Won't work. It's easy to get a USD bank with Barclays or other UK banks, but Stripe are still adding this 1% fee to pay out $USD wherever it goes.

In the UK at least, you can get Paypal to add a US domiciled bank account (on ACH) and pay out that way to avoid this problem; we had to go via support to get that setup. We already had a US bank account (with HSBC) to avoid Stripe's forex charges but it was complicated to setup. A decent alternative is Wise's option; although HSBC have something called HSBC Global Wallet now which would have simplified things a lot.

HSBC will do it for UK customers.

Not sure yet. Was hoping to see some discussion on pros/cons :)

Great to see 16GB RAM in Surface Book. Disappointing they've not embraced USB C/3.1

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What I'm excited about here is monitor hubs. You plug your monitor into a power socket, and peripherals into the monitor's USB ports.

You arrive at work, and only need to plug your laptop into the monitor. The monitor hub sends power and data from peripherals to your laptop. Your laptop sends video to the monitor all through the same cable.

Yeah, that's basically what Apple offers today on their thunderbolt monitors (except those still need a separate power cable). Hopefully we'll actually see a wider adoption of the concept once it's on commodity USB-C instead of the massively expensive thunderbolt.

Only problem I've seen is that the thunderbolt hubs cost over $200, plus the cost of the cable. And even then they only have a few ports.

The idea is that you can daisy-chain many devices without using a hub. Among thunderbolt devices, I believe most screens and high-end hard drives provide the two ports necessary for daisy-chaining. USB also supports this quite well, and high-end USB hard drives also generally include a port for this purpose.

It's an interesting comeback for the concept - it reminds me of daisy chaining PCs on their serial ports for playing Starcraft:

http://www.angelfire.com/nt/startupage/sc/FRAMES/SERIAL/3OR4...

I know you can daisy chain, my point being that you get only a few ports, per $200+ device. Vs USB 3 where added usb ports, ethernet, etc is $20 a device.

Interesting note I haven't seen mentioned, the Alt mode negotiation is only possible for directly connected devices as it does not traverse hubs.

Haha, I had the exact same experience. Although I'm not sure the dice cricket game I also wrote in maths class counted :)

if my memory is correct this is because they don't have access to $password; they get md5($password) from the client and to store that in the database with a salt need to run md5() again.

oh ok I thought the usual MO was:

if (md5(password + salt) == stored value) ..

It is, but if you don't have the naked password available at the time that you got your hands on the salt? May as well still salt it.

Check out EE roaming; it's competitive with Vodafone (one of the reasons I moved to them). £5/month for unlimited roaming minutes/texts in EU, US and others. Data is reasonable value @ £25/GB and lasts a month. Importantly includes places like the US, Australia, Russia, China, India etc ....

Hah, just signed a new 2 year contract with Vodafone, but will keep in mind for the future, thanks :)