Posts by Dan 55

Re: Confused identification with authentication.

1. ID cards un Europe are not as compulsory as you think they are.

2. It's not all sorted out either. In Spain the SSN is only used by Social Security, so that's a step forward. On the other hand your ID number is used by everyone else, state or private company or credit reference agency, so that's pretty idiotic. There is no way to get a new number if the old one is compromised, it follows you around for life.

Re: From the BBC article

Basically what the leaked statutory instrument already says - she wants companies to build in near real-time backdoors. That's what working with the government means.

They've tried requesting a change and they get told no.

The nation might be defined indivisible but that doesn't stop a referendum taking place, as I posted above. One of the people who wrote the constitution said it wouldn't prevent referendums. Spain won't be torn asunder the moment the result is called.

Surely the best way to do it would be to have a referendum, then decide what to do based on the result. The result based on polling data shows it would be about 41% for independence. The central government can say "okay, we've heard you, let's see what we can do about your devolved powers". Just allowing the same tax-rasing powers that the Basque Country has would probably kill the independence movement overnight.

This cycle of "We're not listening to you till you have a legal referendum - no, we won't allow you to have a legal referendum" is beyond stupid.

Still a lot of open wounds 1939 to 1975. General Franco will be turning in his massive mausoleum.

Spain just swept it under the carpet, completely different from Germany's approach.

Re: IT'S FRICKIN EASY

Eight hours if you ignore speed limits and are driving KITT, yes.

Re: Next time, screenshot it and post it on Twitter with a link to the story

I bet it'd get allocated more time and a higher priority if PR so ordained because things were getting embarasskng on Twitter.

Re: FN+F5

My laptop has the F key as the main key and the Fn key for selecting those very useful functions, which is nice.

Re: For what?

Perhaps we really do need a "Welcome to the Internet" page to get people started, sort of like AOL.

He's obviously beta testing 280 character tweets.

Re: Thriller

Balmer did get MS' stance on privacy right and Office for iOS/Android were developed while he was in charge.

Then Sadnad pissed away privacy and has absolutely no idea what to do with Windows on mobiles.

The new API is far less powerful than XUL. Many just can't be rewritten.

Re: Already?

Perhaps you can download it from the link given here and make a bootable installer from it using the createinstallmedia command?

Re: All you need is . . .

Telegram's encryption is scientifically proven to be bollocks.

Re: Power control

What's different apart from a new name and box? They've been selling this stuff for a decade and the software still isn't exactly Synology level.

Windows 10 mobile has been forked from Windows 10 desktop.

So as there is a cost in keeping it going, presumably they're keeping it going because of some as-yet-unrevealed plan.

Re: Twitter

Yes, it's found its place in the world. 140 characters is just enough for a gratuitous insult, trolling, or threats against someone's wellbeing but not long enough for anything like a reasoned argument or the to-and-fro of civilised debate.

The UK needs fast fibre to copy over the corporate data centre over to the new premises in France.

London’s tech elite discuss Brexit Britain with French PM

Oh do behave.

You know what you're doing, you've gone AC.

Re: Bing for Business – don’t laugh

"What for Business? What's that?"

Re: The lessons will be costly in money and lives

The problem is that there are many people who are not in their right mind, for whatever reason.

That'll be lack of mental healthcare.