Posts by Dan 55

Business which knows nothing about what it's getting into except it wants to do a shiny app thing goes to 3rd party who proceeds to sell them snake oil.

Re: VLC?

I think VLC is technically illegal in the US because it plays DVDs with DeCSS.

When VLC is outlawed then only outlaws will have VLC?

VideoLan could safely make a no DVD version since that's another thing that's been dropped in the endless quest to make laptops paper thin (and cut costs).

Re: What about us Storm owners?

nVidia do control their own chipset, unlike others which are left to the mercy of Qualcomm and MediaTek who decide they're not going to produce updated drivers for older chipsets.

Re: TrueCaller not a new feature

Is another company slurping my contacts and call history a selling point? I disabled it. If someone calls me selling stuff I say I'm not interested, hang up, then add them onto the blacklist.

Re: Stock android

As of yet I have not been offered an update on Storm.

But if I am I probably won't accept it. Where's Privacy Guard? It's cold outside the Cyanogen house, wondering the blasted windswept hills of Android where highwaymen roam free with impunity and rob travellers of their data. And do I want another highwayman (Yandex) suddenly appearing on it? Probably not.

Lineage has builds for Wileyfox phones, at the cost of having to wipe everything and restoring from backup. I may do that when they've got a stable build and I've got a weekend (should this really be necessary for a modern phone?).

Re: Programmers should code for failures

Cold, poisonous gravel for food? Luxury. When I were a lad we dreamt of cold poisonous gravel for Christmas dinner. Etc.... Etc...

Alternatively use Here Maps (now unfortunately called Here We Go) and download the whole continent if you like.

Re: "coffee please"

"Regular Americano, hold the milk and half the water, in a small cup."

Re: Public wifi?

Might I respectfully suggest, that if security is in any way a concern, that you DO NOT USE PUBLIC WIFI!!1!

Indeed. public WiFi + shit café app with sieve-like security + l33t h4xx0r who sets up their own AP with same name as shit public WiFi = arse handed to you on a plate.

Re: How can you have a bad deal worse than no deal?

We could be stuck in the customs union - which would stop us making our own trade arrangements.

If you're outside the customs union, trade with our biggest partner is buried in an avalanche of bureaucracy and we'd be starting out with no agreements with anyone else. What are we going to live on in the meantime while we spend years negotiating agreements with everyone?

We could be stuck in the common market - which would stop us creating our own standards or adopting those from outside the EU.

The UK has given up the right to set those standards but if our biggest trading partner is the EU, we basically have to follow their standards or not trade with them. And are we going to change the standards we've already got, meaning we'd have to phase out an old standard and roll out a new standard, just to be different?

Re: @ Dan 55

It works elsewhere, but you are talking about taking an interconnected market without tariffs and applying tariffs to it. Products made in the UK from raw materials and parts from the EU or raw materials or parts from the UK used in products made in the EU suddenly get more expensive. What's going to happen is that products are going to be made in the EU with raw materials or parts from the EU.

Secondly if there's a disorderly exit there will be no procedures in place to export from the EU to the UK and the other way round and business could be breaking the law if they import or export to/from the UK.

Just think about it for a while (well the time to do that was before the referendum, but anyway).

I could see the UK moving to the EEA as a positive thing if it's done right, but I don't believe Brexit as the Tory party currently envision it for one minute will turn out to be good for the UK.

It was Dracula that really kicked things off, oddly enough timed with the welfare cuts.

Today the Easter Bunny is going to divert our attention from Mayhem's selling arms again.