I once did a short sales course. It was part of our companies "see how other nits of the company work" sort of thing. The biggest and most emphasised point the head of sales kept making was "each sales area OWES us x amount of money and it's our job to go get it". It came across as a protection racket to those us not actually in sales.
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UK watchdog fines biz £130k for 900,000+ direct marketing calls to folk who had opted out
Or they could pay a little more for a properly sanitised list in the first place. I'd be prepared the bet the extra for a sanitised list from a reputable company (they do exist, don't they?) would be much less than the fine. The problem is, how many cold callers are prepared to bet against getting caught in the first place?
UK urged to choo-choo-choose hydrogen-powered trains in pursuit of carbon-neutral economic growth
Re: No all electric
"can't use it over level crossings"
Is a train ever moving so slowly it can't coast over the length of a crossing? The momentum of a train, even where the station is only 50 yds from the crossing should easily be enough to carry it over the crossing. And that;s assuming there only one power car at the front.
Hubble Space Telescope may now depend on a computer that hasn't booted since 2009
Re: Er, yes, mate?
""The computer was replaced in 2009," and hasn't been turned on since it left the lab.
Apart from the in-situ diags they just might possibly have run when it was installed in Hubble. It'd be a bit silly to spend millions getting it there and hours of spacewalk time just to plug it in and leave it there without even checking that it powers up.
Three things that have vanished: $3.6bn in Bitcoin, a crypto investment biz, and the two brothers who ran it
Re: How untraceable, exactly?
"However, like many have already mentioned, crooks make mistakes and that's how they get caught."
...and these crooks are aged 17 and 21. They think they are indestructible but they've not been alive long enough to have gained much, if any, wisdom. I suspect they'll be found sooner rather than later.
Euro court rules YouTube not automatically liable for users illegally uploading copyright-protected material
John McAfee dead: Antivirus tycoon killed himself in prison after court OK'd extradition, says lawyer
Re: Great bloke ...?
"( ... give or take some drug smuggling, a bit of murdering, and odd rape and sex with a minor ... all alleged obviously)"
Can you slander the dead? Not sure "allegedly" is needed now, maybe just an "in my opinion" is safe enough. I guess it depends on how rich and if "the estate" wants to try suing.
Re: It's A Very Complicated Story...
And not forgetting, of course,. that the whole point of extradition treaties is that, in general, if you commit a crime in your home country and flee to another where that would also be a crime, then you will be extradited. Obviously it's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the jist of it.
Re: It's A Very Complicated Story...
"Christ, he was 75 and faced 30 years in a US jail."
An ex-copper was sentenced to 28 years for sex offences the other day. He's 69. And will have to spend 6 whole years on the sex offenders register release. Mind you, this is a UK prison, not a US one and the usual procedure is release on licence after 50% of server time. Then again, a 69 tear old ex copper in prison. And it's not likely to be a very low category or open prison, at least not for the first few years. He might not make it out.
Anyone still using cash? British £50 banknote honouring Alan Turing arrives
Re: Here in Euro territory
"You'd have thought that by now we'd be able to request which denominations we'd like, though I guess we don't really need any more reasons for the person in front of you to spend FOREVER at the cash machine :)"
The default seems to be to dispense the minimum number of notes possible to make the total. This minimises the machine running out of lower denominations and needing re-filling more frequently.
Re: Here in Euro territory
"Along with relatively large denomination notes from a bureau de change... which is why one should buy something on arrival at an airport shop in order to get some smaller change."
That smells of collusion! I don't mean the wildly overpriced perfume at the airport shop either :-)
Re: Chips
I have the same issue with portion sizes in chippies. Although when I'm down in Yorkshire, most places I go seem to do much smaller portions, eg not just "standard" but "small" actually on the menu. Failing that, try asking for a child or "pensioners" option. Few will actually quibble that you are not a child or a pensioner, especially of you start to walk out if they refuse.
Intrepid squid mission may help in kraken riddle of why zero-g makes astronauts sick
Spacey McSpaceface: Artemis takes shape ahead of '2021' launch – but first you need to name the crash-test dummy
SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband constellation to achieve full global coverage by September, boss claims
Re: Does space have an ecology?
I won't up or down vote either way, but every definition I can find of ecology involves living organisms. There are no living organisms in orbit other than those we have put up there ourselves, therefore there is no ecology. This brings us back to my original point. "There may well be consequences, that's true, but what will be the effect on the ecology?"
Someone is probably responsible for keeping an eye on things up there, but it's NOT a job for ecologists.
Does space have an ecology?
"ecological due diligence...may result in a greater number of collisions, which would increase the amount of space debris,"
What's the ecological consequences of more debris in space?
There may well be consequences, that's true, but what will be the effect on the ecology? Trees dying? Fish dying? Birds dying? People breathing in debris and getting lung diseases? I've not yet seen space trees, space fish, or space birds and the people up there are sealed off from the "ecology" because it's already deadly as it is.
(integral trees and the iron chicken notwithstanding)
Facebook granted patent for 'artificial reality' baseball cap. Repeat, an 'artificial reality' baseball cap
Re: UK Law......one more opportunity to ignore it!!!....and be spied on at the same time!!!!
Could get interesting in those places you think are public but are actually private land with no demarcations. eg in front of big expensive buildings, particularly in parts of London where security or door staff have been know to come out and object to people taking photos. Not to mention shopping centres where, again, security have been known to object to photographers.
