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When #BoingBoing commenters make a mistake on UK inheritance laws, there is no redress.
From this discussion: Quote: Don’t relatives get any legal protection? In the UK you are required to divide your estate according to certain percentages to the benefit of surviving relatives. The will is contestable if strict rules are not followed. …yes, there is some of that in Scotland especially in relation to intestate wealth, but
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BBC News – Northumberlandia: The naked lady of Cramlington
BBC News – Northumberlandia: The naked lady of Cramlington. The inevitable result of northern disco dress.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-09-02
Attacking the quantum tunnel of gym… # Clampdown on surprise card charges # Can this include auto-adding “discretionary” service like @salvationjaneUK does? http://t.co/06qY8JtU # Interesting test of Sweden's extraditioning/renderyness ongoing at the moment #piratebay #cambodia http://t.co/73cNuTR8 /cc @davidallengreen # According to the tibia-friendly device at the gym today I did a 11.1km run in 1h.
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What happens when you add a backdoor to WordPress, and submit a GitHub pull request… : reddit netsec
What happens when you add a backdoor to WordPress, and submit a GitHub pull request… : netsec Read the Reddit posting and click through the link at the top, or else open this and this. for the geek-impaired: this is scathing.
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Clampdown on debit and credit cards going ahead # Can this include auto-adding “discretionary” service like @salvationjaneUK does?
I’ll pay for good service, but I don’t like having a surprise percentage added to the tally and then handed to me on the Chip-and-PIN keypad, as happened a few days ago. I find it presumptuous, jarring and positively American, and is part of the reason I have a downer on Salvation Jane at the
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Let’s not mince words: Criminals in Saudi Arabia have their hands *cut* *off*, not vacuously “removed” #BBCNews
This (BBC): Frankie Boyle defends Paralympic jokes Frankie Boyle has defended jokes he made on Twitter about the Paralympics, saying they were “celebratory”. The comedian called the Saudi Arabian team “mainly thieves”, referring to criminals having their hands removed. Compared with this (BBC): Saudi executioner tells all Saudi Arabia’s leading executioner says he is “very
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Twitter Updates for 2012-09-01
@chrisgerhard I believe the equivalent for you would be "This is _your_ fault." # It's trying so hard to be a Leica that they are even highlighting the important bits with a red dot. http://t.co/8A6ONUNA # @sevanjaniyan Surprisingly good. It's not a Macbook Air (one of which I have for comparison) but I can get
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Can “Faith” legally be part of a job specification in the UK? I think not… /ht @putt1ck /cc @compassionuk #sitp
Via Twitter I ran into this job specification: http://www.compassionuk.org/employment-it-director-2012-08 We have an exciting vacancy for the role of IT Director which is a key post within the management structure of Compassion UK. This position would suit an individual with an excellent working knowledge of current computer technologies and at least three years’ experience of IT
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Q: What’s the least-hassle-yet-least-disastrous way to dispose of about 1/2pt of rancid deep fry oil?
Not a problem I am used to, since I never deep fry anything usually.
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“The rest of the world is already fucked, so #CCDP won’t impact business too badly” #HomeOffice Impact Assessment #NowhereToRun
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/counter-terrorism/comms-data-bill/communications-data-ia?view=Binary COMMUNICATIONS DATA LEGISLATION IA No: HO 0073 Lead department or agency: Home Office Other departments or agencies: Law Enforcement, Security and Intelligence agencies Page 9: The proposed legislation could distort the UK telecommunications market if UK consumers switched to overseas providers of services because they perceived that the legislation would impact on their privacy.
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Apple granted patent for location-based camera phone disabling – Boing Boing
I imagine movie theaters would be the first to use this remote disabling feature (if Apple ever decides to move ahead with this technology; just because they have a patent doesn’t mean they’ll use it). The paranoid side of me imagines governments using it to prevent citizens from communicating with each other or taking video