* Posts by Dan 55

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Cops fined £80,000 for revealing childhood abuse victims' names

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Facepalm

"before the force recalled the mail"

Has that ever been known to work when the email gets sent outside the organisation.

Microsoft tries cutting the Ribbon in Office UI upgrade

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Re: Icons are supposedly accessible?

Presumably they'll be proper toolbars with tooltips, however I'm prepared to be disappointed.

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Re: So we're basically back to toolbars again?

No, toolbars with slurp.

No fandango for you: EU boots UK off Galileo satellite project

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We arnt out of this galileo thing because we are leaving the EU , we are out of it because of a bunch of bureaucratic tit for tatting and point scoring

We are out of Galileo because it's an EU-funded project carried out by the ESA and the rules that the UK helped draw up state that the work only goes to EU countries and the PRS can only be used by EU countries.

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if you want to leave the EU, I'm going to pretend that you want to get rid of it completely

No, that's a fact.

If the UK leaves the EU, but in addition to that says it is not going to be a part of the SM, the CU, the ECJ, and the ECHR (red lines), the consequences are that the UK becomes a third country. This means it gets practically nothing from the EU.

There is a legal framework to be inside and out out of things. There is no legal framework to be outside and opt into things.

Tech firms, come to Blighty! Everything is brill! Brexit schmexit, Galileo schmalileo

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Re: Our future is India!

Obviously people who know languages will choose to stay in the 17.5% free market paradise (see above) with a welfare state and a society to match.

Microsoft loves Linux so much its R Open install script rm'd /bin/sh

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Re: Today's story...

Replace cmd with powershell on your system and see how it runs.

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Re: Typical installer written in a large company

I struggle to understand why someone thought it'd be a good idea to change a shell system-wide instead of writing their scripts with #!/bin/bash at the top.

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Par for the course...

"What came in here was such an exhibition of incompetence that I can only assume they are doing it on purpose."

Audit of DeepMind deal with NHS trust: It checks out, nothing to see here

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Re: Who pays the piper

If you pay a lawyer or solicitor to say something for you it must be true.

Intel chip flaw: Math unit may spill crypto secrets from apps to malware

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They didn't work with the BSDs at the end of last year with the original Spectre/Meltdown, they didn't work with them just now, take a guess at what'll happen next time.

This HTC U12+ review page is left intentionally blank

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Re: Review it.

You can't really honestly review anything until you get the day one update with everyone else. This phone has show stoppers, but they will probably be fixed by the time everyone gets hold of it. If they publish now, they run the risk of publish an inaccurate review.

This, unfortunately, also enables the hype machine to work (see film, videogame embargos).

AI built to track you through walls because, er, Parkinsons?

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Re: Prototype for proving theory

Why is Google Maps suddenly allowing me to go inside my own and other people's houses?

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Re: More productive lives????

I do hope some future super-evil AI doesn't pick up on the "safer, more productive lives" bit and turn the human race into batteries. Coincidently that sounds like the plot of some film from a couple of decades ago.

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What a time to be alive

We'll be able to say we were here when Dystopia started.

Microsoft reveals which Windows bugs it might decide not to fix

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Re: Pay more, get less

Or there might be something wrong with their development methodology.

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Pay more, get less

Now that Windows is SaaS, they're taking away the service.

Looking forward to Windows getting regularly owned by chaining two or three moderate bugs together.

New York State is trying to ban 'deepfakes' and Hollywood isn't happy

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I know why Disney is against it

That's their plans for Star Wars XVI and Marvel Superhero Film 60 up in smoke.

But woe betide anyone who copies their badly-drawn 90-year-old mouse though.

EU-US Privacy Shield not up to snuff, data tap should be turned off – MEPs

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Meh

"if needed, to remove such companies from the Privacy Shield list"

I can see that happening.

Security execs must prep for post-Brexit cyber challenges – report

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Of course not. The difference is that the UK would like to negotiate a new mutually-beneficial, framework with EU members but the EU would prefer to pretend that the UK doesn't exist.

That framework already exists. It's called the ECJ. It's good enough for 27 other members. Forgive them if they're not chomping at the bit to renegotiate the same thing all over again because the UK is special.

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Erm, wasn't that the (Russian backed) Leave campaign's stance?

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So, you'd be someone else who doesn't understand the EU is held together by treaties and laws. The UK can't opt out of them and expect the same things to happen by magic. The legal framework isn't there for that to happen.

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Re: If they want to change the rules they can do the work

Because they voted for it.

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Not really. It requires a common framework and a common means of arbitration so that all EU countries know that they're sharing information with other trustworthy countries.

If the UK has opted out of that then there's nothing that stops it from CCing any other country or using the information in a way that harms the other countries.

So saying hello to a neighbour is not really the same thing.

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Take back control

It seems that means being kept in the dark (points 1-3 and similar) and fed manure from time to time (last paragraph).

Have to use SMB 1.0? Windows 10 April 2018 Update says NO

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Re: So for a while now...

Imagine it: Win10 accessing a mapped network drive like a *nix client and treating it like a native MS server share.

So exactly like Win 7 then, although hopefully with a few fewer bugs.

I was rather hoping they'd have managed to do the same with sftp by now in Win 10.

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Re: pop up a warning?

Would a version number in Properties be asking too much?

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Can you ssh in and furtle smb.conf?

Actual control of Windows 10 updates (with a catch)... and more from Microsoft

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Re: LTSC

You've just restated what he summarised on his link text.

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Re: Nice embedded device there...

As with desktop Windows, LTSC is the way to go.

UK digital secretary throws cold water over bid for laws on kids' use of social media

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Parental control app? VPN to your home router?

