Posts by ACx

No way to Idris Elba. Saw him in Bastille Day, in which he could have looked like a future Bond, and he was so wooden and awful. Don't care about the skin colour, he was just awful. Completely the opposite to Craig in Layer Cake, in which Craig looked like a potential Bond.

"Windows 10 Anniversary Update completely borks USB webcams. Yay."

Some of us would think of that as a security update.....

If some looks at my house and notices my window open, I'd like to be told, but I would have serious issues if they poked around my house claiming they were looking for more open windows, while looking through my cupboards.

"Think your mobile calls and texts are private?"

Are you kidding? Surely no one is under that illusion any more? Come on......

I realise this site thinks its really clever and hip using the word "freetard", but unfortunately it makes this reader assume the writer is a very much lazy, ignorant, and retarded themselves. Its a moronic judgement word, which invariably is ill targeted by lazy "journalists". Perhaps a dictionary? Thesaurus? Use of a brain cell?

Please forgive the vagueness of this, but what happened (or happens still, I don't know, haven't looked for years) where main RAM is shared by the video chips? I remember a lot of ads where is was explicit that built in video shared the main memory, resulting in less ram available for normal use. My memory of it was that sellers and or builders were quite upfront about it. Did people who weren't clear about it sue? Or where sellers more honest back then? I realise it can be easily argued to be very different to what these devices now do, but does that set any sort of precedent?

OK, Im fine(ish) with the US, or any other country, taking measures its self to punish another country, if its so chooses to do so. But essentially blackmailing foreign banks and there for countries to do the same, by threatening them with being cut out of the dollar market, is an issue and quite obviously why many countries, regimes, and people despise US exercise of power. It also makes the dollar its self less attractive. Banks and countries will look for ways to mitigate that insecurity.

Really, the US doesn't help its self at all. What interests me is that global power over time is cyclical, and one day the US will become weak(er). O, that may be decades off, but at some point, many will look to settle old scores and if that happens at once, the US will pay terribly for what is seen as its indiscriminate, arrogant, self righteous, excessive exercise of power. This would be a problem for all of us. The US is secure while its top dog, but it cant be top dog for ever.

Ah bless, the dear little nut jobs are floating conspiracy theories. Reading that was like Father Jack suddenly waking up.

Funny how these TLAs are allowed to come out with any old idea to scare people, but if any one else does it, these very same TLAs will mock them as conspiracy theorists.

Im still using a Nokia 6500c. Im loathed to let it go. This Moto G thing is the fist "smartphone" that has a feature list and price point that tempts me to upgrade. Still bothered about the sheer size of these htings and battery life though. So, even if I do get a Moto G, it will probably remain a toy, while I retain the olde Nokia for actual phone calls.

Surely the most powerful weapons of airport terror these days are an unattended bag or a tweet.

Does China render, torture and bypass due process western citizens with the full support of western governments?

No, China is not, *as yet*, a deal breaker.

If my government ever crawls up the Chinese rectum, as it does the US, then may be.

Thing is, I only care about being spied on if it can have a negative effect on my life. As I type, the Chinese have no power over me. Unfortunately, some how, I am expected to follow not just UK law, but US law too. Not so with Chinese law. So, for me, the risk of the Chinese spying on me is virtually non existent. The risk I face from the US, how ever......

What kind of "special" journalist keeps using the idiot word "freetard" over and over again? What is this moron trying to prove?

Right, Im a massive NSA / USA skeptic. But please, the whole point of these secret service TLA's is that they act like the enemy. The CIA murders with impunity, the NSA slurps data with impunity, and so on. Same here with GCHQ, MI6 etc.

The point now is that we used to have some sense they were under reasonable control, that some how with in the democratic process they were kept from excess, and that if the ordinary man was privy to details, we'd probably, perhaps reluctantly, agree with most of what they got up to. Its not what they do that has gone wrong, its the excessive scope of that they are doing, and that it now seems they view us, the people, on mass, as the enemy.

