Posts by Tommy Pock

So next time some macho experienced climbers with several hundred pounds of gear and six tents each manage to scale Ben Nevis, they can just remember that once it was scaled by a woman from Brighton wearing flip-flops.

Kinda takes the edge off

RING RING

"He.. *BANG*

This whole debacle mirrors Gamergate

I didn't have a bloody clue what was going on then, either.

The Android FB app doesn't work on Blackberry

You have to find a legacy apk for some lost and forgotten version which will work on BB10. The Google Play version won't login.

Face10 works but it isn't free. (Native Blackberry app but uses the Android API)

Makes no difference. The courts ordered the government to release the results of an impact assessment on the Health and Social Care bill in 2012.

The government just ignored them.

There are 650 MPs. There are also 400,000 lampposts in London; more than enough.

Trolling isn't abuse, trolling is funny. Abuse isn't funny.

I had a Pre3, and fell in love with that thing. I've hated every single touch screen phone I've had since; although the Lumia 1020 was the least worse.

But, the 7th time that went in for repair, Vodafone replaced it - against my will - with a godawful Sony M4 Aqua. I hated that phone. I hated that phone more than any piece of tech I've ever used. So I sold it at CEX for £93 and put the money towards a Blackberry Classic. It really feels like I'm at home again. I have no Google services at all, I have all the apps I need (basically a browser and sat nav) and even the laughable camera isn't as catastrophically bad as the M4's.

I've got a lot of time for Blackberry. Let's hope the Priv can get a lot of people to fall back in love with them again, so they can fuck Android off. BB10 blows it out of the water. Using Android is too high a price for me just to have a keyboard

I need to update the software on my wristwatch but my wife's charging her cigarette.

The future is rubbish.

Good grief.

So going to make a cup of tea during the adverts is theft, is it?

Dealing with a site with drastic anti-adblock measures is as simple as deleting a bookmark.

Anybody who flew an A-10 Warthog on the Dreamcast's Deadly Skies will know it's the best non-British aeroplane in the world

Avoid the M4

I can't update iPlayer due to the OS taking up 5GB of the phone's 8GB total. Sony have put 2GB of unremoveable crap on it as well. The M4 cannot be rooted.

The phone is crippled to a state of uselessness the moment you take it out of the box.

The shiny transparent plastic back can be scratched by placing it on a hard surface. A case is essential.

The camera is catastrophically bad.

Spies got spied.

It couldn't have happened to a nicer country.

Camera protrudes gracefully from the back

That sounds marvellous. The camera on the back of my Lumia 1020 protrudes from the back with aching vulgarity

Ignore the title of my previous comment. No idea how that got there; I'll turn my phone off and on again.

I know reality TV

So that'll be two blondes, two brunettes, a token Asian man, two body builders, two extremely camp, shrieking men, an ageing American model and a blind Scotsman with one arm.

Pixar

Don't you dare call Up a Disney film. Disney make shoddy plastic toys and talking electronic Disney Princess cash registers. Up is, was, and always will be, a Pixar film.

Why would you get one of these

and not a Carver One?

If you say 'price' then you are not this toy's target market

Nope.

And the chances of the apps I have on Windows Phone 8.1 working on Windows 10 are...?

Keeping WP 8.1 on my 1020. I'm not stupid.

India's the target market

But India wants Java on its featurephones. This doesn't support Java apps. Useless.

This is from the same people who thought Windows RT was a good idea.

They'll probably introduce jumping for coins next.

Someone else will gladly step up to the plate.

We step up to the crease. While we're discussing semantics in language, please remember that we play cricket, not rounders.

ClamTK

It’s also important to take pity on those who use more vulnerable systems

No it isn't.

Particularly if you share files with them on a regular basis, for the risk of inadvertently becoming a carrier is high.

No it isn't.

The risk of me or any other Linux user reading this inadvertently adding an .exe attachment to an outgoing email is nil.

"Britain's buses don't have enough rocket engines or machine guns attached to the front" says bus driver.

New In This Version

Store the keystrokes of every user on a PC, save them unencrypted locally, and also have them sent as plain text to a third party server God knows where.