Posts by ukgnome 2085 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2011
This sounds like a government sponsored app that's used to collect data in an innocuous way. If that's the case then it's a clever ruse. I'm not a tin foil hat wearer but it is a bit creepy.
I have used the app when it came out and found it a bit creepy (I use a lot of social media) , there are are a lot of people using it as hook up app as well as a lot of people using as a way of posting coded messages (speculation). You just have to look at whispers Twitter feed to see some of the things they cream from the whisper feeds.
Anyone that thinks selecting Anonymous will obscure there identity is a douche, even on here the vulture knows.
You are indeed correct. But this isn't just a Voda issue.
I realise that it's my choice to live in the middle class village near the Norfolk Broads but I shouldn't have to stand on a raised platform waiting for a magic one bar just so I can forward my mobile to the land line.
I live in one of the flattest parts of the UK but ALL mobile providers services are totally shit.
Lack on investment of the railways? Surely not.
OK that's sarcasm, wouldn't it be a simple infrastructure job to place 4G masts alongside the tracks? I thought that was what "call me dave" wanted.
It would be a win for train and mobile providers alike. Decent connection means more subscribers, more subscribers mean more data used, more data used used means more cash. All from the "comfort" of a train.
WOW - do all you down voters work on a helpdesk?
I find your lack of knowledge quite incredible, and some of your opinions are backward to say the least.
Apps on phones need to know what the device is doing for a start.
If it's to use any function of the phone then it needs access to them. A developer doesn't need to write a service for handling text messages when the phone OS already has that, they don't need to write a service to launch the dialler, attach photo's operate the camera etc etc.
However, I understand why some of you are scared, worried, afraid. The simple thing for you to do is grab some tin foil and fashion a hat. Maybe wrap your phone in some and think of a different career choice. I hear the golden arches are recruiting.
It doesn't know who's calling you, but it does recognise when your phones in use.
This can be used for several reason, the main reason is for when you use the integrated phone feature, so that you can phone your friend from the app.
If your friend has trusted their number to FB then you can buzz them from the app.
these permissions are the same or very similar to most other messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Snapchat and Instagram.
I doubt they would kill the kiosks, they are well used for movies and games - UK folk think lovefilm postal service but a vending machine instead of post.
Hopefully someone like tesco in the UK will start a kiosk service, or maybe even redbox themselves. It's needed since the death of blockbuster.
its against data protection laws.....
I'll bite, paragraph and subsection is always my reply. That's because almost everyone doesn't actually know what the DPA is. Heck, I've worked in so many environments were I need to know and I refer back to various law sites.
It comes as no surprise that most offices fail, as most people in offices learn about data protection from a business trainer that parrot fashions something that sounds similar to it.
I see dumb people.
You need to teach the youth Dabbers, they know such things from early on. Although to be fair the space bar on my iPhone keyboard does have space written on it.
I can imagine the glee you have when trying to explain my the return key is called so.
I worked in a typing pool, that's why I know, maybe you need to get them on a pitmans course.
That's a well researched and written article. Occasionally Lewis does write one.....(only minor trolling)
I was having a discussion about this on line the other day. As I used to be a member of a gun club before all guns were deemed too evil. There standpoint was that bullets ripping through flesh must be terrible, and perhaps shooting the crap out of people was bad. And I agreed, my friend indeed had a point, in fact he had a quiver of them. Archery is much more fun, it doesn't make a loud bang and the poundage on his bow would cause some serious damage as it fired a pointy stick at you (through you)
The actual proportion of people with guns that shoot people is relatively small, unless you watch the news or read the papers.
Not so, America has some great cider. For some reason though they call it hard cider. Usually when they say cider they mean apple juice.
I had a few in California and it was surprisingly refreshing, although they didn't understand putting ice in it.It was a shame I was strapped for time as I wanted to pose outside a Cupertino HQ drinking a pint of rough. Maybe next time, for some reason I would like to get moved on by security there.
>He added SMS alerts tell customers when their data allowance has hit 80 per cent usage. A second text is then sent once all that data has been gobbled.
This happened to me, well the massive missing data available did, no text or anything. Although the nice chap at EE added a wedge of free data when I phoned up and asked him where my allowance had gone. The weird thing is he didn't acknowledge an issue, and confirmed that according to his system the allowance was indeed missing.
>You can be certain that Apple will wriggle out of repairing / replacing these sub-standard efforts.
Yeah, Apple never recall products or admit issues with batteries or power buttons or anything like that, so bending would fit into this category. Except of course if you have an iPhone 5 for power buttons and batteries or a 5s for battery.
OK several things that I simply must vent at.
The police cannot currently catch people using mobile phones, how long has that been in force? In fact the last dick head to cut me up on my motocycle was on the phone, this was three days ago. I instantly recognised that the pillock was a police officer, he had kindly labled his car as such. He didn't like me much when I reminded him that he shouldn't be on the phone, and when he got a little bit cocky and aggressive I pointed out that all his actions are on film.
Glancing at a watch is no more distracting than glancing at the dash, spedo, odo etc.
However, I suppose it depends what's on the watch. Technically driving with a satnav stuck on your windscreen is also illegal but the old bill don't seem to care much for that.
As for IAM, I thought that was cat biscuits.
I was actually pondering the same thing myself, and I am sure that this was computed.
But every time I try and think I remember stratodangle and for some reason that makes me smile, I like the word stratodangle.
If the worst does happen then just remember that falling is just flying to the ground really quickly.
Try working out what that is after Two Years!
£50PM = £12000
£75PM = £18000
Wow, that was easier than I thought, and I did it without a calculator.
Of course your idea of how much a contact costs is way off the mark, but don't let facts get in the way of your posting.
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