Very well done.
Posts by pdebarra
35 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Sep 2011
Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard
China's top EV battery maker announced a breakthrough, but top boffin isn't convinced
Bank of Ireland outage sees customers queue for 'free' cash – or maybe any cash
UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics
Twitter 2.0 signal boosts Taliban 2.0 through Blue subscriptions
Cookie consent crumbles under fresh UK data law proposals
Re: Cookies - Yes, more options, see options, maybe, but never 'no'
You do see banners with a "Reject all" button. That's supposed to accept only the essential cookies. It should be the other way around, though. Put a little link at the bottom of the page to show the cookie preference centre, so that people really are making a choice to accept them.
Of course, a large number of sites that do have a "Reject all" button still aren't compliant, as it's only a dummy.
Re: More Misdirection...........................
Agreed. Cookies are just a distraction. What's more alarming is the proposal that the government have greater control over the ICO. The ICO and other supervisory authorities should be able to hold governments to account. They're supposed to work for the citizenry as a whole, not for governments.
Musk can't tweet about Tesla without lawyer approval – and he's still fighting to end that
Google Russia goes broke after bank account snatched
No place like GNOME: 41 in beta, features frozen for forthcoming release
Indian mega-corp Tata unveils surprise 5G networking business
After Dutch bloke claims he hacked Trump's Twitter by guessing password, web biz says there's 'no evidence'
Days after President Trump suggests pausing election over security, US House passes $500m for states to shore up election security
Instagram influencer fools followers into thinking Ikea photoshoot was Bali holiday
Use an 8-char Windows NTLM password? Don't. Every single one can be cracked in under 2.5hrs
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave me tea... pigs-in-blankets-flavoured tea
Atari accuses El Reg of professional trolling and making stuff up. Welp, here's the interview tape for you to decide...
Software gremlin robs Formula 1 world champ of season's first win
Viagra's Irish plant STILL giving local men and dogs stiffies (not really)
Bonkers call to boycott Raspberry Pi Foundation over 'gay agenda'
I still haven't found what I'm malloc()ing for: U2 tops poll of music today's devs code to
Eugene Kaspersky is now personally defending your feet
Irish eyes are crying: Tens of thousands of broadband modems wide open to hijacking
Aussie trams equivalent to 30 skateboarding rhinos
Marc Benioff apologizes as Salesforce NA14 instance goes TITSUP
CODING PEEP SHOW offers chance to hire devs as they program
Daft. I spend only a small portion of my time actually coding - and a good bit of that is deleting what I wrote half an hour ago and starting again. Add all the time I spend filling in spreadsheets, and reading El Reg while code is compiling and publishing, and it's going to be pretty damn dull. And utterly useless.
Imagine: "Oh, look, he's typed 'fro'! Oh, no, he's deleting it! Nailbiting stuff here! That's an 'f'. And an 'o'. And an 'r'. 'FOR'! He's written 'for'!"
Bollox.
Call of Duty, GTA V do not make youth more violent
JPL wants to fire a laser at MARS!
Germans purge selves of indigestible 63-letter word
Crack Army pilot to be first PROPER British astronaut IN SPAAAACE
Last remaining reason to order an iPhone 5 disappears
Neil Gaiman’s saucy pop wife agrees to pay her musicians in money
Much ado
Those who volunteer are presumably doing so voluntarily. Volunteers tend to volunteer their services free of charge. She's told people up front that they won't be paid. So anyone who signs up is presumably happy with that arrangement. If nobody is happy to do that, nobody will sign up, and then she'll be forced to pay people to play with/for her instead. Either way, I'm buggered if I can see why anyone has anything to complain about.