Re: "hats solve the problem presented by AR glasses"
"I think it works the other way. If anything that goes over the head can be described as a hat, then the patent can be easily invalidated by the plethora of prior art."
Yeah, but someone with money and can afford to go to court has to do that first. And then, if it really is a slam-dunk, go on to sue the US Patent Office for assigning a patent that was blatantly invalid and not doing due diligence.
Dozens of Iranian media websites devoured by the Great Satan, apparently
Re: Pravda?
"The left in the US is trying to federalize elections to ensure 1 party rule forever while at the same time indoctrinate our children with Marxist ideology!"
You have no idea how far right the US so-called "left" is in terms of the rest of the world. Marxism isn't even on the radar of the US "left", it's too far away to see,
'Google is present at almost all levels of the supply chain' for online ads: It's time for a competition probe, says EU
Re: Its not as if Internet advertising was essential to life -- or even commerce
"I'd guess the reason for going after Google is the same reason people used to rob banks - its where the money is. Its so much easier to shake them down for a hundred million or two Euro than come up with a reliable and fair taxation scheme. There's plenty of others that want a piece of Google's business as well -- why spend big on R&D and facilities when you can get a court to effectively hand over a chunk."
Or maybe, just maybe, Google, even with their army of lawyers advising them, are not staying within the rules in every jurisdiction and need to be slapped down. I doubt any fines which may be imposed will be anything more than a token compared to Googles war chest and daily income and I can guarantee none of the fines will go to any competitors R&D departments. Even to the smallest economies in the EU, a few 100 million credit units is a drop in the ocean, so it's not even enough to be called a "tax grab".
US Navy starts an earthquake to see how its newest carrier withstands combat conditions
Re: That truck video is Awesome!
I wonder why no one else is trying out putting a bit of a ramp at the end instead just a flat deck? Not being an aviation engineer, I don't know, but I'd have thought giving some mechanical assist to the angle of attack would be a good thing, no matter the (air)craft being flung off the end.
UK gains 'adequacy' status on data sharing with EU, but making that stick all depends on how much post-Brexit law diverges
Hyundai takes 80 per cent stake in terrifying Black Mirror robo-hound firm Boston Dynamics
Re: Random
"Step six, realise that all this tech can be replaced by weighted random number generator that tells who won the conflict"
Step 7. Order those people who were "killed" in the simulated war to immediately attend the disintegration chambers.
At least that's how it happened in the Star Trek scenario broadcast about 50 years ago. And I'm pretty sure that was based on an even older SF story in print.
It's 2021 and a printf format string in a wireless network's name can break iPhone Wi-Fi
"I don’t believe it is exploitable,"
Famous last words?
It does sound very unlikely that this might be an actual security vuln, but then so many previous ones have also been "very difficult or impossible" to exploit too. Especially when one exploit is linked to others. Maybe some hacking group or TLA out there is going "Oh crap, that was one of our better ones too!"
Updating in production, like a boss
New York congressman puts forward federal right-to-repair bill
Re: Coming soon
That could get interesting. According to EU and still current UK consumer law, that two year warranty we enjoy also extends to "a reasonable lifetime" whereby the retailer is still responsible to for a repair/replacement/refund proportional to it's age/expected life at the time of failure. I'd expect most devices to have a minimum life of 4-5 years and there will be people buying much closer to the service shutdown who might even still be in the two year warranty period.
The lesson from the above is to always buy your IoT tat from a reputable local* dealer.
[*] where "local" means in your national jurisdiction.
Re: Coming soon
"You won't be able to purchase a device at any price, only lease."
To some extent, that's already true. Anything with s/w or f/w has licenced stuff you don't own in it, and with DRM laws, it may not be repairable, ie fixing bugs, once the manufacturer stops producing updates without replacing the s/w or f/w with open source (if that's even possible)
South Korea’s nuclear research agency breached by North Korea-affiliated cyberattackers, says malware analyst group
Re: Why is North Korea connected to the Internet ?
They have a couple of connections to China by land and a sat link provided by Russia but that may actually be running through leased space on IntelSat.
You could block their allocated IP addresses but that won't stop them doing their stuff proxying through random Chinese and Russian IPs then and then on through other proxies. I can't see either China or Russia taking steps to block a State who attacks "the West" and causes disruption, just so long as the Norks don't do it to their gateway hosts (or at least not enough to piss them off.
Mayflower, the AI ship sent to sail from the UK to the US with no humans, made it three days before breaking down
Re: Never learn ...
On the other hand, it's actual people makiing the offers. Doesn't matter what the posted price of the property is, people will only pay what they think it's worth. Prices already bubble in "in-demand" areas. Just look at the 2nd home and holiday let market in the SW and Wales at the moment. That's having devastating consequences in some small villages where most of the properties are already empty in the winter and the locals have no chance to buy. That may well burst in a couple of years leaving some 2nd homers and holiday letters in negative equity. The smart ones will be selling next year and start the local price crashes.
Re: "With no one onboard to fix it"
On the other hand, it demonstrates the costs of not having a crew on board. Autonomous cargo ships are the long term goal, but unless you have a real person on board to do repairs and maintenance or some way of getting one there through an Atlantic or Pacific storm, then I suspect insurance is going to be high, or the overall rates will climb massively once the first few very expensive losses have to be paid out.
Petition instructs Jeff Bezos to buy, eat world's most famous painting
BOFH: When the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East, only then will the UPS cease to supply uninterrupted voltage
Another option is to just build a brand new A2000. :-)
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