* Posts by JakeMS

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FBI boss: No encryption backdoor law (but give us backdoors anyway)

JakeMS
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Let's make a deal!

Okay feds, you want a backdoor in my computers, servers and phones.. you can have a backdoor in my computers, servers and phones IF you let me have a backdoor in your computers, servers and phones too.

It's only fair right? Afterall you have nothing to hide right as you are all following the law right?

Whaddaya say? Sounds like a plan to me!

Furious LastPass fans fear password wrangler's fate amid LogMeIn's gobble

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Oh the irony..

The amount of times people have said to me "Hey, why bother using local password managers when you can use a secure cloud platform like lastpass which will always be available?"

.. Well this is why.

Also, isn't it pretty much standard that when company X gets purchased by company Z that users of company X's products almost always complain about the sale?

I don't think I've ever heard of a company sale where users of said sold companies products have "hit the streets of the internet" to celebrate and party about it?

Online VAT fraud: Calls for government crackdown grow louder

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Headmaster

Let's talk VAT numbers..

It seems a lot of people tend to misunderstand the way the VAT system actually works in the UK.

Often you may see 'sellers' who do not have a VAT number.

This is very true for small businesses, for example if you have less than £75,000[1] of pure profit per year you are not required to have a VAT number at all. Although they can opt to get a VAT number anyway.

However what this means is that if they should choose to not register a VAT number it simply means that when they get the items in stock the VAT is paid by the seller to the wholesaler, thus VAT has indeed been legally paid for the sold goods.

This means that yes, they do not have to list the VAT included or their VAT number when they sell an item. In this instance no laws have been broken what-so-ever.

Typically accountants will push for you to get a VAT number so you can get your stock cheaper without VAT. But this will often mean you get a VAT bill at the end of the year. However, without a VAT number you simply pay the VAT up front straight away. Thus no end of year tax bill. Heck you may even get money back!

So long as the business is registered with HMRC, your accounts are put in each year and you are earning less than 75k a year in profit, you are breaking no laws by having no VAT number.

[1] This figure may have gone up or down since I last checked..

So how do Google's super-smart security folk protect their data?

JakeMS

Re: Yes, password manager

I loose access to all my passwords and spend the next week using password recovery forms and trying to remember websites :-).

Wait no, can't do that as I would need access to my email account, and to do that I'd need access to my password DB. Hmm.

... I'm off to make a backup of that key file ...

JakeMS

Re: Yes, password manager

I myself use a password manager, and like the Googler man, I use unique passwords on all websites.

Now some serious things to take into consideration when picking a manager is "Where is my password database?" and "What extra step of security can I add?"

Personally I'm not a big fan of the idea of having my entire password database on someone else's server.. but at the same time I need to be able to access said passwords from multiple devices.

So some cloud is going to have to be used somewhere, in my case I picked dropbox as my database is fully encrypted.

So what extra security? I use a "keyfile" which is only available on one very special memory-stick, this memory stick is also encrypted with LUKS and is mounted quick and hard when I need to access the DB and unmounted immediately after the DB is unlocked as such even if you get my lame human generated password for my password manager you cannot get in without the keyfile which is never copied anywhere else except that very special and very talented memory stick.

I prefer it this way, and it is why I use KeePassX as it's portable, supports this feature and cannot be simply read as a plain text file like some other managers.

Here are the God-mode holes that gave TrueCrypt audit the slip

JakeMS

Re: People still use Truecrypt and friends?

"Shouldn't you be using a Mac?"

No no no, I don't have a push bike! I'm not hipster enough for a Mac. :-P

As a side note, I have tried ol' macs farm, but in all honesty it just wasn't for me, I could see it had a few good merits where some users would like it.. but just wasn't my bottle of rum.

JakeMS
WTF?

People still use Truecrypt and friends?

This surprises me actually I thought for the most part since it was abandoned people would have stopped using it?

Although personally as I'm one of those hipster Linux users I've been using LUKS now for a long time. Personally I find it more convenient than truecrypt ever was. For example, on your mission critical laptop that holds every single credit card number, home address, siblings, wives and children personal and medical details that belong to your customers[1] you'll be better off just encrypting the whole drive with LUKS instead of making a Truecrypt container.

[1] If you do this, you probably work for the NHS and are always losing these details.

