Posts by John Lilburne

Re: Right now I can see only specialist application

We had some people in the office recently that were making injection mould for small parts by 3D printing.

Re: Holy Moley!

What makes you think we'd want you to register. Its not as if you'll ever be a customer.

Re: tut tut...... naughty step for you.

I suspect that one one will actually give a rats arse. For example all those that supported SOPA got increased majorities at the last US elections. Most people don't care about any of it.

Google should be shut down just because.

Re: VMs are your friend

Currently I#m listening to "Moon Rise Over the Silk Road".

Re: So why didn't google make the play store push out system updates?

"It was designed right for what its intended use was"

The distribution of malware to add to Google's coffers?

Re: Usability

Why do you need to compare when for the majority of users MS comes pre-installed. When getting a new machine they don't say "Tell you what don't stick windows on it, I'll do it myself, naw scrub that I'll put linux on instead.". My colleague was saying the other day that Linux is a hobby it needs careful and continuous messing with, its just that you don't notice you are doing it.

Re: ads

ad-blocker you have to work at. If you notice it comes configured to let a load of doubleclick ads through the filter.

Re: Please start being parents...

The parents?

Re: How are Apple (or Amazon) acting illigally

TAX laws haven't kept pace with companies that exist in the crevices between jurisdictions. Apply, Google, Amazon, and the rest only make a profit because they benefit from society. They benefit from insurance systems, transportation systems, financial systems, from health care systems, and a whole host of other systems. They could not make any profit if they were working within a Somalian government system.

At some point they need to stop freeloading on the rest of us, and pay their fair share.

Re: So what is the difference between No. 10 and 1600 Pennsylvania

Google are equal opportunity employers they 've bought the repubs too. They spunked out $18 million on US lobbying last year.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/14/america-s-new-oligarchs-fwd-us-and-silicon-valley-s-shady-1-percenters.html

but hey they'll offer you a bag of sweets, and you'll climb into their cars.

Re: copyright != human right

Blithering freetard.

Article 27 of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml

Re: 55 percent?

It doesn't matter how tougher sites are at password mandating, I'll use the same strong one for all of the bastards. The more sites feck about with passwords the more likely it is that we'll stick them in the plain text file. And there is nothing wrong with fido282 for most of the useless websites we access.

Re: Hmm... @ AC no 1

"How many people does she employ that are paying NI etc?"

Fiddling is a way of life. If they are fiddling the tax its odds on they'll be fiddling the NI too. Probably deducting at source and not passing it on to the taxman. In years to come their employees may find they don't have quite as much NI credit as they thought they did.

Re: Is it really a DDOS?

There aren't that amount of idiots in the world.

Re: Not hacking...

Its a bit like walking down the street and trying every car door until you find an open one, then pissing on the seats and leaving a not saying thank me for just pissing and not talking a dump.

Re: iPad app

Some of us don't give a shit about business and competitors. It ain't all about money.

Re: Ok here we go again

"Because poor people and scumbags don't have a very good memory "

And neither it appears do fuckwits on web forums. NHS targets were first introduced by John Major as part of the 1991 Patient’s Charter.

Re: "genuine culture of equality"

Its the asses you need to worry about.

Re: re. John Lilburne

The adverts pay for the content, if the single bit of content is being spread about a dozen or more outlets only one of which is creating the content, and in addition there is a 10th or more drop in the revenue per paying advertiser on the content creator website, then there is no business for creating the content. The content creator might just as well scrape the content from other sites.

What you end up with is a contraction in voices. You see it everywhere, where a company press release is simply recast and then copied across 20 or 30 other sites. When was the last time you saw any original content on HuffingtonPost, content that wasn't simply cribbed from elsewhere or a regurgitated press release?

The hivemind in tech journalism has reached the point where any negative press or critical opinion is viewed as either an aberration, or heresy.