Attempt no landing there...
...unless you fancy [a close shave / a Brazilian / castration without anesthetic] or all three on the way in!
Posts by DJV
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Huge ice blades on Jupiter’s Europa will make it a right pain in the ASCII to land on
Microsoft Surface Pro 4 owners: So, about that other broken update…
Apache OpenOffice, the Schrodinger's app: No one knows if it's dead or alive, no one really wants to look inside
I find your lack of faith disturbing, IBM: Big Blue fires photon torpedo at Pentagon JEDI cloud contract
UK.gov withdraws life support from flagship digital identity system
Microsoft has signed up to the Open Invention Network. We repeat. Microsoft has signed up to the OIN
Remember that lost memory stick from Heathrow Airport? The terrorist's wet dream? So does the ICO
Which? That smart home camera? The one with the vulns? Really?
Monday 8th October 2018 14:43 GMT 
Funnily enough...
...I've just had an email from Which asking me to do a survey. One question was: "If you could pick one consumer issue you would like to see Which? campaign on, what would that be?"
I replied with: "Improve the accuracy of articles on your own website. See: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/08/smart_camera_which_wtf/"
First it came for your desktop, now Windows 10 1809 is coming for your Things
Microsoft yanks the document-destroying Windows 10 October 2018 Update
Convenient switch hides an inconvenient truth
Day two – and Windows 10 October 2018 Update trips over Intel audio
California cracks down on Internet of Crap passwords with new law to stop the botnets
Thursday 4th October 2018 16:15 GMT
every device in someone's house beeping like mad
Hah, that reminded me of the "12 o'clock flashers" of (the rather ancient but still funny) "Internet Helpdesk": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LLTsSnGWMI
Apple macOS Mojave: There's goth mode but developers will have to wait for the juicy stuff
Google is still chasing the self-driving engineer that jumped ship to Uber
Windows 10 passes 700 million, Office Mobile in a coma and Intune, er, cracks time travel
Sync your teeth into power browser Vivaldi's largest update so far
NASA to celebrate 55th anniversary of first Moon landing by, er, deciding how to land humans on the Moon again
Google actually listens to users, hands back cookies and rethinks Chrome auto sign-in
Wednesday 26th September 2018 13:05 GMT
"tucked away in the Privacy and Security settings"
Crikey, you're not kidding! The other day I wanted to view and delete a particular cookie as I was testing a website I'm building.
On Chrome it took the following steps:
1) Bring up the Settings screen.
2) Scroll down and click on Advanced.
3) Click on Content Settings (no, not the one below that mentions Cookies but only allows you to clear them in bulk from there).
4) Click on Cookies.
5) Click on See all cookies and site data.
6) Enter the site name in the Search cookies field.
7) Click on the site name to show the list of cookies (a further click takes you to the cookie contents).
8) Click on the X to delete it.
Firefox is marginally easier.
1) Bring up the Options screen.
2) Click Privacy & Security.
3) Click Manage Data.
4) Enter the site name in the search field.
5) Select the cookie and Remove Selected.
However, if you now want to see the cookie contents in Firefox you've now got to use the F12/Developer Options instead, which is a tad annoying.
I'm sure these things used to be far easier to get at in the past - so much for "making our lives easier"! Sigh...
Amazon Alexa outage: Voice-activated devices are down in UK and beyond
Have I been pwned, Firefox? OK, let's ask its Have I Been Pwned tool
Tuesday 25th September 2018 21:45 GMT
Re: One fox to rule them all
I do think this is a good step forward. Of course I worry about putting all my hens in one basket since there are several avenues of attacks on ffx installations.
The same could be said for any other browser.
Somewhat aside, I feel that my reliance on the google architecture (chrome, gmail, search) is more of a privacy threat than other players.
Oh, absolutely!
Should I go back to IE7?
OMG, NO!
Office 2019 lumbers to the stage once more as Microsoft promises future releases
Tuesday 25th September 2018 15:48 GMT
MS lost me as an office user years ago. Now using LibreOffice. It does all I need and isn't encumbered by cloud requirements, subscriptions, stupid lock in or threats of it not working on Win7. If it goes in a direction I don't like then I will stick with the version that works for me or change to something else.
Good news: Sub-surface life on Mars possible, moons from big impacts. There is no bad news
Bug? Feature? Power users baffled as BitLocker update switch-off continues
Tuesday 25th September 2018 09:27 GMT
"doesn't actually work in the first place"
Unfortunately, situation normal for far too much of Microsoft's "Jenga-like" code - a look at the "General changes, improvements, and fixes" that get listed for each Windows 10 Insider release seems to indicate that random stuff gets trashed every time something supposedly innocuous gets "improved" elsewhere.
You're alone in a room with the Windows 10 out-of-the-box apps. What do you do?
Flying to Mars will be so rad, dude: Year-long trip may dump 60% lifetime dose of radiation on you
Microsoft: Like the Borg, we want to absorb all the world's biz computers
FCC boss slams new Californian net neutrality law, brands it illegal
Check out this link! It's not like it'll crash your iPhone or anything (Hint: Of course it will)
Tuesday 18th September 2018 11:13 GMT
Re: No, this is coding.
And so is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
But it will do more damage to your sanity than any CSS!
First it was hashtags – now Amber Rudd gives us Brits knowledge on national ID cards
All aboard the Hype Cycle! What's DataOps? Well, it has no standards or frameworks. Got it?
Guess who's still in charge of your gas safety, Brits? Capita
Safari, Edge fans: Is that really the website you think you're visiting? URL spoof bug blabbed
Cisco shoves more GPUs in AI server for deep learning, still doesn't play Crysis
Volkswagen faces fresh Dieselgate lawsuit in Germany – report
UK.gov went ahead with under-planned, under-funded IT upgrade? Sounds about right
A boss pinching pennies may have cost his firm many, many pounds
PPI pushers now need consent to cold-call you
Saturday 8th September 2018 20:37 GMT
@Vometia Munro
Yep, fully agree with you. Yesterday I received a call on my mobile from a "Private number". I picked it up ready to tell them to piss off to find it was about booking a genuine yearly hospital appointment. I gave them several minutes of chastisement regarding the fact that they were withholding their number (something that I did when they phoned up regarding last year's appointment). They had already tried my landline but, as I've set that one to completely ignore withheld numbers due to the constant crap I was receiving, they had no luck there. Apparently, they are going to do something about it "Real Soon Now" - yeah, right.
HTTPS crypto-shame: TV Licensing website pulled offline
Neutron star crash in a galaxy far, far... far away spews 'faster than light' radio signal jets at Earth
Thursday 6th September 2018 08:38 GMT
Re: Wow, that's quite a cosmic prang
And the traffic cop tut-tutting and making little notes in his notebook. "Exceeding the speed of light, eh? Tsk, tsk, that'll cost you a few points on yer license... unless, of course, you might be thinking of buying a few tickets to the policeman's ball - oh look, I just happen to have a few spare tickets in me pocket here. Put you down for a couple o' dozen, shall I?"
Biting the hand that feeds IT
