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by desas 13y ago
The stock save icon in Ubuntu hasn't been a floppy disk for years. Here it is: http://ubuntuhandbook.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/firefox...
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by desas 13y ago
MSN messenger was pre-installed on the Microsoft SPV orange phone in 2002...
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by desas 13y ago
Lottie Dexter is not a politician, she's a civil servant. She should have been appointed based on her professional neutrality and ability to do the job, a substantial part of which appears to be to lead a team promoting how to learn pr
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by desas 13y ago
"If a Victorian gentleman arrived in present-day London, he'd think we'd been invaded by glowing rectangles" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/aug/24/charlie...
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by desas 13y ago
It may be unlikely but it does happen. I know someone who drove off the road (60mph single carriageway) at high speed and into a bollard. The bollard went through the air, smashed through a house window and caused the inhabitant to have a h
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by desas 13y ago
The standard messaging app isn't installed by default on modern android phones (nexus 5). You can of course install 3rd party messaging apps.
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by desas 13y ago
There's a Personal blocklist chrome extension if that helps.
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by desas 13y ago
EU expansion gives us cheap 2nd world labour instead...
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by desas 13y ago
Use mb_strlen and mb_strpos instead where the string may contain multibyte characters.
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by desas 13y ago
Don't rely on reddit, HN or /. to report on your sites availability help the Open Rights Group to create a tool to monitor it yourself. https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Censorship_Monitoring_...
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by desas 13y ago
Have the lib dems ever said anything about it? I'd expect them to be against it, if they weren't in coalition.
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by desas 13y ago
The daily mail was the main media organisation putting pressure on the government about it. It's completely inline with the values of their print production.
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by desas 13y ago
Some ISPs (talk talk) already offered it for free butit was opt in. Strong arming other ISPs into it and making it opt in was done because politics.
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by desas 13y ago
When signing up for fixed line broadband with any of the biggest ISPs you have to make a choice between filtered and unfiltered. As the GP said, mobile broadband has filtering enabled by default and has done for years. Source: Am in the UK
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by desas 13y ago
That screenshot says it's blocked on the opt in under12 filter, that's been running for years. It's a whitelist, those sites have probably always been blocked on it.
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by desas 13y ago
Child line is not blocked in the default o2 filter. Its blocked in the opt-in filter, as is most of the net (it's a whitelist). This is clear if you use the o2 URL checker yourself. While not agreeing with the filters, it seems that th
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by desas 13y ago
Yes. It's just to protect the children. You probably don't have child employees
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by desas 13y ago
Only there most popular ISPs were taken to court.
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by desas 13y ago
There's not one filter, some of the most popular ISP have been talked into installing their own, which they will manage themselves.
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by desas 13y ago
These restrictions are only done with the customers informed consent. The only blocks without consent is for child porn and other specific court mandated content - such as pirate bay
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by desas 13y ago
Try McDonalds.com
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by desas 13y ago
It blocks mainstream news too...
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by desas 13y ago
I think that network level filtering will make access to porn more difficult than browser level filtering at less effort to the public, which is the governments objective. I'm not saying it's a good thing.
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by desas 13y ago
or log into their ISPs account area and do it.
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by desas 13y ago
Blocking via web browsers is definitely not going to work. It would require that every browser on each PC, phone, TV and other internet enabled device all activate the filters, all of them have a facility to activate/deactivate the fil
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by desas 13y ago
This is not centrally controlled. The ISPs that have been pushed into this run their own filters, the government don't run the filters, don't have access to the filtering software and don't recommend a particular filtering pr
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by desas 13y ago
A large, perhaps majority, of the government, didn't know what was happening.
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by desas 13y ago
All of those things can happen through the web though. Need access control? Use HTTP auth or use your own thing with cookies. Need bi-directional communication? Use HTTP POST, PUT and DELETE.
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by desas 13y ago
You can't tax enough to fund the current government spending either....
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by desas 13y ago
> No unlabeled colored buttons The red button in particular is used in the UK for lots of TV services. It's not unusual to hear the phrase 'push the red button for X' on TV. X is usually alternative video feeds of live&#x2

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