Posts by Tom 35

Re: I like the 1Password approach

If that's how Lastpass works why are people saying it's down? Unless it's responding with garbage that prevents it from using the local copy. There should only be a handful of people who changed the password on one device and then tried to use it on another device.

real OS

So good thing windows is not a real OS.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/12/cortana_in_windows_threshold/

Re: Cheap Windows PCs with Bing

For all the "average" users with XP.

Give them something different, such as "Windows 8" and they most certainly will have difficulty with "change".

Never

They settle for some pocket change, admit no wrong doing, The lawyers take almost all of the cash.

Repeat.

Re: The export Table from a Lurk sample

Yes, hidden inside the DLL file. How did the DLL file get on the computer? They make a point of telling us how the OLD version is spread, but then go on to tell us how the new version hides, and how it updates. Nothing about how it is spread.

Re: Surface

"the ability of the device to replace a tablet and a notebook in the corporate world actually demonstrates a saving to most businesses."

Most businesses that have a tablet to replace... so almost none.

Re: Ah, but you see

"Trying to take my own argument and swap it around, actually just puts you in an even worse position"

But I never said Wikipedia was right. I just said that playing with the photo didn't affect the copyright of the original photo at all. Your post is a classic straw man.

Re: Jolly good work.

I wonder just how much it costs to rent the City of London cops for a day?

Do you pay in cash, booze and parties, or free trips to "seminars" some place warm?

Do you need to be a member of a special club, or can anyone rent them?

Re: the fair way..

I disagree. As long as it's clear and predictable it's ok. At least if you have a choice. My cell provider gives me just what you call plain wrong.

I get 5 GB data, if I go over I might be throttled. But I will not have to pay extra.

The big three in Canada are still back in the days of small cap, stupid per MB charge if you go over.

What is plain wrong is saying they will throttle you based on unknown criteria so that they might as well say "if we feel like it".

Police

In Canada they have created a service to report the finding of child porn anonymously because reporting it to the police can result in them taking all your gear at best.

Problems with laws like this

There is no defence. It's just do you have picture? Yes, guilty. Of course if your important they can decide that it's not in the public interest to proceed with charges.

I expect they were told that if they didn't plead guilty they were going to jail.

I expect they were doing something the cops didn't like, maybe taking part in a protest, or worse taking photos of cops breaking up a protest. Now they have nice two year conditional discharge so they better not do anything else important people don't like for the next while. It would be interesting to know what the unrelated matters were.

Re: I only want to know one thing.....

For the same reason a book printed in Canada sells for less in the US.

Because.

Re: Oldest problem in the book

Yes, join CDs and flat screen TVs.

Maybe if they make them 3D... that worked so well for TV.

Except the whole unlimited thing.

Re: For a specific value of "many"

I have an iPod touch 2nd gen that I use in my car as a music player. That was my last iDevice. The iPod touch Gen3 was released a couple months after I got it and it was not very long before app updates were not available.

On the other hand my 20 year old speakers (with wires!) still work fine.

Maybe Apple should just buy Sonos, it sounds like they fit well together.

But this gimmick costs Apple money

Not like the brilliant shortage of first white iPhone and then Gold iPhone.

Re: Not quite

I don't know if I'd want to share a data pool with a teenager...

Re: Just close your accounts.

I still have a couple uses for it, but it's not going on my phone with the permissions they want. If I really need to access it I'll use the website.

Re: Comment comment comment

So what happens if a US judge tells Goggle not to remove the links.

Re: Ball Ox

Good thing he didn't guess some politicians email password.

The real surprise is that they didn't tack on some totally unrelated junk.

using data processing to create a profile of someone.

Google is not creating a profile of someone. They don't have special access to data like a credit agency.

They don't know if you pay your bills on time, or have a mortgage, or how much you owe on your car loan, they will not know you bounced a cheque unless it went to court and became a public record. A credit agency has very specific types of data from specific known sources. Google has millions of bits of random crap, that's why you need a search engine in the first place. Your comparing apples and rocks.

Only famous people will get anything like a profile because there is so much public info available on them, but you still will not know how much they owe on there credit cards.

If you google my name there is nothing that is actually me until page 17, and you would still have a hard time telling it was me if you didn't know me. On page 19 there is a story about a guy that streaked a football game, wrong city and a few years too young but might be bad if someone thought it was me... can I request that it be removed? How would google know it is/not me?

Re: This isn't what you think it is.

They may get something from a University or such that is not paying "project managers, admin staff etc" who will be quite happy with a million.

Re: I think...

My dad used to pickup train cars loaded with new cars being shipped from Canada down to the US, cars going all the way to Florida or Texas still had sticker prices thousands less then the same car sold across the street from where it was assembled.

When the Canadian $ went down, book prices went up (even when printed in Canada), when the Canadian $ went back up, prices didn't drop at all, but they did stop printing both the US and Canadian price on the books.

They just charge as much as they think they can.

Re: Please...

They took all those old ideas and added "on a mobile device" to get new patents, now they can do it all over again with "on a wearable device".

Re: Good to know

No you are reading it wrong.

It's more like...

If you are not a multinational with offices in the US you can piss off.