Posts by Dan 55

Re: Victimless noncrime

Obviously ferrets are more acceptable than S&M in North Yorkshire.

Re: Yellow 'sunglasses'

If you wear yellow sunglasses, do you have to go the full seventies and dress up like Starsky & Hutch?

Re: MS haven't taken this advice onboard for Windows 10, it needs more babysitting than ever

It definitely said that I had to fix it.

Re: Got fed up of being flashed.

Not supposed to be able to bypass them on new models released since 2011 in the EU, although northern European countries have had a similar law for donkeys years anyway.

Daytime Running Lights (DRL)

We don't know if it's Outlook from Office, Outlook 365, Outlook.com, Outlook Express... there's probably more.

Re: Er...

It's by virtue of GATT, the UK entered GATT in 1948 and GATT members got an upgrade to WTO status in 1995. The EU is also a member of the WTO but that doesn't take away each individual member state's membership. link

Re: Ahh makes sense now

How to win over people to your mobile platform... Potentially screw up their morning. They'll thank you for it.

Say what you like about Balmer but the QA was never this bad.

Re: "which execute if users allow malicious Javascript"

You can't get rid of JavaScript, where would we get our active responsive reactive 250MB web pages from otherwise?

Re: Really irritating... Aspergers/Depression cannot constitute a defence.

I thought Aspes as a rule were supposed to be more honest than average. Yet it seems to be a becoming a go-to defence.

Re: Unique IP's were used for every fake user or no IP checks...?

It says in the article... Cloudy VMs.

Re: Why is this better than Skype?

Wire, unfortunately no Linux client but it can be used in a browser too.

Re: MS may no longer have a QA department

The calibre upgrade was a temporary stop-gap that could happily be brought forward for the Anniversary Update as the hand-held bazooka upgrade is running a little behind schedule, that's now pencilled in for 2017.

Dumbphones labelled 'Nokia' are with MS at the moment but are going back to Nokia. They'll be made under licence by HMD Global, like their smartphones.

Re: Their control freakery drives you mad

As soon as you have contact data that is more than name-number, SIM storage is pretty crap.

Re: Proposed new crime

Using social media with intent?

Re: Laura

Of course. I'd whatever it was has happened at 9am then they'd be happy enough to wait till 5pm for a solution or some kind of ackmowledgement. But since it's 3am they want a solution now, not an acknowledgement and certainly not at 11am. Unfortunately 3am is a very bad time to take decisions.

Re: Securer boot

What's surprising is that so many people think that Windows 8 secure boot rules still apply to Windows 10. MS are just one just one notch away from boiling the frog.

Let your children make their own decisions based on their own beliefs and feelings. Otherwise you become what you hate.

Chips every day it is, then.

Re: Price?

Oficially you can't on Home and Pro. I refuse to be part of MS's whack-a-mole as they push updates to stop people who have found ways around it.

You think being attached to Telefonica improves it?

Re: The joy of The Internet of Things

Cars are still unsafe at speeds above 0mph, and always will be.

I suppose the person who downvoted you for that has already forgotten about Anton Yelchin's accident a month and a half ago.

Forced updates combined with crappy testing brought about by Nutella disbanding the Trustworthy Computing team.

What's Windows 10 going to be other than a crock of shit?

Re: Hmmm ...

A Galaxy S6/7 with the QWERTY keyboard cover?

Re: Windows getting its own back on you?

Uninstall Krapersky. Really, all most antivirii seem to do is install some crashy kernel module and set up a local proxy which allows SSL connections to be easily compromised.

Re: why the constant fixation on start menu, settings, icons etc?

I'm glad you find that a UI using hard to interpret elements or three different designs for the same concept understandable. Others don't precisely because it doesn't help them find things when they need to or get their work done.

Re: @DougS

I expect you know this, but use an admin user just to install (okay, copy) software to the /Applications directory and a standard user to run them.

If a standard user copies software to their own ~/Applications then it can get completely owned, just like documents in their home directory. There's not much you can do about that apart from using a monitoring programs like this which hopefully doesn't make daily use too terrible.