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by pgeorgi 8y ago
In Africa that would be m-pesa, started by a Kenyan telecom and Vodafone. One fun bit is that it uses SIM applications[0], something that's barely used for anything serious except for m-pesa (and its spin-offs) but exists practically a
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> the only results is the enforcement of existing law and some fine? The job of European data protection agencies isn't to be punitive, but to ensure compliance. If the issue was tiny, an honest mistake that was promptly fixed when
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
In the end that's what the government will do anyway: you file a return, they double check it on their end and they will be rather nasty to you if your numbers disagree substantially from theirs. The "optional pre-filled forms&quo
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
The standard McD's defense needed to meet was "establish[...] whether commercial exploitation of the mark is real". "However, the purpose of the provision requiring that the earlier mark must have been genuinely used ‘is
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
That wouldn't work for a court case in 2018 that covers the 2012-2017 time frame anyway.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Why did they even ask McDonald to submit ANY proof that they sell a product called a Big Mac when there has been saturation level coverage ... They asked because one of the classes the trademark was registered for (besides "animal
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> I do have a strong distaste for government pushing people around like that. Since trademarks are an artificial monopoly erected by the government, they exist to push people around. So would the solution be no trademarks? If so, any ste
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
That's because the Jewish community in Munich had concerns about people walking over the memorials, so they asked them not to be placed there.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
OTOH from what I've heard trading companies tend to put you on a well-paid gardening leave for the duration of the non-compete. That's somewhat reasonable, unlike the "we'll fire you, good luck finding any new employment
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> and now I've been scooped It was first released in 1992
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> no american cab company operates in 72 countries outside of america though ... while complaining about the big evil taxi cartels
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
OMEMO is based on the Signal Protocol, and there's some discussion[0] about the effect of the changes. So in a way this is Signal Protocol (the one "regarded as secure") with that "next step" of adding decentralizat
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Conversations (the best Android client out there) proposes using its author's server for a fee. https://list.jabber.at has more servers.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> their servers are Swiss based So is Crypto AG. Didn't help Iran from keeping secrets from the NSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG [edit to add: not saying that Threema sells out like this, but "
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
So you'd have the account setup flow but still on a single server only few can control. I'd prefer to see people go for a federated system (eg XMPP with OMEMO for E2E crypto) or work on truly decentralized ones (that one is hard,
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> on iOS ChatSecure has some issues I was looking into iOS options to recommend to friends and ChatSecure seems rather dormant. https://monal.im however is actively developed and the author is very friendly and responsive.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-hack-politiker... explains one case: poor email password plus password recovery across different services. 2FA would likely have protected that person.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> 2) even if it were true, would it be more ethical to hack right-wingers? I guess the thinking is "it's targeted against one side, so probably look at the other to find the perp". Would be just as true with hacked right-w
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
UKIP had a well published agenda (leaving the EU being the most prominent item). AfD avoids making any commitment on what they really want to do[0], they only proclaim that everybody else sucks. They'd be a pretty sorry bunch if they&#
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
The left and right button (plus scroll wheel these days) are standardized and pretty much guaranteed to work on arbitrary USB mice because otherwise users would revolt. Even reliable support for the middle button was a matter of luck for a
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
The issue at hand isn't about switching left and right button. Windows, Mac, Chrome OS support it for ages (I know that Windows 3.1 supported that). The feature request is the ability to map arbitrary buttons (of which there can be man
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> If any one of those developers had _needed_ the feature, I bet it'd have been implemented in no time at all. The ticket the blog author refers to was opened by someone @google.com. There are at least 5 different additional @google
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> is it a "power-user" feature to want the buttons the opposite way around? That's supported. What isn't supported is mapping arbitrary buttons to arbitrary functions because that's a hard problem to solve generi
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> a standard ability in other operating systems So standard that Evoluent needs to ship its own customization tool for Windows and macOS?
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Remapping mouse buttons come across to them as someone trying to map keyboard shortcuts to the mouse buttons for better productivity in whatever apps they use for work. That's because key mapping and button mapping is more or less
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Chrome OS, Settings, Mouse, Swap primary button (or something like that, I'm using the German locale).
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Is accessibility generally treated in such a binary sense? It's not, otherwise closed captioned videos wouldn't be released without audio description tracks (and vice versa).
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Nice to be called an "edge case". You generalize from your one issue to "Google doesn't want unhealthy people using its products" (despite assertions somewhere else here that some aspects of accessibility are r
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Do you really think that speed of doing long division predicts ability to solve differential equations? I never said that. I also fail to see how "solving differential equations" has anything to do with intelligence (with the
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> Otherwise how can you tell if the answer is correct? For example: By taking much more time and access to all literature while designing the test, which differs from the test protocol. IQ tests aren't quizzes: you don't need t

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