Posts by Velv 2756 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2010
You'll find that the cost to administer tax differently for government from other businesses actually makes the whole thing even more complex. Better to have one set of rules for everyone, then complete any internal transfers at a later date (Assuming they can get that bit right).
"Tax doesn't need to be taxing" :)
So how do these SMS notifications work if you use something like O2s Tu Go?
SMS gets diverted to your device of choice (tablet, laptop, desktop), defeating the point that the system relies on "something you have". Opens up the possibility of remote attack if someone compromises your telephone number.
D'oh!
Building bridges between two systems substantially increases the risk of infection being passed from one system to another. Rats crossed rivers on ferries, barges and bridges and the plague spread across Europe. So if you're going to plug a device from one system to the next you no longer have an air gap and you need to put protections in place. Gates, guards, immigration controls and quarantine.
It's not rocket science, we've been doing it for hundreds of years.
Which is one of the arguements for having your Business Continuity operation provided by an alternative supplier who hasn't seen what has been implemented by supplier 1.
London Internet Exchnage does it with two entirely different sets of infrastructure providing the twin service.
Not cheap, extremely difficult to integrate, and potentially susceptible to other failures, but a balance to be had where something is mission critical.
"What Assange was charged with in Sweden was not rape."
He has not been charged at all. An arrest warrant has been issued so he can be questioned in relation to alleged sexual offences. Like every other suspect there is due process to follow, and if it is as "trivial" as you claim, then he would either be free now, or would have finished any custodial sentence.
But neither of those would serve this publicity seeking vermin. Wikileaks as a concept is vital to open government and business. Assange is not helping their cause
To quote the age old phrase
"Outlaw guns, and only outlaws will have guns"
Criminals carrying guns has increased since various bans were introduced over the last 40 years as more criminals are prepared to go on a job "tooled up". Now I'm not advocating we relax the current gun laws, but it just proves that for anyone attempting to break one law breaking other laws isn't really seen as an obstacle.
An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
Dear El Reg
Please stop putting huge irrelevant annoying pictures on every article. Not all of your readers are on SuperFast 6G ultraband and they waste not just paid bandwidth but precious time in loading.
If you do insist on continuing with pictures, if you're going to put a a picture of a man giving the bird (even a cartoon) then please put NSFW in the article title.
And please feel free to copy this comment to the forum about recent changes to the format of El Reg - I couldn't find a link to it.
Thanks
Velv
"Marriott remains committed to protecting the security of Wi-Fi access in meeting and conference areas at our hotels."
There's your problem. You shouldn't be encouraging anybody to trust the security of your network. lUsers need to be taught not to trust any network they don't own, and what protections they need to take before using someone else's network.
The vast majority of what you pass exams on at school is irrelevant (and often not the truth or out of date, but that's a separate issue).
The vast majority of what you pass exams on at University is irrelevant.
Tha vast majority of what you pass exams on with a vendor is irrelevant to the day to day bread and butter of the job.
But in each you've proven you can read boring shit relevant to a subject and remember some of it at a later time. And this might be the differentiator between two people who claim to be rocket scientists. Once you've worked at NASA for 3 years and proven you know your shit your next NASA job is granted by who you know, not what you know. If can't prove you know somebody or something, then to your next potential employer you're shit.
"A recent report from analytics firm Flurry placed small-screen phones at just 2 per cent of new devices activated during the Christmas week."
Is it however chicken and egg...
Has the lack of small screen models (I can't name one) driven the lack of activations?
Like so many others, I've stayed with the iPhone 5 as I find the size just fits my pockets, and there doesn't seem to be much in the Android or Windows lines that's getting smaller either. Maybe there isn't a market, or maybe there is a market and nothing to fill it...
So Andrew, extrapolating from the ruling and googles response...
If Google was to designate the data controller to be outside the EU, it would not need to comply with the EU ruling. It's advertising business could continue in each country, but the search would be outside the EU.
So in theory Google could purchase a jurisdiction and nominate that as the data controller for all search results no matter where in the world the request originated. It could for example purchase Sealand and remove all persky search rules from every other country and the UN.
Somehow I suspect International Law doesn't match here either...
@Professor Clifton Shallot
Mostly for legal and compliance reasons. Back in the good old days each bottle could contain, well, almost anything at almost any %abv. Then along came the Weights & Measures Act which established some conventions (and later amendments) such as spirits are generally sold in fixed sized bottles at a fixed %abv.
Scotch Whisky after distillation and storage typically leaves the cask between 50%abv and 65%abv (although it can be more or less depending on what went in and how it's stored). The vast majority is filtered, blended with other casks (even if from the same distillation) and watered down to 40% to make a consistent product.
