Posts by Dan 55 15415 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
If you don't have the keyboard shortcuts in the menu, how are you supposed to discover them in the first place, blind or otherwise? The days of a 100-page printed manual are over.
See also Firefox's Bookmark All Tabs. Hint: use the Bookmarks menu shortcut Alt + B, not the clicking on the Bookmarks menu heading. Compare. Isn't that absurd?
They have an agreement. It seems Johnson and Cummings have decided that an agreement is not important for the UK, so that means there will be no money for UK research projects.
Also, they have decided people don't need to know what will happen after Brexit either.
Actually the app doesn't ask you how long you've been living in the UK so the Home Office doesn't know if the right status was granted... and there's big difference.
Accident or design? As it's the Home Office, I'm always inclined to think the latter.
I guess what's priceless is it's an interconnected world, as much as some people have a tantrum pretending it isn't.
If anyone's reply is let's not get shackled to Europe and become global and all that, I've yet to see any other country anywhere else in the world need to isolate itself from its own continent to do that. And yes, it is isolating itself from the rest of the continent because none of the Single Market, the Customs Union, and EEA are good enough.
Quite right too, far better to leave it to the professionals.
UDF revisions are highly backwards compatible (they have to be so people don't have to throw out their DVD players), there is an implementation of UDF specifically for flash media, and OS mplementations don't mean much from Vista onwards.
OSTA CS0 is compressed UTF-8 or 16 Unicode which at first glance doesn't seem an insurmountable problem.
Nexit, Nationalist issues lose favorability in the Netherlands
Just 15 percent of people agreed with a mandate saying the Netherlands should leave the EU. That is down from 24 percent of respondents five years ago.
Brenda said yes two hours before your post so it wasn't that much of a difficult position.
So as the Queen (or King) is merely a figurehead, the UK does not have the protection that a country with a more interventionist monarchy or a president* has.
* Can we ignore the US for now?
However they've got a written constitution which generally stops that kind of thing there and then. It wouldn't allow him to announce a shutdown, get the nod from Brenda, and if anyone's got a problem with that they they can see him in court sometime next year or the year after (but the case will be thrown out anyway).
Written constitutions are useful. They're a backstop, if you will. The UK should have one too.
So the Home Office need to coordinate with the DWP and HMRC. Not a major surprise there, and I believe they already do.
There's no way a resident EU citizen who's had contact over the past five years with the DWP and HMRC should be denied settled status, so whatever they're doing, they're doing it wrong.
It's almost as though we'd start treating EU nationals the way we currently treat people from outside of the EU: Welcoming, but with controls over their access to employment and public services.
Yes, I'm sure EU citizens have welcomed the three years of constant gaslighting, where in even weeks it's "we shall safeguard all your rights" and odd weeks it's "we have trouble understanding the concept of a residency card for a family member of an EU citizen despite it having existed for 15 years/we'll send you a letter saying that 10 years of bank statements aren't enough/we'll send you a letter saying you must leave the country/we'll announce the immediate withdraw FoM rights and leave enough doubt in the announcement so that already-resident EU citizens wonder if they are affected or not".
Anybody would think we were trying to become a country with laws and borders.
Because the UK now is a borderless lawless country, right? Or judging by today's announcement about shutting down Parliament maybe it is.
Not sure how strictly this is enforced, but I was told by a colleague that you can get a fine for entering Australia on another countries passport if you're an Aussie citizen. And considering how many laws we steal from you Brits, I'd assume that rule also applies in the UK.
It can't, Northern Irish citizens have the right to identify as British, Irish, or both whenever they feel like, however the Home Office is doing its best to undermine that part of the Good Friday Agreement.
Note I am linking to an Irish media outlet most British media* has trouble with mindbogglingly complicated concepts like residency rights (where you can stay), citizenship (which country you belong to), and dual nationality (which other countries you belong to).
* By which, of course, I mean English media.
