Posts by Steve Davies 3 7150 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
is coming anywhere near my Linux systems. If it did it would find slurping my data back to Redmond because at the last count, I have more than 600 MS-owned domains and IP addresses blocked at my firewall and this includes microsoft.com.
Once you let these guys into your domain, like any invasive species such as cane toads in OZ they are almost impossible to get rid of.
JLR was sold to Ford in 2000 and then Ford sold it in 2009 to Tata.
Both of those deals were done with a Labor Government in power.
Both main UK Political parties have questions to answer on this whole mess. I can remember Mt Gannex himself talking bollocks about 'the white heat of technology. Even he wasn't afraid to sell parts of the UK Industrial crown jewels to Johhny foreigner.
those numpties on Wall St who make a living predicting APPL's revenue out of orifices that they normally sit on.
The Apple bubble will probably burst in a couple of quarters if the many anti-trust cases go against them.
Then there is the Epic squabble which goes to trial next month.
You make a lot of good points
Yet, Volvo/Geely have gone with Google Android in its EV's. I'd love to know what the interrupt latency of that package is when compared to a dedicated RTOS.
Perhaps single digit microsecond responses to external events aren't needed in a car? (sic)
Texas might be big but there are bits of France that are 12+ hour flights away from Paris (not Paris Texas...)
Reunion is a lovely place to go. I'd expect that 99.99% of Texans would not have a clue where Reunion is on a map of the world.
As for being liked... Texans aren't liked by many other US citizens. If you want a corrupt state (and there are many if not most states) then Texas is at the top with Florida close behind but catching up rapidly especially after they've passed laws basically allowing car driver to run down protesters and not be prosecuted. Governor De Santis would probably give you a medal if you did just that.
El Trumpo promised and promised an 'Infrastructure Week' but failed to deliver even one. He was totally devoid of ideas. Not surprising really. After all, he is a failed businessman several times over.
Biden comes in and within 100 days, he has a plan. That must really hurt the GQP drones (like Gaetz, Bobert and M T-G (of space lasers fame))
All they can do is lie, bluster, lie and say No, No and thrice No to anything that Biden and co want to do.
With the Senate split 50/50 that have to tread carefully especially with two Repubs in their ranks (Manchin and Senima)
The whole thing is playing out a soap opera.
OTOH.... The Fruity Company would get a huge amount of stick here and in many other places if they didn't make every effort to find these holes and fix them.
I wonder if there are any 'Will Not Fix' replies on their IOS Security Bugzilla. Seeing that would be a gold mine to the likes of Corellium.
Given the moves in Missippi to make April a celebration of 'Confederacy' and in Florida where De Santis is going to implement political correctness (his correctness) on Professors and Students at Universities then it might not be that far away.
With the latter, I fully expect to see McCarthy like trials where the faculty has to prove loyalty to their 'dear leader' aka De Santis.
Add in the fact that a blind mule could be put up as a candidate in the Matt Gaetz constituency and still win the election by a landslide shows how far ingrained the GOP psyche is in the South.
Meanwhile, No 45 is hiding away in FLA playing round after round of Golf with cronies (the latter always lose because 45 cheats) just waiting to rise like a Phoenix in August (according to the My Pillow guy) and resume his residency of the White House.
The whole thing is like a soap opera which would be entertaining if the USA didn't have the most powerful military machine in the world.
Will scupper an awful lot of startup CEO's retirement plans. Don't many of them want just this very thing? Then they can walk away with their pockets stuffed with cash and .... rinse and repeat.
That's how the Millionaires at 22 become Billionaires by 30.
The American Way.
Putting limits on take-over size does seem almost socialist in nature and very out of order for a true Republican.
OTOH, I suspect that a few very large brown envelopes (20ft container sized) might make this all go away. As has been said many times, the USA gets the Government it can buy but not afford.
but.... haven't we been told for years that:-
- Matte screens are crap for watching movies
- Matte screens are more expensive than glossy ones.
ergo,
Laptop makers think that everyone ONLY watches movies (hence the widescreen aspect ratio) and does nothing else.
Using your laptop with a glossy screen for business?
Cue most laptop makers laughing at you. Then they ignore you and produce more of the same crap.
Isn't that why we had years of 1368x768 screens on laptops for years?
The jolly road tax dodgers around here (and there are a lot) know where all the cameras are and simply avoid them. As the Plod [1]are extinct in this part of the world, they are safe apart from the off mobile camera van.
Out local Plod can't even stop Nox parties during lockdown when they have been told in advance about them. Many of those at the parties are driving untaxed and consequently uninsured cars.
This is all less than 40 miles from the seat of Gubbermint.
1] This is despite us supposedly having 30 more officers in the local area.
You are talking about the likes of Uber, aren't you?
There are a lot more companies like them that never seem to make a profit yet continue to trade.
If this was us, we'd be closed down in a flat but these scumbag orgs can somehow afford to pay accountants to cook the books. Tax evasion is the pandemic we all know about but can't do anything about.
OR
the friend of the US State of Georgia (And others once the laws get passed)
Why?
Georgia and 42 other states are trying to pass laws that make it harder to vote. Some of these include multiple pieces of state-certified ID. A simple driving license is not enough.
