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by nextw33k 12y ago
Sky replied saying that the UK Data Retention law takes precedent to the European ruling. Their T&C state they keep data for 12 months.
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by nextw33k 12y ago
She is in the same boat as Congress when they asked Clapper what was happening. Unless there is a law that explicitly excludes certain activities then government agencies are free to do what they like. In the UK our freedoms are not given t
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by nextw33k 12y ago
There are pro's and con's in both choices. However I believe that over the course of my lifetime we'll need a fundamental change in the way we are governed if we are to progress as a race. The growing rich poor divide and lac
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Its taken from a BBC article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27731725 It seems to work well for Nordic countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries#Demographics
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by nextw33k 12y ago
> government can become and is too large to benefit the people This is gaining more steam, however its not the conservative small government (less public sector employees). Its the belief that countries should divide to be smaller nation
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by nextw33k 12y ago
I signed a petition that triggered a debate. Wrote to my MP and asked him to attend and put my point across. He wrote back to say that he stood by the government decision and encouraged me to read the transcript. I read the transcript, it w
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by nextw33k 12y ago
My first reaction when all of this started was how do you cover agencies which cooperate with other countries agencies? I remember thinking about that when I first heard about ECHELON [1], which was at the time seems like a great get out of
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by nextw33k 12y ago
My solution would be that if you are a multi-national then you pay no corporation tax, but you pay a new local sales tax. For example you pay an extra 20% over what a domestic company would pay in sales tax. This would stem the flow of cash
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by nextw33k 12y ago
The increased traffic load can be mitigated by smart routing of cars through multiple paths. Plus they could be connected to each other to effectively tailgate each other. The first car can tell the following cars to break at the same time.
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Of course the interesting bit is not the they think Brazil will win. Most people say that before each world cup. The interesting thing is that Portugal is ranked number 3 in the world and only has a 0.9% chance to win. Given that the analys
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by nextw33k 12y ago
I'd love to see advancement in battery technology, I am surprised its never the established manufactures coming up with such innovations. However this is still vaporware: "Power Japan Plus will begin benchmark production of 18650
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by nextw33k 12y ago
I have long wondered why personal cars are being tackled. Surely that's the hardest problem to solve. Easier to automate would be trains, large container ships, tube trains, planes or buses (fixed route, designated stopping zones). Gra
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by nextw33k 12y ago
I once read an explanation of memory usage. It boils down to images, if you think about it a PNG file is small but when you decompress that to a native bitmap for rendering to a screen, you've suddenly consumed a lot of space. A lot of
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by nextw33k 12y ago
I never bothered with Keep as it seemed like overkill for 99% of the time. I use Tasks in the Gmail interface and have an app which syncs to my phone constantly. Its more of a list app rather than fancy colours and photo taking. Considering
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Whilst I am dubious about the value of Bitcoin for everybody, I can see that it has two very strong benefits it gives to its users. It's main benefits are in its anonymity and unregulated border transfers. These two things give the cur
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Perhaps you need to consider the bigger picture. The biggest part of being a programmer is not in how many characters we write but in how we are able to know and understand abstract concepts. If writing defensively by always putting braces
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by nextw33k 12y ago
> Infrastructure businesses are very expensive. There is no easy solution short of the government seizing the cable infrastructure, which would set such a dangerous precedent that it would probably destroy our economy. This is scaremonge
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Could you expand on the peering problems? I was thinking of switching to either A&A or fido.net this summer as they are the only ISPs in the UK that offer reasonable priced IPv6 broadband.
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Is it an Americanism to use the word every in this fashion? I looked at the title and wondered why you would want the sum total of all the housing costs. I would rather know what each county's costs are. Clicking on the link it is each
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by nextw33k 13y ago
This is bad engineering. Should browsers run a full suite of tests? How would you detect a version which has an old number but had just the patch applied? Why not test for other vulnerabilities whilst we are at it? A browsers job is to brow
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by nextw33k 13y ago
An interesting alternative theory, however it's unreferenced and from a post on 4chan. Not exactly the most trustworthy collection of people.
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by nextw33k 13y ago
I would imagine that you've identified the problem, the price of the ticket is more related to the extra space you take up and the lost revenue they get. The cost of a few glasses of champagne and slightly better food is a tiny fractio
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by nextw33k 13y ago
Sliverlight would be a great example of that.
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by nextw33k 13y ago
Yes IPv4 on steroids. Providing artificial enhancement by placing the burden on edge routers. So if you've got to replace the edge routers you might as well replace them with IPv6 compatible kit and be done with it. Oh look this EnIP b
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by nextw33k 13y ago
One could argue that the sale to Facebook was you being the product that was sold. The valuation doesn't support the value of the 50 employees or the development time of the application but it does support the number of customers. That
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by nextw33k 13y ago
I have seen elsewhere (I think it was Zimbabwe) that the president has to win 50% of the votes or it triggers a second round with just the winner and the runner up. The original author probably is talking about the president having that 50%
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by nextw33k 13y ago
The only interesting point there is: Will people playing with the Steam pad be turned off the gaming experience because they are playing against the more accurate mouse/keyboard users?
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by nextw33k 13y ago
This to me is a bug and should be reported as such. If I can write a query in three different ways and get three different durations with the same data returned then the query engine isn't optimizing the steps correctly. As SQL develop
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by nextw33k 13y ago
Interesting that they are working on a hardware solution to a software problem. Multicast support would cure the majority of the streaming and torrent issues if the ISP's enabled it.
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by nextw33k 13y ago
Personally I cannot wait for my own robot car, so much free time will be given back to me. However the irrationality that comes into play with a robot car killing a human means that the creators of such cars are going to go above and beyond

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