Posts by John Lilburne

Re: You can't fork Android

I don't want any Google shite apps on the phone. I have an old S3 which has crap like Google Play Books, Google Play Newsstand, Google+, gmail, etc. I'm never going to use any of that stuff so why should it be there taking up memory? I want rid of it. For several weeks the phone kept wanting to download some update and constantly failing. Today apparently its no longer doing that maybe it eventually managed to do the update I don't care I just wanted it not to do it anyway.

Re: ...not have the best grasp of tech...

I don't think advising on getting a sexually transmitted disease is the correct thing to do.

Re: The people who run Wikipedia

They will all be sockpuppets of this one:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/05/verity_stob_wikipedia/

Re: bad for small sites

Don't be daft. The vast majority of the ones rejected are because they URL has already been reported. IOW they aren't malicious they are duplicates, the URL in question has already been removed.

Re: Throw in others and...

True. When I cared, I blocked all signups to the company user forum from gmail, hotmail, and yahoo. Spammer signups dropped from 200+ per day to about a dozen a month. We made exceptions for genuine users (about 10 over a 4 year period).

Re: Waiting for the other shoe to drop

Wait on the EFF are getting involved on behalf of Perens ... that has got to be the kiss of death.

Re: Toddler

"At which point her Majesties cabinet would be transported to Guantanamo Bay."

Is there a down side to that?

"it does, however, mean bad security practices"

No it doesn't. Seems you have swallowed a whole bunch of Google crap.

Had another phone call from web host yesterday wanting to sell me some SSL cert. Whining about lack of said site would cause it to be downgraded by Google search. Being as the site has no user login, no user commenting, no sales cart, and is linked to by Washington State University, University of Texas, University of North Carolina, Oxford University, National Academy of Science SF, National Academy of Science Mexico City, British Parliament, University College London, Natural History Museum London, Natural History Museum Venice, etc, etc, it is most likely not going to be downgraded unless Google want to degrade their search.

You are on to something there. When a French ISP blocked Google ads, Google whined that it was costing them $millions a week.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/9781425/Advertisers-angered-as-French-ISP-rolls-out-ad-blocking-software.html

Re: Pub Fight

Just chuck Zuck down an oubliette, and tell Trump that Russia was all Zuck's fault. Job done.

Re: Still I don't understand why Russian doesn't allow full tests.

Both of them need to keep Alex Jones frothing at nothing at all.

Re: how long before...

OK this is how stupid the EFF and Doctrow are being about this. Without the classics act the copyright protection is not one single Federal statute but is based on State by State protection and some of States do indeed have perpetual copyright terms. The EFF and Doctrow should careful that they don't get what they ask for.

Re: Consent

"Hang on, that can't be right as it is the opposite of how Google are selling their services....I'm so confused"

Just because that can do X doesn't mean that X is effective. It used to be that tobacco companies advertised their products as good for your throat etc, one wonders why it is that tech companies don't have to prove their claims?

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/kzpajy/12-slightly-unbelievable-adverts-for-booze-and-cigarettes

Google brings nothing to this table ...

All of your examples posit something different replacing the old. Google does not bring anything different to the table its the same people generating the content, the content is the same all that is happening here is that Google devalues what monetary value that content had.

Devalue it enough and you end up with click bait, fake news, uninformed tripe, and regurgitate pulp music, films, and novels.

Oh ...!

Doesn't matter

It will be extensible. Your partner, friend, child will have it on and it doesn't take much to intuit that if A is at location X then B will almost certainly be there too. Besides you all have a habit of signing into FB with A is at X with B and C.

Re: priorities

Ah but some biz don't want to have their ads on a page with videos showing how to mainline heroine, or cut someone's head off, or which are the best anti-black/jew/homosexual chants de jour.

Re: A site might know if two visitors to that site have the same password

"The algorithm for password salting should include the username in the hashing process"

I would have thought that the time that the user created the account would be used then "user same login, same password" would be different across multiple sites and uname:pword-hash would be useless to hackers without the third part of the puzzle.

Re: Really?

Quarter of a $billion a year in software development. WTF it is a browser its not as if the problem is unknown and its not as if they are starting from scratch each year, and they happen to have a bunch of freetards contributing to it. Then a another $60 million of typists.

Re: "Mansplaining"

"received a response that begun by explaining how to use a ratchet wrench."

That sounds exactly like StackOverflow. Either that or there is someone answering the question that they wished you had asked, or whining that the question was already asked back in 2008.

I have to admit that streaming and downloading is more practical.

I have a handful of downloaded albums and I always have the thought that I'm missing something or other. But then I do mostly have works which benefit from liner notes etc. An English translation of some Mande lyrics tends to be helpful.

Re: 15 year olds and advertising

Under 18s can purchase food, clothes and property, both of which are a form of contract. The under 18 may at some point repudiate some contracts, but not those entered into for basics such as food and clothes. However, having repudiated the contract they cannot then retain the benefits of the contract.

Re: Apple Update Time

XP was the OS that they mostly screwed over. In fact what usually went wrong was the iPod driver. Why they would want to update a working driver with a copy of itself is any one's guss. But after an install iTunes could never access the iPod nano, and the driver reported being screwed. So long as you re-installed iTunes before anything else was reloaded onto a new build one was OK, but 6+ months later an iTunes update would screw the driver again. When borked I had a number of Apple support people try to fix the issue all to no avail. After the last cycle I turned off apple updates. The screw up doesn't happen on win10, but they did manage to fuxor the iPod touch with an iOS update last September, something about the update looking for data on a non-existent/badly configured apple server.

Re: First of all, I don't accept bribes. Ever. Personal policy.

I'm not above rubies and emeralds.

Re: There are news Facebook would like to activate face recognition in Europe...

On flickr user A's ability to tag user B in a photo is controlled by user B. Been like that for years and years.

Re: Can they summons Zuck?

"Haven't they learned a lesson that WE the People don't want this shit. "

There are numerous people and organisations that scan all photos uploaded to FB doing facial recognition and the Niqab won't help because they can also use gait recognition now too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNZrq2iK87k

Re: Dear valued donor...

"Hard to image that a party volunteer would be so childish, even if unpaid."

Boris and Mogg spring to mind.

Re: But....

And besides there is a Google app for that anyway.

Re: B, but... I also watch my little poney!

Bronies, doncha just luv em.

Re: Of all places

"What will is finding the root cause and fixing that."

Well in situations like this it is either a pissed off spouse, or an out-of-sorts employee. A third option given that it is YT would be someone aggrieved about the abysmal rates per video stream.

Re: That reminds me...

"I may be wrong, but I think a Windows analogue also showed up, called ToolBook."

Apparently they were all based on an AtariST program called Zoomracks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoomracks

Until the last 18mths I had internet speeds of approx 4Mbit. At times it could be 1.5Mb and at good times 5Mbit. This was plenty enough for accessing credibility impaired sites like wikipedia and you could listen to some YT video, it might take you a long, long time to download some ripped blu-ray film but they shouldn't be doing that anyway.

Re: Good article

"English Protestantism started because Henry VIII wanted to get he leg over Anne Boleyn."

Oh it started long before that with the Lollards, and we now know that H8 could have got his leg over Boleyn if he'd sent the Vatican a couple of cart loads of choirboys.

Re: Shame.

Classifying other people as non-human is a slippery slope towards fascism and the final solution.

Think it through.

I did and it isn't the same. With regards to the holocaust that was perpetrated against people who could not help being Jewish, Slavic, Gypsy, Homosexual, or having a genetic illness.

In the cases here we have a group of people that choose to be utter bellends, and lying bastards.