Posts by WorsleyNick

My brother receives one of his pensions from USS and has received a letterfrom USS. It includes an offer for 1 year free use of Experian. Apart from the complexity of accepting the offer he gave up when he realized that he was being asked to put even more personal information up onto the Experian system than had previously on the USS system.

That would put him even more exposed waiting for Experian to be hackked.

The very very commonalty of outsourcing sensative data to fewer and fewer service suppliers must be making hacking more and more potentially lucrative and therefore more likely. If one hack will get you the whole of all NHS personal datamust make it more likely to happen than if each individual hospital and doctor's systems have to be hacked.

Re: Forget the turtles...

Long ago (1970's) I worked for a company that stored all its data in a fireproof safe on the top floor of its warehouse above three levels of cold storage basement. I never did manage to convince them that while tapes might survive after a building collapse, 12 platter discs would not. We had no tape drives, therefore backup only comprised of a 3day cycle of every 12 platter disk on 12 platter disks! Fortunately we never had fire.

Re: You would expect a qualified electrician to wire a building to spec, right?

When the gas main outside my house was replaced the feed to my house was replaced. A very muddy young 'engineer' disconnected the old feed and connected the new feed to the meter. He checked that my pipework etc was gas tight using a manometer. When he had finished and was about to go I told him that I could smell gas. He airily told me that it was only the gas that had escaped during the change and would soon disperse. An hour later still a strong smell of gas,but no gas men left in the area.

A quick look and at the meter and voila the cap on the manometer had not been tightened, even finger tight. So much for professionals.

Re: Cubic metres? cm^3? ?? What is its abbrev.??

And yet you could call someone that scatalogical term a "Richard"?

Re: Bye bye.....

Sometime in the '90s I had spent Christmas Eve cannibalising my computer and the children's computer (plus newly purchased components) to build 1 computer for each of my children and a new computer for myself. By about 3am on Christmas Day each computer was up and working but I could not get dial up to work.

On the off chance I called Demon support thinking that I would get a recorded message. I was surprised when the phone was answered after one ring by bright, cheerful lady. She was very competent and soon helped me sort it out. I apologised for calling at 3am on Christmas morning; she said she was glad of the call, not having had a call since she came on shift at 9pm. We spent sometime talking about her Christmas, she had volunteered for the Christmas shift (Demon were rewarding handsomely).

Re: Click bait

You were lucky, I'm still trying to get the whiskey (John Power, if you must know) splatter out of the keyboard :-)

Re: Missing Information

If it was a setup, then one hopes that he did not leave a data trail (email/sms etc) that led the committee to know that the package was there for the taking. Face to face after running into Newspaper man in the Hotel lobby might do, anything as long as there was no data trail.

Re: Lira?

'The only reason Germany and the Netherlands have "extra" manufacturing is because they make a lot of the tools that go into factories.'

I thought the 'tools' went into Parliament and only occasionally went into factories when publicity was required, like that Gideon character. He certainly looked as out of place as a Politician. At an Olympic Award Ceremony. Watching our politicians at the moment they seem to be behaving as designed, German tools, making a right fist of Brexit.

No you would be expected to pay for your own. As I remember it, we would have been expected to pay for our own ID Cards, even though we, as tax payers were already paying for the infrastructure.

Remember standing on standing on the bridge at midnight?

Re: Magic blue smoke...

"He decided to replace the huge main electrolytic smoothing capacitor in the power supply.

He got it the wrong way round (quite a feat of carelessness, but not impossible)"

After retirement I did a level 2 PC maintenance course. One of my fellow students had a certain, how can I put this, lack special awareness perhaps. The student managed to rebuild a PC with the RAM reversed, back to front. How it is possible to do that we could not work out. not just a feat of carelessness, requires a large measure of cack-handedness.

A strong smell of overheated PCB pervaded the room, before a fuse blewn the PS.

Re: Suggestion for a new name

EnemaData - The Shite Company (long handled spoons provided)

Which reminds me the Quack has given me a tube to fill with a crap sample. The handle provided is ridiculously short.

Re: Regulate footballs also

My problem with footballs is when they are on the ground and some fiend has filled it with concrete.

Re: As any good medical professional will tell you

They were lucky, I was only sent for a 'Short' weight. My arse did not get time to touch the chair before the stores clerk told me that I could go. I refused to go for a 'Sky Hook'.

Re: bit complex and risky

Try that with a band printer.

Re: none UK time zone at the bottom

Being in the UK, reading an article about the UK, I did wonder. At first I thought it might be Philippine time, but then it is 8 hours the wrong way. Smug West Leftpondian arrogance, I would suggest. I would have been happy with UTC.

Re: Methodology?

Those who click on a link in an e-mail from an unknown source deserve everything they get, however having been on a survey panel that is not how it works.

The survey company knows quite a lot about the members of the panel. They selected a representative sample from their survey panel and contacted them asking them to log into their accounts, but not via a link in the e-mail.

That said, I thought the quiz was banal or irrelevant. I knew the answer to the Twitter question, precisely because it is one of the reasons that IMHO believe is useless.

Why should I be able to recognise a face in a pretty awful photograph of an executive of Farcebook.

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. Hmm does that mean that if you know what it stands for, you understand its use and why it is used?

and so on.