Posts by Steve McGuinness

Update : Now completely borked on all levels.

So what are the chances

Of finding one of the Vega's that actually did ship on Ebay?

Did the Directors not claim at one point they had these ready to ship in a warehouse but the legal action was preventing them from doing so, only for it to turn out they had no such stock?

I genuinely wanted one of these, but l had doubts about it from the Kickstarter page description, so wanted to wait till the product came out before buying it.

And now the bloody things are as rare as Hen's Teeth.

I would be fascinated to know

If someone could draw a quick map circling a 2.5 mile radius from the edge of each of the functioning airports within the UK and see how many houses it covers.

I suspect it will be north of 100,000.

A reasonable discussion ending in a mutually beneficial agreement

The Dev in the article is right. They DEFINETELY are not Oracle.

AT&T Legally wont have a leg to stand on

However theres no way they wont have 224 million legs to stand on. Best he can hope for there is a settlement that doesnt admit liability.

The other guy however, how do you sue a guy in prison who likely has no assets left after the government seized it all?

money talks

and so apparently do PR people wishing to assure us that they're not just corporate shills paid to lie through their teeth on behalf of an organisation.

when Facebook do it, i recognise its because I am the product. When a Telco does it, even after I explicitly tell them not to, I recognise its a failing of law and I expect to see a massive Sueball launched about this shortly.

24 Hours to Go

Before China arrests a senior Polish diplomat, or a senior Polish company executive and accuses them of spying or some other offence.

Because its not like this shit is predictable ....

Is this the stupidest idea ever?

Not yet.

Not until Piers Morgan decides to support it on Twitter. THEN its the Stupidest Idea Ever.

Horrible company with horrible products which deserves to lose market share and disappear in favour of tech companies that understand customer service.

WANT!

Just tell me where to send my money.

Did nobody get basic PR training on this one?

Someone really should have pointed out that, given the rather negative publicity associated with Banks over the last 10 years, the very last image you should have on a "Service Unavailable" page is a Fat Cat .....

He should team up with the European Patent Office

It appears they're both run by megalomaniacs who feel they are outside official jurisdictions and run their entities as individual Fiefdoms, terminating and harassing anyone who dares question them.

How do NGO's like this get such overwhelming power to the point where actual criminal acts are impossible to prosecute?

That $1.4bn is going to the lawyers. And then some.

What I find interesting on this is, until its actually paid, can either side claim this judgment as an Asset/Liability in terms of their Company Returns for the calendar year. This money does not technically exist until Google chooses to pay up, and any appeal open to them, however frivolous, could keep the costs off the books for years to come, keeping shareholders happy.

Amusing point here.

Google and Oracle can continue to appeal this for the next 10-20 years, throwing it back and forth between courts until they reach the top. The cost of litigation is a fraction of the cost of licensing or paying the damages demanded, so there is no incentive on Google to settle here.

Oracle's best option is to negotiate a lower pricing for historic and ongoing licenses for a guaranteed period of time, allowing Google to develop Android in such a way as to no longer utilise the original Oracle owned code. Google feigning moral outrage as not being allow to use code under "Fair Use" would work if they were a small software development company with a turnover of under $100k a year. Its bollocks to even try and argue that with the size and scale of the product.

I hate seeing lawyers get rich because they advise clients to fight when any sane person would tell them to negotiate and settle.

Despite all the security screening

The department was once again unable to Weed out the bad guys

How will Adobe get out of this one?

With some very Creative legal Acrobatics they hope.

An entire Suite of them

One of the first Hawking stories I heard

Was that in order to be allowed to push his wheelchair around (prior to his onboard computer/microphone being built) you needed to have at least 2 degrees, one of which had to be a PHD, in order to be able to understand and record anything he said.

Science has lost one of its truly great minds. RIP

Caught Red Hansad.

This thread got way too serious, way too quickly. Please can we return to a series of bad puns and amusing wordplay.

And this is that all too salient reminder of the old internet Meme. "On the internet, nobody knows you're a Dog" ... or in this case, a member of a domestic police force just waiting for you to do something illegal whilst handing them all your identifying details.

So MIT produces a detailed, in depth report that Uber doesnt like the look of, and its response is to slam MIT on Twitter......

Bro Culture at Uber continues to drives the companies reputation into the ground. Someone needs to hire a Social Media Manager at Uber to take charge of all the senior management & directors Twitter accounts.

I Clearly Won

But the thread was hijacked by Russian Hackers and replaced with #FakeNews showing their friends as winners*.

*may/may not be accurate, congratulations to the winners.

I am not liking this trend

Of well considered, clearly worded US Laws that allow for minimal debate on what is and isn't legal.

Do they WANT to put those poor Lawyers out of business by doing things properly? I can almost see the partners at Freemont, Lake and Goodwin telling their kids they cant have christmas presents because "The Law is pretty straight on this one".

It should be used for a culturally sensitive remake of "Last of the Summer Wine" where a group of Italian Pensioners move to Yorkshire and attempt to blend into a small farming community with predictably hilarious results when they wear "Pizza Puddings" instead of Flatcaps.

Criminal Convictions

Interesting note on this.

2 of the Private Detectives served jail terms for conspiracy to defraud people of personal details in 2012.

Yet Woodgate & Clark still hired them. I guess being a convicted fraudster doesnt hurt in the PI Business.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17157490

And in another classic Trustpilot behaviour

Within hours of all those negative reviews going up, a new account appears with 1 review giving them a 5 star rating.

Im pondering whether some tech companies genuinely think the world and their dog are that gullible?

https://www.trustpilot.com/users/5a27d9dd0000ff000aecdc86

Sexism in the Tech Industry? Never!

I mean, its not like their board and senior technicians are not just a huge sausage party, right?

https://hyperloop-one.com/team

Any tips on how to uninstall Google Photo's on an S4?

Since cunningly, its not even listed as an installed app when you try and remove applications from your system. Thats genius!

China

Didn't MS also say that Pirated copies of Windows in China would qualify for free Windows 10 upgrades?

Now I bet they're really confused.

Ill believe it when I see Desktop Units with reasonable level of hardware at a viable price.

When the stockists are still charging upwards of £800 for a new machine thats no better than 2-3 year old tech, they cant expect buyers to be knocking on their doors.