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by ectopod 5y ago
They assessed the kit to ensure it was safe to install on British networks, they announced it was safe, and the kit was installed. Further, when America's anti-Huawei panic started HMG were looking for an excuse to ban Huawei kit. If p
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Jurors can take notes in the UK but it seems like you need to bring your own writing material. https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2016/06/21/taking-notes-boosts-...
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Western backdoors were not uncovered through FOIA requests either. Huawei kit has been extensively analysed by GCHQ. They found nothing untoward.
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Why not have both? "The GAMMAN companies" has a nice ring to it.
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I wouldn't steal it but I would unplug it to stop the stink. Air fresheners do not.
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$57m to $570m
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It doesn't matter where the data is. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
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I imagine that a randomly chosen judge would, but I don't imagine that the FBI gets their dodgy warrants signed by a randomly chosen judge.
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As far as I know, there isn't an official standard for timezone names so you need to define which set of names you are using.
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During the pandemic they massively ramped up home delivery and they made loads of money. They seem to be doing OK.
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Have you tried walking in Birmingham? Some of the "cycle lanes" here are just a pavement with a sign. There is no separation from pedestrians. And the majority of cyclists (especially Just Eat delivery riders) seem to think it is
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From the preceding paragraph: > Personal data are any information which are related to an identified or identifiable natural person. Tesla already knows who you are so any data they capture is personal data.
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You are right. In post-war Germany the paying of bribes was made legal and tax deductible. This was successful in reducing bribery.
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How are you going to set the temperature of your sample to 20C before you measure it? Freezing point can easily be achieved with an ice bath.
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You can start explaining fractional powers with roots, e.g. x^0.5
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The problem is actually high heat combined with high humidity. Sweating fails to cool you down and you cook. Broiling is very high heat and low humidity.
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The vendor is the party you form a contract with. They get liability for product problems. In a store that's the store. On Amazon it might be dropshipper748. This gives stores an incentive not to stock, say, dangerous electronics from
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In a store there is only one vendor: the store. For third party sales Amazon insists that they are not the vendor. It's not the same thing.
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The supermarket is using its own sales data. Amazon is snooping on the sales data of third parties using their platform.
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What do you mean? Posts don't have a downvote button.
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The medical records of our betters already get special treatment in the NHS. When they first started national electronic records they created a special class of record for important people with limited access.
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A few years ago the NHS gave a load of confidential patient data to an insurance company to train their models. They claimed that it wasn't a problem because the data was deleted after training. However, nobody knows (publicly) what ki
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I'm not making any kind of moral judgment here, but as a simple matter of fact shaming absolutely does work. That's why people hate it so much.
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How do you know they don't feed it into an ML system before they delete it? That lets them "not save it" while reaping the benefits of saving it.
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Plenty of bread is made with just flour, water, salt and yeast. Even the very cheapest own-brand sliced white loaf in my local UK supermarket has no sugar. American bread has sugar because it's cheap and Americans like it.
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> Facebook certainly has the right to ban this extension Why? It's a Chrome extension. They can ban the user and the extension will rot. That seems like more than enough power.
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To stalk a single person is a crime; to stalk a billion is a business model.
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That's half true. Personalisation informs the search which informs the ads. If I search for a restaurant I get ads for local restaurants.
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120 years ago my grandmother's deaf uncle was shot dead by New York police. He was running for a train. Now it's tase and jail. I guess that's progress. I'm just glad I don't live in America.
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The unrollthread page does have a link to the original twitter thread. At the top, labelled @QuinnyPig. Anyway, guidelines are guidelines, not cast iron rules. When the original site is hot garbage I'd much rather see an alternative.

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