Thanks Bex.
I'd like to thank my niece for giving me her ex-contract phones. There's another one coming at the end of the month.
Posts by Pantagoon
34 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2011
Greener, cheaper, what's not to love about a secondhand smartphone?
Windows 10 users report app gremlins after Microsoft update
Friday 2nd February 2024 09:06 GMT
I imagine these irreplaceable, old PCs wouldn't be connected to the internet, will only have one function and so wouldn't need to be kept up-to-date with all the latest bells and whistles. They can be left alone to chug along until the hardware dies. A customer of mine still uses a Windows 95 PC to run their packing line because, as you say, the line software won't run on anything else. It'll keep going until the availability of spare parts runs out, not because of a software update killing it.
Google introduces phone-shaped housing for its AI tech
Have you ever suspected your colleague doesn't hope this email finds you well?*
YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens
Microsoft's AI Bing also factually wrong, fabricated text during launch demo
Atos, UK government reach settlement on $1 billion Met Office supercomputer dispute
Wednesday 15th June 2022 05:52 GMT
Re: Seriously
Farmers find it pretty helpful, especially around harvest time.
Aircraft operators find it quite useful to know when to use wing de-icers.
Armed forces think it is useful to be able to predict and use atmospheric lensing to fool the baddies into thinking gun fire is coming from a different direction.
Good weather forecasting is really quite useful.
NASA's InSight doomed as Mars dust coats solar panels
Microsoft fixes Point of Sale bug that delayed Windows 11 startup for 40 minutes
Buying a USB adapter: Pennies. Knowing where to stick it: Priceless
50 lines of Bash to bring a Wordle fan out of their shell
Epoch-alypse now: BBC iPlayer flaunts 2038 cutoff date, gives infrastructure game away
UK's newly merged Foreign Office puts £40m on table for hardware, software, services
NHS Digital exposes hundreds of email addresses after BCC blunder copies in entire invite list to 'Let's talk cyber' event
Years of development, millions of lines of code, and Android can't even run a toilet
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81
You can 'go your own way' over GDPR, says UK's new Information Commissioner
Tuesday 14th September 2021 07:42 GMT
Re: the "United Kingdom is entitled to take Fleetwood Mac's advice and 'Go your Own Way'
That tweet is a bit of an Albatross around his neck. He says he's Never Going Back Again to his old ways, and is Mystified why it upset big tech.
Oh Well, he's A Man of the World and has seen enough Monday Mornings to know that a few Little Lies can lead to a Landslide victory.
No doubt he believes that he keeps the World Turning but I reckon he is Hypnotized by his own Dreams. Everywhere he goes, Storms follow, let's hope he breaks The Chain of incompetence that this government has brought forth.
Tuesday 14th September 2021 07:40 GMT 
Go Your Own Way
That tweet is a bit of an Albatross around his neck. He says he's Never Going Back Again to his old ways, and is Mystified why it upset big tech.
Oh Well, he's A Man of the World and has seen enough Monday Mornings to know that a few Little Lies can lead to a Landslide victory.
No doubt he believes that he keeps the World Turning but I reckon he is Hypnotized by his own Dreams. Everywhere he goes, Storms follow, let's hope he breaks The Chain of incompetence that this government has brought forth.
Boston Dynamics spends months training its Atlas robots to perform one minute of parkour almost perfectly
THX Onyx: A do-it-all DAC for the travelling audiophile
11-year-old graduate announces plans to achieve immortality by 'replacing body parts with mechanical parts'
Audacity users stick the knife – and fork – in to strip audio editor of unwanted features
The server is down, money is not being made, and you want me to fix what?
Monday 31st May 2021 12:30 GMT
I can't fix that.
Rather unrelated but amusing.
My boss, who was a very decent bloke, wandered into the workshop of the hospital I worked at and asked me "Do you fix TVs?" I said I'd have a look and so during a busy working day he took me back to his house. His TV was a massive old school CRT job that took both of us to lift into the back of his car to bring back to the workshop.
When we arrived, he opened the tail gate of his car and we watched as the TV, slowly and majestically, rolled over and fell screen first onto the tarmac. Amazingly, it didn't shatter everywhere and his only comment was "Do you think I'll be able to claim on my insurance?"
How we laughed...
Brit watchdog shows some teeth over McAfee antivirus auto-renewals
Leave.EU takes back control – and shifts its domain name to be inside the European Union
Monday 11th January 2021 14:58 GMT
They are not eligible for .eu anyway
Section 3.2 of EURid's Terms and Conditions of use of a .eu domain name state:
"To use the Domain Name in such a way that does not violate any third-party rights, applicable laws, or regulations, including discrimination on the basis of race, language, sex, religion, or political view;"
Leave.eu is run by a bunch of racists and they broke laws regarding the running of their leave campaign.
Section 3.3 states:
"Not to use the Domain Name (i) in bad faith or (ii) for any unlawful purpose."
The site is full of lies and misrepresentations.
Section 4.3: "the Domain Name registration is made in good faith, for a lawful purpose, and does not infringe the rights of any third party;"
Section 4.4: "the Domain Name is not contrary to public policy or morality (e.g. is not obscene or offensive), and is not unlawful;"
Plenty of grounds for their domain name being revoked.
Samsung snafu grounds blue Galaxy S III
Wednesday 30th May 2012 09:04 GMT 
I have invented the 'Jobsian Number'...
This is a measure of the intelligence of forum posters.
You calculate it by looking at the first 20 comments and counting how many of them mention Apple, their products or Steve Jobs etc. Both praising and slagging off are counted but please note: Jobsian Numbers can only be applied to NON Apple related articles.
I have limited the count to the first 20 as I don't have the patience to read any more comments when they are littered by people thinking they are being funny / controversial / edgy / trolls.
This article has a Jobsian Number of 3. I don't know how it compares with other stories but have a feeling that it is on the low side.
And yes, I had a bad nights sleep and feel very grumpy.
Woz warns that patent palaver will stifle startups
Wednesday 11th April 2012 12:26 GMT
Naive and wishful thinking....
Here's an idea: All the companies should donate their existing patents to a holding company. All the donors then get to use those patents in their own devices for a very small fee per patent per device. All profits of the holding company go to charity or medical research etc.
When a company comes up with something new, they can use it exclusively for 12 months before it gets put into the pool. If a company infringes on the new idea before it is in the pool, the price they have to pay for any patent goes up permanently.
Small start-ups will be able to afford the low patent fees to get into the markets and will have a 12 month head start on new ideas they introduce.
Companies will be forced to innovate so that their products can be differentiated from all the similar ones created as a result of all others sharing the existing patents.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
