Posts by sabroni

So Zuckerberg doesn't even bother to turn up for the UK parliament and the stooge he sent was just as useless but this is still an example of how our parliament is better than the EUs?

Do a logic!

Re: Too much money?

Also notice how the evil MS aren't wasting their time picking holes in Chrome, they seem happy to let any vulnerabilities in Chrome persist.

Is that because they've now risen above this petty point scoring? Or because they know there are some humdingers in there and they're waiting for the shit to hit the fan.....?

Re: The sooner that advertisers lose their power to control content

Google control YouTube. Google are the biggest ad broker in the world. Ads control YouTube.

Re: WOE?

I'd have gone for "There's little intrinsic evidence that they understand this themselves."

Or was that deliberately clumsy to highlight how ridiculous gender neutral language is?

Re: No documentation is always worse

I disagree. Bad, error filled documentation is worse than no documentation. With no documentation you see how the thing behaves and treat it accordingly. With bad documentation you assume you've done something wrong and spend ages trying to get it to work.

Neither situation is ideal, obviously, but I prefer working it out over reading instructions that are wrong.

Re: But what about the customer reaction?

You have to judge that in comparison to the reaction TSB customers are having at the moment. Being told you can't log in, then getting in a minute later and everything being fine is no big deal for most people most of the time. Compared to this balls-up it's clearly a better system.

I prefer to be mildly irritated rather than unable to access any of my money.

Re: So all websites store your plaintext passwords for batch-hashing later on?

The hashing runs on the server. You have to pass the password to the server for hashing. The alternative is to trust all the external devices to hash for you. You can't trust all the external devices.

That's about the size of it, afaik.

Inciting violence is against the law. GoDaddy aren't in a position to prosecute, they're not the state. They are in a position to hold users to their terms of service and are perfectly within their rights to terminate service to users who don't stick to those terms.

Free speech doesn't mean we all have to promote hateful views. Free speech means we have the right to not promote those views.

This conviction isn't for writing poor software. Nice attempt to derail though!

re: You know what anonmyised data is right?

Yeah, it's one of two things. It's either effectively anonymised and effectively worthless (oh, a list of geographic points with no connections between them or times attached? Useless) or not effectively anonymised and valuable. As soon as patterns become visible they can be mapped to real life and the anonymisation is compromised.

There's articles on here all the time about boffins sticking so called "anonymised" data back together.

Re: it wouldn't be profitable if they paid all they owed

Good choice of words. Their business model is based on being able to monetise content on their site without taking responsibility for paying the creators. If the most popular video site on the planet can't work out a way to make money then clearly the business model is fucked.

Any business can be profitable if it doesn't pay it's suppliers. It's not a viable model for long term success.

i think you mean....

But can i wipe it and put a PROPER Linux on there.

There's always got to be one.

Re: [citation needed]

The question is whether they are at the top because they get clicked or the get clicked because they're at the top. It's plausible that Google's been promoting Wikipedia for 10 years and that's why it's always at the top. It's also plausible that everyone knows what Wikipedia is search for it on their own.

Assuming that there's nothing dodgy going on is great for Google. I'd rather they weren't both the biggest web advertiser and biggest gateway to the web. The fact they could manipulate their search product to guide people towards sites that are profitable for their ad business should make anyone suspicious.

Re: Reliable IoT

But learning how to configure something is much trickier than going online and bitching about it.

Plus you get up-votes on here for hating ms!!

It's a great solution, provided you don't mind the rigmarole of whitelisting a bunch of sites every time you visit somewhere new...

Non-Facebook users shouldn't have to do anything at all to avoid being tracked.

Who's going to cause a fuss about this if the people who understand the issues just use a plug in and leave everyone else to be spyed on?

Nice one!

FINALLY fixed your KEYBOARD?

re: This is a dispute as to whether the democratically elected government of a country...

... is allowed to set its own taxes

No it isn't. It's about whether a company can do business in one country and claim that it's taken place in another country where tax is lower. The protesters want sales in France to be subject to France's tax laws.

Re: how come Linus and all of the downstream developers can make this work

Is it because they're not back porting the fixes to versions of linux that are 15 years old and architected differently? Is it MS's insistence on supporting old pcs, peripherals and software where Linux doesn't (afaik)?

If you ran windows like you run Linux, installing all the updates offered, you'd be on 10 by now and not having these legacy problems.

re: Same can be said for Microsoft

They purchased a business selling POS terminals and serviced them badly in an attempt to move the customers to Azure? Or they're also a software company that people dislike?

Only one of those is "the same".

Re: If they were written by someone halfway competent

the language would be irrelevant as they'd be clear to read and maintain.

A bad workman and all that.....