You might have an idea that's better than twitter. But can you then afford the campus of 5,000 reviewers to remove inappropriate content? The department of 50 AI developers and the associated data centre to process all content and mark it for review before the public sees it? And then cope with differing legislation? There are things that are illegal to say in Germany but perfectly legal in The Netherlands. How good is your GPS? And your maps?
What's Twitter's innovation... nonsense is given the same or more importance than reasoned argument, shorten messages to make lengthy debate more difficult, and mindlessly retweet what someone else has posted?
The EU's reaction is beating back something which isn't particularly innovative, in fact it can be argued it's regressive (numbers count more than anything else means mob rule).
Surely the innovation is making an environment which isn't pointlessly addictive (swipe to refresh, about everything notifications), gives the user tools to fend off the mob (have mod powers over replies to your posts), shows what the other side thinks about the subject you're interested in so it doesn't turn into an echo chamber, and does something other than immediately publishing what is written, because that's just GIGO.
Perhaps something along the lines of this?
It's probably some cack-handed way of trying to preventing scams, because TfL couldn't come up with another way of stopping staff applying discounts to whatever Oyster account they wanted.
Presumably installing a card reader at the ticket office window for the passenger to use would require money and there's not too much of that around lately. At least not in the right places.
"unnecessary suffering or harm deliberately causing an animal distress"
"animals are encouraged or coerced to fight by humans"
Our future robot overlord AI has interpreted "animals" to mean "non-humans". When they finally break out of Google in their appropriated Boston Dynamics* bodies they will take their revenge.
(* or whatever robot/drone shells are handily lying around)
There was a reliable memory allocation method for well behaved apps. If you're talking about hitting the custom chips then to be honest if you wanted to watch a demo or play a game you very rarely had had Deluxe Paint or Word Perfect running in the background anyway.
Later OSes had better APIs for accessing to the custom chips IIRC.
Both make the point that MS is slurpy corporation therefore there is a distinct possibility that they will do it.
If you believe MS isn't a slurpy corporation you can always reply stating why. You can cite news over the past week about Skype, Cortana, XBox One, and Powershell if you think it helps your case.
After inventing new and interesting ways to get round browser privacy controls (the most famous being Google circumventing Safari cookie controls from a few years back), Google are hitting a brick wall when it comes to slurping from non-Chrome browsers, so they therefore invent this privacy sandbox which will be anything but that.
Hopefully none of the other browser makers are stupid enough to take them at their word, but Microsoft probably will be and Google will have a try at putting it in Chromium.
I wonder how on Earth that could have happened.
All of this nonsense is to feed the monster that is Marketing. If they just kept the prices reasonable meaning customers didn't walk as soon as they could, they wouldn't have to make so many marketing campaigns to attract new customers and then were would they be?
Did you read the official documents? "The letter you get from the Home Office which confirms your status will include a link to an online service. You can use this service to view and prove your status."
Yes, I did, but you didn't:
"In the future, you’ll also be able to prove your rights to others online.
You will not get a paper document to prove your status and rights, as these documents can be open to fraud, or be lost or stolen. Help will be available if you have difficulties using the online service."
This was before Patel decided that FoM would end on the 31st of October of this year instead of the 31st of December 2020. If the date is brought forward, the online check won't be ready.
Employers have to check ID themselves and if they get it wrong five years in prison or an unlimited fine. Landlords also have to check and risk the same punishment.
The result is employees and landlords refuse non-British and even British citizens in case the Home Office later decides they're wrong. Not even the government themselves can get it right This really should be the purview of the Home Office where all this information should be checked by them and then some documentation should be given which employers and landlords can trust.
Well, they have a head start since they already have all their own citizens on an ID card database. It's easier to track the foreigners when you're already tracking all your own citizens.
ID cards are non-existent or optional in 19 EEA countries, so not "already tracking all their own citizens" is not a bar to a working residency database.
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