Posts by Cynical Shopper

Re: Framework + Core = .NET 5

I would say it's more .NET 5 => (Framework == dead).

The writing's been on the wall since Core came along. When MS say "Framework's not deprecated", they actually mean "time to jump ship".

Any cookie management screeen that has opt-ins pre-ticked is not GDPR compliant.

Re: Green Locked Padlock icon

Except in this case, given that the hackers modified a file on BA's server, they could have modified its CSP too.

Re: Default opt-ins

Default opt-in was allowed yesterday.

But any of those opt-ins no longer apply today.

Re: Impossible? No

And how do you convince crims to use this encryption, rather than something secure?

@ Lost all faith... "Because [Netflix] do fuck all when it comes to Radio, Websites, Current affairs; in fact anything they can't buy in several months in advance."

If you needed a licence to consume *any* BBC content then your argument would stack up, but most of the stuff you mention doesn't require a TV licence.

Re: OpenSource

"The Groove app will continue to play wma files"

Who?

Re: Horse, door, oh...

"Microsoft are on record saying that Windows 10 is the last "major" version, it's a rolling program of "minor" updates from then on."

Didn't they say that about IE6? That worked out well...

Re: Spawn of Satan

I tried this once - it responds with a message along the lines of, "We'll call you back later".

Some time later, a human calls you up saying you requested a marketing call. It's all to get around the TPS "survey" loophole - which I informed the human that we both knew was the case. He said, "Why did you press 2 then?", to which I responded, "I wanted to know what company to avoid giving any business to."

Re: Santander must also not be hashing passwords

Santander's login differs depending on which bank they took over that you used to be with. I locked myself out once due to their telephone banking system asking me for a field I don't have on my account.

The customer ID length being "unknown" would be very weak security by obscurity.

Storing hashes of each 3-character combination of your password (along with the necessary indexes of the characters) is pointless - it vastly reduces the attack space to brute force your password. Once you've got the first three characters, attacking another hash that re-uses 2 of your now-known characters is simple, and so on.

Unpicking the mess

So long as you and the car are in one of 43 quintillion pre-determined combinations.

Re: The pointless use of a ternary operator when there is no 'else' action

I think you may have misread the line as:

$path = $path[0] == "\/" ? substr($path, 1, strlen($path)) : $path;

As it is, the code is equivalent to:

if ($path[0] == "\/")

___ $path = substr($path, 1, strlen($path))

else

___ $path;

I'd equate that to "no else action".

Re: One surprise...

"MOT test is being upgraded to ensure that all emission reducing devices originally installed are still present at the test. So you would need to reinstall the DPF and EGR for it."

But will you? I don't see much reduction in the fitment of aftermarket HIDs, despite the lack of self-levelling, supposedly now checked for as part of the MOT.

Re: limited support

"They currently support iOS 8 and devices up the iPhone 4S."

Yep - they "support" them until they're unusable: iOS 7 killed my iPhone 4. Patched iOS 6 would've been more sensible, but then I wouldn't have needed to get a new phone!

> all laptops should be vanilla with no differentiation

I'm sure Sony's system management firmware differentiation really drew in the crowds.

Re: I hope it fixes the little UI niggles

iOS 7 introduced the big UI flaws - displaying the "last view" snapshot image when an app has to be restarted due to being booted out of memory, despite the app being configured not to.

And Safari temporarily displaying the "last view" snapshot of page when navigating back, only to replace it with the current page when it doesn't reload within 2 seconds.

In both of these situations, the screen's just showing an image, but there's nothing to let the user know that.

Re: Version for Android coming up?

Like PC iTunes, its Apple's one chance to appeal to the users of their competition.

Similarly, I expect Apple to completely cock it up.

Re: Upgrade your RAM?

"How do they calculate that price?"

8GB = £160 (included)

16GB = £320 (so an extra £160)

32GB = £640 (so an extra £480)

So it's £20 per GB, for the same stuff that Crucial will sell you for £5.40 per GB.

Re: So the UK once had the most competitive mobile markets..

Deutsche Telekom never had a hand in Orange.

Presumably Ledswinger's referring to them half owning what's become of Orange.

Re: as an American, all I can say is...

If it helps, we do get more liquid in our gallons.

Re: No one cares...

If I remember correctly, what's currently happening is "step 1". The agreement is that if (when) step 1 is found ineffectual in reducing copyright infringement, more draconian steps will be taken.

So, you're best off keeping quiet and pretending piracy has been cured.

Re: I just want

You can have proper motion when they start filming at sensible frame rates.

Re: OS integrated browser was MS's point of failure.

"But IE offered "multiple tab browsing" by putting each new tab (each new window) into the taskbar at the bottom of the screen -- a break with standard (and very successfull) Windows design of putting application menus on the application window, not on the main screen."

IE conformed to the Windows 95 "document-centric" ethos - each separate document was supposed to have its own window and button on the taskbar; it was Firefox that broke the rules. Tabbed IE now has the horrific mess of a single window and multiple taskbar entries, similar to Excel and its dreadful MDI window left over from Windows 3.1 days.

Better than 80 quid for the same on an iPhone (and 80 vs 40 for the 16Gb upgrade).

Ignoring that 32Gb of SD card costs about 12 quid, does the iPhone have better memory than the iPod to explain the discrepancy?