* Posts by Planty

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Good God, we've found a Google thing we like – the Pixel iPhone killer

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Card slots are fail. Nobody wants to manage split storage.

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Re: Fanboy alert

Indeed, this whole thing reads like a Google we hater.

"and, according to Brian Rakowski, VP of product management, it has "the best smartphone camera anyone has ever made."

Nope, DXO scientifically measured it and came to that conclusion.

EU turns screws on Android – report

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Re: Google bar on home screen

So essentially this situation is this:

Microsoft ship Windows with a fixed shell and search (Cortana) that ties you to Microsoft services and search and IE as the default browser, you can't disable either, but you can install another browser.

Google ship Android with their own shell, their own search, and Chrome, but you can replace all of them, and disable the Google browser and shell totally. You are under no obligation to use any Google services and can decline during setup.

Someone want to show me what the problem is here?

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Re: Typical EU

Indeed, things like this make the EU look like either clueless idiots, or simply corrupt.

Microsoft and Apple are way more anti-consumer than Google.

Oops: Carphone burps up new Google phone details

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Hmmm, ok then.,...

" the inability to update the installed base with the platform updates that new Google services require"

Google Play Services does exactly this, updates the base platform, delivering new functionality, without needing a new underlying OS. It's compatible all the way back to Gingerbread. (Android 2.3)

Google Play Games, Remote Device Wipe, Google Cast, Nearby (Beacon support), Cloud Messaging, Smart Lock, Wear Support, SafetyNet, Wallet, loads more besides.

All these things get updated on ALL Android phones back to Gingerbread...

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Re: Dual-SIM ?

"the way of the future"

Sorry, you are in for a shock. Most UK networks will be turning off the 2G networks soon, to expand 4G. And Dual Simm phones will be worthless. (the 2nd sim uses 2G).

Want to make US$1.5m this weekend? Just jailbreak iOS

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No, it means apple have more money to burn on this sort of PR stunt.

Who is bankrolling these bounties??

Apple to crunch iOS 10 local backup password brute force hole

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Re: Using old phones

Changing variables like OS updates you mean? The Samsung Galaxy S5 (used in the demo) was cracked using Android 4.2, the latest version of Android for the S5 is Android 6.01 with March 2016 security update.

This whole story is bogus, much like most security researchers "research", they intentionally mislead with select devices and select (and pretty much universally out of date) software versions.

Why is nobody calling these "experts" out on this? If I were to do a security article on Windows ME edition, it would be laughed off, how is this any more credible?

Ofcom punts network-sniffing Android app

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How much are they offering to pay me

for me to do their job?

Fanbois iVaporate: Smallest Apple iPhone queues ever

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What records, lowest number of phones produced prior to launch to ensure a sell-out?

What idiot believes that manufactured hype?

Google's become an obsessive stalker and you can't get a restraining order

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Re: Opinion: Your choice

You know that there isn't actually someone at Google looking your stuff right?

What exactly are you trying to hide?

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Opinion: Your choice

Unless you are a total pleb, we are all aware of the deal Google offers.

Lots of nice stuff, for free, in exchange for knowing stuff about you, and using that knowledge you serve you more relevant adverts.

That is is. If you don't like it, go to Apple or Microsoft, or Yahoo, Facebook or whoever, and they will do EXACTLY the same, but offer you inferior products or less free stuff.

Plusnet broadband outage: Customers fume as TITSUP* continues

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No Problems here (southwest)

Seems like a storm in a teacup (again)

Nest offers its thermostat in three new pretty colors!

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When you have good products

why do you need 6 month release cycles?

These 'aint mobile phones.

Inside our three-month effort to attend Apple's iPhone 7 launch party

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Re: You're applying for it wrong

And this is what iPhone plebs fail to understand. £100 of thier iThing purchase goes into a media schmoozing fund, so BBC RCJ and the like get freebies and jollies, in exchange for saying nice things about everything apple.

It's a perfect circle of awesomeness, and if you are too stupid to see this, then you would never know and actually think these people genuinely love these products and are buying them.

Google emits three sets of Android patches to fend off evil texts, files

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Re: WTF

No, stop confusing potential exploits with real exploits.

HDMI hooks up with USB-C in cables that reverse, one way

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Re: So now you can fry your TV too

Only if you are are a cheapskate and buy your cables from ebay and car boot sales.

Google scraps its Project Ara modular smartphone wheeze

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Anyone could see

This was always a thing about getting tech mindshare, rather than making a practical, reliable, commercially viable, cost effective product.

