Posts by Dan 55

Re: What could go wrong?

Phew, luckily it was commented out.

Re: Well, duh

Perhaps the UK should stay in the EEA? (The ballot paper never mentioned leaving the EEA.)

Otherwise, if you leave absolutely everything so there's no legal basis at all for what you want to do, this is what happens when you do that.

Re: Only an id10t...

Pray tell, how was this port opened in the first place and, more importantly, how did the ISP close it without a backdoor?

TR-069

You might be able to go to the router's webadmin page and turn it off, however some ISPs set things up on the router so you can't. Lots of potential for fun because the port your ISP uses for TR-069 is bound to become public knowledge, the ISP might not have shut everyone from outside their network out because they're clueless like that, and then you have every botnet around banging on that port for that ISP and something's bound to give.

Re: If it were anyone other than Google who bought Android, Inc...

having a proper sandbox and permissions model from its 1.0 release.

Nope. If it were proper you could have denied each permission individually, and you've not been able to do that until only recently. And the app may crash or refuse to work.

Android was better OS than alternatives available at the time

Then you didn't try Symbian or WebOS.

In my case it's my fucking bank leaking my email address (I have a unique one just for the bank).

They also say that due to GDPR they won't be able to transfer money from another bank by direct debit, which was a fairly common way of doing it in Spain as it sidestepped tranfer fees from the other bank. I guess it was fine when they were growing as they needed the customers but now they're king of the hill it's just another costly service they wanted to get rid of and "because GDPR" was a nice excuse.

Go to another bank, you say? There really is no choice, they're all as shit as Sabadell.

Re: that isn’t free choice

Google's business model doesn't require slurping to fling adverts.

Re: Wondering why...

Maybe Kieren didn't see the funny side this time as regular commentards know his home is full of these things. Right know if I were in that position I'd be getting rid on all of them, a sort of modern-day version of the end of Poltergeist.

Re: unexpected honesty

Given the major stories each one has broken and the work that went into producing each one, the Grauniad and the Heil aren't exactly equivalent...

You can also argue the public has lost respect of the journalists given some of opinion pieces and straight made-up bollocks that is passed off as news.

Re: Facebook

Seems like there's no difference between Facebook and Google, except Google's made developers show a dialog box so it looks like the developers have a responsibility for something, which they don't because Google have defined themselves as the data controller. They can't have it both ways.

Re: 460MB of code?!

What's changed? Nowadays if you wanted to make a native-looking multiplatform app you'd have the Qt libraries on both systems.

Re: Well thats one way to up the social media entry age.

In some ways you have to be thankful for US social media companies believing COPPA applies everywhere, because the UK didn't do a damn thing. If they applied UK law to UK residents then it would have been a free-for-all from age 0.

classifying food snapped in pics

Obligatory: Not a hot dog.

The court might be in a position to siphon back the money that Levy siphoned off to his other companies.

Re: Does not compute

They wouldn't bar you from calling specific people or businesses unless you and and whoever you were calling paid a special fee.

Re: Cynical, me?

GDPR applies to companies inside the EU and companies that deal with EU citizens' data.

If $BIGUSCORP isn't caught by its shoebox office in Luxembourg or Ireland then it's caught because it's processing data from EU citizens.

Re: .

Posting history of one post. Perhaps you intend to spin up 1000 El Reg accounts to convince people?

Re: 3 more days people

Wileyfox/Yandex Zen?

Re: Running code in an emulator does not demonstrate backward comaptibility

I think all they've done is publicise how difficult it is to get Windows 10 onto another platform. They they took ages to come up with Windows 10 IoT for the Pi and when they did they came up with a nobbled version (Core). Now they have Windows 10 IoT for the Pi, why couldn't they have flipped a few build switches and targetted this other ARM board instead?

There does come a point where the the historical "the way we were"-ness about TV series has some, dare I say it, cultural value and it should be made available on-line. When you've flogged 2000 DVDs of some 70s series, you're not going to flog any more.

I think there's two whole episodes of Micro Live on iPlayer. Why not put the whole lot online? Have BBC marketing decided there's some as yet some unidentified section of the public that wants to buy a box set of one-screen long BBC Basic programs?

News programmes, the whole lot, just put it all up. Perhaps then we might find out that the past isn't as rose-tinted as some would have us believe and it might not be a good idea try and get back to something that doesn't exist.

I believe the demand is that working units have to be in punters' hands by the end of May, not a web page with a bunch of names on it.