Posts by Jason Bloomberg 2912 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Mar 2008
It has an "Omnibox" which does bloody stupid things like performing a Search when you type "192.168.1.1" into it.
So that's what it is; what has been annoying the fuck out of me when failing to side-load my Android phone apps by downloading from an IP-addressed web page on my LAN.
Bunch of anky anking ankers.
BTW you can actually buy processors which are so tightly speced and so simple in construction that you can make reasonably sure there were no malevolent actors involved. The 6502, the Z80 or the ATMega microcontrollers are prime examples for this.
My recollection of reality was that many of such devices had unused opcodes which could be used for all sorts of fancy, undocumented and unintended things.
Of course, they could have been more tightly designed, invalid opcodes could have been prevented from actioning, rather than the designers not caring what the outcome was to ease the silicon design and its footprint
But I'm with you on principle. A minimal RISC should be easy to verify and should fly at clock speeds obtainable these days. But then we'll be back into the "more opcodes, with each doing more, would make it even faster" debate.
"If there is the smallest suspicion that their kit is compromised or the company operates as an agent of a foreign (hostile) government, then they should be banned from government use".
And yet the UK is buying it's fighter jets and nukes from America.
Of course our lingering and stubborn belief in the so-called Special Relationship means we're always happy to pretend America isn't a hostile country which makes it easy to imagine they won't have fitted kill-switches should we decide their bestest friends are very much not ours.
Every foreign government is a potentially hostile government. As many countries have found to their cost.
Someday my Psion Organiser II will be even more valuable.
I've got a whole load of 'historical crap' accumulating wealth and dust. The Acorn Atom is probably the rarest thing I have. Its value is, as always, whatever someone will pay.
As I always tell people; stick notes on kit to indicate it's valuable. Or, when you're gone, the ejits in your family are going to throw your 'rubbish' straight in the skip.
Although why do they hold date of birth?
Probably so their marketing department can avoid promoting sanitary products to the over-sixties, incontinence pads to the under-thirties, tampons to men, and beard-trimmers to women.
Because when they make those mistakes there's a whole load of people waiting to criticise and ask why they didn't just store date of birth and other details to avoid such things.
Us Brits have always been able to find something to moan about. These days it seems looking for something to moan about is a hobby in its own right for many; it's damned if you do and damned if you don't.
"One solution, such as having a button inside held for 10 seconds to disassociate the old owner from the system, for example, could inadvertently help car thieves".
It shouldn't be that hard to develop some system which allows both transfer and refusal. Simply send an email to the registered owner asking if they want to allow a transfer or block it. If they transfer to a thief that's their stupidity. If they transfer to a new owner everything is fine. If they block a new owner there's a lawyer and court who can deal with that. They can be informed that if they don't do either then the transfer will be actioned after a certain time. If they aren't getting emails because they didn't keep details up to date that's their problem. If emails are not being sent out there's another lawyer and court who can deal with that.
It might require some tweaking for edge cases but shouldn't be that hard to handle most cases.
They can even have the above suggestion free of charge.
If May saunters up to the lecturn, turns to the audience, and utters the immortal words, "I really can't be fucking arsed", walks off; that really would be a conference to experience.
Instead; Maylexa is almost certainly going to merely drone on and on, repeating how she's going to be delivering a brexit fror Britain, delivering what people voted for, a brexit which is good for...
Zzzzz.
Thanks for the heads-up. I mistakenly assumed that as both appeared to have presented themselves in court representing RCL they were still directors.
So that just leaves Levy as the sole director. And RCL the only active company he is a director of. Though how long RCL remains active would be worthy of a sweepstake.
I have had that with my older Android phones. Problem solved by disabling all Google Play Services.
I don't know what they were doing but they could kill my phone in just a day. Now reliably back to a week or more of standby.
It appears that the engineers were not consulted and the IPv6 protocol was designed to be incompatible with IPv4 - not a good idea.
A very bad idea and why IPv6 has mostly been ignored.
People will move with the times, adapt to new features being added, but most are reluctant to take a huge jump sideways into new territory. Expecting anyone to put aside all they have learned and begin again from scratch is a huge ask, and especially when the need cannot be demonstrated.