This was never ever going to fly.

Latest Intel, AMD chips will only run Windows 10 ... and Linux, BSD, OS X

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Microsoft continues to destroy the PC

It's solely responsible for the decline of PC sales, that started with the launch of Windows 8, and continued with the 8.1 and 8.2 (more commonly known as Win10) disasters.

Windows 10 now rules the weekend, taking over from Windows 7

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Re: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

Watch it stall now. Business don't want it, and no more free home version.

Can you imagine how bad adoption would be, had they not released the spyware infested free version???

Apple sued over shoddy iPhone touchscreens

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Re: Not again .....

Tell your mate to stop buying overpriced hipster iShit

WhatsApp is to hand your phone number to Facebook

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Facebook are the scummiest of the lot. They don't delete your data. I left Facebook 5 years ago, requested data deletion. If increase a fake account now, provide no real details, it has friend suggestions of family and friends. Clearly my IP address and friends data is still in there.

Google gets all the bad rap, but Facebook and Microsoft are the real bad guys.

Update your iPhones, iPads right now – govt spy tools exploit vulns

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Re: Safe and secure...

LOL. Security by obscurity.

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Re: 3rd party browsers

I think you have been fooled by Apple's pathetic spin. All those browsers you mention are forced to use Apple's webkit (and slow JS engine), so you are still using Safari, but with a Chrome skin.

Essentially this is the downfall, the sample exploit will work on ANY iOS browser, as you aren't actually using any other browser...

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riddle me this

stagefright

quadroot

Pegasus

two of these get all the press coverage and have never been actively eploited in the wild, the other is without a doubt the most severe vulrability ever to have hit mobiles, and whilst now patched on some devices, the amount of data gathered by it is unknown.

Seems to me like when its Apple, problems are dowplayed (22 comments), when it's Android, even if its only a theoritical exploit, it's headline news for weeks.

The press need to start responsible reporting. BBC are the worst, they are in damage limitation mode on this, but the last few Android theoritical exploits have been major smug-fud mode.

Google broke its own cloud by doing two updates at once

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Re: Change management 101

Might be possible in a small fred in the shed organisation, but something the size and complexity of Goggle, these sort of things can't really be avoided, especially when humans are involved.

I suspect those on their high horses, might want to look closer to home, as I suspect they work in IT, and have yet to come across a perfect IT department, actually not even close. Incompetence runs rife usually.

Five-storey Blue Screen Of Death spotted in Thailand

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Shouldn't have bought that cheap FTDI eBay fake

This is what happens...

English Uber alles in London taxis? No way, TfL – taxi app titan

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Re: Do I really need my driver to speak English?

Clearly you have never used Uber, THE DESTINATION IS DETERMINED AT TIME OF BOOKING BY YOU, USING THE APP. The driver doesn't need to speak to you, that's the point...

How difficult is this for people to grasp?? Quite honestly hard for cabbies it seems.

Microsoft to overhaul Windows 10 UI – with a 3D Holographic Shell

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Windows 10 with windows 7 shell and aero

That's all we actually want. Yet Microsoft are desperate to offload this metro and uwp worthless crap.

Adblock Plus blocks Facebook's ad-blocker buster: It's a block party!

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Re: arms race

They will always lose, as local modification of html, post download, pre display will always win.

Google says most users 'protected' against 'Quadrooter'

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Re: Google says it will have that one patched soon

And as pointed out by Google (and the billions of Android users that never actually suffer effects of these overblown problems), its not going to matter. It will get caught in the next layer of the Android security onion.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--gDPWd1hB--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/193dvap29fgc3jpg.jpg

Latest Androids have 'god mode' hack hole, thanks to Qualcomm

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Not really. Never ever actually seen a exploited Android device in the wild, despite Stagefright, despite this and all the other scare stories.

Not a day goes by where I don't see a malware infested Windows device.

Those two are literally worlds apart. Anyone that claims different is either an idiot, or has an agenda.

Android's latest patches once again remind us: It's Nexus or bust if you want decent security

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Nope, Google do a better job of patching, and a more open disclosure. Sadly the press rip s new asshole becuase of that, rather than acknowledgement of full disclosure. Pathetic is the word we are looking for.

Google will likely just stop revealing details if this press clickbait nonsense carries on.

Google-backed Thread, OCF form alliance for Internet of Things sanity

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Google + OCF = defacto standard. Crisis averted.

