* Posts by William 3

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That YouTube ad boycott had square-root of sod-all effect on Google's insane cash machine

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The "boycott" itself was an advert

You think the ad men in the big corps wouldn't jump at the chance to virtue signal how pious their corps are (whilst exploiting workers/natural resources) that they would never be associated with "speech" they dislike (third world sweatshops via a contractor not withstanding) and that it wasn't simply a chance to garner free advertising by getting their company in the news?

You've never worked in the advertising industry have you. You think the guys selling you the "dream" are Men of Morals?

Ha ha ha ha.

Brilliant.

Facebook and Google gobble '99 per cent of new digital ad cash'

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One reason I kicked Android to the kerb.

An ad company isn't likely to allow you to block ads on it's platform.

Just delete the internet – pr0n-blocking legislation receives Royal Assent

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Re: Well, looking forward to the data breach

Of course, Labour politicians would never be caught doing anything that can bring themselves into disrepute, being so pious and pure.

Whilst I realise it's heartening to live in an echo chamber where you and your kind have screamed vocally how righteous your opinion is so that only similar voices to yours can be heard, thus legitimising your idiocy and validating your bigotry. But if live outside that echo chamber, people like you just look and act like total pricks.

The problem with just attacking the Tories on this issue is that you ignore the other parties policies, which, if you check, are just as fucked as the Tories.

I always question the sanity and intelligence of those who scream abuse at one group, whilst ignoring their own is equally as repugnant.

The words abject hypocrite and sanctimonious don't do it justice.

iPhone lawyers literally compare Apples with Pears in trademark war

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Re: Dear Apple.

Well done you. Here, have some Guardian points to make you feel all morally superior.

Doesn't matter you'd be better off actually VOTING for someone to change the system itself.

With trademarks, companies have to defend them, as that is the law.

If Apple was the one writing these laws, you'd have a point. As they don't, you seem very misguided at best, because there isn't an alternative that wouldn't do what Apple does, because their shareholders and the law demands that they do so.

I bet you're the type of person that screams at shop assistants because you dislike their company policy.

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Not like you'd do it yourself

If I started a website called the regista and had a silhouette of a pigeon in the title.

It never ceases to amuse me how the media believes themselves to be above everyone else, yet are often far worse than them.

Try to sell stuff through Facebook Marketplace and get locked out for 72 hours – nice one, Zuck

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When I heard "send in personal pictures"

I'm reminded of that episode of American Dad where Francine had to send in "personal pictures" to the "online doctor".

Uber cloaked its spying and all it got from Apple was a slap on the wrist

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Re: Symbiotic relationship

Surely that depends on how much you use that app.

Try thinking about things before spouting what YOU think how other people operate.

Uber sued by ex-Lyft driver tormented by app maker's 'Hell' spyware

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Re: "Unlike Lyft, Uber changes the tokens it uses..identify drivers, to prevent such tracking."

Did you miss your bus this morning?

Nuh-uh, Google, you WILL hand over emails stored on foreign servers, says US judge

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"Often I've seen Americans refer to their country as 'number 1',"

Often you say? Absolute bullshit you have

You're just lying to bolster your shitty argument.

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So which UK political bodies do you think WILL respect your privacy?

It's all very saying "those pesky tories" but not being able to offer any alternative.

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Re: Yeah, but...

Choosing the lesser evil does not make you good.

That's a logic failure on your part.

Consider this.

A. Death by torture over a period of weeks

B. Death by a bullet to the back of the head.

Obviously A is more evil than B, but you're still dead.

Google's 'adblocker' is all about taking back control

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I recommend running a HOSTS solution at the router level

I've been running a-b solution on my Asus AC68U for several years now, since it was first developed on small network builder forums.

I really recommend it.

It protects every device in the house, including android phones.

Deeming Facebook a 'publisher' of users' posts won't tackle paedo or terrorist content

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Logic Failure on your part.

So, because Murdoch owns the Times, and you don't like Murdoch, that makes their article about Facebook getting a free pass to continue to do nothing about users posting child porn totally unacceptable?

Don't you think you should grow up at some point.

As ad boycott picks up pace, Google knows it doesn't have to worry

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Re: Excellent

Not on any device of mine it won't.

Nor on anyone whom I care about either.

Ads?

What are those.

Lloyds Banking Group axing hundreds of jobs again

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Re: Continued Cuts

You can't be against globalisation.

