Posts by }{amis}{

Re: Hospital get paid

More to the point who trousered the bund as NHS rules on donations mean that officially its pretty much impossible for a given unit to receive a donation.

My Mother just retired as a dialysis nurse given that this is mostly a end of life support service, they frequently got added to wills ect but the money all goes into a central pot and then usually got spent on art to deteriorate the directors office main hospital in the catchment area.

Her advice is if you want to say thank you to a unit that has helped you or your loved ones is to send things like tins of biscuits that wont be nicked by the central office directly to the address of the ward.

Re: Makes mental note...

They lost a sale to me with the terms release I was considering buying their gear but saw those terms and instead opted for a Sony speaker bar with no internet functionality.

Re: Admit it

IR35 alway was another $%1^ knee jerk law is it any surprise that the implementation is rubbish too?

This is utter incompetence and someone needs to be sacked.

There are many hands over this one that's why nobody ever gets fired from the civil service, the first rule is alway's to spread any responsibility as far as possible so no one person can be pinned for their incompetence.

Re: The one positive HMRC IT trait...

Super +1 this the amount of junk that my bank loads on the login page is obscene.

I hope sometime soon such dependency on JS in secured areas is fingered in a massive GDPR fine to wake up orgs that handle such sensitive data to the security disaster they are creating.

lost in the Bristol Channel

The Bristol channel is well known as a right nasty bit of water it has a lot of nasty tides, sandbars and rocks just below the surface.

All told as long as you have sufficient food and water you are far safer lost in deep water where theirs nothing to hit than something like the Bristol channel.

Re: "there were 112 companies slurping up information"

Nah you're 887 short of an emergency on this side of the pond!

Murder and rape are ALWAYS illegal

I hate to break it to you but there are plenty of countries where as far as the "law" is concerned a wife cannot be raped by her husband and killing one's daughter for dishonouring the family is fair game.

if you want to be depressed at how crap the world is I suggest you look at the www.amnesty.org.uk website.

Re: only wanted to brutally murder my colleagues a couple of times

Per minute some days!

Re: Choices Choices.....

I had a cursory look into that, given my background as a SQL/C developer I realised that that approach has several major downsides for me:

1: I am, not an admin so I would have to spend a bunch of time learning how to do a decent job of running Linux box.

2: Any decent VPN provider comes with robust multi-platform tools so you don't have to spend ages trying to get your phone and desktop to agree.

3: You only have 1 endpoint used by a small user pool, one of the main strengths of using a large VPN provider is the network of endpoints that all of which have enough traffic running through them to allow you to hide in the mass.

4: Encryption of any stripe is Reallllllllly hard to do right and really easy to get badly wrong whilst giving the impression of working to a non-specialist.

All told the £40 or so a year I would save by going it alone does not justify in my view the ease of use and peace of mind I get having this kind of thing done right.

The caveat emptor is that you need to do your homework before picking any encryption provider, its a market saturated with snake oil and there is no such thing as cheap security only cheap illusions.

Re: So are we starting a pool?

Too late the Matrix is a documentary and the machines are just messing with us!

Re: or an un-improvable legacy interface designed a thousand years ago by a goblin

There can be only one!

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Re: they have been even known to sit on their new born offspring

A sad fact about the pork industry is a major cause of piglet fatality is being crushed by their mothers this kind of accident are in no way unique to pandas.

Re: there are lives, and entire nations, waiting to be ruined by gobby know-nothings

It's not What you know its WHO you know that matters to an MP hence why the most important qualification for the title of MP is having the right stripes on your school tye.

It's the fact that they've been called out on it time and time again

Why would they change we have all been eating the same crap happily from the Tabacco, Pharma, Oil........ ect,ect for as long as commerce has existed.

To be honest I wonder if part of the reason why the social messes won't move decisively on the political interference issue is that they know that as soon as a solid government appears in the States the hammer will fall on them.

I don't know why the big tech companies have such a hard time understanding GDPR.

It's no different to the tobacco companies fighting tooth and nail against the truth that they just peddle a slow death to their customers.

Francky I am in two minds which is more damaging to society, deliberately killing people with cancer or permanently screwing up democracy via the social media cesspit.

If the cookies are required for website functionality

But they're not required for session maintenance .net had a cookieless option way back in asp.net v1.0.

Re: A Government that wants carte blanche with personal information

politician [pol-i-tish-uh n]

noun

a person who is active in party politics.

a person who holds a political office.

a power hungry moron.

a incompetent oxygen thief.

a asshole who should have been drowned at birth.

Re: Vision Impared

The scaling code improved massively under windows 8 these days the only stuff that I run into that doesn't scale well is generally old Java stuff.

Re: The Scream Test

Meh as with any scream test the results only seem to count if the screamer is far enough up the greasy pole to be heard......

Re: VPL, erm, I mean VPN

I use Proton VPN though I don't have the technical experience to validate how good their security is its run by the same people who manage Proton mail which has a well-earned reputation for privacy and security.

Re: Offsite scripts GAH!

I would like to offer you this video as a comment.

Thank you very much for that I haven't seen that one before and it made me smile.