Posts by Velv

Re: Perfect burner phone!

Isn't the L8star BM10 a bummer phone? You know, the ones prisoners hide in their, well, bums.

Re: Not very ambitious?

"...made suspicious trades just before the fake tweets"

A well planned attack would have traded weeks before the attack tweets. Just proves these were not sophisticated crooks.

Last time I looked GDPR isn't applicable in the USA. Or the UK (oh, they haven't revoked it yet).

Hiscox Insurance have an interactive page exactly like this they use when on the phone discussing insurance policies. It shows the text of the standard blurb they read out as they read it out, as well as other Key Facts.

This is not rocket science.

"the plan is to hold onto all contacts data for 20 years for 'research purposes'"

I hope somebody finds written proof of this soon. This government has already lost the trust of the public, this is another nail in the coffin.

Can we storm Parliament and undertake a revolution? Can't wait for the next General Election, the country won't be here in four years.

"make a decision based on probabilities rather than a few black and white statements"

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!

This is EXACTLY the problem with IR35, it is subjective. Law MUST be objective, it must be black and white, or you get ambiguities based on the people making decisions.

Two people being assessed by two different HMRC auditors get different determinations, that is not fair. The same rules should be tested against the same criteria and you achieve a consistent result.

Re: It is your duty ^D^D^D^D obligation to install the app

"I'm sure app 'green' screenshots won't be hard to find"

Here in Edinburgh Lothian Buses has an M-Ticket app that When a ticket is “activated”, the app will generate an animated ticket on your smartphone screen.

No "screenshot" will do, it's a moving image pattern background with the current time counting and a four digit code that changes daily. That is not easy to fake especially on iOS where in theory the App must be approved by Apple which takes days if not weeks. Quite sure a digital passport would have similar protections should the government be stupid enough to try and implement such controls.

"by declaring no income yet taking home a huge pay packet each month"

All income must be declared on the SA100 Self Assessment or they are conducting tax evasion and should go to jail. Pretty sure you'll find the vast majority declaring their "huge pay packet" on their SA100.

Why were any of them wearing masks? Surely if the device can detect Coronavirus at 100m they've got prior warning of any potentially infectious person or surface.

Or don't they trust their own technology?

Re: wait, what?

"Government Communications Headquarters"

Yes, Government, but which Government.

GCHQ was set up to monitor Communications by everyone else, not provide Communications for the Government.

Re: Its worse than you think

Then they shouldn’t continue to vote for parties that are trying to perpetuate the private health industry and prevent medical cover for all.

Turkeys and thanksgiving.

Yup, a number of years ago Virgin Media sent me a reminder of my password by snailmail.

Re: Sigh.

"that is considered a more serious offence"

No it's not, there is no such offence. You could only be charged under "dangerous driving" or "driving without due care and attention" and only if it could be proven you were a sufficient danger to other road users.

Re: Ha

No, the Scots weighed up the potential that England would support Independence for Scotland and all agreed there is no way on earth they wanted to make that many English people happy (paraphrased from Andy Parsons)

Re: I currently collect £24k VAT

"..which is then reclaimed by your client."

VAT is not reclaimable if your core business is VAT exempt products, such as banking. HMRC is going to lose all that VAT from every contractor being forced down the PAYE route in the Financial Services sector, a substantial proportion of all contractors if the government figures are to be believed. From my own experience that VAT is more than the Tax and NI I would pay if I was PAYE. Net loss to HMRC.

Re: Expert witnesses are supposed to be independent

Seems to have been very poor work from everyone on the HP side from the very first day it was suggested they buy Autonomy.

Either that, or someone on the HP side is burying the good work done by some experts in order to protect someone else in HP.

There is a LOT of investment in a namespace, so while a new domain in and of itself might be cheap, moving one's internet presence to a new domain is not cheap.

There then remains the "who will pay for the .org"? Example. children.org moves to children.nac. children.org is not renewed, goes on the market, and is bought by nefarious people who pretend to be a charity.

This is non-profit organisations who are typically using all their money for more worthwhile causes than lining the pockets of ICANN, PIC, and whoever else is involved.

Re: Well IBM is one problem

"Signing up to pay someone else to take of things for ten years at a time is a waste of money and resources,"

Sometime it isn't purely about the immediate money.

I worked for a large organisation where the IT support budget was a black hole, an expense the business had to pay without understanding what they were paying for Project changes were constant and true costs were obscured in the project/maintenance/operations mashup.

By outsourcing IT Support it was possible to demonstrate just what, or more importantly, what the business was not getting for its money. It took many years for the business to agree up front exactly what it wanted and stop changing the goalposts every six months. 10 years outsourced and support was brought back in house under control.

I'm not defending outsourcing, its a shitty experience for most people, but it is sometimes the best was to achieve a business outcome.

Re: Wouldn't it be Loverly

Here's what google can do...

You can have an ad-free experience when searching, but you must be signed in to google.

Google can harvest what you search (as they do today) but instead of directly placing ads in the results, they can sell those results to the other ad-flingers who paste every other page you visit with adverts (see <-- left and --> right)

Re: Stupid (I'm quite sure) question...

"Plunge into the sun"

D'oh! it in the text on every battery - "do not dispose of in fire"

"unless you need to keep your kids out of the amazon account"

No the Amazon account I'm worried about the kids finding the password for. So glad the UK Porn ID got delayed though

Where are Apple products "made"

Where is the hardware assembled - Peoples Republic of China.

Where is iOS developed? USA. Without iOS the hardware is useless.

Oracle may not be able to profit from it, but the very last thing they are going to do is allow anyone else to attempt to make money off it. Welcome to Oracle.

Re: What's the point?

While the unintended consequences you point out are a risk, in each case the "staff" were incentivised to commit their crime directly (i.e. they could make a personal difference to their remuneration).

I don't think with something as fundamentally different as major fines for corporations issued by a body that there is the same opportunity for an individual in the ICO to "line their own pockets" in the same way as your Cop or Security Guard.

You need to trust the integrity of your staff to an extent, and have audit controls to monitor compliance.