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Comment Go Ogle thinks I'm French, Polish and Norwegian... (Score 1) 151

by Smask (#55756575) Attached to: Google News Will Purge Sites Masking Their Country of Origin
I'm getting loads of of French and Polish spam on my gmail accounts. Go Ogle wants to serve Norwegian ads on my phone when I'm connected on my Wi-FI network. I live 80 miles from the Norwegian border the way bird flies. My landlord is getting the Internet and IP-television from Viasat, a Norwegian company.
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After Public Outcry From Customers, Britain's Biggest Bank HSBC Heads Off Complaints Over Small Business Account Closures (theguardian.com) 62

Posted by msmash from the fixing-things dept.
Julia Kollewe writing for The Guardian: HSBC has rushed to head off complaints from small businesses that found the bank had frozen or closed down their accounts as part of a crackdown on financial crime. Hundreds of small firms are thought to be affected, whose businesses range from an avocado importer to marketing and design companies. Britain's biggest bank, which has faced accusations of reacting slowly to the debacle, said that after becoming aware of problems in the past week, it was putting extra staff on its helpline and speeding up the process for dealing with complaints. It said staff were reducing the amount of time to unfreeze an account once a review had been completed. Earlier on Monday, Richard Davey, an HTML5 game developer and creator of Phaser, shared his ordeal dealing with HSBC, which had suspended transactions from his accounts without much explanation. It was only after thousands of users brought it to the company's attention on social media that the company fixed Davey's account, he said.

Comment Re:There's a simple solution (Score 1) 767

by Smask (#52265985) Attached to: Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze
And one mindless idiot that click "Thanks/Like" so that the alert stays active almost forever. I've been clicking "Not there" on a alert for at least four months now. The award hungry Peters (that scream "wolf!") likes to stack their alerts to places where you have keep your attention to the road and not click on the phone.

Comment Re:No car hits its official CO2 output level (Score 1) 208

by Smask (#50869535) Attached to: Volkswagen Emissions Issues Spread To Gasoline Cars

Thanks for the links. I replied with points picked out of memory. My misses were using extra high grade lubrication and the returning break callipers.

Those rules needs to be upgraded with at least driving the car for a period of time/driven a minimum distance in normal traffic where you have to break hard at least once and then put it directly in the lab. My Mercedes Vito van would get seriously lower mpg if they had done that. Crappy breaking system, I'll have to put new discs and pads on all four wheels.

Comment Re:Well, that was quick (Score 1) 181

The then American owned Volvo were told to shut the fuck up about some safety issues. Volvo found that when getting t-boned the roof could rip open. So they reinforced the roof and informed their owner (Ford) about their findings. Ford did nothing fix it at their end. Volvo went on banging on their drum about all safety features incorporated in the latest model (I think it it was the XC90) when Ford ordered Volvo to shut up about certain safety inventions because Ford was scared that it would be sued because fatal accidents were happening with Ford built SUVs.

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