Posts by Dan 55

Re: Something's changed again, hasn't it?

I am rather hoping they take the hint, but it hasn't worked so far.

Re: Something's changed again, hasn't it?

Only work stuff gets bookmarked at work.

Re: No exposed RDP?

You map drives and copy files over RDP.

On a related note (MS sieve-like protocols), who the hell still allows SMB over the Internet?

Re: Not often

The only device I trust to show YouTube* for a U or PG audience is one running Kodi on a big screen. No badly targeted ads (or ads at all), no suggestions leading you down a rabbit hole, search results aren't tailored to previous video views and you can tell if they're relevant or not before playing, and if you like you can apply parental controls to the add-on. If a bunch of volunteers can manage it in their spare time, why can't a billion dollar company?

* or other free-content video flinging websites

Re: re: The Microsoft View of the world

The message that a new design language every year (UWP, UWP + Fluent, PWA) and rolling out OS support for them in an agile way is developer hostile has to percolate up first. Who on earth is going to be able to aim for a target moving like that? The only constant is Win32, the only API worth using is Win32, therefore the only one that developers will use is Win32.

Developers might package software up for the Windows Store if they're badgered by MS enough, but that's about it.

Re: Back on the hamster wheel..

Here is a simple question. Why does this subject matter to you?

Why does it matter to me? I guess really it doesn't. I just don't the like continual human tragedies brought about by a complete lack of control over weapons that kill. Ignoring those and arguing that guns make you safer with this going on in the background is utter stupidity brought about by sheer unthinking dogma. The pro-gun lobby have had years of things their way, and what have we learned played out by these massacres day after day? Look at the empirical evidence: free availability of guns just doesn't work. Why doesn't it matter to you? It should.

As for the "racist" jibe. Always the first resort of the low information types who live in lilly white environments.

Nope, read the original AC post. In a post which argues against gun control, there is a recognition that there is a problem with young black males having access to guns. Therefore they are an acceptable price to pay so other people can have some toys to play with, feel safe in areas which in all probability aren't touched by gun crime, and go out and shoot a few animals.

And comparing access to guns to the NHS is rather... obtuse. Like to try again?

Re: Back on the hamster wheel..

The best summary of US gun politics is still the Scott Adams one. Democratic voters uses guns to kill each other, and innocent people. Republican voters use guns to hunt, and to protect themselves against Democratic voters. The great unmentionable in the whole debate simple fact that around 70% of gun crime is young black males mostly killing each other. The other great unmentionable is that young black males from an immigrant background dont kill each other.

So freely available guns are necessary because Republicans need to hunt instead of going to the supermarket and to protect themselves against Democrats who are the enemy because they kill innocent Republicans, and black people are expendable. Nice.

A shame I, as a non-USAn, don't understand the nuanced intricacies of this argument and I am limited to calling you out for a racist with political views which are so warped they mean you hate about half of your own country. I look forward to your "top of the world, ma" moment being live streamed on YouTube before you're brought down by a hail of bullets by Democrat police officers. By the law of averages there should be another one due in about a couple of days if you feel up for it.

Re: There is no ready answer

A ready-to-go template mentioning our thoughts and prayers every time it happens is enough.

Re: For crying out loud...

billg invested in a QA team and it was good. Balmer kept it. Then Satnad came along and decided it wasn't agile enough and axed it.

So with that and Windows 7 and Sever 2008 patches being given to the Z team, you have your answer as to why every month is a fuck up.

Re: OMG what? El Reg slandering Apple again?

1. It'd be libel, not slander.

2. It's not libel as their low repairability is a statement of fact.

Re: Just

My nephew got a iPad glass replacement by a “professional” repair company.. the glass shifts around (because they didn’t use enough glue) and the audio port no longer works. You get what you pay for. With Apple you get your device back in mint condition.

Because often the repair involves putting the motherboard in a completely new outer shell which is extremely difficult to get hold of unless you're Apple and has to be glued together. Hence it is not repairable.

Re: Just

They will all get the message ..... eventually .....

Not really, many manufacturers have made unrepairable tablets then dropped out of tablet manufacturing altogether.

Re: Guardian has more details.

In most EU countries, for starters, carrying ID (in the form of an ID card if you're a resident, or valid passport if you're a foreigner) is mandatory.

Not quite true, in 19 out of 33 countries they are optional or don't exist. The UK is just crap when it comes to proving people's identity and tracing someone's history, so much so that naturalised Windrush children who came to the UK when they were five or so and are now in their 60s are now getting caught up in yet another Home Office witch-hunt.