Re: "A simple way to cure the problem..."
It's a problem?
Posts by Captain Hogwash
1179 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Feb 2009
US kids apparently talking like Peppa Pig... How about US lawmakers watching Doctor Who?
Mini computer flingers go after a slice of the high street retail Pi
Fujitsu pitched stalker-y AI that can read your social media posts as solution to Irish border, apparently
Senior slippery sex stimulator sales exec sacked for shafting .org-asmic cyber-space place, a tribunal hears
Irish data watchdog to Facebook: Hang about, what's all this about a WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger merger now?
Straight outta Blighty: Readers, if you were a tech billionaire, what would you do?
'Nun' drops goat head on pavement outside Cheltenham 'Spoons
Say GDP-aaaRrrgh, streamers: Max Schrems is coming for you, Netflix and Amazon
I used to be a dull John Doe. Thanks to Huawei, I'm now James Bond!
If most punters are unlikely to pay more for 5G, why all the rush?
Privacy, security fears about ID cards? UK.gov's digital bod has one simple solution: 'Get over it'
Monday 10th December 2018 13:41 GMT 
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten. The living sap of today outgrows the dead rind of yesterday. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continued oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by unintermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.”
-Wendell Phillips, January 28, 1852
TL;DR:
Politicians, like nappies, should be changed frequently and for the same reason.
Google: I don't know why you say Allo, I say goodbye
Peak tech! Bacon vending machine signals apex of human invention
Total Inability To Support User Phones: O2 fries, burning data for 32 million Brits
UK spies: You know how we said bulk device hacking would be used sparingly? Well, things have 'evolved'...
After all that! Ofcom proposes BT as only broadband universal services provider for whole of UK (except Hull)
Shocker: UK smart meter rollout is crap, late and £500m over budget
Cheeky cheesemaker fails to copyright how things taste
Guess who's back, back again? China's back, hacking your friends: Beijing targets American biz amid tech tariff tiff
Stairway to edam: Swiss bloke blasts roquefort his cheese, thinks Led Zep might make it tastier
Planet Computers straps proper phone to its next Psion scion, Cosmo
Swedes grumbling about Apple Store in their park are lucky – in Toronto, Google eats all your data
Chuck this on expenses: £2k iPad paints Apple as the premium fondleslab specialist – as planned
Budget 2018: Landlords could be forced to grant access for full-fibre connections
All through the house, not a creature was stirring... especially Samsung smartwatches: Batteries empty at 3AM
Samsung Galaxy A9: Mid-range bruiser that takes the fight to Huawei
Ding ding! Round Two: Second annual review for transatlantic data flow deal Privacy Shield
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave me tea... pigs-in-blankets-flavoured tea
A web where the user has complete control of their data? Sounds Solid, Tim Berners-Lee
Monday 1st October 2018 15:20 GMT
Re: Good Luck
You're right. It will probably work too. For example, I explained Tor to my SO the other night. Her first words after were "I bet paedophiles use that." She conceded that the legitimate uses I suggested were valid, but it just shows where the minds of those who rarely, if ever, think about this stuff go to first.
Location, location, location... technologies under the microscope
Why are sat-nav walking directions always so hopeless?
Open-source alt-droid wants to know if it's still leaking data to Google
Tuesday 25th September 2018 10:28 GMT
Re: extensive hardware
I think the idea is to demonstrate viability to hardware manufacturers by building out the cloud services first and attract users who are comfortable with building and/or installing custom ROMs. If take up is sufficient to convince device makers to do some small-ish production runs then the hope might be that desire for a Google & Apple free smartphone is widespread enough that those runs are repeated in greater numbers. It's going to be an uphill struggle for sure. But I think it's worth supporting as, although I'm a long time CM/LOS user, I've never been able to convince otherwise interested Android users to void their manufacturers warranties.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
