Posts by CJ_C

This is how the EU's supreme court is stripping EU citizens of copyright protections

Meh

You mean like Google and Pirate Bay? Indeed nothing seems to be done about YouTube publication of material in breach of copyright, unless the holder has signed a restrictive agreement, by Google the owners or by any authority. I wonder why not?

Google doesn’t care who makes Android phones. Or who it pisses off

Time to Leave

but an Ubuntu phone or a hipster classic Motorola flip?

Fresh hell for TalkTalk customers: TeamView trap unleashed

Talktalk Phishing?

Talktalk say may details have not been compromised, but I still get fake calls to my ex-directory number saying I am a customer. Is this just phishing or are Talktalk being economical with the truth?

It does mean that I have pissed off apparently genuine Talktalk callers by accusing them of being fake...

Firefox 48 beta brings 'largest change ever' thanks to 'Electrolysis'

Re: No mention of...

I have not missed, but it sounds as if I will enjoy it, when it comes...

Banning computers makes students do better on exams – MIT

Never?

Has more money ever been spent than on IT for education on the basis of no evidence whatsoever?

TalkTalk customers decide to StayStay after £3m in free upgrades

Re: providing free upgrades to customers.

I am a TalkTalk customer on the basic package. I have ever upgraded but multimedia performance has gone from useless quite acceptable. I rarely see buffering issues on catchup. Does this count as a free uprade?

Stop resetting your passwords, says UK govt's spy network

Why?

Would you trust some corporation, likely American, so controlled under the useless Safe Harbor Agreement with your passwords, when their sole aim is to make money out of you? I will stick with paper, thanks.

Just write them down

Not changing password was recommended by IBM many years ago. It is a mystery why so many organisations were fixed on a counter productive change regime. If somebody who wants it gets your password they will use it now not in 4 weeks time.

I reuse a few passwords not written down, with salt for sites that I regard as not being important, like TheRegister. For my machine passwords they are not written but then I have not changed them in many many years. For important sites like banks, they are hugely complex and written down, because that is the only way I can remember them, in a book kept next to my computer, in a mildly obscured form that I trust would fool a passing opportunist, but not I am sure a real spook, but then they have, I am also sure other means of accessing my accounts...

I think I have been safe, so far, touch wood, but who can be sure? I did have card details stolen once, but my bank spotted it before it was used. I think they were for sale on a list somewhere.

All the above is very slightly inaccurate, but I will not say how.

Reduced roaming charges, net neutrality come into force in EU

But vodaphone avoided charge in the UK on the basis of loss abroad so not much distinction between the UK entity and the other bits.

PaYG Data

I just wish there was a pay as you go deal where data allowance does not get set to zero at the end of a month whether I used it or not. Instead I stick with the best day data rate and almost never use it, unless I want to check a bus time or whatever and there is no paper timetable at the bus stop. I am of course a dinosaur, spending less than £5 a month unless I do something stupid like leaving data on so the sort of customer that no provider is really interested in.

Google's YouTube Red deal: Sign, or we'll make you disappear

PRS

Google, pay what you owe like a law abiding organisation...

Hey, YouTube: Pay your 'workers' properly and get with the times

PRS

I trust that the Performing Rights Society are pursuing YouTube and others. Any other broadcaster, pub or music hall has to make a return in the UK so is YouTube making one in respect of UK users? Or perhaps they think like some other internet companies (mainly US) that the law does not apply to them?

Panama Papers graph database cracked open for world+dog

All power to ICJ!

Title says it all.