Re: So, Google is pulling a Microsoft ?
Sounds like Google pulling a Google!
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Very true. Unlikely to succeed however as we would lose our opt outs and attempts to keep some distance from the EU control. We would have to accept the Euro, not a good currency at all as the EU proper (Eurozone) is in real bad shape. But it is possible.
Oh, you mean those special arrangements we had? Nice for a brexiter to admit they existed for once!
And yeah, but you realise the country will be desperate to join, due to the crashing economy, and the increased determination by those young you screwed over who will become old enough to vote.
Face it, we will eventually have the Euro as our currency, all due to you leavers! Still, if you don't like it, you can leave!
Because we had a result, to leave. We passed the deadline twice and still there is massive uncertainty of how we will leave. Every attempt to remain instead of leave has brought a delusional situation where MP's even vote against a hard brexit, the legal default they actually cannot stop!
So, that would be "remainers" from the list of excuses I posted.
Damn those democratic politicians doing their jobs as elected for... "the will of the people"
And damn that Westminster parliamentary sovereignty eh? You know, the one that we don't have, but you want to get back from the evil EU.
Of course, nothing to do with the fact that leavers didn't have a frigging clue what "leave" means, and as evidenced by your post, they still don't.
Still, you won. Get over it.
Could a brexiter please explain why all the news and advice these days regarding brexit is not how to enjoy and spend our new wealth, but how to best mitigate it's effects?
Don't tell me, it's all down to the sabotage inflicted by remainers / the EU / foreigners / Democrats.. ?
Whenever a security breach is found, most responsible people patch to fix the problem.
Third-party cookies are one such breach, and yet google will do something in 2 years time?
As for user agents, all mine have been "stuck" at the same thing (well, updated perioidically to match the latest and most popular version) for years.
Anyone who tries to assume browser-capabilities based on user-agent string can sod off. This ain't the 90's
(We need a "grumpy old man" icon)
Whilst the mooted increases may not be much, :
1) That's for now. Nothing stopping them increasing them at any point, on a whim. Basically, they will keep increasing them to a point where the profit from doing so is eclipsed by the lost revenue of falling domains.
No doubt they'll test the water with incremental changes, but they aren't the sort of people you want potentially holding you to ranson.
2) It's the damn principle! :-)
"Short of a major improvement in peer to peer networking leaving the current infrastructure redundant I don’t see a good way out of this unless the new owners get an attack of conscience and put .org into charity ownership. Sorry, dropped off there and started dreaming."
ICANN only "own" root because everyone lets them. Similarly, ".org" is only owned by whoever ICANN says it is because everyone lets them.
If the world got together, and said "enough! restore .org or we'll split".
Anyone could recreate root and ICANN would be out of the equation - it's all down to critical mass.
N.B. I'm not for "root" to be fractured - but if everyone else decided to use a new worldwide independent root, they couldn't be technically stopped.
(I'd also kick out all those new "top level domains" for starters.... Shove them all under a domain ".idiots".. But I guess that ship has sailed...)
Exactly. I have no issue with Linus's response (just going by what's quoted in this article), but for people to then lay the blame on Oracle is wrong, but typically not surprising.
I'm no Oracle fan, but time and time again, I've seen people diss authors for releasing software under something other than the GPL, often when the license chosen is more free!
On that subject, I suppose that in the times of Johnson and Trump, it shouldn't be a surprise to hear GPL advocates argue that their license with *more* restrictions than, say, the BSD licenses, somehow makes it *more* free.
I use ZFS, freely. I'm not restricted. It's in the kernel (FreeBSD) and Oracle don't charge me a penny for it.
As Rich said, why is Oracle at fault if *your* licensing restriction won't let you use it?
This isn't a rant against the GPL itself, just against all those in the "GPL cult".
Hey guys, use the GPL if you want, but don't complain when others don't. The whole thing is a cult with some people - many of who don't even understand what the GPL actually says - witness the number of people who moan when they discover that someone is making money off GPL software they wrote. Again, if you don't want that to happen, don't use the GPL, but stop cheerleading it when you obviously don't agree with its philosophy.
All these geoiplocators still haven't worked out how the UK's ADSL works.
Very rarely I'm located as being in Swansea (where I actually am)
Bridgend and the Rhondda are apparently places I frequent, as are various English and Scottish towns.
Oh, and "speedtest", asks permission to use my (real) location to find the closest server, and thus chooses Cardiff, despite the fact my connection enters "the internet" at Telehouse in London...
... still a bit too wide for the hand, though. Now if they narrowed it a bit, and contoured it to fit the hand more naturally, they may have a winning design, back like the phone shapes of 20 years ago...
Oh, and for a communications company, they don't have much to say - their website has an average of 20 words per screen. Crappy PR faff for the hard of concentrating. Hardly trendsetting.
The builder was Richard Briers, and ICM5P
https://ever-decreasing-circles.fandom.com/wiki/The_Footpath
I remember reading ages ago a comment on here, or maybe slashdot (yes, it was that long ago) where a guy was on a camping holiday with his mate and his mates girlfriend.
