Re: Apple cider
Apple don't make cider. They only make iPA.
Posts by Captain Hogwash
1179 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Feb 2009
What if tech moguls brewed real ale?
As Corning unveils its latest Gorilla Glass, we ask: What happened to sapphire mobe screens?
Why Google won't break a sweat about EU ruling
Friday 20th July 2018 13:28 GMT
Re: The Fuschia's so bright
I just discovered I have the spelling wrong. It should be Fuchsia. From what I remember about etymology and elementary German, the name likely derives from someone called Fuchs and would more correctly be pronounced fooks-ya. Appropriate, no? Google are way ahead on their evil game plan, unfortunately.
Ah, British summer. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the internet is on the fritz
Wearable hybrids prove the bloated smartwatch is one of Silly Valley's biggest mistakes
Adtech-for-sex biz tells blockchain consent app firm, 'hold my beer'
No, seriously, why are you holding your phone like that?
Friday 13th July 2018 10:16 GMT
Monkey see, monkey do
I first saw this way of holding a phone on TV shows such as The Apprentice. I assumed it was dictated by the programme makers, who are keen to capture every nuance of emotion betrayed by facial expression, for the purpose of not obscuring the faces of the participants. As is so often the case, it was then mindlessly aped by the legions of proles who love a good affectation. I haven't been to foreign parts since before smartphones were a thing so I'm speaking from a position of having seen it frequently here in Blighty for several years. FWIW I think they look like idiots.
Who fancies a six-core, 32GB RAM, 4TB NVME ... convertible tablet?
National ID cards might not mean much when up against incompetence of the UK Home Office
Tuesday 19th June 2018 11:00 GMT
Re: entitlement card
That's the exact phrase I seem to remember Labour using when they first started trying to push the ID cards/biometric database scheme. They then talked about audit trails as a way to ensure one was not being impersonated for fraudulent purposes. It seems they forgot to mention the value of audit trails as a means of keeping tabs on one's whereabouts.
Android users: Are you ready for the great unbundling?
Universal Credit has never delivered bang for buck, but now there's no turning back – watchdog
Meet the Frenchman masterminding a Google-free Android
In defence of online ads: The 'net ain't free and you ain't paying
British egg producers saddened by Google salad emoji update
US websites block netizens in Europe: Why are they ghosting EU? It's not you, it's GDPR
Friday 25th May 2018 12:24 GMT
Re: Why should a US corp have to jump through hoops...?
If they have no physical infrastructure, advertising/marketing/sales operations, tax obligations, etc, etc, etc within the EU then they don't. My credit card lets me make purchases in any currency (and charges for the 'service',) anywhere in the world. So there's no difficulty buying huhkl-flendlegroodlers from a one-man-band in Finknottlestan, whose entire operation is run out of a self-hosted website in his outside toilet. In such a scenario the vendor has no GDPR obligations.
'Facebook takes data from my phone – but I don't have an account!'
Make masses carry their mobes, suggests wig in not-at-all-creepy speech
Friday 11th May 2018 14:19 GMT
Re: Go back to the 80's...
How about 1983?
"Technician, we want you to build a component
For each of our workers, to be with them always,
At all time watch closely, so we can keep track of
Their actions, their interests, their morals, their time out.
Some musak to maim them, some fear to contain them.
Policy will judge, them brute forces degrade them.
Practical behaviour, the cleanser, the saviour.
A private vocation has no sense of nation.
The maintenance of power can be so fulfilling,
Just as long as all the slaves are willing."
Twelfth Night, We Are Sane (from Fact And Fiction)
Friday 11th May 2018 12:15 GMT 
Tax
Not everyone has or wants a mobile phone today. I suggest that such people will exist in the future also. If it then became mandatory to carry one, would the government supply one free of charge? Would the cost result in higher council tax policing precepts? Somebody has to pay for the phones and you can bet it will be those under surveillance by some scheme or other.
Peak smartphone? Phone fatigue hits Western Europe hard
Cambridge Analytica dismantled for good? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata
Motorised robo-coolbox biz Starship makes lunchtime pitch to campus-dwellers
Shocker: Cambridge Analytica scandal touch-paper Aleksandr Kogan tapped Twitter data too
Monday 30th April 2018 13:47 GMT
Re: And they STILL wave their Clubcards at tills
Sadly, some people are so poor that, even if they have some idea of the problems around data collection, they have no real option. I'm fortunate enough not to be in that particular boat right now, but I have enough understanding of surveillance capitalism and experience of poverty to feel a lot of sympathy.
Google Pixel 2 XL: Like paying Apple-tier prices then saying, hey, please help yourself to my data
Thursday 26th April 2018 12:18 GMT
I've been using LineageOS/CyanogenMod without GApps on Galaxy S series phones since the beginning and can heartily it to recommend others. I'm currently using the LineageOS MicroG variant (same can be achieved by manual configuration but why make work for yourself.) Adding F-Droid gives plenty of useful (and not so useful) apps, including Yalp Store which gets you into Google Play without your own account.
tl;dr - Do it! You won't regret it.
Facebook admits it does track non-users, for their own good
My Tibetan digital detox lasted one morning, how about yours?
Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case
Please no Basic Instinct flashing, HPE legal eagles warn staffers
Meet the open sorcerers who have vowed to make Facebook history
What a mesh: BT Whole Home Wi-Fi users moan over update
Monday 26th March 2018 11:45 GMT
Re: can someone tell me why they're not called routers?
For the same reason that, if one's SO complains about the quality of their WiFi to EE, EE will sell one's SO a "booster". Fortunately I arrived in the nick of time to re-purpose all of the old kit from previous
ISPs she'd been with. She now has decent WiFi all around the house.
Hip hop-eration: Hopless Franken-beer will bring you hoppiness
Brit MPs chide UK.gov: You're acting like EU data adequacy prep is easy
We need to talk, Brit Parliamentary committee tells Mark Zuckerberg
You must be yolking: English pub to launch eggstravagent Yorkshire pudding
Microsoft says 'majority' of Windows 10 use will be 'streamlined S mode'
A smartphone recession is coming and animated poo emojis can't stop it
Friday 9th March 2018 14:02 GMT
@Dave 126
I think you assume wrong. The battery in my SGS5 has enough grunt to get me through the day and I don't want to be adding bulk to it. I want removable batteries in phones in order to prolong the phone life beyond the battery life. I have a couple of spares for when the original no longer holds a charge. Hopefully this arrangement will keep the phone going until the hardware fails, which is the only reason I would have for replacing it. Once it's gone I'll be forced into playing the manufacturers' game of ditching perfectly good hardware and paying for the privilege just be cause the battery has died every couple of years.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