While the DDR was nominally communist Georgia is very much to the right of centre. Both can't be right can they?
have any relevance on this case?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56639088
I just wish that SCO (or whoever they are called this week) would just disappear down the sewer from whence they came and never return.
Eat this SCO and your scumbag lawyers [see icon]
With Google getting into the CAR OS business (Volvo's etc) you can expect an awful lot more data collection. I would not put it past them to facial recog all occupants of the vehicle for each and every trip. They'll know all about you and them and then start sending targeted ads to the car.
That's only the tip of the iceberg I'm afraid.
I guess that the trustee that was appointed well over a decade ago has run out of excuses for their continued milking of funds from somewhere and needs to justify their existence once more.
Zombies rising from graves spring to mind here. Not vampires as the SCO body was drained around 2009.
Please, please, please IBM nuke this thing properly this time.
As for PJ... if you do read this then please come back. The depth of your research into the nuances of every move that the likes of Darl McBride made was enlightening especially to those of us who were not lawyers. I see much of what you pioneered in the daily musings of Glenn Kirschner (Justice Matters on youtube)
Long live Tux!
Eh?
I used a TM backup last August to move from a 2012 15in MBP to a 2020 16in MBP and it went like a dream. Everything moved across including all applications (some homegrown) my passwords and bookmarks and .... well everything.
In November I moved a friends setup from a 2011 Mini to a 2019 mini again, without issue.
The only prep we did was to make sure that all the apps were 64bit versions.
I know that I'm not alone in having that sort of experience. i.e. Good.
If you know different perhaps you might like to explain what went wrong?
Is also great for moving to another system. Take a backup and then connect the TM drive to the new system while you are setting it up and MacOS does everything for you. No more searching for license keys or software. All your files and apps get moved over.
This is the sort of thing that Windows has been lacking in since V1.0.
and a 2ft thick volume of mystical incantations.
The average user would not know where to start with those utilities.
Gnome devs lost the idea of KISS back around 2006 and have never found it.
They went off down this path (to oblivion) where they make everything so complex that no one bothers trying to customise it. Instead, they suffer just long enough for the whole stinking mess to remind them how bad it is in reality. Then they turn to their own favourite GUI and consign Gnome to history until an update overwrites their settings and it appears again, like the Daleks in Dr Who. They get totally wipes out every series or two but still keep returning.
Are there any left? The move from Gnome 2 to the monstrosity that was and still is Gnome 3 did so much damage, there is IMHO little left to recommend it.
I say Fuck you to those promoting keyboard shortcuts. They have always been and always will be only useful for right-handed people. Us lefties... you know those of us who have the temerity to use the mouse with their left hand find them a total PITA and then some.
People say that they only use the default browser on windows in order to download the one they want to use. The same applies here. I only suffer Gnome 3 long enough to get Mate installed and working.
Die Gnome developers... die. May you all go to hell for the pain that you have needlessly subjected us poor users to over the years.
Have an upvote for telling the truth.
What Windows has needed for well over a decade is a setting that allows experts to not have to install all the cruft (aka bloatware) that many business users simply don't want or can't use because of security concerns. For example NOT installing On-Drive and having a setting somewhere that can be set that stops any user from installing and setting it up would be a start.
But... Sadly Redomd would never allow that. Their entire focus is to make everything migrate to their cloud whether you like it or not. Once that happens they really do that you by the short and curlies.
or 15 miles from the M25.
There are ZERO plans to get FTTH available for domestic customers.
i fully expect that BT will fibre up all the constituencies where the MP is on one of the select committees that BT have to answer to (and/or where the MP has their 2nd/3rd/4th homes)
why not sell them on the open market?
I know that you (amazon) want everyone to move to your cloud but you have to accept that not all workloads can be put in the cloud. At least selling them to us mere mortals would give you some (quite a lot IMHO) return on your investment outside of your AWS business line.
Then again, the naughty boys (and gals) might find the security holes in the raw silicon that you'd rather not be exposed.
If they keep on doing this then it won't be long before those researchers decide NOT to tell MS about the Zero-days etc that they discover on their crappiness... sorry apology for software.
Treat them nicely and they'll play ball with you. Don't and... be prepared to suffer the consequences.
Even today, developers fall foul of name/password length limits.
I've just encountered this with an EV charger. The WiFi SSID password field that you need to use to setup the device is hardcoded to have a max length of 16 characters. My home network has a password that in 32 Hex characters. The WiFi standard allows up to 64 characters.
Impasse. Luckily I had an old Access Point that I reconfigured to connect the charger.
Doh!
is developing to an interface spec. Some people will be very, very strict and follow is exactly.
Others will be a lot more tolerant w.r.t the spec.
We see that in other charging systems. I'm talking about those used by Electric Cars and the CCS standard.
Chargeplace Scotland installed a load of chargers that follow the spec but many cars simply won't connect to the charger and accept power. Those same cars can use other chargers without issue.
Thankfully everyone seems to be erring on the side of safety. 400V DC @ 200A (or more) is not to be messed with.
Google and Twitter are not alone.
You can add Twitter and now Apple into the mix.
As a side note, 'Sign on with Apple' is being investigated for Anti-Trust violations. If they are guilty then the others are even guiltier as it is far more widespread.
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