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Tired: Java. Desired: Node.js. Retired: The suggestion a JavaScript runtime is bonkers
Take that, gender pay gap! Atos to offshore hundreds of BBC roles
House fire, walk with me: Kodipocalypse now includes conflagration
This is a re-release of something that the Murdoch-backed shitrag the Sun was pushing the day after the Grenfell fire.
And then it was debunked as bollocks (see end of article).
FACT have obviously decided that the average person is too stupid to remember something from a month ago. I expect your average Currant Bun reader to be shocked, dismayed, and surprised all over again but I don't expect that from an author of your esteemed organ.
Please imagine the El Reg gravestone icon to the right, if you would.
Microsoft ctrl-Zs 'killing' Paint, by which we mean offering naff app through Windows Store
Devs shun smartwatch work, gaze longingly at web-only apps again
Southern awarded yet another 'most moaned about rail firm' gong
Firefox doesn't need to be No 1 – and that's OK, 'cos it's falling off a cliff
Re: IMO It is an engineering fault for their failure...
I would absolutely agree that they've got an engineering problem. They throw out everything that makes Firefox different for one of two reasons:
1) they just straight out admit they don't know how to maintain stuff any more,
2) they claim metrics say a feature is hardly ever used and maintaining it would take resources away from something else, but they forget that metrics can be disabled, some options they remove are corner cases but very useful, and the Venn diagram of people doing both probably shows quite a big intersection.
Also, the world is crying out for a feature-complete and easy-to-use mail client and Thunderbird was so near, despite it being ignored for years by Mozilla.
Microsoft hits new low: Threatens to axe classic Paint from Windows 10
Fat-fingered G Suite admins spill internal biz beans onto public 'net
systemd
'oh! DNS lib underscore bug bites everyone's favorite init tool, blanks Netflix
Sweden leaked every car owners' details last year, then tried to hush it up
'Millions of IoT gizmos' wide open to hijackers after devs drop gSOAP
This is why old Windows Phones won't run PC apps
UK mobile number porting creaks: Arcane system shows its age
There's the chance that a call from EE to EE would fail because one of them was previously Vodafone (possibly?).
If Syniverse are part of the problem, why would they be part of the solution? Operators should all part-own a central number authority which would route calls directly to the operator they're supposed to go to.
Another Brexit cliff edge: UK.gov warned over data flows to EU
Re: @ codejunky
Liam Fox has said this morning the UK can survive if there's no deal. Perhaps that should have gone on the big red bus instead.
If a politician, whose job it is to talk up whatever point is making, says it's a matter of survival then whichever way you look at it this is a shit sandwich.
Re: @ codejunky
Experts say a no-deal Brexit would spawn 'legal morass and economic disaster', but hey, people have had enough of experts.
And, by the look of it, exports.
Re: @ codejunky
Instead I guess we all live in a tiny bubble afraid of the world and hating those foreigners.
I take it you're talking about the Brexiteer vote, the ones still hanging on believing in spite of all the evidence for it being a national tragedy enacted by an incompetent government?
Any half-way competent government would have taken Brexit to mean a move to the EEA and once in the EEA tried to push for a two-speed Europe.
Re: @ codejunky
Good old Tim W quoting BoJo the Clown to back him up. You could have picked any other article but that one.
There will always be a need for 3rd party arbitration between two countries, this existed before the UK's membership of the EC/EU and saying now that Brexit means the UK is a law unto itself and doesn't recognise 3rd party arbitration is absurd and unworkable and throws our relationships with other countries into doubt.
"and is proposing residency rules for EU citizens that can break up their families"
Wow the smell of bull
No. Family reunion rights were dropped by Maybot in 2012 and full rights will only be granted after 5 years residency.
There are families in the UK which have some British citizens and some EU citizens. Under the proposal, EU citizens must earn more than a certain an income level and if they leave for two years (e.g. university in another EU country) they have to start to build up rights again.
If some EU citizens were to try to obtain citizenship, they may lose their other nationality (e.g. Dutch).
More or less same problem is faced by British citizens in the EU. For those that cannot use family reunion rights, they may have to take up citizenship. Some countries want you to renounce your foreign citizenship if you take up theirs, meaning they lose right to residency in the UK.
We just wanna leave and that involves..... us leaving.
Polls seem to be throwing that whole "we just wanna leave" thing into doubt, but anyway.
If we do cry and take our ball home without negotiating then we will end up economically fucked. Imports and exports require cooperation. Flights require cooperation. Data protection requires cooperation. If we make no attempt to negotiate or cooperate then we can't complain when the country is royally screwed.
Re: @ codejunky
What a strange back-to-front world it is where you are. The EU are publishing everything, it's all there on their website.
In particular the EU's position on EU/British citizens living in UK/EU was published some two weeks before the UK's position.
When the UK did publish their position, it was found not to be reciprocal (did not keep all rights that people who have used their EU treaty rights have, all rights were lost after two years if the EU citizen left the UK, no mention at all of cross-border workers).
If the UK is leaving but doesn't know how to solve the Irish border problem (and now probably never will be able to because the government is hamstrung by the DUP), doesn't know what kind of access to single market and customs union it wants, and is proposing residency rules for EU citizens that can break up their families, it's upon the UK to come up with some solutions. One year after the referendum vote with no answers to any of these questions is shocking incompetence.
Crazy bug of the week: Gnome Files' .MSI parser runs evil VBScripts
Over complicating things
Whenever an icon for a Microsoft Windows executable (EXE), installer (MSI), library (DLL), or shortcut (LNK) should be shown, Gnome Files calls /usr/bin/gnome-exe-thumbnailer to either extract an embedded icon from the file in question or deliver a fallback image for the appropriate filetype.”
Just deliver the fallback image. Nobody needs to start up WINE once per file in a file browser nor are they really interested in the icon, they just need to see if it's a Windows executable or whatever. Exploits like this happens when people over engineer stuff.
UK.gov watchdog didn't red flag any IT projects. And that alone should be a red flag to everyone
Stop all news – it's time for us plebs to be told about BBC paycheques!
Tapping the Bank of Mum and Dad: Why your Netflix subscription is poised to rise (again)
SQL Server 2017's first rc lands and – yes! – it runs on Linux
Disneyland to become wretched hive of scum and villainy
Now your boss can tear you a new Glasshole: Google's techno-specs reborn as biz gear
Radiohead hides ZX Spectrum proggie in OK Computer re-release
Re: The ZX Spectrum does not have 'apps'.
It was Webster who chose spelling which would be different from British English.
Noah Webster's Spelling Reform
Thanking you...
Re: ...prevelent and popular
The Spectrum was pretty much done at the +2. If almost then everyone used the Spectrum for games then there was no need to make it more expensive than necessary.
Amstrad took a computer which was perfectly good at what it did, added hardware which wasn't needed, introduced incompatibilities, and upped the price so it was little cheaper than the 16-bit computers.
The disc drive should really have been separate but widely available, i.e. like the C64.
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