Posts by Missing Semicolon

Re: And this is so relevant to browser development.

It's the new Godwin.

Re: eWaste

And once you make the cost of the take-back prohibitive, perhaps they would finally, grudgingly, implement basic repairability for screens, batteries and charge connectors.

Re: The real reason for the USA's stance on Huawei

To be fair, Huawei is massively subsidised.

Re: Denying an MFA request

The problem with these convenient MFA systems, where you just press OK to continue on the app,is that there is no feedback to the logon page. So spamming the user works. Why don't they all use authenticator apps, where you have to type in a code?

Re: Speaking Of Ancient Storage Methods .....

VHS tapes remain playable for years. The picture ain't pretty, but it's still visible. Analogue FTW!

Re: So?

Once again the silly headline has traction, when the detail is boring. On third of districts in Pakistan reported flooding, not one third of the land area!

Re: "could face claims of up to €25 billion"

Google will promise to open some new thing in the EU (like Intel's chip factory) and the judgement will be overturned.

Re: That's how Airbus started

Douglas disappeared? There's those that say it was Boeing that actually is no more - whatever it says on the letterhead.

Plan for price hikes in the near term, and start on your migration plan soon

Re: Will this actually help ?

Or "£competitive"

Bah!

Re: Definitely a CTO-type

Here "Responsible" means "liable to be locked up if someone important doesn't like it". That's why freedom of speech matters.

Re: So does this mean Everyone now has to use 2FA?

And now we come to the nub. No IMAP tied-into-Microsoft-clients only.

Re: I have no problem with this.

Are these the stupid climatarians, the latest incarnation of the car-hater?

Re: Photocopier challange

Peugeots do the same thing. I rented a 3008 that tried to drop you into the car in front in the same situation.

I found (unfortunately just before I returned the horrible thing) that you could hold the parking brake switch in the "activate" position, and it would stay on even when bringing up the clutch. You could then release it when you're good and ready.

Just one of the several reasons why the car was horrible, and borderline unsafe.

Re: Sadly, in the UK, no one is held responsible for software errors

Compensation for some of the wronged, yes. No prosecution for the guilty though. Just promotion, pensions and knighthoods

Re: RAM usage

Oh, yes, the Trident TVGA card.

Would do 132 columns by 50 lines (text mode) on a monochrome 14 inch monitor. The dogs, if you were young, and had eyeballs that still worked....

Re: No No Not The Mind Probe (Psychometric Testing)

Applied for a coding job. Company (that produces mobile games as assessment tools) pointed me at a game to play to assess my suitability. Never had a more stressful 40 minutes of my life!. The game tested fast thinking, and had a "spot the mood of the face" session that presumably was to weed the ASD people out.

So no room for a middle-aged, ASD engineer who prefers to think about problems to find the most durable solution.

Nasty.

Re: This has been going on for a long time

In comparison the the amount spent on the other view, the amounts here are very small.

Re: Before computers we used to make stuff that worked

I think they realised the engine rotated in the wrong direction. So the whole thing was mounted the other way about.

The cost of breaches is too low.

You may not be a customer any more, but there are loads who are. Or join afterwards.

Since the fines are generally as near zero as makes no difference, the small cost of cleaning up is usually cheaper than paying for security.

This only works because companies are not reduced to smoking holes in the ground by the fines for losing customer data. A couple of those, and the problems will go away.

Re: might make them think twice about pulling this sort of shit in the future

We forget. China simply does not care about dropping stuff on people. At home - no issue. Elsewhere, well, the noise will die down eventually.

So NASA huffing and puffing is simply Westerners being fussy as usual.