Posts by Hans Neeson-Bumpsadese

Re: The data was hidden from anyone opening the files

It means the data was in an Excel file and was completely visible to anyone who spotted that the column numbers weren't sequential and then clicked on the 'Unhide' option.

I'm a hybrid worker and I was in the office yesterday for one of my regular in-office days. The experience was the same as every other in-office day...constant intrusive background noise from 8.30 to 5 caused by colleagues all around conducting GMeet calls with customers and colleagues who are having a working-from-home day.

Today I'm working at home in peace and quiet with better productivity, and the bonus of better coffee and no time lost to commuting.

Re: Unintentional?

the employer is incompetent too.

Most likely the employer is competent but was negligent for failing to ensure that the employee they hired was competent enough to do the job they were hired for.

I guess the grey area is if the employee falsely represented themselves as being competent, but even then it would be up to the employer to adequately ensure that such claims were valid - and if they failed to do that, then blame lies with the employer.

(I'm speaking from experience as I remember a bit of a fiasco a few years ago trying to get rid of a s**t-for-brains coileague, and learning from our manager that the fact the antagonist had s**t for brains was not, in and of itself, automatic grounds for dismissal. Ah....the joys of working for a large organisation, and the politics which that entails)

Re: X-citing!

There's rebranding and there's rebranding. What those cola companies did was play around with styling - the Twitter/X is a complete change of name and a logo of a completely different style to the one it replaces.

For an example of similar scale rebranding in the soft drink sector, take the recent example of Lilt Fanta Lemon & Lime, which was almost universally derided.

Re: Generic Patents

In principle, probably yes - but this patent dates from the time where you could apply for a patent on anything that already existed, so log as you tagged the words "...from the Internet" on the end of it.

Re: "While Threads was launched as a completely new platform"

I've hardly seen any text-only posts on Threads. Mostly people seem to have signed up to Threads on the back of Instagram and are just posting the same content on both platforms.

Re: Spectacularly irresponsible.

These guys reverse engineered that, they effectively released secret key material for every emergency service in Europe, in one fell swoop.

I'm not sure if it's *every* emergency service. It's a few years since I worked in this field, bit when I did there were a number of European countries using Tetrapol which, despite the similarity in name, is a different technology.

He just got told to packet in

Re: Real Sanitizers

My order of experience was...TV series, books, re-run of radio series, avoid the movie like the plague

I think that's how ESN is intended to work in the UK - the physical network is provided by EE, using infrastructure already in place for consumers, but with suitable upgrades/extensions to meet the requirements of emergency services use. In particular, as other commentards have said, the ability for emergency services to continue to have comms at the expense of public access at times of high demand

Re: I wonder

Depending on the general sketchiness of the country's attitude to data security, would you trust that you data would be irretrievable deleted?

Re: "need to have access to their target's voice"

So, the basic question really is just how well recorded does the target's voice need to be ?

I suspect the answer is 'not very'.

I've always been a bit dubious of the security of voice recognition. I've successfully passed voice recognition for my bank with a variety of cold symptoms, irritation, shouting over background noise, etc. without any problems. If it can authenticate me based on such variance in inputs, then I've long suspected that it could authenticate a nefarious source of my voice.

there is only one situation when you would want to open the hatch, and that is when you are on the surface.

There are two specialisations of that use case though. One is the normal situation where the support crew is there to welcome you back from a successful trip. The other is where something has gone wrong and the submersible has bobbed to the surface undetected and miles from anywhere.

Well, yes - you might need to do some work to figure out what your usage is, and therefore what tariff you can take advantage of.

I did, and that's why I'm on the tarrif that I am with the supplier that I currently use.

Even with a 40p peak rate I was paying an average of 27p (including SC) even before the PV and battery.

This conversation is about smart meters. Are you saying you fouind a supplier who was charging you 40p per unit with a normal meter but discounted to 27p per unit when you had a smart meter fitted? If so, then please do tell who that is because I'll be signing up.

I might take you up on that offer because, you know, the more I hear about this crypto currency thing the dodgier it sounds

Re: X-Rated Regomiser?

Indeed.

I also noted that Jeremy was a bit of a Playboy and had an office in the Penthouse. Well played.

Re: Missing something

I worked with that too - quite a lot of years ago now. At the time I remember it being a bit of a pain to integrate with compared to GPRS (which some of my other customers were using) but real-world performance offered similar speeds to GPRS. I've since moved on from working with those customers, but I expect that the improved performance of 3G/4G/5G from a simple GSM modem means that they'll have moved away from Mobitex by now.

Re: Serial...

it worked fine until I was sat outside my tent on a Sunday, beer in hand, running some month end processes and the sun came out

It's a shame that this story is about an As/400 - if you'd been connected to a Sun server the irony would have been wonderful