Posts by VinceH

Re: 3 more days people

^ This.

I've mentioned before that in my new (mostly unused) Facebook account, there are things (apps) listed in my advertising prefs that they really shouldn't know about - sourced from my phone. I do not have the Facebook app, nor Whatsapp, or any other Facebook crud on it, so something *else* has got that info to them. If I do the 'download your data' thing, there is no mention of those apps (it doesn't include your account settings, so no advertising prefs are included) - so I'm hoping a Subject Access Request might yield the mystery source.

(I do have a suspicion as to that source - and if I'm right, the ultimate blame lies with WileyFox and an update).

Re: No worries

Best comment I saw was on Twitter and along those lines. It said something along the lines of "Don't tell the Home Office - they'll arrange to have a thruster landed on it, and use that to send it back where it came from."

(Can't be arsed to find/link to the original tweet.)

Re: It's not a sink

I wonder if it's the same people who pronounce scones as scones instead of scones. Crazy people.

">> "Thats why you play CDs on a PC which then looks up the CD online and displays a list of tracks (on the CD you have most of the time!)"

No, that's why you put the CD into your computer *once*, open your favourite ripping tool (which adds the track names) and then dump the tracks to your PC before hiding the CD away in a dark and forgotten cupboard."

The missing step in that is correcting the track names because whoever added it to the online database (or someone who subsequently updated it) got them wrong.

Re: I have days like this

"Finally I can pay for my rapidly cooling coffee...except that the other teller is shouting, the card readers just gone down.

I reach into my pocket for change, lucky I am still old school and carry some real cash."

You're using cash as the backup method - for me, it's the other way around. As a general rule, if I'm buying something over the counter in a shop, I pay with cash. The only exceptions are when I don't have enough cash on me (i.e. unusually large purchases - which is rare) or fuel. In the latter case, I always use pay at the pump at the filling station I use most often. I used to pay in cash, but a particular assistant there annoys me, and I just don't want to deal with him. (When I use other filling stations, e.g. when I'm away from home, I pay in cash).

Re: Emotional appeal

After watching that - and for anyone else that does, please have a sick bag at the ready - my first thought was where they sourced all the images and videos used, and whether or not the people who uploaded them were contacted for their explicit permission.

After all, "For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, such as photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP Licence)."

Hmm. Although it was the above I was thinking of, the next sentence has a lovely bit in it: "This IP Licence ends when you delete your IP content or your account, unless your content has been shared with others and they have not deleted it." (my emphasis).

Re: And is anyone here surprised by this?

Facebook: The site that keeps on giving...

your information away.

Re: Maybe ...

"The government appear to be forcing us all into cloud account packages."

No, that's the cloud companies misrepresenting what the government is doing.

MTD is set to be an absolute PITA - but it should still be possible to use desktop software, providing either the software you prefer is updated to keep in line, or you can find a third party product to sit between your software and HMRC's submission system. (Some outfits are working on such things.)

Re: I think I speak for everybody when I say...

"What is so offensive about such a letter?"

To you - you say you'd laugh about it if it had been sent to you - it's probably not offensive.

I, too, would laugh about it. I wouldn't personally find it offensive if I was the recipient. (Though I would be certain to put it online for all to see).

However, it wasn't either of us that received it. It was an elderly couple who, and I quote, "were more than a little upset to be addressed in this manner"

That's what makes it offensive - it offended the couple it was sent to.

Re: apples with oranges again

This would probably be a good place to leave this Jonathan Pie skit.

Re: And how is Uber going to know you need a lift?

" a good few years ago when on holiday my phone (which has since been hobbled in this respect) told me when my flight home was leaving. It seems google were scraping my emails for it's assistant and picked up my booking."

If that had happened to me I wouldn't have stopped at hobbling my phone in that respect - I would have also stopped using Google for email.

(I do have a Gmail account, used for one thing and one thing only to keep it separate from my proper email accounts.)

Re: Why Facebook etc., will win...

"No matter how much effort we go to individually to fight this, it is clear that the vast majority will not fight, not even realizing that there is something to fight about."

As I've said before, for most people it's only when they personally are directly and identifiably affected that they sit up and take notice - just as (for example) people only realise the need to back up valuable data when something goes wrong and they lose valuable data.

And the worst part is that n months down the line they'll forget and fall into old habits - people are stupid.

Re: I see you've already filled the rôle

Oh, I just assumed every poster was an Australian troll.

Re: At least

Time to start practising the "I know, I know - but I voted to remain" shrug with which to respond.

Re: Really?

" it assumes that only one side pays Advertising companies."

Which is why there are spending limits, and there is an issue that one of the leave groups allegedly exceeded that limit by funnelling funds through another supposedly independent one.

Re: Ah. Nothing at all learned by Farcebook then

"Erm, Shouldn't that be at the users approval not Farcebooks?"

It should be better than that, though - it ought to be granular, with a list of all the types of things the app wants to access, with each one having the option to agree or not (defaulting to not, obviously).

Re: I'm (not) sorry

No, read the original post again - their response about the security of their phone is how he decides whether or not to answer their calls. Otherwise they have to use a landline or email.

Fair enough, he's now explained his logic - but I still consider it to be ignoring the problem.

Re: To all my relatives who said I was paranoid about Facebook privacy problems

I'd like to say the same, except... most of them still don't seem to get it, even now.

I think it's because it hasn't directly impacted them, personally - or at least they don't see it as having done so.