Posts by Dan 55

Re: idiotMagnet as long as Memory and Storage not modular

Let us count the ways...

1. Not everyone is an IP professional.

2. People's usage may change, the machine may have to be pressed into use for something else which, if it's unexpandable, it's not suitable for.

3. You may sell it to someone who will find the machine unsuitable due to 1 or 2 and can't do anything about it.

4. You can add as much external storage as you like to any other computer too.

5. With the appropriate cables and adaptors, you too can make a £2,500 machine look like a 48K Spectrum with microdrives hanging off the side.

6. Never heard of a 3.5" floppy via Thunderbolt, but I'm sure I could just plug it into the USB-A slot. Oh. Repeat for ad infinitum devices.

7. It's still unexpandable and bordering on unrepairable.

Re: Finally can replace my 2012 Macbook Pro

With a 2012 MacBook Pro you can add more internal storage whenever you want and you can speed it up by making it an SSD.

Now did you want to do change a 2019 MacBook Pro's storage? Because SSDs have never been known to die, right? Sorry, you're out of luck.

Re: Playing the Devil's Advocate

It's not like you to play the devil's advocate. Presumably the last people with any sense at Intel have retired or the few that are left aren't enough to outweigh the critical mass of stupidity and the lunatics have finally taken over the asylum.

On a similar note, go Ryzen 9!

Re: So if they outlaw strong encryption...

They will have special encryption without a backdoor.

I.e. normal encryption.

Re: 20 Years Ago

So which is the worst drain on productivity - fixing it before it happens or sorting out the problems created afterwards by hand then hurriedly fixing it anyway?

Re: *sigh*

Isn't that the wrong way round? A custom ROM can be rooted, but it doesn't have to be. Rooted phones that don't use custom ROMs probably got rooted by an exploit, which is not particularly secure.

Re: other spurious permissions

Use something like Tinfoil for Facebook (or similar) which is a browser wrapper with no access to your contacts.

That's Google, apparently an ability to scan for nearby Bluetooth devices means the location permission is needed under the presence that the app could be building up a MAC address list which could then be used to find out your location.

I rather think the real reason is forcing other apps to badger you into turning on location services so the Google apps can have a go at finding your location.

Re: Now's the time to remove those little 'f' buttons on every page

I disabled Disconnect and uBlock, opened developer tools, went to Network, reloaded a story page, and found the Facebook button went to www.register.co.uk.

There is a 1x1 image called bpix.bmp which goes to cloudfront.net but I don't believe that's Facebook, but another ad network. It's in EasyList.

Based on that I don't think the FB button is stalky, unless anyone can point out where I went wrong.

Re: Which is it

The bug is the Facebook UI failed to completely cover the standard iOS camera UI, which it presumably uses so iOS doesn't get shouty about in-app camera permissions.

The people responsible will receive a suitable written warning and told to fix it, which means this time they will make the Facebook UI cover the camera app properly.

Re: Now's the time to remove those little 'f' buttons on every page

It appears they're not stalky buttons, so if you get Facebook cookies set it's down to your own lack of willpower.

I guess this means we should be happy that El Reg is supping with the devil with a long spoon.

Re: Where have I seen this before?

I am sure, given the right regulatory push, SMEs could spin up a solution for schools if the school can't do it itself.

But this is the kind of thing I could see happening in countries like Germany rather than the UK.

Re: [Rant alert]

It means, for (actual) example, my (UK university) PhD-qualified Indian colleague, who is brown skinned and a Hindu, needed a work permit to work here (until he took British citizenship), whereas the Italian MSc qualified staff (who had lower standards of English), who were white and Christian, did not need a work permit.

Seeking to replace freedom of movement with a system that allows for immigration based on skills and language ability, irrespective of country of origin, is clearly not a racist policy.

The Home Office is actively rejecting academics in spite of their skills. The Home Office also has a bit of a problem with "brown skinned" people.

It's the Home Office's fault for making things more difficult for academics and non-white people, nobody else's.

Re: [Rant alert]

Perhaps you could point out how which trading bloc or geopolitical union on Earth has managed to get round the fact that different regions on the Earth have different ethnicities?

If they are held to be intrinsically racist constructs then so too are nation states.

Re: [Rant alert]

Allow you to clear up your confusion, codejunky.

Re: Awesomesauce!

It's obviously had second thoughts since replying to you:

It was a dark and stormy night

And I was running around with my guitar

The rain and the wind and the rain and the wind

My fingers were stained with blood and my brain was fried

I was so down and out and I was so high

I was playing guitar to myself

I was dancing naked all alone

And that's when they found me

They saw me singing 'Hallelujah'

And they took me to the police station

And put me in a cell with the other criminals

They beat me all the time with cables

They threw me into the trash like an animal

And my heart was pounding all the time

They put me in a hospital and I stayed there for a long time

They took me to a psychiatrist and I was given medication

They gave me antidepressants for my troubles

But it didn't work

And then they took me to the hospital for my mental illness

And the psychiatrist told me to stop drinking

They sent me on a drug that gave