Posts by Pirate Peter

BT forum mods moved to apple?

have the BT phorum moderators been employed by apple?

seems to be a complete image of what BT did over any mention of phorm etc

seems to be a common line now by any big corp

if we don't like it we will just delete any thread and threaten / ban the user because we can

peter

the government want me to access more services online?

i may when they stop wasting money on this sort of crap , facebook groups (which i do not have a profile on because it leaks PII worse than a hm gov website), giving my date to google analytics because they can't be bothered to analyse data themselves and prove they can look after my data securely

and then make our ineffective enforcement agencies like the ICO grow a pair and apply real penalties to those who abuse my data

then i may just engaged with hm gov online and only then

not wasted my time reading the document after seeing some of the comments here

i wonder what a screen reader app for the visually impair would make of the document

peter

ever tried imaging dell computers?

i could quite understand the reaon for not wanting dell

on a number of occasions i have been on projects where i have had to image a number of dell machines, all the same model and spec, but bought at different times

on every occasion i ended up having to deploy a number of different images due to differences in chipset / motherboard

this is a nightmare for any support partner and why i now specify HP or other leading brands, as he lower price is soon accounted for by additional engineering time if you deploy dell kit so in the end the TCO / deploment costs are higher than other manufacturers

to there defence i should state the reliability of dell kit is good but it is best suited to home / small deployments from my personal experience

peter

sp takes a dump

the normal kent effect is in full swing

kent ertugrul speaks and the share price takes a dive

PHRX Share Price: 142.50 Bid: 125.00 Ask: 160.00 Change: 0.00 (-28.75%)

PHRM Share Price: 157.50 Bid: 150.00 Ask: 165.00 Change: 0.00 (-5.97%)

good to see everyone has such confidence in him

the thing to note is the drop in the PHRX price these are held by a far smaller group as there are restrictions on who can hold them and trade themand these tend to be steadier even when there is bad news around

so much for raising the cash in brazil!!, whats up kent investors over there not interested due to all the attention DPDC, CCJ and CADE are giving you and your "partners" and the debate in korea is not exactly going your way either

peter

and the next question is ??

is this a taste of things to come with their next generation desktop OS?

because if they can get away with it on mobiles what is to stop them adding the same features to the next desktop OS or even the next service pack

if they think they can make money and get away with it they will do it, look at BT,VM,TT etc and phorm

if it is, expect more people to migrate to linux

peter

and this upturn happened when

would this have anythng to do with the relaxing of privacy controls then having to wind them back in? but to late the genie (private data) was already out of the bottle

and the encouraging user to share everything by default

users private lives being monetorised again

peter

they did not know???

so when the first batch of data was uploaded why did they not say " erm, i thought we was only collecting mac's and ssid's" and then changed the software to correct the data collection?

that in itself shows intent, as they carried on collecting the data, that combined with the different way encrypted and unencrpted data was processed shows it was desirable to collect the raw data

i wonder if they were scanning the unencrpted data for google cookies etc to further tie location, person, google user down

could they also be looking to tie email addresses to users, there is so much you can do with that sort of data depending on what the user was doing when the google car crawled past

my wifi is encrpted , but i am still considering replacing it and changing my ssid just to screw googles database by making my data useless (may swap it with the mother in laws several miles aways :)

as to the question of dhcp addresses etc, google do not care, the cookies etc will link the new ip to you in no time at all , how many people clear down the cookies when they close a browser session??

also as to mac addresses and ssid's changing, one has to wounder if now and again andriod phone report back to base with updated information when you do a geolocation?

someone needs to look at the source code me thinks of that app

peter

mines the jacket without an andriod or windows phone in it, spying on me

WHO DO THEY SHARE THIS WITH

the big question is why do they want you to expose these links to other sites and update

the reason is simple, more information = more money

if you provide them with the information that your joe.blogs yahoo account is the same as your fred.blogs facebook account and the same as your phil.blogs twiter account etc, they can then share (probably read sell) that information to others so they can also build more upto date / complete profiles of you

you probably built the seperate named profile in the hope it was harder to link them (or one was work eg linkedin, seperate nickname for your gaming etc) and all this sharing just undoes all that work of keeping thing seperate in one go

all of this has one aim of getting as much information about each person as possible so they can be tracked across multiple social network sites easilly and linking many disimilar named accounts.