Now you can be tracked online by your email addy. Thanks, Google!

JakeMS
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Finally

Thank you Google! I have always wanted my gmail account to allow me to be tracked more easily by advertisers! This is a feature I've been waiting for, for[1] years.

I can't imagine life without this awesome feature!

[1] Need a grammer nazi to fix this please :-P

NEW ERA for HUMANITY? NASA says something 'major' FOUND ON MARS

JakeMS

Come on..

Come on guys, do you really think that if NASA found life on mars or aliens they would tell us?

If NASA told everyone there is a recently crashed alien spaceship on mars that has more advanced weapons that we could only dream of making, you know what would happen? Worldwide mass panic in one hit!

But none the less, aliens are not real as god created us in his image and we are the only life in the universe, all alone, just us, no one else. All alone in this big place, with no one else to see, all alone :-(. Or at least, that's what the pope told me.

(Note: I'm not religious, and my last paragraph was a joke.)

Tell you what though, if aliens do find us, they'll be saying "Oh, don't go near Earth! It's got human beings on it, they're contagious!".

BlackBerry emits Android mobe as biz goes down the Priv

JakeMS
Joke

Really?

"The Oxford Dictionary defines a "Privy" as "[noun] a toilet located in a small shed outside a house or other building; outhouse.""

Someone go fire the dumbass who suggested the name "Privy"!

Get ready for a grim future where bees have shorter tongues

JakeMS

Correct me if I'm wrong but..

Hasn't life on earth for millions of years gradually evolved and changed to match environment, lifestyle, food availability etc etc etc.

In this case it's possibly this has absolutely diddly squat to do with global warming. This could just be natural evolution within the species that has been happening for long before humans started spitting bad stuff into the air.

This quite literally could of happened even if humans didn't exist.. I don't think you can blame "global warming" for this one.

Sure you could say they wouldn't have to 'evolve' if we didn't heat up the place.. but then they might have to evolve if some plants stop growing a new ones grow in their place.

And this could be exactly what happened...

This is the earth and life on it doing what it does: evolving and changing.

This change is not made by humans.

Next up: Global warming caused monkeys to turn into humans because of monkey emitted fart pollution!

Robber loses heist case after 'evil twin' defence, gets 60 years

JakeMS

Re: Not technically identical...

While there are ways to determine which twin did something if you have their fingerprints or DNA at the scene.. you're still pretty stuffed if the only evidence you have is CCTV footage, as with only this you cannot prove which twin did it even if the face is clearly visible and identifiable.

Good luck trying to prove which twin did something based on CCTV footage alone. You can bet your bottom dollar both will be saying "It wasn't me, it was the other one!"

Unless one buckles and admits to the crime you cannot prosecute them as you have no real way of proving it. But then what's to say the "evil twin" didn't blackmail the "good twin" into confessing to a crime they didn't commit? ;-)

WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

JakeMS

No! I will not compare the market for you!

Red Hat unleashes EL 7.2 beta on a waiting world

JakeMS

Re: Time to look into it.

"How have others found systemd?"

At first I was very much against it.

Then I actually sat down and "grudgingly" started using it.

Now I kinda like it. Once you've got your head around it, it's actually fairly easy to use.

Want to enable a service?

instead of chkconfig <service> on use systemctl enable <service>

Want to start/stop/restart a service?

instead of service <service> start/stop/restart use systemctl start/stop/restart <service>

Oh, and one handy feature you can chain start/stops. Example;

systemctl restart shorewall httpd mariadb

instead of:

service shorewall restart; service httpd restart; service mariadb restart

And creating service is also easier.

Although. I know that it still breaks that whole unix thing of "do one job and do it well" but so long as it works well and isn't causing any major problems for you by being combined.. does it really matter?

JakeMS

Re: Some nice additions

"Why ? What's wrong with EL6 ?"

Absolutely nothing. I use both EL7 and EL6 and both are doing there jobs nicely. But I am always glad to see improvements to EL releases in general.

Though I tend to keep on the current stable release this way as machines age and become ready for a replacement they get the latest available EL release along with their replacement.

(Except .0's, I avoid those I tend to wait for .1 first. Example skip 7.0 but use 7.1 as by this time most deal breaker bugs are found and has given you time to test by sticking it in, wiggling it around and probing it on your test machines to see if she's okay with it.)