I would probably be using IPv4+ now if it existed. I have barely even looked at using IPv6.
As a photographer I've had photos taken and used by 3rd party websites and so far I've never had to sue.
This photographer did not have to either. But by doing so he has established case law which will make life easier for every photographer and rights holder in the future.
Fair enough; you got yourself sorted out. This photographer went the extra mile and helped everyone else.
Cheers mate.
And I am hoping the message back to Google is that they need to negotiate their Playstore take with developers like Epic that can bring millions of customers and have strong brand equity outside of the Google Playstore.
"You need us more than we need you" has worked out well enough for Amazon's dealings with HMRC.
Not working out quite so well for brexit though.
I recall a headline in a certain popular newspaper on "4,000 foreign murderers and rapists in the UK"
I recall front page headlines and articles labelling 16 million people as traitors, saboteurs, and enemies of the people, simply for having an opinion they didn't find acceptable.
One would have expected it to be a simple "Bring it into your local dealer with your paperwork. They'll reset everything for free while you enjoy a complementary cup of tea. And here's a nice glossy brochure and a voucher for 20% off your next service. Welcome to the JLR family".
I guess that's too much like good customer service.
Raab has been labelling the EU's harsh assessment of hard brexit as "unhelpful". Not wrong mind you. And he is saying he is preparing for all eventualities, including things like food shortages, riots in the streets, and twenty mile tailbacks into Dover if truckers haven't fallen victim to starvation or rampaging mobs, all the while laughing that off as "never going to happen".
I would bet, if he was asked if plans have been made to impose martial law, he would not say no.
At the end of the proverbial day I guess it will come down to whether people consider Google being more wrong to 'block sites' than sites are to not upgrade to https.
I suspect most people won't have an absolutist view and will just consider the greater wrong to be that Chrome doesn't have an option to turn the feature off.
And it's no good telling people Letsencrypt certificates are free while also telling them that if they aren't paying for something then they are the product.
I am somewhat surprised there's not been more of a Net Neutrality argument raised against Google's decision.
I can think of several ways I could abuse this knowledge if I were so inclined, generally involving timers planted well ahead of time.
If I were inclined to target a specific train at a certain time I'd just choose another station elsewhere on the line where there isn't the opportunity to switch platforms at the last minute. Or anywhere the multiple tracks into platforms converge into fewer.
Or plant my device at departure, or along the journey, or at whichever platform it does eventually arrive at.
It seems to me that any reduction in genuine security threat by not announcing in advance which platform will be used is at best minimal and more a convenient excuse for not knowing.
"Brexiteers jump ship faster than proverbial shit off a brick"
There don't seem to be that many jumping nor particularly quickly.
Things may change over the coming days but I doubt it. Only a small minority actually want a hard brexit. The notion that everyone who voted to leave wants a hard brexit and 17.4 million will storm Parliament or Downing Street if they don't get it is a brexiteer invention, only believed by Kippers and Daily Express commentards.
Most leavers wanted a return to a trading partnership without EU politics and federal ambitions. Most remainers accept that as the second-best option. We were therefore always going to end up in some kind of vassal state; people knew that, it was just a question of extent.
People might not like May's specific plan but, even if they think it's keeping us too far in, most will still view it as preferable to a hard brexit. The brexiteers are sunk. And they probably know it.
"Indiegogo's promised debt collectors have yet to materialise"
That's not surprising. I have long noted Indiegogo will need to have legal grounds to be able to do that and it's not at all clear what they would be. I don't believe they have any.
Anyone can 'send the lads round', or instruct a solicitor to write a letter, to politely ask for money but that will most likely just elicit a "Fuck off; take me to court if you think you have a case". It is of course even easier to threaten to send the lads round and then not do that.
I can only imagine Indiegogo over-promised on what they could and would do in the hope of protecting themselves when the shit finally hits the fan, so they can assert they went the extra mile on behalf of those who have waved goodbye to their money.
I expect Indiegogo have recognised how potentially damaging this fiasco is going to be for themselves and the entire crowd funding business.
I'm guessing he thought he had some legitimate complaint that he'd been ripped off and/or injured by the guy who had sold him the camera, was expecting the cops to take a greater interest in that than what he had bought it for.
