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by Dayshine 7y ago
From the UK's ICO on the GDPR: > Domestic purposes – personal data processed in the course of a purely personal or household activity, with no connection to a professional or commercial activity, is outside the GDPR’s scope. This me
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Why not just use the full ONS UK postcode directory? http://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/ons-postcode-dir...
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>The alternative is to spend an hour deciphering the blob of goo that is actual mail messages mixed with signatures, attachments You mention attachments, which implies you've been included in all the previous emails. In which case,
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>Yet, you cannot do any of that on HN (other than a limited case like italic). But, we can communicate just fine without those features. Can we? Comments can't have tables, so you almost never see any actually tabular data like stat
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OK, the better example from further down. You realise your badge lets you into areas of the premium tour, it opens all doors, not just the ones you paid for it to open. And even if it is fraud of some kind, the bar for charging someone with
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> theft of services If you have a contract, is this really a crime in the US? That's a civil matter!
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If someone charges for tours of part of their house, has two prices of tour, and you change the colour of your badge to let you access the part you haven't paid for, is that a crime?
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It's not illegal to use 500GB of fibre bandwidth in a month when you only pay for 250GB though (say due to a bug in their method of counting usage).
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They're withdrawing subsidies for resellers of their products. It's pretty hard to see how that is them extinguishing competition... Isn't subsiding by a major market power generally seen as an anticompetitive action?
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No, I'm suggesting changing laws. Youtube currently benefits massively from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_... as they are not directly liable for people uploading content they don&#x2
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How about a trade-off, something like: In order to receive "Safe harbour" copyright immunity for uploaded user content, you have to have fairly lax rules on content (e.g. only blocking actual criminal content, which is all youtube
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Huh, a flagged comment, that's a first, sorry. I was really responding to what I saw as the GP breaking other guidelines by not responding to the article, so I quoted the only relevant part of their comment and the appropriate part of
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It's 1am so you get the first result I found. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795360... Let me know if you don't have access to the journal. That's 2-3 times increased cha
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Well, I think all the lawyer + law professor + writers can not have kids and we'll be fine. I'm not saying people that want to work 40/50 hour weeks shouldn't have kids. I'm saying people who want to work 80 hour we
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> 6) It's impossible to perfectly balance a 40 hour working week and family. Best you can aim for is a kind of homeostasis where work suffers for family one week and then family suffers a bit for work the next. The article refers to
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If you don't want to prioritise your kids over your job... don't have kids . Contraception is pretty damn effective, and people often have children for entirely selfish reasons. A dog isn't for christmas, and your kids aren&
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The fake urgency is if the discount is available every day . And that's generally considered misleading advertising in the UK at least. If you want an example: https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/j-sainsbury-plc-a17-40
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Huh? It does have this requirement: Each supervisory authority shall ensure that the imposition of administrative fines pursuant to this Article in respect of infringements of this Regulation referred to in paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 shall in ea
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They don't have FCSC protection, how is that a better thought-out offering for private customers? "We can just throw away your money and you have no recourse, trust us with your ~banking~ beyond banking"
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>Revolut is a pre-paid card. You can't expect expect the same level of protection or consumer rights, which are provided by a Credit Card or a bank registered in your jurisdiction. Er, are you sure? In the UK marketing: https:&#x2F
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Even if he'd removed the limit entirely, that doesn't show intent to allow that specific transaction through. What if he was removing it to make a completely different payment? It seems like terrible UX to not allow/require i
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If it happened to be the day your bills go out, you might just assume you messed up in your planning. And there's no weird transaction listed, so assuming it's a standing order wouldn't be unusual. And yeah, "panic"
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It feels like the "unique" part that makes this something novel about this is that they claim you authorized fraud when you raised your limit, accidentally letting a transaction you couldn't see through. So the scenario is ro
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Yup, wrote a toy processor in Bluespec. It was wonderfully easy to do, and typing was pretty handy too.
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No it doesn't. On the Model S page one feature is called "Autopilot: Future of Driving". The Autopilot page then leads with a still shot of a driver not touching the wheel. If you press play it says "He is not doing anyt
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I like the approach some MMOs use: - Provide the printed CD-Key from the game box in full - Provide details about the transaction used to purchase the game (address, date/time, name) - Provide names of characters on the accounts They&#
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>There's no functional difference between the two codes in terms of account access Are you sure? The last time I used a recovery code I got an email and my 2FA immediately stopped working. If I have your TOTP key I can use your 2FA
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That's what recovery codes are for. If you're ok storing the TOTP key, you could just store a recovery code instead. Recovering an account is generally audited, so this is more secure that just provisioning another device. My poin
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That behaviour is literally what this article is discussing trying to stop: - Documentation: Warn users not to save their QR codes - Documentation: Tell users to only provision one device - Documentation: Suggest TOTP applications that don’
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The main problem I have with TOTP (What you're using when you use Google Authenticator) is that the migration path doesn't exist when you get a new phone. This article complains that users are trying to mitigate this problem, but

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