Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to
core business...
Apple has a focus on gaining market share...
Luckily Apple is Obama's 'bitch' (or vice versa)...
President Barack Obama has said that every time Samsung wins a court case he will veto the decision. So far he has not said what will happen every time Apple beats the South Korean company.
Effectively Obama has rewarded the antics of a patent troll which actually claimed it invented the rounded rectangle while taking no steps to protect Samsung from Apple's own trolling antics....let's see what happens next with this.
The panel moved to prohibit Samsung from importing, selling and distributing devices in the United States that infringe on certain claims on the patents. It is unclear how many Samsung phones and devices would be subject to the ban.
All exclusion orders are sent to President Barack Obama, who has 60 days to review them. If he does not veto the order, it will go into effect. -
Southerly: My Life As a Palm Tree, in reply to
Wonderful tale, as always David, but you do realise that Bob and Polly will read all these one day, and then decide on your resthome...
I believe the spelling was subcontracted to Noddy Holder from Slade.
Now if 'hanger' had been given to aviation enthusiast Gary Numan, he would've had it as 'hangar'...
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to
taken to the gleaners...
By manipulating users into giving away their privacy instead of intimidating them into doing so, a big chunk of the NSA’s job has already been done for it.
...and by putting all kinds of surveillance systems into cities, ostensibly as part of 'Sensing Cities' schemes, see these recycling bins in the UK that track cellphones as they pass...
...apparently advertisers are allowed to monitor you, and tailor their ads to your movements, and any other 'information' they may be able to glean...
But of course no one else would use this for any other purpose, would they?
(Heavy ferric content in that comment)(Sorry, couldn't find a link that wasn't partially behind a paywall - but it was in The Press this morning)
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to
'Sprinter, they're calling it....
prematurely celebrating spring
aka premature no-jacket elation?
</getting raincoat and woollies>
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Retro fun
Here's a great local Vintage style lovers magazine Glory Days. -
Hard News: Friday Music: I'm Over The Edge, in reply to
capital, my dear...
Very Welly.
also Welling up from the past
nice to hear Mutants (as a result of nuclear fallout) from the days of the USS Truxtun visit...Amrita?
Tentatively, yes... part of the Lotus Yoga Centre , which was upstairs, maybe... and you can still get the cookbook!
- but they've moved things round quite a bit up there since then
and I think there is a road thru some of it...
I think that building might now be the Powder Room
- I wonder if that old shabby Haberdashery (JH Moron & Son? or summat, looked like someone had walked out in 1950 and never went back) is still there?
Thistle Hall apparently still thrives though.
(another 'heirloom' institution saved by citizen action - like the Arts Centre here was ...) -
Hard News: Friday Music: I'm Over The Edge, in reply to
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...and while it is still Sunday morning I'll post this link to the song of the same name by the Velvet Underground , that I found on the diverting Presence Zine site.
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Hard News: Friday Music: I'm Over The Edge, in reply to
Thistle Hall
Do ya remember the great wholefood cafe that was below Thistle Hall, Phil Bowering from Low profile – of Elephunk in my soup fame – used to manage it, IIRC…
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