So asking asking technically/legally competent people for their opinion is an offence now?

I had no involvement with this at all bar posting this after hearing what happened from my friend, and thinking he'd been very poorly dealt with. The fact it was Applecare was essentially incidental, it could have been anywhere and I would still have questioned it, but I did actually expect to hear of better handling of a customer from them.

  I have no direct access to anyone else that may have dealt with them under remotely similar circumstances other than asking the internet.
If this was an attempt at a smear campaign I would be posting elsewhere as well.

In some ways I found how he'd been treated similar to the (illegal) practice of garages fixing things and charging for them the customer hadn't actually approved yet that used to be quite common. He was held over a barrel with a situation he didn't understand his legal standing on, and had no way at the time to find out what his rights actually were.

I'm aware of what such a contract likely states in that regard, I was after opinions as I thought how they handled it was poor.

(I have also worked in some shops when I was much younger that treated customers the same way but there were no signed papers when machines changed hands, so I thought it would be interesting to discuss generally)

The contract signed a year ago? most average people would at best scan over it, and certainly shouldn't be expected to remember it that long after.

And as stated "At no point previously had they warned him they would not return his disk, or his data, though when he had asked about his old drive on the phone before travelling he was told the disk would not be destroyed until after the customer had picked up their machine, implying he had an option to NOT have it destroyed."

I'm not an Apple man, it's a year old Mac Book Pro not a Powerbook.

There really aren't enough sensible ways of doing anything for this to work well.

And a HUGE number of galaxy S owners do not HAVE carrier bundles installed at all anyway!!

In windows 7 you can already right click then select 'go to service(s)' and they're highlighted.

Knowing /. I probably should have directly linked the benchmarking method : http://www.esreality.com/?a=longpost&id=1265679&page=3

There has still never been a better mouse performance review than the ESR Mouse Score.

http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1265679

results comparisons : http://www.esreality.com/?a=longpost&id=1265679&page=21

He later reviewed the original Razer Deathadder and ran it through the same tests here :

http://www.esreality.com/index.php?a=longpost&id=1300293&page=4

But sadly I'm not aware of him doing any later tests, I would really love to see him do an ESR MouseScore 2011

peaks at -
97 fps in the current FF4 nightly (pre beta 13)

102 fps in IE9 x64

255 fps in IE9 x86

wonder what's going on there then..

Honestly, surely it can't just be me who thought the audience laughter canned or not was the worst thing about Red Dwarf by far.

Shoot it without an audience, and don't add any recorded laughter either.

Solves both problems.

It's nothing like the matrix sequels though, it's more like lower than the Starship Troopers sequels.... (that also don't exist)

There is a reasonable bit more to NoScript than simply javascript yes/no per domain.

java, flash, silverlight, can be blocked
audio/video, iframe, frame, font-face tags can be blocked
then there is clickjacking prevention and the Application Boundaries Enforcer

(Though some may not be necessary on Chrome I admit I don't know the ins and outs of it's in build security features)

I like FF4 a lot but I can't use it as my main browser until fullscreen Youtube videos work properly with acceleration on an Nvidia Optimus system on win7 x64. In ff4 nightly builds (minefield) at the moment they just show up black, in 3.6.13 they are fine (though the OSDs flicker)

I've tried the flash 10.2 beta and that is worse, it crashes the 32bit builds when going fullscreen with Youtube and they then refuse to be terminated even by task manager :(

The 64bit ff4 does the same with the flash square x64 beta, but that does at least terminate.