Posts by Dan 55

Re: I love how

It's both, probably a little more 2) than 1). She's not particularly interested in how it works or why they can't give her the messages, she just wants them and she'll block WhatsApp till she gets them.

"This is what happens in several investigations. Operators comply. Google complies. Why can't WhatsApp comply? Brazilian criminals see a shield in WhatsApp, a safe haven to commit crimes and plans executions." link

So she'd like them to remove E2E encryption and store messages.

Re: So...

Yes, as will the hackers who break Yahoo Mail's "security".

Re: smart meter

I don't think it's an EU directive, it just is more technically unreliable to make a washing machine mix 50-60ºC water from a combi boiler with cold water to get a 30-40ºC wash, plus you run the risk of ending up with shrunken doll's clothes. Many hot fill washing machines never take hot water in for the colder washes anyway, they heat up cold water.

Re: Vivaldi

And that Vivaldi lot still haven't delivered the pony either. The nerve.

Re: Is this the double size already announced or double the double size...

Even so, Houser's not pleased.

ARM is the proudest achievement of my life. The proposed sale to SoftBank is a sad day for me and for technology in Britain.

Re: "The machine veered..."

You don't recall running backwards (staggering about) because you don't recall anything you did at 16 months.

Re: Like for like

But very few push out an update to lock down devices just before EOL after years of nothing. That's what's wrong.

Re: Cunning plot

Hunt's staying with the NHS as he did so well last time.

The Energy part of the Dept. of Energy and Climate Change has been eaten by Business Innovation and Skills and the Climate Change part has disappeared. The UK needs an energy department separate from business to keep the lights on and be somewhat immune from lobbying by the energy industry. Climate change, well, are we back to it doesn't exist? We will be because Leadsom will probably be in charge of it.

As for BoJo, I think given his post it's more important what people abroad think, not what possible interpretations we can make for May putting him there.

I don't think she's that particularly clever. She couldn't answer basic questions about the IPBill in the Commons Committee and she must have spent half her time at the Home Office on surveillance issues of one kind or another.

And until the people doing Copperhead get bored with doing what Google should have done.

Re: Do we want to advance or not?

First of all the name Autopilot, obviously borrowed from aviation, does not imply that you can have a snooze, hop in the back seat or read the paper. Do you see the pilot and co-pilot just wandering around the plane whilst letting the autopilot on a plane do its thing?

They are fully trained as to what an autopilot actually does. They will get fired if they do. Not the same thing as being alone in your own car.

Let's say Tesla caves in and calls it Driver Assist. Do you think that the man watching the DVD would have done anything different? That the lady who accelerated her husbands Tesla into a brick wall wouldn't have? That the man who crashed into a field because he refused to place his hands on the wheel despite the car asking him to do so repeatedly would have put his hands on the wheel?

Look I'm no aviation expert or behavioural expert but I think common sense dictates that the answer to the above questions is no, no and no.

Indeed, but common sense has to compete against a childhood of watching Knight Rider. Autopilot implies more hands off. Nobody is going to read x pages of EULA to check what the Autopilot can or can't do, they're going to go "yeah, it's got Autopilot, sweet". This is also how Apple's phones are sold, by marketing to people who have no idea what it really means, but they know it's cool. Have you read iOS's EULA? Has anyone? Thought not.

The other difference between Teslas and the rest is you can 'drive' with your hands off the wheel for longer.

It all gives a sensation of autonomy that the rest don't have, but it doesn't mean that Teslas actually have it either. Tesla can't handwave away problems and say it's "Beta" because that's Silly Valley culture, they're in meatspace now. You'd never get a Rainbow Road screen on a Volvo to distract the driver with.

By the way, Consumer Reports copied me.

Re: Was it at Warwick that he learnt the art ...

42 days detention for terrorism suspects was defeated and withdrawn by the then Labour government so good on him for helping to bring that about.

It is now down to 14 days, still a long time compared to other Western countries.

Re: Some of the specs a missing...

Yes. Human names are the same even if they're in capitals. Do you really need a spec to know that?

* For some Western European languages using the Latin alphabet. Possibly.

Re: I didn't even want contactless

Indeed, but how many people would be willing to chop their finger off?

Re: *regulations are designed to protect local carrier revenues*

Nominet has blocked ENUM mapping UK phone numbers to DNS ever since the protocol was launched.

Of course, they don't call it that. It's just being tested. Forever.

Re: It's the law, isn't it

Or projects already started before the exit date are funded till their completion.

Not too difficult.