Instead of being worried about semantics, let's be more concerned over the increasing invasive power the government has over our electronic systems
Posts by tomboley
9 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Feb 2016
EncroChat hack case: RAM, bam... what? Data in transit is data at rest, rules UK Court of Appeal
Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep
Fork it! Google fined €4.34bn over Android, has 90 days to behave
Re: The big big question
Windows 10 has been known to automatically change your default programs to Microsoft defaults, and makes it hard for regular users to change default programs. This I see as more of a concern than whatever this Google thing is all about. Still not fine worthy. The EU is increasingly power hungry
BT broadband is down: Former state monopoly goes TITSUP UK-wide
I work in tech support for an EPOS company and we were getting so many calls about "we can't take card payments and access the internet" blah blah blah (because they seem to think we are responsible for more than just the tills). This has been going on since about 2pm, mostly London, although did also get a call from Worthing, near Brighton
I've spent most of the past hour waiting for a fun news story to read. I wonder if BT will drop us a statement as to why they done TITSUP