Good luck getting any interest from the banks.
Posts by The Nazz
1023 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jan 2013
You'll get your money – when this bank has upgraded Windows 7... or bought extended support
HMRC claims victory in another IR35 dispute to sting Nationwide contractor for nearly £75k in back taxes
Thursday 5th March 2020 20:22 GMT
Final paragraph.
The case in question seems a reasonable and fair outcome, from what we know.
However, i can't get my head around the final paragraph, letting three people off paying what has been determined to be due to HMRC simply because they and their advisors acted in "good faith." And everyone else acted in "bad faith"?
And yet Christa Akroyd had to pay up, despite her claims that she merely did what the BBC told her to, gave her no option to do otherwise.
Odd. Decidedly odd.
Stop us if you've heard this one before: HP Inc rejects Xerox's $36.5bn buyout plan as takeover saga drags on
If Tesco was prodded and probed by hackers, your data could be being flogged for just £2.70 – research
Thursday 5th March 2020 13:15 GMT
Supermarket slogans eh?
Please correct me if i'm wrong, or not entirely accurate, but ....
Once Upon a Time there was a small supermarket chain trading by the name of Lion Stores (*) which had the slogan "The Customer is King."
I repeat "The CUSTOMER is KING."
Eventually becoming part of Hillards Supermarkets PLC, which in 1987, got taken over by ......
Tesco's.
Has anyone yet copyrighted "The customer is now a cash cow"?
(*) yep, complete with a pair of stone Lion figurines outside their Head Office.
IBM exec told that High Court evidence in Co-Op Insurance case wasn't 'truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth'
An EPIC picture of Earth, sunny side up, from one million miles out
Surprise! Plans for a Brexit version of the EU's Galileo have been delayed
If it's Goodenough for me, it's Goodenough for you: Canuck utility biz goes all in on solid-state glass battery boffinry
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 11:49 GMT
Re: "Critics have been understandably sceptical"
I may be mistaken, but didn't Obama and G Thunberg get awarded Nobel prizes and they definitely were/are open to criticism.
OK, admittedly, they weren't scientific Nobel's for what you say actually holds true.
I'm just thankful that the Nobel committee never sunk low enough to reward that financial superhero "i saved the world" Brown.
Take it Huawei, Pai: Senate passes bill to rip 'dodgy' kit from rural telcos
US Homeland Security mistakenly seizes British ad agency's website in prostitution probe gone wrong
EU court tells prudish IP office to fack off for balking at 'fack ju' trademark application
Friday 28th February 2020 11:26 GMT
King of Fuh
Brute Force's take on it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NuaQetsDbk
You'd have to be a king-sized snowflake to get offended at that.
Additionally, does anyone here know (there''ll be someone) if the French phrase "Baisez-moi" can be used in both contexts as with English.
Fuck Me - a sexual request. and
Fuck me, (have you seen the size of that?)
Aww, a cute mini-moon is orbiting Earth right now. But like all good things, it too will abandon us at some point
Thursday 27th February 2020 20:04 GMT
Re: I idly wonder about the challenge of landing this on earth ?
Yeah but think of the value of the "bidding rights" from cities, ie the modern trend to waste millions bidding for an event, to be the one it is dropped upon from orbit.
Halifax : "We'll bid 1.2bn to drop it in Bradford."
Leeds : "We'll bid 2.3 bn if you drop it on Bradford."
Kirklees* : "We'll bid 14.3 bn if you drop it on us."
Sold, to the highest bidder.
*Not technically a city but ne'er mind.
Departing MI5 chief: Break chat app crypto for us, kthxbai
Thursday 27th February 2020 19:54 GMT
Re: So GCHQ...- Policing the old fashioned way, anyone for Pizza.
MI5, MI6, GCHQ et al are gonna do whatever they're gonna do. Regardless. But why so much time, effort and focus on breaking encryption and "authorities" only back doors?
