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I've lost track of the number of times I've had to bash heads together over this kind of thing.
Its usually some sales or marketing drone think that adding a <Insert retarded social network here> link to the website will magically add a tone of traffic.
This tends to result in emails like this :
F.F.S. people if its an even vaguely secure area no script that you have not copied locally and validated does what you think it does goes in, is this so hard to understand.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has permitted broadband companies to advertise "hybrid" broadband – which means it "may contain fibre" – as true "fibre broadband".
Errr, correct me if i am wrong but doesn't that mean that by the ASA's reasoning any internet connection is "Fibre" as all backhaul is handled by fibre connections???
Given that most hospitals have a lab on speed dial that can identify pretty much any suspicious substance in a matter of minutes, why did it take 3 months to run the test.
Even if you assume that 1 of those months was just wasted on bureaucratic nonsense that still leaves 2 months A.W.O.L.
Given that its possible to print the open source code of a robust encryption algorithm on a T-shirt I fail to see how this kind of thing can ever work the USA lost this argument in the 90s Wiki : Crypt Wars...
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Am I the only one that finds it depressing that this Youtube: Not the nine o'clock news Constable Savage sketch still rings true is as depressing now as it was in the 70s??
It's all fine it's not like there has been a long history of this kind of legislation being abused by useless busybodies that have no sense of proportion right? PDF Big Brother Watch: How RIPA has been used by local authorities and public bodies
Sorry I got that no 7 figure from the top search hit and didn't really look at the publisher: CNN Money: World's largest economies
A years ago I was working for a small software company that made most of its money peddling web stores to small mom and pop type companies the e-store code was an in-house POS classic asp based monstrosity that every time we got a new customer would be copied from the last.
As you would expect in this scenario it was a total mess of ancient spaghetti code and then one day we woke up to find one of the customers had been hit by an automatic SQL injection script and was now trying to download a bunch of malware to anyone who viewed the site.
This obviously needed a fix, so a proper fix would be to go through every place in the code where a variable was incoming and do a proper validation.
But that was far too expensive for the boss when you take into account we were at that point managing ~30 of these messes all with slightly different code for each customer.
So the "genius" fix the boss came up with was to look at all incoming data from the browser the global.asax file and if it saw a single quote or a semicolon it would stop processing the request.
making it impossible to receive any business from any O'leary or the like.
it is a bit of a 6 and 2 threes though helicopter crashes caused by hardware failure are usually catastrophically caused by either a rotor head or gearbox fail your really lucky if its something that leaves enough of the system working to make a safe autorotation landing.
manned multi-rotors do have the possibility to be safer as each rotor can be an almost totally independent system and unless you are a total looney you won't be flying a manned quadcopter with no redindancy if you look at most of the test manned multi rotors they are using 8 or more props which should allow at least a 2 prop fail more if you are lucky with the location of the breakages.
Is their actually a legitimate use for mass dialing gear other than to extract money from the most vulnerable member's of society, if not then just ban the lot and then use of it would be a criminal offense so the directors of these rackets companies could be held personally responsible.
I'm going to guess this lot came from somewhere that has some form of teaching going on the colorful one in the pic looks like the type they use to teach touch typing in schools like : LessonBoard
My bet would be on a local collage or maby prison had a refit done and somebody skimped on the disposal costs.
We were recently looking at setting up a new satellite office in a tower block as part of the requirement was at least a 500mbs line which we could not get the best the building had installed was up to 100mbs Down and 25mbs up per office. after many frustrating hours on the phone, we got to the bottom of why.
The first reason is money if you get a line installed from outside how is the management company going to get their slice.
The second is that the cable risers in the 1960s tower block were stuffed to capacity, I saw inside there was no way you could sensibly put anything else in there without tearing out ~50 years of cabling mess first.
I don't see how any legislation is going to help with either of these problems that I am willing to bet are repeated across an awful lot of post-war tower blocks across the country.
This is firmly established in UK law at least see Father jailed after four of his children died in Land Rover river crash
I remember all of the gnashing against this case if the Land Rover community at the time but the report of the state of the vehicle involved was damming.
The contracting houses will always win this game, the people they put in on their side of the contract negotiations are better-paid more competent and much better motivated than any civil servant will ever be,
combine that with the tax office using IR35 to chase off any talent they can get their hands on and the government is always fighting a losing battle.
The thing I don't get about this entire mess is why is it not a platform agnostic IP based service stuff 4g if you can get better than 1kbs of bandwidth (see Codec 2) you can have bi-directional voice over ip that can be done over 2g.
Just have a handset that has triple sim support so it can talk to all 3 UK networks at once and just use the strongest available signal.
I mean for pity's sake I had VoIP working happily over the then cutting edge 33.6 kbit/s modem in the 90s
"GCHQ hopes that by getting large industry players on side, consumers will have less to worry about in future"
I wish them luck but the bulk of IOT gear I've had the misfortune pleasure of encountering has come from brands so no-name that I struggled to locate a website for them leave out a patch for their products.
Given that heavyweights like BMW can't even get the basics right a voluntary code of practice is a nonstarter.
"Well, I was never a customer of theirs, and now I certainly won't be."
I work in the finance industry HSBC are A$$holes but they are not that far off par for the dirty industry they are in and are positive pussycats compared the specialist hatchetmen like the Great Vampire Squid.
I suspect that part of the reason why they are struggling to find large sponsors is the risk of the driver going splat live on telly whilst wearing the companies colors.
I say this as I have direct experience of this thinking I helped organize a sponsored row across the Atlantic and HSBC would only allow their logo on the boat if it was removable and applied only within sight of the destination.
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