Posts by Phredd

I say, BING DONG! Microsoft's search engine literally cocks up on front page for hours

Somebody has a vivid immagination. Looks like two elbows, hips and legs to me.

RFID wants to TRACK my TODGER, so I am going to CUT it OFF

Tagless T-Shirts

I don't think anyone has mentioned Haynes Tagless (Comfort Blend) T-shirts. No tags and really comfortable. Also tagless undershorts.

Robocalling Americans? That'll cost you $1.7m

That's a 'giveaway' fine. They'll be back in business in a month under a new name. The calls will continue.

Microsoft uses Windows Update to force Windows 10 ads onto older PCs

KB 3035583 CLONE

KB2952664 looks to be the same thing. How many variations are we going to see?

Cybercrim told to cough up £1m or spend years in chokey

"The money will go back into policing and the criminal justice system, helping us continue to put people like Oshodi before the courts."

Of course, if he pays it back, none of it will be returned to the crime victims. That almost never happens. The plods have to get their cut, don't ya know. The victim can just go live on the street.

Cops think Mt Gox meltdown was an 'INSIDE JOB' – report

"Funny Money"... all of it.

Microsoft splurges 2½ INSTAGRAMS buying Minecraft maker Mojang

2.5 Billion for an ancient single game platform is mind boggling.

Italy's High Court orders HP to refund punter for putting Windows on PC

EULAs on other, non-OS software

Article recommends not breaking the seal on software and returning disks. And how does he expect the user to read the EULA before you start the install ?? X-Ray vision and the super ability to read data directly from the disks while still in the package, perhaps?

Apple, Beats and fools with money who trust celeb endorsements

Boosted BASS delivered at high levels into earphones. What better way to further scramble the brains of fanbois.

Firefox, is that you? Version 29 looks rather like a certain shiny rival

I wonder how many of my Add Ons 'this' is going to break ?

When the lights went out: My 'leccy-induced, bog floor crawling HORROR

Help for Dark Places.

Being a certified 'old fart', one of the things I learned some years back was to always carry a keychain flashlight. With the current LED technology, it's small, bright and useful in many ways, not the least of which is searching out that connection on the back of the PC under the desk. Also has in the past been useful in just the situation you found yourself in.

Asus Transformer Book T100: Xbox One? PS4? Nah, get a cute convertible for Christmas

Are you sure there's not a secondary battery in the dock? The ASUS TF101, which seems to use a similar hardware arrangement, does have a secondary battery.

Vote NOW to name LOHAN doomsday box

Re: Another Suggestion

Opps.. forgot that :(

Another Suggestion

What happened to REHAB

Reset, Everything, Hope (it's not) All Broke

or something like that.

Marissa Mayer in Vogue fashion shoot

Sounds like Jealousy from a bunch that can only 'talk', not 'do'.

Study finds online commentards easily duped, manipulated

Then there are the sites (mostly politically conservative) that allow 'anonymous guests' to upcheck, but require you to register and give up anonymity to downcheck. You wouldn't think that this would skew the statistics.....

Would You ?

And then there are the sites (mostly political conservative) that allow 'guests' to upcheck postings, but require you to register to downcheck.. You wouldn't think that would drastically skew results, or anything.....

Would You

Going lo-tech to avoid NSA snooping? Unlucky - they read snailmail too

Another Possibility is

Revert to RFC 1149

British bookworms deem Amazon 'evil'

Device lock in ?? Somebody is confused.. I've been reading kindle ebooks both on my netbook (windows XP) and my Android tablet for quite some time. Kindle apps are available for almost any platform and have been for some time. One of the good things I'm finding about Amazon is the availability of some really good authors at low prices that never make it into print media. That, and the fact that on this side of the pond, e-books seem noticeably less expensive than the same book in print. Early on availability of ebook versions of best selling authors were few and far between, that situation has improved greatly.

Eric Schmidt: Ha ha, NO Google maps app for iPhone 5

Google Maps OWNS your android device

I was a happy google maps user on my tablet until the latest update. When I looked at the 'permissions' wanted by the app, I deleted it entirely. It wants to own your device. I don't appreciate that and will find something else or do without.