Posts by Mark 85

Re: You ever listen Mozilla?

I think you forgot one... how about making it usable again? Open more than a couple of windows and it bogs. Generally, if I open more than 3, I have to shutdown and restart it if I expect to get any performance back.

It will be a small paragraph buried at the bottom of some huge bill... Which they do a lot of, and also mask with such things as "A corporation, incorporated in the city of San Francisco on June 5, 2000, at 6.23pm shall be except from.....(fill in the blank)".

A mega class action law suit comprising the Top 500 corporations who sue the dangerously incompetent NSA / government to the tune of countless tens or hundreds of billions for all the additional security measures they need to take, loss of data, loss of revenues due hacks ?

Funny thing about the US Government.... they have the right of refusal to lawsuits. You can sue them only if they say you can... on an individual basis. It is a lovely idea though.

But hey, as long as people are talking about the brand, right?

Exactly...no such thing in marketing minds. It's all good publicity. A quick Google points this out: bad+publicity+is+good+publicity+quote

Re: Stupid bastards

How true. But those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. We tried bombing the hell out Vietnam. All we did was knock down trees and generally make a mess of the landscape. Didn't change the course of the war.

Re: Actually it looks like getting them to pass any kind of legislation is a mammoth task

Politics in general includes corporations... Remember Google being a heavy influence in the previous administration? Good is always relative with politics and corporates... even the "big evils" sometimes pull that one out of their ass.

Re: dummies

IoT Security for Dummies.

Now that has to set the record for being the shortest book in the world.

Re: FSM?

Are you saying they are not meatballs? I'm shocked...

Re: Holy drama lama mama!

This is "celebrity stupid"... soon to be an new TV series....

Re: VLC?

I guess I must go turn myself in to the Computer Police. I have VLC here in the States with no issues getting it, updating it, or using it. I've not seen anything such as "WARNING... if you are in the States.."

Re: Haters gonna hate

And finally, a big round of applause to the poor so and sos in the Microsoft application compatibility team who keep badly written application software running without anyone noticing what they do.

In some circles, this is a good thing and those folks are wise... "job security via job obscurity".

Re: Oddly enough. . . @SotarrTheWizard

Still no sign here on the US west coast. Maybe MS rolled over and died?

Re: The solution? Start with more outsourcing...

Nice idea but stockholders are the problem. They want their money and cutting the top paying jobs would be welcomed.

Re: Ajit Pai: "Even a broken watch..."

Alternatively, they could be thrown out of the plane. 8^)

I've been trapped on a plane more than once with some salesdroids. A cell phone, a few drinks, and that's all you hear. They'll even drown out the jet engines, pilot announcements and crying babies. I can get behind this idea....

Re: Stock android

If there was a bare-bones Android, which preferably was ludicrously easy to root, I'd be all over it.

Now we know that that will never happen, right? Google loves all the phoning home and slurping everything you do.

@Will Godfrey -- Re: Dangerous

It is pretty much self-regulating.. no legislative body can make it better and there's a reward: The Darwin Awards.

Re: STPWDH

The answer is just above the abbreviation...... "a solution to a problem we don't have."'

Re: "slayed"

English is a bastard language made up by people, not a language that acquired an Académie to regulate it.

Should we set up a formal committee like the French have to tell us which words and usage are proper?

@Unicornpiss -- Re: Is it just me who is secretly applauding this...

but most of the people that buy these devices are just techy enough to get themselves in trouble.

FTFY. I've come across more than few who think they "understand" tech but really haven't a clue. And usually don't care as they can pick up the phone and call someone who knows a bit more. Not much... but enough to either create another problem or end up trashing the whole thing.

Re: Short attention span

Thanks for that link.. just "wow" is about all I can muster at the moment.

Re: Enforcement?

EU privacy laws are much more stringent than the US.

Being in America... I'm jealous. As pointed out, the Silly Valley folks are ruled only by profit and don't really care what any country says. They are not or should not be able to trump local law. If I make a car here in the US and want to sell it in Europe, I have to comply with EU laws and NOT American laws for the car. Stands to reason, the 'Net should be the same way.

Re: Americans don't know history

A lot of us do know the history.. and a lot of us are waiting for a bunch of Congressgritters' browsing history to come out. Life is about to get interesting in DC.

Let's just keep it simple.... "ShitStuff".

Re: Comcast vs Google isn't Apples to Apples...

- Google (or Facebook or whoever) only get visibility over what I do when I am on their site, interacting with their services or viewing a page that has chosen to include one of their ads in.

Not quite... or maybe I'm wrong... Rumor had it at one point that the "Follow us on FB" tag was supposedly tied back to a "tracker". Not sure of the reality. Maybe I'm just a little paranoid... probably serves me right for being heavy into IT.