Re: Blocking FB cookies
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Having had the pleasure of an ISP-supplied ZTE router, I can believe the warnings.
An earlier firmware version had an exploit on the tr-069 port which the ISP enables so their customer service droid can press a button and reset everything to factory settings to make their lives easier. The answer to any problem is now reset and I'll do it for you in case you don't know how to insert the paperclip in the hole and keep it there for 10 seconds. You had a LAN nicely set up? Own SSID or wifi password? Disabled WPS? Why would you want to do that?
Going online with this version got your router pwned within seconds, the settings were changed so http was enabled on the WAN side and it was now part of a botnet, sort of similar to going online with the original Windows XP.
The fix the ISP pushed out patched the tr-069 exploit, but still left the http port enabled so it was still part of the botnet.
Luckily they're so full of holes that you can run exploit programs to lift the settings out of them and change to another router.
If the government is hamstrung then it is the government hamstrung by the remain supporting government.
Tautology is a tautology. Brexit is brexit.
Remember that the government were publicly in support of leaving before the referendum and claimed they would be in the referendum (before 'changing their minds').
No, I don't remember that. When was Cameron's government ever in favour of leaving the EU, apart from using it as a threat when negotiating with them that if they didn't give him what he wanted then leave would win in the referendum?
The only party who had all this organised and ready to go was UKIP.
That's why before the referendum he was talking the UK being like Norway and Switzerland and afterwards he wasn't.
There was and still is no plan, by anyone, apart from foot stamping.
Rubbish touch pads on cheap laptops cause all sorts of strife and user confusion. Some parts of the unmarked pad result in scrolling, some selecting. In these cases, it is not the user's fault if they want to throw the machine out of the window.
Fixed by uninstalling the proprietary touchpad driver/control panel bollocks.
If I came across one which translated Morse to text I wouldn't be surprised.
I guess their competitors might be able to get an advantage if they find out some secret proprietary insider information - they're going to release a new phone which is like the old phone from last year, a tablet which is like the old tablet from last year, a new OS which is like the old OS from last year, and not do anything at all with their computer range.
You're stretching your definition of 'few', because it hit us too. It was >50% of the working day.
What was that you say, people couldn't reply or receive e-mails and the lack of syncing meant people couldn't collaborate on documents? (Putting aside MS' implementation of collaboration which is a whole other argument you're going to lose as well.)
Was that before or after Azure and Office 365 had a wobbly for most of the day?
Because it'll have a terrible confusing UI like everything MS has done after Windows 7, I would have thought.
If all you can see is black and white extremes you can never understand as the importance is in the degrees.
Was this a sudden attack of lucidity after your first contribution to this thread?
Exactly. We people dont like it and the US is actually powerful militarily, economically and politically. I dont think much comparison can really be made with the EU.
The EU doesn't need to invade ICANN (or Google, or Facebook) to get it to take data protection seriously.
s/52/50
1. Legal opinion is not clear on whether it can be withdrawn, many say it can, even the EU said it could.
2. The rest of the EU can vote to extend the two years if they vote unanimously, and that is what the transitional period is.
The decision has been taken
On an advisory vote, so badly drawn up as to threaten to split the UK up, and has been interpreted not to mean "Leave the European Union" (EU referendum ballot paper) but to "taking the opportunity of this great moment of national change to step back and ask ourselves what kind of country we want to be" (Mayhem, Lancaster House speech).
"Oh, you want to leave? Well, we're not going to, forget I asked".
Well it was called to stop the Tory party splitting and to keep their voters from defecting to UKIP. A referendum advises policy, government puts a bill before the house based on that policy, but Parliament always has the last word and has to balance the referendum with stuff like the national interest. They're not supposed to be nodding dogs.
What does that mean, and how were such people omitted? Everyone on the electoral register was entitled to vote.
Commonwealth residents were allowed to vote even if they can't. EU residents weren't allowed even though they can vote (local elections). A whole load of expats were excluded from the vote.
No, the issue was a simple yes/no, stay or leave.
If the question's as simple and as literal as on the ballot paper then we leave the EU but stay in the EEA, single market, and customs union.
"Ah, but that doesn't mean that..."
Don't like democracy? Best to move somewhere else, then.
I like democracy, I don't like idiocracy.
That's a very selective single data point. Let's look at the actual history:
Dec 2008 1.023
Er, yeah. Just after the crash. Very non-selective. Let's look at the actual history:
Jan 2007: 1.506984
Apr 2007: 1.471493
Jul 2007: 1.482623
Oct 2007: 1.436291
Jan 2008: 1.339853
Apr 2008: 1.114106
Jul 2008: 1.262073
Oct 2008 1.274994
Dec 2008: 1.104133 - Look here, it's always been low! We're doing better than ever!
So what does this mean. We see two great troughs.
1. 2008 financial crash
2. Referendum vote (AKA Brexit).
But I guess it's all in the presentation, as you were awarded 7 upvotes for your rubbish.
Thanking you, AC.
The market response lasted all of a day, the fact that the currency exchange rates have been continually lower since the day the Brexit vote happened has nothing to do with the Brexit vote, neither do the facts that academic projects are ending and new ones aren't starting, investment is on hold, and businesses that can are making plans for leaving.
Wikipedia says most of the servers are in North America and the EU and I guess the depreciation of the pound is taking its toll.
So this is yet another nationwide foot-gun inflicted enjoyment opportunity brought to you by The Will of The People™.
If you're sharing just one application window, Lync does not need to make a copy of your entire desktop area to its own memory. Windows from Vista onwards is a composting windows manager, each application window has its own buffer, so the biggest buffer Lync would need would be the same size as that.
But now that we know why application window sharing is bad, what are their excuses for the rest of it?
Well you did talk about encryption and I answered...
If performance is an argument for not allowing pages to pull in stuff from FTP, we might as well shut down HTTP/1.0 because it's too slow too.
The important thing is to make the data accessible, but it seems lately that's deemed unimportant.