Posts by Lozzyho 73 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Sep 2007
Funny how it's the anonymous ones here who like to throw around insults to people who have a different point of view, isn't it?
I don't doubt the guy was probably anything other than paranoid or mentally ill, i'm simply saying I don't want encryption to be a way for paedo's and terrorists to evade the law.
If you don't like that opinion that's your prerogative, but to call me an idiot for holding it only shows your own paranoia and ignorance.
Well if you're so sure he's innocent, answer this: Why the hell didn't he just hand over the keys? Yeah, I'm sure he "forgot" them all, couldn't even hazard a guess.
The authorities had no option. He COULD have been hiding anything, and surely the law CANNOT take refusal as a presumption of innocence. Let's face it, I don't want Al Qaeda suspects doing so either. I don't suppose missing bail hearings, trying to enter countries illegally and having traces of explosive on your hands helped his case either.
C'mon, I dislike Jack Straw and the government as much as the next man. But if it's a choice of protecting the public (especially kids) or protecting those who think they can give two fingers to the law, i know who i'm siding with. If he is innocent, then he's BLOODY arrogant.
> No. Apple don't care if you buy a copy of OS X and install it on your Hackintosh. Just don't
> expect any support from them. They're not going against the hobbyists here.
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> Apple DO care if you sell Hackintoshes with OS X pre-installed. That's the big no-no.
Well that makes perfect sense...
... is why Apple deserves to fail. It treats its customers and developers like shit, and woe betide any member of the press who dares to criticise it. "That'll be no more review kit for you, then"
Apple are shits with good PR, Microsoft are (comparative) saints with bad PR.
As AC said, MS at least know how to treat their developers with some respect.
All fanboi-bating and trolling aside, at a more technical level this does seem to be more of a series of design flaws rather than a simple bug.
There should be several layers of code, from the UI to the underlying file system, that would raise an error and prevent the overwrite of a user's home directory. The fact that a single error in the logon code CAN delete a home directory without jumping through several security hoops is more than worrying.
Try to write code in XP or Vista to delete your Documents directory and the OS will immediately and quite rightly tell you to fuck right off.
... they control the hardware, the firmware, the OS software and (very tightly) the Application software, and they STILL release firmware that bricks the phone?!
Microsoft, for ALL their flaws (and they do have many), rarely control anything more than the OS software.
But when you control all 4 of the above, it's UNFORGIVEABLE to release such major bugs, especially when your business ethos is to take the piss out of the competition and have advertising based around your supposed superiority and lines like "it just works".
I couldn't give a toss if some twerp wants to deafen himself, that's his lookout, as long as he doesn't go to the NHS for treatment.
What would be much better would be minimum standards for headphones' sound leakage to the outside world* so that we don't have to listen too.
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* or rather, every train I've been on in the last 5 years.
Cyclists:
- You SHOULD NEVER ride more than two abreast, and ride in single file on narrow or busy roads and when riding round bends (although the highway code says you "SHOULD NOT" on this one, not that you "MUST NOT")
- You MUST NOT ride on pavements
- You MUST obey all traffic signs and traffic light signals.
Car drivers:
- Stop driving like twats
- Give cyclists at least a car's width when overtaking. Yes, that means always. Yes, that means you too.
- Stop talking on a mobile phone while you're driving (hands-free notwithstanding)
- You MUST obey all traffic signs and traffic light signals.
Celebrity Chefs:
- Just STFU and cook.
And yes, I'm a driver and a cyclist, although the day I wear Lycra is the day Britain gets a roadside vomiting epidemic after catching sight of my substantial moobs.
Oh, and, er, classic cars don't pay any road tax, so does that mean they're not allowed to use the road?
I really feel for this guy. I'm sick and tired of the public sector utterly FAILING in their duty and getting off scot free.
Although is it any surprise Mr Blair's brother was in on the cover-up... er I mean act?
I think we should all chip in and get the guy enough money to take these useless incompetent corrupt fuckwits to the European court!
Nik, you're wasting your breath, mate. Windows 7 is absolutely fine, has some really nice touches, and I've yet to hear any negative comments from ANYONE who has *actually tried it*.
