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I used to know a female comedian who hosted a comedy night once a month. She and her partner lived in Morden for the sole reason that she has fallen asleep on the tube and got stuck there so many times that they figured it was easier just to move there lol

Anyone who watched Monkey Dust in the 90's will suspect that the government is under the thrall of the Paedofinder General.

Wow! That's crazy. Here in the UK, the most expensive eggs in my local supermarket - which are Clarence Court Burdord Brown eggs - are only the equivalent of $5.08 per dozen. Those are the posh, expensive, eggs that only those with a bit of extra cash in their pocket, and a desire to eat more healthily, would buy.

So... company that steals other people's work to train their models is complaining because they think someone stole their work to train their models.

Cry me a river.

Same for me. I get the following messages in the console:

Loading failed for the <script> with source “https://streets.gl/js/index.js”. streets.gl:1:940 A resource is blocked by OpaqueResponseBlocking, please check browser console for details. script.js Loading failed for the <script> with source “https://analytics.streets.gl/js/script.js”. streets.gl:1:815

Don't know if they mandate it, but I know a few people who use either names that are a slight modification of their real name, or completely made up names.

I spent years designing interfaces for Windows Forms applications. There is no neccessity for sharing to be a dialog - it should be a wizard; and could even open in a new tab in a web application. Then the user can cancel either by pressing the cancel button (which would close the tab) or by just closing the tab. Selecting who to add, or adding a new person then just become pages in the wizard.

Can't decide if the people downvoting you don't realise the irony, or are deliberately downvoting you for the irony.

The proof is not in the pudding. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

I've had the opposite experience. My current TV is a Samsung and has been going for many years with no problems whatsoever. My last TV was also a Samsung and I only replaced it (after many years of use) because I wanted a bigger and better TV. I also have a Samsung fridge, and that has been going about 5 years with no issues.

The difference is this: No EULA can override an organisation's legal obligations. Most countries have fairly robust "fit for use" laws, so if you sell something and it is not fit for use you can be taken to court. If there is no sale then there is no "fit for use" protection.

I do not mean this to imply I think commercial software is superior to free software, I am a great believer in FOSS, I just wnat to show a reason why a "scary" warning in commercial software is not equivalent to the same warning in FOSS.

You are correct. Github's license terms are a hedge against that sort of thing. They are basically saying "the person making this source available is granting the license to d these particular things" - therefore, the user making the source available takes on the responsibility for making sure they actually have the authority to make this source available. If they do not have this authority then they are the ones that will be sued - not Github nor any users who cloned the code.

Just switch to reader mode the moment it loads and you can beat the paywall.

If you want to receive the health benefits from the tea then you should brew for at least four minutes, I've heard. This does only really apply if the tea is of at least reasonable quality, of course.

It hardly requires a huge amount of investigation to see that's not a scam link. It literally has the blog authors name attached to it, along with a post date and a "read the full story"link that has the same web address as the blog. It's just a few seconds work to see it's legit.

It's not a grey area at all. The article literally says that he purchased the IP rights from Pfizer, and as part of the deal they got a small stake in his new company.

Probably because they don't want to confuse readers who don't know the history and would wonder how on earth ITER could possibly stand for "International nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject".

Let's face it, changing the project name but still calling it ITER is a bit confusing.

My guess is that the fact you can buy about two to three cheap Dell desktop machines for the price of one Mac probably factors quite heavily into the equation.

I really don't see anything wrong with this, personally. It's a limited test with a small number of websites involved. Only aggregate data is received, so all they'll know is something like "x number of people saw this ad and y number of people clicked on it"; no other information about those users. Seems very innocuous to me.

As to it being opt out instead of opt in: consider the fact that only a small number of websites are involved in the experiment; if it was opt in then it seems quite likely that there could potentially be no intersection between users who opt in and users who visit those specific websites, rendering the entire experiment pointless.

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The worst part is that we already had a perfectly viable model: Netflix paid for the rights to everything and gave access to everybody for a reasonable monthly fee. Then the studios got greedy and thought "why should we let a middleman take a slice of our profits?" They took back the rights and started their own streaming services thinking that people would be happy to pay the same amount of money to access the tiny bit of content that they liked from that studio as they were previously paying to get everything. Inevitably, nobody could afford 10 subscriptions, and now their crappy services have reduced subscriber numbers and are either struggling to make a profit or going bankrupt.

> When I was an undergraduate physical chemistry student 137 years ago

Wow! How old are you? Lol

Makes me laugh. When I got my first computer in 1987 it took so long to load a small game from cassette that I could go downstairs, boil a kettle, make a cuppa, and bring it back to my room, and the game would be just about finished loading. Now people are moaning about an extra half a second lol

How things change.

