Posts by Dan 55 15424 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
My I direct you to... Why the 2012 non-Retina MacBook Pro still sells. It's the one fixable, upgradable machine not held together by glue that they're still selling. Everything else got glued up, Cook doesn't know how to take little Jony's glue gun off him.
"Right now, you can go buy products that work and are cheap and don't need HomeKit."
And the security is non-existent.
"But that concern is being rapidly addressed by the market."
No it's not, that's why sites are being hosed off the Internet with 1Tb DDoSes. If Apple make security a feature of their HomeKit marketing, people will go for it. The vast majority of Internet o' Tat sold today would still take part in the next DDoS.
What's the difference? One's white label, one's a Xiomi mobile with a sticker over the Xiomi one in the battery compartment, a new back case from Aliexpress, and a new boot logo hacked on? I know there's little difference, but if Wileyfox did it, what do you think that'd do for their reputation?
It's working at the moment, it's got a blog entry saying everybody's wrong. Apparently they "share electronic components with manufacturers in China".
I also checked the previous blog entry which is a firmware update image for one of the phones they sell with a link to, I am shitting you not, Mega.
Something's got to give, in this case it will have to be the state.
The article seems to talk about who deserves their salaries, who doesn't, and massively reorganising pay so that it reflects that. That stage could only come after mass poverty and civil unrest which would only be brought about if there's no basic income.
Do you actually know anything about kernel modules ?
S/he knows that the ABI is not stable, rendering them pretty useless. Windows, Mac, Solaris, and FreeBSD (within major revisions) manage to keep stability, why is Linux such a special snowflake?
The other side would have had a field day.
What's worse, the meticulous and constant rebuttal of arguments, like Usenet of old with nested quotes or just letting made-up shit go uncontested?
Both stem from the same problem, that nobody is able to articulate a coherent vision for the future based on how things are at the moment, explain why this is for the greater good, and say how to get there from here. If that could be set out first, then it might be possible to have a somewhat decent debate which isn't just finger pointing and name calling.
1. Macs have very separate user directories and happily boot off external devices.
2. Is that really necessary if it's a hardware problem?
Punter: Computer turns on but no display. Symptoms concur with notice buried^Wposted on Apple website which says that the video card is fried. Your website has tested my Mac's serial number and said it could be in an affected batch.
Insufferable genius: I will deign to say that you, the customer, may (but only may) be right in this case. Please fill this form in on my shiny iPad.
Insufferable genius' tablet: User password please.
To a Teleco, everything is cost, not added value. Some don't do anything but email and some don't even do that any more, they grudgingly cough up some money so Yahoo can earn a bit more CCing everything to as many alphabet agencies as will pay while not spending a penny on security.
Oh for the love of gaaahd. Who are these helpful souls who go around the forums insisting that every Mac issue ever encountered can be solved by restarting the computer with your fingers held down on keys at opposite ends of the keyboard like a double-jointed cellist? You may as well hold another finger in the wind and thrust one up your arse for all the good it’ll do.
And those who insist that the fucking Apple start-up chime clanging through the house at midnight waking up offspring because that's the time you've got free to do something is working as designed and is a good thing and under no accounts should you attempt to shut the fucking thing up.
Programs that mute the chime are the work of the devil and that is why every major version of OS X does something to stop them working. All problems ever can be fixed by the SMC reset, NVRAM reset, and listening for the chime wake everyone up in the house.
Odd considering his previous stuff has been on BBC2, yet this time he doesn't even get a BBC4 slot. I suppose they want to make more iPlayer-only stuff and figured out that his audience will follow him wherever he goes.
But, hey, nice to see all the nice words in the article for the BBC ponying up the cash to make it. What? Oh. Well, I'm sure Sky would have done it too...
This story without a still or a link to this is terrible journalism.
And Telegram is not secure.
Don't EU citizens in Britain show their passport/ID card when applying for a NIN? I know the Spanish government knows my nationality. I've been made to go round to the town council to prove I'm still resident here or lose my EU treaty rights.
Getting employers to do Cruella De Vil's dirty work and using the party conference to turn the nastiness up to 11 only encourages more xenophobia by idiots.
Look at Qubes OS... you can have an untrusted (red-windowed) mail programming launching the office file with an untrusted (red-windowed) Office. Those untrusted pieces of software and attachment would not have rights to mess around with files on the computer or the server. You could be running a trusted (green-windowed) version of Office editing another file and they would be separate. Any malware in the attachment would not affect it.
Every operator can use their IMEI blacklist (usually used for stolen phones) to stop the service to Note 7s. Samsung already has the list, it just needs to get it to the operators.
Of course you'll get someone who keeps it inside their house to use as a posh tablet on WiFi.
It's not as if Samsung is a stranger to battery problems. When it happened to the S4 (bulging batteries) they had a global replacement programme. They went ahead and made the batteries non-replacible on the Note 7 in spite of this, then had problems in Korea in August after the local launch yet they still went ahead with the global launch.
How do you turn such management pig-headedness around?
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