Posts by mikeo

UK privacy watchdog threatens British Airways with 747-sized fine for massive personal data blurt

Re: Great solution

"If a sufficient number..."

Which is highly unlikely to ever happen. Ever asked a non-techie to use NoScript? Hard enough convincing them to use unique passwords and patch their shit which is of far greater benefit. Blocking scripts, while interesting and useful in some cases, is not a workable solution.

Great solution

...for 0.2% of people.

Why on Earth is Microsoft moving to Euro pricing now?

Re: Not for business use but...

"I doubt that Windows could legitimately refuse to function just because it detected that it had emigrated from its place of origin."

Oh come on, it's refused to function for far more feeble reasons than that...

Chrome to weed out dodgy website SSL certificates by itself

SSL is BROKEN

SSL is broken; the 600+ CAs, in whom we are supposed to trust implicitly forever, are not all trustworthy. Perhaps a new method of certificate verification, such as Convergence, http://convergence.io, would help.

When geeks turn Green: Performance tune your energy bills

What happens...

...when Damon Hart-Davis and Lewis Page meet in the same room at El Reg HQ?

Making sense of SharePoint 2010

It's better than Livelink, but

... about 15 years behind Lotus Notes/Domino. Although the Office integration is nice.

MYSTERY of huge Canadian chicken-shed EXPLOSION

or was it...

...those Click-Clack Moo-Cows