Loz

Chips56 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lordship lane seems to be meat eaters paradise . > They clearly aren't interested in non meat eaters money! Do they not have veggie options, or do you want whole restaurants just catering to the veggies? Or, why put off 90% of potential clientele?

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Plus Number Plate Recognition used in some Supermarket Car parks to record time entering and > leaving the site so automatic parking tickets can be sent out. In Vietnam, where just about everyone has a low powered motorbike or scooter (few ride a pushbike any more), the supermarkets have gated parking areas. You collect a ticket on the way in and it scans your number plate. Then, on the way out it checks your ticket against your plate to make sure you aren't nabbing someone else's nicer machine. Of course, you could change the number plates, but that might be noticed by the attendants.

In reply to http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,1211851,1212380#msg-1212380 Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Although I think Loz was talking user select PINs v El Pibe bank select PINs Correct. Most banks let you change your PIN to something a little more personally memorable.

unlurked Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How do people remember all of their pins? In my case, variations on a theme. Certain number common to all cards in my head, some chosen from places on the card itself. Right buggered me when they replaced a little-used card and it came with new numbers.

Only if they are evenly distributed, Foxy, which they are not it seems...

I was reading an article that reckoned that a thief has a 20% chance of guessing your PIN. Someone did some number crunching on user-select PINs and found that, with the three guesses allotted then by trying '1234' (14% of PINs), '1111' (6%) and '0000' (2%) then that gives them a 1 in 5 chance of guessing the PIN. Is your PIN guessable?

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think tautology is when one says RAC Club. Also known as the RAS syndrome or "redundant acronym syndrome syndrome"

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Basically with face recognition tied to Credit > Card / Club Card Details it will be easy to put a name to the face. If you have their card details, you really don't need face recognition at that point, do you? Basically, there are two type of face recognition system (actually, any biometric system) - verification (1:1 or if this who they say they are?) and identification (1:n or who is this?). The first is used in place like passport gates at airports and face recognition is pretty good at this. The second, identification, is much harder for face recognition systems, especially in public areas. It's OK for a small sample, i.e. a workplace, but as soon as the sample rises, it struggles, mainly because of varying angles, lighting, headgear, etc. Fingerprint and iris are much, much better at this.

I dunno. Like my flyer example, they want to get value for their advertising budget. If you pass a TV screen with 20 rolling sdverts on it and you get to see one of them, that mean each advertiser gets exposure to an average of 5% of footfall. How much more would you pay for that 5% to be much more likely to be in your target demographic? It's the same reasoning that supermarkets spend a LOT of money crunching big data from loyalty cards. Or Google get so much money flogging Adwords. Having said that, when I last worked with face recognition a few years ago, this stuff was flaky to say the least.

So you have to, by law, report the accident to the police.

I'm big on civil liberties, but I can't see a big problem with this... yet. As you say, it does not identify you - it just tries to guess your age and gender. Frankly, that's not much more intrusive as someone standing on a corner deciding if they want to give you a flyer for the local nightclub's ladies night. But, I put '...yet' because, although face recognition is not up to the task at the moment, it will almost certainly be able to in the next few year. If we get to the point where they are doing this on an individual basis, then we will have a civil liberties issue.

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LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Because its against the rules to tax a primary residence if you live in it. The tax rules > already tax capital gains on 2nd homes and homes you rent for profit.... No, it a different rule. Je's not looking to change the primary residence rule. But, at the moment, foreign residents selling a property (even if they have rented it out) are not subject to CGT at all. And 70% of London new builds are bought by foreign investors.

Hang on - even the 'Free Keiron Bryan' site describes him as a 'freelance journalist contracted by Greenpace', which makes it more of a PR job than pure journalism. And he was actually on the boat so it sounds like he was part of the operation to me. Anyway, the Russians are downgrading the charges and he be out soon. Greenpeace must be so happy with this - look at all the media coverage they are getting. They even had a billboard up in the Watford Gap services the other day. PR gold.

Mmmm. Nice.

Saila Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So... Osbourne to announce a tax on foreign > property investors. > > Hmmmm Well, he's announced that CGT should apply to foreign investors. Seems obvious to me. Must be some reason it has never been implemented before.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Woolworths is still big in Australia I think. But more of a supermarket there. A different company. They just nicked the name. Woolies Australia used to have two types of store - a supermarket and a store more along the lines of the British one, the latter being more common. Then they put all their efforts into supermarkets and the old 'variety' store were re-branded as 'Big W'.

Are we allowed to mention where she fell over?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24746019 OK, complete scum... but a jail term? For this? Really?

Awesome, Maxxi...

The loss of C&A meant the old knickers joke was lost as well. Sad times.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's Dixons I really miss. > > The demise of their outdated business model for > flogging electrical goods to a world which had > long since moved on - regularly leaves me with a > nostalgic tear in my rose-tinted contact lens. I miss Dixons. Where else could I check out electrical equipment before heading home and buying it cheaper on the internet. And have it delivered faster. Without being harassed for half an hour to buy useless extended warranties?

hoolley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > the Portuguese police have now reopened > the case saying the McCanns are innocent. Good to see they are keeping an open mind, then...

Virgin do throttle, but only heavy users. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/30/virgin_media_rapped_by_ad_watchdog_for_misleading_unlimited_claims/

The explanation given to me was that, if you are bitten and you've not had the injections (3 of them), you'll get a treatment of five injections. If you have had the jabs, you only get three. Didn't seem a good use of a ?150 to me, since I would be mainly in urban areas. But, yes, it does buy you time to get to hospital.