Posts by Dan 55

He bloody well is.

Re: No justice

Your wish may yet come true, let's see what the second half of 2017 brings.

How's that 'turnaround' year going, Capita? ...Sheesh, sorry I asked

Re: Box user RS Zaharna...

After hopping back in a time machine.

Re: How it will unfortunately actually work....

French govt will make it policy that all government departments must use a French supplier of services, keeping the company afloat for some time before the inevitable happens.

Today's news shows us that that never happens in the UK.

It's a rather sad indictment that the way to get router manufacturers to put out updates to their firmware is Google screwing up.

Re: Amsterdam

The only way to get a special exemption for all 66 million Brits would be to give one to all EU citizens, which makes Brexit pointless.

Channel Islanders don't have residency rights and can't live and work in EU countries. That's not the same as freedom of movement, they have FoM and can move around the EU for up to three months.

If a Channel Islander is a resident in the UK for five years, they get residency rights in the rest of the EU as if they were EU citizens.

Re: Annnnnnd....

Never worked for a bloated megacorp scattered across 100 timezones where it's practically impossible to get anything done or propose a change if something looks wrong?

Re: Who do they think they are ?

No, they stored a history on the phone and the problem was it may have been found in a non-encrypted backup on the computer.

Re: The problem here is bigger than one pub...

Those two were in Malta, which is now independent.

Really difficult to understand where you're going with this if you don't explain.

Re: So, who trusts them?

They must be haemorrhaging users to come up with a suggestion like this, but you'd have to be very credulous not to believe that MS wouldn't log the private key somewhere.

Their first press release confirmed it was vulnerable to Spectre variant 1 using a non-standard Linux kernel configuration, Spectre variant 2 was highly unlikely due to different architecture and had not been demonstrated yet, and more information would be forthcoming. It's difficult to see what they did wrong, unlike Intel.

'Safer' 20mph zones led to rise in number of road deaths but too costly to reverse, council admits

Re: Not panicked yet

You'll be fine until the AI works out how to launch your scripts.

There is also:

- No dedicated OS X manager, after Snow Leopard the OS X manager left and both OS X and iOS were managed by the same manager.

- No dedicated team, they are shared between OS X and iOS. iOS has more time and priority.

- QA seems particularly bad and analysis of patches shows there are errors which should have been caught by automated test tools, meaning they don't seem to have them.

- Beancounters throwing out stuff which made an ecosystem for their computers (e.g. XServe, Mac Mini server, routers).

- Hardware designers have decided they have to use glue with everything and make it non-upgradable, probably again due to iDevice-isation.

- Basically Macs are starved of resources. Hardware refreshes are few and far between and unimpressive, no ideas for OS X apart from iOS-ing it.

Re: Yes, but

So I went and checked it.

Like the colour of passports, there's no law which says that the crown symbol mustn't be on pint glasses.

If a pub wants to use pint glass with a crown symbol on it, they can have one. A bloke from the EU said so. See "pint glass" entry on Wikipedia.

So once again, it's more Brexit popularism based on ignorance.

Re: Star wars tin DVD

If anyone's still reading and wants to know about the work that went into the Despecialized Edition, there's a video here.

Re: Intel microcode update posted

It helps fix the problem that isn't a problem because it's operating as designed, according to Intel.

Re: FFS

I guess other reasons are if you want a higher pagerank then you need AMP, if you want analytics on Google's AMP cache then you probably need Google Analytics, and if you want advertising on your AMP page then you probably need AdWords. I'm guessing at the last two, but if true it would answer my question above.

Lock-in fun for all the family.

Re: Put a lot of effort into something that'll never see the light of day ?

And don't forget to allocate 15% of the time to investigating and documenting variances between the actual operation of, and the available documentation for, any frameworks you are using.

Luxury. I get 10% of time for investigating the differences, but no time for documenting them for everyone else. Six months later, guess what happens when someone else runs into the same problem?

Re: so, er...

I humbly submit that the average computer user will be impacted (ugh) now by cloud and server outages and soon by the consequent rise in prices in cloud services.

If/when there are more kernel updates with optimisations, prices won't drop.

Re: Definitely not perfect, but has basic parental controls

There's no category for social media, or time limits for apps in general.

Look on the bright side, at least the site uses HSTS.

So if the certificate does expire, there's no way you could visit that website as you couldn't set up an exception even if you wanted to.