Posts by adam 21 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Aug 2008
This is very odd.
I have searched for myself, and found myself at an address i havent lived at for over 2 years !!
The really annoying thing is that i NEVER EVER EVER give out my mobile number to ANYONE bar friends and family. I certainly dont publish it on forms, letters etc - so how the hell did they get my details ????????????????
"and as for the guy previously saying buy a new gate - well, of course he can. but then he is going to be down some £££ isnt he?"
So your mate is blaming Google on the fact he cant afford to buy a gate ? Surely google or no google every man (and woman) should protect their "castle" ?
If he did get burgled, would he still blame google if streetview didnt exist ? if some casual hoody strolled down his street and thought "oh, no gate, lets have a look"
I think the world is screwed up enough as it is. People are dying in the world, people have no food to eat nor water to drink, and people are crying over the fact google is taking a picture of their fence and curtains - how sad - we should all be ashamed.
Google - get on with it and ignore the critics i say.
"he tells me that you can see down the side of his house (no gate) "
So, tell him to buy a gate ?
Honestly, whats the issue ? surely a burlgar to be could just walk down the street and see the same information/images - ok i admit that Google make this a little more sat in sofa with laptop easy but who cares a toss ?
I think that Streetview is brilliant.
I think Google is brilliant.
They offer a great search engine and great email to me - all for free.
If you dont like the adverts, dont look at them or look elsewhere !!
Paris, cos she'd make an interesting view
You had to do it again didint you.. mention those two letters... V M
Each and everytime i hear those words i have a shudder.
Mother of all broadband
fibre optic super highway
50mb blistering service
well ha.
try 4 months of hell, over 150 phone calls, 30 engineer visits, road dug up outside house, garden dug up in some kind of time team dig-stylee, and its STILL faster browsing the web on my poxy (or should that read proxy) mobile phone than using my "child of 14.4k" broadband.
Stay clear, stay very clear of anything to do with VM in my opinion - you have been warned !!!!!!!!
If they cannot offer a decent 10 or 20mb service then why oh why oh why start offering 50mb, let alone start talking about wholesale access and 100mb.
Paris - cos i need to take my frustrations out on someone
I was on BT. I live about 15 paces from the exchange and syn'd at about 2.3mb on what was supposed to be 8mb.
After 14,000 calls to BT, usual advice of unplugging everything, reinstalling my life etc, i was told an engineer would "boost the signal" to my line. 5 days later without any phone service or broadband, i was told it was an exchange fault.
Short of runnign a lenght of cat 5 to the exchange i gave up.
I'm now on Virgin media, 20mb connection, and get 20mb. very quick, its never broke (touch wood) and i am very happy with it.
That said, I know loads of people who have had a crap VM experience. I can only guess as i live on a street where noone else is under the age of 97 that no-one in my area is a heavy net user, hence my connection is nice and quick.
Oh, and ive never experience any of this bandwidth throttling / traffic shaping ?? i can start a download of 20Gb at 6pm, and get a pretty consistent download rate until its completed.
Paris - cos she needs a good downloadin'
Surely if this were true, then the same sniffing practice could be done on an ATM, since they are basically a PC (alot of the time running XP Embedded).
So, an "attacker" could sit in their car with their Waltham sized antenna outside Tesco and get peoples PIN numbers with relative ease ? Then bruiser brian follows the victim round the corner, nabs the ATM card and can purchase / withdaw at their leisure !
Think also alarm panel keypads, door entry keypads etc.
Paris, cos she would never give off RF signals... just pheromones (sp?)
This is just yet another example of utter incometance by this Government
"lost" laptops by the MOD, "lost" CD's of data by the NHS, HMRC, you-name-it department
This is unforgivable, not the fact its data from HMP, but that this type of thing happens so frequently.
Surely I have a case to go to European Courts and claim compensation for the Govt putting my personal data at risk ?
what is the difficulty here ? its OUR data and they are playing with it like its nothing.
No wonder there is so much ID theft.
Paris, because, she would never treat her "data" like a toy
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