I could have told him it wouldn't end well. When I strapped my Panasonic M1 VHS camcorder to my foot all I got was torn ligaments. But at least the sealed lead acid batteries didn't explode. Proper technology that; not dangerous magic moonbeams compacted in a foil wrapper.
People defending their families in their own homes should not be subject to arrest. Arrest for anything ever invalidates things like the USA visa waiver elligibility, and that very much does mess with your employment opportunities - at least in the City.
That comes down to the fuckwitts of America not being able to understand that arrest is not the same as being charged nor the same as being convicted.
America's stupidity is not a good reason to change our perfectly good due process procedures. It is however one of many good reasons to think about wanting to go there.
Trump's long term legacy could well be to repeat the pattern of the decline of the British Empire.
A good many people who want to see global change and a collapse of what there currently is are quietly quite happy about what Trump is doing.
Railing against Trump, causing him to double-down on what he's doing, booing when he does, while cheering inside, has become a refined form of performance art - Give a man a rope and watch him hang himself with it.
After years of pushing for change and getting nowhere it really does prove that if one wants to break something the best way to do that is from the inside.
"The "America wants to destroy us" argument was delivered with broad brush strokes, but zero evidence".
That America and others in the west demonise and seek to ban them without producing credible evidence for doing so suggests to me Kaspersky are correct in their assessment.
607 drivers dismissed, 221 immediately suspended on public safety grounds.
I imagine Uber will claim that shows they were doing a grand job of keeping on top of any problems which arise but I'm wondering what sort of job they were doing that those problems arose in the first place.
I would hope we would all have preferred those Uber drivers convicted of rape and assault to have never been allowed to become Uber drivers in the first place.
"Windows 98 is regarded as the pinnacle of the Windows 9x era, with an update shipping the following year in the form of Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) including a number of minor enhancements such as the inclusion of Internet Explorer 5".
I recall significant improvements for 98SE were far better support for USB devices, DVD support plus Internet Connection Sharing. It was a long time ago but I recall it being a more major upgrade than is being suggested.
Those were the days when people welcomed Windows 'improvements' and I recall 98SE being roundly applauded by near everyone. How things have changed.
Opposite problem for me; too impatient to get a proper removal tool or fiddle with a screwdriver to remove an IC from its socket I decided to pull it out with my finger tips on each end. My cry of "Fuck! That hurts!" as it pivoted and embedded itself in my thumb like a vampire with 18 tiny teeth drew so much attention that running away to hide what I had done was never really an option.
That, and touching a soldering iron tip to check it had cooled down before packing it away, were two mistakes never repeated.
Except in this case she wasn't "driving". She was a sack of meat in the drivers seat and probably as bored shitless as many passengers become when being driven.
Maybe she should have been more attentive but you can't just throw a driver in a driver seat doing nothing for hours on end and expect them to react as if they had been driving for all that time.
That is an unreasonable expectation to start with and did Uber even test her attentiveness before putting her in that situation? Was the true situation explained to her or was she misled into believing she simply had to sit there and everything would be fine, that her responsibilities were less than they turned out to be?
There are a lot of unanswered questions but it seems to me there is demonisation and a witch hunt against this 'driver' with some people determined to have her held to blame for the death for various agenda reasons.
He claims that he is not trying to punish England, but this is exactly what he is doing.
I am still being punished for resigning my gym membership; they still won't let me use their equipment, keep dragging me out.
On top of that I'm now being punished by my insurance company who say I have to cover the cost of my claim myself just because I refused to pay for their policy.
I say "punished", but they keep saying "consequences". Arseholes.
Live TV over the internet is a really seriously fucking dumb idea. THAT'S WHAT TV MASTS ARE FOR. They can transmit to literally millions of people AT THE SAME TIME.
In some alternative universe, where they invented an internet first, there is probably some geek being hailed a genius for figuring out how much money and bandwidth could be saved by having a single point transmission system to millions, raised on to a pedestal for realising whole continents could be served by a single satellite.
I don't mind. I don't watch much football and when I do it's on the TV. That gives me two hours of downloading 4K movie rips so they're ready to go when the game's over. That means less inconvenience for me :)
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