Posts by DaLo

Re: Logic?

"But I don't have to pay the DVLA to renew my driving licence every year."

But you do pay them £0~£2000 to tax your car.

Re: Fingerprint sensor on the rear

Voice Unlock?

NFC (on car dock) Unlock?

Re: Flying is the easy bit...

He did take a dive straight into the lake on this outing as well!

Re: German Efficiency

"Germany has already decreed that robot vehicles must be programmed to kill animals and destroy property before thinking of harming humans"

But a small collision where the other party is to blame (truck reverses into you) and their insurance coughs up in full, including hire car costs etc turns into your car reversing back and hitting a house meaning that your insurance now has to foot the bill, you have to pay the excess, you have to hire a car out of your own pocket and you premiums go up, meanwhile mr truck drives off without a problem.

Oh come on guys, that's really cheesy!

Re: Because these electric cars won't be internet enabled

But you would surely have a charger at home? 14 miles to the next hop doesn't seem too bad. Even the worst EVs can do 14 (0r 21) miles without needing their next top up.

As many workplaces are also starting to install chargers, for many people covers most of their commuting needs.

Re: Interesting

"The EU privacy law as it's currently drafted does not permit it."

Yes it does. If you give clear unambiguous consent to users with an opt-in rather than opt-out and clearly detail the processing you will be using then you can do what facebook/whatsapp require.

The problem is, that if they followed the law then most people would not opt-in and so they wouldn't get that data, so they don't. They rely on ignorance not informed consent.

Re: Real world usage

It's IP65/68 resistant.

https://www.sonymobile.com/gb/products/phones/xperia-xz1/specifications/

Re: So in theory

It's equivalent to being as secure as you would be on a public WiFi network. Anything you wouldn't do on a public WiFi network you wouldn't want to do if you thought your WPA2 network may be compromised.

Re: What?

Also covers someone using a subject access request to ask for their personal details and you then quickly remove all the notes on file or emails of customer service saying what a 'pain'* this person or what a stupid name they've got before passing it on.

* or replace with an appropriate expletive

"Result was the same, except for someone in Europe having sore typing fingers for a day or two."

Actually published it as a book with an OCRable font to save the fingers of the intern (although it was 'accidentally' published to usenet before then anyway)

Re: Wrong Swelling

Do I win £5?

No, because you didn't use proper formatting to create a link in your comment (e.g.https://static5.arrow.com/.../lt1389_0699_mag_fig.1.jpg), therefore your link did not work.

"To be honest, I'd be quite happy to scrap TV licensing and actually just tax TV purchases. Literally put a 10% import / sales tax on new TV's. Problem solved. "

Most TVs are around the £300 mark. So that's a tax of £30 for a TV that will last say 5 years.

Your Tax will raise £6 per year leaving a shortfall of about £141.

The Licence fee brings in £3.7billion per year.

There are about 27m TVs in the UK. If they last 5 years then the Tax per TV would have to be £685 per set. This could be a tax of 200% on the average TV. Combine that with the fact that people wouldn't then replace their TVs until they were kaput, and they'd also be a massive repair and secondhand market and you could easily see the 5 year renewal become 10 year or more.

You're now looking at a tax of perhaps £1,500 which would exacerbate the problem more and no-one could ever afford a new TV and everyone would just use a PC or buy them form Europe (While still in the free market).

So do you then Tax every PC as well? That'll go down well.

@Updraft102 Re: FN+F5

@Updraft102

You've got the wrong end of the stick. The OP was talking about how the F1,F2,F3... keys can only be used by holding down the function key first as without holding it down it just activates the keyboard provider's own non-standardised shortcut. That is the reverse of a normal mode where you can press the F1,F2,F3... keys with one press and you need to use the Fn button to access the shortcuts.

The OP deduced this by the fact that to 'Hit Refresh' normally just requires hitting the F5 key, but if you have to hit Fn+F5 then it is one of those reversed mode keyboards (and a ridiculous design).

"So people who are single and live in the middle of nowhere are on their own then?"

Yes, by definition.

Re: Up to €20m includes the figure zero

There has to be room for willfulness. So Talk Talk were heavily fined but it seemed to be for sheer incompetence.

The £500K fine would be for a company who made a decision to act recklessly or even criminally with data and were found out.

With the new fines I think there will be more emphasis on hurting the company's bottom line and will be relative to the size of the company but will still have a major element of whether it was premeditated or not.

Re: Typical problem of many large organizations

"This release addresses one potential security vulnerability:

Possible Remote Code Execution when performing file upload based on Jakarta Multipart parser"

"Namely, no explicit mention of the CVE fixed in the release, making it relatively easy for a busy admin - with several dozen packages status monitor, to downgrade the update from must do to 'pending'."

Hmm, Remote Code Execution would make any sysadmin's ears prick up. Anything that has a possibility of remote code execution needs to be investigated for risk asap and should get it straight into the "must do" pile.

"...it would actually just be pronounced "Windows Neun" by any German speaker."

Yeah, I can see why that would really annoy Apple.

Re: If I were 30yrs younger

But surely if you have sufficient experience and skills, you could just apply for a real job with them?