But of course, the MS haters will obviously want to hate it, and will probably all like to use words and phrases that someone once told them were cool, like FAIL etc.
I'll happily admit that Opera and FF are better browsers, if for not other reason than they comply with standards. And Microsoft deserve a kick up the arse for it. But to stick to this "Windows is shit regardless" nonsense is laughably fanboyish.
And regarding the upgrade path, you can upgrade from RC to RTM as follows:
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/101865/upgrade-of-windows-7-beta-to-rc-and-rtm-to-require-some-mucking-about.html
Whether you SHOULD is another matter, of course.
Because VFAT was designed my Microsoft and was never released as Open Source. Like it or not, they have a right to protect their patent.
Apple, on the other hand, take an open-source OS, tack on a UI, sell it, and try to put out of business anyone who tries to sell it with their own hardware.
Hmm...
Seriously, can someone explain what the Alan Sugar hero worship is all about?
I mean, the guy has peddled utter tat all his life and his one true skill is how to design something just cheap enough that it fails the day after the warranty runs out.
Now the BBC seem to like the taste of his arse, and the whole country (present company excepted I hope) seems to think he is Britain's equivalent to Gates/Jobs/Ford/whoever.
The man's a total clown with an ego complex and I can't understand why Mr Brown wants him in the government.
Oh wait a minute...
The registry is split into user files (1 per user = HKEY_LOCAL_USER/HKEY_USERS) and machine files (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG etc).
And as for ActiveX objects being enabled by "many many users" then I'd suggest only crazy people would. IE lets you enable such things by zone, so many might enable them for Intranet sites or Trusted sites, but not for Internet. Anyone sufficiently savvy to get that far would SURELY know not to enable ActiveX objects for then Internet zone.
As for installing OSX, does Safari have NO vunlnerabilities?! Are you sure?
Interesting how people still manage to try to slag off Vista when it's the one NOT affected.
That was a cracking club house, and a cracking snooker table if my memories of visiting with my dad when I was 10 are correct.
Ah, nostalgia.
Bit of a sad indictment on the Scottish (and British) economy if they can't sell off ANY of the (well maintained) buildings to anyone for manufacturing, warehousing or offices. Brown and Salmond - what a team!
This is why having a closed system such as the iPhone is a bad idea, and why basing your own company's entire business model AROUND that closed ecosystem is an even worse idea.
And that closed eco-system being run and owned by Apple, the only company more anti-competitive than Microsoft? TERRIBLE idea.
"Jobs claimed he doesn't know much about accounting or backdating shenanigans and didn't know the practice was illegal"
Since when was ignorance a defence in law?
"He's one of the very few tech company bosses that outright ignores philanthropy "
Indeed, but you don't hear the iTards/Fanbois/sheep giving Bill Gates any credit for it, do you?
And yes, the icon is ironic.
Is this related to the problem that my ISP says is causing BT IPStream to be slowing to a crawl after 7pm these days (i.e. for the last couple of weeks!)
They (o2 broadband) say that there's nothing they can do, as they're in BT's hands. Oh shit, methinks. No resolution date, no further information, no update on the web. Great.
Paris, cos she's always got capacity.
So tell me, EU tosspots, exactly how many people bought the "N" versions of Windows?
Precisely fuck all, that's how many. The EU are wasting their time (and our money) trying to force users into doing something that 99% of users won't want/need to do.
Us techies who don't like IE (including me) are 1% of computer users, if that, and forcing the rest to choose another browser is acting in the interests of Opera and Mozilla, NOT the users.
Seriously: Will your aunty hilda be able to make an informed decision? You could argue that FF/Opera are better, but I'd argue that others (including Safari) are far worse, especially for a Windows user.
Not only does my car do this for hi-fi volume, but it also does the same thing for the sat nav brightness in relation to the outside light. Oh, and the headlights too. And the hazard warning lights come on if I break REALLY hard.
How can you patent something that has a sensor and reacts to the sensor?
Apple are patent trawling, end of. Next year they'll file a patent for a Human Touch Interface Device that reacts by turning on a device when it senses the press of a human finger. Just you watch...
>> After more than 25 years in the DOS/Wintel business I changed to Mac and it really does just >> work - no hassle, few reboots and very elegant
Really? I have Vista on an HP laptop and a custom-built PC, both running games, MS Visual Studio, SQL server and Oracle server, without antivirus or anti-spyware.
