Posts by Dan 55 15415 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
If Kodi 18 has officially supported Netflix and Amazon, a UI that isn't crap, its own add-ons which you can mix and match as you want, complete control over your own videos, as well as PVR, and Unix behind it, the question is why wouldn't any self-respecting commentard?
You have to keep supplying them with payslips or tax returns to show you're below the threshold. If you don't they'll start to charge your UK bank account.
If you leave the country and burn your bridges, don't choose Australia.
Last time I checked store apps and services and... can be individually installed by the user. Pretty much regardless of make/model/etc. So unless Uncle Sam has found a way to strongarm providers into specifically blocking a brand or model phone, I can't really see how these sanctions would stop anyone using any store imaginable on a ZTE phone.
Uncle Sam's tantrum means Google can't certify ZTE phones.
If it hasn't got gapps it's not selling in the west.
I can't see ZTE supplying plain AOSP phones and grandad unlocking the bootloader and installing gapps on it followed by registering the device ID with Google as a sustainable business model.
For anyone over the age of 40, these doughnuts look just like the crumbly bleached dog turds you’d see decorating every pavement curb corner.
It's a shame there's not a white one in that photo.
Let's have a commentard age census, upvote if you understand, downvote if you don't.
Security questions are often stored in the database as plain text. Only they're as good as passwords.
I never fill them in despite the badgering, or if I have to I never fill them in with personal information (yes, my mother's maiden name really was 1oieu28420).
I don't know the detail of Canadian law. However, if this had happened in the UK and they wanted to make an example of this young man, our computer misuse legislation would enable them to do so.
Man fined due to BT's shitty donation page.
Having had the pleasure of an ISP-supplied ZTE router, I can believe the warnings.
An earlier firmware version had an exploit on the tr-069 port which the ISP enables so their customer service droid can press a button and reset everything to factory settings to make their lives easier. The answer to any problem is now reset and I'll do it for you in case you don't know how to insert the paperclip in the hole and keep it there for 10 seconds. You had a LAN nicely set up? Own SSID or wifi password? Disabled WPS? Why would you want to do that?
Going online with this version got your router pwned within seconds, the settings were changed so http was enabled on the WAN side and it was now part of a botnet, sort of similar to going online with the original Windows XP.
The fix the ISP pushed out patched the tr-069 exploit, but still left the http port enabled so it was still part of the botnet.
Luckily they're so full of holes that you can run exploit programs to lift the settings out of them and change to another router.
If the government is hamstrung then it is the government hamstrung by the remain supporting government.
Tautology is a tautology. Brexit is brexit.
Remember that the government were publicly in support of leaving before the referendum and claimed they would be in the referendum (before 'changing their minds').
No, I don't remember that. When was Cameron's government ever in favour of leaving the EU, apart from using it as a threat when negotiating with them that if they didn't give him what he wanted then leave would win in the referendum?
The only party who had all this organised and ready to go was UKIP.
That's why before the referendum he was talking the UK being like Norway and Switzerland and afterwards he wasn't.
There was and still is no plan, by anyone, apart from foot stamping.
I guess their competitors might be able to get an advantage if they find out some secret proprietary insider information - they're going to release a new phone which is like the old phone from last year, a tablet which is like the old tablet from last year, a new OS which is like the old OS from last year, and not do anything at all with their computer range.
You're stretching your definition of 'few', because it hit us too. It was >50% of the working day.
What was that you say, people couldn't reply or receive e-mails and the lack of syncing meant people couldn't collaborate on documents? (Putting aside MS' implementation of collaboration which is a whole other argument you're going to lose as well.)
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