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by mpclark 10y ago
...and, in the UK, he was responsible for many of the episodes of Tales Of The Unexpected, a similar sort of show that ran through most of the eighties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Unexpected_(TV_se...
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by mpclark 10y ago
So this is a really valuable marketing opportunity for toothpaste manufacturers, a rare switching opportunity. Here's a chance to get a guest to try their brand of toothpaste, in a market where driving change is difficult. They should
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by mpclark 10y ago
Looks great, but I won't be able to get very far without a Game Genie...
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by mpclark 10y ago
Well, colour me impressed. Looks like they have indeed done the right thing. Fair's fair, I'm going to go ahead and renew my Comodo cert.
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by mpclark 10y ago
Turns out I have a Comodo cert expiring soon. Let's see if they do the right thing before I do...
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by mpclark 10y ago
This is a really fantastic solution in terms of functionality, but it also comes burdened with a bunch of JS calls and user profiling opportunities. It's very like Google Analytics in that respect; there's a quid pro quo if a publ
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by mpclark 10y ago
Thanks :) We're still talking internally about what we're going to do with the social stuff -- we're leaning towards kicking it out -- as well as the user insight we're granting to Google in return for using its (excelle
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by mpclark 10y ago
It's not that straightforward though; these networks all pile in on each other, layers and layers deep, and in real time. It is very difficult for a publisher to work out who they are dealing with. The only network ads I had running on
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by mpclark 10y ago
Isn't that exactly what this is about though? They don't take these issues to the media, the customers/reviewers etc do. And when that happens, Tesla simply can't afford to take it lying down. Where it jars for me is tha
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by mpclark 10y ago
And this should also be read in the context of a whole industry going after one company... Tesla's PR often seems slightly combative, but that's because the company is engaged in a never-ending fight for its life against an array
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by mpclark 10y ago
Being malicious makes defamation worse, but it doesn't have to be malicious to defame.
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by mpclark 10y ago
From my newspaper days, no amount of disclaiming will get round the fact that they put a picture of the guy next to the article. The test in the UK is if whatever you publish will make a reasonable person think worse of an individual and th
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by mpclark 10y ago
It seems to me that implanting a payment chip makes no more sense than tattooing on one's clothing...
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by mpclark 10y ago
Yup, I learned in retail during that time that you always deal with the customer in front of you before you answer the phone, too. Serving the person actually in your store is more important than serving the one sitting at home.
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by mpclark 10y ago
This is almost certainly because it is rooted, IMHO. All the serious banking/payment apps I have seen won't run on a rooted phone as they can no longer be sure of the integrity of the device.
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by mpclark 10y ago
Using a phone instead of a card isn't the end of the journey, it's just a step somewhere (early) along the way. As people get used to paying for stuff using a powerful connected computer instead of a card all sorts of new possibil
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From punch cards to smartphones – the pioneering of Dr Andrew Booth(bbc.co.uk)
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by mpclark 11y ago
Yup, and that cell looks like a truly horrible place to accommodate a person (let alone two). My woodshed is nicer than that.
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by mpclark 11y ago
We use Google DFP to manage the actual serving of our ads, simply because it is very, very good at it.
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by mpclark 11y ago
In mitigation I run a smallish B2B news site and I only run ads we've sold direct (and vetted) and Google Adsense to fill some of the unsold inventory. However, I found out not too long ago that Adsense now throws stuff from literally
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by mpclark 11y ago
I too am disappointed to see this here, though the young hotheads are obviously out in force today and relishing sticking it to the man. Surely we are better than this. One of the earliest lessons I was taught, and I taught my kids, is that
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by mpclark 11y ago
I love it, but find it takes around the same amount of effort to send money by PayM as it does to send it by regular bank transfer to somebody already set up in my mobile banking app (my main use case is usually sending smallish amounts of
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by mpclark 11y ago
Yes, blame the publisher. Nobody sensible would allow other web properties to inject rubbish like this -- and it could literally be anything -- into their site. If they're going to do it, they should be held to account for it.
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by mpclark 11y ago
"Pig's breakfast" and "dog's dinner", FWIW :)
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by mpclark 11y ago
"the poor aerodynamic properties of bananas [citation needed]" Worth reading just for that little bit of precision.
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by mpclark 11y ago
I believe it is a problem here in the UK, where one can expect to be ANPRed several times on any journey that takes one out of town. A little bit of black tape can turn a six into an eight and make one anonymous, or make a stolen car appear
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by mpclark 11y ago
It may not have been actual code. Perhaps only values in a look-up table? Perhaps even values in an area of a multi-dimensional array that was never expected to be used.
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by mpclark 11y ago
These acquisition announcements are always the same, and always get the same sort of comments. They tell of good fortune for the owners of the thing that has been sold, but never tell the users what's in it for them. And that's us
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by mpclark 11y ago
It's not a joke to the media, but fundamentally their job is to report new things. Not to take a view on the things, or check them for truthiness or flawed methodology -- just to report them. (Your choice of media will determine how mu
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by mpclark 11y ago
"Has about 80 BBC Micro computers... the majority form part of an interactive exhibit that recreates a 1980s classroom" IME you only need one BBC Micro to recreate an 80s classroom. At my school circa '82-'85 we had a b

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