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As discussed elsewhere in these comments the booking agent will likely not be processing the payment and probably won't perform validation of the details save for a Luhn check on the number.

It is usual practice to pass on payment details to a hotel rather than the booking agent charging the cards themselves. This can be compatible with PCI-DSS when details are tokenised and stored with a third party.

I think most of the press would rather seek to continue blaming the EU for not acceding to the UK's demands and remainers for failing to give Brexit their full support.

I remember this one being bundled on the cover CD of one of the Amiga mags 20 years ago. Watching it blew me away at the time :)

Pouet: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=14015 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmly5dpEpvc

Yes, I'd forgotten about the Buzz Rickson!

I'm not inclined in any way to follow fashion but I was really taken with Gibson's attention to detail in these books. He has a way of imparting curiosity about the seemingly mundane and I have started to pay attention to similar traits in clothing.

William Gibson's Zero History goes into a bit of detail on this, including a mission to track down a supposedly secret brand of jeans.

I bothers me how often I see only closing parentheses in Bash case statement patterns!

I love the style, which to me was reminiscent of a demoscene production. It put me in mind of this one from a few years back: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=50105

A few years back some brave souls visited the site of the old transmitter at Povarovo and posted some pictures and video of the trip: http://bydunai.livejournal.com/749.html

> So, is there an advanced hidden civilization underneath that gas and pressure?

A major plotline in "The Algebraist" by Iain M Banks (sci-fi, but not a Culture novel) centres around a species who live in gas giants.

> I wonder why they mention the price of the probe on there.

Some Guardian commenters like to express the opinion that space exploration is a waste of money which could be better spent on other projects closer to home, so I suspect there was an element of provocation to this.

This replicates the functioning of a carburettor equipped with a mechanical accelerator pump. It squirts some extra fuel into the manifold when the throttle pedal is depressed, the quantity determined by the force applied to the pedal.

Mine (also UK) is similar to what you describe, minus your addendum. It makes reference to agreeing that inventions (new software, I imagine) developed during the course of my employment must be made available to the company for its use. I've never known the company to call anyone out on this.

The output reminds me of the writings of Bascule in Feersum Endjinn [0] but it's somehow not quite as legible!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feersum_Endjinn#Writing_style

One still owns a home when buying with a mortgage. The lender places a charge on the property while a balance is outstanding, therefore in addition to owning the property you also own the debt secured against it.

What most people are describing here is, to me, an almost alien culture.

Where I work in the UK it's common to socialise after work with colleagues (I'd rather call them friends) regularly after work. It's not usually sponsored by the employer and we rarely talk about work or our workplace unless something noteworth is happening there. It's not just current colleagues either. People who have moved on in their employment don't cease being friends.

However, my cousin works in the USA (not SV) and has met with frustration in trying to organise after-work activities as people there do not seem comfortable socialising with their workmates. To me, that's a shame, but I can understand that some like to keep their business lives apart from their social lives.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention! I recently powered on my ancient Thinkpad X20 for the first time in many years and was surprised just how much I felt at home typing on its keyboard.

Bialetti make stainless steel versions that are suitable for induction hobs.

Of course, but I for one haven't come across a smart TV that has a decent user interface (not necessarily in features, but responsiveness). Some will regularly prompt the user to connect the device to the internet if there's no connection. There's also the issue of long startup times should the whole device be powered off.

Despite the unwanted effects, did it make any difference to the psoriasis?

Oh, this takes me back to my university days where I spent time with Lejos [0] on an RCX brick (32 kilobytes of usable space).

I recall using Eclipse for development and I am sure the build process involved uploading the JVM and program code via a USB infrared interface.

Have to say that I preferred using "Not Quite C" [1] due to it having a simpler syntax and intuitive support for cooperative multitasking.

[0] http://www.lejos.org/ [1] http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nqc/

Indeed. Handing out ministerial positions is a good way of quashing dissent in the party.

It didn't for me on either of its strictness settings, so I sent in a report of this site. This extension seems to have been quite successful with most other sites, however.

Amusingly, certain WWW browsers for the Amiga used DataTypes [0] to decode images so they would in theory support any format you like! Of course, the world was a much simpler place back then so I'd expect all sorts of security vulnerabilites to be present.

[0] a few DataTypes: http://www.monkeyhouse.eclipse.co.uk/amiga/boingbag/datatype...