Re: Why?
And why would you bother folding a screen, with all the challenges that creates, instead of the simpler rolling it up?
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I was given mis-information about pricing of other providers
I see GiffGaff now only compare their PAYG offer with EE and Vodafone. "3" was dropped the moment their 3-2-1 tariff launched, O2 more recently - I believe because they now compete with "3".
Competition, they've all heard of it and struggle hard to avoid it.
sanmigueelbeer" I think the home analogue phone will not be replaced. At the exchange shift will be done to logically connect the analogue "lines" to VoIP."
That's how the system has worked since system x was introduced decades ago, over BTs network not the public internet. The announcement can only mean VoIP from the premises or cabinet. A move to purely fibre requires something that looks like VoIP so they might as well just use the existing standards.
Broadband modems sometimes have phone support built in already, virgin have it disabled in their Superhub, haven't checked BT recently but they used to have some sort of support in their modems. The hardware for adapters is cheap enough that a backup battery will be most of the cost!
I don't follow it but people I do follow keep retweeting the local JDW drinking barn output. It's little more than announcing what's on the bar or what's coming soon. Experience taught me long ago the beer usually won't actually be there if I did make the trip, won't taste right anyway and the pubs I actually drink in keep tweeting much better beer lists that really will be on the bar, served by people I know.
JDW dropping social media will be completely forgotten within a week.
The voters Tim convinced/reinforced with his saturation Leave campaigning are likely to start asking awkward questions as Tim continues to back away from what he said back then.
If still under investigation the last minute pretence of balance (which simply filled equal space with the worst Remain advocates he could find) won't get him off the hook and neither will revising his public position.
Dodging the shitstorm about to rain on his mullet from social media is not surprising and has bugger all to do with what he claims.
Hard to trust an organisation that can't even migrate my decades old self employment registration so I can use the online system at all. The page that offers to do it actually makes you register all over again, using information i forgot 30 years ago, with no confirmation I won't end up with 2 different accounts and a world of doubled hmrc aggravation. Muppets.
My brother bought a cheap laptop running Vista, despite being warned to avoid it. It took so long booting he just gave up after 10-20min and powered it off every time. Told him to just leave it for a couple of hours to get whatever it was doing done but that just gave a machine running incredibly slowly. Unusably slowly.
I still remember the pain waiting minutes for settings to open after the POS finally started, and the horror of disabling indexing not quite fixing the problem. Never got boot below 5min and it still ran sluggish. Vista was bad all by itself but certifying totally incapable machines for it was just criminal negligence. He never got far enough to break it.
Reddit has a rep for harbouring cesspits of partisan, hateful crap. But I doubt anything on there affects the beliefs of any users, or that state actors can outdo the real posters! That's not to say reddit shouldn't make attempts to keep the worst trolling crap where it belongs and out of more sane parts, much like it stamps on commercial hijacking of subreddits.
The easiest way to discourage visits to abusive sites is to force them into deploying abusive countermeasures. Even the terminally stupid or ridiculously uncaring about privacy will respond to sites becoming a pia to use. You have a modicum of proactive choice about visiting these sites, unlike spam and anything forcing visits is going to get stomped on hard.
Countermeasures from abusers are part of the solution!
AC:"there's a good chance that the ICO will be instructed by the UK government to really take them (where "them" = Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and literally anyone else who might be doing anything like this) to pieces on this one."
There's a better chance a sitting brexiteer UK gov will find not revealing details of the Leave campaigns use of CA is more important than exposing the truth and any demolition will be purely superficial.
Too many make the error of assuming an observer has to be intelligent or conscious. A cloud of gas will also observe anything it bumps into, whether you believe observation creates something or just discovers it. Anthropic arguments just constrain the sorts of universe intelligence can exist in to be observers.
"especially at Christmas, there is no real comparison between a 2800mAh rechargeable and a cheap multipack of Duracells from the discount shop."
My experience is there was no real comparison between a Maplin 2800mAh rechargeable and a rechargeable with 2800mAh capacity after the 1st cycle. Probably not even before then.
Used to alias common things like color-colour but when auto completion appeared in programmers editors it became just pointless extra work. Can't remember if we ever 'corrected' Sony's hilarious MargePrim to the intended MergePrim in the PSX devkit... Sony never did.
