* Posts by Dan 55

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Cache flow problems continue for Intel: Yet more data-leaking processor design blunders discovered, patches due soon

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Re: New trade deal

And unlike Intel, they won't cost an ARM and a leg.

El Reg tries – and fails – to get its talons on a Brexit tea towel

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Re: Lesson learned?

If you wanted to protest, you should probably collect every Brexit 50p coin you find and keep them at home out of circulation.

Remember when Europe’s entire Galileo satellite system fell over last summer? No you don’t. The official stats reveal it never happened

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Re: Prime Timely Targets in Novel Situations

There is a special AI-driven deep state hidden feature to get you a list here. Only a few people know it exists so keep it quite quiet.

Like its Windows-noob-stabilisers OS, Zorin's cloudy Grid tool is Linux desktop management for dummies

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Re: Why bother with the Windows look ?

I try and run Steam games from ten years ago and all sorts of strange things happen, and that's on Windows 7.

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Re: Why bother with the Windows look ?

It's 2020 and I still want to kill the ribbon with fire. Maybe next year it'll grow on me.

Ding-dong. Who's there? Any marketing outfit willing to pay: Not content with giving cops access to doorbell cams, Ring also touts personal info

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Re: So... what now?

I have some of their cameras as well, and an unanswered question is if this tracking was added after Amazon bought the company or was it integral to the app from the very beginning.

The Exodus reports for the app go back to July 2018 and the trackers built into the app have not changed from then to now. Amazon bought Ring in February 2018 so it looks like it's a pre-Amazon thing, but there's no definitive proof.

Low code? Low usage, more like: Add G Suite's App Maker to the Google graveyard, it's switching off next year

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I wish I had that excuse... "nah, don't fancy doing it"

Over the Moon? Not quite: NASA boss has a good whinge about 'counterproductive' Authorization Bill

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Wouldn't like his job

With a budget set every year and a president who changes his mind every time he watches Fox News at six in the morning followed by his daily Twitter feed where policy is announced direct from the Royal Golden Throne, it's worse than trying to get something planned weeks in advance with my project manager.

Boris celebrates taking back control of Brexit Britain's immigration – with unlimited immigration program

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Re: Good, good.

It's like Bruce Lee's lesson about the finger and the moon.

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Re: Good, good.

In the EU, as of Brexit Day, new British residency applicants get steered to the country's extra-EU residency rules (demonstrate income, etc...).

The transition period is intended to transition pre-Brexit residents over into whatever regime each country has set up for already-resident pre-Brexit Brits (most probably like extra-EU residency without the residency requirements and with a few extra bells and whistles).

Source

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Re: Good, good.

I think we all know Johnson has form when it comes to super silly bridges, as well as the Garden Bridge he's talked about Scotland-N. Ireland and England-France.

Do you seriously think FOM for EU citizens to carry on coming to the UK is politically sustainable after the past four years? That will be the EU's price for British citizens to have FOM in the EU. It won't happen.

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Re: Good, good.

As far as I've read it's just another visa which has been renamed and had its cap of 2000 people/year removed. It never hit that cap in the entirety of its existence so in the grand scheme of things it means nothing apart from yet more smoke and mirrors for the domestic population's enjoyment.

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Re: Good, good.

There will be no FOM as we know it for British citizens in the EU. As of next week their residency is locked to their current country and trans-border work becomes a horrendous pain in the arse. Any new post-Brexit British arrivals will now be treated in the same way as extra-EU nationals. Any pre-Brexit British residents will be treated as post-Brexit British arrivals if they up sticks and move to another EU country.

Any changes in the direction of improving FOM will not be as good as what British citizens in the EU have this week. EU/British citizen rights were decided in the withdrawal agreement, not the trade agreement. The trade agreement is about trade. This is as good as it gets as the British government is not interested in fighting for British citizens' rights in the EU as that requires reciprocity for EU citizens in the UK. If you believe otherwise, I hear Boris has a bridge he wants to sell you.

Electron devs bond at Covalence conference: We speak to those mastering the cross-platform tech behind Slack, Visual Studio Code, etc

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Re: Its the same arguments on every Electron story

And may I also add that "Standardised" is their standard. This godforsaken framework which has everything including the kitchen sink and can happily fill gigabytes of memory because it also needs a browser, a JavaScript engine, and whatever JavaScript libraries are du jour all because web developers like the idea of writing actual desktop software but haven't got the patience to learn anything new and think slapping together some HTML and JavaScript in Electron makes them Real Programmers Now is in no way a definition of a standard but just stuff slapped together that happens to work and is just yet another giant albatross around the neck of modern-day IT.

