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estel
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Comment #45749506
It's possibly more likely that people mis-attribute the cause of an outage to the wrong providers when they use downdetector.
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Comment #45115310
Generation might be a slight misnomer, but it's conceptually the same as pumped storage - grid capacity that can be called upon as necessary.
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Comment #40188888
These are typically stations that are outside of London. If you reach the destination station, you'd probably need to appeal to the kindness of staff members who attend the ticket …
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Comment #38532711
> If that happened, I'd expect Safari to drop like a stone Chrome and Firefox are already on iOS – if they're allowed to swap out their rendering engine, is this something customer…
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Comment #38112031
From the Independent (and presumably elsewhere): > Meta said it has cooperated with regulators and pointed to its announced plans to give Europeans the opportunity to consent to da…
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Comment #34447925
The suggestion might be that Trustcor received an internal build of the SDK because of their close links to the company. Perhaps the developer who worked on the mobile app also wor…
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Comment #29161987
> Want to own the unique special edition sword with rare attributes in the Zelda-verse or the uber lazer in your favorite open world space game? Isn't my favourite open world space…
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Comment #26947066
It was, yes. The SDK for App Tracking permissions has been there since 14.0. The change in 14.5 is that using the new APIs (and getting user permission) is now mandatory.
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Comment #22308358
They employ 17,000 field staff as part of the census: https://census.gov.uk/jobs/ > Cost of running a few trial runs of one 10,000 house town or city to perfect the process: £100k …
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Comment #22308347
If everyone answered their one letter I'm sure the census would be a lot cheaper, but I think most of the real cost comes from employing thousands of people who go around the count…
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Comment #22308334
They ran a trial for the online census at the end of last year, and it looks in pretty sensible shape. I think it's being delivered internally.
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Comment #22259393
It's been pretty standard for the last several years that the ~.3/4 Xcode point release increases the minimum macOS version.
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Comment #22191235
On iOS certificates will be validated by CFNetwork provided you haven't disabled ATS.
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Comment #20877185
The first GDPR fines handed down by the ICO have been hundreds of millions of pounds for negligent breaches - I don't think it would be out of the realm of possibility for breaches…
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Comment #20858866
I think that a design constraint on these apps is that the ticket _reader_ also is expected to work offline.
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Comment #20626732
Embedding a particular SDK doesn't necessarily mean that there's a GDPR violation?
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Comment #20326544
Shockingly it's not been scrapped - the deep tube programme is, to some extent, unscrappable. They're currently due to enter service in about five years: https://en.wikipedia.org/w…
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Comment #17209788
Which of the businesses they've dropped is this true for? Few of the examples I can think of were market leaders when they were dropped, and none of those were monopolising the mar…
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Comment #17025077
The whole context of Google introducing this functionality was for the 60% of businesses that don't yet have an online presence at all.
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Comment #16955165
GDPR is pretty clear that a users “right to be forgotten” isn’t absolute and that businesses should be weighing up (and documenting) a users right to privacy against their other le…
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Comment #16955110
If her scone business started accepting payments by card then I think it should be held to the similar standards as larger businesses when it comes to securing card details. Which …
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Comment #16476167
If your company is not targeting the EU as a market you are out of scope of GDPR. If you explicitly accept Sterling/Euros, provide localisations for EU countries, talk explicitly a…
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Comment #16472936
I think cities are only interested in banning older diesels that don't meet Euro-5 or Euro-6.
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Comment #16064840
Is the current plan actually for mass transit or just point-to-point rather exclusive transit? https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/12/what-elon-mus... was doing the rounds …