As long as you keep any homebrew applications ready for the next EL release and the current one it should work great and generally helps avoid that "Oh no! My OS is EOL! PANIC NO SECURITY UPDATES!" as most machines will have moved on, and if not they can be safely upgraded to the newer EL release knowing full well your applications were updated and ready to go.

Google robo-car suffers brain freeze after seeing hipster cyclist

JakeMS

Re: This situation would happen anyway

Cyclists should have to take a road license test just like a car or motorbike in my opinion. Their bikes should also have to have a yearly road safety check just like a motorbike or car (Tyres can still go flat/blunt, breaks can still wear out and chains can rust and potentially be just waiting to break..)

Additionally bikes should be required to have LIGHTS so that other road users can see them at night when they are not wearing a high visibility jacket, have no reflector pads and are wearing a black hoodie on a dark country lane (Happened to me, I almost wiped him out, his lucky I happened to see a slight movement out of the corner of my eye which made me focus and have to slam on breaks and skid to avoid him..)

Additionally, they should have registration plates so that if they run red lights, ride on walkways or damage peoples cars they too, just like any other road user can be held responsible.

Another chance to win a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive

JakeMS

When they said we were going to see the new Spiderman this is NOT what I had in mind!

Win8 inventory glut? Yep, it's all Microsoft's fault, says HP

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Windows 10 is a success

I firmly believe Windows 10 has done me a great favour. For a while now I've been 'supporting' a few family members and a neighbour with their Windows PCs helping fix problems and keep them running.

It sucks as I'm not a Windows user and haven't been for over 10 years now, so my windows specific skills are slowly lacking more and more as the OS changes meanwhile my Linux skills are constantly improving.. naturally so. But it does make fixing Windows users computers a pain in the rear for me.

Anyhows, so since Windows 10 has been out and all the buzz on privacy issues hit the streets I've been asked about "other" operating systems. Yup, you guessed it, I stuck Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon on a USB stick after asking about their usage/application requirements and then booted it up on their PC to show them how it works.

I was expecting a "Oh it's too complicated.." or some other type of confusion.. nope. The response was "So how do I go about making this permanent? This feels much more comfortable than Windows 8"

...

I was dumbfounded. And am now working on plans to migrate data and install Linux. This also means helping them will be much easier.

So yes, Windows 10 is indeed a success! :-).

Well, sort of.

So realistically this is what HP should be advertising with their current Win8 machines, get them now before "secure boot" completely locks out Linux installs!

They will sell them in a jiffy!

Get whimsical and win a Western Digital Black 6TB hard drive

JakeMS
Pirate

Damn.. It's not jail-broken and it's locked to this network with no signal! Now what do I do?

NASA dismisses asteroid apocalypse threat

JakeMS
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Re: Is this..

Yeah, me an my perfect grammer and speling here ;-). Sorry mate.

I should have maybe prove read it no?

Also we need a "head exploding" icon.

JakeMS
Mushroom

Is this..

Is this the same one which was "discovered" under no scientific basis what-so-ever by that mentally deranged god botherer who is always shouting DOOMSDAY IS COMING TO ALL YOU SINNERS, GOD WILL PUNISH YOU! Because "god" told him so?

If so.. what a load of crap. The fact is, there are thousands of astronomers out there from all over the world, if this thing was really headed for us.. someone would of seen it by now and reported it...

Sorry, but I believe in science and facts. Show me physical proof god exists and physical proof of this asteroid and then maybe, I will believe you and stop calling you insane.

Mobile 'fault' forces BA flight into unscheduled Russian landing

JakeMS

Well, at least it didn't cause the plane to crash or whatever as the pilot was able to safely land and take off again.

So there you have it, if your phone explodes, don't worry, the plane will be fine, your ass or your hand on the other hand will smell a bit like crispy bacon.... mmmm.. bacon...

Anyhows, all is well. :-).

Parrot drone pwned (and possibly killed) with Wi-Fi log-in

JakeMS

If you're sneaky enough, they'll never know who done it...

JakeMS
Coat

I bet parrot was spitting feathers when they heard about this!

Get it? Spitting feathers? parrot? yeah? no.. okay I'll get my coat.

