Posts by Doctor Syntax

Re: you could do that, but...

What penguin? The OP mentioned no OS by name and the point is a good one. We need to seriously rethink desktop OS design amongst other things.

From what I've read Qubes OS seems to be a good start but I'd go a lot further. Do we need, for instance, an all-powerful user ID? Perhaps one user ID can handle disk partitioning but not have permissions to read disk contents. Another is responsible for installing applications and another manages user IDs. Another has permissions to structure a disk partition as a database and provide storage and retrieval systems as a service. Ordinary users don't get to access that database, their applications ask the server to store and retrieve files. Preferably some sort of authorisation could be devised so that the server recognises not only the user on whose behalf the request is made but also the application. Less convenient but then security is often a trade-off with convenience.

Re: Just use text/plain

A good start would be filters on MTAs which bounce - with appropriate error messages - HTML mail.

Re: you could do that, but...

Copy the online documentation to a local server.

Re: Lies versus incompetance

When I read a comment like this it always leads me to reflect on why the commentard doesn't go into politics. After all if they are so principled and nobody else is wouldn't they make such a better job?

Could it be that they wouldn't want to be slagged off by generalising commentards such as - well, such as themselves?

Re: Lies versus incompetance

"Corbyn hasn't made any fuck ups?"

Not in government but he's training hard in case he gets his chance.

Re: BroBo

how about you accept drugs approved by the US FDA for use in the NHS without requiring us to get them certified by the EU's EMA?" Which isin't actually utterly unreasonable, and probably not actually *that* problematic given that the standards are pretty similar.

How's Hancock getting along with setting up a UK approval body given that we're going to need one of our own?

Re: What is a BloJob promise worth?

I just struggle to understand the concept of how a country tied to operating as part of a large bloc such as the EU is more free than one that's independent bends over any time the US tells it to.

Do these slight amendments help you?

Re: Is the target obsurd?

There's money to be made (for somebody) in laying fibre. There's money to be lost in meeting or failing to meet real performance targets.

Re: unusable water cannon for the police, later sold for scrap at a £300,000 loss.

The prime reason though was endangering "policing by consent".

When even May realised that you should have known some was wrong.

Re: Rural rage

Ditches get cleaned out periodically. You need a Russian nuclear sub to do that with transoceanic cables.

Re: Excellent news

yes, but a few billion here and a few billion there soon adds up to real money.

Re: "The clocks on the Galileo satellites are British-designed already"

"No mention about it being designed in Britain."

No mention of anything at all unless javascript is enabled. We really need some technologically competent business to devise a language to convey marked-up data from websites to browser without all that extra overhead.

Nigel?

Re: "The clocks on the Galileo satellites are British-designed already"

Who? You?

Re: Huzzah!

And go round in ever-smaller circles.

Alternatively just how do you manage to set up a geostationary satellite that hovers directly over Birmingham?

"A suspicious mind would notice lots of very odd happenings in the world of tech at the moment."

SNAFU

"notified within a matter of seconds"

But which seconds? That seems to be the problem.

Looking forward to the On Call.

"Only in a murder trial do you have a last-minute proof that the prosecution keeps hidden until just the right time - twenty seconds before the commercial break."

And that's only fictional murder trials.

Re: Convenience v Surveillance

"my credit card"

If your credit card does this you can avoid it. What about someone else's credit card when you happen to be talking to them? How do you, or more to the point, Julz, deal with that?

Re: "the country takes the issue very seriously"

"hence why the data is being uploaded"

And yet it's possible for the mobile phone in my car to have its voice commands processed locally. How old is this advanced tech? Well, I remember a mobile phone with voice control being launched in 1986 (Topaz in the old BT Mobile catalogue).

Re: "the country takes the issue very seriously"

"Actually, there is one solution"

There's another which was John Brown's solution above. Give an audible warning when it starts live. And let's not stint, a nice flashing red light as well. It should be possible to do this locally but even if it isn't, all input when it's not live is sampled for wake-up detection and then goes straight to /dev/null.

Re: users can delete recordings themselves by accessing recordings through an app or browser.

Yup. I decides it was a joke but only by a majority verdict. Next week it might not be.

Re: It never gets any less true.

One of the things to remember when writing regular expressions is that just because it's possible to do some particular thing it isn't necessarily a good idea.