Posts by A Non e-mouse

Re: identity and encryption

Thunderbird can really take the initiative here, and simply implement it. If two Thunderbird clients are emailing each other then it will automatically be encrypted after the first email exchange

PGP & Email does two things. It encrypts emails in transit but it also provides identity assurance.

You can't automatically provide the identity assurance without either a manual process or recourse to a trusted third party.

Re: OA publishing

I think you'll find that some grant awarding institutions now make publishing papers in open access journals one of the conditions of the grant.

Re: And he also couldn’t do it from Apple Mail.

And switching between plain text and HTML on Outlook isn't difficult either.

Re: Murdoch

Wasn't Murdoch lining up his children to take over his empire?

Re: So that's Cummings out of a Job then.

That's standard fare for politicians, isn't it?

Re: So long as it's not mixed thread...

I always felt school was just preparing kids for a life of taking arbitrary orders from people

To quote Madness:

"All I learned at school was to bend not break the rules".

Re: Coming soon

There used to be a regular article in one of the old print trade newspapers (Computer Weekly?) where they highlighted the absurd packaging of some companies.

When opening a CSV I think Excel (& LIbreOffice) should give the user the choice: Either let the program auto-guess the column types or allow the user to specify them. (Ideally allow the user to supply a template of the column types so you don't have to rebuild the format every time)

Re: change for sake of change

I suspect a fancy dinner was involved

And I hope you have a bloody good lawyer as you're implying Microsoft bribed Cambridge.

Re: Hmm.

A flight where you are licensed to take off or land, but not the other, is not going to go well.

I thought there were already countries whose certification processes for aircraft & pilots was already distrusted so can't fly to Europe.

Re: Screenshot

Other games on other platforms did a similar trick of changing mode mid-screen draw.

Re: Some Gateway stuff is still out there unopened

I don't think Gateway were alone in designing PCs that could trivially rotate between desk & tower.

An interesting question for me that wasn't raised in the article not sure if it is an issue or not, but if/when this cert is revoked by the vendor(I assume vendor like HP, Dell, etc) could it prevent the system from booting(assuming Secure boot is enabled) if the grub update isn't already applied?

Yes. And it'll aslo prevent any old rescue/install media from working too.

Re: A few things

>> 2. Why would past employees still have company data from 2014 on their personal devices? That would surely be a breach of data protection laws

Data Protection doesn't say anything explicit about what you can/can't keep or for how long. The general thrust is that what & how long you keep something must be appropriate & proportionate.

What's appropriate & proportionate? That's for a judge and/or jury to decide.

Re: A sad reflection on society

I don't think you have to be a GOW/M to see through the thin veneer of the celebrity cult. Just someone who can open their eyes and think for themselves.