Posts by Dan 55

Re: Mozilla could already do a lot for privacy

If they prohibit cross-domain JavaScript the whole jquery angular Web 2.0 bollocks would disappear up its own fundament overnight given that web designers are seemingly incapable of copying files across to their own domain and instead find it preferable to include them from elsewhere meaning they are at the mercy of third-parties deleting a left pad function or something.

And advertising and tracking would get killed overnight.

On second thoughts perhaps they should do it.

Re: They could do a real brexit tour

The BBC graphic in the middle shoehorns a proportional vote into FPTP by area. When nationally the results were 35% of the electorate voting to remain vs 37% voting to leave, it makes little sense to claim that almost every area of the UK voted leave.

Re: Ulsterbus

- Right, brainstorming guys. What can we do before the money runs out?

- I once went on a weekend break to $CITY and saw $THING on a bus. Let's copy it.

- Ok, anything else?

- I once went on a weekend break to $CITY and saw $THING on a bus. Let's copy it.

Ok, anything else?

- I once went on a weekend break to $CITY and saw $THING on a bus. Let's copy it.

Etc... etc...

Re: Two glaring omissions

It's possible to refuse all online contactless transactions by checking a flag and not letting them go through. Offline contactless would be more difficult.

Re: noob or arrogant...

And how would a string type fix the fact the programmer used a substring compare function instead of a full string compare function?

In many languages, that bug is simply impossible.

There are languages without substring compare? Tell me which ones they are so I can avoid them.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Travel history during the past fifteen years, including source of funding for travel.

Address history during the past fifteen years.

Employment history during the past fifteen years.

Well I could get about 3/4 of that right. Maybe. The question is, can I be arsed to jump through all the hoops? No, I can't.

I wonder what the US tourist industry has to say about this.

Re: And all the students that get stuck with Windows S!

Oops, so it is completely lobotomised.

Re: Encryption is not made "illegal"

If you're developer in the UK making something that can be considered a telecoms app or service, you need to avoid e2e encryption and build in realtime monitoring otherwise, if you are told to give up data on someone, you won't be able to respond in 24 hours with the data they ask for and therefore you will have broken the law.

They even tell you to consider this law when designing your app or service.

But no, there's no "we ban e2e encryption" clause. Why would there need to be if you end up in a whole heap of trouble anyway?

The MS spokesman will say something like, "You see, there's a very good reason why we've done this. It's very technical and veeery complicated. It needs Edge because cloud. Only Edge can offer the cloud as it was meant to be experienced."

Looking forward to the registry hack landing about the day after.

Re: "there was no automatic qualification based on sales quota"

Is it?

Re: Obvious, really

Yes, I'm serious. A government should not be able to set a date for a referendum in which nobody has planned for one of the answers and where the immediate aftermath was what we saw in June and July last year (and an early general election this year).

Re: Microsoft Edge is the default web browser on Microsoft 10 S

- Yes m'lud, it is indeed true, because... Edge is integrated into the cloud!

- Oh that's okay then, do carry on. Not at all like IE is integrated into the OS from a few years back.

Re: Hidden outsourcing

Until it becomes obvious that it doesn't work. When it does become obvious, they might hire one IT support person in the UK who can plug things in, turn it off and on again, and so on.

Re: Definitions of employed/self-employed ?

There are three, employed, self-employed, and worker. A worker covers all employed and some self-employed (usually when they are being exploited, like Uber drivers).

Re: Police state

Where's the age verification in Spain?

Re: Couldn't be arsed. Elevenses.

Does he really want to be woken up and godforesaken-o'clock to be asked what he thinks about it?

Re: "Everything else is insecure"

It implies it though...

Re: Bah!

And Attila the Hun was a weak liberal.

Re: Looks like

What, the bit that suggests a replacement which doesn't do the same is available from a partner (i.e. not themselves)?

Re: Dear Apple.

Very good, but shouldn't we be reserving our ire for the EUIPO which let them get away with this bollocks?

So the customer is held hostage^W^W^Wloyally carries on paying their subscription for excellent service, silly.