* Posts by Dan 55

15336 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009

UK.gov's Brexiteers warned not to push for divergence on data protection laws

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Re: @ iron

Wouldn't work. The EU would insist the very least on a personal data firewall between businesses not dealing with the EU and businesses dealing with the EU, and it'd probably be easier just to say the UK is considered a non-GDPR friendly country unless regulations match the GDPR.

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the UK’s exceptionally high standards of data protection

Where patient data is flogged left, right, and centre and fines are toothless. I wonder if German politicians laughed at that one.

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Re: @ Halcin

Codejunky, please explain:

- why we would want change our regulations to make all those products and services already targeted at our area of the world incompatible with our country

- how we can make our own magically better regulations and then force 27 other countries to use them

- what advantage is there is for us in pulling out of the decision making processes which set regulations for 28 countries + EEA and preferring a decision making process which sets regulations for only our own country, dramatically reducing our sphere of influence

- what products and services do you envision could be better and with our own esoteric incompatible standards set just to shown who's taken control

Thanks.

Microsoft reveals 'limitations of apps and experiences on Arm' – then deletes from view

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If only someone at MS had the amazing unheard-of idea of allowing you to put tokens into the OOO text which are replaced with the from and to dates that you've previously selected in the calendar boxes above.

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Re: Just adding Razor Wire

If anything, removing it.

Unless marketing found it and decided that it's better to remove the document explaining the limitations and let developers find out for themselves.

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Well, it seems the article isn't free of sin either.

Ubuntu wants to slurp PCs' vital statistics – even location – with new desktop installs

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Re: What PII?

Canonical are in a sense fingerprinting the install (remember when this was controversial when WGA was introduced on XP?) and would find themselves in hot water if there's a data breach which de-anonymises the collected data.

So they really do need to make it opt-in.

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Re: Blatant attempt to drive traffic to a commercial site?

The national bodies are supposed to explain what this means for each nation, i.e. the ICO.

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You've not heard of browser fingerprinting by looking at a whole set of variables not too dissimilar to what Canonical want?

If it's not opt-in then they could get into trouble.

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Re: What PII?

@AC: For a start, it has to be opt-in because it's not "strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service requested by the subscriber or user".

James Damore's labor complaint went over about as well as his trash diversity manifesto

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Re: controversial bro-grammer ?

In other news. 'The Register' advertising revenues declined as people took their journalists advice and stopped reading them...

Do you really think that many commentards will storm off in a huff because they believe women are more suited to arranging flowers and eating lady crisps than, say, being allowed to have level playing field in STEM careers? The Venn diagram showing the intersect between El Reg and Daily Mail readers is pretty small, you know.

Here's a video for all you commentards by the way.

Facebook told to stop stalking Belgians or face fines of €250k – a day

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Go

I'm so looking forward to the GDPR coming in.

Robot cars will kill London jobs – but only from 2030, say politicans

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That terrifying 'unfixable' Microsoft Skype security flaw: THE TRUTH

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The things they'll do to get people to update to version 8, eh?

Stephen Elop and the fall of Nokia revisited

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Re: He's responsible for Flash as well?!

At the time Nokia's mobile division was sold to MS, the parent company was calling all the shots.

After Elop returned to MS and was later fired, he went to Telstra. Have a look what he did there:

Telstra writes off last $273 million in Silicon Valley tech start-up Ooyala

He may not be as bad as Carly but he's trying hard to get there.

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Re: Why can't Elop take credit for his achievement?

The N9 was very finished and received excellent reviews where Elop deigned to release it.

Asha was S40 on steroids, not Symbian.

The Ovi/Nokia Store did have developers and apps and at that time had something no-one else did, operator charging in practically any country. Then the burning platform memo, Elop's support for Skype on WP, and a hatchet job on Nokia's logistics stopped all that.

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Re: Why can't Elop take credit for his achievement?

Elop said in an interview that even if the N9 sells great, they wouldn't expand the roll-out to other markets or make a successor.

Can't find the link, but it shows you what he was up to.

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You have to add Wileyfox to that list as they announced they were going to launch a WM10 phone.

Probably not MS' fault, but you have to wonder given their history.

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Re: He's responsible for Flash as well?!

This in turn led Adobe to buy Macromedia

And who do you think put Macromedia up for sale to Adobe in the first place and then hopped across to Adobe after the sale was completed?

Microsoft's Windows 10 Workstation adds killer feature: No Candy Crush

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That's a nice donation you made. Your licence key from the free upgrade is still valid and free versions would update to the latest version anyway.

And then they would install the Meltdown patch and slow down again.

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If MS understood this, then they're deaf

You will see for Windows 10 Pro for Workstations productivity and enterprise focused applications in place of consumer applications and games. This was one of the top feedback shared with us by our partners and users and we're delivering this in our next update

So basically MS made three tiers where there were two - Home, Pro, and Workstations - and then put start menu spam and slurp on Pro to make people cough up more for Workstations.

I don't think they really asked for that.

You won't believe this: Nokia soars back into phone-flinger top 3

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"Long-time Nokia tormentor Tomi Ahonen"

Long-time Elop tormentor. And rightly so.

Nokia X's launch was what happened when the parent company locked Elop in the cellar and launched a phone designed for just one customer to buy - Microsoft. It was a resounding success.

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Re: Stock Android.

Unfortunately on Android 8 every app is a Google app, even Dialler, Contacts, Messages, Clock, Wallpaper, Gallery, and Keyboard. No AOSP for you.

I trust them about as far as I can throw them.