That's odd, it loads in a fraction of a second for me; and I'm on a mobile running android Firefox. Plus I'm on hotel WiFi at the moment.

Personally, I am against the idea of adults having to prove their age before being able to access certain types of content - particularly if that means giving their identity. I am not, however, adverse to the idea that big tech companies should be more responsible for what they are serving to youngsters.

Yes, I know their are plenty of tools to allow parents to restrict what sites their children visit, etc... but not all parents are tech savvy enough to be able to set this stuff up, plus you could still allow a child to access Youtube, for example, but then find they are getting unsavoury recommendations from the algorithm.

This made me think about the fact that the major platforms (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft) gather enough data on their users that they almost certainly know roughly how old someone is, even if no age has been provided to them. They can use all the signals they have available to provide a score for how certain they are that an individual is, or is not, legally an adult.

(As an example, if you have a credit or debit card in your Google or Apple wallet then you are almost certainly an adult because it would be very difficult for a child to obtain a card and get it into a digital wallet due to the security procedures that are in place.)

Given that, if these companies get forced to discern whether users are adults or not in order to serve appropriate content then it seems a no brainer for them to provide free age verification as well.

My vision would be for the UK government to provide an anonymised age verification router service. When a website requires you to verify your age in order to access some particular content it could ask you which age verification service you wish to use. It then sends a request to the government "middleman" that includes only the URL of the verification service. The router forwards the request anonymously to the specified server (no ip address logs are stored). If you are logged in to the account already then it will immediately return true or false to verify that you are or are not an adult. If you are not logged in then you will be prompted to login to your account with the service and then it will return the answer. The government server will then return the answer to the original website.

That way, we can get free, anonymous verification.

I'm sure people will have issues with this idea, such as "do you trust the government server to not log details fo your request instead of being anonymous?" - to which I do not have a definitive answer, but I feel like it is potentially a little better than having Google or Facebook knowing what sites I am visiting that need verification.

Anyone out there have any thoughts on this? I have only just had the idea pop into my head, so no serious thought has gone into it. There are probably issues that I have not thought about.

I say Sainsbury's because the name is exactly that. I don't say Tesco's because the name, as you say, is Tesco. I would guess those who say Tesco's (and maybe Asda's) are just getting confused because of Sainsbury's.

Rumbelows was a white goods store, so didn't sell medicines. I think some of the symbols may refer to duplicate items. I'll give you my guesses using the letter above to refer to the symbol.

The R, U, and L symbols are all from a tape deck, and are play, stop, and pause respectively. The M is a roll of camera film. The B is a frost symbol, and most likely represents fridges / freezers. The E is an on/off symbol; it may just refer to generic electrical equipment, or could possibly represent cookers. I have no idea what the O and W are supposed to be, but if I had to make a stab in the dark I would say one may be microwave ovens and one may be radio or TV. The S is most likely washing machines, as someone else has mentioned.

This is mentioned in the article.

It's even more confusing when you look at how many cup sizes there are around the world.

There is the US Customary Cup at about 236mL, the US Legal Cup at 240mL, the Metric and Canadian Cups at 250mL, the Imperial Cup at about 284mL, the Latin American Cup (which seems to be any of the other previously mentioned cup sizes, depending on where you are), and the Japanese Cup at 200mL.

The "cup" size for measuring ingredients is massively confusing as there is the US Customary Cup at about 236mL, the US Legal Cup at 240mL, the Metric and Canadian Cups at 250mL, the Imperial Cup at about 284mL, the Latin American Cup (which has multiple sizes), and the Japanese Cup at 200mL.

As if that wasn't confusing enough, I seem to have measuring cups that want to make things even more confusing. Firstly, the 1 cup is labeled as being 250mL and the 1/2 cup is labeled at 125mL, which conforms to the Metric Cup size; however, the 1/3 cup is labeled at 80mL and the 1/4 cup shows 60mL, both of which would give a 240mL cup size, which is the US Legal Cup. As if that wasn't bad enough, if I fill the cup and pour it into either of my two measuring jugs, it actually only holds 200mL, which is the Japanese Cup size.

> The funds, typically used to finance rail infrastructure, could now be tapped to help developers of office-to-residential conversions sited near transit facilities.

The problem here is that they tacked this onto a program designed for rail infrastructure financing instead of creating a new program. The rules and restrictions were designed for rail infrastructure projects and probably make sense in that context, but make no sense when applied to building projects.