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I don't know why they are all slagging you slacker.
The harmony was nice, but......, I didn't laugh either.
I want what you had.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Nice to finish my day off with a read like that. Thanks for posting this. 
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Some time ago I wrote an iOS app which makes some data available from Codeproject on an iPhone/iPod
You can see the article here: iCPVanity: CP Vanity for iOS 7
I have updated it to have more or less the same functionality as the Xamarin based one, of which I wrote here
I am now considering making it available in the app store but am looking for beta-testers
So, if you are interested you can apply
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Thanks, i've copied it overthere
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So i had this old Youtube account and wanted to log in but as you know Youtube makes you use Google gmail and google then pops up a message saying that for my protection they need to send me a SMS to my phone just to ensure its me.
Are you stupid or something.
Google is not getting my phone number for any price since they have spy scripts (Often Hidden in SSL) on just about ever web-site in the world and they still want more blood.
I went to create a new YT account and opted out of receiving a SMS text message by linking to an old email address and as soon as i went to use the account, youtube asked for my phone number again.
Don't be fooled people, it's not for your protection but so the nanny state can pay google/YT to spy on you and know ever word you post on the internet.
Who's internet, Our internet so get lost Google
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Anytime google has asked for my phone number there has always been a Skip link.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yes skip worked but like i said as soon as i went to post anything or upload then up popped the message again.
My old YT account is now dead because they thought i would give them what they wanted if they hijacked my account, they were wrong.
You can set up an SMS on-line service to fool them but i just told the misses to pick up a 99p G3 sim card so it will be used once and then thrown in the bin.
Twatter also tried the trick of making me give them a valid email address after i forgot the one used to create the account so they can full my real account with spam. I refused and lots of other people too because some months later they dropped it and let me back in without having to replay to an email that of course, was sent for my protection.
Twiiter is full of adverts and spam bots, takes one to know one if anyone needs a twitter bot
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Seems like they're getting more persistent all the time. I don't give out my phone number to just anyone...what kind of guy do you think I am? 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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I thought we were just haggling over the price!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I had the same thing a few weeks back, with IMDB, but they gave me the choice of phone or credit-card number.
There is no good reason to give either to a web-site in any on-the-verge-of-totalitarianism country, so I deleted my account.
It's a bit more of a wrench deleting an e-mail account, but it's the advisable course of action.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"on-the-verge-of-totalitarianism country"
Yes thats a man that gets it.
Google started with free canndy, level playing field and now look at it !
Don't put google spyware all over the site and your site, no matter how good ends up on the back pages and they even try to tell us how we should write HTML and not to put javascript redirect on A-Tags and yet Google is the worlds worse at that one.
Personlized search results is just another way of saying censorship and thats comeing form the bigest monoply known to man.
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there's a very good reason: it helps keep people from hacking into your account(s).
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Keeping things in boxes under your pillow helps keep people from stealing them.
Storing such information on the server of a foreign company just makes it available to the government of that country, and puts it all in one place to be hacked in one go -- although that would never happen, would it?
I mean, who would spend a few months figuring out how to hack a server that's full of wonders, rather than spend a few days each on individual Internet users, managing maybe six a month?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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this might come as a shock to you, but your phone provider knows your phone number, so does everyone you call. it is not sensitive confidential identification, it's a phone number.
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My phone provider is not controlled by a foreign government.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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At least they let you delete the account.
Ashley Madison lets you disable your account...for free.
But if you want to actually delete it? $19, please.
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If there is a non-zero percentage (however small) of people who don't have phones, such a policy would exclude them entirely.
And, as someone mentions above, there's a 'Skip this Step' button.
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Skip works untill you go to leave a comment or upload something on Youtube and then you are back to the start as they block you and ask to send you a SMS again.
Google sells data to anyone that will pay and letting them have you address, phone number makes the data worth a lot more and i already get machines ringing me up
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Maybe it is a country thing. From India, can upload a video without giving any phone number.
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I use CyberGhost and can connect from India but Google knows all the addresses used by Cyber-Ghost and Tor exit nodes so i am stuffed.
Code i should run more often connects to Google over SSL (Often they force browsers to use HTTPS) and sends them a very slow stream of random searches so i get my own back because the data becomes worthless
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Facebook uses my phone number.
Anytime I try to log into Facebook from an unknown computer I'm texted a special code.
I appreciate the additional security.
BTW, if Google wanted to they could send a group of guys to your house. They could black bag you and string your arse up in the town square. They could claim you were a 'terrorist' and nobody would give a crap. In short, you're trying to protect the wrong thing - the robbers left 15 minutes ago with anything of value.
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