[Info-vax] OT: Chrome bug with Applet and threading

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 25 May 2012 08:21:32 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <o5s399-qj2.ln1 at mint-hp.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
> <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 
>> o - When not logged in to Google I was seeing random delays of up to 2
>>     minutes before a Youtube video would start playing.  That was
>>     playing dirty.
> 
>    I hit Yutube a lot and have never seen this.  I don't even have
>    Chrome loaded.

It was just for a period of a week or two.  I wasn't using Chrome either, 
and someone in the UK reported similar behaviour.
 
>> o - Google wanted my phone number as part of their 2 step authorisation
>>     process.  While there was no evidence that they were using that for
>>     marketing purposes, who was to say that I wouldn't get pestered to
>>     death at some point in the future for letting them have that
>>     information?
> 
>    1-800-555-1212

Sorry I'm not in the US.  What does that number do?

-- 
Paul Sture