Re: The Mac OS version of the WhatsApp desktop app assumes you're already a user
If it's like WhatsApp for the web, your phone is in charge and the app connects to your phone via the Internet.
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Are you suggesting you are fine with companies aggregating your private info as long as they sell it to whoever is willing to pay?
Not particularly, but I was talking about the being bombarded by advertising bit and stopping it.
Not really, just sign up to the mail and telephone preference services and don't log into Google while you browse. If advertisers are legit enough to be buying this info from Experian, they're legit enough to play by the rules.
When we get tailored adverts just for us on cable or broadband TV, then we might have to think again, until then...
"We did an analysis of all the countries Telefonica operates in and the only one that compares for spectrum dominance is Venezuela."
Did he really look at Telefonica's home market? BT would be a plucky newcomer disrupting the market compared with how Telefonica have got things sewn up.
There should be a difference between malware being pulled and the developer deciding to pull the app.
You should be notified beforehand and be given chance to download and make a backup which later works on any device you own, present and future. But it doesn't work out like that, you're not notified so you may delete your own copy thinking you can get it from the store later and/or you don't get backups of app code made from your own phone and it's not on the store any more.
Of course the best solution would be that the last version is held on the app store for those who have already bought or downloaded it. Don't know how legal that is though.
All this is guessing, nevertheless...
The protocols might be WebDAV and DeltaSync which were only ever used by Windows Live Mail and Hotmail together. Given that MS say you should switch over to Outlook-the-client, those two protocols are probably going to dropped and ActiveSync used in its place.
However MS would be mad to drop POP3 and IMAP from Hotmail so other clients apart from Outlook-the-client would carry on working, except for WLM which sees a @hotmail.com or @outlook.com address and automatically configures itself for a nonexistent protocol. Perhaps there's some way to trick it into configuring manually for IMAP.
I've deliberately used Hotmail instead of Outlook.com to make it clearer, otherwise everything would be called Outlook.
You're right, the paper was different, I forgot that.
The Alphacom was a driven by the edge connector, like the Timex Sinclair. Nothing fancy like RS232.
IIRC whole lines were sent by an OUT to some port (forget which one, but there weren't many). Each line was 256 pixels long, the Spectrum sent the bitmap for the first row of pixels (32 bytes), then the second row of pixels, and so on down to the eighth. I can't remember if a linefeed was a code or just 8 empty rows.
If you can get hold of The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly that will show you the printer driver code.
If you're going to be walking round with more than 100,000 euros in Spain the bank has to give you a special form when you withdraw the money, so if Lewis has still got the form on his bedroom wall...
Although the form is rather academic now because as of a few years back as if you pay a company or someone who's self-employed the cash limit is 2,500.
According to statistics, which are never wrong, 500 euro notes now make up 75% of the money in circulation in Spain, twice the eurozone average.
It's earlier than the filesharing story and it's about something completely different.
Just as RIPA was used by councils to spy on people over stuff like rubbish collection and school catchment areas, it will be argued that P2P sharing over thousands of nodes is industrial scale. Not everybody who agrees with that is angry or persecuted.
In another post grey areas were mentioned. They're already here, they're called life + x years. Instead of the money going to the creator in those x years, more often than not it goes to a corporate behemoth such as Disney (bingo!) than anyone else.
Any copyright after death doesn't strengthen the rights of the individual. Whilst Google and Facebook don't strengthen the rights of the individual, neither does Disney. If you want to be a creator and Disney is publishing, you'd better create something that the princess factory can make or your work won't be published and you'd better sign over your rights to Disney.
If copyright is to be strengthened, then it can't be just slapping more years on in 2023 when Mickey Mouse falls out of copyright, it's got to be done giving individual creators more legal tools to keep their own copyright and to go after all corporate behemoths, not just Silly Valley ones.
Every phone and its dog can do remote desktop, there's no need for a Windows Phone for that, unless MS are going to do some RDP lock-in...
OTOH if that is the strategy then having to have a net connection to get to the cloud version of a piece of software to do Continuum is pretty crap.
I'd say it's working. Why would they give you a discount on stuff you always buy anyway, that would make them lose money. They want to make you buy much more of the same stuff or new stuff, that's where the money is. And if you were to, say, regularly start buying something they originally offered you a discount on, I bet that offer would disappear fairly soon too.
If anyone has seen the Spanish e-ID card it's the biggest pile of fail that a consultancy has had the pleasure of knocking together. Windows, approved card reader, this version of drivers, that version of Firefox, the other version of Java, download and install the root certificates from the Spanish Mint, a 16-digit PIN to verify it's you (only changeable at a machine down at the police station), and a crappy file signing program. You need the patience of a saint and to be familiar with IT to get the thing working in the first place. If this is the future for YouTube then YouTube will go bankrupt in a week.
1. You can use both iOS and OS X without an Apple ID and Siri and you disable Spotlight Suggestions.
2. Even if you turn on all privacy options in Windows 10, there's a hell of a lot of phoning home still going on.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/
3. Voice assistants don't upload anything until the trigger words are heard.
4. You're right about Google, but then again who isn't?