Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Hill Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:16:02 +0100 Organization: timil.com Lines: 33 Message-ID: <527ca6acbctim@invalid.org.uk> References: <8e12bd6952.c.n.l.f@virgin.net> <52794767acsee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <9tq8msFpklU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: GqAcIUbqh27oTTI3Dt5hJw.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.04c (RISC-OS/5.16) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:4859 In article <9tq8msFpklU1@mid.individual.net>, David Holden wrote: > On 31-Mar-2012, Russell Hafter News > wrote: > > It may not be entirely logical, but if they are stored on a phone and > > you lose the phone, then you have lost everything. Many couples / > > families quite deliberately split up the travel documents just so > > that not everything is together. > You don't even have to lose the phone itself. If your luggage goes > astray (extremely rare I know) and with it your charger what happens if > your phone battery is flat? Buy another or use someone else's. Most modern phones use interchangeable chargers. > People forget that documents stored on electronic devices are only > accessible while the device is powered. Well, duh! [Snip] -- Tim Hill of timil.com . . . * supports TFT & shares in cheaper ethical telecoms http://tjrh.eu/phone * has a genuine & spam-proof address for Usenet http://www.invalid.org.uk/ * accepts incoming email: substitute postmaster@ for tim@ ... "Have more than though showest; speak less than thou knowest; lend less than thou owest" K Lear, Act i, Sc.4