Posts by Teiwaz

Statistics

Rehabilitation for sex offenders, unlikely, they have one of the highest percentages for recidivism across all the offender groups, that also includes countries/states that have rehabilitation programs for sex offenders

I'm not sure I trust statistics like that, especially given that curated example of a serial offender as the only unverified source reference.

Such an assumption takes for granted only people with the inability to process empathy are capable of committing a sexual offence (such people would be more likely to re-offend) such assumptions are dangerous. Anyone is capable of given a certain set of circumstances. That could be falling into their own worse impulses even just momentarily or those of an enclosed group that's normalised aberrant behaviour.

Re: I can hardly believe another MS issue

"MS deprecated WMP some time ago, from their perspective they can hardly be blamed for not including it in any tests."

If they are shipping it, they should test it. If they don't want to test it, they shouldn't ship it.

If they are not testing it, and not maintaining it, why would you want to use it?

Re: What's up next?

Are they signing petitions soon to not collect any data from users and not monetarize it towards the evil ad-buyers?

I often think why bother (the monetize, not the collection) - I recently opted out of targeted ads, and haven't noticed the ads fed to me in the browser any less relevant whatsoever.

Ad-buyers aught to consider whether in fact Google are selling them dreams of relevant targeted advertising.

Not that it matters, they've got the online advertising channel 'sewn up' - but it seems to me it's nothing more than similar to getting your ad on the most watched TV channel back in TVs prime, and not much more than that.

Re: The reboot I want ...

... is Star Wars episodes 1-3, and 7-8.

Careful, Disney own it now. You might get what you wish for and it'll be filled with talking inanimate objects

- do you really want to see Luke Skywalker bantering with his lightsabre???

- Or hear Princess Leia singing a lonely duet with a piece of furniture while incarcerated in a cell on the Death Star?

Not the "public sector". Politicians on a " neo-liberal" leaning.

Don't confuse people - here in the UK 'liberal' is an actually party which generally holds to the line that if you want quality public services you must be prepared to pay in higher tax in order to fund them sufficiently - which goes to explain why there aren't many majority councils nor elected governments as the other parties usually promise more for less tax

Re: Its about time

There is a good reason that its key EU offices are in two of the biggest native English speaking countries.

Merely because they are English Speaking countries - maybe they were unaware a lot of European countries have lots of citizens also quite good at english as they actually encourage multilingualism in their education systems while it's mostly an afterthought in the UK.

With a rather large segment of the public hopelessly addicted to Facebook - blocking it might bring the government to it's knees long before Facebook noticed.

Re: Plans within plans?

Could it be Maybot knows that parliament will vote the evil plan down and force a peoples vote?

What? Have you forgotten she fought tooth and nail to keep even Parliament out of any further say from just after taking top office after the referendum?

I think she believes she's another Thatcher. If Parliament reject it, she's most likely finished.

The UK is not the likes of Switzerland or Ireland, such plebiscites are few and far between in the Uk. Which goes a long way to explain how badly handled the last one was.

Re: 24.20.100.6344

It must have involved at least one rubber chicken and man wearing armor...

Oh, I know that one, usually enacted to censure one who has got too silly though

Which when you think about it is a nice way to hamstring Corbyn and his plans if he gets into government as most EU regulations won't allow what he wants to do.

Kind of like the current government which has had entire Acts deemed illegal by European agencies.

TBH, "TV sets built in 2006" doesn't sound bad. You could probably find one with decent enough specs, but without any "intelligence" or connectivity.

Damn straight TVs unencumbered by 'Smart' sound positively wonderful.

Stayed in a Hotel recently where the TV kept jumping to some app from regular viewing due to some stray signal from the remote operated by the person in the next room.

Re: Huh?

So it's a bunch of children sitting in a room, learning stuff from an adult standing at the front with a big board. Another brilliant Apple innovation there. Whatever will we call this new concept?

If the 'big board' is a wall-sized iPad, they could call it the iPad Maxi, but that kind of sounds like a sanitary towel to my ears.

Retail stores as the venue - and at some point the store staff running the tutorial with limited preparation training for efficiency.

There's still a lot that Adobe Flash can do which HTML 5 can't

I don't know why you got d/v for that - I keep coming across people using swf to share some artistic project or another because there is nothing else convenient and in fairly widespread use.

Re: People should stop using calendars...

@Spazurtle re UNIX time. ... that's great ..... until 2038.

Everything will stop working in 2038.

They'll be some replacement by then Systemd time or something....

