Posts by Missing Semicolon

Re: They don't care...

... and they don't own the internet.

It's owned by the big ISPs (in the USA) and Google (who get to control how 99% of people experience it).

And the ISPs are overseen by the shadowy (and sometimes, not-so shadowy) chaps with the nice suits and the curly earpieces (or crisp uniforms, in other jurisdictions).

Re: Upside down 3.5" floppies

When the secretary left at a place I worked, I found that the bottom drawer of her desk was full of A4 7x2 label sheets, with the top-left label used. Evidently every time she printed a label, at a loss what to do next, she just stuffed the sheet in the bottom drawer.

Re: "clean" solar energy is genuine greenwash.

Fertilizer is not the source of carbon. You can add Nitrogen and Phosphorus with compost. Or cowpats.

Re: Herr Hauser Surely you Beau Gest

The fastest growing economies are also the most protectionist. Protectionism isn't a barrier to wealth, it just makes the easy money harder.

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....