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Blackmail might well be a crime..?

I assume you've got some evidence for your a claim that BT have broken the law like that?

Especially when changing the CNAME record is something that absolutely any DNS provider could be doing anyway...

The craft had a small thruster on its top side to gently push it into the surface of the comet, but this seems to have been faulty and couldn't be primed prior to Philae's separation. It sounds like the sort of equipment that might have mitigated such a bounce!

Was it definitely a patent issue? The change [0] was originally claimed to be the result of performance issues.

[0] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Quic...

> American test pilots and early astronauts did it for country first (in the context of the cold war), humanity second.

That's a bold statement. You don't think it might be an adreneline rush / wanting to push your body to its very limits kind of thing?

Whilst obviously it's not at this price, but surely you can get an iPhone off-contract?

Half of all devices use API16 or older (4.1) [0], which is now two years old, so your parent post was still accurate.

Of course, operating system fragmentation has become less of an issue generally since ICS/JB became dominant.

[0] https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html?ut...

> They're the only company that makes their content available across devices

Most of Google Play's content is available cross-device? There's definitely a native iOS application for Movies/TV.

That's referring to the time that the scammer needs if the recipient falls for their bait and initiates contact.

You only want the truly gullible to send that first email, or it would be a waste of time for the scammer to talk to all the people who wouldn't wire transfer their money a few days/weeks later.

Yeah but if you're powering your 4K monitor from Thunderbolt, I doubt you'd get that 12 hour battery life either :D

Well it's the old MBP non-retina form factor. It's not being advertised as New, so I'm guessing that there was no price-drop on it in this refresh.

> It's just another outlet (or input) that takes away our time from creating and shifts it to consuming.

Perhaps it's because I haven't configured my notifications well enough in the first place, but I think my smartwatch has saved me a reasonable amount of time in the last few weeks simply by allowing me to dismiss and ignore non-critical notifications without reaching for my phone.

Sadly, they stopped doing them a year or so ago. Here's the most recent that I can find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na9m9MTn9JY

Not entirely consolidated, but it's down: https://developers.facebook.com/status/

Any particular recommendations?

Don't Virgin use their own last mile for fibre?

It's not clear if a corollary of this is that good people who do nothing cease to be good people.

I think I heard their justification once was that they thought it was a bit of an anachronism that we'd press a hardware button to turn a PC on, but would have to go through a software route in order to turn it off. Every other electrical device usually has a single on/off button, and in a world of ACPI it's entirely reasonable for that to be the same as a default "turn off" action on a PC. Initiating a manual restart or true shutdown then becomes more of a power-user thing that, yes, perhaps it does make sense as a Settings panel.

I didn't downvote you, but I can only speak from personal experience that I haven't found the start screen to be any slower vs. the start menu.

None of the negatives you mention apply to my usecase (I don't typically rename shortcuts, nor did I ever use the recent files functionality etc.)

But what I do find is that the start screen is faster for opening the application I'm looking for: I'm either searching for a particular name as with the start menu, where the speed is about the same, or I'm browsing around looking for something whose name I can't remember, for which I find my groupings of smart tiles far easier to parse in a quick glance than I ever found navigating a directory structure in the start menu.

A directory tree to open applications still seems a bit like a holdover from the filesystem design, rather than an interface that's been designed for the purpose of finding the right application fastest.

They've said that they formally got the ball rolling on the acquisition less than two weeks ago.

Did they ever mis-sell their service as being Linux compatible? I don't see how you could start a lawsuit because Netflix don't provide a service they never claimed to...

But just think about how pleasant an internet that would be... daydreaming

How's that relevant? The problem that the op is presumably attempting to solve is: "I want customers to pay me using a credit card".

I guess this is more an argument about designers without experience of the platform - but most designers /don't/ have experience with iOS. Especially in an agency model it's easy to "receive" a design that uses very slightly non-standard controls, attempts to use Android UI paradigms in iOS (or vice versa) or generally make everything a pain.

For example, I've had discussions where a designer has insisted that the navigation bar is 50px high, which is a proper pain. (The correct solution here being to leave it at the default of 44px, safe in the knowledge that they'd have to be properly anal to count up the difference).

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Those were the people who already had no ultimate control over the restrictions on their connection. Hasn't the billpayer always had the ability to restrict their connection and set terms of use on people using it?

Well, the filter as implemented is entirely optional - the ISPs have made it an "active choice" to enable or not - it's not something I've felt is being forced down my throat.

Sure, my point was just that a low proportion of failed/refused tests doesn't necessarily imply that the officer originally believed the person to be intoxicated, and wrongly suspect them of criminality.

Are you sure that that's the only circumstance in which an officer may breathalyse? From my memory of Traffic Cops, they routinely breath test anyone stopped for most other reasons to determine if it's a contributing factor.

Without another incident, they'd require a suspicion of erratic driving before arbitrarily stopping someone for drink driving.

I could entirely believe that to be the case, but the creator's alleged responses on the comments page would seem to cast doubt on him at least telling the truth about that.