Posts by Mark 85

Re: Still impresses me...

Comic Sans? I think Sanskrit would be a good choice also.

@Credas

Not a bad idea but it would be easy for many companies that make this stuff to just fold up at the of the time period and then restart under a new name. Maybe a bond paid for each unit sold that after X time, is refunded to the company?

Re: At the risk of becoming tiresome...

I think the router manufacturers might be on to something good IF they use a username and password that's randomly generated and put a tag on the front of the device. Maybe computer makers and other home IT type equipment should do the same.

The problem here is the mindset that started with "Plug and Play". Users are accustomed to "just plug it in" and no config necessary. The computer and tech equipment has been dumbed down for the target markets and there it will stay.

In a word -- Marketing. Why else? Personally, I'm waiting for the Bubba's Update just because of the way it sounds.

Re: re are people so stupid?

And who, may i ask, installed the vast majority of them, bar those supplied with the phone? Wtf does anyone actually want 600 apps for?

There must be some weird setting somewhere... my wife keeps getting apps without ever using her phone. She'll set it down for a few days and suddenly finds apps installed. WTF???? I'm trying to talk her into a "dumb" phone or (god-forbid) and Apple phone as her friends with Apples never get hit with this or maybe they just don't notice it.

Re: Big-Tobacco vs Facebook

Given the amount of slurpage, maybe FB is a front company for one of the 3-letter agencies? Has the hallmarks of grabbing everything on everyone whether they signed up for it or not.

Re: Alternatively

Along with the usual labels such as "Gas" and "Rising fire main", four of the larger pipes were labelled "Mild", "Bitter", "Tea (with)" and "Tea (without)".

One must be careful labeling the pipes lest the sewer pipe get labeled "Executive Quality Beer" or something similar and the peons try tapping into it.

Re: I don't believe it.

Education and a responsible press helps against propaganda

There's the problem in a nutshell. Education, at least here in the States, has been dumbed down to the point of ignorance and not knowing how to research any topic (politics as well as any other). The a "responsible press".. uneducated masses won't think for themselves or maybe it's "can't think for themselves" and press plays this. Unless someone reads or uses more than one news source (sources on both sides of the issues) they can never develop a balanced opinion. On this last.... I know people who only watch FOX news and others who only watch CNN. The balance is in the middle.

Aren't they all? I think the "best before date" for a politician is the day they were born.

Re: Sen Dick Durbin To Zuk ".....

Obvious questions that weren't asked... so why weren't they? Why aren't those who don't use FB angry at being tracked and the data dumped into the hopper to be sold?

I just find it hard to believe that Zuck is playing "Mr. Innocent" here and getting away with it.

Oh.. you must be THAT Henny Youngman..

Re: Zuk: 'Ugly Truth' memo - Quick, find someone to Blame!

I have a feeling that FB is just one part of the iceberg. There's "quizzes" popping up on a lot of mainstream sites these days. Such quizzes as "Can you guess the year of these movies?". Someone is paying for them and harvesting data as I don't think they're doing out of kindness.

Re: "And bluetooth with Win10 is an iffy affair"

You sound like a crazy old Unix man I used to work with. Hates Winblows and anything related to modern technology, thinks computers were better when thicknet was the order of the day, monitors that were 14 inches and displayed only in one color and PCs had a turbo button

Things were simpler than, And as a bonus, most users back than had somewhat of a clue as they were (or seemed to be) wanna-bee techies. As a result, fewer user complaints... although once manglement got into "needing" the latest, things started the sliding downhill rapidly.

Re: And that's exactly why...

Sorry, but my privacy is worth a lot more to me than that !

Which is the basic reason I carry a "dumb" phone. No apps... no problems. Ok.. maybe there's a few but nothing like those with smartphones.

Let's face it... Gartner is about who pays them and their profit. They're saying what the customers want to hear which is "slurp more data, the users will love it".

Re: The 'Shadow Profile' Economy

Next week when the CEO of Facebook appears in Washington, I fear this is all going to be lost on them.

For most, yes. For a few Senators, no. Wyden has a pretty good grip on things if Zuck is in front of his committee.

Re: All part of the 'Shadow Profile' Economy

Next week when the CEO of Facebook appears in Washington, I fear this is all going to be lost on them.

For most, yes. For a few Senators, no. Wyden has a pretty good grip on things if Zuck is in front of his committee.

Re: Looks like a...

I was thinking of Hannibal Lecter.

Re: De rigeur: "You privacy is very important to us."

The concept of "protection" via credit monitoring service escapes me at that moment. Err.. Experian anyone?

Re: In Other News........

One third of the worlds population are effing morons. Who would have known?

Most of which are politicians or politician want-a-be's.

Re: All your eggs in one voip

"There has got to be a joke in caressing a router within a cave, I just can't put my finger on it..."

And say "I love you"....and maybe promise it something.

Must be China then because I'm sure North Korea is not in any way communist!

And China is? Not according to Marx.

Re: 'leaves the world wondering who to believe'

That's this week. The question is "how many more CA's are out there and what do they have?". I suspect that we're just seeing the surface here and not the true depth of this.