Re: Customer Hatred
I see your Orange France and raise you Telefonica.
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Well, if they do what happened in Spain, there were elections, nobody agreed with anyone, elections were repeated, nobody agreed with anyone, elections were repeated, and finally as enough people got bored and didn't vote the last time, it tipped the balance towards the incumbent party and the incumbent opposition party imploded. So I'd hold onto your cynicism for the moment.
Of course they count given the closeness of the result. They might have abstained because they didn't like either option, they didn't believe the referendum campaigns, amongst other things.
Thanks for the advice about education, Dr Nick Riviera. I consider education lifelong so it's not really an insult. Hopefully there won't be too many cuts to adult education in post-Brexit Britain... except higher education of course. And probably any other kind of education due to plummeting tax receipts if the government wilfully persists with a plan of leaving both the EU and EEA/EFTA (the referendum only specified leaving the EU).
Having previously said that foreign higher education students will be counted as part of the immigration statistics, unlike many other countries, today it's announced that the number of visas for higher education students will be halved. So half of four and a half-billion in fees + accommodation + what they spend on goods and services (plus VAT) lost.
Nobody thinks higher education students are an immigration problem. They can't get a job and they pay for the NHS.
Utter stupidity and it's only because the dull-witted Tory party are scared shitless of the mob voting UKIP (which they will probably do anyway) and want to come out and say they could cut at least 150,000 a year off the figures.
They will fuck up the country.
Seems strange that an SNP MP of all politicians would be against more data sharing considering his party's record on the matter.
Maybe he's their version of David Davis (when he took up civil liberties matters), his party can point to him and say "look, we've got him, we're nice really".
At the moment it looks like the poor woman has been sucked through her laptop screen into MS' version of The Upside Down. It's empty and desolate except a floating white window (program has stopped responding, do you wish to restart or wait some more?), a possible way back through the mirror-world laptop, a Skype, a recycle bin with a plant stuck in it, and a Bob.
She'd better get out of there before the Bob realises she's there, hunts her down, and eats her up.
Nobody's going to pay money for this, it's not going to gain any traction. It's as absurd as MS getting into the videocard business. MS would be better off leaving the VR hardware alone and making just the software platform.
I went with not enabling any web/email enabled printing or allowing automatic printer firmware updates on my HP. That was when I got it, but I like to think that HP only now releasing updates which close Telnet and FTP ports on their printers means they know sod all about security and I was right.
I find it hard to believe money couldn't be found to keep it going till Christmas before taking a decision on the future of the company what with the money that VCs burn on idiotic crap.
They had the products in the market already, the just needed to manufacture and advertise them for the Christmas period. Instead they pulled the plug before the most important sales period of the year.
"Upon learning of the consumer advocacy groups' concerns through media, we validated that we have adhered to our policy with respect to the voice data collected through the toys referred to in the complaint"
Policy stores data outside the EU.
Policy says it can be changed at any moment.
Policy says data can be used for advertising.
Policy says data can be disclosed to unnamed 3rd parties.
Policy doesn't have any security guarantees.
So basically he just said, "fuck you".
If you've got a dumbphone then it wouldn't help you, but the vast majority of people use smartphones which can be stolen and can have malware installed.
And that's before some bright spark with your address and your phone number tries it on with your network operator to get a duplicate SIM.
There needs to be less using SMS 2FA under the guise of getting your phone number and more using FreeOTP. While not perfect it's a step up from SMS.
1. Seal somebody's mobile.
2. Email's already logged in. Now I know their account.
3. Go to I've forgotten my password page for their email provider.
4. Recovery by SMS.
5. Copy and paste number delivered by message SMS into browser.
6. Change password.
Where's the second factor?
Accused of hacking a bank? Possibly a bit of extra evidence just to help the case along. But anyone the establishment sees as a threat will be accused of kiddy fiddling and we all know it. *
I hope nobody's pinning their hopes on prosecution witnesses stumbling at the "do you swear you're telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" bit.
* Unless it's themselves in which case the inquiry collapses into a farce. Allegedly.
Well El Reg has often not linked to websites in the past precisely because they were dodgy. I think this would be another one that falls into that category, especially with modern browsers helpfully pre-fetching pages unless you specifically tell them not to.
Good job this is December, in January you might wonder if you wanted that site in your Internet Connection Record.
At worst people wanting to move may have to do a bit of paperwork, and some may be refused, but I daresay it will still be much easier then moving to the USA, or Australia, etc.
If Brits are to be treated as non-EU citizens by the 27 EU countries, this would mean a lot of things that happen now won't be catered for. Single people would have more difficulties with residency, partners would need to marry, it throws a spanner in the works if you have children but you aren't married, you might need to find work before you arrive, and if you lose your job that might cause residency problems. Under the British system, families have been split up due to the foreign parent losing their job or not reaching a minimum income level despite the British parent earning enough for both.
Is flying to Sweden noticeably different than flying to (non-EU) Norway?
They are both in the EEA and both in the Schengen area. This won't fly* with a large number of the Tory party.
* Did you see what I did?
The charter allows any one of 48 government departments to get a list of all servers visited from your ISPs (broadband and mobile) and from there query the servers belonging to CSPs they've served a notice to which forces them to cooperate. That's not existing practice.