Posts by Oor Nonny-Muss

Advertising based on your habits is pointless though - my washing machine died, I browsed a lot for a new one. All my adverts *after* I'd bought one were for washing machines. Don't know about you folks, but I only need the one...

Can I be the first to say "What a Siri™ boy" :)

Why not quit the freeloading?

Buy a local SIM and some airtime/data - it's not rocket science.

Mine's the one with a stack of SIMs from many nations in it.

What about any semblance of security...

Presumably these APs are all running open with no encryption - being run by unknown operators (who may well be nefarious and packet sniffing everything that passes through) - I'll be waiting for Watchdog telling us all how nasty and horrible it all is when Mrs Aylett from Basildon has her bank account emptied after she walked down Oxford Street minding her own business and used the free wifi to check her bank balance.

I'll be sticking to my own data connection that I control and know (as far as possible) where the packets are going.

NFC in a handset allows the user to check their bank balance on demand

Like logging in to your internet banking on your phone (either via browser or app)?

>> Analyst firm Gartner even predicted 2013 would see Lenovo would knock Samsung off its perch as China's top mobile vendor.

Gosh! Did Gartner maybe get that completely wrong?

Who would have thought it. Gartner analysis is always right and we should all pay rapt attention to their edicts.

>> In a blog post, Ryan Gavin, Windows general manager, wrote: “Very few of us believe that sharing some personal data online is a bad thing. It’s part of our everyday routines to fill out profiles, login to sites, and oftentimes provide personal information like our credit card or phone numbers in order to take advantage of all the web has to offer. In fact, the more personal and relevant the web gets, the better it can get.

In a comment on the Register, I wrote: "There are a lot of idiots out there who willingly fork over virtually everything you could ever want to know about them (but never needed to or wanted to know about them), typically more than enough to be able to hijack (and empty) their bank account etc. In fact the more places you provide that information, the better it is because it corroborates the first source. If a site asks for your date of birth and it has no valid reason, give it one but not yours... if it asks for your mother's maiden name - pick a friend of yours and use their mother's maiden name..."

I did wonder what was stopping me pulling up at the free EV juice point (in say a supermarket car park) with a van load of car batteries (connected via suitable circuitry and a compatible plug of course) to charge to supply my off-grid lifestyle... seems the answer is "nothing". Yay.

Blue Streak Unsuccessful?

It was actually the single most successful project of its type that the MoD had ever run - no misfires, no failures. Right up to the part where it was pulled due to American political pressure.

Do they need....

.... extended warranties on accessorising tat?

I wonder what happens to the charging...

... when the road is designed for say 80000 vehicles per day and I assume the charging infrastructure would follow that and then 196000 vehicles per day use it?

Perhaps I'm missing the point...

Why would I want to go to Yahoo! to get Bing search results? Surely I'd go to Bing...

Not that I would go to Bing ordinarily...

Surely...

... if it's going to cost the Daily Fail $150k penalty per go that's a good thing?

>>Perhaps they too realized how goofy you might look when taking pictures with a tablet.

I didn't believe people actually did that until I saw it with my own eyes at the weekend at the Fat Slag (the operators of the site prefer to refer to it as "Northumberlandia"). Tarquin was there taking a picture of granny after she'd removed the iPad from her huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge handbag. Made the pioneer days of Fox Talbot look positively portable.

Wait a minute...

Could we not all club together in rural-land to plan loads of wireless... thus provoking BT to whip out their shovels and put fibre in the ground then retire the plans... then take those plans to the next village, rinse and repeat.