They've had 13 years to get a certified replacement.

This was my very first thought reading the article also, there's zero reason to continue using physical floppies on devices that require them when more reliable systems are available.

Let's just hope they don't replace it with something even more annoying.

This is just vapourware, we've been hearing that the Mammoth can be resurrect using Elephant surrogates for years. I would love to see Mammoths roaming around, but I'll believe it when I see it.

I am reminded of the, possibly apocryphal, tale of when the Americans wanted to buy the land for the old American embassy in London off the land's owner. He refused but eventually offered a compromise: he said he would sell it to them if they returned the land they'd taken from his family in America. The owner is the Duke of Westminster. The land is most of the state of NY and Maine. They declined and opted for an extremely long lease instead.

It's a component of pretty much all encryption algorithms, afaik.

I think "You reap what you sow" sums it up.

Most of the fresh graduates we interviewed recently couldn't actually tell us what the difference between a class and an object was. And these were people with 2:1s.

A slightly better search would have told you that tender was cancelled in 2011 and a new one issued this year; they're holding the new selection process next year.

The Victoria, Central, Jubilee, and Northern lines all use semi-automation. It wasn't uncommon to see the driver stood up in the middle of the cab when it pulled in to a station, when I used the central line regularly; the train stops itself. I've been on a couple where it's overshot the end of the platform and they've had to skip the station and continue to the next (reversing a tube train means the driver has to get out and go to the other end - it delays the service too much, so they just won't do it).

It has been for years. Pretty much every business in the world that deals with defence contracts will store restricted material on their own site and computer systems at some point. In the UK there's even a designation for it List-X Site. Other countries have their own designation.

We also know not to rely on the kernel version number to work out what the given version of Windows we're running on is capable of - you ask it if has the capability.

I was actually moderately surprised by the fact that people were using the product name to work out the version - it's not even that easy to get that string. I think there's a WMI object that contains it, but it was only added in Vista. I can only assume it's generally developers using some form of helper library that maps the version number to friendly names for them.

The City of London Police are a territorial police force though; they're all (well all of the full time and specials) are sworn constables.

BT can't even offer decent broadband service to the whole of the UK, ffs.

You mean that fruity company that didn't pay a dividend for 17 years? Short term investors didn't invest in it, oddly enough.