Posts by anonymous boring coward

Re: "Conducting himself in a disorderly manner"

Just don't understand how this is punishable? Are there some sex toys that are legal, and some that aren't? Or are all illegal? Seems very British this verdict somehow..

"I am curious why those with massive data files (cough, cough, Equifax), don't have 'red dye-packs' buried in their data files. They would be buried routines that would trigger some event if they were moved from one network/operating system/whatever to another."

Data isn't generally executed. Things don't quite happen in the way it does in movies, most of the time. Although Microsoft has tried hard to make it really insecure by running all sorts of sh*t that should never be run, on the altar if being "friendly".

Re: Avast / CCleaner related?

"Anything over and above that, including the attacking or attempted destruction of Israel would be anathema to people who support BDS today"

That's a bit like saying that the Soviet communists didn't support the less extreme socialists in the west. Not true.

BDS can inflict damage on Israel, so of course it will be supported by the most extreme proponents, as well as more moderate ones. Better be careful not to end up a tool of the latter.

ok, I haven't bothered doing this on Safari yet. I remember that the most popular ad blocker was worse than the ads, so I mainly use No Script. I do have Firefox for OSX, but prefer Safari for reading things that need quick and smooth resizing. Any recommendations for Safari ad/script blocking?

"it has the potential to access a hell of a lot of stuff"

If by "a hell of a lot" you mean "everything", then, yes.

So how does the Arab world treat the Palestinians, then?

Like the front line to be sacrificed to eliminate Israel, perhaps?

Re: There must be a market

How much is Apple worth now?

Re: And yet

The only problem with 10 S for the vast majority of users is that the software they might want to install is not yet available from the Store.

Presumably another problem is ms charging percentage of the purchase price of any app? Meaning that any more expensive real PC application is unsuitable for the app store.

Re: Sure Microsoft is slow.. but,

Hasn't Google said it would give some amount of time for fixes to be implemented, before publishing the vulns? Also, aren't they open to dialogue and extending this time?

If, on the other hand, the high and mighty MS can't be arsed to spend money to fix vulns, then the only way to make it happen is to actually do what you promised, i.e. publish. MS is lazy and stingy, and prefers spending money on glossy ads to fixing things.

MS doesn't have pride in their stuff. They need a cost-benefit (to them) analysis for everything they do (Ford Pinto style). There are decades old issues in Windows that they will never bother to address.

Re: Perhaps money will talk louder:

I can request a fix without paying for support. The outcome will be the same.

Re: An option for SETI@home?

It's a "super good idea" to create money (which usually is a cheap piece of paper or metal, if it even exists physically at all), by using precious energy. Especially with global warming happening. Not.

I don't see how NoScript (which I use) can help with downloaded shareware that has been polluted with Trojan junk?

It's "Creatives" with enough money to spend to get nice machines with nice screens, and a nice Unix based OS which isn't Slurp. Good for them.

Re: What about "leverage" as a verb?

"Just remember that it's only a sandwich if you slice it diagonally from corner-to-corner into triangles."

That should put a stop to many of these newfangled composite "sandwich" constructions.

Re: Not The Real. Problem

So how do felons vote then?

"They don't seem to be showering MS with love either"

No, but they sure hate Apple a lot more!

And Linux isn't all that popular either. I think they should at least try to love Linux. Too much hate in this world. (Apart from against MS and Google, of course. We can't have enough of that.)

Re: All cars will have SIM's soon

"my last two cars have had sims"

But did they require it in order to run?

Re: Go Samsung!

"You don't have kids, do you? If you did you'd know they're not interested in broadcast TV, and that YouTube is all they watch."

I only have one, and it's pretty much true. We do watch stuff from Amazon and Now TV on the TV occasionally (films). Once every two weeks or so.

Live TV? I only watch F1 every two weeks, if I remember.

Re: Bricked TVs

"If it were a Smart TV there might be some opportunity to upgrade that, make it better :)"

That's the false hope people cling to that makes them expose themselves to these issues.

Manufacturers seldom make anything better. Just wait until something REALLY needs fixing and then check if there is a fix for it.

Re: Don't buy a Samsung TV

Where did you bring them?