Posts by Dan 55

Re: Politicians, eh?

ARM and its jobs are indeed safe in the UK. Until a PHB in Softbank decides otherwise.

No, furries will be banned. You'll just get government IT fail.

Ok, not easy to get a message quickly to the account holder before the limit is reached...

There's not much Deliveroo can do about it - but they're not even trying

Deliveroo can monitor for compromised data, if they find it wipe CC information, send an e-mail explaining why, and force a password reset.

And why are they allowing deliveries to new addresses without making people re-enter their CC info?

But not using the Telegram API though. Amazing how everyone is convinced it's secure when even cursury reading shows it's not.

Re: What's Going On?

Both Google and Airport routers are sold at a premium.

As Tim is a beancounter he'd also think it's a perfectly valid argument but it fails to address the fact that an ecosystem is worth more than the sum of its parts. E.g. Airport Express uses AirPlay and only Apple products do AirPlay reliably.

Re: Confederation of British Hypocrites

They were always lobbying for an immediate skilled workforce via immigration, but since that's not possible any more they want R&D funding. They don't care where it comes from, they just want it.

They still want lower taxes. They don't where they come from, they just want them. And now that they just need to insinuate that they'll leave because Brexit, they're going to get them.

Which means that the Tories of all parties could be bringing in Scandi-style taxes (low business, high personal). Who would have thought? Shame that there won't be a Scandi-style safety net or services.

Re: Minecraft as a way to force Win 10 in education

Minecraft for the Pi has been retired.

Not sure if it was Minecraft Educational Edition or just plain Minecraft either.

Re: The question is...

It's not the first time I've read about that... By which I mean Amazon's marketing emails. Is finding Amazon's marketing preference page and turning everything off really that difficult?

Yes, Amazon's recommendations are shit as ever. I bought one mobile phone recharger and now it thinks I want to fill the house with them.

Re: Linus Lite

That comes five minutes after the release when they find the first bug.

Re: Bye Bye Apple

No technical innovation is going to come from Ive, he just packages up stuff. If he did insist only on USB-C ports and nothing else on the MacBook Pro because it looked nice he would have been slapped down by Jobs or someone in Mac Hardware. Only the head of hardware for computers now is the same head of hardware for phones, who is trying to get rid of as many ports as possible and fit everything onto just one board. The head of software for computers is the same head of software for phones, who is trying to get rid of as many features as possible to make the interface easy to use by pointing and drooling and has spent the past five major versions of OS X just turning it into another version of iOS.

Jobs knew how to bang their heads together and tell them to get real. Cook doesn't. I don't think Apple's going to change any time soon.

Re: ksh or nothing, thank heavens for cygwin

Batch rename has been around forever. It's one of the few things that the old cmd was good at. Easier than faffing round with a for and sed on Unix.

Re: Poor show

One where there's no penalty for failure and security is only seen as a cost.

Re: Predictable sequence...

Did the US lose the crypto wars? They sabotaged new crypto standards and built up a spy infrastructure for a decade and a half and it took until Snowden for it to become mainstream.

Re: Never fails to surprise me

One access number per country going to one single call centre is the stuff of every after-sales helpline everywhere.

But that's beside the point. The point is safety regs aren't being enforced because Government doesn't like to interfere in stuff it doesn't understand and you can see it doesn't understand anything about the Internet in almost every committee or debate about this and by extension they don't understand anything which uses obviously uses the Internet, even though behind the scenes practically everything does.

They can't see startups like this are just straight breaking the law and they can't see this is leading to the general impoverishment of the population. They think they look better if they say they're dynamic and disruptive and market forces.

Any improvement with anything which involves apps, the Internet, people's data, or IoT will have to be framed as a tax or cost argument, which they do understand.

Re: Can you hold down the power button

If power button/switch is to be considered jargon, we might as well give up, turn the lights off, and go home. That's if we can find the light switch.

All the Trump voters are going to be so disappointed when he drains the swamp and then builds some giant nepotistic garish Trump building there instead. Who will they vote for next?

Re: Determine routes of users of old Android versions

But for previous versions of Android, unless you go to Settings > Google > Location, change to device only, choose Menu > Scanning and turn off WiFi Scanning, you'll probably leak your WiFi MAC address anyway.

These settings seem to move around with each version. Wonder why.

So that'll be Mossack Fonseca et al.

Re: At last, the great vision of the IT crowd can be realised

Just fill an SD card with cat videos and fake biased news stories and nobody will be able to tell the difference.