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And in time it will be discovered that an FB employee 'accidentally' committed code to enable this data flow.

FB will 'apologise' and promise a 'full investigation'.

This is a well-worn track pioneered by Google, a track that leads to a trove of data and no fines, no penalties.

I suspect the true total cost was a fair bit higher due to a hosting arrangement.

Untrue.

When the goal is to buy Blogger - a goal that is being progressed towards by Automattic - money saved on the Tumblr acquisition is useful.

The Guardian has gone downhill in the last few years, just like the rest of UK mainstream news reporting. They have rolled over to do whatever the Government wants not reporting - take Assange for example.

Their coverage is practically non-existent.

I used to buy The Guardian every day, then I subscribed digitally. And then when their reporting slid downhill, I stopped subscribing. I still read it - but block their data scraping scripts and all ads. They are not worth supporting IMO.

"Also: Let me be the first to say that I can’t believe there’s still no Postgres support, which is absolutely outrageous."

Postgres is open source.

Why do they owe you?

If it matters, write the code.

It's a PIN

It's not a PIN number

You can't have a Personal Identification Number Number

I get that it's what people say, but that doesn't make it right.

/rant

I have an install of zerobin which I use for keys, items that I would prefer not to email but it does not support files, just text. Essentially it's a pastebin.

"TL;DR: ZeroBin is a minimalist, opensource online pastebin/discussion board where the server has zero knowledge of hosted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES."

http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin

test at http://sebsauvage.net/paste/

As described here - https://www.reddit.com/r/shadowbanned - message the admins.

But from https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette:

"Feel free to post links to your own content (within reason). But if that's all you ever post, or it always seems to get voted down, take a good hard look in the mirror — you just might be a spammer. A widely used rule of thumb is the 9:1 ratio, i.e. only 1 out of every 10 of your submissions should be your own content."

and do feel free to remind them that

Shadowbans are meant for spammers, not real users according to reddit's CEO /u/spez - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cxedn/i_am_steve_huf...

Good luck.

In Firefox:

"Reported Unwanted Software Page!

This web page at thepiratebay.org has been reported to contain unwanted software and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Unwanted software pages try to install software that can be deceptive and affect your system in unexpected ways."

Maybe I do want the software .....