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The sanctions imposed on South Africa in the 1980s absolutely crippled the country and are widely seen as a successful contribution in the efforts of bringing down Apartheid.

At least the pdf version of the ToS for users in Germany is exactly 15 pages long: https://www.gstatic.com/policies/terms/pdf/20200331/ba461e2f... Can't check other countries since…

> In this case Google provided a reason - a ToS violation. When the ToS are 15 pages long this is about as useful as hearing "You're being arrested for breaking the law" when you'r…

Not a tautology but yes, that is essentially what I am saying. I just found it weird that people seem to be focusing on all sorts of factors like family structure, median income, w…

Also, if you compare the map of corona cases with population density maps of Germany you will see a strong correlation.

That is actually a pretty clever solution, I wish I had thought of that back then.

Assuming what is and isn't valid for user inputs is a dangerous game because there are always exceptions. I ran into a similar issue with many online retailers when I was living in…

I was also quite amused by: 12345678987654321

This seems to be a post in response to Canonical's plans to add amazon ads to searches in your home lens. See: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/online-shopping-features-...

The iPhone App is the best example of this waste of space. That banner image takes up about 1/3 of the screen, leaving 2/3 for UI elements, actual information like follower/followi…

There is also his campaign site "Redditors for Obama" https://barackobama.com/reddit Not definite proof but if someone hacked the POTUS's Twitter Account and posted a fake IAMA to …

Exactly, those features are the complete opposite of what µtorrent once set out to be: a lightweight torrent client.

The feature list of the paid version does not mention removing advertisements though. Only virus protection, the ability to play more file types, transcoding and remote access.

And all that is (or should be) completely irrelevant since we are talking about a British guy hosting a website that not primarily targeted US audience. I am not a lawyer but I am …

The search thing is really interesting to me. I'm no lawyer but couldn't this theoretically be used in court by Inman since FunnyJunk apparently makes it extra hard for content cre…

My (German) bank only allows passwords up to 5 characters. When I ranted about it on twitter some IT guy from a local branch commented about that is totally enough since they do an…

I forgot my password as well, it started with 'moron'. :(

When you create a board you can decide whether only you or you and contributers can pin stuff on that board. The contributors have to be manually added to the board though.

I seriously have no idea what Microsoft thought when they decided to abandon the start button. They trained their users for nearly two decades to use the start menu and abandon it …

You are correct. They managed to gain access to the email account of one of the participants and simply used the information in the email about the conference call to dial in. This…

It might decrease piracy but a 24 hour delay is still not what I would consider a 'simultaneous' release in Internet time. People want to watch shows as soon as possible and partic…

I am pretty sure what I am talking about is cognitive dissonance theory as developed by Leon Festinger. Cognitive dissonance is a discomfort caused by a conflict of two cognitions.…

Neil Gaiman has the same opinion as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qkyt1wXNlI I think one of the effects we can observe here is cognitive dissonance. If people pirate a book…

What's really annoying to me is that they post previews for the upcoming episodes of for example The Big Bang Theory, make you watch the ads and then tell you that the video is not…

Exactly my thoughts. I'm German so even if my favorite shows finally made it to Germany after years they are usually butchered by a sloppy at best dubbing. If I insisted on English…