+1 (if I had mod-points)

The thing that amused me was that a bunch of thin-skinned people seemed upset at the idea the EU might travel-ban Americans, and then tried to make the case that COVID-19 cases/death rates were worse in the EU... but surely, if that were the case, then visiting would be bad for Americans, and indeed, for the US when they return? Therefore by their own logic, the EU ban would be good for the US?

But nope, the thin-skinned don't think it through!

+1 totally agree!

Obviously I'm speaking with hindsight, but given that people in power presumably had good scientific advice early on, I wish all countries had grounded all but essential air-travel early on.

Yes, it would've required political balls of steel to deal with the air industry (and all the peripheral bits of that), and unquestionably, it would've been expensive, would likely cause huge damage a job losses within that industry... but that's all happening anyway. Plus *everything else* is now impacted.

They should put cameras on the masts and also, the telecoms engineers should prolly have dash-cams and even personal cameras on them so that these clowns can be prosecuted. It is utterly unacceptable behaviour.

Honestly, I don't think it's anything other than being connected to all the right people. I also don't think she's stupid, but I just don't think she would've got the job in (say) a blind recruitment type scenario! I also don't think she's in any way well qualified for the job she had (at TalkTalk) or has now with the NHS.

Not to mention, for some reason they've selected Baroness Dido Harding to "head up the wider test, track and trace programme". Dido is perhaps better known as the CEO of TalkTalk (UK ISP) which, as the BBC say, "suffered a major data breach and failed to properly notify affected customers".

More specifically, they outsourced all their support to the lowest bidder in India, and then, when their customers called support, they may end up with "someone from TalkTalk" calling them regarding their issue, and then suggest the problem was a payments issue and could they confirm their credit card number. Whereupon said customer had money purloined from their bank account.

All the whilst TalkTalk did the usual dance:

• "No we haven't had any data-loss, hacking",
• "A small number of our customers have been affected",
• "this was an unprecedented hack by elite international hackers",
• "This is an industry-wide problem and all ISPs are affected by this"

But in reality, it affected them because they were utterly, utterly, crap. There was nothing that suggested they cared about their customers, or really understood the issues, so it took them ages to fix it.

And the reason I care; (I'm not an never was a customer btw!), where often hacks are real hacks and are genuinely hard to protect from, this was fucking obvious from the start. It was a process/business failure. And the worst bit is that I can see how any customer, even a cautious one, could get caught since the bad guys have access to a lot of customer information and can appear genuine... at exactly the time when the customer likely desperately just wants their internet to work and will happily give information to someone who sounds like they are who they say they are.

After leaving TalkTalk, Baroness Dido Harding some how walked straight into a job at the NHS. And now she's got this job. I can't help thinking it's not what you know but who you know.

I quite like the extra gap between period and the start of the next sentence... but is it right to do this using two spaces, or is this a rendering issue? So where it *can* be useful to have an additional CR/LF between paragraphs so they have a gap between them, often this is a styling issue - so in Word we might add space before/after a paragraph, and thus we don't need the additional CR/LF.

So... should additional space between sentences be a styling option?

I'm inclined to think it should be. Otherwise, we have style and content being mixed together. If we go with just using a single space - everywhere - then we can allow the rendering device to present content as the *reader* would like, rather than how the author wants it.

...and even if it was, this *is* 2020, so there's no excuse! :D

Then where will I get my stupid people from?

I'd further prosecute them [the scammers] for GDPR violations in that they're are trading within the EU, and as a result of poor security, customer information was been obtained by a third party.

Yeah, technically the third-party is probably operating illegally, but... it'll be hard to trace *who* actually did that <innocent-face> ... and there's less incentive to follow up that particular crime since there's no money involved.

I love dark themes/modes myself but when all the window chrome is dark, I would like the window drop-shadow to be more of an under-glow because the shadow can't really be seen... as a result, I sometimes find it hard to spot the title bar of a window in order to raise it/move it.

Of note, the Twitter web interface supports a dark mode and it then switches from drop-shadow to glow instead. It works well IMHO.

It _could_ be terrible, but I suspect it's more likely that they'll try to get people to sign up to a paid email/calendar service not least because if they butcher the app itself, their current user base will just walk.

Plus, he is now Lord of the Ring(s).

I'll get my hat...

Being handed down is useful, but as we know, battery life isn't great with AirPods, and sadly Apple hasn't seen fit to make the batteries replaceable in anyway so now we're facing increasing amounts of e-waste.

Here's a super-great video about it!

I know I've said this before, but really, Windows should be free to download and use.