* Posts by bigtimehustler

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BT demands end to Ofcom wholesale broadband subsidies for BSkyB, TalkTalk

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I have no sympathy for then, they have installed fibre broadband in the street, and not bothered to get it installed into the apartment block on the street. So they insist on sending mails out claiming I can get fibre in my street, which is true, just not to the buildings most people on the street live in. Until they sort out getting their infrastructure in place sensibly rather than branching out into TV services that adds no competition value at all for the customer they can get lost.

More players getting into the TV sport business does not seem to be good for the customer, its just good for those selling the rights. What customer wants to see only some games or sports during the year when they used to be able to watch it all. You now need to subscribe to at least 2, possibly 3 different providers to watch it all. Crazy, hardly makes it better for the customer. So they can fuck off out the TV market and concentrate on phone and broadband ideally.

Apple's Windows XP moment: OS X Snow Leopard left to DIE

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Yea, its not quite as bad as Microsoft, at least the upgrade to the latest OS is actually free! There are a small number of people left on legacy hardware, but hey, you can't keep making patches for ever for all your old OS's. People running legacy hardware will already have had many OS upgrades on that hardware at a cheap price in the years prior to snow leopard .

Pine trees' scent 'could prevent climate change really being a problem'

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I'm not a climate change denier, it may well be happening, the problem is the models can't be said to be proved correct as a lot of people say. This is simply because there are a few new things every year discovered that are not covered by the models. I am simply of the view that we shouldn't be wasting billions on solving a problem that we don't yet fully understand, so many new things come to light each year that it shows we must barely understand what we are talking about. Some of you may say we should act anyway, just in case, but act how? without a full knowledge and understand there is no information about how best to deal with the problem, the complexity of the problem changes every year.

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Re: Why the fuck would he bother?

Perhaps not, but it would make us right in that we have always said all along we shouldn't waste billions in funds on an issue that we don't fully understand and so may well be wasting the money while other countries carry on polluting and gaining economic advantage.

Steve Jobs statue: Ones and ohs and OH NOES – it's POINTING at us

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Haha crazy, I think if he were alive to see this it would be one of his ranting and raving moments in the office where he tells everyone to fuck off and think about it again, using their brains this time.

Woman claims she was assaulted in Google Glass 'HATE CRIME'

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Well, you know...it's all the name really, go to a dive bar, find the kind of people who drink in dives!

Dropbox erects sueball shield with new T&C and privacy legalese

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This has no effect outside of the US, the UK courts have said time and time again your welcome to put whatever nonsense you want in T&C's but the court will just ignore them if they go against what the law says a consumer is allowed to do or expect. A lot of other countries have the same outlook and so they will have limited success getting anywhere with this one.

Nokia to Devs: PLEASE DON'T make Nokiadroid apps look like WinPho

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Errrrm....what? To compare it to blackberry is nonsense! Blackberry needs to do this because it is a different OS and regardless of how well it is optimised it is still slower than doing it properly. But this monstrosity is actually already running on android!? So why the in all that is holy is this bollocks required? Just open up the android API's directly and all the apps that have already been made for it will work. I mean, do Nokia really believe there are that many software companies that have made windows only apps? Jusus, they will all already have android compiled versions ready to go.

NHS England DIDN'T tell households about GP medical data grab plan

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I never received this leaflet and I haven't opted out of royal mails non addressed mail either. So either the NHS didn't send out enough leaflets or royal mail have been saying they deliver them and haven't been doing so.

Facebook pays $19bn for WhatsApp. Yep. $45 for YOUR phone book

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Re: A beelion users can't be wrong (can they?)

You don't see the point in WhatsApp? How about if you need to message someone in another country regularly in a chat context? Say, you have a girlfriend living abroad for example. Paying to SMS abroad all the time would be huge cost. So there, you see a point now, just because you have no use for such a service does not mean you have to be IT illiterate to have a use for it. How about people start looking outside of their own little world before they see no point in things.

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Of course, the valuation is only insane if you couldn't get it cheaper. If that's what it takes for the company to sell, that's what it takes. If you need the data it really doesn't matter what others think the 'market rate' for it is, its not available on the market. It is available from one company, that can choose not to sell. It is the same as walking up to a home owner who isn't selling his house and asking to buy his house off him, if you offer the market rate he probably won't sell, but make him an offer he can't refuse...and well, the house is yours.

