Posts by Tim Spence 319 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Apr 2007
You're suggesting that scum will mug you for your card, so they can get a tenner off of it for White Lightning or something?
Personally I carry around far more actual cash than that, especially on a night out, and I suspect many many people do - by your logic, why don't I get mugged every time I'm out? Let's face it, cash must be more valuable to scum - there's no easy method to trace it after all, and it can be used anywhere.
To avoid the problems of getting your card nicked and having many little £10 transactions amassed before you can report it, why not have a daily spend limit of £30 or something by using this method, and once you reach that you have to input the PIN at the terminal to approve the next transaction? Once done, this resets the limit again, and you're free to spend up to another £30 or whatever it's set at.
If you never spend anywhere near £30 a day using this payment method, then you'll never hit this limit anyway. If you do happen to hit it once, no problem, enter PIN and you're good to go again.
The beauty of this is you can set the limit at a level that you spend at or are happy with the risk at - maybe 50p for some of you out there. Personally, a tenner a day would probably do me.
"Planes are pretty much run by computers now because the huge majority of plane crashes proved to be the fault of the wetware flying the plane"
Well the Beeb had a pilot on yesterday saying that 95% of landings are still biologically controlled, and the computer is there as a standby.
I may have missed something here, but what's the difference between the "free" next day delivery you get included with Amazon Prime, and the option to upgrade to Express delivery for £4.49?
As I see it, one is free and your stuff comes the next day, the other costs £4.49 and your stuff comes before 1pm the next day.
I know which I'd go for.
"Yes, Abrams is annoyed that's she's had to pay when such messages hit her phone."
See, I've always thought the US system is immensely backward - why get charged when someone texts or calls you? Surely better to charge the person actually doing the phoning, or sending the text, seeing as they're the ones who want to make the connection. I'm not alone in this am I?
On the Amazon site thingy, it says "Through the generous efforts of individuals at several organizations, detailed satellite imagery has been made available for his last known whereabouts", so I'm guessing some agencies or organisations generously diverted current mapping/photography projects to this area for a while.
And of course the imagery will be more recent than when he went missing - otherwise, what's the point? Wouldn't take long to photograph that area anyway.
While I agree that digital zoom in pretty much any form is virtually pointless, could they have got that 700x using the 10x optical zoom as a factor? So it might be 10x optical plus 70x digital zoom, making an overall effective zoom of 700x? I know my camera zooms optically as far as it will go, and only then does the digital zoom come in.
I dunno, I could be wrong and it could just show you the colour in the middle of the frame.
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