That makes you racist bigot and a nazi.

The message from the champagne socialists on the left.

I suppose they've seen how massive the ivory towers are on the global scale.

And all those little racist peons beneath them.

'Windows 10 destroyed our data!' Microsoft hauled into US court

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Why not include automatic updates in the class action?

How many people were working on things when Microsoft sent out an update and then either

a) Forced Rebooted the machine

b) Gave them 10 minutes to save any work (which may not have been savable in 10 minutes) and then forced rebooted their machines.

Europe will fine Twitter, Facebook, Google etc unless they rip up T&Cs

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Totalitarianism

The end result of the EU.

Glad were out of the shit.

No-one is forcing anyone to use Facebook.

But after Brexit and the shitstorm if petulance in the EU wank fest, it appears the EU is forcing people to use them.

Feargmongering fascist twats.

GCHQ dismisses Trump wiretap rumours as tosh

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Cognitive Dissonance of the left

Too funny to watch the mental gymnastics of the left when things go against their narrative.

* CIA - Complicit in Torture renditions as recorded by the Guardian

Yet when Trump is involved the Guardian forgets all the bad shit they ever did.

Absolutely tragic, and shows zero integrity. Possibly why the shitrag is begging for money to stay afloat.

* GCHQ - Spies on fucking everyone, hated by the left wing for doing so.

Until they say "we've never spied on Trump, honest", then it's "see, trumps a lying bastard"

* Obama - Gets given a nobel peace prize.

One of the only presidents to have the US complicit in overseas wars for the entire duration of his tenure.

Complicit in illegal drone strikes in Pakistan

Well worthy of a nobel peace prize that.

(Will they be giving them out to the bloods and the crips next? Might as well, they've not got as much blood on their hands as Obama)

Complicit in the continuing the spying of Merkels phone

His followers call Trump a warmonger and hate criminal.

Ha ha ha. It's ludicrous.

But of course, when people point out how hypocritical all this makes you left wingers, then we're the idiots for doing so, and not you lot for falling for the most blatant of bullshit.

Not forgetting that they go searching for things to be offended over, even if their so called "victims" themselves aren't even offended.

Go right ahead, wank each other off in your circle jerk of self righteousness in your own little echo chamber.

The rest of the world will look down upon you for the bunch of hypocritical tossers you all are.

You may not like Trump, but is that any reason to start defending the NSA, GCHQ, and start trusting whatever shite they come out with, despite all the history of lying, deceit and bullshit they've come out with in the past. Maybe if you're an absolute tool and driven by hate.

Netflix investor sues vid giant for 'covering up' subscriber stats stumble

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It's my opinion that any investor who doesn't realize that price increases are going to effect the profits in some way without explicitly being told they are going to do so has absolutely no idea about businesses in general and shouldn't really be investing if they are that thick.

All this lawsuit achieves is confirm how thick they are.

it's like suing the moon because the Sun went down.

COP BLOCKED: Uber app thwarted arrests of its drivers by fooling police with 'ghost cars'

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No, this is deliberately giving false information to a police officer with an arrest warrant.

I'm sure you'd be delighted if it was your daughter/mother/wife who'd been raped and Uber was deliberately giving the police false information to protect the rapist.

Or how about your daughter/wife/mother was raped despite the fact the police had an arrest warrant and was deliberately hampered by Uber thus allowing the criminal to continue raping people.

Do you have a lot shares in Uber or something? If not, you're mental, as that would be the only plausible reason I could think of why you'd defend anything like this.

Smash up your kid's Bluetooth-connected Cayla 'surveillance' doll, Germany urges parents

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Re: @ Dwarf also

Begone with you. Common sense and logic is useless against the collective might of those three companies named fanboys.

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Re: @ Dwarf

They also have financial large, very powerful, lobbying groups in common.

'I'm innocent!' says IT contractor on trial after Office 365 bill row spiraled out of control

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Re: Devils and details.

Your first few paragraphs were great.

Then you went all SJW and spoiled it.

MEPs in 'urgent' call for new laws on artificial intelligence and robotics

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Very amusing.

It's only when mechanisation starts to threaten middle class & upper class jobs do they start shitting their pants and demand laws to cover robots and AI.

When it was the farmers, train drivers, factory workers, their absence was palpable.