Appeals court decides Dotcom warrant was legal after all

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Re: When Big Brother Is After You

Oh god, not another person who believes copyright infringement is theft, but not only theft, theft of property!? Come on, give it a break, we are fed up of the MPAA spiel already. It is, what it is,copyright infringement, that is why it is a separate law to theft. If it were the same, then surely the same law would apply, the fact it doesn't tells you even the authorities don't agree with it being theft.

Google warns Glass wearers: Quit being 'CREEPY GLASSHOLES'

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To all these people who hate the idea of google glass, do you get as nervous when you enter a really busy tourist area? Everyone carrying cameras and ready to snap you at the slightest embarrassing moment? You probably don't because over your life you have accepted tourists all have their cameras out and ready as a social norm. Pretty much what will happen over the next 20 years with technology like glass.

Sony's PlayStation 4 pwns Xbox in the United States

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It is a bogus comparison. Sony saying they shifted more of the new games console than Microsoft's new console is suggesting a different thing to microsoft shifting more games across all consoles. That just tells us overall Microsoft sells more games but that could be largely due to its previous console being more popular and the games for it still outselling everything else. It says nothing of its new consoles ability to sell or for it to sell new games. The fact more new sony playstations are selling suggests that in the future when no games are made for the older consoles, sony will have a brighter future, after all, people don't buy a console to look at it, they buy one to buy games for it.

Who wants to start a Kickstarter for a more secure Kickstarter? Account data hacked

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They probably don't process the cards themselves, most payment processors will pass back the last 4 digits of the card, expiry date and address details to the website so that it can be stored for records. As for the encrypted vs hashed argument, that depends on whether the web servers were compromised as well as the data store. You would have to get hold of the encryption key too, otherwise its better than a hash, but if with the inherent problem that if the key is found in your infrastructure then its far worse than a hash.

US Senate bill would mandate 'kill switch' on all smartphones

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This is going to be completely pointless, you can change IMEI number and its practically impossible to prevent a software initiated kill switch from being disabled. The phone will jus be flashed with a non standard version of the OS and it will work again just fine with no kill switch present.

SCRAP the TELLY TAX? Ancient BBC Time Lords mull Beeb's future

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Re: Unfair Tax?

Except that isn't true is it. If I don't want to watch any of the BBC channels but do indeed want to watch Discovery channels on sky. I do have to pay the tax. What you mean is that if i don't want to watch all live TV so as to avoid the BBC I don't have to pay the tax. Thats not the same thing, it forces people who would otherwise do without the BBC to pay the tax unfairly.

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Re: Vastly Overdue

The BBC isn't in the business of doing this though, they don't have to sell anything, they get the money either way. That is entirely the problem. They do make the odd good thing that brings in high viewing figures, they have to otherwise they would be laughed at. But everything else that is not headline is utter rubbish and a waste of the money they receive.

Also, if you like the service, that is completely fair enough. But why do you think people that do not like the service should be forced to pay for it so that you can watch it? It is more socially based rubbish used as justification to take money off everyone for the good of the few used all the time in this country and one of the reasons i resent the country more and more.

My smelly Valentine: Europe's perfumers wake to V-Day nightmare

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100 is an extremely low number, especially seeing a channel number 5 is listed as a possible product, one of the most widely sold perfumes in the world. You will always find someone allergic to everything, how about we start banning cheese next, followed closely by nuts.

'No, I CAN'T write code myself,' admits woman in charge of teaching our kids to code

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Re: Oh, FFS!

If I actually saw this in a real life computer programme, id think the coder was smoking crack when they wrote it. The way you teach programming is a separation of theory from practical examples. Not a half arsed miss match of the two, perhaps showing why you would do this with a worked example in the if and else blocks would be more sensible than seeing it written as is, which is total nonsense.

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The biggest nonsense is her spouting that coding knowledge is required to understand and progress in the world and then she admits she can not do this, so is she admitting she doesnt understand the world? In which case, why is she in any leadership position, let alone one involving the very subject she has no knowledge of.

It is ok to say you don't have to be a specialist to lead from the top, but you have to know enough to be able to tell when you are being told bullshit and when you are not. She does not know enough to be able to tell this.

It is appointments like this that are the root problem of all government plans for everything, not just this.