this information is then able to sold to anyone (they say shared with carefully selected partners) to see this in action try and find the list of partners or email them and ask them outright who they have "SHARED" you details with and exactly what information about you has been shared

do not expect an answer from them

peter

bonuses do not add to basic pay

"performance-based payments are its favoured approach."

yep because they do not add to basic salary so they are basically a way of implimenting a pay freeze

all this when the top brass award themselves an inflation busting payrise and big bonuses

time for the shareholders to vote down the boards renumeration package until it is fair across the board, oh sorry that won't happen old boys club and everything

peter

time to dust off the old brick

this is why i have resisted upgrading my trusty nokia 6310i

if they can display adverts on that screen best of luck to them, aall i get is the odd carp text message

i don't want some data raping advertiser to use my bandwidth to try and display something i have not wanted on the off chance i may click on the advert, and if it has java scripting etc in it it will try and profile my browser settings to identify me or gather data without my permission from my device

adblock for iPad anyone?

peter

chocolate teapot justice rules

"receiving a three year community order and a ban on sending or receiving images over mobile phones or computer networks (Sex Offenders' Prevention Order), along with the usual entry on the sex offenders' register"

and how may i ask is the ban on sending images going to be monitored?

it is totally unenforcable unless someone grasses him up

peter

fools and there money

thing is if you have £20k to blow on this sort of scam you are very often greedy and looking for a quick profit

they say a fool and there money are soon parted, this seems to be the case

i work by the mantra "if it seems to good to be true, it probably is" and steer well clear

simple precaution, take a company name, phone number (see if it the same as on the caller ID), check it out (ggogle the phone number / contact details etc) and if it is legit then consider ringing back or going with your normal financial advisor

this sort of greed / fast buck mentality is what screwed the economy

but it is good to see a UK regulator being proactive, (or even at active) and trying to protect the small man and not big business for a change

peter

a small list of third party site

and will facebook publish that list of sites so users can see where their data is going?

what will those third party sites do with the data,

sell it on?

add it to ther datasets ?

the thought is just too dire to comprehend, when you think of the level of personal information, and facebook being based in the US is outside UK data protection laws (not certian if it is part of the safe harbour agreement but doubt it)

users beware where you spread personal information as once it is released you can never erase it

peter

synical view

i am concerned when the likes of google and M$ join together to lobby government

they only have their own interests at heart, and if they can dress it up as being on joe publics side they will to get their way

so the question is

"what is in this change for them"

less time and cost in complying with government requests?

no one looking over their shoulder at the data they collect?

or are they losing business as joe public wises up to the personal information hoovers they are and want to be seen to try and help poor old joe public so they "trust" them

leopards do not change spots

peter

BT have lost sight of the customer

two points,

first one is

to BT , there seems to be no longer a concept of the customer paying for a service

they are now "revenue unit" where you push any old crap at like spammers do, the return of a few tenth of a percent responding positively makes "commercial sense" to them

the fact they will P!55 off more is ignored

the second one is

would you allow BT remote access to your computers rather than internal I.T?

just read the forums (if BT have not cleansed all the negative comments) about the issues with indian call centres causing more problems than they fix, due to reducing security setting, setting things back to factory defaults and removing setting where people have secured their systems

i left BT due to phorm and DPI

they just seem to love giving people a reason to leave

everyone should get LLU broadband so they do not traverse any BT network kit

and finally watch out for long term contracts designed to lock you into an ISP, as if you dislike what they do, like above it is difficult / expensive to move to a new isp

peter

ads and malware

google wants us to accept adverts

big fail with the issues of ads infected with malware as reported by el reg http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/24/doubleclick_distributes_malware/

still occurring yesterday on el reg web site reported by a user on nodpi https://nodpi.org/forum/index.php/topic,889.msg27758.html#msg27758

until they clean up their act adblock etc will stop all averts, flash and TACO will automatically opt me out of most data collection

not on my phorne

so what is to stop a member of the family who is on pay as you got borrowing my phone which is contract, getting the text message code and charging things to my account (being family they will know the poost code / zip code)

not enough security for me, same as contactless credit cards and wave the phone at a pay point

big fail

peter

pay peanuts

as they say pay peanuts, get monkey

was someone trying to save a few quid of the marketing budget and hired a cheaper than normal outfit without vetting their methods and client list??

peter