She always claimed to be affected by wi-fi signals (specifically) and whilst on the holiday, happened to mention that her head was much clearer now in this environment with no wi-fi buzzing around.
He didn't tell her that at the time, his portable hotspot just a couple of meters away was powered up...
I've no idea how good they are, but geatbest sell them, and I've reliably used them for lots of stuff:
You'll presumably want to select GBP from the top drop down menu:
https://uk.gearbest.com/pen---pencils/pp_3003773264317246.html?wid=2000001
https://uk.gearbest.com/keyboards/pp_597022.html?wid=1433363
OSS on FreeBSD has supported mutliple mixed virtual audio devices (and hardware-provided ones) for as long as I've been using it, which is over 20 years.
[ https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?sound ]
Linux did use OSS, but their implementation was buggy, and couldn't do virtual audio device mixing.
Instead of fixing it, they wrote "the new shiny" ALSA (The "L" standing for Linux just in case anyone still thought that linux users cries about MS software not being "cross-platform" actually meant anything other than "it should run on linux.- don't care about anything else!"
And so, we get the sitution where Mozilla etc. drop OSS for alsa, or pulseaudio etc. and so FreeBSD has to support these unnecessary gimmics just for sound to work..
Ahhhh yes, I remember when ports was more than just a plaything for pkg developers...
There have been some good advances, but some iffy ones, but woe betide anyone who dares have a different opinion... As you say, pet projects and idealism - it's why most of my patches remain local these days :-(
I totally agree on the space hopper too!
I would just say "my phone will be on the kitchen table, or on silent, switched off, or just won't be answered".
No need to come up with excuses when I'm on my own time! (Not quite the total bastard, if a colleague did phone and I happened to hear it, and was in a position to help, I would, but don't expect me to be prepared for such a scenario!)
ILike a total idiot, I'd messed up the order of a new filesystem in /etc/fstab - I placed it before it's parent mount. The server was used for interdepartmental stats reports by various boses, along with being a site dns server, and site internet proxy/intranet.
Months later, one bozo from the windows team went to do something on one of their servers, and did alt-ctrl-delete on the wrong keyboard, trying to wake his box from the screensaver (who does that anyway?? Pressing "SHIFT" surfices._
Needless to say, the box tried to reboot, and failed due the fstab entry, about 10am. I wasn't in that day, and so the machine was down until a colleague started work at 3pm..
There was a bunch of Unix support guys on site, but no-one had a clue what was wrong.. sigh.
Still, it was my stupid cockup...
It reminds me of something a sys-admin of a university wrote years ago, back when people cared about such things:
Every time a member of staff left, he set up an email autoresponder on their old email address, saying something like:
"XXX has left the university. His new email address is YYY. Your email has automatically been forwarded onto this new address, but please update your address book, as this old address will be deleted on ZZZ [ 6 months after leaving date]
He said that after the account was deleted, he always got people asking for the new address, as they'd forgotten to update the old one.
So subsequently, he changed the system, and the email response to say that the email HASN'T been forwarded on, and the user HAS to resend it to the correct address themselves.
From then on, when the old account was deleted, he barely had any comeback.
People are lazy. Do something for them once, they'll expect it forever, which is probably why I'm pissed off I wasn't invited to my brothers for Christmas like I was last year :-)
No, it's a generic stock image (shutterstock_laying_fibre2.jpg) because El Reg think we're too thick to know what a hole digger looks like.
Apparently, as per other articles, it also helps to see what a person shouting at their phone looks like when we read artciles about customer complaints.
Articles about people frustrated by some piece of software are only clear to us when we see someone sitting at a laptop shaking his fist at the screen.
And who the hell would know what a network outage meant, without photos of spaghetti-riddled switches and routers?
Of course, when an author does use a valid photo, it leaves us thinking "Is that the mentioned grifter just before his court case, or is it file_dodgy_looking_bloke_enters_court_looking_angry.jpg"
No, no, no! And it's not to do with the "competition" angle mentioned, but as soon as you assume a browser quriks, you end up locking out systems that don't even have that browser available.
It would be a return to that "best viewed in internet explorer" or the ever inappropriate one often seen on commerce sites "This site will only work with internet explorer 6. You must upgrade to continue" - A lovely way to treat potential customers who were most likely "upgraded" far beyond what IE6 offered.
In a similar vein, how many of these "browser quirks" today are real, and not down to badly written html/css/code that doesn't conform to standards?
Did I like being called nerd/geek/swot in school?
No.
Was it said with malice?
Yes.
But it's nothing like "the N word" - I don't recall my ancestors being slaves, or made to sit away from "normal" people, and I don't recall us being systematically attacked, murdered, and generally abused and looked down on.
**That** is what defines hate speech. Not something you hear that you don't like.
Taking her point to its logical conclusion, no-one would be able to say anything that someone else didn't like.. A dystopian facade of utopia.
Hate speech, racism, and other forms of hate are legitimate issues, but just like calling Cuomo "Fredo", this ain't the bloody N word, and I say this despite being on Cuomos side in his attack on the right wing troll who hassled him.
People have the right to be jerks - no matter how much it annoys me when they are.