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by ErrantX 15y ago
This is why the word Tabloid is problematic :) because in the UK it means "trashy newspaper", whereas in other places it means the format. Clearly tabloid, in whatever meaning, is a newspaper. But what you have quoted is a nutshell summar
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by ErrantX 15y ago
No; although a lot of editors do tend to reject them out of hand without actually reading the policy (this really annoys me). Nothing actually precludes using a primary source - so long as it is on a purely factual basis and is not "interpr
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Tabloids aren't considered a good source. As to "science papers published on a university website", that all depends. I remember a few months ago that one joyous postgrad student was hosting a pretty off-the-wall theory on his personal univ
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by ErrantX 15y ago
When we say "grey area" the test is "could this image be absolutely non-controversial in a "normal" context". For example; if you seize a computer containing lots of images of girls in swimwear the owner has some issues. But if one of those
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Not really. There is a very very big grey area in which images are "up for interpretation". You're thinking in black/white terms; unfortunately it is not so simple.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
In theory, sure. In practice you are not likely to find a prosecutor interested in a case without some form of nudity. (background; I work in digital forensics). Ive seen the sub-reddits in question. Most were fairly "meh", by which I mean
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by ErrantX 15y ago
And for the basics of Python: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Drugs[1] (vaporize, inhale) 1. Commenters may, of course, be using it for other purposes. But that is the general application.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I'm on holiday here at the moment (lovely country, btw? :)) and it was nice to see that reaction on the news and radio. It's similar to the UK reaction to the kid the US started extradition against a few weeks ago. It was interesting to see
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by ErrantX 15y ago
It's not being abandoned. They are just using the same tactics as always. * Push a dodgy law to the brink of a vote * Get the opposers to bluster into obscurity * Sneak the same legislation in under other laws/names later in the year. (* Pr
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Yep. I suspect that having the protest now pretty much paves the way for them to sneak in legislation later in the year. Much like happened with DMCA.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
But I don't think the effect on casual users will be exclusively what the blackout-proponents are hoping. Interestingly, you are right. At the moment emails to info@wikipedia.org (they are handled by volunteers) appear to be about roughly
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Well, in fairness, that couldn't happen to Wikipedia directly because of provisions in the SOPA legislation. The concern (which no one at WP is doing a good job of explaining...) is that we might be defined under SOPA as a "search engine" a
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by ErrantX 15y ago
So; the blackout will work something like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/?banner=SOPA_blackout_alt The exact text is being figured out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Propo... (I think the current draft is
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by ErrantX 15y ago
She can’t be faulted for thinking that “for instance” meant she could try something else. Yet, she got an “Oops, try again.” message. I did exactly the same thing when I was checking out Code Academy - in fact I think I even typed the sam
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by ErrantX 15y ago
The risk there is that the media just ignores it (or worse, casts the internet as "failing to understand Congress, because it is shelved", or something like that). Which leaves the big protest flopped - and after the election fracas no one
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Wikipedia is probably blacking out, so long as someone makes a decision somewhere :)
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Absolutely. In this case I think it is possible to argue (rather than it being cut and dried) about the legality in the UK - at least to a reasonable degree. If the judge decides it is then, fine, that's what he rules :) I agree; #3 is th
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by ErrantX 15y ago
The CPS != "the crown" (at least not today). The CPS is the UK equivalent of the DA's office. It's a political bureaucracy (I could literally complain for days about how much of a bureaucracy it is, but you'd get bored of me :)). The judge,
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by ErrantX 15y ago
This sounds like a clever point, but really isn't. Extradition requires that the crime is also a crime under the local laws. The argument is being made (quite rightly I think) is that what he did was not illegal under British law. So perh
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I'm unsurprised people aren't calling in support; after all they don't need to campaign... I also think people, i.e. the masses, aren't really aware yet. Most I am sure will be opposed when they figure it out, but there will be a proportion
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by ErrantX 15y ago
To me it reads a lot like a scam. Gmail addresses to send data to, vague comments about cost and features. A lot of bullshit about Google. We get SEO and "host your website" scam calls now and again (maybe 2 or 3 times a month) - since my b
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by ErrantX 15y ago
they wouldn't be defended half as much as Google is being. I think you need to re-adjust your filter :) In this thread, for example, the only defence is people questioning whether it is actually Google doing this. That's reasonable; Googl
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hospital owned by insurance company, so it is very wrong Wait what? How on earth is that allowed to happen!
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by ErrantX 15y ago
In the UK, private medical insurance comes in a broader range of costs - and generally costs less than insurance in the US.
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That would be good - but then you begin to talk about a unified logging interface and standardisation like folder structure, class loading, class interfaces and so on. At which point it's basically a framework (perhaps without the routing/i
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I used to feel this way. However I tended to find myself, on most projects, spending a surprising amount of time tweaking incompatibilities between the various lightweight libraries I was using. And it was a bit of an effort to unify things
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Well, as an aspiring Fantasy writer I fully intend to release my first book in "beta" and refine it over a number of months :) In my experience of writing occasional short stories online, Sci-Fi/Fantasy readers love updates. I mean; quite
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I never do fixed-price projects and instead, provide best-effort estimates and bill by the hour. So far this is the best advice I have seen in this thread. So +1 :) I used to give fixed-price quotes and it burns you more often than not.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I think there is a similarity; smart marketing.

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