175 MILLION websites still powered by Windows Server 2003

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Oh come on..

If you are a bank and have a server that is for online banking and is running an OS that is no longer supported and obsolete you really should be ashamed of yourself as you are putting your users/clients entirely at risk of fraud.

Seriously, aren't banks supposed to be one of those companies that have the best of the best security?

They really should be ashamed of themselves for not having a current/supported operating system.

It's not like they haven't got the money to do it...

Also isn't alibaba chinese? if so it's no surprise there most of china is using pirated Windows XP, so it's not a big surprise to find it also has windows server 2003 to go with it..

Sex app Tinder in public meltdown – because a journo dared suggest it was, well, a sex app

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I can confirm..

... that Tinder is great for finding someone to meet up with :-).

Tinder is the best thing since swiss cheese :-).

Had some fun times indeed! Such as jumping.... on a bouncy castle... for example!

Oh, one thing, when meeting all these people, remember to ensure that ring in your wallet is actually still in there, you don't want to meet up with the next person the next day only to find out its missing!

Trust me, you don't! Happened to me.. had to pop to shop real quick before arriving.

But yes, Tinder is a great service for um, meeting people to eh.. talk, yeah, talk ;-)

Apple tries to patent facial recognition

JakeMS

Really?

Are they really trying to claim they invented facial recognition?

Facial recognition has been around for years, heck early working prototypes of it were probable being tested/worked on before apple even released the first iOS.

If they get this patent successfully, then its simply more proof of a failed patent system.

Who's got bets they want this so they can sue Bookface and other currently working facial recognition software for royalties?

NSA: Here’s $300,000, people. Go build us a safer Internet of Things

JakeMS

Often forgotton..

Sometimes a lot of people forget a simple fact about the NSA:

They are at the end of the day still tasked with ensuring that national security is not compromised.

So when it comes to security they have two divisions effectively. One which is tasked with trying to break various security mechanisms, in order to spy on it's citizens to ensure there is no uprise against the government/rich, and the other which is to ensure that their own security and that of US citizens is effective and working to try to prevent competing governments from being able to spy on its citizens.

This is why the NSA helped create SELinux, it is also why they are doing this. Bear in mind SELinux is entirely open source and viewable by anybody so it's unlikely that it contains a backdoor.

It is hard to believe when you consider how much stuff they do in order to break security and spy on you, but it is still true.

Thus, not everything the NSA do is bad. Albeit a lot of the stuff they do is.

Patching a fragmented, Stagefrightened Android isn't easy

JakeMS

Re: Bright side

Well.. no.

You cannot sue any open source projects as 99.999% have a clause in them much like the GPL which states the following:

"15. Disclaimer of Warranty.

THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

16. Limitation of Liability.

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES."

(Copy and paste, I didn't CAPS it)

Thus, if the shit hits the fan, it's your problem not the projects. Thus you cannot sue them :-).

Intel left a fascinating security flaw in its chips for 16 years – here's how to exploit it

JakeMS
Joke

Just goes to show..

If you really really want a secure PC, never connect it to the internet, not even for a single millisecond, encrypt the HDD using LUKS, unplug it, store it away and never turn it on again. :-).

Now that is what I call a secure PC!

EE recalls Power Bar phone chargers after explosion burns woman

JakeMS

Re: Glad...

"Do you know how you'd react waking up to a fire?"

Yes, I would just use my dry powder fire extinguisher that's on the wall next to the home office door :-). That's what it's there for, in case of electrical fires as electrical equipment is always running in office it would be silly not to have and know how to use one.

But I know most people don't have such things around the house. But still, it is what I would do and how I'd react.

JakeMS

Glad...

Glad I didn't get one of these. Although you can find other non-EE ones on Amazon and such like which do the same thing. Judging by this article, it's probably safer too :-).

PS: Why did she try to put a fire out with her hand? Damp cloth, glass/bucket of water (depending on size of fire) would of done just fine without burning your hand..

John McAfee cuffed by Tennessee cops, faces drug-driving, gun rap

JakeMS
Pint

Epic Mugshot

Whether you like this guy or not, you have to admit that's a pretty epic mugshot to have. It's a total "Yeah whatever haha" look on his face even though his been arrested..

