multjoy

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by multjoy 7y ago
My Kenwood thing off Amazon is still working fine after over 10 years. Wasn’t expensive, certainly isn’t artisanal.
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by multjoy 7y ago
I was drinking Serbian water straight out of standpipes on the mountains this summer. Not dead!
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by multjoy 7y ago
I’m not sure that something that pre-dates the printing press can be considered ‘new age’
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by multjoy 7y ago
> your data doesn't belong to you, it belongs to them Not according to the GDPR
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by multjoy 7y ago
Turns out that by removing it, we’ve discovered that the noise is necessary. You only sound a horn if the driver thinks it is needed, whereas pedestrians & other vulnerable road users are making all sorts of judgements using audio clu
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by multjoy 7y ago
Belt & braces. Nobody can argue that you've done it improperly if you've got a warrant even if the subject would willingly comply.
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by multjoy 7y ago
Citation needed.
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by multjoy 8y ago
What's your source for that?
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by multjoy 8y ago
Yes, there is a collateral intrusion limitation. You cannot simply go on a fishing trip. Once you have an IMEI number that you can attribute to the suspect, having exhausted all conventional means of finding the data then you go ahead and
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by multjoy 8y ago
I'm a police officer who routinely uses communications data in investigations.
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by multjoy 8y ago
No. Getting a request approved is a nightmare. It's literally easier to get a search warrant from the courts than it is persuading police SPOCs to approve your RIPA request. The gatekeeping is fearsome. They take their duties incredibl
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by multjoy 8y ago
You will never be able to justify the collateral intrusion that getting all the connections to a single cell site would represent. If you don't know who you're looking for then it isn't actually that much help in any case.
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by multjoy 8y ago
Bookies make money because they run the game.
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by multjoy 8y ago
You can still pay for private healthcare if you want to skip waiting lists. In terms of choice, the NHS allows you to shop around for your specialist, and they're also the same doctors you'll see privately.
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by multjoy 8y ago
"Bad food" isn't the issue. Lethal food poisoning is the issue - a single instance of contamination can kill a number of people and make a larger number very unwell. This idea that small businesses are somehow exemplars of fo
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by multjoy 8y ago
Also the highest rate of sexual offending in the metropolitan police district.
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by multjoy 8y ago
It's really shit. It's an overflow town of London proper, and has no redeeming features apart from Ikea.
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by multjoy 8y ago
Many streets have these things called 'lamp posts', into which electricity is being supplied. All you need to do is work out how to bill it.
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by multjoy 8y ago
Amateurs, frankly. The current modus operandi is to find your BMW/Land Rover/Mercedes. Wait for it to come to your hand carwash, tyre company etc and get uninterrupted access to the OBD port along with the key. Program new key, fi
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by multjoy 8y ago
Actually, that's not true. The courts (in E&W, at any case) can ask for a security (so cash or other assets) or a person to stand as a surety. They rarely do so, but the highest profile one in recent times was when Julian Assange
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by multjoy 8y ago
£500k is the statutory maximum for the Data Protection Act.
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by multjoy 10y ago
Because somewhere along the line, rather than going to the US and becoming some sort of dotcom millionaire back in the late nineties, I didn't. Now I live vicariously through this site, dreaming of a nice office job with my own desk an
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by multjoy 10y ago
"You were so busy wondering if you could do it, you never stopped to ask if you should" That's going on your headstone come the Great Octopus War of 2033.
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by multjoy 10y ago
Given values of 'top spot'. /r/uk has submission to all turned off, and a recent silly post about 'lynx england' got well in excess of 1000 votes. And it got removed as spam...
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by multjoy 10y ago
No it isn't. The example presented is the manager throwing in his two cents worth because they feel they ought to contribute something, which is what the article is arguing against.
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by multjoy 10y ago
It is the BBC
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by multjoy 10y ago
>"we aren't trained to do that Most AFO's weren't. Some were, as part of Op Kratos. That was the problem - there was a massive disconnect in training between two sides of the business (the CT side and the ARV side) w
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by multjoy 10y ago
Strictly speaking, the only requirement a police officer need meet to be armed is to be authorised by a substantive Superintendent or higher. Hence the term 'Authorised Firearms Officer'. All ARVs are AFOs, but not all AFOs are AR
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by multjoy 10y ago
>you can't use ciphers or codes That can be distinguished as such, anyway. "Yes, Oleg. The hops are coming along nicely".