Re: September 13, 2017

True but at least it is unambiguous. It is ridiculous that it still isn't standardised to use yyyymmdd with or without hyphens or colons. The amount of times I've either been struggling to find a log entry only to realise the date format hasn't been localised or I have to scroll down out of the single digit dates to see what format they are using [fragmentation, consider re-writing]

Similar for times when using a cloudy service.[don't use nouns as adjectives] Are they local to the cloud, are they local are they UTC?[Rhetorical, avoid]

Re: Go to the organ grinder..

However this shouldn't be allowed after 25th May 2018 as the UK version of GDPR will be in place. You can refuse to have your data shared with Equifax and the company involved cannot withhold a product from you unless they can prove it is required for the purposes of fulfilling a contract.

they may be able to claim justification for the contract bit in gaining your credit profile but them creating extra information beyond that on your profile or the credit reference agency utilising it for marketing or selling it would not be allowed.

"Microsoft MUST have ..."

You've not used Visual Studio have you?

Re: Alternatives?

Every piece of modern software is insecure - the only difference is the vulnerabilities haven't been found yet.

Re: Just wondering

Chapter 3 of the GDPR asserts your rights as a data subject. There is very little, as with all regulations, saying exactly what you can and cannot do. So having a 'no reply' e-mail address would not in itself be forbidden.

However easy access to your data, to rectify your data and to erase your data is required. In the best case this would be via a control panel that the user can access to do all this and for companies with a significant number of requests this may also become a necessity. Other than that the data subject would need another way of easily completing this, that doesn't require jumping through hoop sor fees.

The issue will be companies from outside the EU - trying to find the source of the data transfer, which may have happened many years ago will be hard. If they aren't trying to sell you an EU product or Service you will still get the same amount of spam as before.

After the 25th May 2018 I would suggest a good use of the + email extension to allow you to tag every e-mail address given out with a unique reference or the company name. Even better your own mail domain with a different e-mail address for every company you deal with. That way the source of any data transfers will be obvious and you can ask the ICO to fine them 2% (maybe even 4%) of their turnover. Or maybe even just threaten them with the ICO unless they give you substantial compensation.

@gandalfcn

You seem like you could bring some useful information to the thread but being so aggressive in tone just makes you out to be a tetchy idiot.

Calm down, it's just an IT forum.

Re: Blame placement

Three did the same thing a while back. Three's 'At Home' service worked great for a while but then it slowed to a crawl. Even loading a page of Google search results was unusable.

After quite I did quite a bit of testing - 6 different countries, hundreds of different cell towers, multiple foreign telcos the results were the same. A local SIM had no problem and a roaming SIM from a different network had no problem. It was HTTPS page that were being crippled along with high-bandwidth pages like streaming video. So bing.com worked fine but as Google defaulted to HTTPS it didn't.

Even with this 'evidence' Three stated it was the local providers who may have poor data throughput but Three weren't doing any throttling. They obviously were - due to not being able to see the traffic in SSL secured streams they must have taken the decision to throttle it to unusable levels. So transferring money from your bank account when you realised you needed some more while abroad wasn't possible until you got onto WiFi. It eventually resolved itself!

I suspect a similar problem.

Re: WordPad

You seem to be confusing a number of topics. CMYK splitting isn't a feature of PDFs - they can hold any number of image and colour formats formats. Neither is more compatible or less compatible. RGB works better for screen, CMYK can work better with some printing (but not necessarily). As most images will start their life as RGB then who does the conversion to CMYK can be have pros and cons. Almost everything will 'automagically' eventually convert to CMYK. Whether you leave it up to your printer, your print driver or do it in pre-process is up to you. A decent print shop will be using the colour space and profiles of the actual proofer and final print machine so it may be beneficial to leave the splitting to an experienced print shop who will be able to match your RGB colour space to CMYK far better than you can using standard sRGB color profiles.

The fact that you state that InDesign creates 'fully compliant' PDFs shows that you don't need to use Acrobat or Adobe Reader as you stated.

A PDF is also very easy to edit you can load it into something like Indesign or Inkscape and edit away.

If you believe that your print shop will use your original files as they want to commit nefarious acts with your files and edit them to insert messages in them then you should find a better print shop. Most people who do printing will have a long and good relationship with their print shop and will not have such paranoia. Also if you do have a trusted print shop who have the original files they can often fix composition errors, bleeds trims and print marks and cater for issues with paperweights or types that even some of the best graphic designers get confused about.

However the fact still remains that you can get exact PDF reproduction for passing documents around using any number of PDF readers, none of which are relevant to print shop work. They don't need to touch Adobe software, let alone Acrobat or Adobe Reader, for creation or viewing and the result can be exactly the same if not better. Once you have created a PDF you also have no say in what is used to view it.

Re: It doesn't matter.

It may be the case that they can, but I've never had a rodent eat through armoured fibre but I have lost loads of Copper Twisted Pair cabling due to various animals eating through them.

At a difference of a few pennies per metre for armoured fibre it is used for most outdoor runs that we do.

In fact I would be interested in some citations about rats being able to chew through steel, aluminium possibly but steel seems a stretch.