Posts by rmason

Re: Fgs

@Dr_N

Indeed.

We were the seventh largest pre 2016.

Go GB!

Re: Isn't he supposed to be ...

By the time it reaches that stage they'll have a list of charges as long as the guy is tall.

That's how it works in the USA, pile up those charges, *BUT WAIT* we'll drop this many if you plead guilty and do X years, or you can go to court and risk the 78 years the multitude of charges would mean.

Re: Good luck with that

@bombastic bob

That's fine (it's also what i'd do). It does however assume you've not paid $unreasonable to some company for a flashy website, marketing, advertising, adwords, SEO. You've been totally sold on the need to spend $$$ on this super website with all it's tracking and analytics.

You can see why some places can't throw this outlay away and "switch it all off for those Europeans".

The money pumped into the website design and maintenance, and all the related things mentioned above may well outweigh those orders form europe.

You'd be surprised at the amount of companies being bent over every month/year by a PR firm, a social media company, some marketing bods, a webdesign and SEO firm etc etc. You can't go from agreeing we absolutely need all this stuff, and approving the cost, to admitting it's all either useless or dark arts and turning it all off again. That makes you look silly to your boss/the rest of the board.

Re: Define Dangerous Please

Ah, the good old "china Export (CE) stamp.

Which just happens to be identical to the 'real' CE mark but off by a few MM.

@TheVogon is spot on.

It's clear lots of people here don't use it, because on all licences but one for office 365 you get a full, offline, proper copy of office.

It does not require an internet connection to function.

The odd home user etc might be plugging away on the cheaper online version, but the vast majority of businesses where office is used, are not.

Re: "My keychain has 2 sizes each ..."

@Jake

Re uk/leatherman. I keep mine in my car.

IF they have a locking blade, we can't carry them technically. It's not black and white. we are "allowed" tools. So it's all about context really.

If you're a local scrotum caught with one at 11pm, i'd not fancy your chances. if you're not a little scumbag, and you have a reason/justification to be carrying it, that is supposed to be fine (i.e. a workman with one in a bag of tools, would be different to as hooded youth out at night. It's a bit murky.

Any model without a locking blade of over something like 3 inches, and you're fine.

Blade length+lock is what it goes on.

Re: Hmmm...

@RyokuMas

If our estate here is anything to go by, you've a 50/50 chance of:

Update works just fine.

Update doesn't happen at all and it sits on "Downloading, 0%" until someone/me manually intervenes.

Not that I expect it matters but the userland stuff is entirely lenovo thinkpads of various flavours.

Re: Lloyds

@deadlockvictim

In 1988 servers/mainframes and their associated bits, were far from cheap.

Couple that with the amount of "we don't need this new fangled stuff" in the head bean-counter type department and you have your answer. It's the bonus of them and those above them that you're talking about spending.

@NukEvil

you pay a company to give you access to the internet.

You don't "pay for the internet".

That's sort of the point of the article.

Re: "Amazon returns is superb"

If it's under £10 cost, they generally don't ask for the item back.

I'm not sure how this lot thought they'd get away with it, as with macbooks, surfaces, go pros et al they 100% would ask for the item back.

They are tightening up, they are banning accounts of people who seem to return an unusual amount of stuff.

another factor

another factor to consider is the drop off in buying certain types of software.

Man+dog in the SME world are shifting away from purchasing software and going to something shiny, web based, and a monthly subscription. For accounting SAGE and a few others used to be all everyone used. There are loads of web/cloud based offerings now, encountering them at more and more business. Sage seats and support are expensive, some of the alternatives (kashflow for eg if memory serves ) are only ten quid a month for the basics.

Accounting stuff is just one example. Same is true for CRM stuff, office packages (365 is everywhere), timekeeping/management stuff (we use one of these where I work) etc etc.

People are replacing software at hundreds or even thousands of pounds, with some something-as-a-service or "we are cloud based now!" type deal for peanuts a month,

When it doesn't work the same/as well/at all bean counters then move you around to the next and the next etc, because the alternative is going back to paying thousands in software and licensing again.

Re: Indeed on the pork ...

No burning pork here but rings:

One of the volunteers/coaches when I played U11 football lost a finger in front of us lot.

Removing nets from goalposts post-match and his wedding ring caught on one of the hooks on the crossbar, lost the top half of the relevant finger.

Unrelated jewelry anecdote is unrelated. As you all were.

Re: Utter garbage!

@Snowy

Most people you know don't have facebook.

That's not representative of the population. *Most* people have facebook.

It's not utter garbage, TSA can and do demand your social media info to check your profiles/posts. Telling them you don't have any, immediately makes you more suspect, not less so.

@Phil Kingston

Came here to say that basically.

The touchpad thing may or may not work, and or may not vanish with the next generation of device.

The second one though? Who was it wanting or asking for a tiny, barely legible screen above the keyboard?

Solution - go find your problem.

@GlenP

I've seen some sort of weight loss related nonsense being sold via a viral video on FB. This is a product ready to ship to us, the public.

The comments on it are absolutely stuffed with people who still have not had theirs yet from the original kickstarter 2 years back. Yet there they are, selling the same thing to the public.

The mind boggles. They're just no strings attached loans, basically.

Re: Not a problem

@Stungebag

People keep backups. That's the bit you're missing.

Not everyone is on one week/month retention then overwrite.

We have old backups going back years. Deleting something from *all of them* would require significant time, and probably 5 or so old types of type drive somehow being connected and bought back to life.

Re: So glad I'm not affected

Similarly if a friend, your spouse or family members use FB messenger - then 'they' have all your text messages, they know who you are, which FB profiles you interact with (via text message) etc etc.

