Without doubting that it happened, I fail to see why a haxxoring BT operative would be playing with Spotify......... I would also note that if she somehow accessed your PC after you had declined to allow this, that would fairly clearly be a criminal offence in the UK (IANAL).
I take three things from this:
1. BT are shit. I knew this. In the past they have done comical things to me such as trying to give me and my former housemate on the other side of town the same phone number, and indeed the 20 minutes I once spent on the phone to India to ascertain that they were not allowed to tell me my own phone number. The reason that I pay significantly more to AAISP than I would to others is that they talk to BT so that I don't have to...
2. I knew I was right to disable the remote desktop thingy after installing Windows.
3. I now know that should I ever have the misfortune to have BT as an ISP, I need to consider the router untrusted rather than just allowing a free-for-all in 192.168.0.0/24, when setting up my PC's firewall rules.
Ugh. *sympathy*.
Re TV-thru-the-internet... my immediate reaction is that it doesn't scale... if twice as many people turn on TVs, it costs the same to broadcast. If twice as many people turn on iPlayer, it costs the BBC (roughly) twice as much to send the programmes..... Seems to me that intelligent PVR-type solutions (e.g. the sky+ box) make a lot more sense. Although on-demand over the net may triumph anyway, once it's cheap enough, because it prevents people from having to think ahead. I note that the abysmal standards of Freeview pictures have prepared us for the level of picture quality that we'd get.
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Date: 2011-01-27 06:19 pm (UTC)I take three things from this:
1. BT are shit. I knew this. In the past they have done comical things to me such as trying to give me and my former housemate on the other side of town the same phone number, and indeed the 20 minutes I once spent on the phone to India to ascertain that they were not allowed to tell me my own phone number.
The reason that I pay significantly more to AAISP than I would to others is that they talk to BT so that I don't have to...
2. I knew I was right to disable the remote desktop thingy after installing Windows.
3. I now know that should I ever have the misfortune to have BT as an ISP, I need to consider the router untrusted rather than just allowing a free-for-all in 192.168.0.0/24, when setting up my PC's firewall rules.
Ugh. *sympathy*.
Re TV-thru-the-internet... my immediate reaction is that it doesn't scale... if twice as many people turn on TVs, it costs the same to broadcast. If twice as many people turn on iPlayer, it costs the BBC (roughly) twice as much to send the programmes.....
Seems to me that intelligent PVR-type solutions (e.g. the sky+ box) make a lot more sense. Although on-demand over the net may triumph anyway, once it's cheap enough, because it prevents people from having to think ahead. I note that the abysmal standards of Freeview pictures have prepared us for the level of picture quality that we'd get.