Posts by Richard Parkin

Some people here need to look up the distance from NK to USA and U.K.

This is old news. Some people here need to look up the distance from NK to USA and U.K.

Clumsy attempts

If I recall correctly it was the FBI’s clumsy attempts to guess the password that resulted in the phone locking up and that if they had first applied to Apple (with a warrant) the iCloud backup could and would have been accessible under the phone/iOS version of the time.

Looks fake to me

As title.

Very disappointing

I had one of the 10000mAh AmazonBasics powerbanks and it was far and away the best designed and most convenient of the several batteries I own, obviously mine did not burst into flames before I binned it. It was so good that I have been trying unsuccessfully to buy a couple more but have been forced to buy other makes. I suppose it falls into the “don’t judge a book by its cover” category but it’s surprising nonetheless that so much thought had gone into the operation but apparently so little into the basic function :-(

Liability not asset

Only when people start to regard the personal data they hold as a liability and not an asset will security improve. And that means bigger fines for loss of data or prison.

Capturing children

Doesn’t age verification work both ways - I mean it allows web sites to identify the under-age and direct them elsewhere?

MP’s working hours and private computers

There’s a lot of talk here and elsewhere about MP’s working hours and their work computers. Does an MP have working hours even when in HoP? Isn’t he often also working at home and other places? If some of his/her time in HoP is not working is it OK for an MP to use a private computer and how does it connect to t’interwebs?

I don’t know the answer to these questions though I suspect the lines between an MP’s “work” and private life are blurred.

Shooting from an embassy

If someone inside the US embassy fires a pistol* and kills a London policeman he cannot be extradited to U.K. but he could be prosecuted under US law. it seems to me no different if someone in the U.K. extracts electrons (or whatever would be the correct description) from the US and transports them back to the U.K. he should be prosecuted under U.K. law.

* I’m sure everyone knows about this case!

Unfair to the family of offenders

It is also unfair to the family of offenders to remove them thousands of miles for no good reason. If the offender was in U.K. when he committed the crime then here he should be prosecuted.

Depression —> Paranoia

When depressed people find they are being followed around the net won’t it make them feel paranoid?

A competent taxonomist needed

Classification of living things is very artificial and overlays the natural world rather like the rules of grammar attempt to order language. The best definition of a species that I know of is that it is that group of creatures defined as such by a competent taxonomist.

Dog was puzzled you apologised not dazed

Dogs have extraordinarily tough skulls and I’ve often cracked my various dogs on the head with a stick or similar (accidentally), apologised only to find they had not noticed.

The proof is not in the pudding ...

.... but in the eating. Ie “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”, does make sense otherwise.

Copyright

How does FB establish that you have any rights to the photo or that it is of you? Copyright etc.

Trump is a businessman

Trump is a businessman whose followers think he will make money for them. That is more or less the definition of a swindler. Trump is busy making money for himself and his business associates in divers ways.

First they came for the nazis ...

Just sayin'.

Bounty

"software can have it removed by the retailer's Geek Squad techies, who may also check the computer for child abuse images" and add some if none found, since they get paid a bounty. Why would they need to examine documents while checking a computer's functions?

Long grass

Kick -> Long grass -> job done!

Why do you need a PDF reader?

Why do you need a PDF reader when the OS deals with them via Preview?

Natural life cycle

It's pretty obvious that the gender change is part of the TLs natural life cycle. Like many creatures here on earth (e.g. Slipper Limpets) they spend many years as males impregnating as many females as possible and then turn into females and breed some more.

Apple warranty page

It's already been quoted above, but it bears repeating since Apple's warranty page is one of the simplest and clearest:

https://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/

Personally I've bought 2 iPhones and 4 iPads all either used or refurbished and all are in the family and still working and with OK batteries.

cannot even manage their own passwords ...

These are the people who, in the UK at least, cannot even manage their own passwords.