Posts by Simon Taylor 1

Microsoft vows to destroy Office, er, offices: Campus to be demolished and rebuilt

I guess it must just be me...

....but I have no problems with Windows 10 on my main daily driver laptop. Mainly used for all the usual apps, development with Visual Studio/Code, running SQL Server and Exchange and playing World of Tanks :)

It's starts quick, either cold or from sleep and performance is fine. It never fails me. I've never been borked by an update. I've had 2 blue screens since I moved to it about 2.5 years ago - which is fewer than my Mac Mini and a Linux family box. I find is easy to use and now that I'm used to it, could not envisage going back to 7. There are of course some annoyances for me but, significantly fewer than with the iShiny OS. I rarely use the Linux box and then only for email, surfing and so on so can't comment on those annoyances.

Now I get that not everyone gets the same mileage, the comments above show that, but how come my experience is so different?

Google Pixel 2 XL: Like paying Apple-tier prices then saying, hey, please help yourself to my data

Re: I stopped reading at

A common misqoute. "Having your cake and eating it" is really simple. The proverb is "eating your cake and having it." "Having your cake and eating it too" is also functional.

I'll get my pendants coat....

It's a sad outcome of reality distortion that given Apple and Googles privacy statements are to all intents and purposes the same, that so many people believe that when you toggle the switch on Android, it doesn't do what it says it will but when you do it on iOS, it will.

Apple is no different to any other commercial OS provider. Profit and shareholder satisfaction are numbers 1, 2 and 3 on their KPIs. Caring about you and the fluffy things come somewhere around 172 on the list.

Intel admits a load of its CPUs have Spectre v2 flaw that can't be fixed

Re: Might be another reason ..

After the SSL MITM and root no password buffoonery, it will be interesting to see what screw ups Apple manage to build in to their silicon.

Android O-mg. Google won't kill screen hijack nasties on Android 6, 7 until the summer

Not a Google problem. With every app you install, you are asked to grant the permissions. Some people are so stupid that they do not read the screen and simply grant everything. You can also install the app, then deny it permission to a particular permission.

How is Google supposed to fix people who don't protect themselves? I can see only 3 possibilities.

1. Grant the permission without any user approval - yeh, right.

2. Take the permission away altogether.

3. Somehow educate people that apps asking for permission is an important thing to take notice of.

Which would you prefer?

WhatsApp, Apple and a hidden source code F-bomb: THE TRUTH

Re: "can Visual Studio not be used to create iOS apps" [?]

Or, like many, many people, Apple just pisses him off?

Microsoft and Google ink SECRET TREATY to end all their patent wars

their (lack of) ethics and attitude towards the end user

Are you talking about Apple?

Your security is just dandy, Apple Pay, but here comes Android

Re: trollin time

You certainly are trolling. I could have had a iPhone cheaper on my contract but still chose Android. My current phone smokes an iPhone in all the areas I care about. The old crap about "can't afford Apple" is just that, er, crap.

Disclosure. I despise Apple for the damage they do to the industry and their reality distorting, lying, genius bar filling, cool aid tsunami. Wouldn't own an Apple thing if it costs pennies.

Horrifying iPhone sales bring Apple $18bn profit A QUARTER

The main point is being missed. Apples "innovation" of late comes largely from copying the competition. Without 7" tables, phablets, Android multitasking and notification centre etc etc etc, they would not be making these obscene amounts.

They are sucking so much money out of the market, and restricting supply chains with onerous contracts to the point that competitors can't even get the components, that competition is being stifled. Not because they are better, but simply that it is getting really hard to compete commercially.

The real danger is that the competition of Android flagships disappears, the innovation circle stops spinning and my only choice in the shops is Apple.

Not a very attractive future for tech.

Apple: Want a PATCH for iOS Masque attack? TOUGH LUCK, FANBOI

There are a lot of Apple haters everywhere. Hard not to be whilst they continue to lie and treat their customers with such contempt. In a recent hackathon, iOS vs Android vs Windows, guess which one fell first? Yep, iOS, as usual, and as usual ,via Safari. If they were humble and honest, it might be different but they are arrogant, complacent, dishonest and sneering - actually, sums up a sizable portion of their user base too.

Re: Can somebody tell me why this is actually bad?

It's so good, that for over a year, iOS accepted any certificate, whether the common name matched or not, during an SSL negotiation.

Re: Can somebody tell me why this is actually bad?

Are you serious?

You install your favourite, legitimate app to backup your contacts to cloud storage. It therefore has permissions to read your contacts and to access the internet. Of course, it does exactly what you want.

Mr Nasty now replaces that app with one that looks exactly the same. It has the same permissions as the app it replaced so it now slurps up all of your contacts and copies them to www.badstuff.com.

The continued arrogant, complacency of Apple apologists is sickening.

Jony Ive: Apple isn't here to make money. And students shouldn't use computers so much

Re: Those "6 months" are your advantage to make money, eejit.

If wouldn't if it was true. I wouldn't mind if people said, "oh, I didn't realise it wasn't true, sorry". But to hear the same old BS trotted out time after time is galling. The LG Prada was the first capacitive touchscreen phone. By your logic, are you now willing to admit that Apple copied LG?

I can't think of a single, significant technical innovation which Apple were first with.

Got an iPhone or iPad? LOOK OUT for MASQUE-D INTRUDERS

Re: Copycat Apple

BS. It is not possible, from a 3rd party store, or from an email, or from SMS or by side loading, to replace an application of the same name unless it has been signed with the same certificate which is never stored online. There are no known vulnerabilities here.

It really p*sses me off when Apple lovers bleat about how insecure Android is when in fact is suffers from exactly the same attack vectors as this iOS, except this one of course, most of which are driven by user stupidity/apathy.

The myths of secure OSX and iOS have been comprehensively debunked in the last 18 months or so. Remember how for almost a year, iOS would accept ANY SSL certificate? That has to be the biggest hole yet found in any mobile platform.

What people like you seem to miss is that the more you bleat, feeling somehow superior, the more you drive the hatred of Apple. Do you think that in some way people will think "You know what, you're right. I must switch platforms"?

'Windows 9' LEAK: Microsoft's playing catchup with Linux

Shame it's Linux

Cool, a feature I might use (even though I've had it on Windows for years). Shame you have to put up with all of the Linux nonsense to get it. Linux ready for consumer desktops? Please, I'll hurt myself.....

Chancer punts cig pack case for Raspberry Pi

Love this one. Made me smile...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Custom-case-Raspberry-Pi-Model-XXX-professional-Recyclable-/180833083409?pt=UK_Computing_DesktopComponents_RL&hash=item2a1a7de011#ht_500wt_1156