See my note up thread about providing fire marshall and first aider services. You need bodies per floor for that.
Posts by Gordon 10
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We(don't)Work: Rent-a-desk outfit cuts 2,400 staff in bid to be a functioning business
El Reg should check their building staffing
As WeWork staff provide the fire Marshall and first Aider service in the UK. Even when they were doing well there was barely a sign of them on the floor of our West London WeWork so gawd knows what it’s like now.
On the plus side hopefully the preachy veganism has gone away with the idiot founders. I don’t have a problem with Vegans but I couldn’t eat a whole one.
Mysterious IT snafu at British Airways causes bunch of inbound flight delays and cancellations
We lose money on repairs, sobs penniless Apple, even though we charge y'all a fortune
Re: Quelle Surprise
Extended warrantees are generally paid for everywhere - the clue is in the name!
I think you mean Apple (in the US) charge you for any costs outside of the 1st year.
Other countries may vary.
Here's an oldie but a goodie linky :
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-eu-warranty
We're so, so, sorry you're not able to get PC chips, says Intel to everyone who hasn't gone with AMD yet
Second time lucky: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
Uncle Sam prepping order to extradite ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch from the UK
Ex-Capita accountant who claimed £10k bung to leave was blackmail has appeal thrown out
To put this in context - that's more than what you get if fired for Misconduct.
If someone offered you £10k (plus notice period) to leave Capita would you take it? I'd be tempted.
Not sure of the full facts of the case - but an accountant not wanting to work over financial year end (usually jan/feb) should find another job. Should they get time to decompress before/afterwards - yes.
This is the bit that rang alarm bells for me. Like it or not - if you are considering quoting the Working Time Directive, things are already so bad you should be considering leaving.
*Disclaimer its a given that Crapita are pure evil, that doesnt mean that in every case they are 100% the bad guy.
Weird flex but OK... Motorola's comeback is a $1,500 Razr flip-phone with folding 6.2" screen
Complete with keyboard and actual, literal, 'physical' escape key: Apple emits new 16" $2.4k+ MacBook Pro
Morrisons tells top court it's not liable for staffer who nicked payroll data of 100,000 employees
Re: Depends if decent efforts at data security made by Morrisons
To reply to my comment. On Fridays article on this the side bar says
"As part of that, the payroll was "uploaded from an encrypted USB onto Mr Skelton's encrypted work laptop by another Morrisons employee,"
So basically he had USB rights as part of his role for at least some time,
Re: Depends if decent efforts at data security made by Morrisons
Not sure that follows. Its quite possible that as an auditor he would have an exception to any USB stick rule, they are forever tossing around spreadsheets.
Also I think the fact that he was an auditor in a privileged role is key. This wasn't some muppet arsing around this was the finance/hr equivalent of a rogue sysadmin.
Blood, snot and fear: Why the travelling lone tech reporter should always knock twice
Re: Hope the hack is up to date with his TB jab
Am only the one who went to a school where the boys competed so see how hard they could punch the resulting jab site?
"Dead arm" for days.
I also seem recall my BCG blister burst in a shower of blood 3 months later. Made white school shirt look like something from Taratino. And that was without any teenage thuggery involved.
OPPO's Reno 2, aka 'Baby Shark', joins the deepening pool of high-spec midranger mobes
The shitty middle ground
I dont see how this phone is anything to write home about. Too expensive for the mid-range crowd around £300 mark and not cool enough to compete with the "name" brands at the high end.
If you look at market share there are only really 2 brands with any market share that can sell top end specs for stupid money - Apple and Samsung. Huawei obviously have market share too - but its mostly low-mid range volume based I fully expect their top end share to dive off a cliff now they are at price parity with AppSung.
Full disclosure - happy owner of an Honor 10 - thats how to make a mid market phone. £280 on black friday last year. Only complaint is still waiting for Android Q (but its coming), that will make it the third and last major Android release on it. Oh and the bluetooth stack needs a reboot every once in a while. Plus its not stupidly big at 5.8". This race to make phones bigger than the average thumb-forefinger span is utter muppetry in my opinion. The missus' next phone is a secondhand iPhone X or Xs to replace her aging SE for her tiny girl hands. Seriously considering joining her.
Satya 'Karma' Nadella ignored our complaints over pay gap, thousands of Microsoft women say
Leeds IT bloke pleads guilty to hacking Jet2 CEO's email account
Re: Question for shareholders
Eerr. Fail on your part and Jet2's. I think they meant to say no Customer's personal data was accessed. By definition an email address is personal data, and at a minimum he had that for every account he hacked, and probably a lot more besides from being able to scan the mails in those in-boxes.
A breach of employee's data privacy is treated in exactly the same way as a breach of customers data privacy under GDPR - it makes no distinction between the two from a regulatory enforcement perspective - there might be different risk mitigations/justifications put forward though...
