Re: So how much is 1.5 kg?
But here in the UK, probably cheaper.
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So, I read a book and being of average intelligence if asked, could provide a reasonable synopsis of the story and even opinion on how a particular character may respond to a given situation. How is this any different or am I also in breach of copyright?
Eliminate the odd user who flat out refuses to learn. We had one who got infected 5 times over a 2 year period and this was with a policy in place of blocking attachments and users having to request they be unblocked "obviously there were exceptions on a trusted list". But sadly said user refused to change their behaviour and no doubt is still allowing bad actors into their system, happily though this is a SEP as I moved on years ago.
It is hard to see how this will be enforced, with software DRM kind of makes sense but for hardware? If I buy a chip it is now mine, if someone figures out how to provide me with a free token to make it better then thats great, I don't see how anyone can complain about what I chose to do with MY chip although I am sure they will try.
"Hey Microsoft how would you like a couple of million new customers who will each pay you £8 a month plus offer themselvs up for other revenue earning opportunities". "Emn no thanks, we will break their ability to use our services instead". Hmmm doesn't look right to me somehow.
When a contract goes out for tender, rarely is it the most expensive that gets the contract, usually it is amongst the cheapest with a reputation for being slightly less crap than those in a similar price bracket. IT companies know this and also know that after a couple of years the majority of customers will be dissatisfied enough to look for someone new to f...up their IT for them.
End result is a constant merry-go-round of customers moving from one badly run service to another. So sadly there will always be enough people looking to change supplier to ensure that even the worst IT services companies will have no shortage of new customers.
Has anyone looked at the ink subscriptions? None subscription i can easilly use £30 a day and in fact threw out a canon printer after taking 4 attempts to get an A4 photo print I was happy with and finding that the attempt had consumed a £35 colour in cartridge. HP offering, free ink for 7 months and then £2 a month from then on. Suckers would be buying the cartridges without a subscription.
900k is a drop in the ocean compared to the millions being spent on anti drone measures that won't stop this kind of thing happening again.
Yes if someone accidently flys a drone near a major airport the new measures may assist plod in locating them, but if anyone with half a brain wants to disrupt airports with drones the new equipment won't rattle them a bit. I would guess given a specific type of drone and the correct tactics a couple of people could spend a day crusing drones down the runway at Gatwick with little to no fear of having their collars felt.
Stockmarket decisions are more about knowledge than game theory, which company is hiring, which firing, which opening up new offices/depots which closing, which is about to lose their key employee and which is gaining him. So yes I am sure Facebook has a bot capable of making good investment decisions but its noting to do with poker bots.
Uber should be applauded for bringing the stupididy and drive towards self destruction of the human race into such sharp focus.
People buy their shares knowing they are probably over priced, in fear that if they are the only ones who don't buy and by some miracle they do go up in value, they will look stupid / lose their jobs.
Their current business model relys on semi self imployed drivers earning them money which they plow into research into making semi self employed drivers redundent.
Honestly, you couldn't make it up.
"One of the more dangerous ideas - hopefully slowly dying as the old gits die off - is the notion that when systems go titsup there's a magical paper alternative just waiting to take over."
Only correct in ill prepared and badly managed companies.
Not that long ago I was involved in a project to replace the majority of back end IT equipment at an airport. We were supposed to commence work post midnight after last passengers had left the building, but when fog thick enough to cut with a knife rolled in at around 8 PM all further arrivals were diverted and all departures cancelled.
By 9 PM someone gave us the go ahead to start work as the extra hours would give us a greater chance of hitting or 6 AM target.
By 9:30 fog had vanished and before 10 we were told planes would be landing and taking off again in short order. Unfortunately just about nothing IT related was working, no check in desks, no passport scanners, no bag tag printers and no gate readers all of which effect the passenger flow "back end systems within the airport also down but ATC had separate systems so presumably all OK".
Staff broke out A4 pads and some propriatory printed sheets and carried on as normal. Few grumbles here and there but basically business as normal.
Now if you can handle something as IT heavy as airline and airport management without any working IT, I would think customer A, needs to have part B fitted, at time C, in location E and overcharged by percentage F should be a walk in the park.
"Amazon hasn't promised to hand over any recordings yet just, despite this latest New Hampshire court order." Yet just??
"I finaly find out that it was the sound from the TV set or from a you tube video."
I remember complaints about a rogue app that kept the mic open and listening out for tv, radio and youtube adds in order to correlate listener/viewer data with handset owner info. I guess if they can add all the data collected on a smartphone with your computer browsing history and cookie data plus cable/satellite subscription / viewing habits you would make a pretty valuable advert target.
IBM are suffering from an interesting eye condtion effecting their ability to see past this years bonuses.
IBM were good with software and hosting, so they ramp up the margins on software causing their customers to look at alternatives and they tell all their hosting customers that cloud is the answer to all their problems then offer them an unreliable still in development cloud offering pushing them to either Amazon or Googles mature and feature rich services. Can't see any flaws with this myself, I am sure IBM have a long and healthy future.