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Comment: Handbags (Score 1) 193

by abigsmurf (#43762589) Attached to: UK Consumers Reporting Contactless Payment Errors
I'd be willing to bet that 90% of the time this happens it's because a woman's put her handbag on the counter to get the wallet out, it's brushed up close against the sensor and activated it. Contactless is designed to be able to be used in a wallet, guessing distance is the big limiting factor, not having a couple of layers of cloth between them.

Comment: Re:I can't wait to see this battle (Score 1) 715

by abigsmurf (#43740165) Attached to: Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8
Google are dominant in the video hosting industry. They have been providing APIs and help to other platforms in order to to get youtube on there.

They've been refusing to provide MS will the same tools and help as other companies because they're a competitor in a different field.

Seems open and shut anti-trust

Comment: Re:crowsourcing did NOT fail - here's why (Score 5, Insightful) 270

by abigsmurf (#43524645) Attached to: Crowdsourcing Failed In Boston Bombing Aftermath
Yeah, who cares if one teenager got put through hell and the parents of another missing teenager experienced even more heartbreak, eventually they identified the real people (after seeing them identified by actual responsible news reporters) and had no noticeable impact on the man hunt!

Comment: Re:Smart (Score 3, Informative) 212

by abigsmurf (#43421483) Attached to: Bin Laden Raid Member To Be WikiLeaks Witness
The helicoptor was in an active combat zone. There were reports of RPG fire. The press were not wearing identifying uniforms that press in an active warzone are expected to wear. The children in the van were only visible when looking carefully at the footage and freeze framing, not in a combat situation (wtf were they doing driving children to the site of a bombing) and the van appeared to be insurgents recovering the weapons and preventing wounded combatants being captured.. There was an RPG launcher and an AK-47 clone visible in the footage (in addition to the pilots mistaking the camera for another RPG). The pilots waited for authorisation before firing.

As tragic as it was, procedure was followed and there a combination of circumstances contributed to the mistake. It was not a war crime.

Comment: Re:Y undercover? (Score 5, Insightful) 229

by abigsmurf (#43314979) Attached to: Boston Cops Go Undercover Online To Crack Down on Concerts
Having a couple of officers do undercover work to get the organisers is more efficient and effective then sending loads of officers to a concert, filling up the cells and having a high chance of the organisers getting away. It's also far more likely to discourage people from even attempting a show.

Plus there's lots of stuff that goes with the concerts other than just noise; poor safety, drink driving, general vandalism to the area, all the stuff that licenced concerts have to plan for or try to prevent.

Comment: Re:About as scientific as Wakefield study (Score 1) 1121

by abigsmurf (#43292541) Attached to: USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise
The article states that they were all sent out on the same date. It's probably safe to assume that they were all taken to the post office or mail handlers at the same time.

There's no way of knowing if the samples arrived at the post office in separate, pre-sorted atheist/unmarked piles/sacks or if the post office then decided to sort them by markings themselves. Having samples done at different times can eliminate data 'bunching up' or samples interfering with each other.

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