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  1. And the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland has vetoed equal marriage rights in Northern Ireland on three separate occasions now. The other big party in Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin, is known as a "republican" party, but to compare with US politics, it is more helpful to swap the labels round.

  2. Re:That's money in the bank baby! on Austin Is Conducting Sting Operations Against Ride-Sharing Drivers (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    That seems to work fine in London. Taxis can use the bus lanes, minicabs, including Über can't. You can pay more for a taxi and get there quicker.

  3. Re:Perfect for Jury Nullification on Austin Is Conducting Sting Operations Against Ride-Sharing Drivers (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't you have a 911 ambulance service for that sort of thing? Then you get a medically trained person to monitor you while you go to the hospital, or they might even be able to treat you on the spot.

  4. Re:Right to Freely Associate on Uber Banned in Germany and France, and Faces Lawsuits in Multiple States (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    What you are describing is Blablacar, which is very popular in Europe, and is legal. Unlike Über, it is an actual ride-sharing service. If you are a driver, you log in, put details of your journey, and if other people want to go the same way, they can join you and pay a proportion of the petrol money.

  5. 1/10000 of people who searched for those symptoms didn't have pancreatic cancer. Around 90% of people who did have pancreatic cancer didn't search for those symptoms.

  6. But if very few people get pancreatic cancer, then with a false positive rate of that magnitude, it could still be that the majority of detections are false positives.

  7. Re:Very smart of them, if tru on Uber Knows Exactly When You'll Pay Surge Pricing (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    If it is in low power mode and taking steps to conserve energy, then certain information might not be sent to Über's servers that might otherwise be sent.

  8. Re: Read Before Posting on Researchers Release Profile Data on 70,000 OkCupid Users Without Permission (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    No it wasn't. I gave OKCupid permission to show my profile to interested people so that they could decide whether or not to contact me with a view to dating me. I didn't give these researchers permission to publish it on another website.

  9. Re:From the not-a-story dept. on Researchers Release Profile Data on 70,000 OkCupid Users Without Permission (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it would matter that the servers were in the US. They exported personal data outside of the EU/EEA without the data subjects' permission, which is an additional offence.

  10. You can stop Google from indexing parts of your site by putting it in a password protected area, or by using robots.txt. OKCupid has done this, so their profiles don't appear in Google.

  11. Re:Very small forest on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is being done. The problem is that a lot of our power generation capacity is reaching the end of its life and needs to be replaced, and demand reduction can only mitigate some of that.

  12. Re: Where will the additional electricity come fro on Germany Plans $1.4 Billion In Incentives For Electric Cars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Electric cars are about twice as efficient in kWh terms compared to internal combustion engine cars, because most of the inefficiency losses take place at the power station before you buy the electricity. So we are now off by about a factor of 4.

  13. Re:may never reproduce brain capabibilities on IBM's Watson AI Implanted Into a Robot, Evolves, Can Now Sense Emotions (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    You can replicate the hardware, but then you have a dead brain. We don't even know where to start in terms of replicating the "software".

  14. Re:may never reproduce brain capabibilities on IBM's Watson AI Implanted Into a Robot, Evolves, Can Now Sense Emotions (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The human brain may not be magic, but we have absolutely no idea how it works, and until we figure that out, we can't replicate it other than by the traditional method of having a baby.

  15. This has been tried before on Mozilla Co-Founder's Ad-blocking Brave Browser Will Pay You Bitcoin To See Ads (pcworld.com) · · Score: 0

    We had "pay to surf" back in the the early 2000s, and it didn't work because the sort of people who sign up to receive money for watching ads are the sort of people who don't have enough money to buy anything advertised on those ads. Also they tend to be the sort of people who write software to simulate a web-browsing session so that they can receive the money without having to look at the ads.

  16. Re:reputation on Why Are Apple's Competitors Staying Silent On the iPhone Unlocking Fight? · · Score: 1

    Samsung's flagship products cost around the same as the equivalent Apple products.

  17. Re:they probably don't have this problem on Why Are Apple's Competitors Staying Silent On the iPhone Unlocking Fight? · · Score: 1

    You have to reboot for an iOS update as well. However, the update would let you try all 10,000 pin combinations if the FBI had their way.

  18. Re:Ask the software guys. on Why Are Apple's Competitors Staying Silent On the iPhone Unlocking Fight? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would be Samsung, not Google, that would have to bake a custom ROM in similar circumstances.

  19. Re:Facebook will go first on Are Phone Numbers Doomed To Die? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    It will likely go the same way as Myspace, which is still around, but hardly anyone uses it any more.

  20. Re:Not Disappearing Any Time Soon on Are Phone Numbers Doomed To Die? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    My phone number changes every time I move house, but my email address etc remain the same.

  21. Re:Nonsense on Are Phone Numbers Doomed To Die? (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    We do a lot of job interviews using Skype.

  22. Re:So that most of the world gets an idea... on UK Cuts Men's Recommended Weekly Alcohol To 14 Units (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A British pint is 568ml. An American pint is 473ml.

  23. Re:Government should enforce more standards on Switzerland Moves Toward a Universal Phone Charger Standard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Those aren't mandatory regulations, they are simply measures that people can choose to use or not.

    Most countries have weights and measures regulations.

    In the EU, you have to quote the mass in g or kg. This means that you can compare quantities sold by different suppliers and everyone knows what they are getting.

    Look for example at the mess we had in Europe before the EU mandated that the brightness of lightbulbs had to be quoted in Lumens. Everyone was using their own made-up measurements in "watt equivalents" - you could use their 10 lumen bulb in place of a now-banned 60W traditional bulb, if you didn't mind the fact that you wouldn't be able to actually see anything because it was so dark.

  24. There were democracies in some of the Scandinavian Countries and in some of the City States that make up what is now Italy.

  25. Re:There are US DHS at London Gatwick?? on US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Bob would probably say that he did it to stop Charlie drinking the poison. The prosecution would have to prove that this wasn't the case, so that's why I think he would get away with it.