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Nokia had MeeGo ready to take over and launched a phone with it. Elop would have killed the N9 off before launch were it not for Nokia's agreement with Intel, so he had to be content with releasing to small markets in limited numbers.

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1% (8.7 millon) isn't bad for 9 months work though, is it?

Roses are red, revenge is so sweet. Microsoft extracts a few quid from Corel Office Suite

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Re: Well...

So the MS-provided ribbon library is a trap. Anyone who uses it gets sued.

Who wants dynamic dancing animations and code in their emails? Everyone! says Google

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Re: > "Google is preferentially boosting AMP results"

Or written by teenagers who who have never seen a PC get owned by email.

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Re: So THAT explains it!

If you don't want to sign on use Kodi with the iPlayer WWW add-on.

Roses are red, Windows error screens are blue. It's 2018, and an email can still pwn you

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Re: "...a total of 50 CVE-listed vulnerabilities..."

The mighty magnet is Windows in the middle of the haystack. That's why it's full of needles.

OpenSSL alpha adds TLS 1.3 support

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a “grand redesign” of the OpenSSL random number generator

Wasn't that in the first version of LibreSSL?

It's official: .corp, .home, .mail will never be top-level domains on the 'net

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You're seriously suggesting you believe every household paying the Danegeld to ICANN every year is better than a standard domain for LAN addresses?

And back to the OP, .dev is Google using their Chrome trojan horse to clear the path before monetising a domain which they bought knowing that it's often used on LANs.

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Re: as an alternative to '.local'

The problem is if you set your LAN domain to .local and you have mDNS devices on it as well, if your mDNS resolver isn't very good or configured wrong then you might not be able to resolve some addresses.

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Re: I use .internal

.lan would be sensible, but some bright spark at ICANN let Latam Airlines have it.

Apple tells GitHub to fork off: iGiant steps outside DMCA law in quest to halt iBoot leaks

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Low-level employee

Should they have access to the iBoot code?

I mean, apart from being low-level, would you want a low-level dev making changes anyway? What happens if they commit something bad that somehow gets past Apple's legendary code reviews and QA...? (goto fail;) (put root as user and hit return twice)

Facebook smartmobe app's pre-ticked privacy settings violate German data protection law

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I take it you believe a constantly changing settings page with constantly changing defaults, a la Facebook and Google, helps you achieve that?

Samsung needs to eat itself, not copy Apple's X-rated margins

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Re: Galaxy S9 Lite

You're forgetting what's important for many people who buy phones at that price point.

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Re: Galaxy S9 Lite

It's pretty obvious what Samsung are doing, the 2017 J7 doesn't allow a replaceable battery but the 2016 J7 did.

So all they've managed to do is lose the customers who were looking for phones with replaceable batteries.

Yorkshire cops have begun using on-the-spot fingerprint scanners

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We know the device does not magically know who you are without the databases behind this, we know the databases will be refreshed with the latest scan, and we know entries will be made in a database somewhere else saying where, when, and at what time you had your fingerprints scanned (too many times is bad, citizen).

They're not even weasel words. To anyone working in IT it's like being smacked round the head with a truncheon. To anyone with any powers of critical thinking, it sets off alarm bells. However it seems the majority of the population neither work in IT or possess critical thinking skills.

UK ICO, USCourts.gov... Thousands of websites hijacked by hidden crypto-mining code after popular plugin pwned

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Re: Don't load third-party scripts

Banks are equally guilty. They've all opened themselves up to the third party being compromised, their DNS hijacked, or slurping (why the would govt or banks need Google Analytics or fonts loaded from Google or whatever). And then we're all repeatedly taken by surprise when stuff like this happens.

NSA code backported, crims cuffed, leaky AWS S3 buckets, and more

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Re: "... we at El Reg never provide positive coverage in exchange for freebies."

I take it you missed Dabbsy's review of the iPhone X.

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Re: Crime and unniceness: Totally mainstream

I won't have a word said against Shutterstock.

Due to Oracle being Oracle, Eclipse holds poll to rename Java EE (No, it won't be Java McJava Face)

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Shame they've ruled out Yachty McYachtface.

US Senate mulls giving Huawei and ZTE the Kaspersky treatment

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&genie=1 (amongst others)

Far better to choose patriotic all-American suppliers like Netgear. The brown envelope's in the post.

Talk about a hot mic: Dodgy Pixel mobe audio lands Google in court

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Re: Every 30 months?

That law would certainly have covered a known problem like this though.

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Re: Every 30 months?

England and Wales have a six-year guarantee that makes retailers angry, click here to find out why!

No yolking matter: Google Translate cock-up gives Norwegians more than un œuf eggs

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Trollface

Can't say I noticed anything out of the ordinary for a Reg article

Note: this story was translated from English to Norwegian with Google Translate. Then translated again from Norwegian to English with Bing Translate. Because why not? ®

New strife for Strava: Location privacy feature can be made transparent

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Re: GDPR

Oh yes it does - recital 26.

If the data subject can be discovered with additional data then they're not anonymous, and if they're not anonymous then the data controller has just fallen foul of the GDPR.

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Re: GDPR

The GDPR says the data must be rendered anonymous in such a way that the data subject is not or no longer identifiable if it is published by the data controller or processor. That is debatable.

Apple's top-secret iBoot firmware source code spills onto GitHub for some insane reason

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Re: Is it Legit?

Apple is probably changing the boot code as we comment (or may have done already)

Why would they introduce new bugs? Far better to keep it as it is and let a whitehat report something or watch the blackhat marketplaces.