Is this not a case of the french publishers wanting to have their cake and eat it aswell?!
Posts by Caltharian
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French monopoly watchdog orders Google to talk payment terms with French publishers
Forget toilet roll, bandwidth is the new ration: Amazon, YouTube also degrade video in Europe to keep 'net running amid coronavirus crunch
US and China wave white flags, hit pause button on trade war
Samsung taking its sweet time delivering Galaxy watches from phone bundle bungle
Re: "some customers"
i will keep it and use it for about a week and then it will probably live at the bottom of a drawer
I have already checked the resale market and there is quite the glut of them in the colour given out so they are selling for around half of that which the other colours go for
samsung sent out an email this afternoon, for those interested in the text here it is
Good afternoon,
Thank you for your recent participation within the Samsung S10 Watch Active promotion.
Due to the popularity of this promotion, some customers will experience a slight delay in receiving their Samsung Watch Active.
Please rest assured that we are working as fast as we can to send out your reward, however we would like to sincerely apologise if your delivery does arrive later than planned. Whilst we hope to avoid any delay with your shipment, we are aiming for your Watch Active to be shipped out to you within the next 10 working days at the very latest.
Once your Watch Active has been dispatched, you will receive a notification via email which will contain the courier tracking details and provide you access to the latest updates on your shipment. Alternatively you can check for any updates on your claim by visiting the 'Track My Claim' page on the claim website.
We hope in the meantime you are enjoying your new Galaxy phone.
Kind regards,
Samsung Promotional Support
This is an automated email from a no-reply address. Please do not respond
Assange fails to delay extradition hearing as date set for February
Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android
Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, where to go? Navigation satellite signals flip from degraded to full TITSUP* over span of four days
UK Home Sec kick-starts US request to extradite ex-WikiLeaker Assange
Introducing 'freedom gas' – a bit like the 2003 deep-fried potato variety, only even worse for you
Murdoch-backed adtech startup Unlockd ditches Google lawsuit: That'll be £200k, ta very much
New UK counter-terror laws come into force today – watch those clicks, people. You see, terrorist propag... NOOO! Alexa ignore us!
Definition of a terrorist
Who defines what is classed as a terrorist organisation, does it include terrorist organisations that have "gone legitimate", would you fall foul of the law for reading the Sinn Fein website or DUP website as both of these were classed as terrorist organisations or at least the "political wing" of terrorist organisations.
Where is the line drawn is the pertinent question here
They did it! US House reps pulled their finger out, voted to restore net neutrality in America!
Not cool, man: Dixons spanked over discount on luxury 'smart' fridge with wildly fluctuating price
iFixit engineers have an L of a time pulling apart Apple's iPhone XS
Super Cali neutral traffic bill makes web throttling bogus
Bluetooth 'Panty Buster' 'smart' sex toy fails penetration test
Morrisons launches bizarre Yorkshire Pudding pizza thing
Oh good. Transport for London gives Capita £80m for WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi
Another toothless wonder? Why the UK.gov's data ethics centre needs clout
Home Sec Amber Rudd: Yeah, I don't understand encryption. So what?
"What I found more worrying is the gaol time for those viewing "terrorist material" on-line. Who defines what is "terrorist material"? Government could decree any sites working on disrupting their plans are "terrorist material"."
i think that is the direction they are planning on taking, to include any content to the left of enoch powell
FBI probing Uber over use of 'Hell' spyware to track rival biz Lyft
Segway hoverboard hijack hack could make hipsters eat pavement
'My dream job at Oracle left me homeless!' – A techie's relocation horror tale
Alaska dentist 'pulled out patient's tooth while riding a hoverboard'
To Hull with the crap town naysayers: UK Culture City's got some amazing... telecoms
Sysadmin figures out dating agency worker lied in his profile
Alleged hacker Lauri Love loses extradition case. Judge: Suicide safeguards in place
Engineer's $30m windfall from Nintendo 3DS patent spat SLASHED by beak
Paypal makes man 1000x as rich as the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE
Microsoft, EMC, NetApp support Oracle against Google
Re: Huh??
The look and basis of the character Harry Potter is based on the character of Ponder Stibbons and the actual story is based on a story by Neil Gaiman
For some good illustrations of Ponder Stibbons to compare the point please check the hardback edition of "The Last Hero"
after a quick seach on google i came up with this from the book http://www.xirax.fatal.ru/discworld/pictures/large/Ponder_tlg_resize.jpg
Firm moves to trademark 'Python' name out from under the language
yes, stackless python to be precise
Although things could get a bit iffy that way, CCP (the company that made and maintains eve) is based in Iceland, however the do have an office in Newcastle and the servers(not including the servers for the special version just for china) being in a datacenter somewhere around London
Apple said to develop curved glass iWatch with Foxconn
AV-Test boss dismisses Microsoft criticism of malware test results
Re: Ms Fail?
It is true that i have not used norton for many years due to all the stability issues that it came with, but then at the same time i also found norton ghost absolutely wondeful to use
It just gets to the point where a product burns all the good will your willing to give the company.
It doesnt matter how good they maybe now, the damage to their rep for me and many others has already been done and there are many av products out there which havent had the same issue
The moral of the story is if you release shoddy product after shoddy product, no matter how good the next one is people will always remember the bad ones and avoid it like the plague
China seeks ‘Oceanauts’ for deep sea exploration
The Major problem that i can see is if and when they actually start mining and the fact that no-one can agree on what part of the seas and oceans in the area belong to which countries
Hopefully the UN will not give permission for any sort of mining until atleast that part is sorted out otherwise there could be some very upset people with large military budgets and grudges to settle
Wi-Fi routers able to manage bandwidth by app are offered
Troll sues Apple for daring to plug headphones into iPhone
Peak Apple: Forstall was 'closest thing to Jobs they had left'
Star Wars VII: The Disney Movie signs Toy Story III script genius
Facebook trial: Tell everyone where you are, have a Wi-Fi peanut
Mexico to Apple: You WILL NOT use the name 'iPhone' here
African kids learn to read, hack Android on OLPC fondleslab
Most likely they didnt lock the systems down properly
reminds me of when i was at college and the library computers ran windows 3.11 which had 3rd party software installed to keep them secure including locking down the run command, of course it didnt take long to figure out that all that you needed to do was to alt-tab to the security software and press alt-f4 to shut it down!!