Posts by katrinab

Re: Free advertising

You can get in the UK, for example here - https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Glaceau-Vitaminwater-Multiv-Lemonade/114038011?param=vitamin+water&from=search

Also available at Asda and Waitrose. Used to be available at Tesco and Sainsburys, but not any more.

Re: Terrorists Also Need Funding...

The definition of terrorism:

The use or threat or an action

Which is designed to influence the government or an international governmental organisation or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and

the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.

And

(a)involves serious violence against a person,

(b)involves serious damage to property,

(c)endangers a person’s life, other than that of the person committing the action,

(d)creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public, or

(e)is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system.

In this case, we have the threat, which intimidates a section of the public, and involves serious damage to property + endangers a person's life

However, it isn't made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause; it is just to make money.

So the terrorism test fails.

It is not terrorism if the motivation is to make money out of it.

Re: Tax Returned Limited, company number 08828062

There appear to be a lot of companies at that address.

Re: There appears to be an assumption

I think the main harm is that they look at porn actors and think that that is what normal people are supposed to look like, and get depressed because they don't look like that.

Re: I take it

I have bought handsets from them in the past, not recently though. The last one was a Galaxy Note 2 back when that was the latest model. They were fine, cost was about the same as online retailers, I got the box in my hand without having to wait around for delivery and deal with useless couriers, and the product was usual Samsung quality.

Re: Ban a system that works and is malware free*...

Alexander Bain invented the electric printing telegraph in 1843

The scanning phototelegraph was invented by Shelford Bidwell in 1880.

Staff first. HMRC rank at the bottom along with the trade suppliers.

Re: Using Yahoo! mail for something important?

I use a hotmail account for my domain hosting, because if I have a problem with my domain, my proper email isn’t going to work.

Re: Burden of Proof

And plenty of EU hotels affected, eg Le Méridien range of hotels.

Re: I spent two years in tech support

I get that in Windows 7, but not 2012 R2 (aka Windows 8.1) or Windows 10.

Re: The right attitude

Scroll wheels were introduced with Windows 95.

Unless you grew up with Macs, they introduced theirs in 2005 with the Mighty Mouse, that's unlikely.

It is bottom right on every monitor I've ever seen. That makes it easier for right-handed people to use it. Probably this luser didn't know the difference between left and right either.

Re: Days like today are when I'm thankful

"What job do you work in where you can stand to lose so much without data for 1 day?"

Basically any job that involves visiting people to do things

Courier / delivery

Maintenance - where you visit customers to fix their things

Sales

Doctors

Ambulance drivers

Buses (my local bus company doens't use O2, but if they did, their ticket machines wouldn't be able to do card payments)

Taxis / mini cabs

Lots of others I haven't thought of.

Re: Days like today are when I'm thankful

My backup phone is a £10 top-up every 6 months or so.

When you consider that my iPhone 6+ with a £25 battery replacement runs just as well as a brand new phone, whereas a Samsung Galaxy Note would have long since fallen to bits and at the time cost about the same, the iPhone actually works out a lot cheaper.

Lots of people do make video calls, but they use something like Facetime, Skype or Whatsapp to do them.