* Posts by Chris Boyle

10 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Feb 2008

Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace – but forgot one crucial detail…

Chris Boyle

Linking you and "Stan"

It's often remarkably simple: if Stan has your phone number in contacts on a device with the app installed, and he clicked the enticing-looking upload-contacts button, and Facebook has ever known that that phone number is you, then, well... it knows a link. Regardless of your consent.

NatWest sets lawyers on student site

Chris Boyle
Grenade

An easy workaround

Simply refer to them throughout as tw*tnest.

Sirius satellite radio squashes 6-year-old bug

Chris Boyle
Stop

"Piracy already costs satellite television providers hundreds of millions of dollars per year"

I don't see what attacking ships on the high seas has to do with all this, nor do I agree with the assumption that copyright infringers would otherwise purchase content legitimately, and that you can therefore call it a "cost". Please stop propagating these two most egregious examples of industry propaganda.

Google frees Android from code of secrecy

Chris Boyle
Happy

Re: Useful for some folks

Fine for me. PC sync: don't care, I have multiple PCs in multiple locations, so the "constantly sync to the cloud" model makes a lot more sense (also, people who provide PC sync tend to mean Outlook sync and I don't run Windows). Exchange support: my employer has Exchange, but I only use it for email and they have IMAP enabled. Headphone jack: this is a WTF, I agree, but not a deal breaker for me. I'll just buy a small, cheap adaptor. Stereo Bluetooth: they said at the NY launch, this will come to this device in an update.

Sony Ericsson eyes up Android

Chris Boyle
Go

LG and Samsung

...have previously said they're releasing Android phones in 2009. I wonder if their (and Sony's) hardware will be any better than HTC's? I think HTC had the better track-record of the three, up until the G1, but I don't like the look of that curvy slider. Looks fragile.

Texting worse for drivers than drink or drugs

Chris Boyle
Alert

I do not think it means what you think it means...

"reaction time dropped by 25 per cent for those sending text messages"

Chinese boffins crack invisible-shed window problem

Chris Boyle
Alert

Alternate translation

A strategy well-known to sci-fi fans everywhere: "Reverse the polarity!"

Congestion charge means less traffic, more congestion

Chris Boyle
Alert

@Sounds good

Roadworks? Finished? That beats Microsoft Works, or military intelligence.

Congress still afraid to define 'internet gambling'

Chris Boyle
Coat

Definition of Internet gambling

Attempting to obtain a reliable broadband connection in the UK.

Mine's the one with the 3G USB device in the pocket.

Flick-knife-style Wii remote USB stick

Chris Boyle
Coat

This is a stick-up!

Coat, etc.