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by mpclark 14y ago
Don't worry, it won't be there long.
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by mpclark 14y ago
With respect, not at all. Just like it is said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, continually giving this guy the benefit of the doubt is naive.
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by mpclark 14y ago
If I log out of my Google account I get logged out of the Google Drive client too, so I'm not sure there's a problem here. [edit] Oh, wait. That's what happened the first time I tried, but the next log out worked exactly as described in t
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by mpclark 14y ago
Passbook and NFC exist on different layers. The exciting prospect that Passbook holds is as a wrapper -- a mobile wallet -- that can ultimately include things that work via NFC, when at some point the API is extended to do so.
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by mpclark 14y ago
I guess that is theoretically possible, insofar as anything can be reverse engineered. It's probably easier to kick down the door, though.
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by mpclark 14y ago
Actual NFC keys (as implemented on NFC phones) don't work like this -- they are much more secure (think of an exchange of freshly calculated encrypted information rather than broadcasting an unchanging code) and can't be copied.
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by mpclark 14y ago
Nice information on the face of it, but where did it come from? The writer doesn't mention speaking to Mr Branson, or credit any other source.
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by mpclark 14y ago
That's only slightly more likely than mind reading. Edit: D'oh! Changed "less" to "more"...
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by mpclark 14y ago
It looks to me like the same vector Charlie Miller showed off a couple of months ago. The NFC Forum responded at the time along the lines of "It's not an NFC thing," and said his demonstration "underscores the importance of providing approp
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by mpclark 14y ago
It wasn't the "(R)" that needed removing, it was the "!".
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by mpclark 14y ago
The MCX solution doesn't yet sound like anything and I believe it is simply a gun that is being brought along in case there is a fight over merchant fees. There is a huge amount of work going on all over the world on putting NFC into plac
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by mpclark 14y ago
Yes, the magical dimension is short way forward along the 't' axis. There are a whole bunch of big NFC programmes being lined up in various countries, many backed by multiple mobile networks. In the US Isis is looking interesting and in the
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by mpclark 14y ago
Everybody delivers NFC in their high-end handsets now. http://www.nfcworld.com/nfc-phones-list/
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by mpclark 14y ago
It might be worth mentioning for those that aren't totally confident with DNS that (a) errors in setting up your DNS can take your services off line in unexpected ways (anyone else ever forgotten to put in an MX record and only realised thr
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by mpclark 14y ago
That is a simplistic point of view that fails to take into account the reality of operating media organisations that are not very profitable or well funded. While readers aren't paying for what they consume, someone else has to. There can b
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by mpclark 14y ago
Is that reductio ad absurdum in action?
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by mpclark 14y ago
That's a nice sentiment if you're making serious money or are otherwise well funded. Maybe their writers ought to take a vow of celibacy too, just in case.
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by mpclark 14y ago
Yup, miscommunication and possibly also cultural issues. A nice way of assembling an ad-hoc multi-lingual promotional team, though, if done properly.
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by mpclark 14y ago
But isn't it like dropping the F-bomb at work? It's a matter of professional standards, just something one doesn't do.
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by mpclark 14y ago
Journalists are human, of course. They are also employees, and like employees everywhere they face an immense amount of pressure from above to produce more, in less time, for less cost. I sat in a large newspaper newsroom and watched it h
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by mpclark 14y ago
They're not looking at your credit score, just a lot of the other information around it.
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by mpclark 14y ago
There's a bit of sleight of hand going on here, in that it seems to be a Mastercard prepaid card in the phone which just charges your transactions to other cards you have on file with Google. So you don't pay the retailer with Amex, you pay
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by mpclark 14y ago
Yes, I get the impression he is somebody who cares , so probably a good place to start for anyone who wants to see this fixed: http://www.blogger.com/profile/00087509895945257528
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by mpclark 14y ago
Yes, point taken. Some funny stuff does go on. We've been approached more than once to provide nice supporting quotes for big company press releases, on a paid basis. Gedouttahere! (The flipside of this is you should run a mile when you see
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by mpclark 14y ago
Well, my firm does research reports like this (but not quite as expensive) and that is emphatically not our business model. We set out to deliver the best information we can to whoever needs and will buy it, and there is no relationship b
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by mpclark 14y ago
The cool thing is that, as a BBC game, it well sell only slightly fewer copies today than it would have in 1988. You've lost nothing by waiting :) Game looks great, btw!
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by mpclark 14y ago
That's not in any way cynical; that's business.
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by mpclark 14y ago
Let's hope the 'gb' in the username is a clue.
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by mpclark 14y ago
First rule of tech blogging -- all stories, even those best reported as just one line, must be expanded to meet Google News's minimum word count requirement.
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by mpclark 14y ago
But a one line summary is too short to get picked up by Google News -- that's why all the tech blogs try to write at least 70 words on absolutely anything, no matter how thin it is...

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