Posts by Dan 55

Re: Yeah, pull the other one

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.

Re: What the hell is the use of that ?

Er, yes, I think they compile it with SEND_DIAGNOSTICS in the production build?

Re: And the NHS is doomed

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.

UK citizens living in the EU on exit day will be locked into their country of residency for work purposeses and if they wanted to work in the country next door they would have to give up residency in the country they're resident in now (and be categorised for immigration purposes as a post-Brexit UK citizen instead of a pre-Brexit one).

Also cross-border workers aren't covered in the withdrawal agreement either.

All of which sucks if you're a Brit living in Benelux, so the OP was entirely right.

Re: And the NHS is doomed

Non-EEA residents have a residency card to (possibly) get free NHS access. EU citizens will not have anything they can show to distinguish between pre-Brexit residency status, post-Brexit residency status, or tourists.

They can't even get British citizens right and this story is after Windrush so you'd have hoped they'd have upped their game by now but evidently not.

And of course whatever nonsense is visited on EU citizens by our lords and masters in the UK (doff cap, tug forelock) can be reciprocated on British citizens in the EU, only other EU countries have managed to set up residency databases that work.

Seriously, I find it hard to understand that I'm having to explain this on an IT site where up until now we could have safely assumed we all at least have a passing familiarity with logic.

Re: The next thought is .....

It's built-in, if you enable Find My Mac you get a guest account which is really honeypot account so the thief connects it to the Internet and it can report back to Apple's mothership, but I guess most people with experience of nicking Apple stuff know not to blunder into the guest account.

Re: Endian of an era

Apparently they were just so solidly locked into the architecture that they couldn't hope to compete anyway (even if they hadn't been so badly managed by the big C) with the performance gains being made in the PC world.

Mehdi Ali ruined Commodore, R&D slowed to a crawl under his reign. But this is rather off-topic.

Re: Endian of an era

No, that's definitely Intel's fault.

Re: Which is it?

Well it's the device owner's problem right now as the most MS will do is replace it with another lemon.

Re: Dystopia, one improvement at a time

Google have to invent things otherwise they could never fill up the Google Graveyard.

When Stadia gets knocked on the head it's going to be so funny. It's not even been launched yet and you can see the writing on the wall already.

Re: Well, you're leaving

You might not see their problem but they do. First we can drop the tourist visa, I am talking about people who want to come here to live here and be productive here. Second my Russian friend cant come here unless she earns more than a certain amount and has the chicken and egg situation of needing a work visa to get a job but a job to sponsor a work visa. She has been looking into this for some time as she would love to move here.

Once again, you say "we could do this", "we will be able to do that" and being a member of the EU doesn't stop any of this happening now, while the UK is still a member of the EU. This is entirely Home Office policy.

Re: Well, you're leaving

And that is entirely on the Home Office.

Re: Well, you're leaving

So it wasn't a technical problem at the wind farm which was the source for the outage.

Re: Well, you're leaving

Funny how you blame the wind farm when the gas-fired plant also shut down. Why's that?

Re: Well, you're leaving

the situation should be simple to deal with - just 'grandfather in' any EU citizen who's already in the UK and working at Brexit time as 'legal immigrants with work visas'. shouldn't be too hard at that point.

(seriously making this all harder than it needs to be)

It'll easy if you don't know EU citizen rights (they don't have to be working), don't know how residency is proven (last five years of paperwork), and don't know how resident EU citizens can be distinguished from non-resident EU citizens at the UK border (they can't).

Re: Amazon claimed the report came as a terrible shock

Given the reports on Glassdoor, because they didn't have that idea first.

Re: Children?

Whackypedia says China's age of majority is 18.

Re: Content arbitration and politics

Do gun makers usually go on terrorist rampages?