Posts by ukjb

Google's Nest halts sales of its fire alarm – because waving your hand switches it off

Re: More internet of things

bad idea... say you accidentally turn on your toaster with a dish towel draped over it... fire started, but the device thinks you're making toast...

it was programmed correctly in the first place. by the engineer that thought it was a helpful feature. but long after he was gone, another engineer found that it was unsafe. it's not like it was a bug, there's a difference between software doing something you didn't intend and software doing exactly as you intended but having unforeseen consequences. which this case is definitely the ladder. I have no problem with pushing an update for this but apparently you and at least 6 others disagree. why? i have no clue

Connecting Gmail to Google+ is SENSELESS, says Digg founder

geez... a little uppity are we

jumping all over ac's back because he posted anonymously? what does posting in public get you that posting anonymously doesn't? you still can't see his email address... so who cares?

as for google "forcing you" to use google+... .... this is just stupid. never have a clicked anything in youtube or gmail that has opened a google+ page that i didn't want. it never forces me to create circles. it never forces me to go read a page i don't want to read. they are not FORCING you to use google+. are they integrating features? yeah. for some people, that's cool. but they haven't FORCED me to do anything. i don't understand why this has people all hot and bothered.

Jobs' 'incredibly stupid' prattlings prove ebook price-fix plot, claim Feds

Let's not kid ourselves here

"Apple lawyers said that the Feds were twisting the facts to paint a “sinister” picture of Apple."

No one needs to twist any facts to make Apple look sinister. In fact, it's Apple's legal team who attempts to twist facts in order to do the opposite...