Posts by sabroni

Re: 100% funded by the UK government.

It's funded by us paying the license fee. Whether that counts as funded by government depends on how you view our democracy, I suppose....

Re: I imagine if that the tobacco industry were to cease operation...

....there would be even fewer hospital beds for the sick.

Does your imagination extend to imagining the reduction in lung cancer and other smoking related illnesses that would accompany the tobacco companies ceasing operation?

re: I think it's a bit naïve to think that just paying existing staff more....

...would change their behavior.

Indeed, but it's equally naive to think that you can incentivise staff to care about fraud when they're worried about whether the electricity will be on when they get home.

As usual, the situation is complex and solutions like "pay more" or "care more" aren't very helpful.

Re: From the site that loves to hate on Apple

Aww, were the nasty journalists rude about your favourite global corporation? What a bunch of bastards....

re: We all know that incognito mode is used for viewing pron

It is, but there are other uses. I'm logged in to youtube in an incognito tab so my google id doesn't follow me around all my other tabs.

(It's spelt porn, there's no need to by coy.)

Re: you'd be better off actually VOTING for someone to change the system itself.

No, voting for someone to change the system is unlikely to change it. If Apple were to find that their legal bullying was costing them some money, however little, that'd change their behaviour.

Re: How dare they expect something they paid for

It's on kickstarter, not Amazon. They've funded the development of the project. That's not the same as ordering a product off the shelf.

If they don't understand the difference then who's to blame? Should we ban crowdfunding sites because some people don't understand how they work?

It's a bummer when an investment doesn't pay off. If you can't afford that risk don't take it.

Re: Why is a comment like this made as Anonymous Coward?

The only reason i can think of is that it's not true.

Re: Canadians are simply disarmed Americans with health care.

Admittedly they don't have more guns than people like Americans do, but Wikipedia puts them at 11th in the world for armed residents so they're still pretty tasty. The fact they don't kill each other as much as citizens of the USA isn't because they don't have guns.....

Re: It is actually worse with Windows 10

I disagree. Users can uninstall Windows 10. Try using the internet without Google watching and see how far you get.

Re: Then they crashed into the ground in a huge ball of flames. What does that tell you about them?

It doesn't tell you anything about the Liberals. It tells you a lot about the electorate.

re: Talk to the wife? Pah!

I bet she's gutted.

Re: Computer Misuse Act?

Hmm, kind of, but would you buy a door with a lock that worked with any key, or a car that just started when someone got into it? There comes a point where you're actively encouraging people to abuse your stuff....

If your device is configured so anyone saying "OK Google" activates it then how can you complain when someone says "OK Google" and it's activated? Are you saying that people shouldn't be allowed to say "OK Google" around google stuff? It's a slippery slope if we allow Google to take control of our mouths.

Google need to roll out a voice filter so that these things respond to recognised users and not everyone within earshot. (Or just get rid of the creepy listening crap. God knows I've tried to disable it on my new android phone but it still kept fucking chiming in last time I was using it for navigation....)

Re: Kind of the point i am making.......

Really? You didn't do a very good job then.

Re: No, they all seem quite enthused...

And if you were living there you'd make it clear that you disagreed with them? How long do you think you'd be able to keep that going before you were executed?

re: I think you'll find that's what we do :-)

Is it that the moderators have finally become as tired of the MS bashing as the rest of us non-freetards? (paytards?) You've got to admit it's pretty fucking samey.....

Re: A platform built on sand

>> One of the major goals with the version 4 release, said Fluin, was to avoid the breaking changes that occurred between version 1 and version 2. <<

So the Angular devs agree with you. Did you read the article?

Re: So more like two glasses of red at dinner

Back off Brussels!!!

Re: I wonder why so many commentards came to exactly the same instant conclusion

It's called prejudice.

Re: Micro$oft sux

I believe the commentards prefer "Slurp". It's like they don't know what Google Analytics is.

Re: Chinese worry me less than Microsoft, GCHQ and NSA.

But you're ok with Google?

Re: Why even link to a paywall article?

Those who have a subscription can follow the link?

re: Many, many phenomena in physics were predicted long before they could be detected

Indeed, that is how science works. Nevertheless, before the proof is concrete it's sensible to take the theory with a pinch of salt.

It does look like a bodge though. Calling it "amending the model to fit the data" sounds better as long as you don't think about it for too long.

Re: Lots of shouty, no content

Follow the link and read the article. Despite being full of language like "Javascript is notorious for security problems" which really doesn't help much they do go into quite a lot of detail about the javascript vulnerabilities they're talking about. I've only scanned it but it looks like it'd be worth a proper look at some point!

Re: The CIO didn't get the bullet for a complete failure of leadership.....

They'd be happy to take the bonus when the team perform well though.

re: had the owner registered with Google Business ... this could have been resolved

Nice business you've got here, looks very profitable! Wouldn't it be a pity if something bad were to happen to it? Say if people thought you'd closed down, just as an example....

What you need is protection buddy, and we're just the internet search giants to give it to you. All you have to do is sign here....

We should do something to correct this imbalance.

Stop committing crimes?

Re: It sounds like the old Windows cruft idea

It does sound like that but my old Android had slowed up loads over the course of 2 years and I seldom install apps, or update the ones I have. As well as slowing down the phone is also getting buggier (it keeps dropping the music player from the lock screen now, a feature I've used since I got the phone but which has become flaky in the last 3 months.)

I've got nothing useful to add about how Android gets in this state, but in my experience (with my phone and the kids phones) Android degrades with use irrespective of how much you install.