Posts by Dan 55

Re: Will The UK Follow Their Lead ???

Does the Chinese government realise there are such things as VPNs which carry server to server connections?

You can't just rip them out.

1) He was also walking past reserved spaces in 2nd class.

2) You are allowed to use a reserved seat for the non-reserved part of the journey.

Re: Flogged the rubbish to schools

Keep hold of them just in case, hopefully sometime soon a version of Linux will be available for it.

Re: new fangled Windows Subsystem for Linux

I don't think Nokia's Store ever prevented you from installing your own stuff from elsewhere. They were very aware that a lot of people wanted that.

Re: broken by design?

I think JavaScript strings are UTF-16 internally. I don't think it could be done any other way.

Re: "range"?

The only way you can understand that sentence to mean that you can get that phone subsidised on a contract from O2 and EE is ignoring the word "range" and replacing it with another, like "subsidise".

Re: biometrics target?

If I could go off on a tangent for a moment, it seems to me that Indian bureaucracy, descended as it is from British bureaucracy, is only doing what British bureaucracy would do if it thought it could get a way with it.

However British bureaucracy is having a go at it with the proposed ID cards for EU citizens database and your story serves as a warning as to how it could go wrong.

It'd be interesting to know how many in the upper echelons of the Indian civil service are Oxford PPE educated or similar.

And now, back to your scheduled programme...

Re: Could've been something...

The only Google apps I've got on my phone are Play Store, Play Services, and Translate. In those three, settings are set to the most private possible (not very much I know, this is Google) and the fewest notifications possible. I use a dedicated Google account for that one phone.

So I don't get nagged to review businesses or upload photos or whatever they want to crowdsource today.

I bet it there's still LAN Manager code buried in there somewhere...

Re: Could it be a box ticking exercise?

“The PRA expects firms to adopt a proportionate approach when assessing their non-affirmative exposures. The firm’s underwriting and risk management functions should play a key role in leading this effort,” it said.

More of a key role than the IT dept?

Seems like box ticking to me.

The software could not let the call centre drone get to do things if the customer doesn't get the password right.

If the customer's forgotten the password it could go on to other security questions, again not letting the drone go on to later screens unless the customer gets most or all of them right.

And it should certainly not allow repeated spamming of the call centre.

If there is some doubt about the customer then the drone should be able to play back previous calls to the call centre to compare voices, check if the caller is calling from their own home or mobile, and so on.

There are certainly ways to tighten up things.

Re: Why on Gahd's Green Earth....

Of course he doesn't like them, they compete with GM, Ford, and Boeing, Lockheed, and oil.

Re: A G20 spokesman explains the groups position.

Wasn't it more like...

We don't want the precious. That would not be free and democratic.

Silicon Valley must collaborate with us and show us the precious or else.

But we don't want the precious. That would not be free and democratic.

... and similar cognitive dissidence?

12k is great, so is 24k. Doesn't matter if they don't let you have the money, show no interest in letting you have it, and fire you because you couldn't use it.

This story just confirms my prejudice that Oracle is a viper's nest.

That would never happen.

Insert coin to continue.

Re: Mass market?

It's aimed at the mass market and when it is widely available at that price it will be.

Re: Jira...

I guess not. I hope you get your workflow transitions right first time before you've started your first project as when you need to re-do an active workflow because you forgot one then only Jira can make life this painful for you. But as it's Jira we're told its workflows are the best and to carry on drinking the kool aid.

If you want to track branches and builds in Bugzilla you make flags for them.

But then again Bugzilla is an issue tracker, not some PM's wet dream which runs with the absurd idea that a whole project can be specified as a bunch of tickets that need clearing ASAP.

Re: Youtube

Free where you've got coverage and a data allowance.

Re: GDPR (as of May 2018)

Far better any RFC-based OTP solution. You could then use HMRC's app or an open source one.

But the less Google the better.

(I didn't downvote.)

Re: Entirely predictable behaviour

Indeed. At the moment Nominet are holding UK's ENUM entry hostage because BT doesn't want to compete with VoIP. They could do with a bit of accountability.

Offside!

Re: Why?

Well, I doubt a MIPS NAS server running Samba only available on the LAN is going to get pwned, and calling it WannaCry for Android is also a bit of an exaggeration seeing as it's a server-side exploit.

Yes, it should be updated to SMBv2, and it probably will do when it breaks. Yay for support.

No, I don't expect there's a need for Android to connect to SMB servers in businesses so SMB1 can be disabled and any complaints can be safely ignored.

Re: "Apple will no longer use any Qualcomm chips in future products"

Who are Apple going to go to? Intel? They've already tried that and the result was spectacularly unimpressive.

Re: Place holders

Dropbox seem to have worked it out without this restriction though.

Re: "Nevertheless, some modern Linux distributions, like RHEL7 and CentOS, allow this."

It doesn't matter if it's useful or not, it's used in some distributions and systemd should be able to cope with it.

And someone at Red Hat should remind him who he works for and force him to open that bug again and fix it as otherwise it's a potential security problem on their own OS.

Re: There, there children. Sorry your pacifier is b0rken.

unerringly tell you the approximate time

Oxymoron detected.

Which phones do this?