The addition of water (even in the factory) releases the oils, esters and aromas, all of which may effect each drinkers palate in a different way, so each individual needs to "add water to suit their taste". Which is one reason you taste the whisky, maybe add a small amount of water, taste and repeat (although if you need to repeat too many times whisky is probably not your drink).
In an ideal world all whisky would be sold "Cask Condition" a la SMWS, but sadly the general public just want their consistent bottle of Famous Grouse or Johnnie Walker.
It's not just memory it hogs, it fairly hammers the CPU.
I first noticed on a laptop when the fan would kick in if I opened Chrome, pumping out heat across the desk. Close Chrome and it would immediately return to a quiet cool state. Investigations in the simple Task Manager showed Chrome using 30% just as the only app open (and on a single blank page).
Yes it really is such fun managing all those users across each and every Linux installation. Users changing their password on each application server every 30 days and scores of admins picking up the password resets for those that have screwed up. You do have a password change policy, don't you? It's just good security practice.
If you want efficient, good practice security you'll use a centralised authentication service, be it on Windows, Linux, Mainframe or cloud. And all centralised services suffer the same potential drawback of service outage.
But then Linux die-hards don't really get the point of IT serving the business. Users are just an inconvenience getting in their way of tinkering with the techie stuff. Meanwhile business marches on ignoring the IT department that doesn't adapt to the business needs.
You didn't hear the EU screaming about The Yellow Pages abuse of its market position.
For years it was the dominant business telephone directory in the UK and sold prominence to the highest bidder. Until the Thomson Local Directory came along you had little other choice of "search engine" if you want to find a plumber.
This is worse than Google, as has been pointed out you do at least have a choice of search engines on the Internet.
Politicians around the world really have no concept of reality, do they...
The flaw in your observation is the audience (and people can call me a snob if you like). Not everybody reads books regularly.
People who read books regularly tend to have been reading books for most of their lives, and will have developed the correct muscle structure to handle the changed force angles, a structure that developed through childhood as their bodies morphed to adulthood.
Smartphones are now being used for several hours per day by people who haven't picked up a book in 20-30 years.
So there are ways to get these things in, we all know that. But why is the data being allowed to get out?
If this is really targeting the types of organisations claimed, surely (sarcastically) the governments etc know what traffic is leaving their network, especially the "sensitive" bits of the network, the bits worth spying on? Or have they been stupid enough to let any old traffic exit the building...
Maybe I've missed something. If the "deal" was drawn up, how can either side appeal against the deal?
The whole point of agreeing a deal is so that you don't go through the court process. I can only see a case for a legal challenge if one side was duped into an unfair deal, something I find it hard to believe would happen to Apples lawyers.
USB Desktop Hard Drives
I have two. Anywhere between once a week and once month I plug one in and let the NAS backup utility copy all data.
At least one disk is always at my Mothers house 7 miles away.
Backup is about what you can afford to lose. I've created myself an acceptable loss scenario that works for me, and I suspect it will work for many other people.
Necessity is the mother of invention. We will need to reduce energy consumption and we will need to find cleaner ways to make energy.
To take a steer from Douglas Adams: "fruit and berries on strange planets either make you live or make you die. Therefore the point at which to start toying with them is when you're going to die if you don't."
And in the grand scheme of things, we're closer to death than you can possibly imagine.
@AC
Nobody is suggesting you own the copyright or the design. If you buy a physical CD you buy a license to listen to the music and the physical media. Part of the license permits you to transfer the media and content license to someone else in its entirety. i.e. Second hand CDs have value.
Why should it be any different for online content you've paid for? Let's face it, most of it costs the same either on physical media or in digital format, so the music industry cannot argue they are losing out. Digital presents a challenge in preventing illegal copying, but the principle still stands on ownership of an asset. Or are we suggesting that music should self destruct on CDs when the original purchaser dies?
The wholly Irish company is wholly owned by the American company. i.e. ALL the shares, and therefore ultimately in control.
While there may be shareholders in Barclays who are resident in the USA, no single entity owns sufficient shares to be considered the overall owner. From a quick search, Qatar seems to be the largest shareholder these days.
Just because it's in the T&Cs doesn't automatically make it accepted or acceptable. There are plenty of cases of unfair terms being thrown out by e courts, and this sounds likely to be one of them.
I suspect the credit card company will agree and will have immediately refunded and chargeback'd. After all, while the hotel allegedly provided bad service to the guests, they played no part in facilitating the review. They are therefore attempting to charge for something they did not provide (aside from the irony of semantics).
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