the FCA money-laundering regs require photo ID to prove you're you you have photo ID
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I had a similar experience with a cousin's new printer. In that case it was supposed to be set up via his W10 laptop. Between them, as I eventually worked out, they contrived - repeatably - to set it up on the wrong subnet. Much the same solution - USB cable and, in this case, his ancient Dell running Linux.
"being conned doesn't mean you deserve to lose your money."
AIUI HP were bidding (or at least Leo was bidding) against Larry. When you outbid another would-be buyer you set the price. It looks as if the price he they decided to bid was based on the value that they hoped to gain by integrating into their product line rather than on past sales.
That was a bright idea from long ago in the UK. In order to build an electronics components industry slap a tax on components.
Just components.
Assembled boards etc. were fine so there was less duty paid on the imported components when they were part of an imported item than being imported to be assembled in the UK. At that time any board contained components from all over the world, there was no way any manufacturer could source all its components from any one country let alone the UK. The result was that there was an incentive to offshore assembly. With off-shored assembly there was less home market for component manufacturers.
Question: why did this bright idea not result in a vibrant, cutting edge UK electronic component manufacturing industry?
"The National Audit Office has repeatedly said it could not identify any of GDS's claimed savings with any certainty."
If this is correct, then it begs the question as to how ANY of the financial business cases for any of these projects or initiatives were signed off in the first place
That's an easy one. They're signed off on the basis of what they claim they're going to save. When they fail to make good on their claims it's too late. They can't be unsigned. The real question is, having had a project failed by the NAO, are those who signed it off allowed to sign off more? I'm sure they are - lessons been learned and all that.
It's high time personal data handling was treated similarly to financial services and other professions. Above some minimum combination of volume and sensitivity businesses should be licensed and subject to spot checks. Maybe a requirement for individuals in senior management to be licensed. Unlicensed businesses and their operators fined heavily. The boards of businesses that are wound up or go into Chapter 11 etc. and thereby avoid fines face imprisonment. GDPR goes so far but only catches offenders after complaints. There's a need for enforcement to be pro-active.
Really cutting out the middleman is contracting direct, company to company, without any agent, in-house or not. My experience, probably not everyone's was that, at least where the clients were SMBs.
On a wider scale I wonder if there's scope for a freelancer owned agency. Not so much a group of freelancers doing their own pimping but a regular Ltd Co with the shares spread out between freelancers with the board drawn from the shareholders. The purpose wouldn't be to find work for just the shareholders, it would need a wider resource base, but to ensure that there was at least one agency drawing up proper IR35-resistant contracts and maybe educating clients.
"Two taxation systems.
That is the essential problem.
People are taxed one way, and companies a completely different way"
Not really a problem, just a reflection of different modes of operation.
If you operate a freelancing company you should run it as a company. It's not, or shouldn't be, a conduit for cash straight to the worker's pocket, nor should it be a vehicle for strange financial shenanigans involving loans with peculiar T&Cs or the like. I don't have too much sympathy with those who run into problems with doing the latter. A little sympathy if they were suckered into it by some smart salesman pushing a financial package to make a commission but they should remember if it looks too good to be true it probably is.
If you're an employee of a company that you don't own you'll expect your employee to take incoming cash, pay your salary, employer's NI, put aside cash to pay your holiday, sick pay, [mp]aternal leave and any employer's pension contributions. Also to continue paying your salary if things get a bit slack. A freelancer's company should so just that. In particular the client pays for instant availability - the regular greeting of an agent is "Are you available?". "Available" almost invariably means out of contract and possibly having been so for some considerable time. Providing that availability is an overhead for the the business.
Envious of freelancers? If you think you can hack it, including providing the availability, join in. If you can't, keep quiet, the freelancers are doing things differently to the way you choose to do them.
he left to go contracting because his "developer" job consisted of nothing but interviewing people.
It depends on who he was interviewing. If you mean interviewing new recruits, maybe he was right. If it was interviewing users to find out what was needed then maybe he needs to widen his view of development.
"Define economy. EU has exclusive (in)competence in a lot of political and economic areas, not all of which serve UK economic interests."
The EU isn't them, it's us, or at least has been for a few decades. As long as we've been in the EU we've been in the decision making process.
"Brexit just means having UK hands on those levers, and less money flowing to the EU to bankroll EUrocrat's lifestyles"
Brexit means taking our hands off those levers. The impact of that depends on the role the EU continues to play as a suppler and customer. There are a couple of alternative outcomes after the transition period (if any). One is that they don't in which case you'd better hope those unicorns come galloping over the horizon otherwise a good deal of the economy is goingto go the same way as Honda and Scunthorpe steel works. The other is that they continue to be a significant part of the economy in which case you might then start wondering just why it was that we took our hands off those levers.
"modifications to /proc and its kids won't hang around when the system is rebooted."
Just add a line to an init script to make the mod.
"I would guess that ... the device that is going to crash... is the network route"
That's the worry. Are proprietary routers going to get firmware updates?
"Ironically while all the focus was on SCO and Linux (and by extension/FUD, open source in general), it was MS who really came a cropper."
What happened to that one eventually? AFAICS it seems to amount to "let's pull data out of a transaction database into a reporting database and patent the idea".