Posts by Pen-y-gors

Re: Damn...

Freedom for Tooting!

Financial details?

Or it could be that they don't actually have them. A lot of businesses use payment processors to handle the sensitive financial bit. They pass the customer over to Paypal, Worldpay or whoever, who handle everything, and send back a simple 'The computer says Yes' (or No).

Although why do they hold date of birth?

Re: Honest question:

Biggest difference is Apple isn’t flogging my data to anybody and everybody who can pay for it l.

Possibly true. But they do charge you several times the value of the product as protection money so that they don't.

Re: Unbelievable

52% in 2016 but falling rapidly, as far as the YouGov polls go.

Actually, I have a theory...

May and her criminal coterie are happy that everything is turning to shit on a daily basis. She did want Brexit, but has realised that it's impossible in any meaningful way. Problem: how to get out of it without ending up dangling from a (metaphorical) lamp-post with a howling mob waving pitchforks around her ankles.

Answer - blame someone else.

There's an interesting court challenge underway at the moment that claims that Art50 should not, constitutionally, have been invoked, and the blatant expenditure fraud by Leave means that the whole referendum should be annulled.

Perfect opportunity for May. "Oh, pooh, blasted judiciary, but the law is the law and must be obeyed. I better withdraw Art 50".

Shit-storm obviously follows, but at least not national bankruptcy, and May may manage to escape in an open boat in the confusion.

Re: No-one will ever... need more than 64TB on a 2.5inch SSD

@Milton

I refer the honourable member to the statement allegedly made by Mr William Gates in 1981 "640K ought to be enough for anybody", often paraphrased as "No-one will ever need more than 640K".

Re: UK's 11 main political parties

Sadly in many Labour held constituencies, they could put up a blind pig as candidate and it would still get elected with more than 50% of the vote

Very much not just Labour. In many Tory seats they have put up a blind pig and they got elected.

Re: and?

Co-operation is good - usually, and when dealing with similarly-minded co-operative peopl.

But...Not telling the US Government about known flaws is surely a sensible security precaution?

If they told the government, then within hours they'd be exploiting it themselves, for who knows what nefarious purposes! So definitely a way to protect their customers until a fix has been sorted.

Sometimes co-operation is not a sensible approach.

Re: The non-Hispanic whites

I usually tick a box at random.

Re: Yes, *UK* Police

Then we can sell off all the prisons as well.

I thought they already had? G4S?

But they will never get rid of prisons - without prisons how can you lock citizens up for years for trivial reasons? (Wandering around naked springs to mind)

But to be positive, we'll need some to incarcerate all our MPs and their friends after Brexit.

Re: Of course wine is good for you

Use it to wash down a large bar of Cadbury's Fruit and Nut choccie (fruit, nuts, cocoa is a vegetable as well, so another 3 of your five) and you're nearly there.

Re: A wavelength of 200 ... metres

Na, Radio 4 Long Wave is 1500m

Re: Overlords

Yep. Lord Vetinari would make a far better City Boss than May...

Re: I have LetsEncrypt...and...

Yes, installing Letsencrypt certs on my main reseller a/cs is a P.o.P, but adjusting the .htaccess redirects to make sure it all works, and finding the odd embedded http reference in 10-year-old code is more of a faff, and when you have dozens of sites to work through, there are other priorities. It's also tricky to explain to a small customer why you're adding an extra £50 to this year's hosting bill for a brochure-ware site.

And sometimes not so easy on shared hosting packages.

I suspect I'll wait until customers complain, then upgrade convert to https, and charge them for the time.

Re: password reuse

@Martin an gof

If you live in rural-ish Wales, the question young people will soon be asking is "What's a bank branch?" - All the banks are shutting down local branches as fast as they can.

There's no thought of the impact, or looking at ways to mitigate the impact. Granted that branches are less important than they used to be - hole in the wall for cash, internet and phone banking etc, and the local manager was stripped of all authority years ago. Now it's usually 'computer says no' if you go in to ask for an overdraft.

But they have their uses - why can't the banks work out some arrangement for a shared branch system so that humans who prefer face-to-face can get service. And what about businesses who need to bank cash? I use the Post Office, but they don't usually have night safes!

Re: Barclays for security?

If you can document it, that sounds like some sort of offence has been committed by Barclays.

@Orv

The whole theory of an InterNET is that it's a network. No node should be connected by a single link. So an area like 'Portsmouth and Southampton' should have a fibre link running northwards, but also another running east towards Brighton and thence to London and probably one running west to connect up to Bristol or Swindon and then back up the M4.

@Snarky AC

So in about ten minutes you could exhaust the entire monthly movie output of Hollywood. That'll be useful, particularly if you can watch it as fast as you can download it.

Believe it or not there are use cases for fast fibre, albeit not for everyone. I have 300/30Mbps FTTP. I recently had to shift a number of 1GB+ MySQL backups between office and various servers. Took minutes. ADSL had taken 7hrs to upload 1GB of videos!

Re: Dear club we just stormed out off in a fit of rage

@Roland6

Problem is that you can't retain the benefits of membership without also accepting the obligations. The four principles? The EU might be willing to do something along those lines, but it wouldn't be a rebate for opt-outs, it would be a massive extra charge to opt-out of e.g. free movement.

No cherry-picking...

Re: Back in my day

Training? Luxury!

Re: Someone's dangled their modifier!

And how big is it now? In standard Reg units please? Bigger or smaller than Drumpf's ego? Bigger or smaller than Drumpf's manservant hands?

'Competition' in utilities is rarely sensible. How is it more efficient, economically, to dig up a street twice to lay two pipes instead of one? How is it more efficient to have two delivery drivers travelling the same route and dropping off at the same houses? The so-called 'competition' in gas, electricity etc is a Tory fantasy, that just complicates things. Competition between wholesale suppliers of leccy is a different thing entirely.

Same with fibre.

Of course, one needs an element of regulation, and I wouldn't like to see 'nationalised' utilities again. But Dŵr Cymru/Welsh Water offer an interesting model - a private company with a monopoly that is a not-for-profit! Of course, we have very high water bills, but that's a combination of them actually doing a lot of work on the infrastructure and them being forced (thanks to a contract signed by the UK government) to supply water to England at 1p per 73 gallons.

Agree - time to get rid of copper. Also should be discounts for crap speeds.

But...when they do provide FTTP, and after the inevitable installation cock-ups are sorted, it works quite well. No extra cost. No issues about 'living near the cabinet'. In my case they even switched the phone to fibre (so the hard-wired extension no longer works, but that's another issue!) 300Mbps is the advertised rate, and that's basically what I get. Rather less when I connect via a VPN though, but 50Mbps is pretty good for most things.