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.
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Just use a modern browser and an add-on to spoof the user agent to W10.
Banks have ploughed ahead with SMS one-time codes and 1FA banking apps dressed up as 2FA instead of using card readers so I guess the changes of them cutting off Windows 7 computers are between null and 0 anyway.
Have I read this wrong?
What is the Risk, Under the CCPA, if a Company Has a Data Breach?
An injured consumer may sue for statutory damages or actual damages, injunctive relief, or declaratory relief. A consumer must provide a written notice to cure the violation before bringing action if they are seeking statutory damages.
Also, class action seems to be allowed.
Literally everything?
(2) a 3.5 mm headphone jack - OK, socket and DAC, but it's a feature that people want, otherwise phone manufacturers would be in the business of selling rocks, and it's probably paid for by (4).
(3) microSD card support - a micro SD card slot (as found in a RPi) connected to the SOC and the OS supports it, pennies, probably paid for by (4).
(4) no notch - lowers cost.
(5) a physical home button, physical back button, physical menu (not app switch) button - three whole capacitive buttons, probably paid for by (4).
(6) the ability to uninstall any junk I neither want nor need - software configuration problem (i.e not a problem) and a lot of bundled software is a stub app which is replaced on first update from the Play Store anyway.
This is Ryanair's planned seat configuration for the MAX (if they don't change their mind and decide to set it to be the same for both aircraft types):
Your memory seems to not stretch all the way back to last week where Iran's most senior general was assassinated by drone which I think for most countries constitutes a declaration of war.
Your regional ally was warned by Iran that US bases on its soil would be hit in retaliation (not that I support Iran over this), and it said "go ahead". Even Israel and Saudi can't even support the US over this one.
No country in the world has supported the US' threat to destroy 52 cultural sites if Iran retaliates in some way.
Your president is a) making a calculated effort to divert attention from his impeachment trial in an election year, b) blundering about like an idiot not knowing how this could bring the entire region to war, or c) both.
On their main tat-pushing website, devices can be authenticated to your account bypassing 2FA, there's no way of viewing all devices which are authenticated to your account in one place, and devices can make purchases without any confirmation PIN or 2FA.
Sorry, fired off a post too quickly and it came out wrong. Should really be this:
Australia is the world's third-largest exporter of CO2 in fossil fuels, report finds
However a third of CO2 emissions means there is still something that Oz can do.
What was there before Y2K? Chronic underspending. What was there afterwards? Chronic underspending.
So sorry for wrecking the graph for two-three years at the end of the 90s meaning some money actually had to be spent on IT, even if sometimes wasn't strictly Y2K related (new kit was needed after all).
Perhaps more consistent investment would be better. I look forward to the beancounters wondering what hit them when offloading everything to Azure and firing everyone blows up in their face.
Well Office and on-premise solutions are now Office 365 and Azure, the same Microsoft you know and never got fired for choosing but outsourced to their servers. What's not to love? Apart from downtime, the lack of privacy, and the lack of local admins, but that doesn't matter. Who can compete with that? Not many.
Those that don't depend on cloud services are doing okay and can carve out a niche, those that do are just having their work ripped off by the cloud services oligopoly. How did the cloud services oligopoly get where they are today? By open source.
The business model did pay off, it doesn't now. As a start up, your established competition has made billions innovating using open source as a base to start with and has reached that point where it doesn't need to innovate any more. Perhaps the internal culture won't even allow innovation any more, maybe it will only allow money to be invested in things it 'knows' will be successful.
Those megacorps which are already there have billions to invest in staying on top of the pile. They do that by copying and pasting open source and buying up promising apps or services by start-ups and shutting them down.
Google has announced they may bail from cloud services in a couple of years if they're not successful (this 'burning platform' announcement may even help that happen). If they can't do it, nobody can.
I look forward to it turning into the Bonzi Buddy of password managers.
How are you comparing "this kind of crap" to "for free"? (Answer: with JavaScript, probably wrongly, maybe.)
The answer is 2) because Google are desperate for your fine-grained location and this person is good at coming up with bullshit excuses:
Want to use an app which scans for WiFi APs or Bluetooth devices? "Oh, we need you to activate location because the app could harvest MACs and talk to its mothership to work out where you are (even though it may not have the Internet permission)" -> You turn location on to allow device scanning in the app to work -> Google gets your location.
What to use a dark mode app? "Oh, we need you to activate location because when we tell the app to go to or leave dark mode, the app could use that sunrise/sunset time as a way of working out where you are." -> You turn location on to allow dark mode in the app to work -> Google gets your location.