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domfletcheron Submetrics – Search for your favorite show

Yeah, its a nice idea but doesn't seem to work at the moment, give it a few months and someone may well implement it properly.

As an aside does anyone recognise what they've used for the data vis on http://www.submetrics.org/#/about ?

domfletcheron Time-Series Database patented by GE

It may be a bit of a liberal reading of it but doesn't the database that the patent is stored in on that page violate the patent? It certainly has date stamped data which is ingested and query-able...

domfletcheron Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to Encrypted Communication

My favourite quote on this (from the UK perspective) from Ross Anderson (one of the co-authors): “A point I would like to make to the prime minister and his circle is: whoever put the prime minister up to this should get a complete bollocking. The proposals are wrong in principle and unworkable in practice.”

There is no quicker way of alienating people who understand complex things than by pretending that you know better and have thought of a brilliant solution.