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by daveoc64 6y ago
There are multiple reasons why: 1) You may have been given a fine erroneously that the data would prove you shouldn't have been given. 2) Financial records have to be kept for several years in most countries. Details of the transaction
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I really don't like how most sponsored segments are just downright misleading about what VPNs do. Making them funny doesn't change the fact that the ads are deceptive. There's always some fearmongering about people stealing y
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One factor that people often overlooked is that it's not physically possible to widen some of the most congested sections of the motorway network in the UK. They are often over extended elevated sections, bridges, and tunnels. When it
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Reading this, I'm very pleased to see that it often recommends against US-centric words and phrases. There's often so much assumption that readers are in the US (see the comments here for several examples).
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The Energy Star program ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Star ) is an example of how energy usage of computers was considered in the 90s. I expect that the controversy with cryptocurrency stems from a perception th
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I use Firefox 99.9% of the time, but I will note that Chrome performs better on lower end hardware.
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Interesting to see this. The media going completely overboard with this news was to be expected really, but is it really necessary for the BBC to have the same output on four different channels? On the other hand, they would have been hit w
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I agree with you that it would seem unsuitable to rely solely on your phone to serve as a passport or other ID, but it seems like a useful addition for convenience. You could keep your passport securely in your bag or pocket, and then use t
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by daveoc64 6y ago
In the UK, a taxi/private hire vehicle driver can get an exemption if they are medically unable to take assistance dogs, or help passengers in a wheelchair. My local council's guidance on the topic: https://www.bristol.
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This Xbox help article explains how having a "Moderate" or "Strict" NAT can affect you and how it can be solved: https://support.xbox.com/en-GB/help/hardware-network/connect... I don'
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I have replied elsewhere about Xbox Live, but it's generally an impossibility (without advanced forwarding or UPnP) to have two consoles (of the same type - e.g. two Xbox One consoles or two Nintendo Switch consoles), connected to the
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It's unlikely that you will have an "OPEN NAT" status on more than one console without UPnP at the same time. Depending on the game you're playing, that may or may not be an issue. It can stop you connecting to certain p
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People make blanket statements like this without thinking of how it is used by popular consumer devices. As others have said it's really necessary for some consumer devices to work properly - especially if you have more than one of the
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Reading the comments here makes me realise that how people use the like and dislike buttons differs significantly. It reminds me of the Uber approach to rating drivers - by Uber's metrics anything less than 5 stars indicates there was
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I'm not sure how you can solve the "problem" you describe. Freedom of speech means just that - you are free to say what you want/think. Others don't have to agree with you. They might leave the room/not be your
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> Are we really at a point where a pronoun is persecuting people...? If you're intentionally going out of your way to use a pronoun that someone doesn't feel represents them, then yes - that is persecuting them. If someone asks
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Yes, but that's not really the relevant thing. People get "cancelled" when a large enough group of people think someone has done something wrong. It just happens to be the case here that the group is very large, but it's
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Generally speaking, an employee in the UK can be dismissed for no reason at all within the first two years of employment.
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> This is a consequence for past actions. If you are involved in the kind of things this employee was involved with then you deserve no right to being employed by a private company and certainly no right to have others ignore that in the
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I'm in the UK and own two LG Smart TVs (a 65SM8600PLA and a 82UN85006LA). I've never seen any ads on the 65" model, and the 82" model had a toggle to switch them off. In the past, I was always against buying any device w
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> JavaScript served by the sites; exact same issue. It's not really the same issue. If you are visiting a site that uses its own JavaScript, you can probably assume that if it's run by someone trustworthy, the script isn'
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The article seems to think that the support period for Windows is "3 to 5 years". It's really 10. Microsoft offers 5 years of "mainstream" support, where the OS can get feature enhancements and so on, plus an additi
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> It is reasonable to extent that list beyond just child pornography. Seems like you're just back to square one there. You're making a list of unacceptable content. Whatever you put on there, someone's going to disagree. W
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Sorry, I meant spam. If anyone can post a comment, and only "illegal" comments can be removed, that would surely allow a lot of email-style spam.
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So it would be OK for a kids TV show website to have Viagra ads on it? Edit: I mean spam.
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> That was GP's point, IMHO. I thought the point was more that until now, app developers have been able to keep how they use data quiet, and that Apple is forcing them to reveal what they do. That's not really the case, the da
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It's long been the case that companies legally have to disclose what data they collect and what they do with it in their Privacy Policy/Notice. That applies to services on any platform, including iOS, Android, or the web. I think
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> Either you are hitting an API or you aren't. And that causes a bullet item to appear. That's not really how it works. The same type of data can appear in multiple categories, and there are exceptions that mean you don't
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The section of the privacy label highlighted in these articles is about data that apps collect that is then linked to your identity (e.g. to an account). There is a separate section of the label for listing data that is collected as part of
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The link in the email may or may not work that way - that would be down to how the authentication system has been designed. Some of them recognise that users aren't always signing in on the same device that their email account is set u

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