Re: re. if a member of the public has concerns, they should report the matter to the cops

RE: Point 4.

According to the BBC yesterday, Police are tired of dealing with Violent crimes, and are urging the public to step up 'if they feel they can'

- sounds like one of those carnival boxing challenges - Step right up, Step right up, go a round with 'mickey the knife' and win a night out with a police officer.

Re: Carp

>in days of old all that was necessary to maintain security was to lock the doors at night.

? I thought in the days of yore you had such things as moats, drawbridges and private armies - security wasn't for the masses

You are going back to far... commenter mentioned 'days of old' not 'days of yore' former had less need of full-on fortifications generally.

Re: "Microsoft is infusing intelligence across all its products and services"

Never mind 'across', how about 'into'?

Particularly regarding testing of updates.

Never mind those, what about infusing some intelligence across/into (up, if you must) Microsoft itself....?

Might be a good idea to get updates right before roll-out several times in a row before adding even more flashy complexity.

Re: Schadenfreude

Linux is missing so many opportunities....

@Cavehomme_

Sound s like basically you think 'Linux should become a corporate product, just like MS.

All the issues you have mentioned (apart from the vast choice in desktops, distros etc) are down to Manufacturers of hardware not having provided drivers (or just shit BETA ones) for their hardware, be it GPUs, Network cards, Scanners.

They often refuse or are difficult or reticent to cooperate with projects like Nouveau, or SANE to help 'Linux software engineers write their own native drivers to run their hardware.

At this point they are actively participating in locking users into the Microsoft ecosystem by continuing with this short-sighted limited outlook.

Re: re: Scotland

It seems that an alternative to Brexit would have been England and Wales leaving the UK while Scotland and NI

@ Pseu Donyme

You forget just who is propping up the Tory minority government....

@ 89724102172714182892114I7551670349743096734346773478647892349863592355648544921

Are you trying to accumulate the most down votes in the history of The Register?

Only 5 after an hour? Seems he failed that as he did his Adams trivia GCSE - everyone knows Adams writing was fueled/procastinated over by numerous baths. Really not sure if he was hydroelectrically powered/fusion powered or nuclear and needed the baths to cool down.

Re: What could be better....

... than government snoops (and corporations) having a recording device in everyone's home and office and pocket recording 24 hours a day? We're heading that way.... No cooperation from me though.

Me neither, but also mainly not all of us have disposable income enough for such mostly useless frivolities.

Re: if an open source project had MAJOR flaw rates like this

the idea that making the source available automatically guarantees quality

Well maybe not 'Guarantees', but you've a better chance of it being spotted and fixed than the oft proprietary path of ignore it until it becomes public knowledge then deny for a bit then finally throw in a fix that breaks some other stuff and Goto ignore.

Re: Is the UK ready for Brexit in any way?

Even now, after all these months, nobody knows what will happen. There are so many irreconcilable differences, the chances of getting any sort of agreement is roughly zero.

We keep being told it's 95% done.....

Is that just the arrangement for the parking and sandwiches fillers for the lunchtime breaks during talks???

Probably.

Re: So what?

Search, play, enjoy, move on

I'm no fan of MPAA, but that attitude emphasises the problem - you do not value work that has taken a great deal of time and money to create.

Oh, of course, we need to bow thrice at the altar and open vein to sign contract to potentially watch a month or twos worth of streaming content when all is wanted is the one.

A cellphone cat video is equal to a $500m blockbuster movie if you can't guarantee you connection is not going to stutter through four fifths of it or or force you to wait an extra thirty minutes while the little circle in the middle of the viewer spins around a still image.

Re: Web app? No thanks.

The advantage to a native app is the app can load even without a network.

If the native app is delivering internet content there's no advantage whatsoever.

And as an awful lot of applications merely exist to harvest user data and stream it back to HQ there's little incentive to build something that does run sans network connection.

The only reason native is usually chosen over webapp is market research tells them it'll be better recieved, and other positive metrics.

Re: It's not a compass.

And then someone will have to interface it to Android and iOS. That's where things will really get tricky.

Oh, good, the app makers can use the 'because it's quantum' excuse as to why the app will only work when given every permission under the sun, including inside leg measurements in realtime.

Re: Users are locked in and they can't go anywhere

I don't believe so. The consumer market can walk away

The user isn't really locked in by MS anymore, they are locked in by their own belief that there is no alternative but to put up with it.

Walls of their own making, 'cause aren't we all trapped by walls of our own making?