Posts by Salts

And from our

lords and masters, a quote from the BBC website

A Home Office spokesperson said: "The government and the police have a duty to protect the public and our national security.

"If the police believe that an individual is in possession of highly sensitive stolen information that would help terrorism, then they should act and the law provides them with a framework to do that. Those who oppose this sort of action need to think about what they are condoning."

Simple if you disagree with that statement you support terrorism

A bit like super injunctions ...

One of the things that lead to the super injunction being shown for the stupidity it represented, was the amount of ridicule it received, I doubt however we will see the same for web filtering, but one can hope.

I agree with others on the forum, I wish the ISP's had left the sites blocked, as they have no responsibility to check the validity of the IP's in question and are only required to uphold the ruling. The longer the block went on the more people would have seen the damage these half baked ideas can do.

Though being a cynic, I suspect, as the ISP's that unblocked the IP's are all content providers of copyright material, realised that by continuing to block it would have a negative impact for them, should they wish to self filter some future copyright infringers.

I am not in the UK at the moment how is the market for small ISP's that include VPN & Proxy as standard?

As we are not US citizens...

and have been told quite rightly we are not included in their constitution(for what that's worth these days), then at least by using European services we can.

1. Financial give a little poke in the eye to the US

2. At least have a legal framework of some description that we are covered by and some is better than none

Curry's seem to have dropped the price on the Roku LT to £34.50 and that given the "Normal" UK exchange rate despite what the banks say, this will probably be the price of the Chromecast. Point is the Roku LT seems a better device at the same cost and available in the UK now.

I wear a watch all the time :-) I wear a watch and a wedding ring, so please don't think I use a lot of jewellery, would I replace it with a smart watch, I doubt it, like many that appreciate a good watch i wear it for the piece of engineering that it is, it tells the time and looks good.

Therefore a smart watch to replace my mid range watch (which cost about a $1500) is going to have to be well engineered, look good & tell the time, but also have a big advantage over my current watch.

But that is just me, many that don't wear a watch for the above reasons will probably adopt a smart watch and 5 million world wide is not a lot, the Raspberry pi a single product with two distributors managed 1 million units in it's first year.

The way I see it

Microsoft supplied the first consumer OS by default, because that was all there was, people used it at work and therefore it was the only option for the home. I won't mention that often they did not have a windows/office license as they got it from work.

Home users for the *MOST* part use the web, email and some other small tasks, that's why they bought the thing in the first place. Along comes the tablet and they do the same quiet adequately for their needs, why buy a PC and have to purchase Office & and an OS?

Microsoft wakes up, they are bleeding sales, consumer sales, business is in recession and hanging on and getting the most from their existing infrastructure. Therefore MS brings out an OS that is designed to entice consumers more than business, but the market is not the same as 10 years ago.

If my mom wants a new laptop at 75 she will get a Chrome book, her home laptop gathers dust for the most part since we bought her the iPad. Once she used the laptop everyday for an hour or so, now it is the ipad and it is used almost all day between her and 78 old dad(who would not touch a PC)

Anyway just some ramblings

While we are all distracted

The UK Gov will slip through all the laws it needs to make it's snooping retrospectively legal, we are all throwing Sh*te at the US when we should be making sure we clean up our own house first, while all of this is high profile and media worthy.

Raspberry Pi Does it Cheaper :-)

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1f607z/owners_of_a_raspberry_pi_what_do_you_use_it_for/ca7an5w

How about

Blakes 7,

@Gates and Ballmer

Pretty sure Bill Gates tried to sell DOS to IBM, but IBM refused because they where worried about a SEC case just after the SEC had broken up Bell Labs. So IBM decided to license DOS and handed the windfall to MS. Also it cost $10,000 (old age may make me wrong) not 50k, Bill wanted 80k.

Paul Allan called Bill Gates in to say hey you have missed the internet, as Gates had said it was rubbish and he would build his own network.

office that was a marketing thing which is what Gates is good at