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  1. Re:Why only 30 Pounds ? on Debit Card With Built-In Fingerprint Reader Begins Trial In the UK (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You were originally required to enter a PIN after a number of consecutive contactless transactions but I'm not sure if this is the case anymore. Losing 30k from a single card is nothing but negligence on the bank's part, they should have recognised the unusual pattern of spending and put a stop to it straight away.

  2. It has been clear for some time that China's trading relationship with the US and the rest of the western world is not a level playing field. Actively hindering US companies from operating in China, currency manipulation, gaming postal treaties and engaging in rampant IP theft is something that has been tolerated for too long.

    I'm not American and I have no love for Trump but it at least he's attempting to resolve the issue. Obama did nothing and I doubt Clinton would have either.

  3. Re:Per the Daily Mail... on UK Parliament Seizes Cache of Facebook Internal Papers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You do know that news publishers often use the same agencies like Reuters and PA?

  4. Windows has wget now, so you don't even have to use Edge or IE.

  5. EVE: Valkyrie didn't take off because it is an fast arcade-style game that most people can only stomach in VR for short periods and gets old very quickly. It's also competing with Elite: Dangerous, while not quite the same style of game, is the most immersive space VR experience you can get.

  6. Just use LTSB on Latest Windows 10 Update Has Yet Another File-Managing Issue (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you have to use Windows 10, use the LTSB version. No Windows Store, no Edge, no Cortana, no platform updates, security updates only with minimal telemetry.

    Microsoft don't want you to know about LTSB and do their best to hide its existence, but it's really what Windows 10 Pro should have been.

  7. Re:Price wtf? on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. People have been losing their shit over the £93/MWH strike price for Hinkley Point C so why aren't people outraged about this?

  8. Re:Realtime grid CO2 intensity map on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I often visit Gridwatch and it really demonstrates the volatility of wind energy. I've seen it as high as 35% of total generation and a big fat 0% during a cold and still night; which ironically is when you need that energy the most.

  9. > no killer game

    You seriously need to experience Elite:Dangerous in VR.

  10. Re:Didn't answer the important question on PayPal Told Customer Her Death Breached Its Rules (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Debts are paid out of the estate before the rest is distributed to beneficiaries. If there is no money in the estate or no assets that can be liquidated then the debt dies. No one inherits debts under common law unless they were in joint names.

  11. Re:prefer to 'relic' them myself... on Levi Strauss Replaces Human Sanding With Automated Lasers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As well as jeans I don't understand the whole 'relic' thing with guitars, either. Yes it's sort of nice picking up a genuine vintage instrument and seeing the scrapes and dings, buckle rash, cigarette burns etc and wondering what sort of life it had. Knowing that someone picked a brand new instrument off the shelf and beat the crap out of it to get the same effect just turns me cold.

  12. Re:If you believe in lies, then you become extremi on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    > They stink the same.

    Not true, blue collar workers are more likely to eat at Taco Bell.

  13. I wouldn't want to be the controller who tells Bruce Dickinson that there are more prominent flights than his one.

  14. Re:Idiot for buying a BMW on BMW's Apple CarPlay Annual Fee is Next-level Gouging (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In the UK, BMW came last in the latest JD Power reliability survey out of 25 manufacturers. VW/Audi and Mercedes also have average reliability at best. The illusion that German cars are well engineered has little basis in reality, and if you own one out of warranty it's just a matter of time before a horrendous repair bill comes your way.

  15. Re:He's right! on Former Facebook Exec Says Social Media is Ripping Apart Society (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Reddit in a nutshell

  16. Reddit upvotes are heavily botted, and I imagine the publishers of these articles are the prime suspects. Clicks mean cash.

  17. Re:Are they stupid or something? on Uber Drivers Have Rights on Wages and Time Off, UK Panel Rules (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's legally mandated in almost every country in the world.

  18. I knew before I clicked that would be Techmoan, his videos are an amazing history of virtually every media format that has ever existed.

  19. Re:Correlation ... on Skipping Breakfast May Be Linked To Poor Heart Health, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There was an FDA study in the 70s or 80s that showed that pipe smokers lived on average three years more than non-smokers. If true then it's certainly down to stress or lack of it, I mean have you ever seen an angry pipe smoker?

  20. Re:Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I've flown on 787s few times with an airline that previously had 767s. They are noticeably quieter and the lower cabin altitude definitely makes you feel less tired after an 8-10 hour flight.

    The downside is that the airline used their new planes as an opportunity to move from a 2-4-2 layout to 3-3-3, so they feel even more cramped than their old 767s.

  21. News for.. on Flush With Cash: Swiss Toilets Mysteriously Stuffed With 500-Euro Bills (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...turds?

  22. Re:Siberia looks cool on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Also Greenland isn't as big as most people think. Thanks to the Mercator projection used on most world maps it appears to be twice as large as Australia, when in reality it has less than a third of its area.

  23. Re:And the Presidential directive was on Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    You've obviously not heard of the new months that have been recently added by executive order; Trumpember, Ivankuary and Covefebruary.

  24. Re:Hit to the brand on Sharp To Americans: You Don't Want to Buy a Sharp-Brand TV (wsj.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My favorite tale of Chinese manufacturing is that factories making genuine products for Western companies have been known to put on extra shifts to turn out knockoffs, using the same machines and tooling that the Western company has paid for. I recall a significant number of fake Cisco products were found to be made in the same factory as the genuine stuff.

    Handing your blueprints over to counterfeitors as well as paying for their machines is an almost comical way of slitting the throat of your business.

  25. Re:Hertz are irrelevant. on Microsoft Unveils The Smallest Xbox Ever -- The Xbox One X (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You've contradicted yourself by saying Hz is irrelevant then saying pipelines * speed matters. So what are you measuring the speed in, miles per hour?