Posts by Dan 55 15423 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
Maybe out of the frying pan and into the fire... China's said that they're willing to pick up the reins where the US left off so an agreement which was supposed to exclude China could now make the Pacific countries very China centric.
Of course they're saving face, just spend 10 minutes throwing a few keywords at Google to read up on Samsung's internal culture. Communication with external suppliers and non-Korean workers is in one direction only.
Stupid specs that two battery manufacturers couldn't produce, non-existent QA, dysfunctional management. Everyone seems to have forgotten about the S4's bulging batteries that they fixed by constantly replacing them. Then some bright spark had the idea of making their phones like iPhones at any cost, if the battery weren't shut in it would have popped the back lid open a week or two before going up in smoke.
a) The fact there's no super IT dept that can go round and boss the others around so there's no coherent IT strategy
or
b) the fact that the other departments in all probability looked at this Ark thing which wasn't cheap to set up and whose board was just an old boy's network and in all probability found it wanting?
If you're going to move to a different IM network, it'd be better to move to Signal (which you've discounted), Wire, or Wickr, not Telegram which seems to have a reputation for privacy and security even though anyone who's looked at it in any detail says it's some badly implemented half-arsed roll-your-own solution.
Raygun, Bush, and Shrub (as well as the Democrat presidents) could find something nice to say along the lines of now the campaign's over people can come together and they'll going to govern for everyone. But not Trump... He's too special for that. Why couldn't he manage it?
That inauguration speech in full:
Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day, Yeah
America, Fuck Yeah!
Freedom is the only way, Yeah
Terrorists, your game is through
'cause now you have ta answer to
America, Fuck yeah!
So lick my butt and suck on my balls
For a supposedly Unicode native language, it ain't half difficult to use Unicode in Go.
In that example, the thing that works is at the thing at the end, where you're faffing about with strings like just as in C. Unless I can address and compare Unicode glyphs in strings as easily as addressing and comparing simple ASCII elements, it's... suboptimal.
Google something site:stackoverflow.com and the top link will take you to an answer with a thousand upvotes from 2009 before the New Testament (C++11) arrived. Everything's moved on since then, unless the question is about makefiles.
Upvotes should disappear after a year and eventually old answers will sink and bright shiny new code will appear to take its place. Perhaps a special exemption can be made for Delphi.
It's always easier and cheaper to stick Linux on an IoT thing, just like it's always easier and cheaper to slap Android on a mobile. That will only change when someone comes up with another IoT OS that's easier to develop for than Linux... and makes it free, of course.
They've also decided it gives them the mandate to "take the opportunity of this great moment of national change to step back and ask ourselves what kind of country we want to be."
Leavers have been lied to on an industrial scale and Labour aren't up to the job of hold the Tories to account, which is why the Tories have gone for the suicide option.
Which means non-agricultural goods, no services, no finance, follow EU standards, and follow the EU's trade policy (including trade deals).
That's not good enough and the EU just won't hand over the single market because Cruela De Vil says so.
The tabloid press will get on the case and UKIP will get enough of a vote to panic the Tories, no matter how much the Tory party tries to appease both UKIP and their own right wing as well that section of the population where deporting everyone with funny last names is barely good enough. Cue attempts to set up a tax haven on a scale never attempted before. The first thing that will have to be sacrificed is the NHS because tax havens can't really do welfare state on that scale.
What a fucking glorious future for the UK.
"A little over six months ago, the British people voted for change. [...] And it is the job of this Government to deliver it. That means more than negotiating our new relationship with the EU. It means taking the opportunity of this great moment of national change to step back and ask ourselves what kind of country we want to be."
Did anybody vote for that? I don't remember "[X] Give a blank cheque to the Conservative Party" on the ballot paper.
I'm struggling to think of a downside to a backup eu nationality. I meet the criteria for Irish citizenshipt.
If the country you are in requires you to give up your British nationality to get the other one (not Ireland, and in any case you could probably decamp there without the need to get Irish nationality because of the CTA and similar arrangements), and you do it officially by renouncing your nationality using the Home Office form to do that, you are at the whim of the Home Office if you want to get your British nationality back after renouncing it.
You are generally allowed to get it back once after renouncing it, but these are interesting times. where EU citizens are being told to pack their bags even though they still have every right to have permanent residence in the UK or apply for British citizenship.
The perfect opportunity to mention Homer Simpson's car (episode titled Oh Brother Where Art Thou?) was passed over.
Not good for the OS maker to say security isn't up to scratch if they've promised support till July 2017 and major security updates till January 2020.
They should only start dropping hints it's not as secure after July or people might think they're not trying and not getting what they paid for.
MS decided that with the release for Windows NT 4.0 faster graphics on a server OS would be a great thing, so they stuck the GDI in the kernel and ever since then we've had the blue screens we know and love.
It's 20 years later and I doubt they know how to unpick it and take the GDI back out into userspace.
Why? Because you just stated MS puts key loggers in every Windows Update, and it is provable that MS does not. Plus you worded it as a fact, not as a personal opinion.
Windows 10's default privacy options are none whatsoever (AKA full), and that includes "Send Microsoft info about how I write to help us improve typing and writing in the future" - i.e. a keylogger. It'll be buried in the famous 45 page privacy policy. I'd include the text I could actually be bothered I'd search it, but you can do that too.
Windows 7 and 8 also got telemetry updates pushed out to them.
So yes, MS do run keyloggers.
I'd also add how are they going to roll out G.Fast if they're using aluminium instead of copper where they can? It's barely acceptable for broadband, it's going to blow up in their faces if G.Fast takes off because they're going to have to replace aluminium cables with copper.
It's not as if BT is short of a bob or two. They're just kicking the (aluminium) can down the road again.
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