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London Stansted and Manchester (same owners) recently had "upgrades" where you have to walk along a street to get to the seating area and gates beyond. That street is narrow, long …

Back in the late 90s when Ireland was starting to think about digital terrestrial TV a system called DVB-RCT was considered. Basically your receiver could also transmit back to the…

On a similar note one of my childrens friends absolutely loves the taste of Nintendo Switch cartridges and licks them untill the bitter coating wears off. His tastebuds must be wir…

Unfortunately the GDPR is largely toothless if a company without an EU presence chooses to ignore it. I live in Ireland and my data is in the databases of several US data brokers. …

That's a ridiculous sum of money that could be better spent on much more worthy things.

If it weren't for homeschooling my autistic daughter would be spending her day in the headteachers office shaking and crying due to her cripping anxiety.

We are homeschooling our two teenagers. We live in Ireland which has a pretty decent education system and has a high percentage of students going on to third level education. The p…

I'm willing to stand corrected, but I can't think of a single smartphone on the market from a reputable manufacturer that is sold with root access. If I want a smartphone I have to…

My thinking is that if I have device that doesn't allow me root access, then what I have is more than likely a device designed to keep making money for the company that made it or …

There's nothing wrong with wanting that, but as the author said those of us who want to opt-out should have the choice to do so. If I buy an iPhone, I should have the option to com…

I agree, If I were an IT manager this sort of stuff would make me start looking at alternatives. If an app/pluging/package is maintrained and published by X, I want to make sure no…

Being a savvy sports gambler will only get you banned though, the house always wins also applies to sports betting.

I live in Dublin where a lot of the tech developement centres for many online bookmaker and casinos are based. I have been approached by recruiters for some of them and even though…

It was a sort of spin-off from an episode of the BBC pop-sci documentary strand QED. A few years before Threads they did an edition called "A Guide to Armageddon" in which they des…

In the early 80s a couple of lads found the Derrynaflan hoarde. A collection of stunning religious artefacts dating from the 9th century. This resulted in a whole legal mess where …

But isn't that a direct by-product of Chrome being owned by Google. If Chrome was made by an independent company regulators couldn't care less if they disabled third party cookies.…

Sky did a thing in the 90s called Intertext. You would dial a premium rate number and you would then be read out a page number. You went to that page and used your telephone keypad…

I used to work in a building that was once a factory, the room I was in was once a break room. For years workers would come in for their lunch and lean back against the walls. Year…

There was a case a few year back around the time of the 2008 recession where a man in debt used the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to earn a decent living from their aggressive…

Leaving aide the software and abilities side of things, I wish devices with this form factor were still available. I used to own a Philips Velo, Psion 5mx and a Nokia Communicator.…

Ex-railway signaler here. To expand on the article the most fundamental principle in railway signaling is the block section. That is a length of track for which there can only ever…

I loved Computer Shopper. I regularly bought the UK version in the 90s just to gawps at all those adverts and dream about buying my ultimate PC.

I was wondering the same, because everything about this organization seems a bit iffy to me. Part of me wonders is there an ulterior motive to the campaign.

I find it interesting in these comments that there is a lot of discussion as to the pros and cons of the pledge that this website proposes, but very little discussion as to the mot…

I had a few disc cameras in the 80s. My mother bought them for me because they were cheap and easy to use. It was a great concept in theory, but as the articles states the picture …