Posts by Dan 55 15447 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
And with the news about the Home Office sending out a batch of 100 letters to EU citizens threatening deportation, which is the latest in an ongoing problem since last year, the EU will just say that they're not talking about anything else until EU citizens in the UK are guaranteed their rights and have ECJ oversight. The Home Office has just shown why it can't be trusted without ECJ oversight.
EU legislation meant people were able to call, text and use mobile data at no extra cost regardless of the EU country they visited. This change is also expected to hit DixCar's profits.
They've sold the phone, they've got commission from the network, why would it hit their profits when people go on holiday for a week or two?
The release notes for Phoenix 0.1 say "It's a lean and fast browser that doesn't skimp on features" and mention that there were plans for an extension manager. An official addon site came online by the time Firefox 0.9 was released.
So the idea for a non-bloated browser with extensions was there right from the start.
I seem to remember the target was to have a browser that fit on a 1.44M floppy but that had to be dropped. Can't find that online though.
I went to Firefox ESR and put the problem off till next year. Cyberfox and Waterfox won't be around for much longer, Palemoon is a bit slow on security updates and slurpy.
If I had to move from Firefox ESR, the first thing I'd look at would be Seamonkey.
(All of these browsers are Mozilla-based.)
Some parents would rock up to a 12A film with their eight and six year olds, get upset with the advert, and be completely oblivious to the fact that GOTG2 isn't really suitable for young kids.
They're probably the same ones that give them Call of Duty or something else which is 16 rated for a present.
But, of course, obtaining a copy of such 'digital goods' without paying is entirely analogous to stealing a (limited) physical item.
Also, DRM means obtaining a copy of such physical goods buy paying is also stealing a physical item... Steam DVDs, where you register the key, the DVD contents get copied to the hard drive, and from now on it's just as if you bought it through Steam (account can get banned, game can get pulled, etc...).
Nobody else can use that physical DVD either as the key is now registered to your account. So the only way you can sell it on is if you made a new Steam account for each DVD so you can give the buyer the account details when you sell the disc.
It must go against the ECJ judgement from five years ago.
Well, Android 5.1 and 6.1 were CyanogenOS 12.1 and 13.1. See if you can install Lineage OS 14 on it, which is the community effort after Cyanogen stopped doing OSes. Guide here. You'll lose everything though. Try a backup with ClockworkMod Helium which is a bit fiddly but allows you to get a backup of most things without root.
Or factory reset your phone. Maybe the migration from CyanogenOS didn't go properly and a factory reset will fix it.
privacy should improve with Oreo
A few years too late, but good news nonetheless.
READ_PHONE_NUMBERS
Might be good for WhatsApp-like messengers but it's not compatibile with previous versions so everybody's probably still going to slurp contacts.
ANSWER_PHONE_CALLS
Oh FFS. (And that's the glass half-full interpretation.)
Newsnight report that goes overboard* on the Scandi noir camerawork.
* fill in own inappropriate joke here.
Then how come Dragon STT does it fine without being online? Google started building STT the only way they knew how, collect lots of data.
And as for offline TTS, that's fine too. MacOS's built-in one or CereProc don't need an Internet connection and sound better than Google's TTS.
(I get the feeling there are people saying TTS when they mean STT....)
No, but the article was talking about the UK, you just need to look at the pound's exchange rates over the past year and a half and on what dates the drops happen to see it's Brexit.
Any chance of recovery in the PC market in the UK just got stopped dead in its tracks.
Also, the ECB isn't in charge of the pound and is anything but austere.
MS got rid of their Trustworthy Computing team and look how well it turned out for them.
If you split up security into different teams, they can't address security as a whole. Everybody's just concerned with their own little patch. And the small security teams are probably easier to override.
So yes, it is an entirely dumb idea.
Seems May wanted to block it to avoid flak from Labour and the Lib Dems, but could only block it on medical grounds, which she did.
Teflon Theresa May defies expectations over McKinnon
She then gave the courts the power to block extradition requests outside the EU in the interests of justice, washing her hands of future controversies like this.
Gary McKinnon saved from extradition to US on hacking charges
Now it seems the US isn't too happy about that.
Where do we start?
- Spineless government.
- Crappy extradition treaty.
- Guy contributed to stopping the entire NHS going up in smoke and acted in time before the US woke up, which is GCHQ's job, so it made them look bad too.
I'm not asking him to be let off the hook, but is being tried on UK soil with a minimum case to answer for so he's not wasting years of his life fighting this case in the US or thrown in jail over there for something he possibly didn't do so much to ask for?
That was a fortnight ago, before someone got killed and 30 got injured when demonstrating against them, a president gave them a free pass, and white supremacists went on record as being pleased with what the president said.
There's a point where the frog boiling has to stop.
If firearms are in the hands of psychotics, then let's just arm REGULAR LAW ABIDING CITIZENS and be done with it.
Yeah, that'll work, given that psychotics are in general more happy to use guns than REGULAR LAW ABIDING CITIZENS.
About the IEEE...
https://www.ieee.org/documents/nondiscrimination.pdf
So no, the good (wo)men can't do nothing.
If we ever get to the stage that something's legally binding because some human or mammal tapped an area of a touchscreen then we might as well go back to surfdom.
You may keep the app store and certain settings locked on a phone or tablet, but it doesn't mean you have to lock the devices themselves. If you have an unlocked tablet for the whole family, users may be able to download the same apps you have on your phone on your tablet without being asked for the password.
In all probability the app developer doesn't have your name, address, or signature. There's no way to keep a copy of what you agreed to. If you don't speak English it might not even be in your own damn language. They probably have one EULA which apparently is good for the whole of the world in spite of all the different country's legal systems. It might even say you need to go to California or you promise to give up statutory rights.
In other words, they're trying it on and if a court makes a ruling that the EULA is legally binding then they're wrong.
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