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13y ago
He's not a citizen so can't make a FOIA request. No-one else can make one on his behalf as it would be breach rules on data protection and personal information. Probably.
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13y ago
@samuelpepys is steadily posting the diary of Samuel Pepys - a famous diarist from the 17th century.
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13y ago
International air travel is tax free world wide as agreed in the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation.
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13y ago
As a current example, the EU decided that airlines operating in Europe would have to pay a carbon tax, to be spent on fighting climate change. The US government made it illegal for american airlines to pay that tax. It's currently susp
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13y ago
It is a useful improvement and I do like it, but sometimes I can't help but look at my screen and notice I have a window manager, which contains a web browser window, which contains tabbed windows, one of which contains gmail which now
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13y ago
Don't they have an app for that?
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13y ago
There's a labs feature which introduces a delay to sending emails, you have several seconds to press "undo" and stop it sending.
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13y ago
Presumably like the google drive app, it doesn't show the cut and paste action bar but keeps the formatting bar, it does pop-up a cut and paste dialog. Evernote does show the cut and paste action bar but also has the text formatting ba
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13y ago
The government has already apologised.
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13y ago
Router configuration pages are usually awful. With string handling being an awful pain in C, it might explain why my router only does validation in javascript (thankfully, it means I can disable it when it is wrong).
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13y ago
You might be able to find a nearby willing Debian developer https://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Offers#US If you're near a university or work somewhere in tech you'll probably be able to find a DD within a deg
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13y ago
You only have to specify the role for IE, once that complies you can use <main> rather than <div role="main"> or <main role="main">
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13y ago
Coca cola are not far behind, but they do flavour the water before selling it.
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13y ago
There's not even rules, the EU just asked them to sort it out, otherwise it would legislate so they had have a common standard.
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13y ago
Browsers auto-update over SSL and hopefully use certificate pinning.
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13y ago
You write articles about how you want your childs privacy to be respected and hope some of your friends pay attention. I have a young child, it's normal for most people to ask my permission before putting photos of him on facebook. Gen
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13y ago
This is how the class system in Britain works. As far as I can tell in the US, wealth is the only input into the social class equation. In Britain there are lots of inputs e.g. where you went to school, your accent, your vocabulary, your oc
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13y ago
Most people have no idea that that is possible. To find out you have to play mystery meat with keys for ages.
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13y ago
On the UK high street you can buy an rpi + case + cables + card all in one box.
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13y ago
A trailing period just represents the top of the domain hierarchy. http://reddit.com./ will work just fine.
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13y ago
It's very easy to re-use C code in most other languages.
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13y ago
> Leave a large tip for a cute member of the waitstaff and get their phone # Buying a phone number? This seems weird.
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13y ago
It was the company who installed the bins. The City of London gave the company a contract for the bins, this tracking is something that has developed after the original contract was signed.
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13y ago
That's not what happened. There's a question, it isn't the sort of question the stack overflow wants to have, so it's closed. For a change it's actually a close decision that was a good one.
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13y ago
That's not what the article said. It said that the initial fraudulent call claimed that they had cloned it. Getting a name and phone number is easy. After you've followed the person home, poke through their waste paper bin until y
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13y ago
There's no legislation to challenge. This is all being done "voluntarily" by the most used ISPs.
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13y ago
The daily mail is not a reputable source for anything.
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13y ago
While your points are good, The adviser isn't part of government, Mandelson was. There is an important difference, a minister is a much more powerful position.
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13y ago
It's not just parents. My local school (~500 metres away) doesn't let students walk to and from school unaccompanied by an adult until they are eleven.
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13y ago
Nope. It's the ISPs who are implementing this, they are not subject to FoI.
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