You're not unaffected, they just have a slightly lower amount of your info than they do a regular FB user.

Re: Yes!

No!

It is UK law. It will still be UK law post brexit. I can't really see why they'd be motivated to remove it. You'll probably want to calm down a tad, and get used to it being a thing.

Re: So when are the politicians actually going to act?

@ShelLuser

What should they (we?) do?

They have demanded a random american bloke travel here and sit and answer questions. He is absolutely entitled to say "no thanks!".

As much as we'd like answers, even when/if he does come, we won't get any, so I fail to see how it is that important.

How has his similar grilling in the US helped you/us/anyone?

Re: Quality of the data

Also worth noting that it probably also hoovers up all the data it can of all their "friends" too.

It's not narcissism, in most cases it's boredom, killing time. It doesn't make them all bad people.Your friends or relatives probably did it.

@Charles 9

Demand implies someone wants somewhere to live, not they they can afford to purchases the property.

So what has happened? They rent, they rent off the one or two generations who can afford to buy up the housing.

The people priced out of the market still live somewhere, they are just lining someone's pocket rather than paying off a mortgage.

Re: Why

@Jeremy 3

They're marketing it as a phone replacement.

Ask the overwhelming majority of phone users if they'd consider one without a camera, and you'll have your answer.

Reg readers often aren't your typical user, if they don't shift units, they will vanish, again.

Re: Clicking through warnings

Users can be fooled yes, but these are people who were logging onto a website *specifically* to do financial stuff. Move money around, buy or sell something, or gamble on price movements.

You'd think this would make them think twice, and take things seriously.

The issue is however there's a large subset of crypto people who consider themselves a genius on the way to early retirement/being a millionaire.

They "know crypto" and they are in facebook groups talking about which devs at which of the hundreds of new crypto currencies are good, and which are bad. Which offering make sense and are solid etc etc. They openly mock those who aren't funneling every spare penny into crypto. It's arrogance, and this is the result.

A twat tax.

Re: Not just the space sector....

agree with @Jason Bloomberg

They key was not and still is not who voted which way, it is and always will be those who just don't bother to vote. Ever. The "they're all bad, there's no point" brigade (often the most vocal complainers too!).

I'd imagine/hope enough of those would get up and vote to make a difference. Should a second vote ever occur.

Honestly, it doesn't really matter what cells he went for.

The issue here (I can almost guarantee) is that the cells are fakes. I can't speak for the states but in the UK *so many* cells are fake, to the point where if you buy from anywhere but 5 or 6 places, they almost certainly are. Amazon is a massive red flag here, even the vape shops that try their hardest get caught out with fake cells, amazon sellers won't be bothering to check, and in the race to the bottom price wise again it almost guarantees you've purchased a counterfeit.

Fake or otherwise, if they are mistreated this happens. As has been said, that will also be the case here. Real or not I suspect we are discussing this chaps spare set of batteries. The ones loose in his pocket.

IF they were in the device, again that points to them being fakes (low amp rated calls packaged as the good stuff).

The best he'lll get is a (probably asia or US based) amazon seller vanish under their current name. LG and the maker of the vape mod in questions, can't really do much about fake cells.

Then you've got a similar rabbit hole to go down asking if the device itself is real, or a clone (huge parts of the vape community call fakes/counterfiets "clones" so as to feel better about knowingly buying them, because they're cheaper).

Re: Education is no longer designed to teach.

@Dabbsy

For my A levels in both french and german, the examiner for the oral exam *was* our teacher.

We'd been ruthlessly coached in exactly what we had to use/say/demonstrate to tick the boxes for the relevant grades, we all got and an A or A*, which was a thing then.

Jump through these hoops. Here is your A level.

Re: An app with a limited number of users will get less scrutiny from most security experts.

@Crisp

Not when those "users" are exclusively either high value targets, or worse, those the high value targets let work their smartphones for them.

I'm sure it'll get plenty of "checking and testing" from many interested parties.

@Korev

I feel this has gone over your head somewhat.

They don't care what randoms post on social media. That's not what this is about.They simply want to stop paying people to respond to the types that tweet to /post on company social media accounts. They (almost exclusively) fall into two categories:

1 - Trolls, people taking the piss and hoping for a bit of social media fame.

2 - People with a complaint who either can't be arsed to phone/email or already have, didn't like the answer they got, and are hoping the complaint being public will change things.

Having a large presence on social media isn't cheap, and they are realising/hoping it's just an huge waste of money.,

Re: "and started putting in place disaster recovery measures "

@Robidy

The NHS *should* have massive purchasing power.

It doesn't though. There is no "central" NHS when it comes to purchasing, they operate as separate trusts.

Hospitals in two neighboring trusts may use the same vendor, but they have no leverage in terms of using that fact to get favourable pricing.

E.g. your customer isn't the NHS, your customer is "the north notts healthcare trust" or wherever.

Re: Does it notify you

Will it have an app? Will one of the functions of that app track lost coinage?

"currency stored in sofa: £5.78"

As an aside though;

Has anyone told them Alexa/Echo will do all of these things already? Apart from "optimising the sofa position" bit.

This also implies no one has told them that people *don't* leave sofas in any position but "optimal" *ever*.

Re: Slow Broadband? BTWholesale's speedchecker still requires antiquated Adobe Flash.

@AC

there's a non flash version of the common speed test tool.

beta.speedtest.net

*edit, and yes, ISPs traffic shape, and ISPs make sure those speed tests are as good as they can be,

Re: mmm, seems theres 1 law for us and another for tory MP's

I know it would be lovely to see an "us v them" situation here - but you or I would receive the same treatment, due to the age and nature of the offense.