Posts by Dan 55 15396 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
Because it has a human being that sees something is called "Update WhatsApp Messenger" from a new developer with a Unicode hack in their name and a rip off of the legitimate app's Play Store resources is not legitimate.
Perhaps Google will update their algorithm to pick up this more often, but then fake app devs will find their way around it (change the Play Store images or description in some subtle way).
There aren't any, but if you choose to bank with Lloyds, Bank of Scotland, Halifax, or Natwest then you know that it's going to go down more than [insert favourite end to saying here].
Past performance may not be indicative of future results, but in this case they probably are.
About not "run by fuckwits", the disasters in Syria, Libya and Egypt say otherwise
Libya - The US decided to get involved after being dragged in by France. Turned out crap.
Syria - The US decided to get involved. Turned out crap.
Egypt - The US decided not to get involved. Turned out crap.
Whatever you do or don't do in the Middle East, it will turn out crap.
1. How on earth could someone notably that paranoid about being online manage to have a Steam account or let anyone near him have a Steam account? (Half Life came out on DVD with no need for Steam, remember.)
2. What's Steam slurping from computers which means that Valve were able to identify him?
Something has indeed changed. Get the pitchforks out.
Seems www now has a mobile view so m title page now goes to the www story page. Unfortunately the www story page goes to the www forum page instead of back to m.
All this after singing m's praises in the AMP story's comments. I feel violated.
It looks like it uses Bluetooth Standards already, I don't think it needs another standard to say that you can use two standards.
In the same vein, why would you ever need a standard for Bluetooth pairing via NFC if you've got a standard for Bluetooth and a standard for NFC?
But there's still the phishing problem. If the wrong server name is entered by accident and it leads to a phishing server, the false server will say, "yep, all that info you've given me is fine". And it can then act as a MITM.
The most you can do is encrypt the connection, but not authenticate it.
At the top:
State some facts and I'll discuss them.
Then we come to the discussion at the post above...
Well that was disappointing and expected. If the guy in charge of Vote Leave says it's going to be a disaster, all that are going to be left are the Brexit Taliban.
If you have any complaint, and believe that the result should have been different with those missing votes - then your complaint should be against those who didn't get out and vote the way you wanted.
No, my complaint is against the government. The referendum is advisory (legally, there's no way around that, it was stated in the Act and the HoC library, and backed up by the courts), and it's wrong for the government to take the actions which affect the future of the whole country basted on only 37% of the electorate.
Government goes on majority and if the number of opinions in question is more than 2 then a majority opinion may be less than 50%. This is basic maths, obviously something you have a problem with.
Most referendums which change the direction of an entire country require a supermajority and/or a minimum number of participants to stop this kind of incessant argument which has been going on for 16 months.
Government is supposed to be for everybody. If it's only carrying out one policy to keep what 37% of the country wanted on referendum day happy it won't last very long.
I notice you took no issue with the "drive the country off a cliff" bit.
Take a look at El Reg's AMP version vs m.register if you want an example of Google doing something absurd and the world asking "how high?"
m.register is faster than AMP, if other publishers are saying "oh wow, our pages load 300% faster" it's because they didn't know how to design (mobile) websites in the first place.
Yet El Reg is obliged to make an AMP version otherwise it won't get listed at or near the top.
Also worth noting that Google saying this is open source. It always is, at the start. Then the open source part disappears.
Apple do everything humanly possible to make every repair due to damage not being in normal use.
Also people know their rights more in the UK. In Spain, they've successfully managed to convince everyone the guarantee lasts one year. In the second year, they say it's not covered by the Apple Guarantee and here's the price list. What they don't tell you is they're washing their hands of the second year or if you go to the Spanish equivalent of trading standards you'll get it repaired under the standard consumer rights law.
They should be forced to tell people that the consumer rights law offers a two year guarantee and accept items for repair in the shop in the second year but that would mean someone in government doing their job.
There was another web site which listed its many many failures. People from IBM read it and some bugs even got fixed.
Unfortunately the banner at the top made from stock photos of people facepalming has not survived the transition to archive.org.
When Dabbsy said it was a 4000 page manual, I suspect that was just for the key.
The best answer seems to be availing yourself of a "hidden mechanical key" which you should extract from the rest of the nonsense surrounding it and use instead.
iOS, Android, Blackberry, Palm, Nintendo DS/3DS/Wii/Wii U/Switch, Nokia Symbian/Maemo, Sony Playstation, Xbox, and Android you always see a full screen of icons. Only OSX, OS/2, Windows and Linux have non full screen use
Mobiles have a small screen so can't usefully have a UI with windows (see first ever Windows Mobile up to version 6.5 as to why).
Devices with big-screen UIs need large simple UI and usually have simple input devices to control them so again, they don't have a UI with windows.
Notice that a mobile UI and a big-screen UI are different from each other. Stock Android runnning on a TV using an air mouse for input is a crappy experience.
Computer screens are neither small nor far away (Dougal) and have two input devices capable of finer control. You can have different apps side by side and switch between them and copy daya between them easily. TIFKAM doesn't allow you to do that, it's a step backwards.
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