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How many pets do you know who spend money on pet food? How many owners do? Of course all pet food marketing is aimed at owners.

As I said above - "Meanwhile latitude/longitude is ubiquitous, free, open source, mature, well implemented - and doesn't have an army of venture capitalists waiting in the wings to monetise it."

And you'll never know how much of a round-the-world trip they have been on before they got to your local branch. At least Amazon are transparent about it, and they are absolutely world class at logistics, so, while counter-intuitive, your pens almost certainly got to you in the most money- and...

The technology may have moved on a bit, but I liked the quote along the lines of "Asking a photographer what brand of camera they used is like asking an author what brand of typewriter they used."

Standard practice among companies that offer to "price match". They buy in volume, so get the manufacturers to produce a customised model (which has a very minor cosmetic difference, and, crucially, a slightly different model number). Nobody else is selling the exact same model and so they...

Bitlocker to Go is what most large organisations will use. I think it requires PRO versions of Windows to encrypt. KeePass is a great password manager (I use it myself) but I do not believe that it can do whole-disk encryption.

Doesn't even have to be a full page. Depending on how that page is coded, it can send every field once it's completed, or even every character as you type it. Often used in Live Chat software, so the person you're chatting to can see what you're typing and be choosing a response even before you...

While CEX's prices are not the lowest, they do give a FIVE YEAR warranty on second-hand goods. I don't know of many/any other retailers of second-hand photographic goods who offer this.

Indeed - there are three factors at play in any security scenario - "Cost", "Security" and "Ease of Use". You can never optimise all three, and for any given context it's a case of finding the right balance between these conflicting requirements.

Doesn't matter whether you say "frequently" or "regularly" - the point is that forcing users to change passwords (other than immediately after a known compromise) is counterproductive and is more likely to weaken security than to strengthen it.

I think you may be confusing the RX10 and the RX100.

There are multiple vectors of attack against passwords (including shoulder surfing, network sniffing, brute force, re-use, etc.). Using very long/complex passwords - allied to a limited number of permitted failed logins - will go some way to redressing brute force attacks, although most hackers...

While the advice about using 2FA and (especially) not using the same password on different sites is excellent, the suggestion to regularly change passwords goes against National Cyber Security Centre guidance. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/passwords/updating-your-approach

Roll on the day when everything just uses USB-C!

I do the exact same. I use a programme called John's Background Switcher which I have set to change my background after 2 minutes of inactivity, and have a different image on each of my two 2560x1440 screens. Some I'll never see (because I'm working on something on that screen, covering the...