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No he means the 'code' that runs Google in the business / HR sense is not version controlled and reviewed. So when it changes to something he disagrees with like the pillow purchas…

Of course that's fake fibre aka fibre to the green cabinet in your street. The UK allows that to be marketed as fibre despite the large difference in performance to a real fibre co…

It's actually very similar to Aaron Schwartz's plan of using academic access to copy and widely distribute papers. This researcher does not have a legal basis to copy 2000+ disks i…

I see you are familiar with Berlin nightclubs!

I think Starling is 2%.

I find Curve to be more innovative because it is a debit card that links back to any debit or credit card. You can only carry one card, use your real credit cards in places that on…

Authy is a very good substitute with backups.

It shouldn't take having a special talent in art to get a fair hearing.

There are small startups born out of targeted smart application of code today that are similar to a lone hacker and sold to Google. eg Graphics Fuzz with it's intelligent code redu…

The Benelux Union was really the precursor model to the EU.

It's not so much a less strict attitude but a willingness to co-operate and allow citizens to pass unhindered thanks to the Schengen Agreement. Borders outwith Schengen or on the b…

Airlines have fired staff for eating a sandwich or drinking a coke taken from the plane e en if it was going to be thrown away. It's the same concept as most food outlets. They hav…

It's pretty hard to buy enterprise. I could easily see many small companies going with Pro instead and getting unwanted upgrades to Windows 10.

Why would you run Windows Server on the receptionists machine?

Even if you did distribute bat files online Windows would block downloading or running them by default so they are not a useful method.

In that case you would use the chocolatey package manager bootstrapped by powershell to silently install Python. It's a oneliner in powershell followed by choco install Python.

I'd expect the Telegraph to say what kind of house they live in and whether they went to private school as well.

I know that Signal (formerly Textsecure) won't let you take a screenshot of any text messages.

Spent a year with no home broadband - 2011.

This is not so much doxxing as a 21st Century Wanted Poster

It has an urban population of 96,900 that is fairly large by Scottish Standards. Inverness and Stirling have ~70,000 each and they are cities.

In Glasgow it is normal to talk to people in almost any situation, it's the same in Ireland as well.

For people arguing that Japanese phones are not very good, what would you say about the European Market vs the USA?

Thanks for this I look forward to the rest.