Far far greater benefits to joe public would come from old fashioned policing. Anyone for Pizza? How hard can it be for plod/authorities to read a business card and make a phone call? The criminal comes straight to you, within minutes, along with the evidence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-51237885
Easier than Pizza, or a fast meal, at least using those services you don't get inundated with :
1) would you like to make it large Sir/Madam/They/It/**********
2) would you like additional toppings on it.
3) a queue of people at the counter demanding that staff search through the whole sack of figurines for that one elusive model because "our little brat TallulahDeLacy" already has this common figurine.
Rotherwood Healthcare AWS bucket security fail left elderly patients' DNR choices freely readable online
Wednesday 26th February 2020 14:28 GMT
Pointless
"We are unaware of any abuse of data."
Well d'uh. Is that because you were also completely clueless that your data was out there and wide open?
Mind you, in the interests of "open and transparent government", maybe it's a good thing that the costs charged to the Council are widely published.
Xiaomi in the UK: Multi-eyed Mi Note 10 hits Blighty festooned with cameras and hefty battery life
This is your last chance, HP. There's no turning back. You take blue poison pill, the story ends. You take the red Xerox pill, you stay in Wonderland
And they said IoT was trash: Sheffield 'smart' bins to start screaming when they haven't been emptied for a fortnight
Thursday 20th February 2020 07:01 GMT
Re: Wrong gas, Shirley?
Air quality?
Personally i'd rather have somewhat drier air than the piss wet through stuff we'd had relentlessly for the last 6 months.
Which i'm led to believe is a consequence of so much extra CO2 in the atmosphere.
Would it be too much to ask if our Metropolitan Council would actually consider providing some, any, public bins in the first place? Tbf the residential bin service is good and reliable.
The European Commission digital strategy wants to, er, take back control of citizens' data
Shipping is so insecure we could have driven off in an oil rig, says Pen Test Partners
$2.07bn? That's one Dell of a deal to offload infosec biz RSA
Thursday 20th February 2020 06:27 GMT
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board
Not the first time (4th, 5th?) i've seen this mentionned in purchases of substantial assets.
They must have some portfolio by now. I wouldn't have thought there are a particularly large number of Ontario teachers, past and present, to provide for, must be some decent pension pots in there?
Please check your data: A self-driving car dataset failed to label hundreds of pedestrians, thousands of vehicles
Tuesday 18th February 2020 09:46 GMT
Prior art
ha ha 2=2=5, nice try. But prior art.
My Dad used to visit a bungalow, and as he popped inside, we'd be left waiting in the car for what seemed like hours (probably 20 minutes). Eventually one of us asked who was in the bungalow. "Ah, just someone i know" he'd say. Always seemed to set off his asthma too.
Call us immediately if your child uses Kali Linux, squawks West Mids Police
Friday 14th February 2020 16:38 GMT
Re: Well, blow me down me hearties!
From the BBC : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-51501202
Interestingly, the Judge also stated that whilst the investigation itself was unlawful, the police were justified in RECORDING his tweets as being a hate incident. From a complaint made by a single person.
Shame, as i quite liked his mammal, fish comment.
Friday 14th February 2020 16:31 GMT
There are of course exceptions. I know first hand from two serving female officers and one of my best female friends who has recently retired from the force,they are far more likley to use the word "opportunities" rather than harrassment. Couple of weeks back, the youngest of them was quite openly laughing about it.
Cache me if you can: HDD PC sales collapse in Europe as shoppers say yes siree to SSD
Bloke forks out £12m, hands over keys to tropical island to shoo away claims that his web marketing biz was a scam
Friday 14th February 2020 15:03 GMT
Accessories to the fraud?
This guys "work" is clearly described as a Fraud (though i cannot see any reference to a crime). He and others have had to surrender/repay relatively small amounts (as a proportion) of the proceeds of the scam.
