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by eftpotrm 15y ago
And the intersection of these two viewpoints is where Fair Use doctrine comes in. I'm not even remotely a lawyer and this isn't my country's legal system anyway, but the case as to whether this was covered by fair use was felt to be arguabl
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
It might be good potentially but it certainly isn't as we're currently using it. Quite aside from the incredibly basic console apps we're having to use to browse and test against the DB server, performance isn't exactly its strong point and
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Legacy apps, Ingres. All sorts of odd little things, SQL Server. Various legacy data processing and newer data warehousing jobs, SAS. New projects, in theory Oracle but there seems to be a degree of resistance. It'd be interesting to see ho
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
If their servers have been compromised to leak the data, should be. They ran the survey and UK and European data protection law makes data leaks the responsibility of the data holder.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
That's a pessimistic reading. Firstly, there's no requirement for universal vendor support for the coding system to be useful. Obviously the motivation for support is higher as is the critical mass of support, but it's not all or nothing. S
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Firstly that's specific to how a particular region encodes its postal coding, which isn't worldwide. Secondly, it's less true than you'd think within the UK. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:London_postcodes.png , compare the locatio
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Personally, in developing quite a lot of different data-backed apps, I've never really found the problem ORMs are solving to be a hugely significant one; it seems like a 'quick fix' for coders who don't really understand SQL anyway, which a
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Taken on phone cameras? I have a phone camera and a fairly nice, if not exactly pro, DSLR. I'd never consider taking anything remotely important on the phone; the quality difference is enormous.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I forget where (Terminator 2?) but there was definitely an SF story somewhere where the aggressor launched a nuclear attack at their victim's enemy rather than straight back at the victim they'd gained control of, because the likely counter
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Hmm, yes, I'm a twit - they did specifically say this is deaths per vehicle. Still not against per passenger mile or as deviance from the demographic norm for the driver which would be what we'd really need to find how dangerous the car i
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Hmm, guess what I just bought..... By itself this data isn't much use though, I suspect. For years Concorde was statistically incredibly safe, then one crash made it statistically incredibly dangerous, simply because there were only 14 flyi
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
An interesting thought, but if I can't go back at least sevreal hundred years it's a lot less fun :-)
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I still think the notion of a 'collectible' book is a good one, but probably not quite as phrased there. Pure pulp will, I agree, largely leave the printed medium. Items like Twilight may I suspect stay around as they're 'a collectible seri
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Oh, it's not that tricky.... I only have one Facebook profile but I certainly know others with more than one. I do, on the other hand, have two Flickr photostreams for very different categories of work. OK, the websites only cache one login
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
No. I don't deny there is a demographic that will always obtain for free what it can but it's a lot below 100%. Witness the documented effect of services like NetFlix on piracy levels or the warnings in software such as PDFCreator or Paint.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Only to some degree; single sales have also partially dropped off because the relative cost of albums has decreased. I bought my first album in 1987-8ish for about £8.50 - the same purchase today would most likely be £10 and back catalogue
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
But, a good part of the point of .Net was that the managed code was in MSIL and being compiled to X86 down the line rather than by the developer, so the argument that ARM support requires a move from .Net really doesn't hold water. I'm hopi
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Possibly paranoid cynicism, but I'm not sure I'd want to be too close to an amateur rocket test flight in a helicopter...
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
The difficult bit is the finding though, not the verifying; use the code to do the finding and identifying, present both to the human who clicks the 'yes on penalty of perjury' button and you're done.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I'm not at all saying the Russian army didn't do a very good job in the end; rather, being willing and able both to retreat nearly 1,000 miles from your starting position while more than doubling the width of your front line - and still ret
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
The Siegfried Line was made enormously more effective by general malaise in the Western armies (then under French command) though; in spite of being relatively weak and unfinished it went largely untroubled. There were some small incursions
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Not just running out of fuel but general supply line issues. Blitzkrieg (around which the German forces had been designed) was predicated on the assumption that you could quickly overrun a territory before the defenders could react to it. W
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I'd suggest this is strongly regional (and observe that Glasgow is in Scotland, not England, but anyway...) - I have had to input part of my number plate when buying a physical ticket (as opposed to online/phone ticketless billing) but it's
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
And 'true markets' distort communities. Anecdotally there's a significant problem in the UK with some rural regions becoming significantly hotels for the wealthy. People like them so buy properties as second homes, maybe to live in a 5-10 d
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Putting an image onto Twitter or other such services is clearly putting the image for distribution, but under the common terms of that service; you're saying the image is available to see as you posted it . The issue here is separate, for-
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
UK degrees work differently to US degrees. You're usually studying a fixed, single-subject program as opposed to a program with a 'major' and a wide range of 'minor' subjects, and you're studying for three years, not four.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
UK law provides taxpayer backed guarantees to a fixed balance per saver per bank; if NR had been allowed to collapse the UK taxpayer would've been on the hook for that amount. And I agree that bankrupticies must be possible and are a good t
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Too big to fail is _ not _ a fallacy. The knock-ons from the failures of Lehman and Bear Stearns were very visible. In Europe, the knock-ons from the failure of Kaupthing and Landsbanki were too, and they only ended up affecting insitutiona
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
But, there is arguably no more commonality between the people of Norway, Portugal and Bulgaria than between Canadians, Mexicans and Chileans, so why can we call the first group collectively European but not the second collectively American?
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
While I'm not particularly defending the situation that's arisen, what public good is served by knowing that a footballer had an affair? Censoring that Trafigura were dumping toxic waste was, I agree, wrong. But revealing that two people ar

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