Gotta give him at least one beer for having an awesome mugshot!

It's Suntory time: Japanese whisky to be distilled in SPAAAAACE

JakeMS
Devil

Need taste testers?

Do they need any taste testers? They're more than welcome to send the first test batch of bottles to me for free taste testing! :-D.

Wait, STOP: Are you installing Windows 10 or RANSOMWARE?

JakeMS
Joke

Difference?

So..... Explain to me again what the difference between the two is?

Oh.. you want to play a windows game without ads? Well that's gunna cost ya extra fool!

UK.gov wants to stop teenagers looking at tits online. No, really

JakeMS

5 minutes

I give it 5 minutes after the "blockade" is put in place before someone puts a blog post up explaining how to bypass said blockade.

Don't want pranksters 'bricking' your Android? Just stop using the internet, duh – Google

JakeMS

Re: Sod it..

BB Classic retails for £299, it has a keyboard.. so if that's your thing, they got it covered.

JakeMS
Joke

Sod it..

Might as well get a Blackberry :-P.

At least it wouldn't have these bugs and BB OS can and will get security updates by BB without third party manufactures preventing you from getting them... :-).

So.. now the Blackberry Leap doesn't look so bad now for £195 on amazon....

(PS: I have currently have an Android myself...)

BT broadband in broad-based brownout and TITSUP incidents

JakeMS
Mushroom

IPv6 issues anyone?

So.. earlier in July BT mentioned they were starting to test IPv6 on a limited number of their employees...

I wonder if this issue could be related? Maybe they are trying to "silently" roll IPv6 to various exchanges (Though not activating for customers) without anyone noticing ready to gear up for full roll out?

Perhaps somehow IPv4 got switched off somewhere down the line on a few exchanges, and with IPv6 also being off.. well.. no connection..

Considering the distances between the various reported fault locations its unlikely to be physical hardware/cabling failure issues.

Just a theory though..

(Personally, I cannot wait for IPv6.. I will no longer have to mess around with configuring tunnels on my devices to ensure various servers work on IPv6 properly or not.. I just hope they give us a proper ::/64 block.. but I somehow doubt it.)

Your voter-trolling autodialer is illegal: The cringey moment the FCC spanks a congresscritter

JakeMS
Joke

Wait!

The law applies to us too? But we're the rich 1%! That can't be true! No law should be against us!

Windows 10: A sysadmin speaks his brains – and says MEH

JakeMS

Re: 4000 browser tabs

Indeed! Why anyone would need more than say 5 to 10 tabs open at a time is beyond me.

/me quietly hides my browser with 34 open tabs

Got an Android phone? SMASH IT with a hammer – and do it NOW

JakeMS
Alert

Damn!

Damn! See this is why the very idea of locked down/DRMed devices is bad[1][2].

When something critical like this happens many users cannot simply apply a patch to fix it, they are stuck with a device that is exposed and the only way to resolve it is to hope the manufacture releases a patch.

Sure, you could install a custom rom to fix this, but this may not always be available for all android phones, for example, my android phone does not have this option.

Thus, I now need to buy a new phone[3][4] :-/

[1] I know android its self is indeed open source, but many (most?) mobile phone manufactures put various locks in place to prevent easy user modifying of the installed firmware.

[2] I am an open source, anti-drm supporting nut job.

[3] Typical, I just got my phone set up the way I like it.

[4] More money spent.. so much for saving up for that 1967 Shelby Fastback Mustang..

UK.gov makes total pig's ear of attempt to legalise home CD ripping

JakeMS
Pirate

No No No!

Any law change which would benefit the people simply cannot be allowed!

Besides, regardless of the silly law I'm still going to rip my own CDs whether they like it or not... and yes, I will copy it to my phone, and yes I will copy it to my laptop as well as my desktop.

They'll never know anyway!

BOO! Grave remote-code exec flaw in GNU C Library TERRIFIES Linux

JakeMS
Mushroom

Yay!

More server patching! :-D.

.... but hey, at least it gets fixed eventually right? :-).

Patiently awaiting the CentOS rebuild of the fix...

Also.. not sure if article author is aware, but that picture is NOT Ghostbusters, that is ScoobyDoo....

ICANN CEO criticizes domain 'hoggers'

JakeMS

Times like this...

