james_in_the_uk

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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
I became a bit addicted to buying independent apps on MacOS. A little bit on iOS too. Little bits of shareware here and there. With, of course, an annual upgrade cycle. When I looked at why I was buying them, I realised it was more and more
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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
In Europe you would need to set yourself up as a payment services provider (PSP). I believe the US has a similar regime. https://paymentscompliance.com/us-money-transmitters You'll need a reasonable amount of capital b
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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
The cloud providers provide the access controls for the HSM. Why break the encryption when you can just come through the front door?
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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
The European Commission's own view on this is here https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-2/23655/2017121...
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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
"Using the battle metaphor implies that if a patient fights hard enough, smart enough, and/or long enough, he or she will be able to win the war." No it doesn't. I imagine that the battle metaphor is comforting to some p
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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
From no more than the 15 comments posted I'm able to establish that: 1. This component is very high quality and already in use by major businesses: New York Times, The Guardian, Zoho... 2. This component is shepherded by a developer wh
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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
GDPR does not have specific exemptions for fraud. It is often possible to process personal data for anti fraud purposes but it requires a full legal assessment in the same way as any other processing activity would.
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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
This is me too. I don't struggle with logic or patterns so can get by very well even in maths related matters, but have to constantly recheck the numbers themselves. I swear they move around of their own accord.
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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
Actually many franchises do work in this model. They are licensing deals and buying clubs wrapped up together.
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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
Agree. Libre is a french word.
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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
Or change sleep to hibernate. Noticably slower on my surface pro than sleep on my macbook, but not slow enough to actually cause a problem. We are talking difference between 'instant' (macbook) to a second or so (surface pro).
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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
In the spirit of sharing details of open source tools that work well with B2, I am using restic and finding it to work well.
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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
This is a fascinating post as it gives away something about the Google GAE culture perhaps. Some examples: "multi quarters" of work is odd phraseology. Does the GAE team prefer smaller, easier to schedule, features to longer more
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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
Sorry full link : https://www.scl.org/events/525-scl-data-protection-hackathon...
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by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
Great work! UK charity The Society for Computers and Law is running a hackathon with the ICO in June in case anyone is interested in helping bring more tech to GDPR. Details at https://www.scl.org
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Sextech: Sticky Legal Issues?(scl.org)
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by james_in_the_uk 11y ago
IAAL and I come across discussions like these from time to time: Person A: I’m using a standard contract I found on the Internet. I like it because it’s written in plain English. Person B: You shouldn’t use any old contract you f
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by james_in_the_uk 12y ago
It's not plausible because insolvent / bankrupt companies have the option to walk away from onerous contracts if it is in the interests of the debtors not to honour them. In this case, the idea of open sourcing the software UPON
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by james_in_the_uk 12y ago
9 new versions in less than 8 years - would be great if you didn't have to pay an upgrade fee each time.