Posts by Chris 3

Re: Virgin, bringing you the barely-adequate security from 2002

No - because I seem to recall your password cannot start with a number, seriously.

Re: Radio interview about this

Having been on hold with Virgin's 'retention' department for an hour last week before being cut off, I believe it entirely.

Re: Windows 11 on...

But hang on - Parallels runs the ARM build of Windows 11, not the x86 build - so what's all this about the "specified x86 + Qualcomm chipset"?

Re: Trim that long gray tail

Good by PowerPC 601 :(

Re: Never mind

> all the studies

Ah yes. All those studies. So many so... you just made those up, didn't you?

Re: A sad day

Same here - original tenner a month club member on CIX :(

I wonder whether the respondents may be intepretating 'valuable' in a monetary value sense. The answers *may* have been different if the question had been about the 'sensitivity' of the data held.

Downe is worth a visit

To tread the sand walk and look at the earthworm stone.

Re: Bad software affects some users

To be clear, if it doesn't run El Capitan (which introduced SIP and is a free upgrade) we are talking about a machine older than 2007.

With Musk, him saying something "ages ago" and then reiterating it with a few months to go is news

Re: Java f'in script !

> Where do I send my CV?

1997

Re: The product is strong, and the vision is excellent

OK, I'll bite. Do you not believe that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, or do you not believe that human activity has changed the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere?

Or do you not believe either?

Re: Punished if you buy phone from elsewhere

> Sure, not all my contacts might be able to receive the call their end

Well, that's one reason.

The other is that I suspect the large majority of 3 customers are on all-you-can-eat minute contracts these days, so it simply doesn't matter - the phone switches to Wifi if the cellular connection is dodgy.

Re: I was pro-remain, but this really is "Project Fear" at work.

It's rather like the Y2K bug. There was a *real* prospect of *real* problems if the issues weren't mitigated. Perhaps not a massive risk, but one that needed to be talked about and worked on.

That wasn't Project Fear then, and it isn't Project Fear now. Luckily we sorted out Y2K, hopefully we can do the same with this. But this is more complex because it is political as well as technical.

Re: EU Are Being Vindictive

I'm sure they'll let the UK pay to use it, if it's a key part of our defence.

Re: What is it...

I believe Clinton apologised for the mail server business.

Re: Facebook

Facebook is already in a PR tangle. I think they would be loathe to fan the flames by blocking a browser for offering privacy settings. More interesting will be if Mozilla follow suit.

I think you'll find...

It's not

> Some of it brings the limit up to legally requiring storing certain personal data for 25 years after they were last a pupil.

But you should store it until the pupil is 25.

Re: No people skills whatsovever

I suspect El Reg mischievously took that quote from part of the press release and grafted the 'speaking of job cuts' bit so that we would all grab our pitchforks.

Re: What's the problem?

Having at least one contact for the domain sounds to me as if it is fundamental to the business of running the domain, so the lawful basis for collection wouldn't be consent - it would be contract:

* Contract: the processing is necessary for a contract you have with the individual, or because they have asked you to take specific steps before entering into a contract.

Consent would be required for public display of the data.

Re: Kick me whilst I'm down

I get pretty sick of the 'managers are arseholes' mantra. My wife's a hospital doctor. She's very glad that she doesn't get stuck with the shit that the managers have to deal with.

Re: RIP

I disagree. It's calling Serena Williams a great tennis player.

From what I can tell, you hire that lot for 3 hours and then churn out 60 x 2 minute video using the same actors, costumes and sets. Boom, job done.

You need an iPhone - but you don’t need it with you. Handy if you’re canoeing or going for a run or whatever.

Apple requires you to have a passcode in addition to TouchID/FaceID

I'm intrigued.

... what actually locked you into your beliefs that climate change is a hoax.

Re: Improves with age?

Lets also not forget that Apple's beta software tends to be pretty battery-heavy, but then gets better optimisations before release. So it could well improve fairly rapidly with age.

Re: 5% of 1000 000 is 50 000 desktops.

Except of course - how are you going to get those images to the doctor's desk? USB stick? Mmmm. Two entirely separate PCs on each Doctor's desk on two separate networks?

Re: Just don't do it

I'm still astonished by the number of people who use Whatsapp -which demands access to *all* your contacts

Re: Nice Try, now go home.

Still upset that he took all your guns?

... oh wait.

Re: DNC - Remove the mote from your own eye

Did they actually find out what they thought, or did they just see a bizarrely skewed interpretation a la pizzagate,

Re: FUD

What is it about Trump fans their love of capital letters?

Re: Amen to that

Gove's education policy was a prime example of his 'experts? What do they know?' Core belief (another school governor)

Re: Bollocks

One thing that may give you pause for thought. While the system was indeed pump-primed by showing its neural networks passed games, it has apparently improved substantially in the last few months (since its games against the European champ) through the simple expedient of repeatedly playing itself .

Re: "It's their choice and they choose not to, fair enough."

Every reputable journalist will approach the subject of the article if it is being criticised and offer the chance to comment yes - that is exactly how it works.