Illegal terms in contracts are not enforceable.
Posts by James 51
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Facebook needs to defend Austrian privacy violation case
Don't even THINK about copyright violation, says Indian state
Is it an iPad? Is it a MacBook Air? No, it's a Surface Pro 3
I think getting pen input right on tablets could make them hugely more functional. I did a lot of proof reading and note taking on my PRS-350 and now my T3 (the e-ink screens help too). Now we just need to wait a few years still Sony get back in the business or tech like this comes down in price.
Boffins propose security shim for Android
Re: Or
You beat me to it. When I installed a torch app on my Q10 it asked for stuff like GPS, contacts, internet etc etc but as it was a native app I was able to deselect them all and the app still worked (as turning the flash on required none of those things). With ported Android apps or running those apps directly, you have to accept or reject the entire app. Huge, huge flaw in Android design.
Barnes & Noble: Swallow a Samsung Nook tablet, please ... pretty please
Stand clear! Will HTC's One act as a defibrillator for Windows Phone?
Felony charges? Harsh! Alleged Anon hackers plead guilty to misdemeanours
Hello, police, El Reg here. Are we a bunch of terrorists now?
It's like the forms you have to fill in when you go to the US i.e. are you planning to commit a crime while you are here. Of course you tick no but if you get caught jay walking then you've lied on that form which can be quite a serious offence. They probably won't go for the reporter unless they want him for something else and can't prove it. Then they'll wheel this out and try to run him down with it.
The Register to boldly go where no Vulture has gone before: The Weekend
Germany 'accidentally' snooped on John Kerry and Hillary Clinton
Re: James 51
Judging from news reports the NSA went after everyone and everything regardless of its value to them and even broke the laws they were suppose to be uploading in order to do so. I've only seen a few articles on this but both of them said that the politicians weren't the main targets of this surveillance and when they realised what had happened the recordings were destroyed. Given their recent past Germans are a lot more sensitive about this than most western countries it could be that they’ve got not only checks and balances but enforce them as well.
Uh, Obama? Did you miss a zero or two off Samsung's Chinese supplier 'fib' settlement?
Twitter displays our 'Favorites'. That is, like, PRIVATE, huff naive users
Premier League wants to PURGE ALL FOOTIE GIFs from social media
If the fans take a video of something that happens in front of them and uploads it, they are violating copyright? I know there are big money contracts signed for broadcasting matches but this does sound more like breach of contract that copright violation (am assuming there is something in the ticket small print).
At least now we know the reasaon why Man U banned tablets.
A-level results: Before you smile at that jump-for-joy snap...
Re: *every* IT post?
Where I live the near by universities pump out more IT graduates than there are jobs in the area. However complaining that they can’t get enough qualified* staff some companies where excluding IT graduates from their recruitment drives so they could get subsidised training and wages from local government to bring non-IT graduates into the IT sector. But to get onto that program you still had to have a degree of some sort (actually the best programmer on one team was a former accountant). There aren't that many places to look for jobs being advertised so just going through them now the only ones not asking for degrees are testing jobs but they are asking for ISEB/ISTQB. There are a few developer positions not specifying any criteria, just the language and asking for a CV so that might be a recruitment agency trying to pad their books.
For the record I never said that you needed a degree in IT to be good at IT, I said that all the firms within several hours drive of where I live always put in a requirement for a degree in their ads. The few exceptions are things like testing or support were they’ll ask for something like A plus. Who knows, maybe non-graduates are applying and getting in but they are still asking for those degrees.
*cheap
Totes AMAZEBALLS! Side boob, binge-watch and clickbait added to Oxford Dictionary
Anonymous threatens to name cop who shot dead unarmed Michael Brown
Dolby Atmos is coming home and it sounds amazing
I bought a surround sound system for my 360. The wires round the room were fine but just turning it on made the floor in the room above vibrate keeping she who must get her sleep awake. Now, with a not so little one running around I'd need something wireless signals and preferably wireless charing as well that won't cost more than the car.
LulzSec supergrass Sabu led attacks against Turkey – report
XBOX One will learn to play media from USB and DLNA sources
Three floats Jolla in Hong Kong: Says Sailfish is '3rd option'
Nuts to your poncey hipster coffees, I want a TESLA ELECTRO-CAFE
World's only flyable WWII Lancaster bombers meet in Lincs
Digital dongle transforms European XBOXen into tellies
Have a 360. Was waiting till at least the first redesign to think about buying a One. If this could accept at least two feeds (four would be nice) from satellite dishes and act as a PVR (preferably with an external HDD or swap out internal HDD for something much bigger) I would trade in now. Of course it would need to be able to accept decoder cards. *sigh* Doubt we'll see that any time soon.
Snowden is FREE to ESCAPE FROM RUSSIA, say officials
Oracle cold bath shrinks Larry Ellison's pay package
Sony reads the future, quits e-reader market says German report
No, I've never seen a review or even an advertisement for it. Not in any of the shops near me. Bluetooth keyboard compatible as well? hmm certainly worth a look.
*Edit* I can see that you can annotate pdfs, as long as you can do the same for epub files when my T3 finally dies might have a replacement lined up.
Dr Dre's crew gets Beats-down from Apple: 200 jobs to go – report
PEAK LANDFILL: Why tablet gloom is good news for Windows users
I quite like the idea of a 10" tablet with a removable keyboard that can run a full sized operating system. Preferably *inx but Windows would do. A lot of the time though it feels like companies put products out because they think they have to but don't want to compromise another area were they make more money without realising they are probably going to lose the business anyway.
AVG stung as search revenue from freebie scanners dries up
YES, iPhones ARE getting slower with each new release of iOS
Microsoft's Brit kid Cortana lands on UK WinPhone 8.1, but China's is the real cutie
Amazon says Hachette should lower ebook prices, pay authors more
BEST BATTERY EVER: All lithium, all the time, plus a dash of carbon nano-stuff
Apple 'sapphire glass' fronts for iPhone 6? It's NEWS to SUPPLIERS
I am sure there will be plenty of components about magical air/reality distortion force fields but perhaps all the analysts just got it wrong this time.
Releasing two version of the watch, one with and the other without sapphire glass could backfire. They ones without would be the new 5C telling people you couldn’t quite afford the real thing.