Posts by Missing Semicolon

Exchange users

Do have this rather quaint belief in the ability to "recall" mails.

The rest of us just chortle. Or not, if the "recall" mail is also not Bcc'd.... (like our local Conservative Party..)

Finally it is admitted

..what they are for. "picking the best tarriff" == SURGE PRICING!

The only way that renewables could possibly work is through "demand management". In other words, the poorest will have to eat cold food as they won't be able to ru the cooker at peak times due to the cost being too high.

Why is the expiry date not printed on the box?

'Cos munneeee!

Data slurpers selling Wifi meshes

The snoop possibilities of wifi mesh products hadn't occurred to me until I heard that Amazon want to buy a company that makes them. You now have to pick even more carefully!

Bad management

Pure and simple. Just yelling 'cut!' and expecting things to msgically rearrange themselves is incompetent. Not having knowledge of what a company is legally obliged to do is also incompetent. Smsll eonder the credit insurers are nervous!

Fishy

DoH implemented and easy to turn on? Great love it, well done!

On by default? That's suspicious, right there. Especially as it bypasses the local hosts file. Very fishy.

And what about local name lookups from networks where DHCP populates the DNS server?

Asymmetric liability/costs

The problem with on-line ads is that they are NOT THE SAME as print advertising. A print ad just adds to the weight of the paper. A billboard just make the place ugly. A TV ad just occupies time.

But online ads are code and can cause me actual monetary loss.

The ad industry is set up to explicitly obscure the source and liability for bad adverts, so there is no incentive for anyone to police bad actors.

I notice Google have no solution for that, as there is money in that murky market.

So, while I would love to enable advertising to sites I visit, to cost is too high.

"accidentally reopened a code-execution vulnerability that was previously patched"

"accidentally" Yeah, right.

Eradicating the URL entirely.

Notice how Chrome makes the Bookmark manager hidden from casual inspection. The bookmarks bar is also hidden by default. As others have said, you are supposed to ask Google every time you want a site- if you typed it in, you obviously want it badly enough to know its name, instead of just blindly clicking on something. Plus, you might click on $site's sponsored link instead!

Intel still have the PC makers by the....

Given that AMD processors are faster, cheaper, lower power AND more secure, why isn't Dell's storefront full of AMD-stuffed boxes?

Small, neat powerful laptop

Thinkpad X230. I5. 8Gb Ram. SSD. Win10. Just £130 off ebay. Ergonomically its the dogs. Not too heavy, made like a brick outhouse. More ports than you can shake a stick at. Maybe add £20 for a new battery. Runs Linux if that's your thing. What's not to like?

The end is near

Face it. The vast majority of Facebook users will be very happy. They can now share bills, lend each other a few quid, buy stuff from each other, with no friction.

The real worry is that its ubiquity causes it to be the default way of processing micropayments for web sites. Now you must be logged in to Facebook to browse the web. The end times are nigh.

" demand from vehicle makers in China"

Ha. Selling chips to China? Best of luck with that!

Intel's illusionary advantage

Once again Intel's performance advantage over AMD is shown to be insecure.where's my f'n refund/buyback?

Chromium next

At some point, not this year, but soon, the license on Chromium source will become not-quite-floss. Enough so that publishing a un-Googled version will be impossible.

Bad software practices

We think they have a customisable firmware set that they deploy across products. No, they just copy and paste the code to a fresh project for each product. They simply have no idea how each model's code is related. Fixing a bug across 'n' products needs 'n' teams!

All that is necessary is honesty

The cookie dialog should say:

"Access to badgerbotherers.com is not free.

Click >here< to select a subscription option,

or >here< to continue, and pay for access by sharing tracking information.

Click >here< for information on what information we capture, and who we share it with"

There is no actual reason why a web site should be free. Since the dialog is now just about payment options, the issue of GDPR does not arise, as the information<>access trade is now explicit.

GiffGaff on 4G Manchester centre

Lucky to get 1Mbps. Or no data connection at all.

Even on Speedtest, which presumably has special prioritised routes.