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...
Posts by Oor Nonny-Muss
142 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Nov 2011
Dry those eyes, ad blockers are unlikely to kill the internet
Transport for London’s new crash map immediately crashes
BT boss: If Ofcom backs us, we promise to speed up UK broadband
So... my line (I live 350m from the exchange by road) which is 1750m long (shortened by a whole 85m by the upgrade to "fibre") runs entirely in ductwork that has been there since the house was built (the trenchlines right back to the exchange are still entirely visible in the roadway from the entry to the development)
Do I get any option to get FTTP? Of course not. Amazingly I got 42Mbit sync speed (with very low error count) at the point it was installed. That's down to 33Mbit sync speed now. Won't be long before I'm down to the speed I had on ADSL2...
Surely the Openreach arm should be entirely hived off from BT (at FMV) into an independent trust for the common good for proper equal access.
WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg
BT commences trials of copper-to-the-home G.fast broadband tech
Love-rat fanboi left bobbing for Apples in tiny Japanese bath
Aged 18-24? Don't care about voting? Got a phone? Oh dear...
Re: Apathy and abstention
>>The current system doesn't have a reliable way or even attempt to capture the difference between 'can't be arsed' and 'none of the above'.
It does:
Turn up, spoil your paper --> I'm bothered but you're all a shower of bastards and not worth my vote.
Don't turn up --> can't be arsed
BT inks deal with Williams F1 for go-faster cloudy goodness
UK govt preps World War 2 energy rationing to keep the lights on
Speaking in Tech: 'Why are you talking on your iPad Mini?'
Holiday HELL: Pourquoi, monsieur, why is there no merdique Wi-Fi here?
No signal in Seascale? Countryside Alliance wants to hook you up
Blighty street has hottest Wi-Fi hotspot hottie in Europe: We reveal where
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.
Amazon launches own currency
M&S shoppers make quarter of a million NFC payments a WEEK
Barnes & Noble bungs Raspberry Pi-priced Nook on shelves
Lenovo's mobile push stalls in China
Microsoft: Worried about web privacy? Tell us everything...
>> 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..."
'Leccy-stealing, grid-crippling hackers could take down EV-juicing systems
Magic mystery malware menaces many UK machines - new claim
Achtung! German Amazon workers out on strike
Yahoo! drops! size! limit! on! email! attachments! with aid from Dropbox
So, Twitter. 200m twits. How will you make your first billion? Oh, ads.
>>Gone are the days where putting an ad on a website made you enough to keep the site running
Have they? Mine is running a small surplus. One choice advertiser (not a network) who serves the demographic of the site. Advertiser is happy with the business that comes his way, I'm happy with what he pays me.
Blighty's revolutionary Cold War teashop computer - and Nigella Lawson
Young model ruthlessly fingers upskirt iPad petshop pervert
Android 'splits' into the Good and the lovechild of Bad and Ugly
For 99% of people...
... they don't give a rat's ass what version it's running only that it does what they want (be that navigate them from A to B, make calls, light browsing on the move,...) at the price they want in a device that is the size they want.
Case in point, my dearest other half - doesn't want a big phone and it needs to be able to send/receive SMS and run one of the many chat apps... Why would she want a top end phablet running the latest greatest?
I'm sure when it dies there'll be a panicked cast around for something she does like (although I have a spare phone identical to hers to allow at least some reduction in panic)
'Million-strong' zombie army devours Raspberry Pi's crunchy base
Wi-Fi hotspots, phone masts: Prepare to be assimilated by O2's Borg
Happy birthday, LP: Can you believe it's only 65?
Yahoo! 'OPTIMISES'! website! for! fondleslabs! AND Facebook!
Ousted Apple Store chief Browett is back selling shiny tat for ladies
Android? Like Marvin the robot? Samsung eclipses Google OS - Gartner
Fashionably slate
Forget wireless power for phones - Korea's doing it for buses
Microsoft! Bing! must! make! Yahoo! more! money! moans! Mayer!
Tablets aren't killing ereaders, it's clog-popping wrinklies - analyst
Re: Rubbish
Indeed - similarly after a late night screen smash incident with my Kindle 3. I've replaced the screen on the old one (£22 from China, 30 mins taking my time to make the replacement). I'm not in the 18-35 bracket but I'm hoping I have a few more decades left in me before I shuffle off.
Not intending to buy another one until this one is inoperable/irreparable.
'Leccy-starved Reg hack: 'How I survive on 1.5kW'
US patent office: Nice try Apple, but pinch-to-zoom is NOT a new invention
Ten... tech stocking stuffers
UK's planned copyright landgrab will spark US litigation 'firestorm'
Android games console jumps to Jelly Bean for penultimate test phase
Microsoft Surface popped open, poked, prodded
>>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.
Carphone Warehouse lauds Nexus 7 while eagerly eying iPad Mini
Re: Still no update for me :(
>>You can force the update ahead of schedule just by deleting the system framework data - no root or anything awkward to do just go into app settings and click the delete data button on the Android System Framework (or similar name).
And watch many (if not all) of the push notifications never happen again until you factory reset...