Is when I laugh the most about domain squatters, they buy a domain for say, £10, then want you to pay £1,000 or more for the exact same domain, for the simple reason "We got it first".

Domain squatting will become harder with all these new extensions in place, after-all, paying for the same domain for each and every extension now would be quite expensive!

Hope to see them gone forever, what right do they have to hog random domains they have no real interest in?

If they were actually using the domains for either personal or business use and wanted a lot of money for you to buy it from them, fair enough, they have built up a reputation for the domain, but as they are 9 times out of 10 simply sitting on a buy this domain page then there is no real justification for the price hike other than greed.

Great Firewall of China blasts DDoS attacks at random IP addresses

JakeMS
Joke

Compensation?

So do businesses effected by these attacks in the rest of the world get financial compensation for any money lost during the outage directly caused by the Chinese government? or at least an apology?..

Thought not!

Welcome to Spartan, Microsoft's persuasive argument for... Chrome

JakeMS

Re: Chrome Fast?

Firefox is no angel when it comes to memory usage, Firefox for years was well known for it's memory leaks.

But to be fair, it is slowly getting better now. It's still a resource hog however, always has been, but even so, it's a great browser in my personal opinion.

To be clear: I'm not bashing Firefox, I have used it for a while now since version 1.5, I'm just saying it how it is. Firefox was and is known for high memory usage.

JakeMS

Re: Microsoft web browsers...

>So just to clarify, IE11 is fine but you hate it anyway.

> Okay.

Not exactly, it is not fine though is it? It STILL requires workarounds, no matter how small, in order to make standard code work on it where the exact same code works fine in any other browser.

That is a problem which should not exist at the end of the day.

I can understand brand new features which are not fully integrated into any browser yet not working for example CSS properties prefixed with -webkit or -mozilla, if IE doesn't support those, that's fine.

After all they are experimental.

But when it's a standard CSS property with no prefix which is fully implemented in every other browser, that is a problem.

Personally, I think Microsoft would be better off issuing backend bug-fixes to older IE versions to fix rendering issues with those browsers before making the next version. At least this way, older browsers would slowly require less fixes from web developers for Microsofts mistakes.

No browser, whether it's firefox, chrome, internet exploder, some other random browsers, should require fixes specifically for that one browser when all others work.

However IE has frequently required this, and this is what makes me hate that browser the most.

JakeMS

Microsoft web browsers...

As a web developer, I can honestly say I hate browsers made by Microsoft.

Anyone who remembers spending hours developing a perfectly working website that works in all browsers flawlessly, then completely breaks as soon as it goes into Internet Explorer 6 will most likely agree with me.

IE 7 was supposed to be better.. it wasn't, IE8 was supposed to be better, it really wasn't as everyone else was moving to HTML5 and IE8s HTML5 and CSS3 support was basically not there.

IE9 through 10 seem a little better, IE11 seems to play nice with our code base now however without any major modifications, I think there is just one or two CSS changes for it.

But wow, I still hate Microsoft browsers, I often wondered if they did it on purpose, in an attempt to get developers to make it work on IE, but break it on others?

If they do make a browser which does not require any 'fixes' at all to work within it, I would be genuinely surprised.

Glad to have dropped support for IE6 and 7 now though :-). They became simply unmaintainable and was holding major enhancements and developments back.

Although, IE8 is my current most hated browser.. why? Because I have to support it, yet can only do so for Windows Vista/7 and above version, XPs version won't even connect to the web server as it does not support SSL TLS 1.0 or better, or SNI and Forward Secrecy.

Which is curious to say the least as Vista/7's version connects without issues...

That and it requires a LOT of fixes to make it work with our current HTML5/CSS3 code base..

But I highly doubt MS will release a web browser which requires no workaround(s), no fixes, no changes etc and just works out of the box in my lifetime!

On the good side, I do most development using Firefox Nightly, and when it comes to compatibility testing it is rare for it not to work in Chrome Beta the same way it worked in Firefox, it usually just works the same :-).

Turn your head and cough (up your details), HealthCare.Gov has sprung a leak!

JakeMS

I should be surprised..

But I really am not.. not even slightest.. I read headline and my first thought was "Who would of thought that?"

Following the footsteps of the NHS it would seem :-).

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