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UK data protection laws to be overhauled(bbc.co.uk)
10 points by k-mcgrady 9y ago|1 comments
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
Didn't want to change the title but the interesting bit of the article isn't the bail, it's the first sentence of two: "US prosecutors say a British computer expert has admitted to creating software that harvests bank de
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Bail of $30,000 set for UK cyber expert Marcus Hutchins(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by k-mcgrady 9y ago|2 comments
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
Exactly. £10 per month (no contract) was probably the average spend then (for approx. 40mins calling and 300 SMS). Now I'm paying £60 per month for 2 years and it seems normal. An extra £10 per month to use your plan with up to 3 devic
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
OT: The Supreme Court in the UK has a YouTube channel [1] where videos of judgements are posted (usually very soon after they take place). I'd be interested to know if the SCOTUS has a similar service. I can't find it on YouTube b
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> Does that argument fly anymore when corporations are so much more powerful than most nations? They're not. The government has the power to stop them at any time and if they don't want to go that far can easily put pressur
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
This. They cleaned it for me at the store but it sounds really similar to what's going on here. It is a very common problem though so it would be weird of them to miss it.
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
Surprised how easy this was without having a job offer.
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> The American dream was available to pretty much anyone willing to try it through the green card lottery. Your odds of winning are something like 0.2%. If you're one of those selected I believe there's still only a 50% cha
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
Maybe they're not selling and they want to clear the stock. Also, if you have prime are you factoring in the shipping costs you've already pre-paid for?
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
The problem is that Snapchat Discover is totally bollocks. I'm a mid-20's guy and 90% of the content I see in it is either about the Kardashians or stuff like '10 things you totally hate about your bra'. There is absolut
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
You're looking at the wrong parts of Instagram. Instagram Stories and Direct Messaging (both of those = Snapchat minus discover) have really taken off. I think everyone I know has switched away from Snapchat. The main reason being that
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
Even then it doesn't really matter. I'm pretty sure it's now fact that the US broke the United Nations Convention against Torture during the war on terror. I seem to remember the USG even admitting this. Nothing was done. For
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
As a user of both they've always seemed like two completely different services to me. One is streaming, the other a store. One a social sharing based platform, the other mini-sites for each artist with terrible discovery. Bandcamp woul
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> he cannot be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy It's hard to believe he can say that with a straight face. Is he supposed to advise on topics he understands that the government doesn't or
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> this should be impossible according to Article 50 I thought it could be stopped at anytime with agreement of all member states. According to Lord Kerr (who devised Article 50): "It is not irrevocable. You can change your mind
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
Can't speak for OP but a lot of people's problem with Brexit isn't just the fact we won't be in the EU anymore but the things that come along with that. There's a lot of stuff our government wants to do that the EU
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
Surely it can be stopped by the courts though? They've helped force the UK back slightly on mass surveillance already [0]. I'm sure a challenge will be brought on the basis of freedom of expression (Article 10 ECHR) if any governm
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> I think there should be as many unions as employees like. I don't know enough to speak to the 'being forced to pay dues' point but having as many unions as employees want defeats the purpose of a union. You need ever
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
I was just about to mention this. For anyone interested Professor David Nutt[0] was fired from his role as the government's chief drug advisor after claiming ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol. [0] https://www.
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
I think the problem isn't that the ideas/reasons for privacy aren't being communicated. It's that a lot of people are seriously worried they will be a victim of a terrorist attack (and the government tells them this inva
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
Are unions demonised in the US in a similar vain to socialism? i.e. made out to be an evil that don't work despite working quite well in many, many other countries? I'm seriously curious about this as I'm quite taken aback at
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Spotify readies for listing with 60m paying customers(ft.com)
2 points by k-mcgrady 9y ago|0 comments
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> IE It's not "better" when they sell it to someone who isn't Google It's better in the sense that those companies can probably do much less with purchase histories than Google as they have less total informa
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> name forgotten SEPA?
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
You say it's not possible to imprison someone for an absolute liability offence. You also say it would be hard for a case like this to come to trial. Surely it would still come to trial but the punishment would be something other than
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> But the underlying issue is that those DJ tracks many times technically did need permission from copyright holders to be posted. What the parent and I are saying though is that DJ mixes were a small part of the content in the early
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> "It is funny you mention Bandcamp as your flagship example" I didn't. I said they had gotten as far as SoundCloud which was close to the right product but not close enough. >> SoundCloud engineering is worlds a
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> You think all those mixes come for free? They have to be licensed as well once the embedded song snippets exceed 30sec which most of them do (also depending on the local jurisdiction). Again you're not understanding what I&#x2
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by k-mcgrady 9y ago
>> So what. There also many excellent major label artist and it's good to have them. You're missing the point. I've no problem with major label artists but when you start dealing with them you start dealing with licensi

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