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Re: Its the same arguments on every Electron story

I looked here, the list wasn't too shabby and they have the advantage of not using all the available memory given half a chance (see Fucking Teams).

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What?

Every C++ application, he said, implements pretty much its own networking stack and UI framework.

This talk must be from some alternate reality where Berkeley Sockets and Qt don't exist.

Microsoft puts away the Catnip: Windows Insiders community app axed due to 'technical limitations'

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Devil

Why have a simple Insider RSS feed when you can bloat up and fill all the available memory whatever the platform with a PWA. If you thought Electron was bad, try this and you'll soon change your mind.

Apple: EU can't make us use your stinking common charging standard

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Re: We should just all use SCART

HDMI-CEC should cover it but somehow doesn't.

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Apple love e-waste. From glued-up expandable MacBooks to glued-up unrepairable iPhones, changing connectors so they can supply you with adaptors, everything they do is geared to producing more of it to sell to you, their valued sucker^Wcustomer.

If you never thought you'd hear a Microsoftie tell you to stop using Internet Explorer, lap it up: 'I beg you, let it retire to great bitbucket in the sky'

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Re: Managing Favourites

Didn't you know you're supposed to use Google to search for whatever it is every time?

But as for IE having the 'best' interface for managing favourites, I assume you value it regularly forgetting the order of favourites in folders.

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Re: Needed for SharePoint

Rename it to Intranet Explorer, only let it connect to LAN addresses, job done.

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Re: Just as soon as you release a stable alternative...

Doesn't Firefox work well with NVDA, which Mozilla put money into?

Judge snubs IT outsourcers' plea to Alt-F4 tougher H-1B visa rules: Bosses told to fill out the extra paperwork

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Re: I wonder if...

That train left the station years ago.

Chrome suddenly using Bing after installing Office 365 Pro Plus... Yeah, that might have been us, mumbles Microsoft

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“support for the Firefox web browser is planned for a later date"

No need to rush, take your time.

Flinging resource-hungry apps at landfill Android? Ubuntu daddy wants to lure you into Anbox Cloud

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Seen this someterse before

The service is designed to offload workloads from x86 or Arm-based devices to containers in the cloud. All the grungy compute, storage and battery-sucking work is then performed elsewhere and streamed to the device.

Otherwise known as the original iPhone's HTML apps? With containers.

'I am done with open source': Developer of Rust Actix web framework quits, appoints new maintainer

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Re: Not just open source

When project deadlines are squeezed in the constant race to the bottom, documentation quality is usually the first to go, just enough to tick boxes to say it's been done. Then later on everyone's utterly surprised when nobody knows how anything works as the original people are unavailable (they're busy having the same problem with other projects or have been fired).

Looking for a great value broadband deal? War-torn Syria will do you proud

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Re: Price per Mbps

There's also backhaul, not everyone's going to get 500Gbps at the same time.

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Price per Mbps

1Mbps of bandwidth in the UK will cost you on average USD 1.07 per month, compared to USD 0.12 in Sweden, USD 0.20 in Portugal or USD 0.21 in Spain.

Are they comparing the actual speed you get or the 'up to' advertised speed which you'll probably never get?

Intel server chip shortages continue to bite: HPE warns of Xeon processor supply drought for the whole of 2020

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Re: Intel Security/Performance issues

... and if you can get Intel parts as well.

Hospital hacker spared prison after plod find almost 9,000 cardiac images at his home

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Re: Differences...

Seems to me Germany gets the difference between information being public and information being public and also widely disseminated whereas in many other countries (ahem) many people don't care and many corporations, full well knowing the difference, take advantage of that.

The delights of on-site working – sun, sea and... WordPad wrangling?

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Re: echoing gifs

How very dare you! NN4 did CSS... badly, but it did it. You might have had to not load it in NN4 to stop it looking terrible.

9.1. Hiding Certain Styles from Netscape Navigator 4.x

You're not Boeing to believe this: Yet another show-stopping software bug found in ill-fated 737 Max airplanes

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And also, what I wanted to say but I missed the edit window was their internal QA didn't catch this but the FAA's audit did. That is why it's news and that is why their internal culture has still not improved since the MAX was grounded.

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It is news if they've done a major change like this to the plane in six months and it doesn't work. It means the culture there hasn't changed, just quickly bodge more cheap code in from HCL and hope for the best.

EU declares it'll Make USB-C Great Again™. You hear that, Apple?

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Re: Let's Bring It All The Way Back

The 2mm Nokia charger jack/port was perfect and nobody can convince me otherwise.

