Posts by sabroni

Re: My data is mine, not yours.

And Google's, obviously.

Re: It's 2018 and your article titles are getting a little repetitive

Whereas "just sayin'" never gets old......

Re: "could be exploited by dodgy webpages to execute malicious code within the browser"

Just fixing browsers so they only run scripts from the domain you're visiting would be a start. Then if I'm compromised on your site it's because you served me a bad script, you can take it down and fix it. B if you're serving from multiple domains you don't control then your being irresponsible and lazy.

When i downloaded an app i don't expect to have to pick up components from a dozen other sites to get it working, how come we allow "web apps" to behave like this?

Re: we have a president now that actually cares about his oath of office

You have a president who doesn't understand his oath of office.

Re: Irony

Alanis, is that you?

Re: American democracy

"If it's really that awful to you, don't live here. Move to mexico or the UK, or Greece, or Canada. Really much better, get the f-ck out, and don't come back."

Isn't that the poem written on the Status of Liberty?

Re: BT HUB 5

That article doesn't explain the nature of the bug, got a link to a story that fingers BT for the problem and not Google? They both have previous....

re: the browser prompts you when a site wants to fsck with your Bluetooth

That's exactly what happens with location anyway, isn't it? It's certainly the way Chrome are talking about it here: https://medium.com/@jyasskin/the-web-bluetooth-security-model-666b4e7eed2

The risk isn't so much "you visit a site and don't know it's accessing bluetooth" as "you visit a site you trusted with bluetooth and it's been compromised since you last visited it".

Re: I really don't care what the paint job looks like as long as it works.

People have more success using attractive interfaces. This has been demonstrated by implementing identical functionality in two guis (one ugly, one pretty) and seeing how usable they are. When things go wrong users are put off by an ugly interface much more quickly than a pretty one. They will persist with the pretty one, often to a successful conclusion, while abandoning the ugly one.

So if you want software to be successful you need to think about what it looks like.

Re: If I ever find myself tied to a gig-economy app

Does that help? If they have access to your bank account to pay you then the phishers have a chance of getting at it too. You need a burner bank account, not a burner phone.

@Destroy All Monsters

Any idea why the Java engineers decided running all the missed instances was necessary? Most scheduled tasks I'm familiar with process whatever data is available when they run, so a single instance running would pick up all the missed data. I'm struggling to think of a situation where this "run multiple instances at the same time "behaviour would be of value.

Re: I hope I can disable

If they're not testing it in exactly that configuration then they're doing it wrong. Let's see....

Re: and instead I have to open these in IE.

They're targetting Chrome. No one give a fuck about IE anymore.

Re: Alternatively...

Use an IDE that puts them in for you?

I just stay in.

Re: I finally managed to patch my T-Mobile Sony xperia SP phone after 3 years

The only good thing I have to say about Sony phones is that they make it easy to unlock the bootloader. They may not provide updates but if the device is popular enough you may find a third party Android build for it....

@Kristian Walsh

Thanks!

Does make me wonder about the thinking power of the people on here claiming it's a great read with many valid points.....

Re: an operating system and, as such, is not supposed to innovate.

So you're still running CPM yeah?

Yeah, and once chrome is the only browser in use we can go back to a web that only works on one browser! Won't that be great?

Re: Mid Range

That's the u11, not the u11 life, isn't it? As mentioned in the article.

Re: it is still very significant to prove that something can be done at all

Indeed. They've proved that the more computing power you throw at a problem the faster you can fix it. TBF we did know that already. The way this "experiment" was designed it's clear it's mainly an advert for Google.

Re: And you eagerly respond to the not-so-subtle directive like you've been corn-ditioned to do so.

My irony meter's just blown...

Re: How will the kids learn?

Learning not to rely on Google would be the obvious lesson...

Re: Love the Hendrix reference

Who's Hendrix?

Quality!! :-)

Re: NOT in charge

If only that were true...

Re: Now runs like a lame dog that had it's balls cut off etc....

Is that a change? In my experience that's what happens to all Android handsets after 6 months of use, update or no....

Re: solve the problems therein so completely that they make everyone else look bad

Where the problems are "humans having privacy" and "musicians making money from the music they make". They've certainly put a stop to both of them....

re: I had the same issue with the Nexus android tablets

No you didn't, that was just Google permissionless innovation in battery usage! A completely different thing to what those MS bastards are doing!!!