Posts by Tom 35

Re: Slap an import duty on Trademark Rights being "imported"

Drug companies are just as bad as the tech companies. The drug costs loads to develop, then pennies to produce so they can have fun shifting the money around between different countries.

Re: Lollipop - Form over function?

My Nexus 4 runs fine. A couple of apps needed to be updated but everything I use now works OK.

Don't like the new calender at all.

Notifications are cluttered with too much info, don't need to read the email in the notification.

Re: Here comes the new boss...

It should reduce the price of bribes by cutting out the government middle men, so should be popular with corporations.

Re: I need a compelling reason...

HyperV? I have an intel core2quad so no HyperV for me.

The latest wintel deal requires that I "upgrade" to an i3 if I want HyperV with Windows 8.

That or install server where my antique CPU still works.

It sounds like it was intercepted in transit from the terminal in the parking lot, to the central POS system that had been broken (remote access again, crap password I expect).

Re: You seem to have forgotten

No Amazon was the first to sell DRM free music (in MP3) and I expect that's what forced Apple to also go DRM free.

Re: Choice

"Unless they accidentally installed Chrome (which given the way it leaches onto other downloads is pretty easy)."

Or worse, the ask toolbar crap.

Re: Why are "Enterprise" using these dodgy 3rd party Services?

They also sell direct to sales/marketing so they don't have to talk to IT. No need to hear why something is a bad idea from your IT department, just subscribe to our cloud service.

Re: Canadians more civil

The TV news seemed to be sad that they could not find any US style films of people fighting or getting crushed to death in Canada. Crappy cell phone videos of people fighting over a toaster in the US are old hat now. They did find a couple fight videos from England so they went with them.

Re: Compensation?

What is this license shit? You are just making stuff up. I bought a CD, I didn't negotiate a license, or even see one. There is copyright law.

So where is this so called license? Who wrote it? When did it come into force?

Re: ASA still useless

There is a difference between

a) Here is some stuff I bought that I like because...

- and -

b) Some company gave me a bunch of free stuff so I'm going to say it's great because I want more free stuff.

It's not new, look at movie reviewers that give 90% of movies 4 stars because they want to get invited to parties.

It would be nice if they were labeled as ads, but how can it be enforced.

The language thing is easy to fix

It's a service where people can watch stuff in English. The French are going to bitch no mater what.

So give them something obvious to bitch about, and easy to fix.

Guaranteed quality is a bit more of a problem since the local ISPs can pull a Comcast.

Data sharing

You can bet that any data given to Canada will be automatically forwarded to the US by our Canadian-Teabagger Stephen Harper.

The blood was hardly washed off from the failure in life, lone gunman out to be famous in death (not a terrorist) before they passed more spy laws (that they must have been sitting on waiting for an excuse).

Don't give anything to Canada, you don't want the US to have 30 seconds later.

No all vacuums (and steam irons) need to be aerodynamic, in fact all steam irons should be wind tunnel tested and have the cf posted on the box. I've been trying to find one with a functional spoiler but no luck so far.

Re: Electronic Voting is Fundamentally Flawed

"150,000 Scots have signed a petition for a recount after suspected election fraud:"

So how do you do a recount with a paper free electronic system?

How is it easy to detect? If the vote is close how would you know if a result had been flipped from 45:55 to 55:45? Even if you think it's been rigged how would you prove it?

In Ontario Canada we have paper + scan system. You fill in your paper, stick it in a cardboard sleeve so no one can see your vote, then hand it to the scanner guy who sticks the edge of the paper into the scanner face down and it gets pulled out of the sleeve and scanned, then into a sealed bin.

You get the near instant results of an electronic system, but still have paper to recount if the results are challenged.

Re: I like toys but...

At the same time, if you live in the right state you can buy booze and a hand gun in the same store, so I think idiots with lasers are kind of low on the scale of things to worry about scale. Some place around the same level as people on airplanes with 120 ml of toothpaste.

Re: Precedent has been set...

Microsoft actively tries to get your to use bing. If you don't do anything you get bing.

Most people actively choose Google if they use IE (there are 141 search providers listed in my copy of IE 11), or they download Chrome or Firefox.

With the Microsoft Windows / IE thing they forced Microsoft to offer an easy choice so people could use Firefox if they didn't want IE. Google is not the same thing at all, people chose to use Google, if you make it easier to pick your search provider even more will pick Google.

Re: Static addresses

"And why would ISPs care about if people used VoIP more?"

Because a lot of them are also phone companies, or offer their own VoIP.

Re: Purchasing live in a different universe

"Or we couldn't supply you with those parts because of our exclusive supply contact, but we got something vaguely similar."

Where "exclusive supply contact" = I get a big kickback from the other guys.

Re: Huh?

If you get killed in 5 minutes by players who bought upgrades, and you want to play the game then it's not free.

If you get 20 levels in and get to a level where you can't get past it without paying for an upgrade it's not free.

They are pay2win games.

If the game costs nothing to install, and has no option to pay money for add-ons, then it's free.

Re: reducing energy consumption

"it's not "the rich" that are increasing the population at 2-4x their replacement levels."

Just shutting down anything linked to planned parenthood, birth control, education. Got to keep their poor/stupid/low pay workforce growing.

Re: Simple Really!

It seems people buy little blue pills from spammers all the time so how surprising is it if they install apps from scummy app stores (it seems the iOS hacks were mostly delivered in spam too).

Sell

"Lookout has thus far actively protected against NotCompatible on hundreds of thousands of devices in the U.S. and around the world."

I expect this is another China phone users with no access to the google app store downloading crap from random app sites.

Re: No disincentive

You talking about the banks too?

Re: Prison Contraband

But that would cut into the profit margin of US corporate run prisons.

Re: Seems to me ...

It's not "It's all about control"

It's all about saving money, and toys for important people.

Now you get the same type that sell you anti-virus software trying to sell you MDM "solutions"

And you want to remote wipe MY device? I'm syncing everything to gmail so you will just piss me off when all my game hi-scores get wiped. If that sales guy is planning on taking all his contacts with him, they will be saved offline some place already.

Re: Figures

Wait until you try KFC and Taco Bell.

Re: Standard mistake to make

"For their cashflow of course"

Just wait for the next announcement that you can now buy (for real money) gold/fuel/weapons in their new "pay2win" system.

Re: @AC - FTFY

Maybe the supply of directorships and fat brown envelops have fallen off so they need to add some encouragement.

Re: Pity...

If they had a warrant they could get the info from the phone company. So I'm guessing no, they are fishing.

Re: I "trust" ISIS the most

IS has been manufactured because...

The latest proof that "the enemy, of my enemy is my friend" will come back to bite you on the ass every time.

Re: I fear the Terrists...

foster fear and instability around the world...

Yes you do Blunkett. Please piss off.