Posts by adam 4 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Mar 2008
We had to ban Kimche from our office - practitioners were banished to the car park.
Even then, you could smell it in the afternoon after people came back in and burped!
Can you imagine the incredible stink it's going to make in a space ship? I predict that the ISS astronauts will make her walk the plank.....
I saw some calculations that with the peat loss for the deep foundations and access roads, plus the CO2 in the concrete production, it would have taken about 80-100 years for the turbines to offset these emissions.
However, by then they would have worn out I suppose.
As for local jobs, there's something wrong if it takes 400 people to maintain 180 turbines. How exactly is that going to save carbon? Oh, it was only 400 people for a transient period....
While that might be true in theory, I think in practice this facility is rarely deployed and/or tested in anger, so the likelihood is that it won't work....
Some TETRA implementations are using TCP/IP over them now for data transfer so plod can surf the net (one I talked to was very keen on being able to surf porn while sitting in his panda car!!!)
Paris because she'd be first to be downloaded in the nuddy!
I think the next logical step would be to publish a schematic and layout for the non-volatile data snaffling device, small enough to fit in the Ingenico terminal.
This would hopefully force the bank's hand into quickly reissuing cards with the mag-stripe CVV code different to the Chip one. This will result in the cloning being made much more difficult.
Finally - if you are worried about this, there is a simple solution. Keep a separate credit card specifically for chip/pin and never use it to withdraw cash. Change the pin regularly on this card - altering one digit should be enough. Wipe the mag stripe with a strong magnet to prevent the CVV from being skimmed. And only use your bank card in trusted ATM's.
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