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by rmc 10y ago
In late 2012, the OpenStreetMap project changed it licence from CC to the current ODbL. Every user who had contributed to OSM had to be contacted and asked if they accepted the new one, and if not, their contributions had to be deleted and
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And Facebook would track "viral", "engaging" content and promote it more to your friends. So a link to a website that looks like a newspaper with the headline "Hillary Clinton is running a child sex ring" would
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Or outlandish political statements. "Hillary Clinton has been diagnoses with cancer", "Pope Francis has endorsed Donald Trump". etc.
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It's not only a case of "we didn't get these deals". The UK got them, it wasn't good enough so they left. If they want to rejoin they are admitting they made a huge mistake and can they pretty please come back? Imag
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Exactly. Once that court case winds its way to the CJEU we will have a clear answer on that question.
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There are totally legal things you can buy which, if revealed publically, can cause someone massive negative harm. Which means a significant percentage of people will be willing to pay to keep them a secret. Any site which stores these de
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I agree. I always feel that the AGPL maintains the "spirit" of the GPL, namely that (external) users get the complete source code for the software they are using. In the past, external users physically got the software, hence the
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Yes, the Linux kernel was always licenced as "GPL2" without the "or later" bit that the FSF advised for GPL code.
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It's unclear if A50 can actually be revoked. There is a court case (starting in Ireland, with the goal of getting to the CJEU in Luxembourg ASAP) which is trying to answer that question. If the CJEU says that A50 cannot be revoked, the
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That modern technology & database is controlled by a foreign company.
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The meter is supposed to be inspectable to the local tax collectors who can ensure that the correct tax is paid.
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Yes, I have watched the UK one(s), and the first season of the US one. The US first season is very similar to the UK one. Some "localisation" changes are to be expected, and it's still called a "remake" in that sens
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> I've liked some of netflix's original content - house of cards was the first Erm.... House of Cards (on Netflix) is an American remake of the British show of the same name that was shown on the BBC in 1990? Not exactly &qu
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> name me a non-IT professional that knows the difference, or would care that their bank has "secure" It has the secure padlock as an image on the page! And a green check mark!
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> Maybe we just have too much of that protestant work ethic? The UK has Protestantism as an official state religion and yet it has the NHS, mandatory paid holidays etc.
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And many of them think that people in Europe have it worse. That the economy would just collapse into African-levels of poverty if there was mandatory paid holidays. This is a danger of American TV shows and movie studios remaking shows for
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"Less foreigners" To some that's the point.
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We don't know what tools the NSA have in their arsenal.
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A circular directory would be much worse. As soon as you check it out, your disk fills up.
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> they should evaluate the merits of the law based on the spirit of the law Some laws say "if there's an ambiguity, then take the interpretation that's most favourable to $PARTY". e.g. some consumer protection laws
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Most anti-racism law (incl UK anti-racism law from the 1960s) defines racism as also being based on ethnicity, or national original. So, yes, under the UK anti-racism law, it would count as racism.
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There were some local political scandals ("cash for ash") in NI which could have also changed the polling results.
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Exactly. Scotland doesn't have as much die-hard "unionists" as NI does.
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> I mean, that's how it's taught in schools, but how well does that reflect the actual history? Certainly it doesn't represent the UK's history with Ireland, which really isn't taught in schools. How it's ta
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Just because the legal team approved it doesn't mean it is legal. Legal teams make mistakes all the time
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> There may be significant long lasting damage to CF's reputation amongst vulnerability researchers, but that's a tiny subset of the population and statistically insignificant to a company that ~10% of internet traffic flows t
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Wonder if they will have a code of conduct.... :P
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So obviously you're gonna try to follow me down all over the internet. Wonderful. Stay on point./
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> Same as in Belgium then. They even throw stones at fire-fighters when they are doing their job. So nothing to worry about, right? Who reports that people do that? Tabloid newspapers? They've been lying about that for decades. Af
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