Friends don't do tech support for friends running Windows XP

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This is a bit of a crap thing to say. So according to Microsoft, because they didn't make an upgrade path possible due to market reasons, so that the channel can sell more PC's and devices basically, they don't want you to waste your time backing files up (surely best practice would dictate they are already backed up!!??) and then helping your friend move to windows 8.1 and presumably hate Microsoft for a situation that they themselves have forced you to go through by not making an upgrade path. Surely the simpler option is to help your friend, and just be pissed off Microsoft made it so hard.

They seem to want you to screw your friends over to avoid you wasting your time in a situation they created, all so that you don't hate them too much.

CCTV warning notices NOT compliant with data protection laws – ICO

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Re: utter crap

The problem is, even if im parked legally, why should i or my car be recorded on video by some government department that is just yet again greedy for money to keep their numbers up? Unless my parking there is going to bring the town to a standstill then you should be allowed to park there, in most cases for free. In cases where this is not so, are where double yellow lines are on the road or its designated as a red route. Anything else is pure bureaucratic nonsense.

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This is what double yellow or red routes are for...not every other type of parking enforcement, 1 hour no return restrictions etc... all of those are just money makers for an establishment that can not get enough of our money.

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Re: So the ICO...

And what exactly makes you think a person should have to own some equipment capable of reading a QR code before they can be made aware of information that has to be legally communicated to them? I know most people own a smartphone...but i didn't think it was actually a requirement for you to function in society!

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Re: Potential "Get out of Jail Free" card?

No, but you could then sue them for the contravention and get your money back, probably plus some.

Developer's rare $50,000 Twitter account @N stolen in web shakedown

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Re: RTFA

I think before your RTFA, you should note i said I don't believe that they can not access logs of this changed data and that it is their company policy not to look into the issue. I feel he should have barked up that tree a little more before giving up his username.

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Err, so rather than accept and give up such a name, why did he not just call up GoDaddy, prove who he is on the phone and reset the password and regain control of his domains. Presumably the rather simple solution to the problem.

I simply can not believe GoDaddy can't restore an account, they must keep logs of changed data!

Google Glassholes, GET OFF our ROADS, thunder lawmakers in seven US states

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Right, so you never would have legalized cars in the first place then?

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I always think its a sad day when yet more stuff is banned just because it introduces more risk. I wonder if the car was to be invented today, these states would ever let anyone drive in them, or it would be banned because of the risk to pedestrians, passengers and drivers of death if you crash. People really need to wake up and smell the roses, risk exists in life, in the blink of an eye bad things can happen, but it never used to be a reason to ban things. The world would be without much of what it relies on if it did in the past.

Judge: Google owes patent troll a 1.36% cut of AdWords' BEELLIONS

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Ultimately i don't think any patent should carry on under such circumstances. If you or a a company invents something and uses that invention then the patent stands, if the patent is ever sold it should only stand if the buyer also uses the patent to make something saleable, otherwise it should be discarded.

That way, inventors and investors get their protections but the industry surrounding patents goes away.

Intel to shutter AppUp app store

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Re: Intel crudware creep

Everything that can be removed from the add/remove programmes, none of those will be required drivers. It's often best to just remove everything including drivers and download the latest ones for the chipset you have directly from the intel website. That way you know you only have the latest drivers and thats all.

Apple stores? Samsung says two can play at that game

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Not long till Apple sue for patent infringement then...probably for copying their idea of opening up a shop and selling products...

Three-yaarrgh! Major UK mobile network's data goes down

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The comment about tweeting cat pictures instead of fixing the issue is nonsense, or does the guy/girl really think the person doing the tweeting is the engineer fixing the problem? Other parts of a business do carry on running as normal you know, even if the engineers are flat out trying to fix something.

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Re: Worth looking at SIM-free if you're happy with what you've got.

This isn't really rocket science is it, doesn't everyone know that, for example, buying a car in cash is cheaper than getting a loan? It is the same principle, the £174 is basically the interest they charge on loaning you the money to own the phone sooner than you would if you had the cash in hand.

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Re: How long after discovering was it that they started tweeting?

Errr, so the problem here lies with your company. If you can't get those notes for your meeting, you tell them its because they don't let you get on their wifi and the system they do offer is unreliable, so here is the business cost of that.

