Posts by Dan 55

Re: Still don't understand how this happens

I think between all government websites - national, regional, county, and local - it could be done. Almost all have their deadlines and all have their quiet periods.

The article's wrong as giving that as the reason. The FBI would have needed a warrant to get into your house to search e-mail on your computer anyway.

I don't see how you could open the API and make sure ads are shown on the screen, everybody hates advertising. The first thing that will be done is a client which doesn't show it.

Re: Just when I think I've firmly decided on Remain

I think it was a veiled threat. For a not so veil threat see the German finance minister.

He is only the German finance minister after all... There are 26 others. I'm sure they all have an equal say. Just ask anyone living in one of the PIGS.

(Which almost brings us back round to the meat in pasties, only it's not pork.)

Indeed. I prefer it over the DevOps articles which on the go on for longer and don't have as much to say.

Re: Electrolysis

You're saying they should have done per-process tabs on, what was the average computer of the day, a Pentium of some-kind with 1MB of RAM running XP?

That's your answer as to why they went with one process and an event loop.

Re: Apple have a mountain to climb

It Apple's profits are a millstone, I'll have one of those.

Re: Complimentary system reset

What's wrong with letting the drivers do a system reset, is a little paperclip hole somewhere near the screen too expensive?

Re: I don't really understand

And that their education system is incapable of supplying what business needs/business is incapable of growing and taking them on.

Re: Just another good example...

How are they going to close FreeBSD up if the licence is more permissive than GPL?

If you're comparing this to Android, MS don't have a binary blob which is important enough to make people want to use their version of FreeBSD instead of the open version.

Western nations don't want to outlaw end-to-end encryption/PFS without logging the key explicitly, it's somewhat... uncouth. But I expect they'll get round to it eventually.

Does swiping just one of your cards card magically empty all your bank accounts wherever they are in the US? All your accounts within that state? All your accounts at the bank who gave you that card? Or just that account for that card?

Probably best not to carry all your cards with you in Oook-lahoma.

If it was pairing, I think someone other than the leader of the opposition could have been found.

In theory an MP's vote and a party leader's vote are worth the same, but a party leader also has to show leadership on bills such as this.

Re: Ah yes

You mean you don't find Access funny?

Re: Access to your browser history

Are US ISPs are obliged to log domains that clients connect to? I don't think so, they'd have kicked up the same fuss that UK ISPs have over the Snooper's Charter.

They can write all the NSLs to ISPs that they want, if the ISPs don't log it this info isn't available.

I guess you won't be replacing your TV any time soon then...

Re: Game of Thrones methodology?

- A girl is not ready to become agile, but she's ready to try another development methodology...

- A girl must wait.

... later...

- A girl does not use waterfall any more. A girl uses no development methodology.

- A girl is finally ready to become agile. A girl must drink the kool aid. If a girl really believes, there is nothing to fear.

... later...

- A project was a failure.

- A girl had doubts. A girl was not agile.

Re: WTF kind of idea is this anyway?

Not all of us, just PMs.

Major had to U-turn on the Eurozone and stay out of Schengen only because his party wouldn't let him go along with it after Black Wednesday. If it weren't for that the UK would be in both.

If you don't agree with BoJo the Clown and Gove's points there are those from David Davis or Paul Mason which make infinite more sense. Certainly more than Cameron saying he's Turkey's strongest advocate and now saying they won't join the EU because of a veto that he holds, or calling the new mayor of London an extremist then sharing a platform with him a week later, or etc...

Re: "let us know if the issues are indeed solved"

Seems to be fairly contagious problem. OS X is going to pot too. Apple have made Disk Utility something which you run on disks if you want to wipe data. El Capitan must be the buggiest release yet.

What is it? Universities churning out Java coders without teaching the underlying theory and managing projects with Agile is my bet.

Re: Well said!

For small values of disagree.

Re: Very simple

I've come to the conclusion that you have to actually actively fail an English language exam to get into journalism today.

Today? The Grauniad has been known as such since time immoral... or at least since sometime after Private Eye was launched.

Re: It's the leap before the deadline

Presumably this means that users of Windows with assistive technologies by necessity know more than most in stopping the nagger, as the permanent revolution that is Windows 10 still doesn't work well with them.