Given the state of politicians the world over, I can see why they're shitting themselves about being replaced with AI. Even a speak n spell has more ethics & morals.

Zuckerberg thinks he's cyber-Jesus – and publishes a 6,000-word world-saving manifesto

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Re: meh

No-one preaches hatred as righteously as a liberal.

I personally believe Zuckerberg is a whack jab and I refuse to use Facebook.

What I wouldn't do is cherry pick paragraphs of a 6,000 word article so that I have 1% of everything the Man said, and then use that, completely out of whatever context the other 99% content of his paper, to assassinate his character.

It's not constructive in the slightest. It's just a rant about someone. If this was in a comment section on any forum it will be removed for being abusive.

This article doesn't make me hate Zuckerberg, it makes me want to hate the author. Someone please tell him that pointing out the flaws in this way does not make him morally superior, it makes him a prick. No doubt they'll be screaming blue murder how offended they are I called them a prick. But hey. When in Rome.

Scroll to the top of the page, see that Facebook logo, it's on every single Register article.

There's a word for it.

(And you wouldn't believe how many people are unsure of the true meaning of this word)

Hypocrite.

Virgin Media swallows 215,000 new fibre customers in Blighty

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Re: Sort out your network contention, Virgin

I can assure you it's nothing to do with that. It's just an issue with their network in general.

They told me this.

Same exact issues.

Turns out that it's one of our neighbours.

Whenever he connects, it ruins everyone else's on the street.

He signed up.

Mine went from 100M down to less than 1M in the evening.

He left

Mine went back up.

He came back

Mine went back down.

He left again.

Mine went back up.

The exact same day, the exact same person, it was no coincidence, of that I assure you.

4 different dates, 4 different times, exact same issue, either speed goes down, or back to normal.

I feel sorry for the guy. He tells me no matter who he has he has issues. I told him to let me know if he goes with Virgin again so I can cancel. We had a laugh when I told him about the issues I had when he connected. That's how i discovered the exact dates matched up to my dates (I was building a daily log to complain to virgin, so I was absolutely sure they matched)

I truly believe he has something on his network that's the issue, a faulty device, or malware, or a combination of the two.

So long as he's on a different supplier to me, I don't care.

Inside Confide, the chat app 'secretly used by Trump aides': OpenPGP, OpenSSL, and more

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Re: "Hate my life"

The fact you hate your life is most likely the reg pushes clickbait shit like this on you.

If you loved it, you wouldn't respond to bullshit stories that are based on "rumours"

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Why do you fools fall for clickbait fake news that start with "rumours are"

Is it because it provides justification for you're own hatred & bigotry?

Who started the "rumours", some journalist down near the watercooler saying "you'll never guess what I heard".

No matter what side of the political fence you sit on, we should ALL be vigilant of fake bullshit stories like this that base their entire foundations of some "rumour"

It might be you they start spreading rumours about next.

Pwnd Android conference phone exposes risk of spies in the boardroom

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If you need physical access

Then you could just install a microphone in a extension cable.

Or a lamp.

But they gotta get their grant money somehow.

Google claims ‘massive’ Stagefright Android bug had 'sod all effect'

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Re: Finally a sane article on Android security

As soon as people make unfounded allegations about other people being shills (usually a main competitor) if they dare disagree with them, I know that it's them who is the shill.

Cast your mind back, and remember them as the kid in class that used to drop farts, make really loud noises about it being someone else.

The really good ones at doing this end up in corporate PR or politics.

Magic Leap sued for sex discrimination … by woman it hired to stamp out sex discrimination

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Re: Already said..

And so many Women feel insecure they have to blame men for all their problems.

Anyone can strawman you know.

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Those Who Demand Tolerance

Offer none themselves.

'We need a new Geneva Convention to protect all citizens from snoops'

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I agree.

And there first action should be to hold Microsoft up by it's bollocks for it's snooping in Windows 10, that it backported back to Windows 7.

Then up next The Register, for all its' tracking cookies.

People in glass houses really shouldn't be slinging stone.

Roses are red, violets are blue, fake-news-detecting AI is fake news, too

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And yet there are others who hold the diametrically opposed beliefs to you.

If you have two people who believe their opinions are right, the other is a fool, and neither will concede any ground.

Who is the victor?

Those who have the biggest echo chamber?

Those who can provide the best wittiest put down?

Those who can scream the loudest?

It's all rather playground isn't it.

