Posts by Tromos

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Most of these 6 out of 6 companies are defending your data only because it is no longer your data, it is their data.

I was under the impression...

...that Scotland already was using something called the poond.

He's OK now...

...since filming, he's been on a diet and shed almost two kilograms.

Billing data?

Not sure how this is relevant to the fight against cancer.

History repeating itself

And there will be repeated deja vu all over again until the ASA becomes more effective than trying to knock a wall down by throwing small balls of cotton wool at it.

They should run these cases a bit like Dragons' Den. If the jury doesn't award the full amount being claimed, you go away empty-handed.

A week's notice

Plenty of time to run away from ground zero. One would hope that something big enough to make relocation futile would be detected a lot earlier.

I've got just the thing for SONY.

It's a proprietary format coffin

Returning a favour would be nice

I've only been asked to do the speaking bit just the once, but at least I was expensively wined and dined in return. The thing that gets me is that, as a known 'techie', I am asked if I can just take a quick look at someone's laptop/tablet/phone/TV/satnav/microwave and even, on one occasion, a doorbell. Do I ever get an offer of some gardening or a couple of shirts ironed in exchange? To make matters worse, you find yourself being responsible for a lifetime warranty as soon as you do the slightest thing. Sort out someone's email problems on their phone and who's in trouble if the battery dies a week later?

Just say 'no'.

I just hope the MTBF exceeds the time required to format one of these.

Could be a laptop computer or an earpiece device.

Grant this patent as soon as Tim Cook demonstrates shoving a laptop into his ear and not before.

Why do they call it a "trust"...

...when the people it is comprised of inspire the opposite emotion?

“you have to know how the brain works to program one of these”.

So, how many people that use a brain daily know how it works?

I wonder...

...would the judge maybe consider changing his mind if an EU arrest warrant were made out for him, along with an extradition request, on the grounds of incitement to contravene the European data protection act?

BadLepricon?

Are we looking for a dyslexic Irish person here?

Not using predictive text...

...is cheating. It has only ever served to slow me down by predicting wildly off target words or autocompleting words that were complete before the extra bits got tacked on.

As far as the test phrase goes, took me damn near 18.4 seconds to read it never mind try to type it!

Could have been phrased better

"we eagerly await the day when every product is made without the harmful toxins we have removed from ours"

I thought that was already the case. Or are they saying that they are selling on the harmful toxins they remove for other companies to use in manufacturing?

Sound financial analysis

Why on earth would anyone invest in a company that makes a few puny billions here and there when there are opportunities to put your every last penny into someone who wrote a moderately successful game for telephones and hopes to maybe write another?

Apple acted...

...not so much to "loosen Amazon's growing stranglehold on the emerging market", more to replace it with a more expensive stranglehold of their own.

I don't suppose...

...that Apple paying more tax than the 4 companies below it combined had anything whatsoever to do with making more profit than the same 4 combined.

Stylish

Even Ives couldn't have done a better job.

(Do I really need the sarcasm tags?)

Too late.

The data has already been sold. To Facebook. To comply with the original terms and conditions WhatsApp should have wiped all the personal data on completion of the sale.

Samsung owes the White House thanks...

...for Streisand effect upping the effectiveness of their tweet by an order of magnitude or two.

One day that lathe will break

Of those millions of 'must run' XP users, there will be hundreds of drop-outs on a daily basis as the hardware fails or a better solution turns up. The annual subscription goes up. The increased cost makes a few more users look for alternatives. It will soon enough come to an end anyway.

The only way to give it a really long run would be with a much bigger team actively developing. The users that drop out would be replaced by new users coming on board, hardware failing wouldn't be a problem as the system would now support the newer chipsets (USB3, etc.). If marketed from the outset on a subscription model with upgrades, patches and a commitment to respond to the collective wishes of the users, I can't see why it couldn't keep going for quite a while (except I can't see MS doing this).