I am sure the bribes to fifa add up - the olympics wanted gold watches, 24hour bar [sweden], free schooling [australia] so i do wonder what they wanted.

It is sport after alll.

Store cards where a thing in the 1980's, be they charge cards, or version two credit cards rebranded - which failed for some retailers in the uk - i am sure amazon could reinvent that rabbit as they have done with mail order.

Sears was the example of an academic case study . I guess a conversation with visa might have mentioned that idea and technical capability to reinvent sears charge card.

Visa is anti competition with the Olympics deal and if a pay network becomes non universal then it becomes not important.

II assume these vr thingys are only for windows users?

The idea of ar/vr is ok but sword art online nervegear tech is way more immersive.

I somehow doubt that the customer service people even know what ipv6 is, most isp's give vague answers and isp webssites usually look like powerpoint presentations.

Starlink was nating ipv4 for 'consumers'.

It has a message despite its game show antics think of the credit check apps and people who have crippling debt and it makes some sense.

I guess the nk won is not a currency or asset

Suse has a lady ceo and i was wondering why they where more trusted for opensource in the non tabloid newspaper we read.

Perhaps all that ibm cross selling at ibm is starting to hurt the bottom line at redhat..

Since the Murdoch family encouraged pirating of non sky tv - read murdochs pirates by neil chenoweth and they had satellite dishes surely a local box and dish pointing in the right place used to work might still?

Malcolm Stewart will not be happy

I do not like drm but you mischaracterise instant ink as some count is carried forward per month.

The cartridges supplied in instant ink are larger than the ones you can buy. - not defending it

It was good binging considering i usually watch the subtitled stuff.

Family has a 1970's chess set complete with 1970's haircuts - its kind of odd but still 'chess'.

Nobody forces you to use instant ink, we have a four in one hp with paid instant ink and save money by not buying non oem, or hp ink cartridges. I can fit any cartridge into it and probably only lose the rubbish ink quantty sensor from hp.

Even the instant ink carts have faults in

I do not work for hp Yes it is concerning this drm or use funny money at the company shop only but if i come across some shady scheme then other printer makers exist and i too will be off to that land of milk and honey.

Most normal consumers i know seem to have a spare bought cartridge and have yet to figure out instant ink

if sco-x [paid unix] was the attack dog for balmer and gates against linux and ibm - that went quiet now tsg group who will 'defend' microsofr when us linux users offend our new friends in microsoft land.

I really enjoy winding up system builders when i dont specify an os and they recommend a virus scanner to which i always ask them does it work on linux.

I personally think miscrosoft is bad and should be avoided like the plague.

Oh well more google crap that does nothing any more for the user or google.

Its interesting that google apps procreate and can never be removed but firefox and 'user' apps can. I am sure ios is as bad.

The joys of family tech support eh

Does that mean google will allow you to uninstall the app - i somehow doubt that.