* Posts by terry 15

10 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Aug 2012

China wants mobile devices to limit usage time for minors, ensure they only see nice content

terry 15

It would be fantastic if over here, mobile phone manufacturers would actually be held to account on how abysmal stuff like time restrictions on phones are.

Both Apple and Android phones fail very quickly to reliably restrict time usage on children's phones. Too many obvious ways around (including the ridiculous one more minute) that get passed around in the playgrounds.

Country that still uses fax machines wants to lead the world on data standards at G7

terry 15

I wouldn't say that's GDPR hindering you, I think that's more a case of GDPR helping you judge that a website can't be trusted with your data.

Taking an informed view, you then have the choice of using a VPN to access it knowing what data you provide may be abused or just finding an alternative source instead.

Pure frustration: What happens when someone uses your email address to sign up for PayPal, car hire, doctors, security systems and more

terry 15

I get this a lot, sometimes I manage to resolve, or end up going down the GDPR right to remove route. Other times I end up deleting 'my' account (according to the company/website) as the only possible alternative is to call an american phone number to try to resolve.

Then there's a few medical/financial websites that I've utterly failed to resolve, a couple denying they have a record with my email address even though it's provably them...

Latest Google+ flaw leads Chocolate Factory to shut down site early

terry 15

I'm just waiting for the point when they do shut it down and and end up breaking access to other google products at the same time due to us all having to link our google+ accounts to their services...

Surveys-as-a-service outfit Typeform spilled a backup from May

terry 15

Seems to apply to travelodge users too:

"

At Travelodge we take the safeguarding of customer data very seriously.

On Friday 29th June 2018 we were notified by Typeform, a third party company who manage customer surveys and competitions on behalf of many companies, including Travelodge, that they have been the victim of a data security incident which has affected the personal data they hold about you.

<blah blah snip>

"

3-in-4 Android phones, slabs, gizmos menaced by fresh hijack flaws

terry 15

So has google's officially abandoned the nexus 4 now? After the first couple of security updates for it (post Marshmallow) was hoping they were going to continue but nothing for ages now...

Stone the crows, Bouncer! BT defends TV recorder upgrade DELETION snafu

terry 15

This a rebranded humax box? Wouldn't surprised me - great whilst they work but utterly incapable of keeping minor details like scheduled recordings when updating channel lists. They're full of excuses but don't actually care about fixing problems like this.

Ten classic electronic calculators from the 1970s and 1980s

terry 15

I bought an fx-P401 either for my GCSE's or A-Levels (I don't remember which) but I've had it and used it for many years since. I loved the fact that you typed the calculation you wanted (brackets included) then hit 'exe'cute to perform the calculation. It performed the calculation in the order you expected rather than having to second guess order of execution and had all various standard casio functions (include hex/binary/decimal modes).

It was advanced enough to do what I needed but not too advanced so it was allowed during my university exams. (eg the FX-1000G graphical calculator that replaced it and was banned!)

I still use it now in work, I'm not entirely sure how many years ago I replaced the batteries but they keep going and going!

BeBook outs Kindle-beating e-book reader

terry 15

Assuming they're legally bought from amazon, you can sync all the books onto any device/kindle app from the device/app itself.

Once you've got a book on multiple devices; you can get it to sync to last read on all devices thus regardless of what you're reading on, you can pick up an alternative kindle device and continue from that point.

Alternatively you can try using calibre2 to help you transfer stuff/convert them to mobi format for the kindle device.

God-botherers burst onto IPTV Freeview: The End is Nigh

terry 15

Support

You say: "All Freeview HD boxes support internet video, though not many of them are connected up yet and implementations are patchy"

Whilst the popular Humax HD FOX receivers support some media from the internet (ie youtube/iplayer); they don't support the MHEG streaming iptv channels as mentioned in this article. Shame really.