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Digital ostrich

We'll say 'ooh, isn't this bad' every time the Daily Mail kicks up a fuss, but we won't come up with some coherent laws. You see, as the government, it's not our place to legislate anything about the matter as it looks like inexplicable magic to us which we are powerless to defend ourselves against. Instead we should leave them to the tender mercies of West Coast slurpcorps who understand this stuff better and have assured me they have their wellbeing at heart. As it happens one of which casually mentioned in our last meeting that they may be interested in offering someone of my calibre a directorship in their UK office.

Yahoo! Kills! The! Messenger!

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Re: why did Verizon buy Yahoo?

It makes as much sense as Microsoft buying Skype, destroying MSN Messenger to get everyone on Skype, and making Skype so shit to use and locking out older clients, phones, and TVs, that they effectively destroyed that too.

Only Squirrel isn't as well known so the whole enterprise is even more doomed to failure.

IoT CloudPets in the doghouse after damning security audit: Now Amazon bans sales

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Re: "They are getting "pressure by pocketbook"

I think this is the right angle to start getting shops to reject IoS. Cat-o-Matic or not, if it's bad for the children then it'll get pulled.

After getting a few of those taken off the shelves, then other things could get dropped too, perhaps because they could be in the same house as children.

Google freezes Android P: Get your shoes on, tire-kicking devs

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Re: Unlike Apple?

Apple's parental controls don't need an Apple ID, they're just hidden behind a password.

VPNFilter router malware is a lot worse than everyone thought

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The easiest way to make sure your router is clean is factory reset and import previously-exported settings.

(Edit: But changing the default passwords if you still had them and turning off remote access if you had it enabled.)

1,300 customers of Brit bank TSB defrauded due to botched IT migration

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She cannae take it, captain

However, the FCA's Bailey told MPs initial problems identified by IBM go beyond the middleware

So much for Pester's claim that the engine was fine.

At last: Magic Leap reveals its revolutionary techno-goggles – but wait, there's a catch

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Damn, I missed the presentation

I was going to ask if they were going to bundle it with a free Vega+.

GNOMEs beat Microsoft: Git Virtual File System to get a new name

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Facepalm

$BIGCORPs, eh?

I wonder how many man (& woman) hours of meetings they needed before they realised they couldn't think of a name and decided to throw it open to everybody.

Stern Vint Cerf blasts techies for lackluster worldwide IPv6 adoption

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Re: Meh

Well, something might need to change. I'm vaguely aware there's a way to partly anonymise addresses but I don't know how that works. So until I work out how IPv6 works in my own time (because my job doesn't demand it), I'm sticking to IPv4.

IPv6 seems to be based on the premise that it would be cool for every device everywhere to be findable with the same address. I still don't know why that would be, we have DNS for that. I know why Google would be keen on it though.

IPv6 was published over 2 decades ago and still hasn't gained traction. It seems to be a solution looking for a problem, but it's the only one that also expands address space. Look how easy it would have been to expand an IPv4 address to 64 or 128 bits but keep the rest the same.

I see a satellite of a man ... Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, that's now 4 sats fit to go

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Re: " nor did the Brexit bunch. It's just remainer FUD."

They are two completely distinct sentences with the second not mentioning how much the NHS should be funded. Apparently.

But pay no attention to the poster next to Boris Johnson...

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So the EU agricultural tariffs don’t exist ?

Did you not read it? In trade negotiations, the EU proposal was to drop tariffs but African countries wouldn't.

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Myths of Commonwealth Betrayal: UK–Africa Trade Before and After Brexit

Abstract

This article critically interrogates claims that a British exit from the European Union (EU) (Brexit) will create opportunities for the UK to escape the EU’s apparent protectionism and cumbersome internal politics in order to pursue a more liberal and globalist trade agenda based on the Commonwealth. Taking a historical view of UK and EU trade relations with the Commonwealth in Africa, the author highlights the way in which the incorporation of the majority of Commonwealth states into the EU’s preferential trading relationships has reconfigured ties between the UK and its former colonies over time. Further, the author suggests that the EU’s recent attempts to realise a vision for an ambitious set of free trade agreements in Africa—the Economic Partnership Agreements—was disrupted not by EU protectionism or internal politics but rather by African resistance to the EU’s liberal agenda for reciprocal tariff liberalisation and regulatory harmonisation. The UK therefore faces a complex challenge if it is to disentangle its trade relations with Africa from those of the EU and to forge its own set of ambitious free trade agreements with African Commonwealth partners.

Hear that? Of course it's Indiegogo's deadline for a Vega+ whooshing by

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Re: I can see a problem here...

They couldn't send it away, they've let slip on Twitter that they have one demo unit...

Microsoft sinks another data centre with Natick 2

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What will future generations think of this when they uncover it?

I'm going with a primitive race which buried obsolete technology at sea to ward off the evil spirits.

Microsoft partners to fling out collabo-visual Ginormonitors this year

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Unfortunately the NEC screens are for signage in public areas and as such are a bit pricey... but if you got the Pi to run VNC which mirrored laptop displays with WiFi Direct then you'd probably have something ten times more collaborative than MS' effort.

Watchdog slams TSB boss for underplaying extent of IT meltdown

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Mushroom

Let's see if it's still broken, 7 weeks later

Yep.

UK military may recruit wheezy, alcoholic keyboard warriors

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IT Angle

"At last! A valid use of a 'hacker in a hoodie' stereotype stock image"

Yes, but how does the six screens, three keyboards, one mouse set up work then?

Great time to shift bytes: International bandwidth prices are in free fall

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Re: Wavelength? Not bandwidth?

Bandwidth now means something else. Apparently project managers have it (or they don't).