Posts by Jas 1 18 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Oct 2009
They've finally decided to abandon the analogue cable service in Milton Keynes
Had the letter the other day that the service is ending this month, They suggested I look into freeview, freesat or even Sky.
TBH i've not used it much for the past few years, and should have just canceled it, but now they've saved me the bother.
One less box under the TV.
Speaking as someone who's face orbs are not to the required standard, A driverless car is something that can't come soon enough. I'm unable to obtain the required written (printed) permission slip to be in control of one, yet I can write the code that will do exactly that :)
OK, i've written an app.
It is free, and has adverts in it.
As a coder, this involves adding a jar file to the project and adding some code which displays the adverts. Now, my app does not request permissions to get contacts or texts etc as it has no need for these.
Assuming I wrote an app that did, then I assume that grants permission to the 3rd party ad library to do the same, since it is all part of my app. So could it be that developers of these apps don't even know that ad brokers are piggy backing on these permissions to get at the personal data?
I have no idea what other things this library is doing, but I imagine it would be quite easy for the 3rd party ad library to say:
//
// Show an advert and do nothing else (honest)
//
showAdvert()
{
if(hasPermissionToReadContacts())
{
uploadAllContactsToTheCloud(); // shshshsh
}
// oh yeah, don't forget to show the add otherwise people might get suspicious
readlyShowTheAdvert();
}
Be careful out there
I'm now on my second HTC Android phone, Desire then Sensation.
I still have 6 months left on my HTC Desire contract, and can't count how many new "higher?" spec handsets have been out since then.
It's all very well keeping up with the Joneses, but it gives the consumer, that has invested in a 2 year commitment with a handset, the feeling that they've been abandoned. I got my HTC Sensation last July, then there was Sensation XL Sensation XE Sensation with Beats Audio, and who knows what will be revealed at MWC.
I know things are moving fast, but a new top handset every month is just taking the P
is that everyone I know is on Facebook. :(
I personally prefer G+, but only 4 people I know are on G+.
The kids seem stuck with whatsapp and facebook even though in my eyes google+ is much more pleasant to use.
If google could find a way to get my friends to switch, i'd be happier.
Good, a dialer that lets you search by partial phone number (not just the start of the number like the HTC one) So if you know the last 3 digits of someone's number you can enter that, or if you type someone's local number without the area code, you can dial that to find the correct entry)
However, i've not seen a way to select which number it will dial if a person has more than one number associated (moblile/work/home) At least I can't see how to do it. This is a bit of a deal breaker for me.
is the main blocker for me switching to Chrome.
FF my current first choice, Oper and Chrome come in a joint second.
Opera used to be my first choice, but FF with a few plugins, works nicely, and seems to cope with some websites better than opera. (gmail in opera requires a full page refresh to get it working if it's been left for over an hour, works fine in FF)
AFAIK
All freesat receivers have the ethernet port. It was in the spec from the start because they knew they were going to do iplayer on it. Nothing to do with DLNA, although some devices may support both.
I don't think it actually uses the sat for any of the downloads as it is on demand.
It's just a convenient way to get iplayer on your TV. If your TV has built in freesat then you'll effectively have built in iplayer assuming you've hooked up the network.
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