The trouble with using money to prove something is that not everyone has it. Certainly not a spare $500 to give to each age verification service. Which we then hope is returned in a timely manner and with interest.

The issue described in the article is very similar to alcohol and cigarette purchases. A very well established law protects children here. In theory it should not be possible for them to obtain either because it's illegal to sell to a child, and it's also illegal to purchase for a child (yes, I'm aware there is some provision for legal drinking at home in some scenarios but those do not cover drinking in parks or town centres). Children still obtain alcohol and cigarettes. There will always be loopholes or folk willing to break the law.

Yep, this is the real problem. Let's ignore the other high profile instances of doping and instead focus on a few trans athletes. Also disregard that this is nothing new and has been possible for decades...

Unless you use a VPN with an exit point in another country they'll know roughly where you are. Part of the information included in the network connection is your IP address, it doesn't matter which player you use.

They only have the time to craft well written summaries or adding a feature to note when the summary was changed and from what... oh, nevermind

Depending on the window manager, alt+left click for move window, alt + middle to resize without having to grab the corner.

That's a security through obscurity solution and doesn't really solve the problem. Other people will always have keys to those locations. Besides, people print and then get interrupted or distracted, say they'll pick up the printout later and forget leaving documents around. It's better to send the print job to a secure print server then I can walk up to any printer, scan my ID badge to access the job and then confirm to print (and delete it from the server).

Besides, what is being discussed here is trust in the contents of the printer itself and the communications with it.

I use the holistic approach. Surely someone else is going where I'm going so I follow them :)

The summary is almost as long as the article, seriously the only addition is a comment that they aren't the first.

I was hoping for something clever, like the stripes before roundabouts that get closer together to give an impression of speeding up. There's a reason this fake speed bump thing won't catch on. It will only affect those that haven't driven on the roads before or regularly. Anyone that has will know they are fake and drive at the same speed as before.

That should be, they have home customers needing this? This is almost pointless news, claranet moved away from being a home customer broadband provider years ago. I was a customer for many years and the tech guys were awesome. They would know what you were asking them and I rarely had any problems. The business changed their focus towards business customers and drove a lot of existing customers away with their policies. Just look at their homepage and find the consumer broadband. Even then on the page for home consumers it is talking about business customers.

at what colour depth? Is 32bit excessive?

I may just be incredibly cynical but I believe this is so joe public is more likely to return the vehicle to the dealer for any and all work. Making it difficult or near impossible to switch out bulbs for example. On my car some people suggest removing the front bumper! The manual isn't too bad though. What bothers me more is the fact the cd/radio manual was thicker than the car one.

I count that as a valid reason for douchebag parking

Can't say for elsewhere but in the UK the permit for parking is assigned to the person not the car so the spots can be used if anyone in the car needs it. However we do have a problem (no idea how large) of friends/family members taking the permit and using it without actually needing it. Spot checks will fail to spot a misused permit. It gets worse because trips with a permit holder may be one way, for example picking up someone from an appointment at the doctors. It's not always feasible to leave them on the pavement whilst a car is fetched. People disabled by choice should have restrictions placed on their use, like mandatory treatment (gym!) or they lose the permit.

Possibly because disabled spots are regulated with certificates where parent and child are a convenience and are far easier to abuse. All you need is a child seat and any spot check is worthless. I've seen a disturbing number of invisible children here. Mind you, I've also seen parent and 16 year old child using such spots too :(

Stop nitpicking on the meaning of a word. Assuming the software is used then a downloaded copy is depriving the vendor of money. Think of it another way then, what if everyone did it? What would happen? Would the software vendor continue to make software? Would they even bother in the first place since the compensation has been removed? Depriving the vendor of money will deprive people of much needed jobs. Like that football game, if everyone watched it from outside would they keep having the games? I'm not from the USA so I don't know what they use the money for but I bet it's not pure profit. Yeah, nothing is taken my arse.