Posts by Mark #255

Re: Destroys all saved data

It sounds like your profile became corrupted and your Firefox has created a fresh profile.

Mozilla Support has some help

You may be able to recover the logins.

Another alternative is foil-backed insulation board, eg Kingspan or Celotex.

You even get plausible deniability, 'cos it's bog-standard construction material.

You also get massively reduced Wi-Fi & mobile phone signals, as long as you tape the seams properly.

on line rental

They don't want to go full fibre as they want to keep their line rental slush fund.

Line rental is a contribution towards upkeep of the wires (whatever they're made of) between a property and the exchange.

I'm not sure why changing over to a fibre-optic line does away with the need for that upkeep, or the need to fund that maintenance.

Of course, you could be arguing that the amount of maintenance vs cost of line rental is not balanced, but that's a different argument to the one I inferred from your comment.

Re: Cleaning in progess

Because, of course, ALL people near Pokestops are players of the game.

And not one of them might be simply passing by.

Re: Cool, but why?

I'm not a rocket-car scientist, but it appears that it's pushing engineering and materials science to their limits, as well as instrumentation & feedback systems.

All those things tend to trickle down into mainstream use.

Re: EU - making it up as they go along

Well, that's a bit of a non-sequitur. If tax minimisation is immoral, then companies should welcome paying a "fair" share.

But if tax minimisation is amoral (instead being simply "doing business"), and a company makes no value judgement as to what is "fair" or "unfair", then the EU altering its rules is similarly just "doing business".

TL;DR you can't complain that it's the EU's fault, then complain when the EU do something about it.

Re: screensavers

You are aware that screensavers are not actually needed on LED/LCD displays? And, if you are still using a CRT then it's probably time to switch to something slightly newer..

Plasma screens, innit.

Re: This is not a design fault

IEC-61000-4-3 2006 [...]

That's merely a basic standard, containing the test method. It doesn't require testing to be undertaken over the entire frequency range. The product standard for IT equipment is CISPR 24, which calls up IEC 61000-4-3, but only specifies its use up to 1 GHz.

And yes, I am an EMC engineer.

Re: "The beginning of wisdom is to call things their proper names"

I'll counter your (possibly-)Confucian quote with a mis-remembered Yes, Minister quote along the lines of:

You get the tricky parts out of the way in the title, and never have to refer to them again.

The last three PC upgrades I've done have ended up using AMD parts. Yes, i7 chips are bloody fast, but I really can't justify* the cost, compared to an A8.

* Even though the A8 can take 12 hours to compress a Bluray down to a sensible number of gigabytes

Re: Wonder where they got the bulbs from

Ideal until they fizzle out in about six months.

You might leap to conclusions about CFL factory location and quality, I couldn't possibly comment.

They're coming up for their fourth or fifth winter, so they're not going too badly.

We also have some 20W daylight bulbs which get used every day, and are now noticeably dim for the first 20 seconds or so. I guess I'll need to change them at some point.

Re: Privacy @Chris 125

So aren't they forced to ask for your details?

As a counter-example of (arguably) doing it correctly:

Premier Inn's free wi-fi doesn't require a phone number; it doesn't require that the name you give matches the name you booked the room with; and it hasn't yet sent any spam to the address I signed up with.

Re: The real universe doesnt care

Actually, it's a shape defined by the EGM96 coefficients.

Re: No problemo . . . me t'inks

Well, you're wrong. CMEs in 1989 led to the destruction of an HV transformer in New Jersey, and the collapse of the Quebec power grid (90 seconds from normal functioning to a full system failure).

Surge protectors provide microsecond-long absorption of high voltages, not the quasi-static huge currents that are induced by CMEs. Thinking that surge protectors would help is like thinking that a waterproof jacket would help stop your house flooding.

Re: Lead nuclear mass - @Voyna i Mor

A nucleon is either a proton or a neutron, not a single lead nucleus. With an atomic weight of 208, a lead atom (or ion) has 208 nucleons.

Condensing Boilers (Re: My current pet hate)

As an aside (i.e. OT!) we don't want a more efficient boiler as it all likelihood it would require a complete rebuilding of the C/H system

It depends how exotic your system is: certainly you can get a condensing boiler that's a plumb-in replacement for a system boiler, leaving all your existing system (hot water tank, pumps, controller etc) intact.

Re: The best and worst features

Browsers should be completely blocked from being able to communicate with *any* other program on a device...

I disagree. mailto, phone numbers and addresses are things that I frequently click on, to open in another app.

The alarming issue is the apparent programmatic/automatic nature of it.

As an aside, the messaging app on my Moto G warned me recently that I was about to send a chargeable (out-of-bundle) text message; this is probably the appropriate app to know about these things, rather than the browser.

Re: Real World!

Regarding biometric data, they're akin to your username, not to a password.

Re: Stop it, Mozilla

Also, it was a soft block; that is, the user could click through on the banner to enable flash on a per-site basis.

Re: Familiarity

Ian McMillan and Carol Ann Duffy both seem to qualify...

more pedantry

Interestingly, the full OED entry (possibly £) for decimate has the, er, "colloquial" usage as sense 4b

"4. transf.

b. rhetorically or loosely. To destroy or remove a large proportion of; to subject to severe loss, slaughter, or mortality."

Which just goes to show that, even though English dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive of current usage (there is no Académie Anglaise), there aren't an awful lot of dictionary compilers gritting their teeth and muttering "that is WRONG!"

Re: why, why, why... what is the point?

Which is why I cannot support this idea, at least not unless Mozilla dig into their deep pockets to set up a non-profit, free for the user, certificate authority.

I'm afraid then, Mr/Ms Coward, you'll have to wait until last November before you can strike that off your list of demands reasons why you cannot support this idea.

Re: Lolipop

Just before Christmas, an update for "Motorola Update Services" arrived through the Play Store, which claims "This update is necessary to enable a future upgrade of your device to Android 5.0, Lollipop". I'd check you've got that updated.

(1st Gen Moto G on 5.0.2 over here)