Posts by Mark 65

Re: Three steps to avoid this

Perhaps the person posting places a very high value on freedom and privacy within society

Re: Mike Cannon-Brookes

Mike Cannon-Brookes Got his one big break and now somehow thinks he’s some kind of sage that we should all listen to. He’s just a politician cosying attention whore.

Re: Extraordinary surveillance powers set to be injected into govt orgs

Locking the borders for longer is just logical. Given most don't trust the numbers coming out of China would you want to open up to travellers from there? It is easier to just keep them shut rather than have to preclude people from certain countries and be able to trace everyone entering's port of origin or detect picking up nasties on the way.

Re: Cold Comfort

Specifically...

“the information that is collected from that app goes into a national data store that is fully encrypted and the Commonwealth Government has no access whatsoever to the information.”

Really? It's just complete bullshit.

Re: Around 95-99% of professional users

@Snake: Likely a case of picking your battles. The professional market could stay in a holding pattern whereas fighting competition in the phone/tablet market couldn't.

Re: Can it do orange?

This does all seem rather pointless. I can see the difference in every picture, but that's because I'm using an Eizo monitor that is designed to do so. Most people won't be able to. Most also won't give a shit.

Re: iOS update would be a blocker on the Apple–Google scheme

Neither is coming up with shit solutions.

Re: Patrolling supermarkets

Proving that no matter where you are in the world the local plod are just power hungry control freaks.

Re: Trump's Base

To be honest, I don't se what the problem is. If we have truly descended that far when it comes to intelligence that you have to explain to someone "no, don't ingest or inject disinfectant" then it is clear the gene pool itself needs disinfecting. If someone is stupid enough to inject or ingest cleaning agents in the hope of killing the virus rather than themselves then, frankly, Darwin has his man/woman. As a species we are snowflaking ourselves into oblivion.

Re: Wait? I'm a contractior now?

Australia also uses multiple income sources as the indicator

The one area where you do get issues is with modern laptops and their soldered on PCIe SSD drives. Often they require bespoke drivers that are not available for OSes other than W10. You can get Linux compatible Dell laptops if you can find them in your jurisdiction - I wasn't able to in mine and the latest Linux versions I have on my Multisystem USB simply don't see the storage.

Re: We need more tax...

However, under today's tax rates a contractor running this model still pays less tax overall than if they were taking all their money as a salary.

But they also receive no benefits paid for by the contracting entity and therefore their limited company needs to foot the bill for this. You cannot just compare the tax paid whilst not accounting for the benefits one receives over the other. 4 weeks paid leave would certainly account for a chunk of that "less tax".

Re: But

More likely at least for the non technical users is they would probably switch away from firefox because it's not working

Maybe, but given they don't know it's a DNS issue many might just end up paying $$$ for support they don't (or rather shouldn't) need. They could at least make it default to a "use X if present else behave as previously"

Roll up the paper and insert into one of the rods - multi-part rods effectively have a receiving whole on the end top of each receiving pole. Doubt they'd be looking into such a place for pot so would have missed it.

My money is still on this being BS though.

Re: Anonymous Contractor

I was one of those contractors earning 3x what the permies got. Why? I was once one of those permies and got fed up with the situation so joined them. Moral of the story is that if you don't have the stones to make the leap then keep quiet and take your lower risk income.

Depends on how his employment contract reads. In the West you certainly get ones that state all works created whilst employed by X are the property of X (including outside of office hours) - don't see why Russia would be any different in this regard.

Re: It would be nice

My concern is that people so intelligent were using text message and not at least using Signal to communicate. If you want the information to be secret (you are discussing the start up of a new tech company after all) would you not resist the urge to send messages in the open?

Re: not quite

@stiine Take the example of Facebook. Whilst they are not initially responsible for the views I espouse, once they promote them and use their algorithms to allow me to target them towards certain sectors of society then they do bear responsibility.

Re: With enough controls

@Alister: Given the UK is the home of GCHQ they already have all the mobile phone based data and metadata they could ever wish for. They just don't publicise it.

Re: Apple is deprecating Macs

Dell XPS is probably the nearest comparison, as is the price.

The problem on Lennart's laptop is the sack of s**t that sits in front of it

Re: Maybe China should build them instead

Workers are also seen as a little more expendable which helps. As does scant regard for the environment.

Re: Interesting twist ...

Any ideas as to whether such a modification would persist past a restore/OS reflash?

I would have thought any such person likely to be targeted would take a reset device through customs, reflash at the destination, then login to download data and settings from the cloud if they value security.

Re: But everything's OK.

Err, no. Customers who lost data most likely have backups just not real-time ones. If you backed up at midnight and had a failure at mid-day, for example, there will be a portion of your data that is not backed up hence you suffer data loss. It wasn't because you don't have backups though, just the timeliness of them.

Re: So, to sum up. . .

Hopefully, no Tories or Brexit Party

So you think Labour have been doing such a wonderful job? Hardly.

Re: People can feel insulted by anything if they want, it is their choice and it is their right

Justice?

Re: Stop using that phone

This is positively Orwellian

I read this bit

The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) instructed cops to stop seizing phones under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984

and thought "Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984", are they taking the piss?

Re: Foxes and dogs

My guess is that if ketchup is effective you could just use vinegar which is likely the active ingredient.

Re: I Was Young & Stupid; God Knows I Have Learnt My Lesson, And Will Never Ever...

Hillary was guilty of being stupid, but she lacked intent had rank...

FTFY

Re: F35

It's like Facebook in that it is a giant turd.

You use their client to perform the work. It filters them out before encrypting then sending.