Posts by Test Man

But they didn't go scouring through his laptop, they inadvertently encountered proof that it wasn't his laptop to begin with when the big HARRODS logo appeared when they booted up. That, coupled with his request, would have made them suspicious enough. So not illegal.

It's the same debate with Gary Glitter's laptop - could have been illegal but then again they stated that as part of their diagnostics (i.e. testing to make sure Windows was working again and files could be launched) they came across the dodgy images. There wouldn't have been a high-enough burden of proof to prove that they went further i.e. blatantly scoured through the HDD for things they could find.

Same with this one.

Re: Embrace, extend...

"Downvote if you like - but personally, the idea of the vast majority of public electronic communication being controlled by a single entity that's sole purpose is to profile you as closely as possible and doesn't mind playing fast and loose with the law (NHS records, monopoly abuse, stolen wifi details etc) fills me with dread."

Yes but enough about Apple...

Re: BREAK

"On Acorn computers you only had to press 'Break' by itself and it was incredibly frustrating to accidentally touch it after spending hours at some important work*. Requiring two or three keys in combination is a much better idea."

Strictly speaking, BBC Master machines also had a SHIFT+BREAK combination that performed a hard reset. A tap of the BREAK key on its own was essentially a soft reset that still kept data in memory.

I don't think this is right. No contract has been formed by merely ordering an item. When money has been taken, then clearly there's a contract there.

I think they call it an "invitation to treat"

Re: I was scammed by someone working for BT...

Like I said replying to another comment, anyone calls about saving you pounds, DON'T. It may be legitimate but it also may mean worse terms. You can't make a decision on the spot then without having possession of all the facts, so don't bother.

If you want to save money, do it and call them in your own time, once you have thoroughly researched the savings.

A few years ago BT would have Option 1, Option 2, Option 3 as call plans and I was on Option 1 (the minimum "pay for all calls as you make them" one. They used to also subdivide the call plans so that you could get Option 2 (the "evenings and weekends are free" one) for the same price as Option 1, so I was getting calls where BT was "helpfully" offering me Option 2 for the same price. Of course I said "no" and I further looked at the exact terms - this Option 2 "same price" one would have meant that I would have been recontracted for a year AND it'd be a rolling contract so I wouldn't be able to get out of it except in a very short timeframe just before it rolled over, every year. My Mum got caught by that one, which was an issue years later when she tried to get out of it, and couldn't

*patent

"least 4g is data only."

Data won't stop people from talking... #voip #messengercalling

Re: Destroy the culture too

>> Should we just ban all music because of the likes of bieber et al?

Yes*

*Not really

Re: Is there any Android device with >3 years support? / Custom ROMs

"3 years is pretty well longer than any typical phone contract (which tend to max out at 2 years, at which point most users upgrade their phone)."

You seem to forget that there are people who have purchased device under 2-year contract towards the end of the device's lifetime (i.e. let's say 1 1/2 years). If you don't buy the device immediately after release, the typical support timeline doesn't help you in the slightest.

Re: Is that

It's probably both in the exact same way it is for buses/coaches and trains - on those they are commonly 3/4G connections (with embedded SIMs) just to bring the connection to the vehicle, but people connect to it via wifi. Obviously it has to be 3/4G, because it's not as if a vehicle can be wired up to an exchange.

It's the same with smart meters - how do you think they connect to the energy companies? Via embedded 3/4G SIM. Same with some traffic lights.

So I can see it being the same for this - lots of 4G cells not for customers to use (obv) but as the backhaul - to bring the connection to the area, but users connect via wifi.

Re: Makes you wonder

"Why they never adopted Android in the first place"

Because if they did they'd be where everyone not called Samsung is now - with less than 1% market share, and looking exactly like everyone else.

At least with Windows they had a chance. Pity it didn't work out though but it was a differentiator

Re: anyone else ...

Funnily enough my wife's Samsung Galaxy S5 did last night. I checked the relevant places in My Account and saw nothing suspicious whatsoever.

But it's very very interesting that there are other people who have also experienced the same.

No, NHSMail2 is Windows Server and Exchange Server (2013, possibly), with Outlook for client access on Windows 7 PCs (people off-site can use Outlook up to 2016 to access mail securely). Exchange Server comes with Outlook Web Access for web access, if configured to do so.

Re: Does anyone even use the Win 10 start mess?

Def - LOL useless. Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP - faff around organising stuff to lessen the time to find stuff

Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 - simply WIN+part name of program/file/resource *click* DONE.

Re: That reminds me...

Commodore Vic-20 user here too, who ALSO played Lunar Lander via cartridge!

Re: Perhaps doing some research, rather than jusk asking for comment.

I was going to say the same - Argos updates have always had "humorous" updates. Nothing to do with any parent company sale, obviously, just the sense of humour of the person in charge of submitting the updates to the Play Store.