Im all for specific, targeted, court approved stepping over normal decency. If they have a real suspect, and can prove genuine concern, and a court says, OK, you may do such and such, then OK, I can live with that. But now we have this on an automatic, industrial level. That has to be the problem, no?

But surely we always new they used dirty, criminal methods. That's kinda the point of having them.

I mean, Im not comfortable with any of it to be honest. But there is a reality here that has to be addressed and frankly accepted even by the most liberal of us. Which BTW, I am.

Bottom line: I dont like it, however, I accept it, but demand it is reasonably controlled by a process I trust.

As a long suffering customer, I am surprised they have 600 people, let alone 600 to fire.

The problem with this is the march towards war by machine only. Remote controlled drones are a step further down the line. Don't for one second be rank stupid enough to assume autonomous drones are not next down the line. The reason this is a problem is that the less home side soldiers that are likely killed or risk death, the easier it is for a government to put war on others.

Comparisons with SAS, missiles etc are completely missing the point. Its the effect these things have on political decisions that matters. Sending in the SAS to murder some one risks a lot, droning them from a cowardly distance is home side human cost free. A drone is worse than a missile because its seen as being covert. Also , a missile can only attack one target at the end of a course. A drone can hang about, follow, kill multiple times, and return.

It is also interesting that were call IEDs and booby traps cowardly and so on, while we think these drones are perfectly reasonable. Odd that.

And of course, as we see creeping in to the USA, the drones will be used in the UK on British citizens in time. How many drones could we have for the cost of one police helicopter?

Don't forget to look out for apparent concessions that in reality amount to nothing substantial.

Can we stop the childish "!" thing?

It was funny once. Now it just comes across as a cheap immature way to undermine Yahoo for no good reason. It's pathetic.

Yahoo seems to be the only big internet business to at least try to oppose the US gov and its henchmen at the NSA. Give them some fecking respect. They have earned it.

A "crappy" electric racing car:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8vEEqcuZDs

Note that with out the big stupid engine noise you can now hear the driver earning his fee by listening to the tire noise, rather than the not very informative loud engine. You can hear both the electric motor speed, there for throttle work, AND the steering via the tire noise. Real motor racing fans will appreciate this.

Soylent: Soon to be seen handed out job centers UK wide.

It will be the new Apple iSpy.

And is in all likely hood connected straight to the NSA, in case your gaming scores make you a terrorist.....

So, like if you by a caravan off a pikey site?

("Snatch" reference, for the semi conscious)

This is fantastic. Proper good stuff.

Why can't the US stick to this sort of stuff, instead of killer robot drones, harassing downloaders, rendition, etc?

BT and its Idiot users.

What is the problem with yahoo mail? I've been using it for something like 15 years with out any problems what so ever. No spam problems. No availability problems. No lost mail problems. No advert problems. No creepy data theft like google problems. Nothing.

Sounds like a BT issue. Though most likely its the usual stupid users blaming everything but themselves. Usually is. Usually people who think they know what they are doing too.

Yahoo mail is simple, easy and works. And doesn't get messed with all the time like, say, google mail.

But, hey, let the morons bleat away slagging off something clearly they know naff all about.

Oh stop wasting time caring. Government is for business, not the people. Money is all. We are just drones for business to use and abuse as seen fit. If we disagree, ultimately there is prison.....run by business. No one give a toss what the EFF or any one else says, if these government want to do it, they will. End of.

Grow up. We are irrelevant ants.

Kid finds bug.

Paypal openly refuse payment because they say age. They even cite US law.

Paypal gets bad press.

Paypal change their excuse.

So, Paypal lies. What a shock.

If they knew it was because some one else found the bug first, they would have said so at the time. Or do they just lie to start with just to say something until they can be bothered to tell the truth.

Either way, Paypal is a scummy business with a virtual monopoly with little regulation or oversight (most people I know only use paypal because of the close shop that is ebay and paypal) which they abuse for profit. But they can be convenient so the sheep happily use them.

Well, in the end, customers get what they deserve.