Re: Trailers Site?
Also you can only browse iBook Titles on an Apple thing. What if I was thinking of getting an ipad and wanted to know what's on offer?
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Uninstall QuickTime for Windows: Apple will not patch its security bugs
Friday 15th April 2016 09:37 GMT 
QuickTime and iTunes
Removed both* these pests long ago.
Shame on Apple they don't implement proper USB mass storage for their devices.
[*I'm not partisan, I removed Silverlight and replaced Realplayer with "real Alternative"]
I have bare minimum of stuff that is allowed to run in a browser. I use NoScript, Java is off and Flash is set to prompt, never auto run. Anything else has to be downloaded.
Microsoft explains which cloud security problems are your problem
Euro watchdogs give America's data-sharing Privacy Shield an 'F'
Wednesday 13th April 2016 20:07 GMT
So it's dead.
Good.
The American Mega Corps with have to set up companies in Europe and data centres in Europe.
Despite Ireland being expensive for Electricity Apple, Facebook etc ARE build more datacentres in Ireland.
What I don't understand is why the German 1 & 1 hosts UK customers in UK, mainland European customers in Europe / Germany but Irish customers in Kansas, USA.
HGST has an entry-level 14PB archive box... is that enough for your, er, home collection?
Bug hype haters gonna hate hate hate: Badlock flaw more like Sadlock
Uber hands over info on 12m passengers, drivers to US officials, cops
Tuesday 12th April 2016 20:46 GMT
I was surprised ...
Do the Uber Drivers realise that Google is a major investor? That other abuser of privacy.
Does Uber actually exist simply to collect data or also as a trojan for future Google self drive cars.
Are the Autonomous Google Wagons really about scraping more info about the public?
The future of Firefox is … Chrome
Tuesday 12th April 2016 08:50 GMT
Re: Choice
I added "Classic Theme Restorer" to Firefox and some other sauce to fix GUI stupidity in Thunderbird.
Why can't Mozilla fix bugs and stop buggering the GUI?
Print Selection still non-existent in Thunderbird, still buggy in firefox (may throw blank pages with header & footer for part before selection) and Print Preview only does whole page.
Lots of other bugs ... "forgets" blocked cookies settings is an annoying one.
Windows 10 debuts Blue QR Code of Death – and why malware will love it
Reusable autonomous swimming microbots soak up 95% of spilt lead
Websites take control of USB devices: Googlers propose WebUSB API
Bibliotheca Alexandrina buys a Huawei superdupercomputer
Spinning rust fans reckon we'll have 18TB disk drives in two years
Monday 11th April 2016 12:44 GMT
Flash are not all equal.
Cheaper ones have poor number of write cycles.
Expensive Flash powered down may not last as long as powered down non-shingled HDD
Cheaper ones beat HDD on random access, but can MUCH slower for sequential writes, or even random writes.
"Flash" covers a very wide variety of qualities.
Saturn spacecraft immune to mysterious Planet 9's charms
BlackBerry boss mulls mid-range Androids
Former Microsoft HoloLens man: It's NOT about gaming
Monday 11th April 2016 09:57 GMT
Re: UWP
If you just want to display more simply rendered polygons at a lower res - or even 2D schematics marking out the location of electrical cabling, say - the hardware required is far more modest.
Obviously you don't understand the differences between say 3D stereoscopic and a headset, the response time to changes isn't the same as the GPU ability to draw (which is often poor for 2D CAD compared to video).
You need very much more responsive systems to avoid motion sickness.
WordPress pushes free default SSL for hosted sites
Monday 11th April 2016 07:43 GMT
Re: It means millions of websites will be safer from spying and interception techniques.
If you have to log into a wp site then your user/password doesn't get sent through all the intervening servers in plain text.
Seems daft that the majority of email and website logins are unencrypted. What were the designers of websites and email systems thinking of?
So for most sites it's only the Administrators. But can't MITM attacks be done on HTTPS anyway, most easily via "free" access at cafe or Hotel etc (WiFi or ethernet). I use a VPN to my home server if I'm using public internet.
Monday 11th April 2016 06:45 GMT
It means millions of websites will be safer from spying and interception techniques.
How?
Like how much content on a typical WP site isn't
a) Public
b)The same view for everyone?
So this makes uploading draft pages & posts you haven't publish yet more private. That's about all. It's of some benefit if the Wordpress has shopping plugin, are those even possible of WP own hosting rather than 3rd party?
I'm all in favour of encryption. But what value is it for content 100% public and the same view for everyone? Can someone explain the value to me?
Picture this: An exabyte of cat pix in the space of a sugar cube of DNA
Monday 11th April 2016 06:52 GMT
re: No word on actual data transfer rates.
About 10 hours per access operation, minimum according to the article. Really slow but high density and long life. A USB stick might be 5 to 10 years. A writeable CD left on window sill less than a week?
An old HDD in a drawer might last a long while (not sure about shingled or other very density).
Tape can last 20 years if stored properly, you need to make copies as slowly get print through.
I think Magneto Optic storage was good (I remember 3.5" Sony cartridges in 1990s with 250Mbyte)
Read America's insane draft crypto-borking law that no one's willing to admit they wrote
Saturday 9th April 2016 00:06 GMT 
No individual or company is above the law
True.
