Posts by jonathanb

Re: Attack of the clones

Normal pay-by-bonk cards do require a PIN every so often. Apple pay doesn't but requires a fingerprint instead.

Re: Personally....

127.0.0.1 is registered to IANA. Probably they would take them to court.

No joke alert icon because they probably are that stupid.

Re: Proof of purchase

It is pretty easy to forge a ticket, especially if you can get black ticket stock.

Conspiracy theorists would say it is because the manufacturer put a back-door in the software to allow the police to remotely disable the car. Whether or not that is more or less plausible than complete incompetence, I'm not sure.

The RIAA is not the MCPS who are the equivalent body in the UK.

Re: Multiple cards

There is a separate device account number for each card.

Re: flash is used by VERY BIG companies...

Try for example using an iPad, which doesn't support flash. Very few sites these days fail due to lack of Flash support.

Re: Why?

Any retailer that supports NFC bonking also supports Apple Pay bonking. There are additional facilities available so that a retailer can know it was paid for by Apple Pay and therefore with 2 factor authentication so they can accept it for payments greater than £20.

Re: Low end parts

MacBooks aren't adorned with stickers proclaiming that they have components inside so the end users don't know and don't care.

My electricity supply was installed when the house was built about 12 years ago, is still perfectly adequate for what I want to do, and is likely to remain so until the house falls down in about 100 years time. 12 years ago, most of us had dial-up internet. Now the vast majority of ISPs have thrown their dial-up kit in a skip.

It's also a lot cheaper than a phone - 16gb iPhone 6 is £539, 16gb iPod Touch is £159.

Re: No Coop / Smile ApplePay Support

I was able to set up Apple Pay in about 3 minutes this morning while on the bus, and use it to buy breakfast when I got off the bus. The other offerings require you to set up new accounts, load them with money, get special SIM cards or sticky tags and things like that.

I'm not sure that I'll use it again for shop purchases, but being able to do on-line purchases without entering my card details certainly seems like a useful feature.

It is 100% of eligible users, those being single people, not disabled, who have previously had a job and live in a specific benefits office district.

Re: Does anyone trust Ofcom to handling any IP addressing?

Reading for example went from 0734 to 01734, then about a year later to 01189. London went from 01 to 071 and 081, then to 0171 and 0181, and after that to 0207 and 0208.

Re: I'm curious...

The Macbook Air is a premium ultra mobile. The HP Stream is a non-premium ultra mobile.

Re: Call me a cab . . .

Or "at the roundabout, take the first exit", which happens to be a farm track that isn't on the Satnav map. OK, you might notice something wrong there very quickly. How about when it asks you to take the second exit, which is a plausible road, but it actually means the third exit, because the farm track isn't on the map.

Re: hmmm

I would be surprised if the % of email that is spam is anything like as low as 75%. More like the high 90s% spam.

Re: What about the rest?

Hotmail is definitely a cloud service, and that has been around for 19 years.

Re: No mnetion of...

Unchanged as far as I'm aware. He didn't mention it.

Typing in a 4 digit number isn't hard, but it does take time. A contactless card transaction on Transport for London services takes 0.5 seconds to complete, 0.3 seconds if it is Oyster. A PIN transaction would probably take about 5 seconds. 4.5 seconds may not sound like a major inconvenience, but multiply it by the hundreds or thousands of people in queue waiting to get into the station, and it makes a huge difference.

Re: value of class A network on resale market

Sure, but you need to persuade me why I should upgrade now rather than wait until these unspecified new services are available. If I'm going to spend money and effort on it, there needs to be a tangible benefit that I get in return. That's why I'm proposing a new thing that is in the pipeline be available only on IPv6.

El Reg readers will know what an ISO file is, but the average member of the public will not.

Re: Even if..

And anyway, the European Arrest Warrant is equally valid in France, so he would still end up in Sweden.

Re: Worried about their safety !!!!!

The local councils that give them their licences do vet them.

Re: Chicago-based hosting

The EU has a similar tax, called MOSS, you may have read about it here at the end of last year/beginning of this year. In the case of the EU, the answer is no, if you supply to someone outside the EU, you don't charge MOSS VAT, but you may have local taxes you are required to collect, such as the Japanese consumption tax or this Chicago tax.

So maybe 5G needs to focus on getting better performance in marginal signal areas?

Re: Who stands to gain from such an Exchange being created?

The problem is that while there almost certainly would be a market for products based on for example the Halifax house price index, there would be for a product based on the price of your house. That is made of of several components. The general market condition as reflected by the index is one of those. Then there are regional and local factors, based on changes in local facilities and pollution sources, and factors specific to your house, such as its state of repair, and any improvements you make to it.

Re: Windows Update is a nightmare

I set Windows Update to download and notify, then I can plan the update for when my computer isn't doing something.

Re: Bloody Neanderthals...

I thought the Neanderthals were here first, and the modern humans came over from Africa.

Re: Consequence

Most send a status code every month, so your record should read - 0 0 0 [repeat 36 times] to show that you have been on time every month for the last year. If the payment doesn't arrive one month, then they will automatically send a '1' to say you are 1 month late.

Re: Pricing Structure...

OSX is only supposed to work on Apple hardware, so they get the money that way. While you can by Microsoft branded computers, most people install windows on computers made by other companies, so Microsoft only get the the money from Windows licences.

Re: Price

Über are not particularly cheap compared to other minicab firms in London, some of which have their own apps that work in a similar way to Über's. The big difference with other minicab firms is that they will quote a price before sending the car to you, and that is the price you pay regardless of what happens on the roads afterwards. There are also apps that will give you quotes from a selection of different minicab firms along with an ETA, and you can pick the one you want.

Re: I'm with Ms. Swift

No they are not forcing her to take part, and she is telling everyone why she has chosen not to get involved.