Posts by Will Godfrey

scritping essential?

Depends on what the website is for. There is a surprising amount of control you can get with plain HTML, especially if it's just information pages, links and popups, yet you try to find one that isn't plastered with javascript.

Don't know whether to laugh or cry

Maybe I'll just laugh till I cry.

What incredible arrogance.

Still dropping in to Usenet from time to time.

I'm another one on Eternal September. I don't have much to say there but like to browse around when I'm at a bit of a loose end.

Thumb up cos. the big bad troll is going!

Not here

I don't have a dropbox account, and was suspicious of them right from the start. Indeed, there are very few online accounts I have of any kind. The only one who looks after your privacy is yourself.

Oh absolutely, and the contrast between them screaming and ranting, and you quietly and calmly producing the evidence doesn't go unnoticed.

Same old

A task force will be set up consisting of people with no technological knowledge whatsoever, and with meetings held in expensive venues.

Here, pie-in-the-sky statements will be formulated, over lush 'working' lunches.

A work of art

... and a thing of beauty

Time is the enemy

The faster the customer demands delivery, the less secure the software is going to be - whatever the language. Good design takes a lot of time, and everyone wants the latest shiny like, yesterday.

Noty again!

Rycroft assured MPs he did not "anticipate more write-offs at this stage."

I regard that statement as an absolute guarantee that there will be very many more write-offs.

Hmmm

While I don't necessarily take what the Guardian says as absolute truth, I definitely don't trust the government to get anywhere near the truth... on any matter!

Hope this goes well

I've been watching this with interest for some time. It could solve a lot of problems.

Is this only UEFI?

In the motherboard boot menu none of my machines are configured to start with this, so would I be safe - at least from this specific attack?

Boris Johnson will tell the truth

So will Donald Trump

P.S.

Vlad Putin will apologise.

A speical kind of fail

How does any business manage to design something so badly that this is even possible?

Article Title is WRONG

They didn't say that at all. They said they couldn't find a link, which is quite different.

Added to which they pointed out that they were unable to get any information from social media companies, which might be where a smoking gun is hidden.

Eggs, Basket

It never gets old.

Talk about a gift that keeps on giving

Kudos to the whole team.

Some people are just plain weird

Still, at least with this lot they make themselves obvious, so are easily avoided.

BBC Micro -Lisp

This was available as a 'sideways' ROM and I was gifted with one. I had a good crack at it and just about managed to get something out of it, but soon gave up and went back to BBC BASIC and the rather nice embedded 6502 assembler.

Only one answer

See icon!

I'd call her an ignotant cow...

but I don't want to insult cows.

Definitely not a click-bait picture

Nooo. of course not. I just happened to stumble in here by accident.

Hmmm

I wonder if there's a TLA connection. It would have been very convenient.

Excellent!

Has anyone ever worked out how much bean counters cost compared with how much they (supposedly) save?

Far too dangerous

Clearly anyone from junior management and above should not be allowed anywhere near the internet, and the rest of the workfarce should only be permitted limited access under the watchful gaze of someone with at least two communicating neurons.

P.S. workfarce was a typo, but it fits rather well!

Not used any of that.

I've been running devuan on all my PI's. I've no idea how that actually compares with the official OS, but it's good enough for everything I've wanted to do so far - including running quite a beast of a soft-synth.