Microsoft axes 2,850 more Windows Phone, sales staff – a week after Justin Timberlake sang on stage for them

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Re: Honestly how clueless a comment

That hexus link was a future PREDICTION not FACTUAL news. Seems you don't understand the difference. There is nobody shouting that it came true, so make of that what you will....

Microsoft buries the bad Windows Phone news: Mobile sales collapse

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Shipped to stores

Not sold to end users. It's always much worse than the best Microsoft can spin things.

Google tells Android's Linux kernel to toughen up and fight off those horrible hacker bullies

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Re: Patching speed is probably the issue

You seem to have pulled that 90% figure out of your arse.

These changes are fir Android N. The reality is, you are only likely to see this stuff in a new phone, or a Nexus. Your old phone will get security patches for its existing version of Android.

Security is an evolutionary thing, just because there is new techniques to beef up security, doesn't mean your current device is insecure (Android is very secure in reality), its Google keeping ahead of the curve, securing FUTURE products, when you buy your next phone.

Cortana expelled from Windows 10's new school editions

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Here in the real workd, nobody uses the windows store, the real world uses Win32 applications.

Linus Torvalds in sweary rant about punctuation in kernel comments

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Tabs vs Spaces

Sounds just like tabs vs spaces argument. Perfhaps Linus has just watched silicon valley and he is being ironic???

Android Mew-ware, I choose you: Code nasty poses as Pokemon GO

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Yawn

Tired of the scare stories. Android is very secure as long as you arent an idiot and disable security settings and ignore security warnings.

Im off to get my tech news from a more reliable source that doesn't rely on obvious clickbait.

Huge double boxset of Android patches lands after Qualcomm disk encryption blown open

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Re: Impressive..

Ironically no. iOS had WAY more CVE's than Android last year.

Don't confused open with insecure..

Android is opensource and fixes are talked about in open, iOS is the exact opposite...

Gigabyte BIOS blight fright: Your megabytes’ rewrite plight in the spotlight

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Microsoft getting ready

to launch a virus that embeds itself in the BIOS to remind you on boot that your windows 10 upfate us ready.

Tor torpedoed! Tesco Bank app won't run with privacy tool installed

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Re: Security risk?

Rooting is absolutely a security risk. Things can occur in the background unknown to you. Ask yourself for a moment, what random tools did you download from the internet to root your phone, did you personally compile them yourself after auditing and u derstsbding what they did.... I think not....

Microsoft splashes Virtual Reality-slinging 'Scorpio' Xbox

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Re: Bravo

So don't git a hard time about the £400 PS3 price tag, but Microsoft get a free pass for a $3000 console????

OK then....

As for ensuring nobody buys an Xbox one of the next 18 months, nobody was buying it anyway....

Get ready for Google's proprietary Android. It's coming – analyst

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Anyone track

"analyst" prediction hit rates?? I never heard of this guy and don't know if I should trust him or not...

I did hear the reason they are called analysts is they talk out of their anus the vast majority of the time, and will say anything that hints at a paycheck....

You've got a patch, you've got a patch ... almost every Android device has a patch

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Re: Weurd

That was my point. 90% of the world's smartphones are android powered, and where are all the malware infested devices?? Will billion of devices, android devices are now more common than windows PCs.

Nada, nothing seen in the wild, all I see is news about potential exploits, not real world actual exploits..

I think there is a word for this, it begins with S and your post gets rejected if you mention it..

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Weurd

"get patching – if you can – because you can be sure miscreants will be finding new ways to exploit these programming cockups. ®"

Never ever seen or heard of a single exploited android vulnerability in the wild, which given the 1.8bn android devices, seems odd..What gives????

Ironically a day doesn't go by when I dont see malware infested windows devices. Android seems to be made out to be the windows of the mobile world. However android is vastly more secure.

Microsoft sells 1,500 patents to Chinese mega-phone biz Xiaomi

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Re: agreed to buy 1,500 patents

There is no more room for nails in windows phone coffin....

$10bn Oracle v Google copyright jury verdict: Google wins, Java APIs in Android are Fair Use

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Oracle should be grateful

Java would have died ages ago if it weren't for android.

That is the reality. Perhaps oracle owe Google money for keeping Java language relevant...

Ad-slinger Opera adds ad-blocking tech to its browser

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Re: Eh?

You might have forgotten how badly presto worked on the modern web. Go back and install it and visit some complex sites, and then understand WHY opera NEEDED to adopt blink. Websites working is far more important than being able to edit an ini file to make a toolbar appear in a different place.

I really hope you don't work in engineering...

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