Posts by Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse 2451 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Sep 2007
Errr, no. Opera has a built in limited web proxy service. It will get you around geo-blocking on a limited basis but will not provide secure browsing or ehnanced privacy. You also need to be asking what Opera are doing with all that "free" browsing data that you are providing them with.
I think it's twofold, firstly I believe that it is because the US legal system is utterly corrupt. Secondly, and more importantly it's because HP have made themselves look like complete arses in plain sight of their peers and the wider global IT community, and they are now crying to (i.e. paying) the US Government to help them make a case - any case... anything... anything at all.
A case that I would hazard they themselves know is flaky at best due to their own incompetence, but that they now can't let go of due to their own arrogance and idiocy.
Yes, there will risks with everything, so somewhere you will need to draw a line in the sand, or stick your flag in the ground. But doing proper research around your VPN provider, rather that just signing up for the cheapest or even "free-est" will help with this.
Just for reference - I'm with AirVPN as it was created by journalists, to protect journalists and therefore they have a guarantee that they do not log or record anything. Do I believe them? Yes. Can I prove it? No.
As I said, there are risks with everything.
But I would suspect that most of the time they don't have reasonable suspicion. Considering that your average border guard is a failed police officer, or generally someone who wants "any level of authority that they can get" can get, your reasonable suspicion generally turns into "anyone I have personal prejudices against" - and that just aint right.
I thought that the Polygamy issue was the biggest schism in the Mormon faith. With the fundamentalist Mormons (read "angry and deluded") wanting to keep the decree, and then with the normal (read "generally deluded") Mormons wanting to rid themselves of it.
I'm only stating what I remember from the fantastic book Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer. Great book; and despite his obvious restraint, it does paint the average Mormon follower as a whackjob who has spent too much time in the sun.
How about Apple release a device with some stunning new design features such as octagonal edges, or removal of the power switch, or a nice orange and lime colour scheme. Surely that's more than enough "next gen design" to get the faithful salivating to buy a new phone at some almost reasonable cost???
“I found myself struggling through terrifying circumstances..."
Yes, that he bought on himself by running and hiding away like a girl rather than facing up to the charges that had been raised against him. He seems more than happy to have taken the "celebrity", but none of the accountability or responsibility.
I'd love to agree with you, but unfortunately I can't see that anything has changed. In fact, despite them being caught with their hands well inside the cookie jar, both the US and UK governments seem to have said "what the fuck", have actually gotten worse, and will just make sure that the penalties for exposing their actions are worse; rather than actually improving their behaviours or accountability.
Downvotes? It's a method for people to show disapproval for, or that they do not agree with what you've posted. Some sad people within not much else to occupy their minds really lose their shit over it, but in reality it doesn't mean anything and you really shouldn't pay it any mind.
"Err... yeah, hi... yeah, it's Alexander... just calling for Darius... errr no... no I won't fucking hold, I'm on a tight fucking schedule... just tell him I'm crossing the Granicus and that I'll see him at Gaugamela yeah? Yah... tell him to bring some balls with him this time as well rather than that normal shabby bunch!!!"
Giff Gaff are full of shite and need to be hauled in front of the ASA. Their ads all pronounce that it's the "network run by you..." i.e. ME!!!!
So when I phoned them up saying that I'm not going to pay for my top-up, they all got a bit shirty. In fact, when I told them that I actually owned the network, they flat out called me a liar. Eejit sheep feckers!!!! All of them.
I'm not a dog owner, but I do run and mountain bike etc. in a lot of places that people like to walk their dogs also; and most of those owners I see do make sure they clean up after their four legged companion - but to your point... it's the same down our way. The bins are always overflowing with dogshit to the point where normal litter cannot be put in them. It's all a bit grim, especially in summer when it all gets a bit, err... ripe? I think the rules are right, but as usual, not enough thought or manpower put into how to run or enforce them.
But... horses shitting all over the roads and pavements? That's ok is it? Now that's a real problem round our way.
The power seeking white man has been dominant in the USA for the last 200 or so years, and is petrified of losing that crown and influence. Interestingly though, it's thought that hispanics are now overtaking white man as the dominant ethnic group, and I'm pretty sure the mostly white establishment is petrified of this. Hence one part of that government wanting $5bn for a wall, while the rest of the world looks on in fits of laughter and continues to try to pull existing ones down...
