Posts by WhoIsThis? 17 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Sep 2009
fixmystreet.com have mobile appps for iPhone, Android and Nokia - they are part of mySociety.org
It would be interesting to compare the two offerings - I know the fixmystreet offerings automatically forward the reports to the relevant council.
The M18X Dell Alienware page that's linked to has a rather poor sense of spelling.
On the right hand side there's a box stating an award that the laptop has got - they have spelt Alienware as Alinewire!!!!!!
Maybe Dell should go back to school to learn what a spell-checker is?
How long before they fix it?
/^v.+b$/i
Matt Asay is caught by his own argument. He can't see the fact that most of the startups he talks about ("Project Diaspora", "Identica") are things that a lot of techies have never heard of, let alone normal.
If you've never heard of it, how can you sign up to it?
Google+ has the advantage it is by Google, you know that firm that everyone knows about and most people use at least some of it's products. They will integrate and advertise this with their other products and people will sign up out of curiosity.
Also many people are connected to multiple networks: Facebook, linkedin, twitter etc.
Of course this may not be enough to make Google+ the hit that it could be.
I wish to pre-emptively object to my any future article you publish, or fail to publish. I also wish to pre-emptively object to your publishing or not publishing of my objections to said article(s). Then I wish to object to the article about my objections. Obviously then I will object to my own objections in an everlasting loop.
Why, oh why, oh why????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Have a nice day.
How can a company get my details for £2.50, when it costs me £5 to get my data from the DVLA under a Data Protection Act request?
A DPA request charge has to be only enough to cover the cost of providing the data. So how can it cost more than giving my data to a company?
Note: I have just updated my licence and the £5 fee is mentioned in leaflet INS57P that comes with the licence.
" Nevertheless, it would have been interesting to see exactly where the Supreme Court came down on the issue of whether PC buyers should be expected to check cable connections and reseat memory cards themselves. "
In the UK it should be obvious which side to come down on as you don't ring any customer support of any other electrical product and they tell you to take it apart. End customers are not even allowed to re-wire a plug these days - they are moulded to stop us doing so. I can just imagine what the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) would make of customer support suggesting that you open your hoover to fiddle with the electrics inside.
Is America different? Do customer support lines really ask people to take apart and mess with the electrics of their giant fridges?
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