Posts by Dan 55

Why, what would you do when neither Palemoon nor Firefox ESR 52 can coax any sign of life out of Yet Another Website no matter where you click?

Switch to Waterfox. There's also Vivaldi and Opera.

Doesn't clearing cookies at end of session but setting up a cookie exception list on Firefox do that for you? (If it's still there in v62.)

Also, Safari 12 seems to have finally got cookies worked out (a different cookie jar for every site). Hopefully this will catch on with the rest.

Re: A Mojave new feature

If you remember when Quick Look first came out, they said you could view files without opening them... and all the nerds (myself included) gnashed and wailed then as well.

Re: A Mojave new feature

You can do simple things with files in Quick Look and the Finder pane (e.g. rotate, crop, shrink, generate PDF).

Re: No rush

I installed it on my laptop for shits and giggles. Hard pressed to find anything new apart from dark mode, ported iOS apps, and my spinning rust drive changed to the new file system.

Dark mode and the desert background looks decidedly Ubuntu... perhaps Apple can make brown the colour of success?

Re: Lame name :(

They ran out of names.

Re: Shrug

Frankly, I accepted a long time ago that using Chrome meant that Google could see whatever I was doing.

So why do you need to use Chrome?

Re: No explanation?

The idea is you don't set your state to appear as if you're offline because if you do you won't be able to see other people's states.

This is trust and openness. Apparently getting some peace and quiet so you can concentrate is a bad thing.

Re: Just kill it already...

Wrong Skype.

What a masterpiece of marketing from MS that was.

Re: Ha Ha!

Well if you give them between 10-400 milligrams per kilogram when humans would get 0.67 to 2 milligrams per kilogram, that's probably abusive.

Re: Majority of trade already outside of EU

What in the world about Brexit will stop the Border Control from checking lorries? Is that some kind of WTO thing? No, didn't think so.

Time will stop customs from checking lorries. It has been calculated that a 2 minute delay on the French side will lead to 37 mile tailbacks. However judging from yesterday the French government don't seem particularly willing to waive the rules because UK exceptionalism.

Re: Majority of trade already outside of EU

what's the problem with zero tarrifs on imports? Then let the sniffer dogs do their work.

I assume you would British businesses to survive against competition which has employees which earn the same in a year as people in the UK do in a month?

And sniffer dogs must be mighty clever these days if they can find more than drug... in fact in an impoverished UK, legalisation of currently illegal drugs will probably happen as TWAD is costly to maintain.

Re: Majority of trade already outside of EU

What the EU does have is customs facilitation agreements with a great many countries which means the UK does spot check customs inspections with a lot of the rest of the world because there is a trace back to origin. And that's going to stop because they won't be exporting to the EU any more.

And the only way around the queues on the UK side would be to throw open the borders to the rest of the world in a non-discriminatory way.

If that happens, prepare to eat shit, buy lead-painted toys held together with thin metal death spikes for presents, and watch out for house fires brought about by dodgy cheap consumer electronic tat.

Re: What's that sound ? Brexiteers expoding.

EU immigration is lower than extra-EU immigration and I'd already under the UK's control so it's pretty much open already.

Re: Despite coding in it ...

Update: Microsoft stakes future on .Net strategy:

Jun 23, 2000 1:00 AM PT

The company said .Net will work on Windows and other operating systems, although it didn't specify which ones or when they would be supported.

You're right, and it's only taken us about two decades to get here, if you're happy with a subset (Core).

Re: Hmm

So, no idea then.

We never got that, you did, and clearly you got it wrong because you were made to vote again until you gave the right answer.

Read A second Brexit referendum could be for the best: look at Ireland and Lisbon and notice how the description of the first vote and the campaign leading up to it is a practically a copy of the UK's referendum and what changes were made before the second vote.

Re: Hmm

I am not quite sure how to explain this better but the result was to no longer be in the EU aka leave.

Well done. You voted leave. You voted to no longer be in the EU. Now tell us your plan for undoing 40 years of treaties with the rest of the EU, disentangling the UK's economy from the rest of the EU's, not upending the lives of EU citizens in the UK and British citizens in the EU, and not rebooting the Troubles.

Nobody else has been able to, least of all Vote Leave, the ERG, or Boris Johnson.