Posts by William 3

What you sow.

You reap.

If the ad industry doesn't like the crop that's sprouted perhaps they should consider changing the shit they use in the fields.

In other words, I couldn't give a toss about an industry that puts my data at risk from malware because they couldn't be bothered getting their house in order. Not my issue. I will continue to block at the network level everything that comes into my properties without shedding a tear until such time the ad industry stops putting users data at risk.

As going down that route will impact their bottom line, then I guess that will be never. Welcome to 0.0.0.0 ad industry. Enjoy your stay.

Double Standards??

Would you run an article strap line that said "Maybe Allah Told him to do it" about Sadiq Khan?

If not, why run one that says "Maybe God Told her to do it".

I'm athiest, but find the double standards in left wing authors fucking disgraceful.

The person who wrote this would be off screaming "Islamaphobia" if anyone said the same thing about Islam with regards to a Muslim politician.

DRM for everyone.

Liability & duty of care

You can't wash your hands of those just because it's on the Internet.

This site appears to be nothing more than an online version of an employment agency.

If you visited an employment agency you'd expect them to do due dilligence on the employers they are placing you with.

If you were to be raped at that employers then the employment agency couldn't just walk away and say "nothing to do with us" and carry on placing people without any responsibility on just who they are placing them with because liability and duty of care aren't in their business model due to costs.

So if it doesn't work like that in real life, why should it work like that just because it's "on the t'internet".

Personally I don't see it as blocking ads.

I see it as blocking spam from unknown third parties that I never requested.

I do the same on my network.

You can connect any device, visit any website, and you'll see no spam.

The websites are free to show adverts, I've not blocked their domains.

So Dear Register,

You're more than welcome to show me adverts. I haven't blocked them. I haven't blocked www.theregister.co.uk at all.

What I have blocked is spam domains, domains that I never asked for, and that pose a security threat to my network.

I have absolutely no moral issues about blocking spam, I don't cry over my spam folder in my inbox, why should I cry about moving spam from a webpage in just the same way.

Your Sincerely

I hate Spam.

Excuse me?

But why are people getting so excited that an American based International Company can take the piss out of another countries laws? Is that really what you want, Internationals that don't respect your countries laws?

Can't say I've noticed.

Thanks to my HOSTS file and a .dll

How I chuckle.

Nice to see the bouffant haired bearded latte drinking "designer/media luvvies" arguing with the bowl haired pencil in the top shirt pocket mountain dew drinking "engineer/corporate drones" about things they know nothing about in some vain attempt to belittle each other whilst normal folk look at them and wonder why they are so bloody insecure.

I just wish they would hurry up past this flirting stage, it's getting very tedious.

People get adverts on Facebook

Not I.

But then, I don't get adverts full stop.

All tracking requests get killed at the firewall.

Amazing isn't, defaulting.

When you, or I, or this lady, defaults, we get hounded to bits, and dragged through the courts, for basically peanuts.

But when the banks default, the government forces you and I to pay for them to be bailed out, and the bankers open a bottle of bollinger and pat each other on the back over their hard earned billions of pounds bonuses.

Unfortunately, when you point this out to most people, their eyes glaze over and tell me they are too busy getting angry at what Gary Barlow has just said on the X-Factor.

God help us.

OMG!!! LinkedIn FTW!!!One11!!

I'm 14 n im well sighnin up, init

my m8s well gonna giv me dat dorsement for pwning all dem nooobs on COD!!XBONE WIN!!

Im sinin up rite now so i can get FIRST!!!

Woot!

Strange.

One moment the article is talking about people switching over to iOS from android.

And then it's talking about people switching from iOS to Samsung.

Subtle, but obviously Apple PR shit.

Sledgehammer and nut.

Simply have the right change (or any change for that matter) and it's quicker than anything else.

£4.50 sir. There you go, £4.50 in change. Walks away.

£4.50 sir. Can I pay with my tablet? Sure sir. One minute, just waiting for the app to launch....

It's all academic anyhow.

Security is a myth. Look, a lock on a door only keeps honest people out.

And if the security on a house is "That" good that it can't be cracked, the next avenue of attack is a crowbar. Not on the locks themselves, but menacingly waved at the owner of the house.

Of course, if you don't wish to go down the direct physical route, there is always social engineering, and good old blackmail and extortion.

With any security, humans are the weakest link. And, well, you know the rest....

EU regulations on privacy?

Any chance OFCOM can tell the NSA and GCHQ to piss off because they are breaching EU regulations on Human Rights with regards to privacy?

No wonder the Tories want to get rid of the Human Rights acts.

Right up the US arse they are.

Branding is Microsofts achilles heals.

Once upon a time, you had Windows, or you had Windows.

You used it school, at home, and at work. There was no getting away from Windows.

WIndows used to crash. A lot. Obtaining software for Windows was full of danger. Especially when the Internet came along and you could download "Free Screensavers" without having to go to a shop and drag the owner outside because he has sold you a virus!

If you wanted to access the Internet, send an email, or view your photos, you needed Windows. And that was that.

Then along came the iPod. Hey, this is cool. I don't need Windows anymore to play all my music. It doesn't crash and I it doesn't get a virus. I can live with this.

Then along came the iPhone, and it did everything your iPod did and allowed you to take photos and email them AND make phone calls. It didn't crash, and it didn't get a virus and it replaced at least 4 devices!

Then along came the app store, where you could buy applications and install them without it crashing and without it getting a virus!

So now you could use facebook, twitter and other social media goodies, you could google things, browse the Internet, take photos and post them directly to Facebook.

Windows became something you either used at work, or used at home to type out a resignation letter to your employer because you've made a million selling a fart app! Sure it was naff, but people paid a throw-a-way fee for a throw-a-way app and it was safer than doing the same on Windows!

And now we have tablets of all sizes. You can stream on demand videos on them, and they last for hours, and you can complain about Eastenders to all your twitter followers of facebook friends about what a bastrad Ian Beale is!

That Windows machine. Well, it's for work isn't it? That's what Windows is for? For doing work on.

Do I want a Windows RT tablet for around the house?

"It's Windows, and Windows get all kinds viruses!"

"Nah, I don't wan't to do work, I want to play with a shiney toy!"

"I don't want to do my tax returns, that's what my Windows machine is for in the corner, gathering dust"

"If I wanted to write a letter resigning, I'd do it at work, and use their laser printer and paper!!"

"Oh, I've used a windows laptop before and the battery life was crap"

"I don't want it to crash"

"Man, Windows reminds me of work, which I have to be in tomorrow, why would I want to be reminded of work"

"Dude, I've used Windows loads, and those free screensavers aren't really screensavers, so now thanks"

"Windows you say? No way, I don't want to be seen as a geek/nerd/dweep. That's what the IT bods at work use, no thanks, I want to be able to pull chicks you know!!"

I'm sure I could go on listing all the negative stereotypes associated with windows. True or no. I'm sure you can add your own to that list.

Windows.... It has a really bad name, doesn't it.

Kind of like the reputation British Motor Cars of the 70's and 80's have.

That's Microsofts real issue. No-one wants to be seen dead in one. Just because...