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gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk 11y ago

Creating a living style guide for GOV.UK

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digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk 13y ago

Google Chrome is the most used browser on GOV.UK at weekends

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libwebpjs.appspot.com 14y ago

VP8 - WebM JavaScript Decoder for every browser

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berglondon.com 15y ago

Light Painting Stop-Frame-Animation using an iPad

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www.readwriteweb.com 15y ago

Wikipedia's Iraq War Page's History Printed is 12 Volumes Long

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closuretools.blogspot.com 15y ago

Google releases its own Javascript Lint tool

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xnerp.co.uk 15y ago

Life Begins at? Google reckons 40.

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shop.o2.co.uk 16y ago

O2 (UK's original iPhone carrier) drops unlimited data with iPhone4

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www.virtualbox.org 16y ago

An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project

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www.adobe.com 16y ago

Adobe fires back at Apple: "Adobe love choice & openness"

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zestyping.livejournal.com 16y ago

The new Facebook API exposes the events you attend to anyone on the Internet

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royal.pingdom.com 16y ago

How fast do people upgrade to new browsers

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www.swfme.com 16y ago

XKCD "Hell" implemented in flash

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my.opera.com 16y ago

Time since Opera Mini for iPhone was officially submitted to Apple

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www.guardian.co.uk 16y ago

Facebook threatens to sue UK newspaper

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www.gbbo.co.uk 16y ago

Getting British Business Online - backed by BT, Google, PayPal and UK govt

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Warn HN: Flickr Photo ID is about to overflow a 32 bit unsigned int

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www.theregister.co.uk 16y ago

RockYou loses 32 million user login credentials to hackers through SQL injection

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snow.torchbox.com 16y ago

Snowtime - push the button and see snow fall a member of Torchbox

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news.bbc.co.uk 16y ago

UK to get tough on file-sharers

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log.edds.me.uk 16y ago

Creating a Preview page for any ShortURL Provider

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ajaxian.com 16y ago

Apple.com now uses the HTML5 video tag

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simplepie.org 16y ago

SimplePie is ceasing development

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www.firstand20.com 16y ago

A Collection of iPhone Home Screens

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esbueno.noahstokes.com 16y ago

The State of the Web Design Profession

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static.maniacalrage.net 16y ago

ITunes 8-9 the Visual Differences

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www.baselinecss.com 16y ago

Baseline - a framework built with typographic standards in mind

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code.google.com 17y ago

Mod_dims: Apache module that can resize and crop images dynamically

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www.entitycode.com 17y ago

A Clear and Quick Reference to HTML Symbol Entities Codes

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grabaperch.com 17y ago

Grab a Perch - A new really little content management system.

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From wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_the_law]:

"In general under the law of the United Kingdom one cannot prevent photography of private property from a public place, and in general the right to take photographs on private land upon which permission has been obtained is similarly unrestricted. However landowners are permitted to impose any conditions they wish upon entry to a property, such as forbidding or restricting photography."

I think the council would argue that they are enforcing the ban of photography to protect the children from people who might want photographs of the children. I know when I used to work with children we had to get written consents from parents before any child could apear in a photo and in some cases we were instructed to make sure some children were never photographed and step in the way if we saw anyone with a camera.

I don't know what you think the site is doing but that is exactly what it is. It didn't curate the images, people didn't upload the images. It searched for an image that matched your word. No google didn't licence the image, but it only displays small thumbnails with a link to where it found the image. This is displaying the full size image with no link to where it found the image.

If you are not going to validate that you have the rights to display the image the minimum thing you can do is add attribution to every page the image is displayed. Not a separate page.

As 'cute' as this is please find a different API to use or at least find a way to attribute where you are _stealing_ the images from and ensure that the owners of the images are happy with you using the images.

Just because an image is on the internet does not mean you can reproduce it. I ran a couple of words I knew return copyrighted images and sure enough they come up.

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We catch botnets, browser emulators, clickjackers, traffic launderers, bots that probe for weakness, bots that learn. At spider.io, we look to distinguish legitimate human website visitors from nefarious automated traffic.

It’s a hard engineering problem. It would be a hard problem at toy levels of traffic. We need reverse Turing tests. We need to analyse from the application layer to below the TCP layer. We need clever stateful classifiers, that classify information based on previously received information. And if this isn’t hard enough, imagine doing this across four times the number of messages each day than the number of tweets received by Twitter each day. This is where we’ll be before the year is out. And for us this is just the beginning.

If you're an engineer and would like to help us make this happen, check out our careers page: http://spider.io/careers/

Either Apple have worked on the speed or hardware has just got better but Spotlight is very usable for most people I know. This is especially true of those on a new MacBook Air where it appears instant. Also if you use it a lot it caches the results you hit, so for repetitive app launching it has always worked adequately.

While I know what you are trying to get at please for a moment think about what you are saying. For most people photos aren't about optical perfection. Photos are a trigger. They are there to trigger a feeling of what a moment was like, to capture what the smells, the sounds and the atmosphere were like at a given point in time. A photo with a new born baby, you and your first girl/boy friend, you an your degree certificate.. these are personal moment with personal feelings. Its about what the moment means to you.

I look at photos I took 10 years ago with my 620x480 camera and I am not upset I didn't take them with a film camera, because the photos still have all the important things to let me relive that moment.

Verizon iPhone 4 16 years ago

In the UK O2, the original iPhone network, have in the past held off letting any new customers buy the new iPhones for the first month to make sure their existing customers can upgrade first.

I don't want to alarm anyone but so does this site. If your not using unique passwords for every site you use then you really should consider doing it. Tools such as 1Password make it ridiculously easy, there really is no excuse.