Posts by Tom 35

Re: What kind of conservatives want to tax everything?

It's working great for Trump... right?

Re: 4,000 nuclear warheads

The child proof caps came out when I was a kid, mom used to get me to open them for her.

Do they have to block service in Australia

If it's a free service I would think just have a check box "Are you in Australia [ ]" If you check it, OK, Bye.

If you lie and say you don't live in Australia, well not my fault.

This reminds be of the days of 40 bit international versions of browsers with the download page for the better US version where you swear not to give it to China or other "bad" countries. That worked great.

Re: Typical

" It gave too much power to those unaccountable to We The People."

So who has the power now? Comcast?

Not We The People, that's for sure.

Re: Conspiracy theory?

And look what MS did to Windows 8 to try and make phones and computers look the same.

Re: Plain text

I like knocking stuff off my desk too.

Re: Clear personal data ?

I think all cars have a clear data option, but on some you will never find it without a search or reading the manual. It will be something like settings -> advanced -> other -> more -> more -> data -> clear -> are you sure?

Re: Infringing files

"Copyright no... trademark infringement instead.. yes."

No, I revived a notice for a 1.5k text file that happened to have a name close to a Madonna song. It's all bots and no one looks at the output.

Re: Shame

"How do these laws help the legal sex worker?"

They don't. They may even be the real target of the law and the Think of the Children only added so they can call anyone opposed to the bill a pervert.

The GOP ran an investigation into voter fraud

Because they wanted to learn how to do it better.

Re: I thought printing systems

Computers do what you say, not what you mean.

Re: The mistake of a non compatible OS....

Well they did go to Windows Mobile first, I think that's what killed them. If they had gone to something like WebOS from the start...

Re: "If there are no ID cards no one can demand them,"

"My bullshit-o-meter hit the endstop"

Your lucky, mine burst into flames and fell over.

Re: Re "putting the phone down is almost always the right thing to do."

I always consider it a challenge to get them to swear at me. For the ones with Indian accents telling them how disappointed their mothers must be after all the work of raising you only to get a cheap crook, works almost every time.

Re: Symptoms of misguided policies

Add for profit prisons. Drugs are easily the number one source of "customers" and they need to expend their jail utilization to boost profits. That's whey the GOP is so against pot legalization

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"something in the media that I disagree with"

No, that's just the Trump version.

Re: What about switching the pump off?

He was probably on hold waiting for permission to push the button.

Re: AT&T has no reason to believe......

They have made sure that it's all authorized and paid for in full.

Re: Why would they?

GMO? Who cares about that. It's antibiotics, grown hormones, veg sprayed with liquefied pig crap "fertilizer".

Re: Good.

And marked up 1,000%

Re: Autocomplete on a name

Google search also gives different results depending on what you have searched for in the past. When I entered Dave I get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibfQX11aPmg

Could the "threat to security" be that they are not compromised? They don't come with a preinstalled backdoor for the CIA and friends?

Re: It's simple

So the US, England, and other "good" countries get to access the keys. How about China? India? Argentina? Afghanistan? Florida? Texas?

Who decides who has access?

Only for outright crooks

Sure the fake "I'm calling from Microsoft" calls. But the ones selling services you can make the customer of the calling service pay. Joe's carpet cleaning and it's owner can pay if they hire an Indian call center to make calls

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Re: So they...

"Then they turn right around and start a new company based on the old one's business plan."

And the same staff, and the assets the old company sold to the new company (for $1 and consulting fees).

They have moved across the street and have a new name.

Re: Get this round my area..

"This is purely because of the extortionate costs of dumping rubbish at the council owned tips."

Some people will not pay anything, and even if it was free some would still dump it where ever it was easy.

Re: Can't lawmakers be sacked for being too dim to be useful?

That big pot of frogs on the stove are just getting comfortably warm about now.

Re: When USB sticks are illegal.....

I can see someone having "fun" at a best buy store.