Given that British police routinely fail to be interested in burglaries, bike thefts, car thefts etc, at they really going to pay any attention to an alert that an offender is in a store? Shop security are toothless - if a shoplifter gets hurt, guess who gets penalized?

I would definitely avoid buying anything with a plug or a battery from a no-name supplier but other than that, I'm happy buying cheap crap when I need to

Similar to the way that comparing developers by LOC has a habit of skewing behaviour, you can see how token costs might go the same way

And here we get to the real issue - VPNs can be used by political activists to have conversations safely. And by 'activists' I mean anybody who doesn't abide by whatever groupthink is in place this week

"The entire original argument for Brexit was based on racist nationalism". This is just lazy and exemplifies the entitled and out of touch Remain argument that ultimately lead to Brexit. To address the immediate accusations, that Brexit was racist - absolute rubbish. It might be true that most racists voted Brexit, but the decision was not inherently racist. Being concerned about net immigration measuring in the hundreds of thousands is NOT racist, and even if it was, it's a legitimate political viewpoint. Letting in thousands of less productive 'workers' from countries associated with organised crime, with no vetting or points-based entry, is just madness

Firstly, GDP != standard of living. Secondly, the UK has never had a socialist government

Corrupt rule for personal gain (11 letters)

The only data storage my car uses is a cassette player

Modern cars are overly large, over-engineered and overpriced. Family cars are becoming too expensive for normal families

People grow into the roles they're in. If they're not writing code every day but merely auditing, eventually their programming skills will atrophy. People cannot develop skills unless they're doing it daily

Normally I love tech history but this comic strip deserves to be consigned to the recycling bin

I was reading up on all the unapproved drugs out there ready to fix just about every human weakness - sagging skin, wrinkles, baldness, sore knees, too much imagination etc etc. Once AI takes all our jobs we can just enjoy endless leisure with our perfect bodies. Don't ask where the money to pay for it all comes from!

Interestingly, financial reward (extrinsic motivation) acts as a disincentive for some people, the types who do something for intrinsic motivation. The belief is that suddenly being paid to do something reduces that activity to merely a transaction, and that overall you may end up with fewer workers than you had before. Another danger is that you suddenly have people appearing who are only drawn by the money. If you gave developers nominal pay, like $10 or $20 an hour, you'd suddenly be overrun with very poor developers

In the UK it costs over £10 per day for my commute on the train. Hence I take the car instead, for half the cost and 10 times the convenience. An oil shock will probably take the car journey to a price that's still cheaper than the train - public transport is a ripoff

I'm no military expert but it was my understanding that the defining characteristic of an aircraft carrier is that they're bloody massive!