Posts by Rob 1542 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Apr 2007
Good job, I like it, find it way easier to read and feels clean and sharp. Old design was a bit to hectic for me. Everything seems to be working fine on my Macbook (work device) using Firefox.
I'm a creature of habit (my El Reg habit as been going since early 2000s) so you'd have to do something pretty bad for me to bog off, that wasn't a challenge by the way (unless you want to get rid of me!).
Ah, great memories. Makes me want to pull my A1200 out to see if it still works and fire up Stunt Car Racer, had a great soundtrack! Loved that game before I then got addicted to the Bitmap Brothers and the stuff they churned out. Not sure I have the will power to do another round of Cadaver though, felt like I was playing that for years.
On paper it seems like that but checks and balances will kick in. If he issued an order to cut off a lot of organisations that pay money to the likes of MS and Google, do you think those businesses will allow that amount of damage to their proifts. That sort of bad press will ripple across the planet and the organisations can't survive on just the US market, they are now just as reliant on their foreign customers to survive, if Trump hurts too many of them in one go, I'm fairly certain that the likes of MS and Google will take it too court to stop the damage to their business model.
Trump thinks he is the be all and end all and that was enforced because his early executive decisions weren't challanged quick enough, now the judicary branch of the US Government has woken up a bit and is doing what it should, which is checks and balances on the executive branch. This is how the founding fathers set out their constitution, they could forsee the chance of corruption and tried to limit it as much as possible hence the 3 branches to keep each other in check.
Not saying it's perfect but that was the original idea when they formed their constitution.
They have a law for that too now. If a dispersal order is granted for an area it also includes not covering your face. So if you are in a dispersal order zone with your face covered, expect to get your collar felt and no doubt a copper will pull out their phone to do FR at that point.
None of them seem to care that their actions (or lack thereof in some cases) caused so much stress to individuals they took their own lives. Ultimately they are responsble for people dying, I don't know how much more serious it can get before they need to show some genuine remorse and apologise and I mean genuinely.
Thanks, that has just helped my brain. Everytime I look at the Cybertruck I keep thinking it reminds me of something, now I know I was thinking of Captain Scarlett. If you are involved in a crash with a Cybertruck keep a look out for 2 circles moving across the ground and listen out for a disembodied voice.
This is the bit I'm struggling with. The locals have been complaining about it for so long and nothing was done by Google on their maps or the authorities. Round here at least one resident (me or someone else) would have taken matters into their own hands and built a barrier to block the road for the safety of others because we know the big corps or the authorities were too slow and there was a clear danger present.
My point was that regardless of whatever protections EU law tries to put in place the NSA listening stations will disregard those laws and take what they want anyway. There will always be nefarious actors in those spaces that do whatever they want, laws and policies can try to help but until we have digital tools that are effective, the average effort of data protection will always be up against it. It's still the wild west in technology and data circles as we develop stuff quicker than we can control it by giving them decent and fair check and balances and the right tools to help enforce those checks and balances.
But if attacking me makes you feel better, then crack on.
The NSA have listening stations all over Europe and a very large, capable one in Yorkshire. They are taking whatever data they want/need anyway so this is all just a show for politics. The average European citizen can see that the politicians are doing something about it, regardless if it is a chocolate teapot.
I wouldn't be surprised if ChatGPT is the new 'Bitcoin', a fad that rumbles on for ages that gets over hyped and takes a long time for people to realise it isn't what they expected it to be. Borderline solution looking for a problem and no-one has looked at the mid to long term future of it that ends up keeping it niche.
"My only guess would be something to do with putting ads on the machine, but then why on Earth would that let you anywhere near the Admin console."
I think you've highlighted the common problem. Crypto money is a gold rush and as such companies are rushing to get involved and not taking the time to develop their software to the point of better security. I agree why on earth would you want to upload videos, if it is for Ads I would be running a seperate bit of software to serve adds to this system but that would require time to build and develop and cut into their first profit earnings.
Getting a large user base hooked on your drug means you can make changes to the market as a dominent player. Adobe will more than likely want a sizeable stake in the standards of media files, the things that will be required for the many Metaverses that will no doubt spring up from various corps wanting to control that emerging market.
Ditto, my wife and bought into the sales pitch and thought we'd give one of his cordless uprights a go, complete bag-o-shite. Can just about run for 20mins before running out of charge and has no where near the amount of power as the cordless Shark that we repalced it with, which is way better value for money and works really well.
I'm fairly sure I read an article way back about this is where Samsung's R&D was with screen tech before the fold and flip came out. They had developed a paper thin screen that could be rolled up. They are looking at the future where screens are paper thin and can be easily applied to things like walls etc.
That R&D tech is what brought about the fold and flip phones, although the first fold phone from Samsung wasn't really technically released due to hinge problems. I'll see if I can find the article.
I just upgraded to the Fold 4 and I wasn't sure if it was the right move. After a few months of use now I totally love it. Far less of a proble to fit it in my pocket and sit down than the S22 Ultra I had before.
I thought the foldable screen would just be a gimmick but has outstripped my expectations by a huge amount.
I think this will be my future upgrade route, a sterling improvement over the Note models I used to purchase.
I had an instance of this once. I took the 'obvious rules' logic, the laptop was their personal property but they were making out it was essential for work and insisted we investigate and fix the problem, so I wiped it and loaded one of our corporate images on as per our SLA and policies. I don't think they appreciated that our image was one version of windows behind what they had installed and locked into our group policy, I think my manager at the time took on the task of releasing it from our corporate controls with a quiet word about what is brought in to be fixed to the wider org.
Advertising? what advertising, I haven't seen any in my win11?!?
Win11 on my laptop is the leanest it's ever been and most stable. I know it can be quite subjective depending on the machine but I'm finding it the best version of windows so far. If a restart is required then it is usually scheduled for when I'm not using it. I have more problems with O365 and it's updates than I do Windows.
One aspect Putin overlooked is that since the annexe of Crimea, which showed the Ukraine army to be severly lacking, Ukraine has been training it's army since 2014 in a live fire situation as they have been rotating units through the frontline in the Donesk region. There is no better training environment than a live one, especially when the opposing force is using Russian hardware and tactics.
Ukraine always knew something was coming down the line from Russia and they have been preapring since 2014. Now add in that the Russian forces mostly consist of poorer ethinic conscripts from the other parts of Russia which Putin deems expendable, not only does he want to rebuild the USSR but he gets to do ethnic cleasning at the same time.
Putting all the obvious GDPR, data breach shennigans aside for a sec. I'm appalled that they went to an American firm to design their website!
We always bought local with public money, sometimes casting the net wider if local industry didn't have the skills but always in the UK. It's WordPress for fcuk sake, you could throw a piece of paper (unfolded) and hit any number of designer and developers for WordPress.
I don't think you've fully grasped how much normal folk hate Cummings. The witch hunt started years ago and was intensified when he released the Brexit lies. He designed and ran the Brexit campaign to leave, he's the reason Boris is in power. He has too much sway and is a self serving c**t, he needs to go!
"Why aren't there more female bricklayers? Do the same impediments apply?"
I think this where the comment in the article applies about the need to run for a generation tilted in the opposite direction. Classic barriers that have been around for too long will be the main reason we don't see more female "bricklayers", we have to spend time getting rid of those barriers and then seeing how many women want to be bricklayers before we can truly say that women aren't interested in being bricklayers, that all takes time.
We've started along the path of trying to remove those barriers (I think some sectors of industry need to try harder or at least start), provide more opportunities and eventually we will be closer to a more balanced workforce at all levels in regards to gender.