So you go after the person with the key. You don't force lockmakers to make faulty door locks so everyone's car can be stolen and house burgled.
TSA keys are online.
If you weaken encryption so you can get in with a court order, without the users key, then shortly all the unfriendly governments and criminals can do it without a court order.
Dropping 1,000 cats from 32km: How practical is that?
Mumblehard spam-spewing botnet floored
Ultra-rare WWII Lorenz cipher machine goes on display at Bletchley Park
Bezos defends Amazon culture in letter to shareholders
Thursday 7th April 2016 09:31 GMT 
Kindle
it and Kobo have REALLY poor User Interface and book sorting/organising features. I've got a Kindle and Kobo, I love the hardware and eInk. The software is terrible. We had better document organisation software 30 years ago.
Amazon's CreateSpace is a dreadful website.
Amazon KDP, Author Central and retail sites are terrible GUI / UX too.
They are good at marketing, not at software. I suspect the HW is mostly bought in consultancy?
Kindle Reader was based on Mobi and the eInk Kindle is basically a poor user shell on Android + Mobi Reader.
Amazon Echo / Alexa is totally creepy. No thanks. Ever!
One tech company I worked was just like what Amazon sounds like. Most somewhere between that and acceptable. Only one in over 30 years was "reasonable". Burn out was common. Engineers were thought of as something to be used up like laser toner. "We'll hire more"
Nest's bricking of Revolv serves as wake-up call to industry
Kik opens bot shop, promises world+dog access to teen market
Windows 7's grip on the enterprise desktop is loosening
JAXA confirms ASTRO-H breakup
Egypt unfriended Facebook for Free Basics snoop snub
Microsoft lures top Linux exec from Oracle to Redmond
How do you build a cheap iPhone? Use a lot of old parts
Apple Fools: Times the House of Jobs went horribly awry
Holding out for a Jobs: Tim Cook still auditioning for position of Apple god
You can't dust-proof a PC with kitchen-grade plastic food wrap
When Steve Jobs was away, Apple's designers snuck out a penis-shaped remote control
Friday 1st April 2016 09:21 GMT
Re: Not sure it was even an Apple device..
My Philips one and its remote looked identical. Still goes, it's never been used as a portable. Kodak killed photo-CD and portfolio CD (I had a demo one, superb mix of menus, slides and audio, played on the Philips machine and a PC app). The licence costs, lab costs to get your photo on CD, the cost of Portfolio authoring software. The later cheap Picture CDs with over compressed JPEG are rubbish.
It did PAL.
The round multi-pin connector was compatible with a camcorder crt viewfinder/eyepiece and powered it and showed video.
I never thought the remote looked like a penis. It's pretty flat.
Mine was in a sale reduced to 1/5th price. Made a great table top HiFi CD player.
I'm sure that's just Apple rebadging, maybe they had NTSC version and the CD Data feature. I bet Philips did it for them.
Microsoft to make Xamarin tools and code free and open source
Thursday 31st March 2016 21:14 GMT
Strategy?
Has MS got one or are they just doing anything they take a fancy to this year?
MS SQL on Linux
Their own Linux for Cloud Switches
Something else
Ubuntu subsystem instead of ancient MS Services For Unix
Various other Visual studio announcements (two others anyway for Linux, though I'd only use VS for developing of Windows, but after nearly 20 years I've stopped. 1996-2014).
Thursday 31st March 2016 21:09 GMT
Re: Java (especially Java 8) and C# are pretty much identical
yes, C# was originally J++, MS idea of how Java should develop. I've got a copy somewhere. Sun didn't like that idea. So MS morphed it as C#, which might be one of the last decent bit of development they did. VS + C# is certainly more pleasant to develop than Eclipse or NetBeans + Java.
Linux and Linux tools let you dev for Android for free, it's essentially writing in Java. You also can develop Java that runs fine on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux on Linux Free. I've not tried mono for developing C# on Linux, I write any c# I write on Windows, but not since early 2015. I'm abandoning windows for lack of a coherent version now that XP is nearly gone and Win7 is harder to get now. I have no HW less than 9 years old running windows. All the newer kit runs Linux.
Microsoft cracks open Visual Studio to Linux C++ coders
Seagate intros Innov8: A USB-powered 8TB external hard drive
Thursday 31st March 2016 16:06 GMT
Re: Built in incapacity?
I don't like the sound of a shingled drive either. I'd rather have an inconvenient PSU and no shingles.
I wonder what is in my Seagate 1T drive? it replaced a WD 1T USB drive that died without warning. The WD is a USB drive controller, no internal SATA/PATA. I have a bunch of WD 1T desktop drives too, that I mean to connect a terminal to, I think they died of faulty firmware and you can revive them. No receipts :(
IT freely, a true tale: One night a project saved my life
Thursday 31st March 2016 12:24 GMT
Re: should probably change job.
Easy to say.
Easier to end up in a worse one.
Over 35 and not a manager in Tech? Don't get unemployed. They want people 3+ experience, working in a similar or more important company and don't want people over 40, except as managers.
The jobs and qualifications give away your age.
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