It was her job to understand what she was doing, ignorance is no defense.
Posts by Oliver Mayes
574 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Nov 2008
Hillary Clinton private email server probe winding up – reports
UK carrier Three in network-wide ad-block shock
Re: Block three
I'd assume illegal in the sense of interfering with network traffic between the user and their destination. Even if it's something benign like stripping ads out of a webpage there's probably some law somewhere that classifies this as intercepting potentially confidential information.
Adblock Plus blocked from attending ad industry talkfest
Re: Keep on with the autoplaying auto-expanding video, sound, and light-show free-for-all
I find the most annoying ones are the normal looking adverts that have embedded code to redirect me to some malware filled website that tries to tell me that I have a virus and need to download their removal tool.
Assange™ to SQUAT in Ecuadorian broom closet for ANOTHER FIVE YEARS (maybe)
AIDS? Ebola? Nah – ELECTRO SMOG is our 'biggest problem', says Noel Edmonds
Lottery chief resigns as winning combo numbers appear on screen BEFORE being drawn
David Cameron: I'm off to the US to get my bro Barack to ban crypto – report
UK data cops warn Optical Express to stop spamming 1000s of customers
You stupid BRICK! PCs running Avast AV can't handle Windows fixes
Re: Another Laurel & Hardy moment
"Since Avast became mainstream, users of the free product (which used to be a true gem) are subject to popups like "Your PC can run faster", "Upgrade now", etc"
Not just the free product, I use the paid for version and they've started throwing adverts up at me all the time. I get about 10 popups a day from the client offering to sell me additional functionality. It's not possible to disable these popups without disabling the software.
Then there's the browser plugin, which includes a mandatory 'price comparison' component which inserts adverts for other websites whenever I buy something from Amazon. I had to disable the browser integration completely to get rid of that.
My license expires in about 6 months, I will definitely not be renewing it and will look for another AV. But I just can't find one these days that isn't a resource hog or hopelessly ineffective.
Why solid-state disks are winning the argument
I made the switch a few months ago, replaced my primary HDD with a Kingston HyperX 3k.
It was fantastic, really fast and simple to install. It lasted 4 months before completely failing and taking my data with it.
Now restored from backups I'm back to using a HDD. Think I'll wait another few years before risking it again.
Microsoft pulls another dodgy patch
Apple wins patent on charging iThings THROUGH THIN AIR
MPs wave through Blighty's 'EMERGENCY' surveillance laws
Can it be true? That I hold here, in my mortal hand, a nugget of PUREST ... BLACK?
Ads bandog berates Virgin Media in BSkyB broadband bumf bust-up
Alphadex fires back at British Gas with overcharging allegation
The IT Crowd tops BAFTA nominations with four nods
'Hello, is that the space station? NASA here. Can you put us through to Moscow?'
NASA: Vote now to put flashy lights on future spacesuits
Kent Police fined £100k for leaving interview vids of informants in old cop shop
Brit Bitcoin dev: I lost 'over £200k' when MtGox popped its socks
Mens sana in fibro sano: Virgin Media network-level smut filters are ON
My smelly Valentine: Europe's perfumers wake to V-Day nightmare
'No, I CAN'T write code myself,' admits woman in charge of teaching our kids to code
@Lusty
You've clearly never dealt with scope creep. Being given 2 weeks to complete a task but constantly having the goalposts moved further and further away as more is added into the requirements. And no matter how often you repeat that adding more functionality will push the completion date back there is always that moment some point after the 2 week original deadline where you get asked why you're taking so long to complete a simple 2 week task.
ISS astronauts to grow tomatoes and rice …. IN SPAAAAACE
Judge: Google owes patent troll a 1.36% cut of AdWords' BEELLIONS
Plusnet is working on a network-level filter to block pirate sites
Candy Crush dev stuffs EU 'candy' trademark down gob
ESA rejoices as comet-chasing Rosetta probe wakes from 3-year nap
Classy Oregon diners tipped waitress with 'crystal meth' – cops
China: 'JADE RABBIT' will be FOUND ON MOON
Are you experienced? The Doctor Who assistants that SUFFERED the most
What about Captain Jack? I think he's died more times than anyone, not to mention spending a few hundred years buried 'alive', being blown apart by a bomb in his stomach and painfully regrowing his body.
They should add an extra slice to that chart 'Traveled through time while clinging to the outside of the TARDIS'
Microsoft plugs Xbox One consoles into its cloud - what could go wrong?
Chinese building orbital lab by 2023 to make 'space medicine'
Full Steam Ahead: Valve unwraps plans for gaming hardware
Re: Watching with interest
"I know that I can go and buy any PS3 game today and it will work perfectly with the almost seven year old hardware I have."
And consoles like that are the reason that modern games have to be deliberately dumbed down. PC game development is stagnating because of the constant need to make them run on outdated hardware.