Posts by Joe 3

Production values?

The Austrian army has heard of them!

The ad looks like it was made by schoolkids with a budget of about £1.35 (or €1.55). Were they the hottest women they could find?

Anonymous Cowards

There seems to be a very high proportion of Anonymous Cowards commenting on this article... are you all Members of the Cult of Steve? Or perhaps undercover Friends of Ballmer?

@ Neal 5

Are you Steve Ballmer?

No ethics in capitalism

IBM sold computers to the Nazis, Ikea had factories in East Germany, 23 South Korean companies have factories in North Korea, and every Western company would sell their own mother to be allowed to do business in China.

It's wrong, but it's the system that's wrong - there's no ethics in capitalism.

It's difficult to live an ethical lifestyle here in the democratic West, but it's possible with some effort and adjustment!

Same old same old

"Our users' privacy and data security have always been a priority for RockYou and we strive to keep them secure."

This has been proven to be untrue though, hasn't it? If it was true, this wouldn't have happened.

Goddammit!

Why didn't you tell me this 15 years ago?

Quote

"Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, criticised Apple for..."

...not allowing his company to make lots of money by scaring iPhone users into buying his products.

@ Dazed and Confused

I expect the legislation affects only new TVs being sold, there'd be no way to enforce it retrospectively.

How awfully tacky

I don't mean Dolly Parton, I mean the idea of adverts all over one's OS. What will those Americans think of next?

Be fair to the guy -

he did a favour to jailbroken iPhone users who'd installed SSH, as sooner or later it would have been discovered by malicious hackers. At least the warning's out there, with little damage done.

He could have easily sold the exploit on to real criminals, after all, yet he didn't do that.

"Real Networks"?

As in "Real Player"?

When will these people stop tormenting us?!

Rubbish police webmasters

The security on my site is ONE% - infinitely better!

A bystander said...

...that Rupert Murdoch is a "twat." Onlookers commented that he will "say anything for money." A close pal of 'Randy Rupe' revealed that he "knows that he is an awful, awful man."

This is what I overheard on the bus, anyway. Can I work for the Sun now?

But surely...

...denying people of basic freedoms is a small price to pay for cheap electronic goods?

Let's all just look the other way and hope that slave labour never ends, eh?

Well they can start by getting a hold facility!

Try dialling the 0845 number they give you - you'll get a message saying everyone's busy, call back later. (An engaged tone wouldn't make them any money, would it?)

Note - you can't get put on hold, and it's always busy (the only option is to keep hitting 'redial' and hope it lets you in). It works out pretty expensive, paying all those connection charges!

There's no good looking for an alternative non-0845 number - there was one, but they've cut it off sometime in the last week.

"Mail is now 77.5MB."

You know what, I'm still on 10.4 and Mail is only 15MB!

Re: I wish google would just feck off

I wish you Daily Mail-reading credulous nitwits would fuck off, actually.

I think Street View is great! They're creating a record of the world as it is, and in years to come it will be an unparalleled database of the world as it was.

How exactly does Street View help terrorists?

The Hot-Air Industry

Apple rumours are an industry in themselves. Surely 'Apple Insider' releases a new Apple tablet PC rumour every time they need to boost ad revenue?

Also, how can anyone claim it to be a flop or the second coming of the messiah when nobody knows what it even is yet?!

Poor Sarah Bee

I bet the Moderatrix hates articles like this, for the torrent of guff that will no doubt ensue...

@ Mark 149

Well said. It's all about giving the client a good quality end product, and Flash has enabled true web-based applications long before web 2.0. Sure, graphic designers do abuse Flash so they can offer websites to their print clients, but in the hands of a real programmer it's a great tool. The idea that users should run only Firefox without Javascript and Flash is some crazy fantasy, while those of us who make a living from this stuff have to live in the real world!

Samsung has serious Apple envy...

...they even went for a one-button trackpad! (In appearance, at least.)

As sure as night follows day...

...as continual as the changing of the seasons or the tide of the seas, the eternal computer platform whining continues.

(It helps if you learn to treat it as background noise. A bit like tinnitus, but less pleasant.)

How many people work in the public sector?

About half of them.

Also, regarding "Firefox stats overrated" - the page at w3schools says exactly that beneath the figures.

@ Philip Cohen

Re: OFT, etc.

It's a real shame that the government agencies who are meant to stop this sort of thing take no interest. As far as I can see there's blatant dishonesty and conning happening on eBay, and eBay turn a blind eye at best or are complicit at worst.

Perhaps the answer is for all of us to educate our newbie friends that eBay really is, in every sense, a "tat bazaar".

Re: Every new media

And which aliens are responsible for beaming these thoughts into your head?

Interesting

Amid all the brouhaha surrounding Street View, one point I didn't see mentioned was that Google has created an amazing time capsule of our cities. Imagine if it had been possible 30 years ago? Wouldn't it be cool to be able to browse your town in 1979? No? Well, fine. But I like the idea. Either way, in 2039 Street View will be an amazing resource of how things were.

Where's the standard quote?

"We at [INSERT ORGANISATION NAME HERE] take data protection very seriously ... was protected by a password ... unfortunately was not encrypted ... security is our top priority ... etc. etc. etc. "

Human rights abuses?

1989 Beijing Massacre? Never happened. That'll be 5,000,000 yuan, please.

Five buttons on a Mac

I've got a five-button Microsoft mouse connected to my Mac and all five buttons work without hassle. I've assigned the extra three buttons to activate Exposé - it's the future!

Also, "Window's users"?