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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>The BBC is government-controlled in that its money is collected by the government No, the licence fee is collected by the BBC , by law. Section 365(2) of the Communications Act 2003: >Sums which a person is liable to pay by virtue o
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Why isn't everything the BBC has ever made available on a streaming service for license free payers? 1. Rights issues. The BBC doesn't actually own the bundle of exclusive rights to a lot of the content that they commission.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>I'm not coming at this from any political position. Saying that after your previous paragraphs doesn't erase the political content of that previous paragraphs.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
That's very new, though. Even 3 minute videos haven't been around for more than a few months.
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> People will just buy TVs more often. Yes, and that's the problem.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Is anyone using PTP and its requisite accuracy in production? If so, what's your use-case? I've seen it used in projects for frame-accurate timing for IP video production (the use case was more TV studios than, say, Twitch str
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
With chargebacks, the customer's bank will (attempt to) reclaim the money from the vendor's bank. For credit cards the credit card issuer also shares legal liability with the vendor for purchases over £100. https://www.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Cancer is exactly why we vaccinate against HPV, as it's a huge cause of cervical cancer.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
"chronic lyme disease" doesn't exist, so probably not...
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
> What about the most important secrets of all, DRM keys? That falls squarely under malware, surely?
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Once you restrict what others can say there's no freedom of speech anymore. If you go by that definition then there is no country on Earth that has freedom of speech. And that's a good thing because that definition is complete
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Regulators have learned that Facebook will lie to them about their acquisitions after the Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus deals. Hence the stronger action against them now.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Yeah, the ePrivacy Regulation has been in development for years now, being held up by the Council. It was supposed to be adopted soon after the GDPR, but 5 years later and we're still waiting...
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
It's not a case that banner => GDPR compliance. A site can have a banner and still be in violation, hence Noyb's actions here.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Noyb have developed a new spec which would make handling this stuff easier called "Advanced Data Protection Control"[0] [0] https://www.dataprotectioncontrol.org/
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Noyb have developed a new spec which would make handling this stuff easier called "Advanced Data Protection Control"[0] [0] https://www.dataprotectioncontrol.org/
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>I think a lot of sites are conflating cookie consent and GDPR consent. They are doing that, however the the legal standard of consent under the ePrivacy Directive is the same as the GDPR. The ePD initially referenced the definition in t
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Oxford and Cambridge are outliers in many, many ways. It's a bad idea to generalise based only on experiences from them.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Not to mention the fact that we're in a pandemic and flying more folks around the world than absolutely necessary is less than ideal...
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Fair use isn't a feature of copyright in every juristiction, which could make this a less than useful idea trying to create a global corpus of speech data.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
There are sizeable non-human animal reservoirs for many viruses, including other coronaviruses (which are one cause of many for the "common cold") and influenza. The viruses can survive just fine without us.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
And also in to pubs...
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>But this has none of the conveniences of pumped hydro - nature already built the holding tank and you only need a pump and generator. Only if you're in an area with favourable geography, of course...
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Nobody gives a hoot about groupthink(baldurbjarnason.com)
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
The title of this submission was changed, originally it did claim that this was the EU's position, which is why I posted that quote.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>This document has been prepared for the European Commission however it reflects the views only of the authors, and the European Commission is not liable for any consequence stemming from the reuse of this publication.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Avoid eating British beef in the 1980s/1990s, too. Apparently 1 in 2,000 people in the UK may be infected.[0] We still don't know if there's going to be a second wave of disease from infections from that time period due to ge
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
>Of actual open-source options: Gitter Gitter was bought by Element, it's effectively a Matrix client now.
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
But why roll that in to a chat app? Why not use your bank's app (or if you live in a country with a 19th century banking system like the USA, something like Venmo)?
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by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Not having one's health insurance tied to one's job is still a Good Thing, though.

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