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Benson Leung tried to do that but he hasn't reviewed for a while.

I don't know if USB-C chargers and cables have improved since then when the chance of frying your phone or laptop was much higher than it should have been.

Unlocking news: We decrypt those cryptic headlines about Scottish cops bypassing smartphone encryption

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Re: Fail to see what the fuss is

In my experience, if your not driving on the phone, downloading images you shouldn't, stalking, abusive messages/calls, selling drugs, sending unsolicited dick picks, or grooming etc underage kids the police have no interest in your phone.

Getting raped is a new cause for police to rummage through your phone since you started in 2009.

It is being normalised.

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Re: Let me get this right

TFA says it makes changes:

The technology works in various ways: Cellebrite says for some phone models, its equipment copies a custom bootloader to the device's RAM and runs that to bypass security mechanisms [PDF]. In some other cases, such as with Android devices, it tries to temporarily root the handset. The equipment can also attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in phone firmware, including iOS, to ultimately extract data.

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Let me get this right

1. scotPlod uses software to flash phone, furtle bits not usually furtled, forcibly unlock it, rummage around.

2. Based on that may or may not decide to send off to a lab to properly extract contents.

Can anyone see a possible place in this workflow where there's a chance for evidence to be planted/removed?

Help! I'm trapped on Schrodinger's runaway train! Or am I..?

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Hurrah for apps

Especially banks and new pretend banks jumping on the bandwagon too. You know your money's safe with them (33c3 talk, 30 mins).

No Mo'zilla for about 100 techies today: Firefox maker lays off staff as boss talks of 'difficult choices' and funding

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Re: How Sad

Then eventually they ditched its look to make it look like Chrome

Australis was designed first, they just took so long to execute that Chrome got there before them.

Get rid of their very qualified CEO Brendan Eich for something that had absolutely nothing to do with technology, only due to a totalitarian leftist/emotional/brainless subculture

Oh FFS.

It seems he wasn't a very good CEO before the gay marriage thing blew up, that was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

in favor of the ridiculous FirefoxOS, something that nobody asked for, never took off and is now dead and buried.

It still lives on in the form of KaiOS for mobiles, Panasonic's TVs, and custom ROMs.

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Re: good moneysaving plan guys

Hey, it works for Microsoft.

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Re: Still my number 1 (only just though)

If you want the least amount of hassle while being forced to use Google Recaptcha, you have to use Google Chrome.

Odd, that.

Almost as odd as their YouTube CSS which is designed to slow non-Chrome browsers to a crawl.

But remember, they don't do evil.

Squirrel away a little IT budget for likely Brexit uncertainty, CIOs warned

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Re: Could a brexiter please explain...

You're saying that as if you don't know the idea of Empire 2.0 is thing, which of course it is.

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Re: Could a brexiter please explain...

I never quite understand how, if the UK is such a victim of outside forces because the EU is holding it back and especially because of the EU itself, it will be able to once again be able to rise up and form Empire 2.0 and subjugate those same outside forces (and especially the EU) back down to their natural place in the world with the UK (or rather, England) on top. Just doesn't compute.

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Re: Moving database ?

As we have already seen with the likes of the Schengen Information System, only after Brexit the UK will move from the trusted to the untrusted zone for everything.

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Re: 2019?

I never have found why the EU had such a problem with bananas.

Let me help you out there: They didn't. It was fictitious tabloid nonsense.

The EU is indeed guilty of setting up one banana standard to rule them all, but it's not because they have a problem with them. The reason is that traders wanted to trade bananas across the EU and found out they couldn't do it due to differing conflicting banana standards. National governments therefore got to work and came up with a common banana standard and that happily meant trade in bananas became more profitable than it was previously when there were differing conflicting banana standards.

Something even Worstall could be happy about for a moment, if he'd only take that chip off his shoulder about Europe (as should you).

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Re: "UK’s departure from the UK"

Haven't you heard? We have to unify the country by embracing a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face.

The festival of Brexit held 100 years after Ireland's independence will also surely help Northern Ireland to stay in the UK.

Top Euro court advised: Cops, spies yelling 'national security' isn’t enough to force ISPs to hand over massive piles of people's private data

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2006 Data Retention Directive

Have the ECJ just invalidated it again because the message didn't get through the first time?

Totally Subcontracted Business: TSB to outsource entire IT estate to IBM for a cool $1bn after 2019 meltdown

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Re: Splendidly well done, IBM !

Ah, so their in-house (or spin-off or subsidiary or whatever it is) IT has raised the white flag.