But what of the accessories to the scam? Advertising agencies, payment processors etc? My guess is zero payback. Shouldn't they have also a responsibility to ensure that all their work, input and output, is legit and above board? The end result remains that they have a (sizeable?) chunk of the victims' monies.
Otherwise, why not simply start an "advertising agency" and intentionally seek out scammers who have large revenues to dispose of? Must be a fine line between that and money laundering.
Forgotten motherboard driver turns out to be perfect for slipping Windows ransomware past antivirus checks
Facebook loses control of its own Twitter account in hacker attack – and more news
Social media notifications of the future: Ranger tagged you in a photo with Tessadora, Wrenlow, Faelina and Graylen
Monday 10th February 2020 12:15 GMT
Tip of the iceberg.
Notice the growing trend of double-barrelled surnames? Even in instances where only one parent is evident.
I'm looking forward ( not really ) to what happens when such as Tessadora Underbrow-Pocklington* breeds with Wrenlow Thompson-Smythe
Who knows : Timothy Ian Thompson-Smythe-Underbrow-Pocklington could make an appearance one day.
* Obviously, all names made up for illustrative purposes.
Come to Five Guys, where the software is as fresh as the burgers... or maybe not
Suspected crypto-coin crook collared after emailing apology note to the cops rather than victim – shock claim
Former Autonomy boss Mike Lynch 'submits himself' for arrest in central London
iCloud hacker perv cops nearly 3 years in jail for stealing and sharing people's private, intimate pics
Colombia accused of rigging .co contract for dot-org provider Afilias – is this document a smoking gun?
Wednesday 5th February 2020 01:12 GMT
Shared registries?
I don't know about these matters, obviously, but couldn't it work that multiple (say two, three or four) registries are involved? Then the domain owner chooses which one they'd rather deal with? At least it would keep the provision of quality service competitive if not price.
Why does it have to be Neustar OR Afilias? ( with India, Australia, Colombia etc)
Twitter says a certain someone tried to discover the phone numbers used by potentially millions of twits
Tuesday 4th February 2020 23:44 GMT
Re: Just curious
Speaking of being in the news, here's one way to deal with trolls and get in the news. : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-51379041.
Comedy gold, for those of us lucky (unlucky?) enough to have the wonderful Ms Brabin as our MP.
Quite a contrast to her prior ten years of association (IDK the details) with the BBC's vile Eastenders.
Vulture discovers talons are rubbish for building Lego's International Space Station
Pop quiz: Who's responsible for data protection compliance in the cloudy era? If you said 'dunno', you're not alone
In case you wanna launch your boss into the Sun, good news: Earth's largest solar telescope just checked and, yeah, it's still pretty fiery
Let’s check in on the .org sale fiasco: Senators say No, internet grandees say Yes – and ICANN pretends there's absolutely nothing to see here
Shhhhhh: Fujitsu bags another £12m from Libraries NI as bosses fail to bookmark replacement
Thursday 16th January 2020 18:06 GMT
Was £5m a year and now it's £6m a year.
If it's anything like our local library* how much of the increase is down to the additional requirements to provide data before you can borrow an item?
On joining the library i had to declare i was one of some 50 ethnicities. Now there's an additional page required to choose one of a multitude of genders, or invent a new one ie specify Others?
*still, in a Labour constituency, with a majority Labour council and 100% caring Labour cabinet determined to (continue to) destroy local assets and facilities we should be grateful we still have one.
IT exec sets up fake biz, uses it to bill his bosses $6m for phantom gear, gets caught by Microsoft Word metadata
Monday 6th January 2020 10:09 GMT
Re: Greedy and careless
Blimey, is it really 17 years ago :
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2002/apr/17/13
Not quite out and out fraud but certainly corruption. Both of these being highly remunerated executives who simply got too greedy. But no, it didn't pay.
Towards the end of the article it says, (unbelievably) that Chambers actually won £150,000 for unfair dismissal. The mind boggles. Though it does say that the Co-op were seeking to recover said monies.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
