DTBYO
Days to buy your own. A new and useful metric for renting anything, cloudy or not.
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I thought that as far as Macs were concerned supporting the box itself actually is the cost of the box - if anything goes wrong you're supposed to get another.
More seriously, if you're concerned about the security and monitoring of a box do those concerns really go away for one that's connected to your network but not within your physical reach? As to patching this is entirely out of your control and you have to rely on the third party and this particular option, AIUI, is specifically not on the current OS version.
"who do you think will end up paying, Amazon customers or Amazon shareholders?"
In the first case who do you think the customers will blame, Amazon or government?
In the second, how many Amazon shareholders vote in French elections?
It's taken me a good while to see the parallel with life in N Ireland. On the one hand there was a terrorist campaign which could kill you but on the other you had to get on with life. So there were rules and the bulk of the population got along with them, the exceptions mostly being those who were part of the problem.
There were considerable differences. For a start the overall risk was lower and the risk distribution was different. A big difference was that it was impossible to be in denial; if your regular pub was a smoking ruin you could see it was a smoking ruin. You can't see a virus so there's scope for Covidiots to tell themselves and those around them that it doesn't exist.
I don't see how we get round the last problem except the Covidiots discovering things the hard way. For the rest of us, however, we do need rules because they are essentially a codification of what the risks of infection are and how to avoid them. The rules will evolve as the mechanisms of infection are better understood and as treatments improve and vaccination is introduced.
It depends very much on the force/Chief Constable. Some have been very unhappy about this from Lockdown 1.0. It stems from the fact that we have a government that doesn't do detail, doesn't think things through. Right from the start policy has been chasing events instead of trying to get in front of them. I see they're now getting round to the idea that contact tracing should lead to testing and that the app should be able to provide payments for those it tells to isolate just like the manual tracing. And - who knows - they might even get round to deciding whether or not vaccination certificates will be issued.
Let's take pharmaceuticals - my daughter works in clinical trials.
You might think that the end product is a medicine. So it is, but before that hits the prescription pads e-prescriptions there's another product - a huge stack of documentation to be submitted for approval. That documentation isn't collated by sorting through bits of paper, it's put together on computers including laptops of people like my daughter.
Those laptops are going to contain personal information about the trial patients - subject to GDPR - and including medical history. I'm not familiar with the regulations regarding that but I assume that it is subject to regulation over and above GDPR. The results of the trial will affect the share price so it's going to be subject to financial regulation as well. Beside all that the fact that it's also company commercial in confidence information is almost a minor consideration. As the trials workers are apt to be based where the patients are and not necessarily in head office there's also a need for secure communications with HO.
Any pharmaceutical business that doesn't think it isn't also an IT business to handle all that with an appropriate degree of securely needs to think again.
"no chance of updating the accounts of all the contacts and businesses that use them."
You don't have to write them individual emails, send out an email to multiple recipients but just remember to put them all in BCC. OK? But we all know what's going to happen, don't we.
One thing to consider - send out the email from the old address, otherwise it'll look like a scam to some recipients. In fact it shod look like a scam to all of them except fellow victims.
" or register a domain and roll your own."
There are service providers who will act as registrars and mail service providers. Having your own domain does not mean having to run your own server.
A business with a gmail, hotmail or whatever address rather than its own domain raises a flag with me (and it's surprising - or maybe not - how many offers of web site design, app design, SEO etc come from allaged businesses without a domain to call their own). A TalkTalk address would have raised an even bigger flag.
"The cost of air freight has been rising all year because, quite obviously, there have been very few planes in the sky."
If there are fewer planes flying to carry passengers then taking the seats out provides more planes to carry freight. Or have the passengers been subsidising the freight?
The Snopes article itself has a couple of issues in left-pond English: 'dinette set' is meaningless - or at least its meaning has to be reverse engineered and 'an English speaker would describe a broken-down car by saying that it “doesn’t run” rather than it “doesn’t go,”'. The latter might be true of an American speaker but but hereabouts "doesn't go" would be the norm.
Tricky stuff, language.
"Often you can only make judgement calls on that based on a company's reputation, and that only tends to change over a scale of years or decades rather than the lifetime of a product."
The reality can depart from reputation PDQ - but only downwards. Change of management or sale of the brand is all that's needed.
"The wiring harnes decided to burn itself out at the main control panel."
No - just no!
I've replaced the main oven element twice and the fan once. It always happens about this time of year and the original element went on Christmas morning - now I keep a spare to hand. But the wiring harness....maybe I should order one now, just in case.
If I were running TikTok I'd be sorely tempted to:
1. Take the money
2. Deliver a barebones software system on the grounds that China's export controls forbid export of anything more
3. Withhold the user data on privacy grounds
4. Start another one next week. How does TikyTaky sound as a new name?
"The very, very vast majority of phone users will not downgrade from 4G to gprs."
They'll also complain when they can't get a signal of any sort. So where do you place the trade-off? Or, to make it personal, any time you find yourself without a signal do you consider it a good trade-off for somebody somewhere else to have 5G?
"It benefits ISPs which get to charge each user for a shared resource."
I may have misunderstood this but the implication of it seems to be that the internet is just there and wouldn't cost users any money without the wicked ISPs charging.
That shared resource cost money to create, costs money to be continually expanded to keep up with demand and costs money to pay people to look after it (and the users) and energy to run. Those costs are also shared and that's why you need to pay your ISP.