What is this, 1989? Laplink is still a thing and wants to help with Windows 7 migrations
Socket to the energy bill: 5-bed home with stupid number of power outlets leaves us asking... why?
PowerPoint! Word! Excel! Lens! By your powers combined, I am Captain Mobile Office
Remember when Bezos whined about having too much money? Amazon's Q3 will help out with that
What simultaneously sucks and doesn't? This new robot vacuum cleaner
Just a friendly reminder there were no at-the-time classified secrets on Clinton's email server. Yes, the one everyone lost their minds over
Re: Ummm... missed a very big thing there
Thats a pretty silly comment imo. Since the whole of the existence of the mail server was a policy violation, why on earth would there be a requirement to put a retention tool on it?
You seem overly fixated on the tech and the only valid point you make is about the deletion of evidence which was a biggy. You should have stopped your comment there.
Any finger will do? Samsung Galaxy S10 with a screen protector reportedly easy to fool
Re: No way this is limited to just Samsung
The hardware invites the same risk. The risk only materialises if Qualcomm not Sammy wrote the code that responds to the hardware wrongly. If Huawei do a separate implementation then they have a 50/50 chance of not being impacted. Rising to a 100% if they have proper code reviews and think about default error states.
I beg to differ
Its a major frikken surprise. And its a giant bag of samsung fail.
No way the addition of a protector should cause a fail to an unlocked state. It should fail to a locked state.
The flaw here is not the hardware its the software that was coded to fail to unlocked. And thats a massive fail for a piece of code dealing with security.
Its like your front door opening when you stick a lolly stick in the lock.
Careful now, UK court ruling says email signature blocks can sign binding contracts
Re: Signature versus signature block
Precedent is not as black and white as you imply. Its effectively "precedent for this particular set of circumstances", and it could be argued by a Barrister that these were very narrow and dont apply to new case "Y". El Reg implys that there is plenty of other case law that argues a Signature Block is not a binding signature.
Having said that - if this is the sole outlier it does warrant an appeal.
NASA Administrator upends the scorn bucket on Elon Musk's Starship spurtings
Good news: Microsoft is doubling your OneDrive storage for more than double your money
US lobby group calls for open standards to fight Huawei 'threat'
Australia didn't blame China for parliament hack in case it upset trade relations – report
Malwarebytes back to square one as appeals court rules blocking rival antivirus maker isn't on
Fairphone 3 stripped to the modular essentials: Glue? What glue?
At the risk of making myself unpopular
I rather suspect the usage of glue today is a direct result from the mainstream manufacturers wishing to eliminate warrantee returns due to things like loose USB connections.
My gut feel suggests glued phones whilst less repairable are also less prone to mechanical failures.
Loss-making $15bn hipster chat biz Slack suddenly less appetising to investors as it predicts deeper losses
OK, let's try that again: Vulture rakes a talon on Samsung's fresh attempt at the Galaxy Fold 5G
SpaceX didn't move sat out of impending smash doom because it 'didn't see ESA's messages'
HPE lawyer claims key associates of Autonomy boss Mike Lynch 'refuse' to testify to High Court
Pompey boffin bags €1.3m off EU for dark matter research – shame a no-deal Brexit looks more and more likely
In other words like the rest of us who dont own a hedge fund or get paid £1000 per hour to be a corporate shill (sorry "consultant"), Brexit will f*ck this right up.
Gawd help any of those PHd's and post-docs if they are of European nationality - they'll probably end up with pre-settled status like half the current poor sods.
Whistleblowing saboteur costs us $167m bellows Tesla’s accountant
Huawei goes all Art of War on us: Switches on 'battle mode' and vows to 'dominate the world'
My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)
Re: That's horrible.
@Tom
So basically
1. Scout police reports every time you go out/ to a new coffee shop?
2. Dont buy nice stuff thats portable.
Do you realise what a dick suggestion you have just made?
There's sensible precautions - don't go to dodgy area at midnight, then there's victim shaming - guess which side of the fence yours falls?
Would you have posted this if he had a £2k Lenovo stolen? Or was it just a knee jerk reaction because it was Apple kit? Your "overpriced apple kit" snide remark gives you away.
Police costs for Gatwick drone fiasco double to nearly £900k – and still no one's been charged
Hands up who likes gaming! Hands up who likes gaming on Macs! Er, OK. Well, Parallels has an update for you
Plot twist: Google's not spying on King's Cross with facial recognition tech, but its landlord is
You are confused
It doesn't work but the cops are too fascinated with their new shiny-shiny to care.
Also it's helpfully biased towards the same certain segments of the population they are, so helps them play "stop and search snooker".
Let's not forget the average plod barely knows the laws they have to enforce on a daily basis* let alone data privacy ones.
*Like the poor sod they arrested for walking past the camera vans in Wales with his face covered, which is not actually illegal.