Posts by Dan 55

In a Rees-Mogg or Johnson interview near you:

"The government have thought of everything. The M20 will have an express beer lane built. Beer will flow freer and faster than ever before."

(Unachievable hideously expensive Brexit promise #3748194 in an ongoing series of vain attempts to make sure things stay vaguely the same as they are now.)

Re: Er, this Doesn't Really Fix the Problem...

Everyone sending their laptop off every few months just because Apple's too proud to admit the keyboard design is crap could get expensive for them.

Re: STEM

What, STEM or UK?

Re: You have to pay to use a language?

Pay to play with the JVM?

The language was free, that was the come on to get everybody+dog using Java everywhere.

Drug pusher business model.

Will this impact OpenJDK?

Depends if Oracle think they can make money out of it like Dalvik... but the lawyers may wait a few years first until they think it's ripe for the picking.

So, if it were me, I wouldn't touch anything to do with Java with a bargepole.

I guess they're dogfooding a product we don't know about yet.

TSB thinking: "Banking system needs are going to be the same whatever country you're in, and our Proteo system is proven. There's a few local interfaces to change, that's all. As for customer migration, well that's just like clicking and dragging a file in Windows. Why would we need testing?"

That's Sabadell thinking. They decided TSB's migration would be free by spending the £450m Lloyd's gave them for IT costs on the migration to their own system and job's a goodun.

Re: @Dan 55

Office 2019 will run. Office 365 (that thing that just had a wobbly yesterday) won't run from 2020.

Re: Poor Mike

If you want to fake Tempest 4000, you need squeeze a NUC into that pretty box.

Re: It's not a new law

No, the law does not say families should be split up. The law says that unaccompanied minors have to be placed with relatives, juvenile detention centers or foster care.

So they charge all parents with a crime to make the minors unaccompanied and say "it's not us, the law is making us do it. By the way, vote for this bill of ours and we promise it will stop".

Of course it won't fucking stop. There'll be something else in six months time. It's Trump and his cohorts' agenda.

What happened before was families were held in family detention centers until they were sent to appear before an immigration court or deported.

Politifact.

Re: Barnier bombastic bullshit

the UK government has mostly just taken the hits and said nothing in public

Raises eyebrow.

Re: What about...

Won't work if the letter is addressed to "The Occupier" though.

Re: The government already holds all that data on you anyway

The Windrush generation would have been asked to prove they qualified for a card. A Hostile Environment is not mitigated by a piece of plastic.

No, the objectives are different. One is to enroll everyone into the ID system, the other is to get lower net immigration figures by any means necessary.

Therefore, historical NI, employment, and bank account info already on file would have been more-or-less enough information, instead of also having to produce four pieces of official correspondence for every year of residency.

Re: Expect limited chaos

The only browser that's going to do TLS 1.2 on an old OS which doesn't do TLS 1.2 is Firefox (although you may need an older version of Firefox which is the latest version available for that OS). The rest are limited by the OS' implementation of TLS.

More to the point, why is your accountant friend using XP or Vista?

Re: Why?

It could be done entirely in software as a Switch download, without these shysters robbing everyone.

Re: obvious solution ...

Qubes OS seems to be the most practical way of going about it. Ancient Windows software can be run in its own VM too.

Re: The Emperor is clueless

For a moment I thought you were going to say the tiny-handed emperor has no clothes, which is a far worse mental image.

That is utter horseshit * 2.

Google have been caught sending your location back to the mothership against your location preferentes.

You can use an iPhone without an Apple ID perfectly well, you just hit "set up later" on start-up.

And please define how Apple slurp is worse than Google slurp. I'd like a laugh.

Re: Disagree....

Java is the antidote to C++ in the same way as a saw is an antidote to gangrene (remember you shot yourself in the foot with C++?). It's fiddly to develop for because it probably won't let you do what you want to do, the bits it will let you do are horribly bureaucratic, and if C++ is getting a bit fat, Java is in danger of collapsing under its own weight in libraries.

Re: Sun optical mice, circa 1985

Ah, who can forget the OpenWindows Help pages, which for some reason used pop-art cartoons and some women ended up dancing in Club Soda.

Re: He's late to market

But what can they do if Google's putting every new API into Play Services instead of AOSP and not documenting it and AOSP versions of apps are five-year old abandonware?

On the second point, if AOSP were truly open then it could be updated by developers outside Google, but it can't. So Google leaves them to rot and all work by other developers on improving AOSP apps is fragmented.

Kickstarter at least wants to see a working prototype before it lets start-ups or businesses use their platform. Indiegogo doesn't.

That is why Indiegogo has a much lower success rate than Kickstarter (9% vs 36%).

Re: Being sensible

Why is it the Government's place to dictate how you live your life?

Because in Switzerland it's a direct democracy?

Still, when your neighbours are all there watching their tellies in the garden and every goal is met with fireworks, airhorns, and vuvuzelas, I'm sure you'll be the first one to enjoy it.

Re: Too late...

Obviously he's left it too late because he's had too much cake.

Re: hmm

The welfare system is complicated because people's lives are complicated. UC ignores all the complications and people are getting pushed into poverty because of that. UC was never a good idea nor will it be.

The tax system is more complicated than it needs to be due to the political choices taken down the years.