Oh do grow up. You sound like a playground crybaby.
I'm quite keen to hear your hard and scientifically proven evidence showing that ones sexuality (i.e. sexual preference) is out of ones control and not down to some high % of personal choice and / or circumstance...
It's ok, I'll wait thanks...
Considering the size of Morrisons as a group, if he was, as you say "the" IT auditor, then there is something VERY wrong with how Morrisons are internally audited. No one auditor should ever have that much access - solely; and Morrisons should have been more vigilant in understanding the risks, and in implementing technologies and strategies such as UAC and DLP.
So yes, they are absolutely liable because they have been negligent in their responsibilities in regards data access rights, security and handling.
I agree with you. But there are plenty of things you can do to stop them receiving a single valid byte of your data, and then even more things to stop the ads being presented to you.
On the other hand, and as much as it sticks in my craw... billions of people don't seem to give a shit as long as they can like a cat video or make some inane comment about an InstaFaceTube video.
Ahhh... the old "unnamed rogue agent who no longer works for us" ruse eh? This must be the very same lone wolf that would have had to evaluate, negotiate, raise the paperwork for, procure, sign the import paperwork, test, ship, install eh? Yes, it must have been a very busy "rogue agent".
No doubt that this company have paid the fine, but admit no wrongdoing right??
"I'm not sure how this would work as Starbuck's parent company is a different legal entity. If I created my own company and licensed something from another company, would the same rules apply?"
Hmmm... it's only a different legal entitly on paper. It is in effect part of the same global chain. But in this instance we are playing by legal and accountancy rules so we need to whitewash over that. The fact that the offshore entity has the same name effectively as the UK based entity is just a co-incidence right???
Yes, if you set up an offshore company as a wholly separate legal entity and licensed a product from it, and then pay them a licensing fee that (conveniently) equates to most of the UK profits that you make from shilling that licensed product in the UK, then it would work. You'd just need to lawyer up and make sure that what you are licensing is valid and that you trust your offshore corporate governance.
So... I don't play online so I'd rather just keep my own local processing unit (i.e. my Playstation or PC) and buy the game on a disc from a store. That way at least I can still play it in 2, 5 or 10 years time should I choose i.e. long after the service providers decide that it is uneconomically viable for them to support it anymore.
And please don't tell me that downloading is cheaper? For whom I wonder? The great promise of the PS store was that downloading games would reduce costs due to not having to produce it on disk and shipping etc. But guess what... that hasn't happened at all. If anything, they are more expensive, for longer.
I'm probably in the minority here, but similar to movies... the day I am forced to stream AAA games, or to have my "paid for" content available only at the behest of a corporate is unhappily the day that gaming as a form of entertainment no longer gets my ££££'s.
Is there an equivalent to Betteridge's law for the breaking out and asking of a question in parenthesis in the middle of a sentence, as per the below? And if so, have I also (maybe?) just invoked it?
"Her decision seems to be based on either on an emotive bias, lack of time and resources (is her caseload too much?), lack of training, all three or some other unknown factor."
Overpriced and overrated. I demo'd Sonos and then Musicast by Yamaha. What I liked about Musicast was that not only was it 1/2 the price of the Sonos stuff, but that it sounded much MUCH better, and that it is baked into their separates by design.
As a company Sonos remind me a bit of Beats headphones, and a pair of Crocs - i.e. for middle class people with no taste in musical fidelity... or shoes.
That girl in the pic that accompanies this story (and has sat alongside may others over El Reg history). Well, her homework book always seems to be unerringly marked with a big red 'F' so I don't think she can't be too bright - assuming of course that she is student, rather than teacher.
In consideration of that I'd just have thought by now that the poor lass would have given up on the academics and been snapped up by HP or Capita professional services seeing that 'F' is the benchmark for their "elite" staffers.
What I'm more surprised about here is that HP actually have an "ethics department."
So where is this small and not oft visited department you ask? Well, you guessed it...
“I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the ethics department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the department, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying..."
... yeah yeah yeah... whatever. I can't be arsed finishing it.
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