Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18!

Date	2012-04-04 07:11 +0100
From	Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18!
Message-ID	<8c53ff7a52.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> (permalink)
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In message <9tq8msFpklU1@mid.individual.net>
 on 1 Apr 2012 David Holden wrote:

> 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?

Indeed.  On the train I saw the ticket inspector dealing with a passenger who
claimed to have a ticket on his phone which had a flat battery.  I think he
got charged the full single fare, but I am not sure because I was sitting too
far away to eavesdrop successfully.  I think the systems used on the trains
involve the inspector scanning a 2D barcode, which presumeably records that
the ticket has been used and prevents more than one person using the same
ticket, but the inspector may not be able to look up the ticket in the
database via the passenger's name.

-- 
Matthew Phillips
Durham

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  Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> - 2012-03-29 11:52 +0100
  Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-29 15:29 +0100
    Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-29 21:50 +0200
      Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-30 08:53 +0100
        Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-30 17:57 +0200
    Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-31 22:17 +0100
      Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-31 23:06 +0100
        Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-31 23:24 +0100
        Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-03-31 23:43 +0100
        Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-04-01 05:51 +0000
          Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-04 07:11 +0100
            Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-04-07 12:16 +0100
          Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-04-07 12:16 +0100
            Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-04-12 12:42 +0100
              Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> - 2012-04-12 20:08 +0100
                Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-04-13 12:46 +0100
              Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-12 21:50 +0100
              Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-13 00:16 +0100
            Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-12 21:53 +0100
              Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Alan Dawes <alan.dawes@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-13 09:40 +0100
                Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-13 09:49 +0100
      Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-31 23:18 +0100
        Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-31 23:41 +0100
          Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-01 11:26 +0100
        Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Alan Dawes <alan.dawes@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-04-01 11:32 +0100
          Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-04-01 14:41 +0100
      Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-01 01:01 +0200
        OT (Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18!) Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-04-07 13:54 +0100
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            Re: OT (Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18!) Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-04-07 19:50 +0100
  Re: The good, the bad and the RO 5.18! Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> - 2012-03-29 20:28 +0100

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