smart phones

Jim Stewart ... snipped-for-privacy@ntlworld.com wrote

Nope, I know that when it comes to the crunch I can piss anywhere I like.

Trivial to turn it off if you don't want to be tracked raping haggises.

Not if you piss anywhere you like.

What is the problem? Some person on the radio says the next generation phones will still leave a tiny bit switched on for tracking purposes, when you turn it off, but those who care can always put their phones in a metal box. Everything has pros and cons after all. Brian

I do have a smart phone but don't carry it with me quite everywhere, e.g. if I'm out on my 'bike it often stays locked in the top box and in the car it's in the door cubbyhole.

Also I don't have a Google account that the 'phone is attached to, it has no 'accounts' on it, so Google doesn't have many hooks in me.

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ron you are a card

Brian Gaff snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote

I was saying that there isn't one.

Just because some fool claims something...

Or leave it at home when you plan to murder someone.

Around here, in several of the council carparks, the coin slot Pay-and-Display machines have, mysteriously and in unison, all gone 'out-of-order'. The 'how-to-pay' notices tell you can also use RingGo, or failing that call some phone number, or failing that "F*ck off and find an alternative car park". I have to say that I find this one hell of a presumption to expect every motorist to have a mobile phone. [It doesn't really say "F*ck off", but I'm sure that's what they are really saying.]

Isn’t progress wonderful? No more being blocked from public loos because you don’t have the right change.

Tim

Many people WITH smartphones don't like having to use them all the time

- having to stand for 5+ minutes to pay, because you've not paid that way for long enough, that they have suspended your account or not being able to park at all, because your phone is flat. That also ignores that they charge extra on-top to pay by phone!

Bullshit.

Never happened to me.

I'm not actually stupid enough to let it go flat and that is much less likely now with wireless charging if you have enough of a clue ot have the charger where you put the phone down when you aren't actually using it.

Bullshit they do.

stuff them

shocking

Edinburgh bus station bogs had a change machine......

In a civilized world, public toilets would be free.

A few years back I was in Bridgnorth, Shropshire and one of the public toilets there only let you in with contactless Debit or Credit Card. Unfortunately for a group of American tourists none of their cards worked. (I took pity on them and and my card was debited with another 60p)

Given that 96% of those in the 16-24 years old group and only 78% of over 55s own a smartphone, this is indirect age discrimination.

When the replacement battery on my iPhone 6S wears out, I shall go back to using an old clamshell mobile with no smarts at all. There's nearly nothing one can do on a smartphone that I actually *want* to do.

Civilized people would not vandalise free toilets or use them for anti-social purposes. Hence the Japanese can enjoy free loos - even ones with smart glass walls and doors.