Posts by sabroni

@WeeJavaDude

I have the same amount of experience and I'm thinking exactly the same!

If i sell you a sprocket that i day doodles and then a year later patch it to stop it doodling you have a case. If I patch it so it doesn't diddle anymore then that's tough titties. Ask for a diddler if that's what you want!

The other side of this is of course that I'm responsible for someone hacking your engine via my sprocket's undocumented diddler!

Re: This was the case...

Where does the icon come from? If it's served from facebook then it doesn't matter that the code doesn't run, they'll have your tracking cookie from the icon request.

Re: who decides what is allowed and what is not allowed?

Primarily the law, then the platform owner.

On an article about Google deliberately messing up other browsers your explaining that you like how robust chrome is?

Re: Google does it's usual...

All businesses close things that don't make money.

I guess it's the word sheeple that has triggered the upvotes. Ironic.

Re: been running Windows Update for 9 days solid.

To be fair 3.1 to 10 is a fair number of updates.

Re: Data slurping

The weight of evidence of Google's snooping is far greater than Apple's. Apple predominately monetise through hardware sales while Google monetise through targetted advertising. Snooping is more vital to Google's business than it is to Apple's.

So when faced with one option that definitely snoops as much as possible and one that probably does it's perfectly reasonable to pick the latter.

Came here to post exactly that (though less eloquently).

If true this change is bad news for everyone but Google.

Re: If you're going to put up a sign...

Or, you know, drive under the speed limit.

Still, I expect you had some mcDonald's wrappers you needed to chuck out of your window.

re: why should we give a toss?

Don't know about you, I give a toss because it's wrong to discriminate on gender for this sort of role, or indeed for most jobs.

It's the fact they're grid girls that's sexist. Like there aren't any attractive young men that could do that job! Let's get a nice mix of attractive people, all genders and ethnicities and everyone gets to perv! That's entertainment.

re: stop me painting my own copy to hang in my living room.

Is that what happens? Youtube is full of carefully crafted replicas of copyrighted material?

If I was a painter and you wanted to paint something that looks the same that's fine. But that isn't how this works, the copies take no effort to make, involve no creativity on your behalf and are indistinguishable from the original.

The thing is you love paintings and they bring you happiness. But you seem to think that's all the reward a painter needs.

Re: They didn't really lie, they just never answered the actual question.

They were asked a question, the answer they gave was untrue, that's a lie.

If when asked "How old are you?" I reply "10" I'm lying, even though that is the correct answer to the question "How many fingers do you have?". If I say "I have 10 fingers" then I'm not lying but it's clear I'm answering a different question.

They just replied to the question without clearly stating they weren't answering it so they were lying.

Re: if breathing() return LYING

Hillaire. Yet the article itself states that only 30% of his tweets were deemed inaccurate by the Washington Post.

I fucking despise what he's doing and how he's doing it. One of the things I despise is how he doesn't care about truth. You won't combat that by making things up.

Re: Not with NoScript it isn't.

Must of us use NoScript to selectively run scripts from some domains and not from others, otherwise we'd just turn JS off for the whole browser and be done.

So it depends which domain hosts the malicious JS.

Re: inexplicably still considered 'socialist' or 'communist'

It's so anyone mentioning redistribution of wealth can be easily demonised.

StargateSg7?

Clearly a bombastic bob sock puppet. Got the same fucked up keyboard.

This! I'm glad they're fucking up so spectacularly, sooner it starts to cost MS cash the sooner they stop with this bollocks.

re: For that I recommend wearing your fucking seatbelt.

It's my constitutional right to be catapulted through the windscreen!

re: Side by side you know you are buying a product modeled after the original.

Aldi don't stock the things they copy so they're not "side by side".

I'm not convinced what Aldi are doing is wrong mind, but when it's massive corporation vs small business my gut feel is to favour the small business.

Re: Nobody is really sure. Ask Microsoft.

Actually, for once jake, looks like it's an area that you don't know but others do.

I'm on the phone to Reuters now.

Re: Google aint Google any more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMfStd3v330

Re: It's out of control

Turning UBlock off will allow all blocked sites to run. The emojis and the ads don't necessarily come from the same place. UBlock allows finer grained control if you want to find which domains need to be green to get emojis without ads....

Re: It's called humor.

Prick.

Re: the Group Policies for determining whether it should use Hardware Encryption or not

So this isn't "MS didn't write it properly" it's "MS fucked the defaults up"? (By assuming that you bought disks with hardware encryption deliberately?)

re: Still, if it makes you happy to call people bigots, have at it.

I didn't call anyone a bigot, I merely pointed out that if the comments were full of bigotry it would be wrong of El Reg to follow suit.

The prejudice you have towards Codes of Conduct is a different issue, but in every case here the argument isn't against the code per se it's against the way it's implemented. It's perfectly possible to have a good idea implemented badly. The solution isn't to abandon the idea, it's to fix the implementation.