Posts by alain williams 2834 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2007
as these can be relatively easily broken, but all the other stuff: like my list of phone contacts that is now in the hands of the NSA. I would be happier if I could back up these settings to my own server.
More worrying that wifi passwords are email login passwords; it would be interesting to set up an email account that is not used anywhere, configure in the android phone and see what loggs in from where.
I can understand that some evidence might need to be secret, but why does the court itself need to be secret ? Also: where is the order, why cannot we see it (maybe with some parts redacted) ?
This especially so when they are slurping everyone's data, ie it is not a targetted set of naughty boys. The only possible justification would be real, imminent threats ... maybe it has to be secret so that we don't know that there is, in fact, little justification.
Ie what should be on it ? Will the list grow to contain things that are, by some, deemed ''bad'' ?
I assume that it will contain sex sites, but what about other things that can damage young minds, eg: violence, astrology, suicide, anorexic encouraging, religion ??
I could add: BNP, taliban & facebook since some would regard those as damaging ?
Daily Mail readers will never agree with Guardian readers, so best to leave it down to the individual household and what they see as right for their kids -- ie their prejudices.
MS helps the NSA gain access to data in its cloud http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
Now: tell me why anyone would trust it.
USA: OK, I admit that we were trying to crack your machines
China: We both knew that we were probing each other's cracks and knew that the other knew. We just did not like being honest about it.
USA: Friends again ?
China: Let's shake on it.
USA & China: Great, we can now go back to spying on who really worries us: our own citizens.
Milk ruins a good cuppa, the flavour is lost under the sweet milk.
Tea without milk is a completely different drink, much more delicate and softer.
For those who have not tried it: you need a good tea (not a supermarket own label), don't brew it long.
The only downside is the residue left on the side of the mug, a small price to pay.
That is rather like saying "we won't ship Perl because we ship Python instead. They are both scripting languages and you can do much the same thing in either." But that does not help if youhave an application written in Perl.
Similarly: there are many applications written to use Mysql so RedHat have to ship something that is Mysql compatible so that their uses can run them. Agreed: Postgresql might be better for a new project, but that is a different story.
Microsoft may well be doing the best that it can; however it is still subject to the USA Patriot Act.
It would be interesting to have a MS customer (I am am not) write them a letter explicity addressing this issue. I can't complain about them having to obey it, but they should at least come clean.
I lived in a large house, 40 - 50 of us. We played space invaders in the long sitting room.
Most lined up across the room advancing slowly, menacingly shouting ''Boom, boom'' towards the other end where a lone defender hurled cusions & pillows at the invaders.
Those were the days!
She was the fictional Doctor's daughter and in real live is daughter of the 5th Dr and spouse of the 10th Doctor.
Do something about it, support the Defective by Design campaign that is doing something about DRM http://www.defectivebydesign.org/rss.xml
You have just missed International Day Against DRM - which was 2 days ago.
> understand that religions can be a positive and rewarding part of people's lives, even if we do not partake of it.
They can be positive, but I see a lot of harm coming from religions: wars, one religious sect against another; theft from people, look at some of the USA TV evangelists; psycological damage, I know plenty who have had their minds screwed by religion - and that is not just the more wacky sects like moonies.
I think that on balance the world would be a better place without it -- unless, of course, they can demonstrate some reality in their myths.
Do religious education classes carry mental health warnings these days ? Are there warnings about recognising and avoiding religious web sites ? If not then they ought to. Far more harm is done to young minds by religion than porn.
And ... don't get me started with the violence in kids' computer games, but that is somehow OK.
Once you can do that you can do what you want to it; doesn't matter what google try to do with it.
If you have rooted it (and it talks to non google servers) and google tries to disable it -then surely they are trying to damage your property and could be prosecuted.
''It was all the fault of some lowly paid minion, he should be flailed alive and never allowed to work in IT again. The top executives cannot be held to blame in any way at all; they could not know what was happening since they were too busy counting the bonus given to them as a reward for having cut costs by sacking long time experienced staff and instead employing untrained and inexperienced contractors in India.''
I agree that it is illegal and in many ways wrong. However what the state of Israel is doing to the Palestinians is very very wrong: they have ignored UN resolutions with impunity and little international reproach, when Saddam Hussein ignored UN resolutions governments around the world screamed loudly.
The actions of the Israeli government need to be said as what they are: internal oppression against an ethnic minority. When that minority (inevitably) fights back this is taken as an excuse to hit back even harder. If this were happening anywhere else in the world there would be loud condemnation. Why does this not happen here?
A wrong to fix another wrong is not the right way either. I both support and disagree with what Anonymous have done at the same time.
Let us hope that this sparks real debate as to what is happening; however I suspect that it won't.
Before someone accuses me of it: I am not anti semitic. Just because I disagree with some of the actions of the Israeli government does not mean that I hate Jews; just as when I loudly complain about the actions of whoever is currently in power at Westminster does not make me anti British.
I bought one at the start of Nov for my son; available within 7 days. We got the camera, but they said that a couple of extra items would be a few weeks --- not so great since he was going to Madagascar. A few weeks came & went - we were told early Feb. Feb came & went - so I cancelled. I spoke to them on the 'phone and email, they showed little interest.
There was a promised andriod app to control it -- does not work properly. The camera itself crashes.
My son does not recommend them.
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