Android "Landfill"
Perhaps they will bring out an update for android called "Landfill" instead of all those bubblegum etc. type names. More truthful.
Made me laugh, have an upvote.
Posts by Captain Badmouth
624 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2015
Apple fans, Android world scramble to patch Broadcom's nasty drive-by Wi-Fi security hole
McAfee is McAfee again, promises security with kum ba yah
Microsoft Friday false positive: Bluber-A ballsup makes sysadmins blub
UK Home Sec: Give us a snoop-around for WhatApp encryption. Don't worry, we won't go into the cloud
Tuesday 28th March 2017 11:47 GMT
Re: Colour me surprised
"it seems as though the home office is stuffed with wormtongues who whisper into the ministers ears and they dutifully plod out and spout forth this nonsense..."
Anyone across the pond care to remind me of the blind city cop who keeps getting sent into awkward stuations by "the commies on the police board".
You need to have been around in the late 60's.
'Windows 10 destroyed our data!' Microsoft hauled into US court
Tuesday 28th March 2017 11:20 GMT 
Unfair terms and conditions
Uk readers may have a read here :
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284454/oft143.pdf
Not sure what applies in the good old USofA.
Edit, here we go, here's something:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/supmanual/cch/ftca.pdf
Sunday 26th March 2017 13:38 GMT 
We've been here before...
a Microsoft spokesperson said :"Customers had the option not to upgrade to Windows 10. <snip>We believe the plaintiffs’ claims are without merit."
To quote the ever lovely Mandy Rice Davies* "He would say that, wouldn't he?".
This looks to be good viewing for a while, buy your shares in popcorn manufacturers now.
*Readers across the pond may care to google her... - er, enter her name into a search engine, yer honour....
Paris, you may google her, too.
USA can afford golf for Trump. Can't afford .com for FBI infosec service
Three cops to data breach
Probe President Trump and his crappy Samsung Twitter-o-phone, demand angry congressfolk
Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your passwords if you're on Trump's hit list
Vivaldi and me: Just browsing? Nah, I'm sold
Trump cybersecurity order morphs into 2,200-plus-word extravaganza
Cardiff researchers get £250k to monitor Brexit hate crime on Twitter
UK defence secretary: Russian hacks are destabilising Western democracy
Protest against Trump's US travel ban leaves PasswordsCon in limbo
President Trump tweets from insecure Android, security boffins roll eyes
Former Mozilla dev joins chorus roasting antivirus, says 'It's poison!'
Trump signs 'no privacy for non-Americans' order – what does that mean for rest of us?
President Donald Trump taken on by unlikely foe: Badass park rangers
Friday 27th January 2017 21:38 GMT
Re: About time
"Did anyone else start reading John's rant, and go back to check to see if it was amanfromMars?"
Of course not, despite being obscure in the extreme the posts by amanfromMars are, after deciphering, erudite and informing. John's rants are just that, ill-informed right wing get off my land rants.
Mine's the one with James Joyce's Ulysses in the pocket, thanks.
Welcome to the Wipe House: President Trump shreds climate change, privacy, LGBT policies on WhiteHouse.gov
Tuesday 24th January 2017 15:39 GMT
Re: Happy Days
"I understood the Brits had been offered alternatives, e.g. SDP, but decided to stick with the unrepresentative 2 party system."
It's more complicated than that you now have parties like the SNP who have won almost all the Scottish seats under the first past the post system, Plaid Cymru in Wales have about a third of the seats in Wales and other parties like ukip and the Lib-Dems ( sdp-liberal alliance) have a few. It's not a question of 2 parties but the first past the post system where you can win a seat with less than 40% of the votes cast due to the other 60% being spread amongst the other parties. A system of single transferable vote or other form of proportional representation would help in these circumstances.
Have a read of the wiki entry :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_Kingdom
Monday 23rd January 2017 12:26 GMT
Re: Happy Days
"But he did not win the popular vote, and the situation is just further proof that the Electoral College is obsolete and needs to be abolished."
A similar thing occurs in Britain, the current government was elected by a minority of voters and many people want a form of proportional representation to mitigate this, to some extent at least.
Saturday 21st January 2017 19:57 GMT
Re: On a lighter note. I wonder what his Secret Service code name is
"I thought "Nelly" seems a bit whimsical for the SS.
"Storm Trooper" is a bit long on the radio.
"Siegfried" is maybe a bit Wagnerian"
I can see where you're going with this....
mine's the one with the newly published Mein Kampf in the pocket
Lloyds Bank outage: DDoS is prime suspect
Trump inauguration DDoS protest is 'illegal', warn securobods
Trump's cyber-guru Giuliani runs ancient 'easily hackable website'
Friday 13th January 2017 20:07 GMT
Re: "this Circus of Buffoons providing hilarious entertainment until impeachment. "
Been posted before, but worth repeating :
A 94-year-old Prophecy is Fulfilled:
H.L. Mencken (born 1880 – died 1956) was a journalist, satirist, critic and Democrat. He wrote the editorial below while working for the Baltimore Evening Sun, which appeared in the July 26, 1920 edition.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.”
—H.L. Mencken, the Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
Donald Trump will take cybersecurity advice from, um, Rudy Giuliani
Lloyds Bank customers still flogging the online dead horse
New Windows 10 privacy controls: Just a little snooping – or the max
Routes taken by UK prosecutors over supply of modified TV set-top boxes
Support chap's Sonic Screwdriver fixes PC as user fumes in disbelief
Saturday 7th January 2017 21:06 GMT
Private eye record
Back in the 60's, on one of the Xmas 45's, private eye had a report from Melbourne - " the Luton of the Southern hemisphere" about Xmas day down south.
From what I remember ;
" My wife, Beryl, has just plunged her electric mulling poker into my delicious ice-cold beer and we're all gathered about the blazing yule-tide log with nothing on, telling the odd spine-chilling ghost story..."
Twas the week before Xmas ... not a creature was stirring – except Microsoft admitting its Windows 10 upgrade pop-up went 'too far'
Xmas software update knackered US Customs computer systems
Internet of Sh*t has an early 2017 winner – a 'smart' Wi-Fi hairbrush
Prez Obama expels 35 Russian spies over election meddling
Friday 30th December 2016 10:27 GMT
Re: Evidence it was the Russians what dunnit
"Let's see how long it takes for Congress and Trump to undo it all..."
Apparently Paul Ryan and quite a few republicans are in full agreement with Obama on this, and Trump has actually issued a statement using more than 140 brain cells :
"Nevertheless, in the interest of our country and its great people, I will meet with leaders of the intelligence community next week in order to be updated about the facts of this situation."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
