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Comment Re:The headline is confusing. (Score 1) 76

Seriously? KPMG are one of the big 4 accountancy and audit firms in the world. The only way that I can see that this post isn't just for the sake of calling out the headline is if you didn't know administration was a form of bankruptcy protection, but, its a fairly known international term at that.

Comment Re:"A USB" (Score 1) 116

Where do they find these editors?

"A USB", please, I feel ashamed coming here now. A new low.

While it may not sit comfortably with you, 'A USB' is clearly now passed into common language in this context to mean 'A portable storage device, with a USB A connector supporting the USB mass storage device type'.

I guarantee that if I shout over to my colleague across the room 'Have you got a USB I can borrow', we will pass me a USB flash drive rather than either a port, a section of motherboard, or a standard.

Comment WiFi Router Name? (Score 1) 124

Sorry if i've mis understood something, but I thought the 'WiFi Router name' (I assume meaning SSID, if it was the BSSID it would be even worse!) was only available through APIs when loc services are enabled? Have I missed something, or is it a bug in the Location Services API?

Comment Re:Put your foot down (Score 1) 158

But they have done things right, they have changed the rules to report on viewing in the 3rd party app installs in order for the providers of those apps to serve ads. They did a key facts email, made the changes clear, and from a diff of the TOS have stuck to it. They have also kept the TOS, therefore the contract between paying plus customers and them, clear in the privacy for content served from their own devices. While, technically, yes, they could change that bit silently - firstly that wouldn't be binding, secondly they have shown they don't want to act that way by making sure everyone is clear on any changes to the TOS.

Comment Stop overreacting. (Score 1) 158

Plex has made it ludicrously clear that the change of TOS only applies to the 3rd party apps for the purpose of ad-serving, in the scope of the apps only.

Two things here:

  • 1) They actually did a short key facts summary, rather than leaving people to sort through their TOS for changes, and from what I can see with a diff on the TOS have kept to it.
  • 2) The TOS still do not allow any reporting on media provided 'personally' and from personal sources.

So, from what I can see, they are monitoring in the right way, making sure that people bring content to their platform have the data to keep doing so, while at the same time drawing a legal shield between that and the content they proxy between personal devices, through their platform, to another personal device.

Stop overreacting.

Comment Well done sir. (Score 5, Insightful) 60

Why is everyone so down on this?

Yes, it only works on limited OS install numbers
Yes, you have to be lucky

But someone has devoted his time and effort to find a way to rollback some of the damage cause by a major bit of malware. It may only be for a small subset, but he has published the code (we're all for that here, right?) so maybe it may inspire someone else, with a knowledge of memory allocation and cleanup on a different target platform, who may then have a light bulb moment!

Try cracking a smile once in a while, not everything needs a scowl.

Comment Re:Re (Score 1) 57

Awww - you think that every company should be ready to go global instantly? Despite the myriad of complications that suppliers throw at them to be able to do business in a new market? Looks like your concept of global trade is shit.

I dont like it, in fact I hate it, but given one of the biggest uses of VPN is watch other market licenced content on netflix etc., I can totally understand the streaming companies decisions. Of course they have to region lock content. Otherwise they have no fucking content.

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