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by stordoff 8y ago
Or we'll pivot back to a paid model, or ads without / with less tracking - I don't think that's a bad trade.
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by stordoff 8y ago
> There is no actual claim here that Assange did anything to crack the system or assisted Manning in doing so There is a literal claim that he did that: "Assange indicated that he had been trying to crack the password". Whether
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by stordoff 8y ago
Closer political union has been on the cards for a long time. Churchill post-WW2 (1948) said "Mutual aid in the economic field and joint military defence must inevitably be accompanied step by step with a parallel policy of closer poli
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by stordoff 8y ago
I've noticed this a few times - it's usually what e when a stray Lightning/USB cable is touching another part of my body.
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by stordoff 8y ago
Further anecdotally, there is one at the entrance to my village (where a 50 goes down to a 30), and I've seen _plenty_ of people slow down when it flashes.
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by stordoff 8y ago
> I think it only makes sense to test for harder drugs e.g. opiates and amphetamines. Why? Why is it any of my employer's business what I do outside of work?
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by stordoff 8y ago
> It would probably fall foul of hacking laws even if technically possible (which it isn't) Probably not - Computer Misuse Act, s.10: > Sections 1 to 3A have effect without prejudice to the operation— > (a)in England and Wales
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by stordoff 8y ago
There are only about 2,000 police dogs in the UK (1,900[1] / 2,500[2]) (vs. _about_ 50,000 in the US [3] - about five times more per capita). It seems unlikely they are being used for routine traffic stops. Furthermore, reasonable grou
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by stordoff 8y ago
> I’m sure the receivers get a little laugh when their package arrives covered in stamps. Reminds me of a parcel I got from Japan (in the UK). The front was about A4-sized, and entirely covered in stamps (with a small gap for the address
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by stordoff 8y ago
I'm seeing more and more sites with infinite scroll, and I hate it every time, but I haven't seen one yet where you cant scroll back up. It feels incredible distracting when another article appears out of nowhere when you have jus
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by stordoff 8y ago
No one said it was. It's a fear that men don't as often have (to the same degree) - that doesn't make it any more, _or any less_, urgent.
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by stordoff 8y ago
My bank doesn't _and_ there's a redirect to a different domain (rbs.co.uk homepage does to personal.rbs.co.uk, rbs.co.uk/englandandwales or the login link goes to rbsdigital.com). Serve a redirect on the non-HTTPS rbs.co.uk t
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by stordoff 8y ago
> For majority of the public who use a VPN provider, they are essentially shifting all the risks of their personal privacy from a highly regulated industry (ISP) to one that is much less regulated (VPN providers). But I don't like t
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by stordoff 8y ago
It's necessary because people have very different reactions. I remember when my doctor accidentally referred to my test results as a brain tumour (rather that the less immediately concerning to the layperson benign growth or glioma). I
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by stordoff 8y ago
Article 3 of the GDPR defines territorial scope: > This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activitie
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by stordoff 8y ago
Zevida: > The defendants, Zediva, self-described as a DVD "rental" service, served its customers with access to DVDs played from their data center where each DVD was streamed through its individual DVD player for up to four hou
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by stordoff 8y ago
What is there to trust the government with? And I'm sure anything they could get from the library they could get from Netflix, if they found it interesting/useful.
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by stordoff 8y ago
They use the ArchiveTeam Warrrior VM, so they have access to many public IPs: https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warr...
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by stordoff 8y ago
As someone who has OCD related to this ("Citizens record the details of each day by taking written notes of encounters" could almost describe me), I'd be interested to know if he addresses the downsides that could result from
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by stordoff 8y ago
Define 'crimes' is the issue. Once it is in place, it only takes a slight change to the law, or a Government acting extra-judicially, to become a problem.
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by stordoff 8y ago
The Cambridge Dictionary lists it as "-ll- or US usually -l-". Both are considered correct. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/cancel
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by stordoff 8y ago
My grandfather routinely has nurses make home visits (including for blood tests), and I'm fairly sure he can request a GP's visit if one were necessary (NHS).
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by stordoff 8y ago
The thing that gives me pause is that we have spent two decades worrying about standby power, but now we are willfully adding an inefficiency. It feels like the wrong direction to be moving in.
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by stordoff 8y ago
My university basically did a viva to get around this. They know they can't prevent you from copying the code, but they _can_ make sure you understand it well enough to walk through it and be able to explain why you did things, and ult
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by stordoff 8y ago
Except the UK is bring into force a law that states: > A person contravenes this subsection if the person makes pornographic material available on the internet to persons in the United Kingdom on a commercial basis other than in a way th
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by stordoff 8y ago
_Only_ if they are adequately defined (and it's clear what the legal effect is). Two and a half years on from the Brexit referendum, we are still arguing about what it even _means_, and it's not clear if people even want to leave
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by stordoff 8y ago
It's not far off: > When a UK IP address attempts to access a website with pornographic content, the person browsing the web will have to verify themselves. It's up to each individual porn website to implement the technology th
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by stordoff 8y ago
First time score, Hard and Small on a Windows trackpad - 295 250 doesn't seem to be anything to write home about, but I get the feeling the limiting factor is not the trackpad / trackpad drivers (so comparing users doesn't se
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by stordoff 8y ago
I've seen reCAPTCHA on services I pay for.
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by stordoff 8y ago
I believe OP is referring to the feature restrictions that Citrix put on the free version, rather than changing the licence of the code.

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