Wondering about the Ubuntu Phone, which is reviewed here. IMO the killer driver for adoption will be privacy, but only if you can get off gmail/google or hotmail. The second question is the app store which in theory should be quite powerful, and the third is network backups. It seems an attractive idea, but I wonder how much the NSP’s will muck it up.
Sticky Notes
How do you change fonts in sticky notes for windows? Micorsoft say Not Supported, and Superuser.com says to use the registry editor. …
RIP
So sad that Michael Meacher died. …
Corporations
Living Wills regulation has promoted the design of corporate merger/demerger in the IT requirements hierarchy of needs. …
Ownership
Change of ownership should be a software design goal.
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Lock in (not at the pub)
BT want to lock me in for 18 months, despite years of customer loyalty and provisioning a worse service to the new address. How do they justify that to Ofcom? …
Republics
The paradox of the Republic. Only citizens have rights; their basic laws only protect the citizen and not the foreigner. …
BBM
Is BBM going to survive? If it makes a corporate play, then it is going to be caught between the secrecy and transparency paradox. Their customers need to communicate secretly, unless asked to prove what they said by a court.
Bacon
I miss the bacon sandwiches from Birleys on some mornings. …
Bad Theory
The reason we want democratic control of the economy and fiscal policy is because the choice of theory, is often the choice of outcome. We don’t necessarily want to use the independent Bank of England and the Office of Budget Responsibility’s computer models because they may embed bad theory. …