Interesting Links for 28-10-2011
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andrewducker- French government 'banning vegetarianism' in school canteens
- Wheat is EVIL. Apparently.
- Samuel L. Jackson Is the highest-grossing actor of all time.
- Sentencing laws: Mandatory life and public protection. A difficult balancing act
- Livejournal apparently having massive privacy/security issues right now.
- An explanation of the latest Livejournal security/privacy mess.
- Ex-Prime Minster's claim £1.7million for "public duties".
- Company makes children's toys out of their own drawings. Almost offensively cute.
- Google's latest response on pseudonyms on G+
- Google+ is now available with Google Apps (migration tool coming soon)
migration - Samsung overtakes Apple in smartphone sales. We'll see how they are once the 4S figures come in.
- How the new public sector pensions will work
- UK clocks change trial being considered - moving us onto Central European Time.
- Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality
- Wired Readers Suggest The Greatest Geek Books of All Time. They are clearly old.
- Directors' pay rose 50% in past year.
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Date: 2011-10-28 11:34 am (UTC)http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/warners-pulling-harry-potter-out-of-circulation-dec-29-with-12-1b/
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Date: 2011-10-28 11:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 09:47 pm (UTC)(the "filters" comment, not the article)
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Date: 2011-10-28 09:54 pm (UTC)and
http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2542086.html
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Date: 2011-10-28 11:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 11:40 am (UTC)(You don't need one if you get a paid account, which isn't expensive.)
They're having problems importing from LJ at the moment, due to the recent security changes, but I'm sure they'll get that fixed.
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Date: 2011-10-28 12:21 pm (UTC)Had a look at the import. Does it convert all the privacy settings on each post too?
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Date: 2011-10-28 11:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 12:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-10-28 12:17 pm (UTC)And yes, the French take school dinners, and the quality of food in general, very seriously.
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Date: 2011-10-28 12:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 01:51 pm (UTC)I can believe there are people who gain 40 pounds in a year, though I don't think its very common for non-dieters. However, year after year? 200 pounds in five years? Rare. 400 pounds in 10 years? Hardly anyone.
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Date: 2011-10-28 06:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-10-28 12:51 pm (UTC)In addition to the "won't eat" people, what about the "can't eat" people? They say that they can only offer one meal option per day. Do they take equal care for gluten intolerant children? For lactose intolerant children? What about nut allergies? Are they just going to decide that everyone who isn't catered for by their particular diet just has to go elsewhere?
I recall my school offering many different options, with separate salad bar and snack bar. It seems that France's restrictions are more like sheer bloody mindedness than due to any practical reasoning.
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Date: 2011-10-28 12:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-10-31 02:21 pm (UTC)I expect the in-practice solution is for children who can't/won't eat whatever the canteen is offering to bring in their own lunch. Which is more effort for parents.
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Date: 2011-10-28 01:50 pm (UTC)Also, am I the only person in the world that thinks it'd be much easier just to tell businesses to open 8am–4pm instead of changing the time zone over? I don't get why we can't just do it that way.
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Date: 2011-10-28 02:08 pm (UTC)B) The fun of programming a calendar/appointments system that dealt with that, so that my recurring 10am meeting becomes a recurring 11am meeting when the changeover happens would be fun. But almost certainly harder than the current system was to write.
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Date: 2011-10-28 01:54 pm (UTC)Apple make a decent profit on each device sold, Samsung don't, so market share as raw numbers-of-units is a little misleading.
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Date: 2011-10-28 04:47 pm (UTC)Although I agree that profits are a more reliable indicator of market share than units sold, I wouldn't say it's 'misleading' – it's not like the article isn't completely crystal clear about the measure it's using. It might actually be more helpful, I suppose, to discuss 'profit share' and 'user share', since those are basically the two things you're discussing.
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Date: 2011-10-28 05:39 pm (UTC)Real Names Only is simply impossible. It cannot be implemented. duh
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Date: 2011-10-28 11:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-10-28 05:40 pm (UTC)Does anyone under 30 even still care about Stranger in a Strange Land? I have no idea.
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Date: 2011-10-28 05:45 pm (UTC)Although, having said that, there's still a lot of religion and prudery around, so maybe it does.
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