Posts by Dan 55

Re: On a tangential topic...

Put them in government, it seems.

Re: As usual, Ms May is right in there with the misinformation from the start

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.

Re: Employers have called for a "sensible" immigration programme

"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.

Re: Why is font rendering in the kernel in the first place?

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.

Re: Interesting development

Given BT's success at keeping records, it's entirely possible the left hand don't know what the right hand is doing.

And the chances of getting any change tested, signed off, and sent to production in Christmas week are null.

Re: Miserable old gits

It's yet more pointless UI masturbation. I'd like to see my bookmark list represented as (4)99 red balloons.

Re: (Re-worded with Rose tinted glasses removed)

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.

Re: Mine doesn't give that data.

Your best bet for anonymity is to do (or set things up so it claims to do even though it doesn't) what the average machine does, because if you turn everything off, that itself makes you stick out like a sore thumb.

Nationwide seems to be relatively free of these intermittent issues affecting a very small number of customers.

Re: Linux Noob question

People are saying nice things about Fedora 25. I don't know, but that's what they're saying.

Now look at Netflix's board.

Of course, it's the BBC which is profligate...

Re: "To be clear, our agents unintentionally find child pornography"

If it's just one still it's more likely to be a deleted file from the browser cache.

Google/Bing Images claims another victim?

Re: It's all about the data stupid

Micro and Nano SIMs were pushed through as a standard by Apple.

Re: Rule Number 1 if you're using Windows 10...

The only winning move is not to play.

Re: Move along, there's nothing to see.....

If there's a crackpot at the top, it has a very good chance of passing.

Shia LaBeouf's response to the "Get Windows 10" dialog (it was ignored and he got Windows 10 installed anyway).

Shia LaBeouf Live... just because.

Re: woo hoo

Jobserve was one of those who did manage to do it right. You get no cookies at all and can't log in until you OK a banner.

The ICO didn't do it right.

Re: Optional

I can only find one instance of "Google" which is in the quoted letter.