What, like Mac users?
What, like Mac users?
My last virus was 1995 and took 2 minutes to delete.
I use various virus checkers once a year or so just to make sure. Never had a virus in 20 years now.
Posts by William Donelson
301 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Feb 2007
Fancy six months of security nirvana for free? Read on...
Pregnant pause: Ancient JUMBO MARINE LIZARD pushed out sprogs in open ocean
Silence is golden: Charlie Chaplin's The Tramp is 100 today
ALIENS ARE COMING: Chief NASA boffin in shock warning
Fsck those new emojis! Install iOS 8.3, OS X 10.10.3 NOW to squash all these security bugs
Google, Microsoft and Apple explain their tax tricks in Australia
Apple swears that NO FANBOI will queue for its new gumble
FTC: Hey, Network Solutions, time we had a chat about 'refunds'
Tim Cook: I'll give just a THIRD of what Gates gave to charity last year
Millions of voters are missing: It’s another #GovtDigiShambles
Mature mainframe madness prints Mandlebrot fractal in TWELVE MINUTES
Fanbois: We paid $2000 for full satisfaction but now we have SPREADING STAINS
Blighty's 12-sided quid to feature schoolboy's posterior
RIP Sir Terry Pratchett: Discworld author finally gets to meet DEATH
UK call centre linked to ‘millions’ of nuisance robo-calls raided by ICO
Minecraft debuts new block – one that blocks Java crapware, that is
Quantum computers have failed. So now for the science
UK.gov in pre-election 'Google tax' blitz against internet firms
Upper house of Parliament joins the drone debate
Thursday 5th March 2015 16:46 GMT 
The real question...
What is the "payload" of drones now? What will it be in 5 years? That's right. It's going to happen sooner or later :(
Perhaps a ban on drones larger than X size? Perhaps a limit on the payload capacity?
Personally, I don't want to be in the group that finds out the hard way.
Apple: We could expose our WHOPPING 12 INCH iPad - but it's not real
Thursday 5th March 2015 10:23 GMT
It's a con!
Come on, don't you all realise that this giant pad is just a stalking horse to keep others (Microsoft) investing into laptop-sized screens without keyboards?
Holy crap the 9.7" is plenty big, just hold it a few inches closer, which is what "shop staff" do already. And who wants to man- or woman-handle these big things around, anyway?
Apple are quietly laughing at all the bozos dancing around this idea.
'Fry-OS 8' iPhone BLEW UP MY PANTS wails roasted Johnson
The BBC wants to slap a TAX on EVERYONE in BLIGHTY
Tuesday 3rd March 2015 15:40 GMT 
Before John Birt...
... the BBC were seen around the world as the Crown Jewels of British culture. Admired and respected everywhere. Authoritative, independent, literate, creative.
But Birt's conservative-agenda dismantling of the BBC in the late 1980s was a travesty, from which the BBC never recovered.
I agree that a strong, vibrant, independent BBC is great for Britain. I love this country (been here since 1985) and greatly admire so much of it's culture and personality.
To set up a separate tax/fee collection system, beyond what we have now, or to have the central government pay fees from general taxation to the BBC is not the answer. But I do believe that all adults in the UK must pay something, on a per person basis.
This might be by a screen-tax upon purchase, or a yearly fee (possibly with monthly instalments), or managed by local councils.
The BBC has the potential to be an even larger part of the rich culture that makes Britian, British, and I would love to see that expanded and strengthened.
NASA upgrades Rosetta, Voyager and moon landing tracker
RIP Leonard Nimoy: He lived long and prospered
Intel, Apple and Cisco crossed off Chinese Gov's kit list
Finally, a decent use for big data: Weeding out crooked City traders
AMD's new Carrizo: The x86 notebook processor that thinks it's a GPU
A billion things are already on the IoT: Verizon
FCC Republicans slam brakes on net neutrality, but this wagon ain't slowing
'Giving geo-engineering to this US govt is like giving a child a loaded gun'
Jupiter Ascending – a literally laughable train wreck of a film
FCC chair refuses to make net neutrality rules public before approval
'Ruskie' malware pwns iOS 7
UK boffins DOUBLE distance of fiber data: London to New York WITHOUT a repeater
SPITTLE SPATTER as America weighs into FCC net neut shoutgasm
Forget Norks, Russian hackers are in Sony Pictures' servers – claim
Tom Wheeler flings off dressing gown, dons gloves for net neutrality RUMBLE
RSA boss packs his fishing rod and heads for the hills
Enough is enough: It's time to flush Flash back to where it came from – Hell
Google, Amazon 'n' pals fork out for AdBlock Plus 'unblock' – report
Super-cookie crumbles: Verizon vows to kill off hated zombie stalkers
Does your mate send smut vids on Facebook? 1. That's a bit weird. 2. It may be malware
Does Big Tech hire white boys ahead of more skilled black people and/or women?
Thursday 29th January 2015 11:38 GMT
Just wait until YOU are classed as TOO SKILLED (read: too old)
Ten years at MIT, BS and MS in engineering and computer graphics, award-winning work... just featured in Wired.com --
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/tech-time-warp-week-1977-tablet-computer-took-entire-room/
After two and a half years of job search, 66 applications to various companies (in the UK) I was offered 0 (zero) interviews.
I even cut the dates of my degrees out of my CV, but still "too qualified".
This *WILL* happen to you.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
