Posts by Robert E A Harvey
2414 posts • joined Sunday 8th October 2006 16:17 GMT
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Posted in ISPs end PM's web smut block dream
Bone idle bastards
I can recall campaigning in the 1990s for them to develop spam-proof email, but 'nothing to do with us, chief'. Still the same. Giving customers a hollow choice over what they do on their own machines will cost them nothing.
It is this sort of 'give us money, we do nothing to earn it' attitude that will lead to government legislation, and that will be a shambles
Posted in Viz Profanisaurus
From tonight's news
We can expect TalkTalk, Sky, and BT to block this then?
I want to disagree
But I read the article twice and I am still not sure what point is being made.
So I sort of basically feel in disagreement with something or other.
.bum
It ain't the domain that's the problem.
It's the bankers.
Some of Stallman's achievements have been very important, world changing, liberating.
But he can be a complete arse sometimes.
Single instance
I know CCmail used to do this, and do it well. Atachments were singled out too, held once even if appearing to be duplicated in replies and forwards, or dragged into completely new threads.
I've see no evidence that exchange does any of this.
Confused
$MEGACORP enforces a 5Gb limit for network profiles, including shadows of 'my documents' and of outlook email.
It then tells us to use rtf format emails. Most company-wide emails are html format.
Then there is a retention policy that, as far as I can see, means we have to keep everything except birthday-cake-at-the-watercooler announcements. For >6 years. The retention policy includes rules on email naming conventions that I have /never/ seen the management respect, and on trimming quotation of older emails that I have /never/ seen the management respect either.
My .pst files are around 10Gb each, and I have been given a 500G LaCie to shadow them on. In five years no-one has once asked if I am doing that.
According to the policy failure to retain emails is my fault.
Posted in The effects of Consumerisation results
I doubt non-tech people would cope with the questions!
Posted in Panasonic HM-TA20 underwater camcorder
flat nonsense
I really don't understand this flat video camera layout.
How are you supposed to hold it steady, look at the screen, and do things like pan or zoom?
Posted in Panasonic DMR-HW100 HDD DVR
Internut
So, you can connect to Viera and view what they want you to. Big * deal.
If I am going to plug in the internut I want to be able to run a browser and watch everything I can on my computer, otherwise no deal.
Here is a hint
Perhaps, Mr Obama, if you didn't go round the world pissing people off and bombing their weddings then you would not have to be all panicy that one of them might come visiting while a bit cross.
It's not an iron lung, you know
I really don't care if the computers work or not.
It's a sports day and a political bunfight. None of it matters.
well, quite
It is very difficult for people without a good enough education, or experience, to discriminate 'correlation' from 'causality', for a start.
Sshh
If Elop finds out about Meltimi...
Posted in The $35 android tablet, a snip at $50
Yes, a one page 'getting started' in multiple languages, is quite a book.
14 in the constitution, 22 in the courts, 415 languages according to the UN: The census of 1961 recognized 1,652 languages used in India
Surely when the cat is asleep you have to consider its rest mass instead?
Posted in Samsung seeks bans on the iPhone 4S
Time, time
I just want there to be so many patent suits going on that the entire world's mobile phone network gets switched off. I may get some work done to schedule then.
@euchrid
A fair argument - but why, then, do so many 10" netbooks retail at half of that figure?
What is this 'holiday' of which you speak, oh alien one?
I can't remember the last one of them
Posted in HTC Evo 3D Android smartphone
The Evo won’t allow you to take portrait shots in 3D.
umm.
Do you know many people with one eye above the other?
radio
The real solution is PMR446 radios?
You can't be arrested for having one of they, they sell them in chavshops
Posted in Premier League loses footie decoder case
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
He he he he he he he he he he he he
Pricing
the Yougov result should be no surprise to anyone reading the comments here, on enGadget, and a million and one other places.
It is a mark of the greed and stupidity of HP, Rim, etc. that they tried to sell at the Apple price point.
Posted in Crystal Acoustics MediaMatchBox
nice...
Only place to put this on my telly would be round the back. Does the IR remote work well with reflected paths, or does it have to be line-of-sight?
Thurrock?
Lakeside?
Do they do a version upholstered in Burbury check?
Posted in Belgian buccaneers invade Rockall
what happened to the Riockall Times web site? That wasn't you lot was it?
Posted in Belgian buccaneers invade Rockall
yer thinking of Gruinard - would not get any sheep to stay on Rockall!
Next it will be the sneezing tax, I tell you.
Bollocks to this, I'm going to stick to cash.
Whats to stop the rozzers anonymously vibing...
Err, The fact that they are rozzers, and as thick as pigsh*t?
And?
What else are they good for? Decorating bedrooms? Cooking steak?
He asks mischeviously
I wonder if this would have been as easy to spot on any other phone OS?
s/confused/really annoyed/
>If anyone else had made it, it would have taken over the world by now
Yes. Arriving working, and not falling to bits in 2 weeks would have made a huge difference
uggerem
I don't enter into a contract to buy 30 gallons of petrol a month from BP and get a free Astra. I go and buy my Alfa and then fill it up whereever I choose.
People should buy their own handsets, then they will have the authority to decide what features shoulod be in it, not some vested-interest bandit
The correct response would be:
"Yeah. Dumb. We'e told the useless twat that if he does it he will be out. Keep an eye on him, and let us know, will you?"
Posted in Acer Timeline X 5830T
Did you boot Linux to find out what worked and what didn't? And if not, why not?
NTFFO
Are we still without orbital weapons to test?
Posted in Linux Foundation merges MeeGo into Tizen
missed opportunity
They should have called it Tizer. No-one can decide if that has a good or bad flavour
Gem
I had to run the Gem desktop for an OU module. What happened to that?
Long tradition
Rocks ahead. Time to put on the grey furry suit with the long tail, stick on some whiskers, and desert.
Posted in Ten... all-in-one inkjet printers
.inf
..of which none were supplied with the MFP supplied by the office.
I just reclaimed my yahoo name, for grins, and found a cluttered portal, not a search engine. There must be some incompatibility with something I set in 1998.
Paragraph 2?
Does this article origintate elsewhere?
Its the banks, stupid
Banks owe a duty of care over credit cards which they want to say won't affect NFC. If someone rips off yer nfc device, they will argue that it is your problem like losing cash.
In the first round there was a £50 spend limit before a pin validation was required, in various forms. It is the vends within this total, the 60p newspaper, that is being sold as 'fast and convenient' - you don't see people using pins with oyster cards.
I think this is why most of the action is in the phone arena, despite banks issuing nfc equipped cards. The banks are trying to pretend it is nothing to do with them, whilst still raking off their merchant fees etc.
I want none of it at all. No-one asked me, it is just being foisted on us by vested interests
Posted in MS denies secure boot will exclude Linux
Another snag
Assuming you want to stay with windows, how will the motherboard code learn the key for windows 9? or 10? Not only will this daft idea stop you running linux or qubes or whatever, but there is a good chance you will need a new mobo for each new version of windows.
Who benefits from that?
M$ ? yes
Mobo makers ? yes
users ? -err - umm - no.
