When forcing someone to set security questions/answers in order to log in to a Y!Group, don’t ask them a name-based question (last name of first boss/first name of oldest cousin etc), allow them to provide an answer (sue, kim, ian, bob, tom, sam,...
Topics: Life

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When you try to connect to the free guest wifi in the lounge, a login screen appears, which says - and I quote:“The username and password to access this free Wi-Fi service is available from the front desk of the lounge.”So when a...
Topics: Rants, Travel

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Hot on the heels of the fortieth birthday of the information superhighway, it’s time for another birthday: an actual highway, this time: the M1, which today celebrates 50 years since opening by, presumably, having some sort of jam session, or maybe.
Topics: Miscellaneous

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Forty today. Blimey.You don’t look a day over 21.See also: A people’s history of the internet.
Topics: Technology

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(In this scale good = “Blimey, I didn’t know they were British” and bad = “A British equivalent of Dick Van Dyke”)John Mahoney (Frasier)Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Without a Trace)Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl)Idris Elba (The...
Topics: Language, Television

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