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Comment Re:enough of this BS (Score 1) 504

They're just ALIENS portrayed by humans, scripted by humans and watched by humans. But ZERO in common with humans. Yup. And the fact they resemble lazy, clichéd stereotypes used by Hollywood for decades is pure co-incidence.

You clearly have no idea what sci-fi is, particularly space opera, which is what Star Wars is essentially.

Comment Re:How it works in the US (Score 1) 363

First, because there is nothing to physically prevent pedestrians from crossing the road at any time, even when it is inadvisable to do so or when signs even directly instruct the pedestrians not to cross.

Well you could say the same for the cars, but most heed the lights for their own good.

The difference is that a green light to the pedestrian should be a sign to them that it is safe to cross. Instead it appears to be a sign to say; it's safe to cross, except if a driver hasn't seen you. Will they yield, will they not? Feeling lucky?. That's not really a definition of "safe" I'd be happy with and I'd treat that green light as worthless. For all the additional assistance and assurance it offers, I may as well cross the road at any point and time, under my own reconnaissance.

Comment Why do this? (Score 2) 363

Could someone explain for the non-Americans why it is possible to have cars turning left at a green light, at the same time as pedestrians crossing the road have a green light? What was the thinking behind this? And why is the solution not just to stop this happening?

Comment Re:There's something you have to ask yourself. (Score 1) 213

Cable company is incompetent. Some people who use cable companies are idiots. Like all services that request an email address, they should verify the email address before using it.

By the sound of it, this is a simple case of the above. Idiot doesn't know their correct email address, Incompetent doesn't verify when given it. OP keeps fixing the situation, only for the idiotic, incompetent process to be repeated.

I get emails all the time from companies because they don't do this. Various idiots with the same, or similar, name to me sign up for something, get their email address wrong, and I end up getting either spammed with junk or fed information about their account. This wouldn't happen if the email address was sent a confirmation email before it's used.

Comment Re:ridiculous man (Score 2) 100

How many millions do you need? If you've got that kind of money, it's amazing just how little you'd value another $1 million. There are things that are much more finite that become more important. Like your time. Or enjoying your life. Or doing work that means something to you.

He's very lucky to be in that situation. That's why he really doesn't need the gift horse anymore, and it may need him more than he needs it.

Comment Re:The difference... (Score 1) 97

This looks a lot like the BBC puffing itself up, and trying to needlessly and damagingly compete with people who are already informing, educating and entertaining

You're going to have to explain how giving an educational computer device to schools for free is "puffing up" and "needlessly damaging" to anything.

Otherwise I may reach the conclusion you're an idiot grinding entirely unrelated gears.

This is the BBC doing what we pay them to do. I have my doubts about how successful it may be, but I see absolutely no problem with its intentions.

Submission + - Windows 10 shares your Wi-fi password with friends, and with their friends

gsslay writes: The Register reports that Windows 10 will include, defaulted on, "Wi-Fi Sense", a facility to share wifi passwords with friends. (Outlook.com (nee Hotmail) contacts, Skype contacts and, with an opt-in, Facebook friends.)

This involves Microsoft storing the wifi passwords entered into your laptop (any password, not necessarily just your own). This can then be used by any other person suitably connected to you. If you don't want someone's Windows 10 passing on your password, Microsoft has two solutions; only share passwords using their Wi-Fi Sense service (which can't be passed on), or by adding "_optout" to your SSID. (Similar to Google's "_nomap" that went down so well.)

Comment Re:What a confusing summary! (Score 1) 128

It would appear that the submitter thinks all that is required to construct an article summary is to string tweets together in a single paragraph.

It's all just words and numbers, isn't it? No suitable effort or consideration for the communication medium required. Consider yourself lucky it isn't written in emojis.

Comment Re:Weird (Score 1) 146

Maybe they had second thoughts and regret talking to the BBC.

Maybe they decided it wasn't such a great idea that their children go through their early years labelled as the gay fertility child by anyone who googled Mum's name.

Maybe they decided that their medical history is like anyone else's; personal and private.

Comment Re: Horray for Taylor Swift. (Score 2) 368

You miss the point.

If an artist who wasn't already very successful (and therefore very rich) made this stand the world's media, and Apple, would go "So what, who cares?" and we wouldn't be discussing it here.

In order for this to get attention it needs someone like Swift to make the stand. Whatever you may speculate her motivation is. Someone who has a genuine need and complaint about the money would get ignored.

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