clicked the link, waited for the page to load, realised I've seen the same thing posted so many times before, and clicked hide, my time is already wasted." - John Casey

"[Fuck this, I'm walking](http://anyad.rulez.org/main...)" - John Casey

"Ah, a height adjustable desk seems the way to go. New ones seem very expensive, though. For a desk that has a bunch of computer equipment on it, the electrically adjustable ones seem useful, but waaay expensive." - John Casey

"Indeed, but I do find them both inspiring. They've both done something remarkable." - John Casey

"The high school kid was [Michio Kaku](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...), the guy who co-created string theory, and who is a frikkin genius... He did it when he was 17 for his high school project. The year before, he created and photographed anti-matter... There is a good interview with him in the Guardian's [science weekly podcast](http://www.guardian.co.uk/science...)" - John Casey

"> Given that the general demeanor of reddit users is mature Are you new here?" - John Casey

"Serves 1" - John Casey

"> It's well known that the British have an appalling standard of spelling and grammar. I'd say that an absurd criticism of a group of people based solely on their nationality is the very definition of a xenophobic stereotype. I'm not insecure, I'm annoyed. A study of less than 30 people would be a poor reference to support a claim that criticises over 60 million. But this study doesn't support the claims you make. Show me were it says that literacy rates among the British are appalling. Or merely that Brits have a higher rate of misspellings and malaproprisms than any other country? [The UN doesn't seem to think so](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) > "I was stood there and he was sat there". sounds terrible, And regional dialect can indeed have strong differences in grammar and spelling. Compare phrases born from British English, US English and African American English... It's nothing to do with being arrogant or British, if enough people are..." - John Casey

"As a Brit, bullshit. It's not "well known", it's just a handy xenophobic stereotype that you've latched on to that enables your own prejudices. All languages have regional variances, dialects and colloquialisms." - John Casey

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"I guess my question then, is: Why does my bank make me remember 3 different passwords, and a PIN number to access my account, and is it really OK to be putting that sort of information on invoices - which seems pretty common?" - John Casey

"Indeed. There are actually 26 bishops in the House of Lords that have the right to help create our laws. Crazy." - John Casey

"Something does something to something for doing something to some thing of something's something with some other thing." - John Casey

"The HTTPS protocol uses both symmetric and asymmetric encryption, and is generally considered sufficiently secure. bcrypt is not for password hashing. IT security is generally not about making systems impregnable, but understanding and managing risks within the system so that they are at a level that the business finds acceptable. One-way encrypted keys are not 100% secure; Two-way encryption is not 0% secure. The responsibility of the business to to find the appropriate level of security based on a risk assesment covering variables such as value of data held, loss incured by a breach, likelihood of attacks, etc. No-one is complaining that they don't use a combination of retinal scans, time-based one-time PINs and fingerprint scanners. Generally, businesses decide on the level of security they deem suitable, and acknowledge and accept the risks remaining. A business may legitimately decide that the level of security it thinks is suitable will still permit a user to recover their..." - John Casey

"Now you are making further assumptions on their implementation. There are plenty or secure ways of using symmetric encryption." - John Casey

"Adam & Joe do a great BBC Radio 6 show, for which there is a podcast available - worth checking out all the episodes you can find! http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcast..." - John Casey

"Sky news is awful. The BBC is always the first target for much of the rest of the UK press simply because they are their biggest competitor, and free to air. Every story that can be spun to show the BBC in a bad light will get blown out of proportion, and the hypocracy of the rest of the media when reporting bad journalism is astounding. That said, this article makes a good point. The recent Gaza aid story and this are both examples of a definite bias at the BBC that needs to be addressed." - John Casey

"I don't really think so. They tend to be quite prototective of their political independence, and got into a hell of a shit-storm about their attack on the governments sexing up of Iraq inteligence documents, for example." - John Casey

"That was Moby." - John Casey

"What are the permissable ways to pronounce tomato, niche and herb?" - John Casey

"So how come it has now flatlined? Surely there is some remaining seismic activity?" - John Casey

"However, civilians aren't supposed to be "the enemy"." - John Casey

"The only thing you can infer from the phrase "I could care less" is that the subject is something that you care about at least *some amount*. That could range from a tiny tiny amount to the thing you care about the most. It provides almost no inforation, and is probably exactly the opposite of what you mean." - John Casey

"HTML describes multimedia documents. That might well include images, sounds and video." - John Casey

">"The Bank provides several services to its shareholder, HM Treasury, > and to other Government departments and bodies" It is possible to read that as saying "The Bank provides several services to its shareholder: HM Treasury (and to other Government departments and bodies)">"The Bank’s holdings in any particular institution may change from > time to time as part of realignments of holdings among the > shareholders and participants. It is possible that 'shareholders' refers to the other shareholders of the institution that the bank has holdings in. Companies can from time-to-time re-organize their share structure, it sounds as though the bank is merely stating that. I don't see any evidence here that not all the money ends up in one government department or another." - John Casey

"Ah hemp! Is there no problem you can't solve? </John Stewart Impression>" - John Casey

"Could you not have several loops overlaid on top of eachother, each a prime number of seconds long, so that the overall loop time is too long for your brain to remember?" - John Casey

"Mirrors don't actually flip things left to right, they turn things back to front. When you look at your reflection, your left hand is still on the left, etc, but you see things that you would normally need to be facing the other way to see." - John Casey

"Of course they have been making people aware, *they do report the news*. The point of the appeal they refuse to broadcast is to do the same, without political bias. I see no reason not to broadcast it. The Red Cross comparison is far from pointless, it serves to illustrate that it is not only entirely possible, but common and accepted to seperate humanitarian disasters from the poltical situation that creates them. And its charities and NGOs like that - independent and apolitical that are being represented in the appeal - that's the point. Would you suggest that the BBC can no longer report with integrity from Darfur? Kosovo? Rwanda? I'm glad for all the publicity the BBC has brought upon themselves, but it doesn't mean their judgement was correct." - John Casey

"I don't see any faux logic. If the red cross organises aid in palestine is it displaying political bias by concentrating its efforts on those in need? Let me just recap this thread, and you tell me were my logic fails: "An aid organisation helping civilian victims stuck in a war zone is not showing poltical bias""It is if you it only helps civilians on one side""That's the only side that needs help. That doesn't prove political bias""Yes it does" I don't understand why the clear need for humanitarian aid must interefere with unbiased political reporting. NGOs like the Red Cross has a clear and respected history of providing humanitarian aid without getting involved in the politics. There is no reason why the two cannot remain seperate. The BBC has broadcast calls for aid in conflict areas many times before, and should be applauded for doing so. It does not compromise its ability to stay politically neutral. It's not about "political perpective". I'm not asking the BBC to take a..." - John Casey