Posts by Dan 55

If you uncheck sync provider notifications then you will also not know when your cloud storage is full or similar problems.

Essentially they stuck adverts on OneDrive desguised as info or warning messages.

Dans l'arbre, avec le singe.

Re: Possible plan

1. I wouldn't be so sure that data on a factory reset phone couldn't be read, unless it were encrypted (in which case the key is thrown away when you factory reset effectively making the data unreadable).

2. An obviously non-new phone with a new shiny out-of-the-box software experience might be grounds for further questioning, with rubber gloves.

Speaking of horses of a different colour...

Re: Multiprocess

It could be an incompatible add-on. Use about:support to find out if it's disabled and the Add-on Compatibility Reporter extension to check which add-ons are incompatible.

Re: They're all getting away with it

And didn't the competitors increase their prices because BT put them up previously?

What a virtuous circle.

Sophos generally like it, Naked Security, Mr. Robot.

Re: Once glaring omission

Useful for Macs (APFS coming soon) and external/network drives formatted for use for Time Machine backups though.

Either they got his ICR which shows new connections to WhatsApp's servers at that time or they did as the Daily Mail did and added his number to someone else's contact list and got his last online time or both.

I imagine the later arrests were made based on phone calls and standard text messages from his phone, not WhatsApp.

Is his WhatsApp meta data or contact list available? Possibly not since end-to-end encryption rolling out. If the contact list is available then it's something WhatsApp (the company) can provide.

Do they have his phone? I'd like to think that the answer is they don't because if they do then they have everything they need but those deaths are being using as an excuse to go after e2e encryption anyway.

Re: ... start your vehicle and warm it up from inside the house on a cold day...

Your driveway is not a public road.

Re: I think they genuinely don't see the problem.

It could be anything. Good cop/bad cop, or both singing off the same page, genuinely believing that you can have secure encrypted data with the government able to look at it at any time they want. I suppose PPEs from Oxford have a magical thinking module.

Re: Colour me surprised @Dan55

You are making a distinction where there is none. Building a system which allows a third party access to messages means that it can be compromised.

The fact that a wonderful cryptographic module only decrypted the messages when it was told to by the rest of the (compromised) system and the encryption on the messages was not brute forced is not important.

Re: Bewildered. (That's grown-up speak for "wtf")

Presumably if you had a dishwasher with a clock, the "finish by" time could be set in a similar way as the "start time" delay, by holding down one button and repeatedly pressing another. That's if you really are unable to calculate a delay time - 1.5 or 2 hours or however long the washing cycle is - at least a couple of hours more for the warm air to dry them.

Then again, this kind of feature is aimed at people who cannot set clocks on kitchen appliances and probably have UPnP on their routers and will never run a security update in their life unless their computer or phone bludgeons them into it (note all the missing devices from that list), so it's all going to end in tears anyway.

Re: Strangely enough ...

I have indeed used Linux. Mint is nearly there but the graphical style and feel is a little bit lacking. Ubuntu is horrible as are plain Gnome and KDE. I may look at Fedora 25 one day if only because it has done us the favour of taking X11 out back and having it shot.

How do I test it? By downloading to a VM, running it, toggling a few settings maximum. If it's no good out of the box then life is too short to waste.

Which commercial GUI do I like? I can live with Windows 7, I like Mac apart from keyboard accessibility where Windows has it beat.

Re: And just to add to the confusion...

Star Wars: Flogging a Dead Tauntaun.

Re: One man band

Really? It was basically Stephen Henson.

Re: "Eschew obfuscation"

The religious faith in RAII creates problem when you create objects which are referenced through pointers because you can't allocate everything on the stack for big, complex applications and stacks are often limited resources

malloc and new use the heap...

Re: As I have said a million times

Nokia released Symbian 3 in 2010 and followed it up with Symbian Anna and Belle. So maybe three years late, but the N8 also released in 2010 compared favourably to the iPhone 4, which you had to hold the right way if you wanted to make a call and had a rather naff camera compared to the N8's 20MP full HD one.

Then Elop came along and burnt the platform.

Ah, the principled stand via pirating approach.

And how would you pirate it? By furtling some already-existing open source browser which runs the DRM plugin.

So basically it's what would have happened anyway.

Re: Slight aside ..

I don't know where El Reg got the mugs and T-shirts made, but I did buy the T-shirt.

I've just realised the Cash and Carrion store has disappeared again, I suppose we'll have to wait for it to pop up again. El Reg are worse than Apple for artificial scarcity.

Re: Against my better judgement

Unfortunately apps like K9 Mail have enough problems working under Android 7 already as it breaks the push IMAP connection unless you change some settings. I assume Android O will make things more difficult still.

Whether Google would want to fix this is another question. They'd be happy if everyone used gapps.