Posts by F0rdPrefect 141 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jul 2012
"You mean your business didn't see this coming years ago and start migrating to web-based tools?"
Having helped a number of organisations move away from web based tools, they are far from being the answer for everybody, no matter what the salesmen say.
Just like outsourcing.
Yes I got a silly 40% rate on over the tax free sum taken from my pension but I just filled in the appropriate online form and got the extra tax back about 6 weeks later.
Only problem was that the remittance advice with the check suggested I should have given them my bank details to they could pay me electronically, but there was nowhere in the reclaim procedure to do that.
Also, when I did my final VAT return which generated a refund, they sent me a cheque, even though they've been taking my VAT payments by DD for over a decade.
"They really only need to know who you are if they're giving you money. - for that, these days, they require you to have a bank account"
Well HMRC sent me a cheque last month, for a VAT refund, even though they have my bank account details so that they can DD VAT when I owe them, so not always.
ivan5
Having worked in support and distribution at a dealer, for a well known piece of software and received a new version and not been allowed to test it for problems before sending it to customers, I wouldn't blame the software engineers.
It is almost certainly sales and marketing insisting that it needs to be out there NOW so as not to hurt their commissions.
"Let's assume they last about 4 years"
Last one I saw in a hospital was well over 10 years old.
The older they are the longer they last.
And the one that another customer kept going, because some of their customers didn't have access to email, was getting on for 20 years old.
Also, they start from about £60 inc VAT.
"2/ the people that were responsible for patching NHS systems in a timely manner are still in charge..."
Talking to friends on the front line, the problem was that nobody was in charge. Or even available to do the patching.
And if they were available, they were told that "this machine is to busy to be patched at this time" all the time.
But it is the payload that counts, not the fuel on the rocket required to lift the fuel to lift the fuel.
High altitude launch allows using gravity, instead of fighting it, to gather some speed and there is less air resistance to fight against.
Buzz Aldrin laid out the idea for an air launch system, back in the 70s and has been trying to raise interest in it ever since.
low_resolution_foxxes
From the article youl ink to
"The ENS and CEA forensic researchers note that the vulnerabilities used by the French fraud they analyzed have since been fixed"
And only the one method is mentioned in the article.
As for "large technology companies" do you trust them more than the banks?
"Hmm, kind of, but would you buy a door with a lock that worked with any key, or a car that just started when someone got into it?"
I used to have a car with doors like that, a MkII Ford Escort. Could be opened with any Ford key of the era. And the key would start it, same as mine would start other Fords.
"Google need to roll out a voice filter so that these things respond to recognised users and not everyone within earshot. (Or just get rid of the creepy listening crap. God knows I've tried to disable it on my new android phone but it still kept fucking chiming in last time I was using it for navigation....)"
Stop the Google App. Works for me.
@DropBear
"Think about this. You bought the device, you pay for the internet connection and they want to spam you with ads?"
Funnily enough, replace"Google Assistant" with "my PC" and suddenly everything is perfectly normal.
I would not think it normal if "my PC" spammed me with ads.
I never see ads on my PC thanks to uBlock Origin
@dan1980
"But what about in 2 years, when Chrome stops supporting Windows 7 and you can no longer visit certain websites? Sounds far-fetched but I've seen it happen with XP and then Vista. Some work in Firefox but others just don't."
The only websites I've ever seen that didn't work in Firefox used ActiveX or Javascript, hence I didn't want to use them anyway.
Would be happy to be proved wrong on that.
Being in the UK and being a company director, of a very very small company, our wonderful government gave away all of my personal information, including my signature, because with no warning it made all of my filed company documents free to access online from Companies House.
First i knew about it was when HMRC queried an attempt at VAT registration under my name.
Also had 2 credit accounts be set up as me with alternate delivery addresses, but caught those in time to stop anything happening.
Personal security is no longer possible.
Must have training and licence, before you are allowed to buy a drone.
Vendor needs to keep records and if they sell one to someone without a licence, huge fine.
If person caught flying one without licence, huge fine, confiscation and destruction of drone and associated kit.
That should help keep the skies a bit clearer of idiots
Unless you rely on software for work that is not supported under anything other than Windows.
And you have support people running that software under Windows.
In that case any other operating system is a non starter. Well, not for the next 23.5 months - roll on retirement.
Shouldn't that be ONLY 291 vomit-related incidents in a year?
I went up to London 3 for 3 evenings in last 12 months and each time had to leave a carriage because some drunk chundered.
Mind you the train didn't stop for this and I just waited for the next one.
So that would be 291 where someone pulled the emergency leaver.
"Whether an individual voted in 2015 (General) and 2016 (Local) Elections"
Wouldn't that be against the representation of the peoples acts?
Certainly when I used to work elections, at the end of the vote the electoral registers were sealed up and transported to the count, with the boxes and then after the count secured with the voting slips to be placed in secure storage for many years. Access to any of that would require a High Court Order.
Or are they saying that they have the party's tallies from the people at the exit of the polling stations?
If it is the 2nd, many won't give that data, and postal voters just aren't in it.
And my Twitter account isn't in my name and uses an email address not associated with me in any other way.
I can sit all day, or I can walk all day, but standing for more than about 3 minutes gives me very bad backache, which I find just a little distracting from concentrating, on anything.
My productivity would plummet if I were forced to stand.
And I can't see that walking is a good way to type.
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