Posts by Dan 55

Re: In reality

Are you suggesting that they currently don't pay taxes due to a lack of physical presence and protection due to a foreign sovereignty?

Ate you suggesting no American corporation has been fined before in Europe?

Or maybe they do have to follow laws and can get fined.

He was obviously traumatised by Mr Resetti.

Re: This is a trivial design...

They've probably gone with ARM as the Vega was ARM.

Which means the wait is all the more incomprehensible, firmware development should be quick as it would be practically the same as in the Vega.

Re: Forward thinking?

If they're retiring 3G phone sales now, they're thinking of retiring 3G coverage 18 months to 2 years from now. By that time everyone will have had a chance to get a new phone on contract.

Re: We need some ...

Are you allowed to throw up? Because that's pretty similar.

Re: I can't believe y'all are still falling for this

No, don't look at what Trump does, look at what his administration does while everyone's busy getting upset about his tweets.

Even Zuck knows we're too busy with our long national nightmare to matter anymore.

It'd be fun if he has to change in the UK and were taken aside for a quiet word though.

Re: Priorities

Lots of people in the Leave camp campaigned for lots of things, and some of them were written on the side of a big red bus.

She's out of her job now. The Home Office aren't and doesn't seem very keen on throwing open the doors to the Commonwealth, or even letting those who have been in the UK practically all their lives staying.

Re: Now, home boxes, that's a different matter.

Your choice of words is appropriate. They *won't* know a port *when* it pwns them. If your game needs to allow anyone, anywhere, sight unseen, to access your network then you need a new game. People need to learn that the easy way (from us) rather than the hard way (from their bank).

Many games use P2P multiplayer. Someone somewhere's got to open a port.

Re: So the end of internal BT competition, by switching betw BTRetail, EE and Plus.net every 18...

Do people specifically change between those three providers, or just to whoever's got the best offer at the time if ringing up at the end of the contract period didn't work?

Re: Spot on

I don't think people value convenience or centralisation over privacy or security. The only thing people value is other people they want to talk to are on the same network and that happens by becoming a big name which requires money.

Signal is just as convenient to set up as WhatsApp, but most people choose WhatsApp because people they know use WhatsApp. WhatsApp wasn't secure before and it didn't matter, at the moment WhatsApp it is about as private and secure as Signal but that doesn't matter, and that might change again in the future and a few people might leave but not many.

Gmail is pretty inconvenient to use, but users put up with that because other people they know have a gmail address. It shouldn't make any difference as e-mail is an open protocol, but it does.

Countries could run their own decentralised operations, connect to the likes of Google via a individual pipeline but something like that just introduces more problems.

Open protocols and importing/exporting data. The only one that got there is e-mail. XMPP was sort of getting there but then Google pulled out when it had served their purpose.

Re: Settings > Google > Ads > Opt out of ads personalisation

Don't know who downvoted you. But Google should push out an update to Play Services to make this option opt-in and GDPR compliant and app developers shouldn't need to do a single thing.

If Google is found to be wanting and their muddying of the waters and dragging legal nonsense out for years gets developers in trouble, hopefully it'll mean developers switch to another GDPR compliant ad network.

Re: My approach

You'd be speaking from a USAian point of view where if you get more than 90 days then the company is really pushing the boat out, right?

Re: I love my Cherry keyboard!

I doubt it's due to hipsters, the PC market isn't what it used to be, most computers sold are laptops, and most people aren't bothered enough to to buy a decent keyboard. The market isn't that big.

Anyone know exactly why are they complaining? Thanks to IPA they have a list of servers someone connects to over the past year and they can make a query to the owner of the server and get all the data at rest and they don't need a warrant to do it. They've got it all on a plate.

Re: Defensive programming

Well, yes, but they don't need a firewall. They just need their renderer to not connect to URLs in the first place.

Re: Probably mentioned already but

You can't have a chemical fix, remember? Remember the law which banned all psychoactive substances except food, alcohol, baccy, and coffee? That was Mayhem's work.

The trick is to get noticed for fixing problems because you'll never get noticed for doing your job so well that problems don't happen in the first place.

Never managed to do that.

That's not a humblebrag because I'm the first to admit I don't do my job that well in the first place.

Re: re: Do you really think Google cares?

Doesn't matter, the data is processed by Google.com.

Re: Click bait headline

Had a quick skim read through a few pages, it seems like he's arguing that dystopia is inevitable and the legal system had better move with the times.

Search Twitter for @TSB and search by time to find the answer to that... link

(It seems @TSB like to only do customer service by Twitter for some reason.)

Re: "[My] iPhone will be picking up Galileo and GPS at the same time - will that need an upgrade?"

At this point in time, if he's on the committee, he should know. Or was he just there to sail in, wave his phone around, get in the news, and sail out?