Comment Re:Well I guess it's time (Score 1) 99
Remember this. When windows phone 9 comes out, Skype will probably quickly stop working on the old wp 8 phones.
Remember this. When windows phone 9 comes out, Skype will probably quickly stop working on the old wp 8 phones.
"Microsoft broke what had already been working, by changing the network protocol and turning off the existing servers."
If they have, then how can you explain that Skype on my old Symbian E72 still works (tested it today)? The installe, which I kept of course - never trust companies to keep such things around - is from 2010.
They should indeed stay out of the US entirely. There was a huge fuzz here about AMS-IX (Amsterdam internet exchange) starting a US company. Although they went to great lengths to make it independent and assure no Americans (who cannot be trusted due to their totalitarian laws) will have access to any sensitive information it remains to be seen how this will work out.
Microsoft always sold their cloudservices in the EU with the argument that the data is physically located outside the US so the Patriot Act doesn't apply. Now that this has been proven false, EU-based cloudfirms will use this argument to choose a non-US based firm even more in their commercials than they do already. Good for the non-US based firms.
Since the US is run by companies and 3-letter agencies I would not call it exactly "by proxy".
Another reason: I want to be able to reinstall everything manually so I keep installers. No need to hassle around with stores or repositories when you can have apk's.
Easy. XPrivacy. Requires root, but I would rather use Symbian than an unrooted Android.
"Android apps by default work off the internal SD card. It's actually a separate partition that's mounted at the same place as old phones used for external SD cards. You can't change the default to use an external card."
Depends on the phone. I have a cheapass Android phone with only 4GB of internal memory, but it let me choose (out of the box, no root-only tricks here) wether I want the internal memory or the physical microsd card mounted as
" Oh, and block apps from writing to most of the external SD card"
SDFix to the rescue. Requires root but if you're running XPrivacy you already have that. It saved my Sygic installation after I upgraded to 4.4.
"As an Australian, my biggest objection to this is the huge waste of money to set this up, maintain it and enforce it."
And the amount of money to a\work around it. Like in France, where people are massively shifting to VPN.
The US is to blame for stirring up the conflict in the first place. Together with the EU.
" Reports claim he was traveling at speeds of "nearly 100 mph"
So, is that so special in the US? I drove much faster than that this evening on my way home from work on the highway (180 km/h on GPS = 113 mph), But then, I don't drive a Tesla.
I'm looking at her pictures right now. Unfortunately Pinkmeth is SLOW right now. Might have something to do with all the fuzz about it.
" has the NZ public eating out of his hands as the caped crusader for justice"
You have to admit the FBI is making this quite easy for him.
You also appear to be in the unfortunate circumstance to live in the police state the US has become. Kim DotCom lives in New Zealand, and has therefore a little more protection from laws regarding to due proces.
"Why can't we ever attempt to solve a problem in this country without having a 'War' on it?" -- Rich Thomson, talk.politics.misc