Mobe industry quails as Ofcom floats idea of QUADRUPLING 2G spectrum prices

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There is one problem with a government, the insatiable need for more and more money. If every election you have to promise more this and that for everyone then you have to get the money from somewhere, you can't cut things out because that annoys people and so you just have to find ways to get more and more money to pay for it all. Ultimately this just leads to less and less money in your own pockets, you would be better off asking the government not to promise anything and in return keep more of your money.

Elderly Bletchley Park volunteer sacked for showing Colossus exhibit to visitors

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I think some of the large companies who gave donations for this, such a Google etc... should speak out and make them look and feel stupid. It is what they deserve for turning something so simple into such a disaster, I guess they took the same education path as most government contract winners go to.

NatWest 'spam' email cockup got me slapped with late payment fee, says angry Reg reader

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Re: The ISP is to blame not the sender

But presumably you do use SPF in this score, so if it fell way below the default for being identified as spam (as in the case of most email providers, there is a default threshold) because the SPF does not match (now, if the SPF record was not there thats one thing, but not matching is a very serious indication something is wrong) then you should block it. I would agree it is a milder problem there being no SPF, but if the domain is setup to have SPF and the mail doesn't come from those IP's then its pretty shoddy to let it through as thats the owner of the domain telling you this isn't a valid email.

Sync'n'steal: Hackers brew Android-targeting Windows malware

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I can't see this affecting most people, to load an application like that you have to have USB Debugging turned on through the phones settings and the option to install applications from non signed sources. This is typically only a setup a developer would turn on.

Vile Twitter trolls thrown in the cooler for rape abuse tweet spree

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Re: Would it be too much...

Well, actually you could say there were less great prominent women, not because women can be less great or less prominent but because if women are to believed then they were held back in the past and so could not have achieved as greatly as men did. How can we look back and assume there will be a 505/50 split between great women and great men, when men held women back so much then? Presumably to get a 50/50 split we would have to bring some women into it that we only think could have been great, had men not stood in their way.

In the future i fully assume there will be a more sensible split between men and women appearing on bank notes, but because these people are usually historic figures, not enough time has passed for there to have been equality in the time periods we are looking at commemorating or celebrating on the notes.

A BBC-by-subscription 'would be richer', MPs told

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This is rubbish, I can't believe people paying 30+ for sky are also going to subscribe to the BBC and a comparison between them is nonsense, they both provide different types of channels.

Facebook debunks Princeton's STUDY OF DOOM in epic comeback

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Haha, I did say this research seemed pretty bogus, glad somebody took the effort to show why.

Margaret Hodge, PAC are scaring off new biz: Treasury source

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Re: "without contributing to its upkeep"

Yes, in this country, but those large UK companies are using the same methods to get away with tax abroad.

Google, Netflix ready next weapon in net neutrality battle: The fury of millions

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Re: The Internet is so so last decade

Indeed, but customer choice will also render these browsers obsolete if they do not render the pages their users want to see, pretty much in the way IE market share was falling like a stone before they got on the standard bandwagon and pulled their finger out. As for apps...better browser support for fast programming language execution is making them rather less relevant, apple can not hold this up as android accounts for far more devices than apple.

UK.gov to Google: Kill impostor taxmen ADs hogging top spot in YOUR search results

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No, what the MP's want is everything exactly as they say. They want capitalism for the GDP but they also want to look like they are doing something for the voters, so they play both games at the same time.

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So you missed my point about investigating that using the police then, you know due process and all!? you are not guilty of anything till proven in court, regardless of what an MP thinks.

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Im sorry, but unless they are carrying out illegal activities what right does an MP or anyone else have to interfere with their business, much less there position in some search results. If they are carrying out illegal activities, how about reporting it to the police and letting the proper procedure remove them. MP's demanding this and that from legal companies is getting pretty old, they need to get off their power trip.

Facebook will LOSE 80% of its users by 2017 – epidemiological study

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Re: @bigtimehustler

Not really worth it, reality is rarely born out of it. The theory may well be sound, but it assumes facebook is a static constant, no consideration given to the unknowns that facebook may choose to do on the way.

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Why on earth would it be like a virus outbreak? A virus outbreak falls off because everyone has had it and so are then immune or dead. I do not believe you become immune to facebook or die off from using it too much. What utter nonsense.

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