* Posts by 2-Part Return

5 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Oct 2011

Facebook needs Opera - to rescue it from dependence on Apple

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As an Opera user

I would find that sad news. I rarely use Opera turbo/mini these days, so the privacy issues aren't much of a worry for me although they would certainly exist. And for Opera, greater exposure would be nice, web developers might actually begin to acknowledge its existence.

I do worry that the browser would become a social Facebook interface covered in branding and unremovable methods of 'liking' things. While gradually losing anything that might, one day, possibly cause a typical Facebook user confusion. e.g. Dragonfly, mail, feeds, right click, windows, user scripts, ad blocking capabilities

Google plonks reCAPTCHA on Street View, makes users ID your house

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Bit longer than a week

I got one of those in November. Number "190" on the same blue plate style thing.

stop spam. read books. update coordinates.

Third of Blighty stuck on snail-speed broadband

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It wouldn't be so bad if living in an area with low speed didn't mean paying more than people who get a faster speed elsewhere.

Where I come from, the exchange has no unbundled providers, which means firstly that you don't qualify for a lot of offers such as x months free with Sky, and secondly you have to pay an extra monthly tenner on the advertised price because it costs the ISP to resell BT's bandwidth.

Somehow though, using BT directly still works out more expensive.

GiffGaff boots freetards off mobile network

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"Allow users to *easily* see how much data they are using..."

That. That right there.

Especially when the best provider you can get in an area offers a 20gig fair usage, at ~£30 per month, throttles anything that streams, such as YouTube. Then phones up threatening to kick you off after you go two gig over the fair usage once in 9 months.

I was under the impression "fair usage" provided some leeway and took usual usage into account, but no, apparently those gigabytes downloaded in the early hours of the morning were having a serious detrimental effect on other users. Yeah.. right.

I should probably call them once a week to find out how much data I've used, I couldn't find it on their site.

/unintentional rant about O2

Google dumps + from Boolean search tool

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Damn

Damn. I was hoping that was temporary. Adding &nfpr=1 to the end of the search address seems to stop the spelling "correction" though, which is half the reason I used the plus in the first place. So that's something, whatever it stands for.