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• justjohn commented on Evil social networks
  Weirdly enough, your for-pay product feels more interactive. That's not a complaint about the blog, but just me marking out* about how many of your books give me a feeling of melanoia (which I've heard is the converse of paranoia -- I mean the feeling that unseen forces are contriving to work together in your favor.) I suspect it's just that we're of similar ages and seem to have been in the same tech, fan and gaming sub-cultures (perhaps excepting pro wrestling, in your case.) So for me, reading your books gives me a lot of "I wish I'd said...
• Moderator Alan commented on Evil social networks
  If you've not seen it, you've not been keeping your eyes open. (Which may mean you are a bit more gullible that you hoped you were.) Currently, in our local Tesco, there are 250 gramme blocks of Tesco Lighter Mature Cheese for £1.69 a time. There are also 500 gramme blocks of Tesco Lighter Mature Cheese for £4.11 a time. (Prices as per the linked web-pages, correct at time of going to post.) Now, conceded, there is a 3 for 2 offer on the large blocks, which brings their price a little below that of the small blocks, at the...
• Moderator Alan commented on Evil social networks
  The case I showed was a particularly egregious one where it was the same product, in two different sized packs, where the big (bulk) pack was much more expensive. It's really noticeable because the 2x pack costs over £4, and the 1x pack less than £2 I'm fairly sure it didn't use to happen in Tesco, but I've started seeing it in the last year or so. Totally coincidentally, code that I wrote is now involved in the printing of the shelf edge tickets I'm seeing, but since our code only has read access to the pricing database, we're pretty...
• babyis60 commented on Evil social networks
  One of the things that the Facebooks and Klout's of this world forget is that the German Chancellor (Mrs Merkel) grew up under the STASI. She and other ex-wrong-side-of-the-wall leaders take a very serious view on privacy. Facebook (in particular) runs the real risk of spending a decade fighting the EU, just as Microsoft did. The distraction arguably cost Microsoft its industry dominance. Smart Californian companies might want to avoid that error....
• Charlie Stross commented on Evil social networks
  Seeing those screenshots, I think we can say that, yes, you struck a nerve :) And Klout are a little bit sensitive about me :) (The link goes here, for those who aren't too interested in the rest of your rather commercially oriented blog)...