Sometimes you need to bullshit your way out of unwanted jobs. Like the time I sat in the pitch session for writing a football game and pokerface on talked about the difficulties dealing with 22 players PER SIDE on the 8bit hardware of the time... Never found out if my boss worked out why the pitch failed ;)
Start by observing vanishingly few ordinary users have any need for FTTP performance, won't have that need for years and stop trying to sell it hard. A lot of users have a need for a better connection than the wet string BT gives them. FTTP has a place renewing tired old infrastructure, quietly without the hype.
"AMD when eBPF JIT is turned on"
While running interpreted out of bound access will be checked and speculative execution will be in the interpreter, not an attacker controlled address. Turning on JIT allows an attacker to craft code that will be compiled to machine code to run potentially without checks. It's a way of weaponising an otherwise unusable kernel exploit.
If enabling JIT does make AMD vulnerable then AMD is vulnerable in that test and you read too much into this. I believe the only test they succeeded with was user to user snooping which is expected to work. The more frightening user to kernel Meltdown blocking claim hasn't been disproved yet.
"If the kernal is in the same address space as user code and using the same pipe then nothing changes. Either a seperate CPU/cache for kernal code and without speculative execution or scrap the whole model.\"
Even in user space page permissions exist. There's nothing intrinsic to a flat, shared address space that stops a CPU enforcing all permissions at the thread/page/exe page level, all the way down to prefetch and cache access. Separate cache/memory systems per ring is a high price to pay to replace access control logic in the memory system. Dumping cache state is an even higher price to pay for not having that logic.
"the results of the branch-not-taken should be discarded"
From the and hint the problem isn't speculative execution as such, it's fetch hardware that reads memory before checking permission, presumably changing cache state irreversibly. It speculative execution disables the privilege violation because the code path is discarded there's no way to detect the event or take any remedial action like invalidating the tlb. However invalidating the tlb would leak address layout information anyway!
The correct thing is blocking the fetch ops completely while still potentially raising an exception if that part is taken. Better, raise an exception anyway. Which appears to be the amd approach. Intel look like they saved some transistors and maybe gained a tiny speed advantage without thinking it through.
Just checked the Nintendo DS (released 2010) on the shelf of abandoned toys behind me and despite having 2 screens with a hinge between them I don't think Nintendo will be challenging MS over the hinge, it only opens 180deg. Should still be a years left on the patent if they want to try though ;)
So the correct option: only ever show comparison sites if the user searches for comparison sites, is MIA.
If you're going to annoy companies you ought to go balls deep on it, annoy every site equally including Google. Exactly what Foundem doesn't want, because they'll never get genuine high ranking in any search term. Well maybe a search for 'bad comparison site' ;)
It was foreseeable the moment BS&F were on the hook there could be no decision that wasn't pushed all the way to a trial, however pointless or already lost the point at issue was. TSG were captured by chancers, some like McBride with a long history of serial corporate demolition, others with history of sharp legal practice.
"TSG also paid them a lump-sum up front and BSF agreed to pursue the case to conclusion"
BSF noticed owning part of the case was going to cause them a lot of legal problems in court even before noticing the case was worthless. To dig themselves out they had to offer an underpriced fixed fee deal and it's still biting them in the wallet. Given it was hard to tell which of SCO or BSF were the slimiest scum on any given day it's nice to see the pain shared.
The last thing you want is 3rd parties messing around in the OS to detect hacking. If they can do it then they can hack it and we know how bad they are at resisting that temptation. It's exalting the right place to detect tampering and as an occasional online gamer I'll welcome it along with other anti cheat systems. It's no fun playing against cheats.
They just need to resist using this on single player gaming.
I'd like to think some of this protection stuff is what kicked in and stopped the updater actually erasing my entire boot drive without warning. In fact it was a fortuitous bug that stopped it rebooting after wiping just the partition table. Microsoft, where only catastrophic bugs can save you from catastrophic intended behavior.
I'm right handed but switched to using left handed keyboards 15+ years ago, with the keypad on the left the mouse sits closer to the centre and that was enough to stop my mouse RSI. Wish I'd bought more of the keyboards, down to just 1 spare and changing keyboards is a chore, especially ones with different layout.
I'm grateful every day that the VS team added so much chrome back into the VS UI after the first Win8/10 style builds presented acres of empty white space devoid of clues. It's always going to be a pig but just occasionally a little lippy does work wonders ;)
Nothing will ever make it handle Unreal4 source in realtime though :(