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511.
by desas 14y ago
Where is anything said about the rule of dictate? The UK doesn't have a codified constitution - parts of it aren't written down anywhere at all. Any act of parliament can override any existing act or law, parliament can pass any new act it
512.
by desas 14y ago
ING Direct in the UK randomise the position of the keys on the keyboard for each login attempt.
513.
by desas 14y ago
What does it do that the google translate app doesn't?
514.
by desas 14y ago
Just be careful, several of the auditors here are wrong
515.
by desas 14y ago
I've heard of this happening before. I remember reading something by Bill Bryson, probably from the 90s, where he returned to the US to retrace some of his childhood journeys. After being used to British maps and their fantastic detail he l
516.
by desas 14y ago
beanstalkd -b should work. I haven't tried this.
517.
by desas 14y ago
They'll need to update their detection anyway for devices sold in future. I would assume that the only cost of updating existing devices is the bandwidth cost to download the rules or whatever.
518.
by desas 14y ago
The amazon store is pretty goood
519.
by desas 14y ago
Halifax have a credit card that offers zero transaction charges and wholesale rates. Obviously you have to pay the interest (around 12% apr) though.
520.
by desas 14y ago
I thought it was fantastic. Project Gutenburg has also made it available.
521.
by desas 14y ago
QML is sort of related to that. It's a declarative javascript QT framework.
522.
by desas 14y ago
I'm assuming it'll get upgraded when they move over to the lloyds tsb infrastructure. I have no idea how good that is.
523.
by desas 14y ago
He's also had an interesting and opinionated website since basically forever. Also it was he who talked them into open sourcing mozilla
524.
by desas 14y ago
There already is http://history.stackexchange.com/
525.
by desas 14y ago
Two years would be plenty, most contract lengths in the UK are for 18 months or two years, people expect to be getting a new phone that is up.
526.
by desas 14y ago
Interestingly enough some historians believe in the central premise of psycho-history, that the actions of a large group of people are inevitable. Ian Morris touches on it in "Why the West Rules - For Now"
527.
by desas 14y ago
Psychohistory involves predicting the effects of large numbers of people and assumed that single individuals could not significantly change the future of the galaxy. Without giving too much away, The Mule was a unique being who could not ha
528.
by desas 14y ago
Most of my posts to g+ come because it's so easy to do from reader, that may be reason enough...
529.
by desas 14y ago
Does it scrape university pages and is it to do with course scheduling?
530.
by desas 14y ago
I'd argue that google is an ai company at heart, that just happens to make a fortune selling ads.
531.
by desas 14y ago
He doesn't really care about business. From memory he was originally very cautious about monetising the original apple. His perspective isn't "why this would be good business for apple", it's "why this would be cool for me".
532.
by desas 14y ago
> [debconf] There's probably a way to do the same thing in RPM-based systems Nope. In fact fedora developed packagekit said the idea was broken and caused a controversy over supporting it for ages
533.
by desas 14y ago
Hardware compatibility is a problem, having a group of people all targeting one particular laptop to fix is worthwhile but isn't a great way to fix it. There are various laptops that can be pointed to if you're persuading someone buying a n
534.
by desas 14y ago
There is 100% hardware compatibility on many laptops already, I'm not sure that that is the problem. Canonical need to be more profitable, indeed they're probably not or barely profitable yet. They seem to have two ways of increasing profit
535.
by desas 14y ago
I bet I've listened to discussions of FGM on Womans Hour on radio4 at least twenty times in the last half decade. Edit: Just to be clear, I'm not saying it currently receives enough attention.
536.
by desas 14y ago
They don't actually share a border with Russia, were never part of Russia or the USSR and are part of the EU. There's zero chance of the Russians invading.
537.
by desas 14y ago
In the UK at least you should never have to hand it over. You insert them into the chip and pin device yourself. A lot of places will do this for you but only in plain sight.
538.
by desas 14y ago
They have already implemented all of those things for the xbox, it can't be that difficult.
539.
by desas 14y ago
If they're like paypal they just don't contest and pass the hit on to the seller unless they can prove otherwise.
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by desas 14y ago
> The government asked Barclays to falsely report their libor rate at a lower amount. Allegedly

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