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by mpclark 6y ago
Spot on. I remember trying to get petrol in Belgium at night sometime in the late 90s. The country had its own smart debit card programme (very leading edge) and garages there had unattended pumps that would accept these cards to cater for
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by mpclark 6y ago
Oh dear. I lived three years in Tintern and five in Monmouth and can’t answer either of those!
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by mpclark 6y ago
If you had a ram expansion pack fitted an overly enthusiastic key press could cause it to wobble - it was only held in place by a connector which fitted onto the zx81’s circuit board iirc, and that could cause a power cycle
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by mpclark 6y ago
This is fine. Whenever things change, some proportion of the userbase pushes back and wants to just keep things like they are. Not a problem, and doesn't mean the change is not worthwhile. I can't imagine anyone meeting WordPress
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by mpclark 6y ago
...then the publisher says "OK, you can't show my content then"
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by mpclark 6y ago
No, I don’t think so, but perhaps he joined around when I left in ‘92. The company was growing very fast back then. [added minutes later] Well, that’s spooky. Guess who is the ninth card in my Facebook ‘people you may know’ this morning...
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by mpclark 6y ago
Yes, the potted history is Galactic Software (selling games from hand-drawn ads in Popular Computing Weekly) when they were still at school in Somerset, then worked with Mirrorsoft and Mastertronic in London, then off to start Codemasters i
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by mpclark 6y ago
Spot on!
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by mpclark 6y ago
This is the closest answer. I was there. Codies actually got its start in a small light industrial unit in Banbury, about 20 miles down the road, but when the Darling family bought a run-down farm in Southam we all (well, probably less than
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by mpclark 6y ago
I’ve just been gradually de-Googling. It took years to take slowly take over my life, so I figured I’d play the same game and have just been picking something else every time I have a choice. So now I’m on iOS, not Android; personal email h
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by mpclark 6y ago
The way I heard it, Cern could be considered to be indirectly financed by the war machine as it was essentially provided as a playground for Europe’s atomic scientists to stop any one nation running away with the ball.
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by mpclark 6y ago
They will have missed Monaco, as they only looked at the 150 most populated cities. When I was there around the millennium it was the clear leader in police officers per head of population, so I expect it’s also doing well on cameras.
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by mpclark 6y ago
I’m in Wales. In my part of the country we only have a few ICU beds. The government is trying hard to protect us. But it’s a fast moving situation, and we’ve only a small population and consequently a small government. So of course guidanc
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by mpclark 6y ago
It's tech media shorthand for "we just noticed this, but we're not sure when it actually happened"
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by mpclark 6y ago
It's only a couple of miles down the road from Staylittle, "the village cut off from the web": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-40108145 Either broadband is truly awful out that way (probably this, TB
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by mpclark 6y ago
If it helps, I bought one around 25 years ago. It is a thing of great beauty. But I’ve used it maybe twice, and lugged it through maybe six house moves since then. All a bit pointless.
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by mpclark 6y ago
I remember people flying out to NY on Concorde from the UK (left at about 11am?), getting in almost a whole day of business, and then flying back 'slowly' on a 747 overnight. Was still expensive though!
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by mpclark 6y ago
It's a screw-tightening process. We've only just started, but proper enforcement will surely follow at some point.
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by mpclark 7y ago
Also, if a target site is behind Cloudflare then you probably won’t be able to masquerade as any of the popular bots - they block fake google/yandex bots.
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by mpclark 7y ago
I’m surprised Zoom is happy for Facebook to know exactly who its customers are. This is information that could be used against the company at some point, for example if FB made a video conferencing play.
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by mpclark 7y ago
Note: This is a problem with a plugin called "WordPress Database Reset" and not a general 'database reset' vulnerability
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by mpclark 7y ago
Wherever two or more people assemble, somebody gets to make a profit from it?
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by mpclark 7y ago
Sounds like it’s worth looking into...
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by mpclark 7y ago
This is IMHO the most correct answer. Apple. From experience lots of folks wanted to implement NFC but as soon as they got their idea to the C-suite all the execs whipped out their iPhones and it was game over. Add to that the years of shen
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by mpclark 7y ago
And the ones working on the licensed ports were lucky, with their fancy arcade machines on free play in the corner of the office. Authors of, er, 'tributes' just had to wander down to the local arcade with a pocket full of coins a
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by mpclark 7y ago
But... you shouldn't have to do this! It's an extra step, an inconvenience.
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by mpclark 7y ago
Of course, if the job involves risks to mental health!
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by mpclark 7y ago
Seconded. It really emphasises how far things have come in a relatively short time, with the technology not so long ago being very basic compared to what we read about from, for example, Snowden.
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by mpclark 8y ago
"...when it comes to my area of expertise"
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by mpclark 8y ago
On a related point, I visited Sunnyvale from the UK last week and was surprised to see legions of battered RVs parked on the backstreets in the area. What's going on there? Is it workers who can't afford to rent in the area?

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