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>EDIT: By 3rd-party I mean apps from third-party app stores/package managers. Sorry about the misunderstanding. But you can do that already as well. There are commercial app stores like Amazon's, and there's F-Droid which
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They are just as likely to use telepathy to upload data via superintelligent owls. There's no evidence of Smart TVs connecting in this way.
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While unlimited calls/SMS/data* is quite a common offering in Europe, MMS is often not included in such bundles and costs extra. *Genuinely unlimited data - including tethering, no speed limits or soft caps where you get limited t
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So, none?
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It's more the case that US Consumers are indirectly funding crime by banks turning a blind eye to fraud.
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The encryption aspects of the proposed law have drawn a lot of attention, but the law covers a lot more than that. Many of those parts of the law are popular across the political spectrum of MPs and with the general public. There's stu
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by daveoc64 3y ago
There are many networks in many European countries that do not require any form of activation to use their SIMs.
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This is actually quite common with physical SIMs aimed at travellers or those where multi-country or multi-network support is required. A company will partner with a carrier in country X that has roaming agreements with carriers all over th
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How did you get an esim without a network connection?
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These pros and cons you list are all down to policies that a carrier may enact. With a physical SIM, they can't stop you putting it into another phone, and there are no good technical reasons why you shouldn't be able to swap a SI
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>aren't Pixel phones supported for only 3 years? Pixel 6 and later get 3 years of OS feature updates, and a further 2 years of security updates (5 years in total).
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>This can't be right though, because IE always had updates too, via Windows Update. Although they weren't as frequent as Chrome's It was typically the case that Internet Explorer major version updates were optional, so you
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The problem with relying on a written consititution is that it can easily be changed. The USA is in a position where it seems to be perpetually stuck in a 50/50 split of the elected government, so it's not possible for major const
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What are "these things"? Are you talking about something with a throttle? In the EU (and still the UK), anything with a throttle is treated like a motorcycle - it needs licence plates, tax, insurance and a driving licence. A child
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>Unfortunately, the council aren't happy about it and are threatening to remove them. Quite rightly too - it's simply not legal for them to put it there. There are proper processes in place to get an official hangar installed.
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A common misconception is that e-bikes do not require any physical exertion to use. In the EU it's generally only legal to use a pedelec, which offers assistance when pedalling, but does not have a throttle that allows you to move with
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by daveoc64 3y ago
If an activity has been blocked in one country, the options are: 1) Cancel the merger/acquisition completely. 2) Work out some sort of mitigation with the country. 3) Spin off/discontinue business in that country.
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I saw the Uber driver give me a bad rating once because he complained I'd tricked the app into giving me a fare that was too cheap.
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I was surprised when they seemed to make a comeback. They feel like a solution from the 1990s.
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The Steam Hardware Survey "Other Settings" section lists the prevalence of various extensions among users that have taken the survey: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw... The data s
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by daveoc64 3y ago
Maybe looking up the definition of pedophile would help you out here. 19 is not pre-pubescent.
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>I'd note my local park has such a rule, and the sign has pictures of what are and are not allowed, including a picture of a drone. What happens if the sign in your park was made in 1995, when drones, electric scooters, and electric
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>In rules like this, vehicle is defined - often to be about being motorized or speed. I think that's a further example of ambiguity. A park that had a rule in the 1990s saying "No motorized vehicles" probably wouldn't
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The concept of being able to identify individuals by combining data sources is a key part of GDPR. If you can look up a user account by IP address, then the IP address is personal data.
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Is there a particular problem if someone signs up for an account on your system and doesn't use it? Is such an account using a lot of resources?
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Internet Explorer 11 is still supported in Windows Server 2022, which goes out of support in October 2031. It's also supported in Server 2016 and 2019. It's also supported in Windows 10 LTSC versions for large companies. IE 11 mod
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American Football, or soccer?
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> The idea that all of Europe is highly left wing isn't really accurate. Recall that Switzerland, the UK, Ireland and even Russia are all countries in Europe. Those countries are all very left wing in comparison with the USA. Sure,
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Seems like quite a lot of people are misremembering how Activation and similar technologies worked. Retail versions of Windows XP required Activation by internet or phone. Volume Licensing customers could bypass Activation with a Volume Lic
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As someone from Europe, I'm quite surprised by this. HN is very far to the right by European standards, as even the Democrats are. That perhaps shows why "left" and "right" are overly simplistic labels.

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