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  1. Alternatively by ihtoit · · Score: 3, Informative · on Hacker Shows How To Fabricate Death Records

    Find a cooperative public servant and have them declare someone dead.

    It's a lot easier than you think it is.

    Particularly if you find someone in the police or otherwise having access to police records, all you have to do is fabricate a missing persons report older than 2556 days (7 years), leave it open, and the High Court will issue a presumption of death hence authorising the issuance of a death certificate with no proof of death (ie a body) required.

    (EW 2013 C. 13 Section 2)

    Then you don't just fuck up their credit score, you wipe their entire digital fingerprint.

  2. He's not the first by flightmaker · · Score: 1 · on EU Should Switch To ODF Standard, Says MEP

    The UK Cabinet Office was proposing this a couple of months ago:-

    http://standards.data.gov.uk/p...

    Everybody who commented was in favour. I've no idea what happens next.

  3. Integration by kylegordon · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Glasgow To Be UK's First 'Smart City'

    And this is where integration with existing projects should come first, lest we end up reinventing the wheel. http://www.fixmystreet.com/ http://www.opentraintimes.com/ http://www.openstreetmap.org/ http://www.flightradar24.com/ the 45MB/min MIDAS Gold DATEX traffic information service from http://www.tih.org.uk/ - and many more. And by far not just travel related either, but lets not allow Glasgow to 'create' new apps and datasources that just replicate ideas and services that are already out there.

    I hope the administrators of this fund have a good long hard look through http://data.gov.uk/ for inspiration and partners to work with, and that we as users and techs can help push them to make the right choices.

    I've already emailed a few relevant parties. Have you?

  4. Re:All true, but by Looce · · Score: 4, Informative · on Open Data and a Critical Citizenry

    The COINS dataset, which is talked about in the summary, was recently published in CSV files (not proprietary), compressed with Zip (not proprietary) and distributed using HTTP (not proprietary) and BitTorrent (not proprietary) at the user's option.