Posts by Tom Chiverton 292 publicly visible posts • joined 1 May 2007
Why would I buy a new player when my 1080p LG upscales the content from my years old DVD player (still uses SCART for heavens sake !) fine ?
The studios wouldn't have a Cunning Plan to stop selling DVDs would they, to force people to upgrade ? Because that worked so well for Vista (and LPs, come to think of it !)...
'customers should never automatically open a .mdb file “received unexpectedly”'
Right, except, users are stupid.
Call it 'open for free hot pron' or 'click here for your competitors details' and watch what happens.
'New corporate screen saver' used to work well too in certain segments.
Just fix the damn bug, stupid.
"inserting the session cookie from 3(i) along with a few resources located on the dns.sysip.net domain (actually an iframe and a javascript file)"
So not content with stealing all my web traffic, they're also going to *mangle* the web page in some sort of unpredictable way ?!?
I am so glad my ISP, Zen, have done the decent thing and promised to have nothing to do with them.
"We're required under current EU law to have an ID cards"
No, we're not. And even if we *were* there's no requirement for them to be linked to your bank account, land title deads etc. etc.
From the article:
"National Identity Register will have very limited access, stringent security and no risk of 'discs flying around', MPs have been told."
Err, didn't they say that they sell access to anyone ?
"fewer than 100 people will have access to the National Identity Database"
That's a lie then, at a guess ?
"In rare cases the security services will be able to access the database, but not the NHS"
So the whole 'id cards help you get treated in hospital' spin is buggered then, as they'll now just look your name up on the NHS Spine from your credit card ?
What a even more expensive and silly exercise this is turning into.
Maybe it's time you all joined your local http://no2id.net group...
"iPlayer availability on the iPhone will be via Wi-Fi only as O2's EDGE data network is too slow"
What about all the other phone networks ? The iPhone works on them fine, doesn't it ?
Never mind that iPhone is getting the full flash player 'shortly'.
And as to x86_64 linux and Flash, either use the popular plugin wrapper, a 32-bit browser, Konqueror or wait. It's not like there is a 64bit Player for Windows either :-)
"If they were to change IE over night to be standards compliant, a lot of websites around the world would cease to work properly,"
Those are exactly the web sites that would have to be changed to include the majic 'please have the exact same bugs as ie7, but no others' tag.
So you're saying that if IE were better, a lot of sites would have to change. Why not make them change so they work ?
"while protecting personal information from abuse."
Protected, aye, right up until you *post the bloody database on a set on unencrypted CDs*.
Has the government invested too much to admit failure, with the claims that ID cards will magically eliminate all fraud and crime ?
Well, yes, it's in the software suppliers interest to make it hard to work out exactly what you need, because then you are likely to over buy to compensate.
Or be under licensed by accident, in which case they can sue for loadsamoney and then force you to buy more licenses.
Or you could just more to Free-er software and save yourself some heartache.
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