Re: A new game
It's an endless game but how they managed to include this word in the set I'll never know
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Is it just me, or does any concise definition of "edge" make it sound exactly like what everyone did in the 90s before the same vendors/consultants pushed "Cloud".
Just about to dust off my old VBA applications and now claim they're following best practice doing the processing nearest the data...
The delivery driver is employed by the restaurant directly. Any data breach has been done by the restaurant (well actually the driver)
Seems like people are confusing JustEat with Deliveroo/UberEats.
Obviously JustEat should consider dropping restaurants who don't live up to their standards, but they're hardly the first port of call. Any more than it's Yellow Pages' fault if you use it to look up a dodgy plumber.
They've not spoofed a number, just using the caller ID string "NatWest" which is the same as the bank uses for official texts, and means the message comes up in existing threads on most phones.
The message is
"We have identified some unusual activity on your Online Banking. Log In via the secure link http://95.141.35.213/default.aspx to avoid account suspension."
Of course anyone with sense then logs in using the normal website not a non-secure link.
Page looks like a reasonable copy of the normal login page, asks for the normal subset of password/number. On entering a customer number of 11111111, then comes the switch - to avoid suspension please enter all your bank account numbers to unlock access.
So all in all it's quite sophisticated.
One Huawei handset that at £469 is a similar price to Sony/Samsung/HTC, and another that it's hard to get in the UK.
Would it be too much to recommend some of the fabled "mid-range"?
I'm looking to replace an HTC One M7, criteria
Not phablet sized
Good screen res (M7 is 1080p/4.7")
Better camera than I have now
Won't smash into a million shards of glass when dropped
Lasts a full day
A Z5 compact with full res screen would be ideal but everything seems to fall short in one or more areas, especially battery.
As others have said, the original Cable & Wireless split itself into CWW and CWC, the former was consumed by Vodafone pretty quick. Leaving CWC as the only company claiming succession to all the history.
So for more takeover mind-bending: CWC, which traded as LIME throughout the Caribbean, recently took over regional broadband/TV competitor Columbus Communications (trades as Flow), a major investor in which was ... John Malone.
It's currently rebranding all it's consumer services to Flow (possibly due to LIME's reputation), and was corporately rebranding as "C&W Communications", though the latter at least seems doubly redundant now!
Most interfaces to BACS work in the same way. When a payment is declined a reason code is returned. One of the values for this code is definitely Payer Deceased (I have set up interfaces to these systems myself)
Most Billing/Payment processing software lets the Operator perform different actions based on the code.
For example, insufficient funds might trigger a resweep. A similar message is sent if the account details have changed (to let the operator update their records).
Payer Deceased should of course route it to the manual team, and cancel the DD agreement so no more payments.
Given this team exists, this is probably how it's supposed to work. I'm guessing a bug got in the way...
IRIS is dead... the e-gates are the replacement.
Main issue with IRIS was that you needed a special appointment to get the scan. The level of detail needed to identify you from the full list of users wouldn't be in the normal photo. The new gates should be better since they read your passport too, but I've yet to hear anyone not have the same issue as the above posters. (Haven't got a biometric passport yet myself)
True, but the Dove adverts . The "real women" still have shapes unobtainable to most, and at least as likely to inspire all the negative feelings. Maybe slightly more because they are branded "real". At least supermodels are named to suggest they're remarkable.
e.g. the 'curvy' one is no more than a size 14 (less than the UK average), the 'freckly' one who was apparently ashamed of them is absolutely stunning looking.
Not being a teenage girl I've no idea if the education side of it is any better!
Agreed - was waiting for this article after I saw the earlier piece on the original, which inspired me to fire up SC2K in DOSBox as well! What's funnier is that SC3000 wouldn't play on a more modern laptop, didn't seem to get on with XP. Brilliant, humorous and addictive!
Must admit it's a lot easier when you can race through a few hundred years to build up some profit.
@Piro - boxes and proper manuals! Didn't the SC2K one dedicate half the book to essays on urban development? I remember buying SIMFarm as a 'classic' game too, and it having similar farming tips.
How do you find Control Panel without Metro - right click where the start button used to be and select it. Or add the icon to the desktop.
You can close a Metro app by dragging it downwards.
The various finger gestures have consistent mouse equivalents, but it takes third party websites to summarise them properly. The information density of the MS documentation is worse than Metro apps!
One trend I've noticed with recent MS products, and I include Windows 7 and the Ribbon in this, is that it is less obvious what to do when just playing around, but if you know what you want to do it's easier to find it. I wonder if this is the reason Alastair finds Windows 8 better when doing 'real work'.
However on the retail side, and against tablets, it has to impress the customer when they play with it in store. (Unless you don't stock it in shops...hmmm)
In the mid-late 90s (between Windows becoming popular and mass home internet access, which the article seems to skip), PC Plus, PCW and so on were all 500 pages, the mighty Shopper pushed 1000. Still remember 30+ page adverts for Software Warehouse which continued into the days of Jungle.com (so c.2000).