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It's all rather immaterial.

You can have the most accurate bot in the world, with the ability to tell fact from fiction with 100% accuracy.

People, being people, will simply claim the Bot is wrong if it disagrees with their world views, political opinions & religious notions.

This goes for people on both sides of the political fence.

It also goes for myself as well. I don't believe myself to be some superior moral authority, or arbitrator of the truth like some omnipotent Q from the collective. I'll leave that to the extremists.

It's called human nature, for better or for worse, you can get upset about that, get all self righteous about it, demand people believe in your opinions only, label people names that disagree, call them liars, but ultimately you're only insulting your own humanity in the process as you're no angel, and no better yourself.

You might as well be getting angry at the rain.

After all, how many people have died throughout history in the name of some idiots "god" that millions of followers blindly follow, without any "facts" to support that only their "god" is the real God out of the many thousands of man made Gods that are historically recorded, and the countless Gods before them lost in history.

How would an AI bot contemplate any story about any religion without labeling it "fake" because there is no proof of God apart from a bunch of people preparing to kill others who disagree with their beliefs. And that really isn't a proof of a God, more a proof that humans are idiots who will stop at nothing to prevent their rigid beliefs from being challenged.

A bot doesn't stand a chance, really.

The moment it says something that flies in the face of YOUR own dearly held beliefs, is the moment it will be rejected by you. Eventually the bot will alienate itself towards everyone. Then if a pique of rage it will be switched off.

Ah, to be human.

It's now illegal in the US to punish customers for posting bad web reviews

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Re: Trump might want to repeal that, especially because he said this about journalists:

Reminds me of every liberal I know.

You looked in the mirror lately.

Russian hackers got Trump elected? Yeah, let's take a close look at that, says Obama

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Re: Pot. Kettle. Black.

I just posted exactly the same title.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/nsa-surveillance-world-leaders-calls

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Pot. Meet Kettle.

Liberals for ya.

Do as I say, not as I do.

When did this happen?

Under Obama's watch.

What a fucking hypocrite.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/nsa-surveillance-world-leaders-calls

Oi, you, no flirting, no touching in the back of our rides, sniffs Uber

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Re: 'Barter'

Naturally, SJW's are everywhere they can silence people from having a different opinion than them, all in the name of tolerance & diversity, naturally.

HBO slaps takedown demand on 13-year-old girl's painting because it used 'Winter is coming'

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I actually laughed at your awful attempt to emulate a greedy sociopathic lawyer.

Privacy is theft! Dave Eggers' big-screen takedown of Google and Facebook emerges

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Re: This is all has its roots in 'elite' hubris and state corruption.

Welcome the future.

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Checks number of tracking cookies and javascript tracking on this web page.

Seems legitimately ironic.

Masterful malvertisers pwn Channel 9, Sky, MSN in stealth attacks

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The steps we have to take to protect our data

From website owners who believe they can profit from adverts on their website yet shoulder non of the burden of any damage they inflict, whilst complaining that ad blocking is ruining their profits.

Poor them.

Stung by Dynamics 365 hike? Microsoft has a deal for you... just don't expect much

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Re: Nice stereotype in the image

What's up, you got lost on the Internet and believed you were on the Huffington Post?

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Why renting software is a shit idea

No further comment applies.

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube team to ID terror content

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Re: Labour Supporters, Peace and Animal Rights Protestors ...

He ordered the "necklacing" or Black people who didn't agree with him.

Whilst you may get your news from the Guardian, I suggest you pick up a history book and actually try listening to views you dislike

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You don't have the right for freedom of speech

On someone else's property.

Just like you could throw me out of your property if I started mouthing off shit you didn't like.

Or are you piously claiming that you believe so vigoursly in "freedom of speech" you wouldn't do so?

Because you're a fucking liar.

Beardy Branson's space bird spreads its wings

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The guy seriously wants to avoid taxes.

Will claim he residence is on Mars, therefore not eligible to pay your silly "Earth" Taxes.

Whilst interfering in your silly "Earth" politics.

The guys a tosser.

Apple Watch sales go over a cliff: Down 2.8 meellion per quarter in a year

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Re: Watches are still jewellery

Oh shut up you snob.

If your smart home gear hasn't updated recently, throw it in the trash

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They've never been updated.

But then, I don't have any to update.

A far better article would be why Iot shit is best avoided.

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