Posts by Malcolm 5 22 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jul 2009
I agree that some is self inflicted now, I am not sure how well a council saying like "we are changing how long we give an empty property discount for because of the software" would go down.
Internal processes being different is one thing, but they can actually have different public facing policies and charge for different things. What seems to rarely beade public is what bit of what the councils do is costing the money
that comment about encryption that can only be reversed by the same core intrigued me - maybe I am thinking too advanced but is anything other that XOR encryption really so symmetric that a processor bug would hit encryption and decryption "the same"
I guess it could be that there was a stream calculation was doing the same thing and feeding into an XOR with the data
> I've yet to see anyone explain why a full-screen start screen is a bad idea,
The main use case I know of is when following instructions to run a specific app when there are multiple apps with similar names. it is useful to be able to see the instructions and the start menu at the same time.
So who makes MS phones?
To their advantage, they aren’t major shippers of Windows Phone handsets: 81 per cent of Windows Phones sold were made by Nokia, with Samsung third a long way behind on 11 per cent, according to number crunchers at IDC.
So No 1 makes 81%, number 3 makes 11 percent leaving at most 8% for number 2, err that's less than 11%?
> > How about where you're just sending a message or reply on a website?
> Why should you have to enter a CAPTCHA once you're registered and logged in?
I think there are times when I should be allowed to interact with a web site without being required to register with it first. (and some of those times I should not be required to supply an email address)
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