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by mpclark 11y ago
Think of all the ways you could tempt a phone user to visit a specific URL. An email, Twitter, a QR code, graffiti etc. This is just another one of those -- and not particularly easy to execute, at that. And if I wanted to carry a URL acros
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by mpclark 12y ago
Surprised this post didn't come with a link to a picture.
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by mpclark 12y ago
To be fair it's not Apple that's at fault here, but it is a problem that manifests itself around the Apple brand, so it is very much an Apple problem. There is also another more recent issue which hasn't been picked up yet (a
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by mpclark 12y ago
No, in the UK being caught like this means a big fine, an long-term endorsement on your license and unpleasant side effects which include raised insurance premiums and not being able to get a hire car for several years afterwards. It IS act
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by mpclark 12y ago
Two card changes in quick succession led to my car insurance being cancelled when they couldn't take a payment. The first I knew of it was when the blue lights came on behind me. That is firmly into ruined life territory.
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by mpclark 12y ago
...and so deeply.
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by mpclark 12y ago
Sadly, hardly anyone writing now outside big traditional media orgs has done any sort of formal journalism training.
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by mpclark 12y ago
But surely this is a two-way street? If Facebook becomes less valuable to me as a website operator then I have less incentive to keep any Facebook integration on my site, and if I remove that then they lose the insight into my visitors that
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by mpclark 12y ago
That line usually works like this: I am a merchant, YOU are a privateer and HE is a pirate.
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by mpclark 12y ago
So these folks have been duped, and the publication is exposing it as the scam that it is. And then, under the article, "UK public snaps up bargains using bizarre online trick - madbid.com" and "How new iPads are selling for
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by mpclark 12y ago
Fair comment. I believe, though, that host card emulation, Android 4.4+ and tokenization are three key ideas that have come together and will put NFC into the mainstream (at last).
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by mpclark 12y ago
This coming Tuesday has a strong chance of being the day :)
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by mpclark 12y ago
The first Moto G had no NFC though. Don't know if this one does yet. But NFC will very soon be a 'must have' feature.
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by mpclark 12y ago
Yes. Allowing situations like this to arise is an indicator of future troubles.
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by mpclark 12y ago
I have one of these. It's great, and always draws comment when I use it. But it is just a small contactless card, of the type you might stick to the back of your phone, in a cavity in a rubber bracelet. I had a wristwatch a couple of y
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by mpclark 12y ago
And prepaid cards too, iirc, through Walmart. Edit: ignore me, I see somebody else has already mentioned this further down...
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by mpclark 12y ago
Steady on. The journalists I know do indeed meet society's expectations for fairness and accuracy, and make calls and pound beats, but there are also a lot more people who project themselves as journalists who are a long way from this
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by mpclark 12y ago
I was surprised to see an XP box running on the desk in a doctor's consulting room in Wales the other day. I thought it had gone away, but obviously not...
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by mpclark 12y ago
Its rediculous but I think we're going to loose this battle
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by mpclark 12y ago
That is the main road to Bristol Airport from where I used to live in south Somerset :)
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by mpclark 12y ago
I'm not an expert on this area but I believe NFC smartphones can't currently act as payment terminals because PCI rules mandate that such things should be self-contained single-purpose devices with their own PIN pad. However, the
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by mpclark 12y ago
Slightly related, but Companies House, the UK's official registry of incorporated businesses, used to close up the database search function on its website every day at, ISTR, 5:30pm, then open it again the next morning. This would have
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by mpclark 12y ago
Bruce "just" added the right audience to get the story picked up on HN -- nothing wrong with that.
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by mpclark 12y ago
What a wonderfully well-written tribute to a full, productive and and worthwhile life.
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by mpclark 12y ago
This is the financial services industry's equivalent of "We'll monetise by sticking ads around it": "We'll monetise by advancing loans and collecting interest" Whoever can find more borrowers at the edges
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by mpclark 12y ago
Not trying to be flippant, honestly, but you'll understand when it's you that loses the job. Also, the folks who lose their jobs inevitably feel that the automated/offshored/whatever replacement for their artisanal skill
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by mpclark 12y ago
Now confirmed by a press release: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140521005813/en/eBay...
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by mpclark 12y ago
Again, it is a very clear message that impacts millions of people and is hosted on a page belonging to the company. There may not be as much information as you'd like, but there's nothing speculative about it.
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by mpclark 12y ago
That's just silly. The headline, the subject matter and the fact that it's on a company domain all add up to plenty of information. The fact that it appears to have been prematurely posted adds more interest.
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by mpclark 12y ago
At the time of posting this to HN the body of the post said simply "Placeholder text."

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