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- How movie lawyers destroyed a student's thesis for no good reason
- When your gene mapping shows something nasty
- Apple still the leading smartphone vendor, Android still the leading OS - somehow MS manage to sell _less_ than last year.
- Libyans not keen on democracy, but do want to have a say in how they're governed.
- On the Alleged Separateness of Writers of the Future and Scientology
- If you were a computer, what would time look like to you?
- The successor to ACTA is already here. There needs to be a message that this kind of thing is not on.
- I am fairly sure that the new features in Photoshop are powered by witchcraft
- David Cameron knows the drug laws aren't working; his failure to change them is simple cowardice
- Barclays launches Pingit money-sending service for smartphones.
So basically it's a lookup table for the existing Faster Payments System that maps phone numbers to bank accounts. I'd rather have it use email addresses, to be honest. And I'd rather it was an open standard, rather than one bank doing it unilaterally. But still, movement in the right direction.
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Date: 2012-02-16 11:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-16 11:14 am (UTC)I'm glad we're moving in a positive direction though. I do wonder why Barclays are doing it alone rather than it being a standards-led effort.
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Date: 2012-02-16 11:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-17 07:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-16 01:52 pm (UTC)I fell into conversation with somebody there – an archivist or researcher – could have been the Director for all I know.
I said to him that just by browsing through the research archive it was so obvious that decriminalisation of drugs would have a net very positive outcome.
Yep he said, but the politicians won’t go for it because of the headlines in the Sun.
When I returned to Westminster and reported back to my politcal master I said I’d been browsing in the archive in passing and thought it was obvious that the decriminalisation of drugs etc etc.
Yep, said my political master, but we can’t do. Just imagine the headlines in the Sun.
Perhaps after the Sun is nationalised / sold / feed to the piranaha under the floor of Way Evil inc might be a good time to campaign for decriminalisation.
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Date: 2012-02-16 01:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-16 02:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-16 02:05 pm (UTC)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9035269/Sir-Richard-Branson-drug-takers-should-not-be-locked-up.html
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Date: 2012-02-16 06:28 pm (UTC)I agree.
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Date: 2012-02-16 06:42 pm (UTC)The day politicians grow spines, we may actually start to get some policies that work.