No reboots - EVER. It really REALLY does just work.
Funny that.
But the gay Keanu icon is a good idea.
Surely not? Does this lover's spat mean no more Intel Mac PC clones or MacBook Airs (which is, after all, an Intel laptop wrapped in toxic Apple materials)?
IMO, Intel are right, but for the wrong reasons. A device can't be the "full" Internet experience until the user is free to run whatever they want on it.
That's most definitely NOT the iPhone.
Paris, because the Internet experience wouldn't be the same without her.
I'm no fan of Amazon, and I'm certainly no fan of DRM.
However, looking through reviews of Far Cry 2 yesterday pissed me off no end. Not one of the (several) reviews said anything about the actual game. They all just slated the SecuRom with rants and innaccuracies (such as you can't reinstall the game if you reinstall Windows) etc.
If you're just wanting to read a review (or judge a game to buy from it's star rating!) then such use of the reviews system is a royal pain in the tits. I'd be quite happy from them to remove ALL reviews which did not mention the merits of the actual game.
Despite the vocal minority in Scotland, we're not all burn-the-english lynch mobs, you know. Try to remember, the SNP are only in power because of Labour's complete inability to find their arse with both hands.
Most of us don't want independence (otherwise the second hand car salesman known as Salmond would have called a referendum already) and most of us get on just fine with the English.
As for Ofcom, they can just fuck right off IMO.
Even Wozniak said "there are two monopolies: Microsoft and Apple"
Jobs is the one who tore up the clone agreements, buying off or bankrupting the clone vendors in the process. They realised the vendors were doing a better job of making Macs than Apple.
It's about time people woke up and realised that Apple is EVEN MORE anti-competitive than Microsoft. They just get away with it by being "trendy" and loved by the sycophantic media.
I'm not an IT contractor, but I do work in IT.
All I can say is, I hope the government will be happy when there will be no such thing as a flexible workforce.
Sure, some of these people can earn a lot of money, but it's not all a bed of roses. They take the risk that they will be out of work for an indeterminate length of time, and they have to fund their own training and pension. And neither is cheap.
The way the government (HMRC in particular) has constantly moved the goalposts on IR35 (and section 669) is underhand and downright dishonest. Changing interpretation of law is unforgiveable.
If this were benefit claimants having the rules changed on them and backdated, the do-gooders and scroungers would be rioting.
In fact Mr. Brown, why don't you just save us all the hassle of putting up with you for the next 2 years. Just fuck off to Barbados with your index-linked guaranteed pension and paid-for-life personal protection, and give us all peace, will you?
Yep, runs fine for me too, on new AND old hardware. Vista is absolutely fine, bar a couple of rarely-needed services that are installed and running by default (Windows Search, I'm looking at you).
Funnily enough, all the furore about shit performance turned out to be badly written drivers by 3rd parties, but you don't hear the detractors holding their hands up to that, do you?
And all the OSX fanbois can just fuck off - it's a piece of piss to rip off Linux and get it running on your tied-down over-priced glossy hardware platform, then crow at the competition because they have a hard time supporting hardware for virtually anything. If you want to look trendy, buy a fucking Audi TT, not a computer. Please, just go away and give us all peace.
Only the linux boys have ANY right to crow at Vista.
I worked for RBS for 6 years until quite recently and I promise you, this is NOT unusual. Unless the news had hit the BBC's headlines, it's just seen as a bunch of geeks whinging about something that will probably never happen.
They're FAR too busy wondering which parts of the bank to sell to make up for their last few fuck-ups, to worry about something DIFFICULT.
No I loved working there, honest.*cough* tossers *cough*
Windows Search is just one of the services that is largely unnecessary for a vast number of users. I can't be the only user who always knows where a document is - it's in "Documents"! My music is in "Music" and so on.
But the Windows Search service isn't the only one that most users should disable. Superfetch is a terrible hard disk thrasher, making your PC less responsive after any change. ReadyBoost is a waste of time, and I could go on.
Vista *AND XP* should have a configuration wizard that asks you a series of questions about the use of the PC, and disables services appropriately.
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