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I have to agree. I have seen the Shoreditch triangle come a long way and having taken my skill set around Europe, there really is no place like home but we aren't exactly silicone …

Pity we didn't acquire Neanderthal genes for their 1600 cc brains, the largest of any primate species found to date. [1] Edit: Apologies to the downvoter, I should have substantiat…

Spot on. All this will do for the person trying to erase their past is drag up old memories and re-syndicate whatever they are running away from. More eyeballs, more indexing of ne…

> In Europe, laws generally aren't to be interpreted by the letter. That's a very general statement and generally untrue (although you are in this case, partially correct). Acts an…

Well I think in this case the language does fit the task at hand, since the language choice is one of communication (communicating concepts), it's probably a wise choice to go with…

Just because you say welfare is the same as an unconditional basic income system, doesn't mean it is. Did it ever occur to you this movement started in some of the safest welfare b…

In the unconditional part? Some implementations might have a mean test for who gets what (so a lot like welfare in Anglo and/or European countries) but there is an unconditional pa…

I thought minimum wage was around £12k per year. Are you studying and/or only working part time?

> See my other comment, Australia already has it. No, your other comment just mentioned the dole, which is NOT the same thing at all. Other countries have the dole, in fact, every …

Lots of countries have that and I don't think Australia implemented any of those measures first. I think what is being discussed here is guaranteed unconditional income, not the do…

THe GPIO is not going to help you build a custom H-bridge to drive motors forward and backward with variable speed. You can use the 2 relay switches to make one of those, but it wi…

Yep. All of that could happen as far as I can see, which again, is why my comment was specifically talking about automated decision making.

Did you read my comment or just scan the second paragraph and assume I was saying license plates weren't public data? I was talking about automated decision making using collected …

Weren't modern license plates made the way they are to aid automatic (or human) detection? For instance, traffic cameras, automated scanning from traffic police to make sure your c…

For the EU, Data Protection Directive 95/46 (and the incoming changes from 2012), attempt to offer protection against automatic decisions. In that document there is the concept of …

I think the real interesting thing about this isn't any of these questions but really, much like with the internet, when does an IP become a person (or in this example, when does a…

I don't know. People are unlikely to remember the license plate (unless it strikes an obvious pattern) but a person who was so inclined could write numbers down manually and store …

PHP is a tool and as any tool with a low learning curve it can be used by people with or without expertise. I think we certainly have had PHP built infrastructure that scales, but …

I had a little peak and started seeing a few bugs but then I hit line 1009: > mail('mark@ookoo.org', 'BLOCK IMPORT ERROR', $e->getMessage()."\n\n".$e); I haven't done much digging …

I'm not sure it would count as a robbery as usually in English jurisdictions the term robbery implies force (through violence or threat of violence).

Well that's tough titties, because they have told you who you can't rob or murder on your private property.... anyone and everyone. If your license plate was protected, it wouldn't…

Well I was thinking there is no DB for them to draw from because it was a private run camera, not because the facial recognition DB doesn't exist (because technically it does exist…

I think the line is usually defined as you have no expectation of privacy in public, at least that was the justification for the CCTV in the UK (and other English Common Law jurisd…

I find it interesting in a thread about failure you are going to use an example of highly improbable success to highlight what you call vision. That is a cool anecdote and all but …

Well it's a little deeper than that isn't it? There is a lot more common ground than just the language, like 4 of those countries are CommonWealth realms with the Queen as the head…