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My mother has this feature (in UK). The first time you call, it will send you to the voicemail and ask you to state who you are. Then she gets a notification and can listen to the message. If she phones you back, the number you are calling
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If I were those guys up there, I would check the chest cavity, just to be sure..
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I still use xv by John Bradley regularly.. the most recent version 3.10a was released on 29/12/1994 ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software)
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maybe you use the machine vision and sorting machine to reject that item then, and still send all the uncontaminated items to China?
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So since I got a phone I have always used it as my address book (yeah, I export and back it up). In the early days Android was pretty nice. You can enter all sorts of things in there; multiple addresses, numbers, company information, birthd
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"Most human beings can't interpret large strings of numbers and GPS coordinates without a map to illustrate them, and judges are no exception," said Nathan Freed Wessler, an attorney for the national American Civil
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Making presentations friendly to colorblind people
(jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
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Its an interesting article.. I have questions! This antibody binds to 'tissue factor' which are present at high levels on the surface of many cancer cells. Are these tissue factor present in significant proportions on other types
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Actually this is untrue. Your coffee is also a desire which you find. It is clearly a ridiculous assertion that a human being needs coffee. If you never had a cup of coffee again you would not die from that lack.
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If you don't drive every day, then if you ran a laptop all day on your battery you are stuck the next day. Of course, the answer is don't run a laptop all day.. but that just changes the variables a bit because if you want to stop
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One the one hand I guess it wouldn't make any difference, since the PO Box must be in the same town as the street address. On the other hand, the PO Box is provided by Royal Mail. Another delivery company (there are many who handle par
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In the UK a PO Box is also an address, which you can use in different ways Mail addressed to the PO Box -> You collect from post office Mail addressed to the PO Box -> They deliver to street address (which only they know) Mail address
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the gemologist was > an FBI expert in forensic gemology and I can only presume they know what kind of power is required to melt diamond, and how it looks afterwards..
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> It's not in the best interest of the banks to monitor their internals too closely. So keep raising the fines. make them proportional to the banks turnover, or their perceived size if it appears that they are trying to disguise pro
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Yes I think so. I save with a credit union (just because, it is local and they do turn around with the money and give small loans to people which banks would not). They offer a prepaid debit card which I do not have but it is provided by &#
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How about if you go to another device which you have not used before (maybe a library or internet cafe), do not identify yourself to the web in any way, open a sole link to that page and enter the passwords you wish to check. They are che
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I think this. I had a friend who formerly worked for military intelligence in the UK who asked once (to a group) if we thought we were on the GCHQ database. I said yes, I would likely be in there and when he asked why I gave my reason, whic
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I think the future could be radically different from what we see now, depending on technological advances. 'Phones' with 'Apps' is one thing, but a genuinely smart system which could have tendrils into your phone, your w
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The world is different now, we walk for leisure rather than going to work. Also there are not thousands of rural folk who need to get somewhere by foot on a daily basis meaning it is a problem, where over the years paths and parts of paths
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Also the land registry are pretty good about looking at the facts and making a reasonable decision (though you do have to pay them to come out and look at the situation) A family member of mine did this when the neighbours were being somewh
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This looks as if it might be really interesting, but "Sorry, you need to use a newer browser to see the map" and I'm using "Firefox Nightly 63.0.3 (64-bit)", built about a month ago. I'm pretty sure it h
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One of the other commenters suggests that it is displaying onto several layers of glass inside the block; I didn't watch the video but I wonder if the surfaces that it is displaying on could be curved in addition to this within the blo
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it might be now (?) but I seem to recall a very similar story playing out at BHS only last year..
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Interestingly I heard that 'some media' had published their names yesterday and I thought that was pretty crass. I know several media organisations are that though so its not really a surprise, and I hope they manage to sue them
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So maybe the fixed term is 15 years, or 20. I don't see the benefit (to society) of having uncertain terms though. That a book takes a number years to write is irrelevant. The copyright will be dated the year it is published, not when
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> You would get the copyright for the first year for free. Then it would cost more each year to maintain the copyright for one more year. I have a major problem with this. The problem is that if I purchase an item and it says 'Copyr
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Pretty sure that Disney will have trademarked Mickey Mouse and therefore a lack of copyright would be irrelevant anyway.
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I find it a little sad that he did not credit Antoine de Saint-Exupéry who wrote this story and created the drawings in 1943 after he crashed his aeroplane in the sahara desert and and met the real little prince there. Also, that the commen
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The nice(r) thing about bootstrapping GCC is that there are many alternative implementations of C and C++ already existing.
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In fact there was a guy at my previous job who would be much like that. The person who had been doing my job said he had had a word with his (and my) boss and asked him to come in one day and pointedly ask him to do something. Boss threw in
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