mpclark

It's because they are reporting that somebody thinks they've found the dodgy code, rather than a statement of fact that the dodgy code has been found.

It's a de facto monopoly.

For it to work there has to be a relationship at stake. If there is, it works every time.

Look closer - it's 8068

You are correct. They largely don't talk now.

Years ago I took it upon myself to cancel a record of the month club membership belonging to a work colleague who died suddenly. They would not do a thing without a copy of the death certificate, so I had to tell them that all I could do then was recommend they keep sending the records and they'd have to eventually try suing him for payment.

My take on this is "well, I don't really know, but I don't see any obvious upside either, so no thanks"

FWIW sales of packets of ten were banned in the UK earlier this year, to deter youngsters from buying cigarettes.

> truth is not a defense against slander under UK law.

It most certainly is. Defence #1, in fact.

Seems reasonable to me. If you're going to run a bar you must make sure you stop fights that break out and don't serve people who are already drunk etc.

75mg daily here...

[Edit: sorry, mine's clearly not a "standard" dose]

That's exactly right. The old newspaperman in me is terrified by folks coming out and posting really controversial stuff, the sort that destroys reputations, and probably without the protection of legal oversight.

In days of yore such stuff would appear in the media only after having been looked at by lawyers and multiple points checked and necessary evidence and statements were gathered. Now, I know the old media is not very popular any more, and that precisely this gatekeeping behaviour has also led to some of the problems we now have (it's clear that many in the media had a good idea what was happening in Hollywood) but all it takes is an otherwise credible person to have a bit of an 'episode' and somebody's life could be ruined forever -- either the accusee or the accuser, and possibly both.

The particular trap referred to in the parent is an easy one to fall into, and it may seem like a good way of avoiding a defamation suit ("I didn't name anyone so how could I have defamed them!) but in UK law it certainly is defamation if there are only a small number of obvious possibilities. If only one person is accused, but there are two identifiable possible offenders, you have defamed one of them for sure.

Its not a good look to rush in and presume guilt or innocence either. That's what the courts are for.

The first part of what you have outlined is in fact part of 'proper' journalism here in the UK. A journalist is supposed to approach the subject of the story and get their point of view, partly for reasons of fairness and balance as you rightly point out, but mostly as a defence against defamation actions after it is published. You'll notice that the BBC always does this.

However, it can very difficult to get any sort of comment out of any party that has acted less than admirably, and many see staying tight-lipped as a strategy that can make a bad story go away. Of course, it doesn't work like this.

Additionally, some publishers have deep enough pockets that they are prepared to risk a defamation action if the story is strong enough, or they actively don't want to tip off the subject to upcoming coverage because they may put countermeasures in place (either legal or a pre-emptive "My drugs hell"-type confessional in a rival publication)

The difficulty with quoting full responses anywhere is that, just for example, anyone ever asked for comment by one of our more popular UK papers would be well advised to work in something about their past support of the Nazis or indeed the tax arrangements of their proprietor. I'd expect many such responses to be defamatory in themselves, and thus unpublishable.

I've noticed that, starting quite recently, Bluetooth has always been off every time I've gone to use it on my trusty old Nexus 5. I figured it was the sort of bug that tends to accumulate on old phones, but maybe not eh?

They are terms that one can't apply to oneself. It's fine for other people to call me a thought leader, but I can't say it myself. I suspect this may also apply to "entrepreneur".

Agreed. We dropped AMP on nfcworld.com last month. Too much like building a business on somebody else's platform, and by now we all know where that ends up.

Didn't know about F12 - thanks for the tip!

Is there a secondary market for places in the line?

Up to a point. They've added some great news coverage, but they still also do the rubbish they always did. There are effectively two Buzzfeeds, not a single reformed entity that is now a credible source.

A friend of mine got pulled aside for extra questioning at Newark in the mid-90s because he was wearing a t-shirt that proclaimed "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast". I think the officer presumed it was some sort of drug reference.

...but three people definitely didn't, just in the last week

It's a Nginx directive that rewrites requests from http to https with a 301

Just did this this week. The only unexpected effect I found was that all our Facebook likes were reset to zero. FB must consider the two versions of each page as being separate and different.

It's certainly buzzword compliant...

In the sheepish confirmation it'll be "a sophisticated and meticulously executed attack by what can only be a state-sponsored hacking group"

TLDR: We don't know

...and, let's face it, nobody cares. Move on, dear reader.

Does it need to look at the cube again after it has observed the starting position?

That'll be because that's what the press release said. Any seasoned journalist would have re-nosed this story to lead on the fact that it is a machine that manipulates a physical cube very quickly and poor old Infineon would not even have got a mention.

I believe the ICL "One Per Desk" was the slickest phone/computer combo commercialised around that time -- it shipped in 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Per_Desk

...and, in the UK, he was responsible for many of the episodes of Tales Of The Unexpected, a similar sort of show that ran through most of the eighties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Unexpected_(TV_se...