Re: Am I been too technical, in saying the 3P&3Bs: prepare, prepare, prepare + backup,backup,backup.

Did you read some of the issues that were related to the update installing itself even when dismissed? Why would anyone buy a SSD or another HDD and software to make a backup when they don't want to upgrade in the first place?

Re: No news...

It's because it's also not encrypted, it can't be when the Assistant needs to read the chat logs in order to "train" itself.

"Actually it was Speccy vs C64 vs the posh kid who had a BBC Micro. Said posh kid got a lot of stick from the rest of us, but secretly we envied him for Repton and Elite."

I had a BBC Master 128...

:p

Re: Adobe

"Acrobat is for *making* pdfs and costs lots of money . "Adobe Reader" is the bloatware that *displays* a pdf , when its not screaming and bitching like a baby about god knows what . That part is free."

WRONG. Adobe Reader changed to Acrobat Reader DC a few versions ago now.

Re: The article lacks basic research

" and he accepts that some lives have to be lost"

Don't be so fucking stupid.

Re: behaviour was a bug, not a feature

They didn't slurp e-mail addresses and passwords, they slurped data which could contain anything - on an encrypted network it'd just be encrypted data, but on an OPEN network it would be plain text so literally anything that was transmitted by whatever device is using that network.

Re: standard operating procedures

I agree. I mean, they are firefighters, how would they tackle an electrical fire in any other situation? Why didn't they just use the already-existing steps to tackle electrical fires? It's not as if a Tesla car is anything special in that regard.

Re: Make a phone call

What I don't understand is why a Financial Controller, upon being told to move lots of company money, is not immediately checking the authenticity of that message? I mean, seeing as it's company money, they should NEVER accept that message at face value and should always verify it?

Surely there should be business processes for moving money and it should always rely on verification of the original message?

And anyone who is authorised to make these sort of decisions (i.e. someone who is allowed to ask for money to be moved) should know this?

Re: "according to Microsoft's own UI design rules"

The X on the old dialog was dismissing the dialog without change. The thing is the upgrade wasn't scheduled by any action in that dialog box, it was automatically scheduled before that dialog box appeared, that's why the X doesn't cancel the schedule.

In other words, Microsoft WERE following the UI design rules but were definitely bending the rules in order to get more upgrades scheduled.

Instead of tricking users, Microsoft have stopped setting the schedule before the dialog appears, and now explicitly sets the schedule IN the dialog box, when someone clicks the "Upgrade now" button . Therefore clicking X will dismiss the dialog and an upgrade won't be scheduled.

Re: "delicious example of the challenge of science writing in non-metric America"

I'll tell you what's weird - I was born near the end of the 70s and in the 80s we were taught in metric measurements only. However, I can only visualise things using imperial measurements. Weird, eh?

Re: I like sigs

LOL fingerprints - what are you on about?

And with O2 and Three, the combined company would have control of the backbone that BOTH company uses.

BT and EE aren't comparable - BT didn't even have a consumer mobile presence for a start.

Re: unwanted spawn of demonic iTunes

Nah it hasn't done that in years now - it was dropped from the installer.

Re: I just... why?

"Someone takes away your ability to dow what you want on your machine and others put it back."

LOL it never had Linux in the first place, in exactly the same way my Samsung non-smart TV didn't, or my BEKO cooker didn't either.

And... I'm also looking at YOU LG!

*angry*

What's withdrawing from the US market got to do with being fined for what they did? Withdrawing won't change a thing and doesn't stop them from being fined and having to pay, obviously.

And clearly VW aren't going to withdraw from the market anyway, it's the US, a very very profitable market so not a chance they'll even consider it.

I thought that Chrome extensions/addons weren't allowed to install via anything other than the Web Store?

"...I use POP"

There's your first mistake there.

Your second was using an ISP-provided e-mail service..

Re: Very few sites demand flash

"I've asked this question before but whenever I disable Flash YouTube stops working (this is Firefox on Windows 7/8). Is there some magic to persuade it to work or is this just fallout of a codec war?"

That can't be right, YouTube already switched to HTML5 a while back. It should be serving up HTML5-based videos to you - only serving up Flash if you specifically asked for it, or when using a browser that doesn't support the relevant HTML5 elements.

Go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 and follow the instructions.

Re: Interesting justification.

"What about a jug of lukewarm/tepid water applied to the windscreen?"

Anyone doing this is the one that is the lazy one. As has already been said, two things will happen:

1. Tepid water may crack the windscreen

2. Lessening the temperature of the water to avoid the above will simply mean it will refreeze the moment you take the car out on the road.

I should know, my dad did the above when I was a kid and it did freeze up a minute up the road. This is in the south of the UK when it was cold/freezing, not in some colder climate country like in the Scandinavian region.

Like a normal person with actual sense, use de-icer.

Problem solved.