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Comment Re: Arrrrrr (Score 1) 182

I have disposable income, and I like (some) movies. Deadpool 3 (for instance) was so good I'd happily have paid to watch it in a cinema. I waited for a terrible CAM/TS because of the intolerable interruptions from other patrons; had I decided to go a cinema to see it I'd have gone in at least twenty minutes late to avoid the forced advertising. This industry obviously does not want my business. This industry will not listen to their customers. Unskippable copyright warnings and trailers are pushing me onto the piracy boat instead of buying DVD's. Give me a physical medium with a file on, extras and subs, nice packaging, and charge me appropriately for it. Don't rent me a copy that can be cancelled at any time after I've paid for it.

Comment Re:You will own nothing (Score 1) 59

As an Apple-hater I totally agree with your sentiment, but right now I'm posting this from Firefox on Arch Linux on a MacBook Pro.

Difficult to agree with the content of your post is with this fact to hand.

I have a couple of PinePhones, a Pixel with GrapheneOS, my daily driver is a OnePlus 7 series with LineageOS on it, just for the topic.

Comment Re: so much for brexit (Score 2) 167

The USB-C connectors wears out too fast. People at work suffers this problem and have to replace their computers prematurely since it's on the motherboard.

My solution is magnetic dongles. They work on most things, and where they don't I just use a straight cable carefully. https://a.aliexpress.com/_EuKA...

Comment Re:Rootable Phones (Score 2) 46

Supporting SONY is a case of "no sympathy" because of their stance on DRM, locking their hardware down even after you've bought it off them, and the other million reasons this company should FOAD.

There are very few companies to buy from in good conscience, in fairness to your purchasing decisions.

Comment Re:Sharing Disaster (Score 1) 33

Same thing everywhere.

People are too dishonest to share fairly.

It's always going to be the case, as it's human nature.
Look at the 1% of the world who own 99% of the wealth.

Until we can do something about that, nothing in life will ever be fair.

Accepting that is the road to happiness, and you have to walk it, not borrow someone else's bike.

Comment Re:Not enough time in the day ... (Score 1) 235

I do.

Over here in little old Blighty we have a scourge on our streets called "UBER".
They take a guy who sits in an office all day and incentivise him to go to a city he's never even visited before and move people, and their children around on unfamiliar streets, whilst watching a SatNav, for money. They give him 75% of the money he charges, but they make up for it by charging 400-700% of what a proper cab would charge.

These guys drive up one-way streets the wrong way, then claim racial harrassment when you tell them, politely or otherwise, that they're going the wrong way, they sit on ranks made for black cabs which if they were proper drivers, they would know the law of the land forbids them from even stopping on, they go the LONG way round because they haven't got a clue other than GOOG maps and THAT takes you round the houses in clear contravention of the cab law in the UK ...

Sending in videos of these guys being idiots shows them we won't sit back and take their dangerous stupidity lying down.
They will be punished for their ignorance.

If these presumably lovely guys (and gals) knew the area, the roads, the shortest routes, and stuck to the law, they wouldn't be getting fines.

So yes, this is a great way to improve the safety of our roads. I'm all for that, as you can imagine.

Comment Maps (Score 1) 106

Can we have this for GOOG's map stuff?

As a professional driver (at night!) I would really like there to be a night mode at the touch of a button, rather than just when it's deemed by GOOG to be permissible to have the map dark and navigation is actively turned on.

Honestly, it's not like grey pixels cost more than white ones!

Comment Don't you get it yet? (Score 1) 213

Don't you get it yet?

Anything you post on the Internets is available to the whole world.

Your government, their enemies, your ex, their PI, your friends, your children, you mother, your future self ... Once you type or photograph it with a live Interwebs connection; it's public forever.

Anyone who doesn't understand this is in need of a serious lesson in how the world works.

Comment Re:Supply and demand (Score 1) 105

Over here in the UK we have gangs of UBER drivers sitting around waiting for the surge to kick in.
Then they go on the app and do some work.

We even have a name for it: "Riding the surge" because it happens all over the country.

When they're cheap, it's Predatory Pricing, when they're surging it's a rip off.
Better to just call a proper cab and get a fixed rate every time. They all have apps now and take card payments.
UBER offer nothing new or innovative. They're just ripping drivers, passengers, and VC's off at every given turn.

Comment Re:Tried it (Score 0) 25

Voluntarily giving Amazon access to more data to store on the sounds in your room.

How long before the brand new, latest thing, how shiny and nice is this, ALWAYS LISTENING mode comes out?

I hope that every second of audio goes through the NSA too. It wouldn't do for Amazon to be the only ones who heard terrorist plots being planned or kiddie abusers.
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Journal Journal: UBER drop appeal in York, England

In the UK UBER is classed as a Private Hire cab company and their drivers have to go through the same tests as any cab driver. UBER were refused a renewal of their licence to operate in York back in December because of the massive data breach and how they kept it quiet instead of being open about it, and the number of complaints.
On the 14th of March they dropped the appeal against this decision

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