My interactions (regular but normally uncontentious) with HMRC have generally been very good - they have been efficient and prompt. Our 'discussions' (over double taxation) were resolved quickly to my relief. However to expect them to 'go soft' is only for people living in cloud cuckoo land. For better or worse, they will apply their understanding of the regulations (and laws) to maximise tax revenues - as is their job. Does this half-wit of a chancellor really believe this (unlikely) or is this a frantic attempt to soft-pedal that over which he had no effective influence? I will assume the latter. Given my work, I am under no doubt that I will not fall under IR35 - but if there was any question I am clear on which way they will go.
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Don't worry, IT contractors. New UK chancellor says HMRC will be gentle pushing IR35 rules
The Wristwatch of the Long Now: When your MTBF is two centuries
Re: Beware survival bias
The link to survivor bias is a good one, I think the point here is that it is referring to a device that, while it was not engineered intentionally to be long-lasting, it was built out of the best materials available and with the most precise mechanical engineering at the time of construction. It is also, one assumes a near 'one off' so making statistical predictions becomes difficult.
FCC forced by court to ask the public (again) if they think tearing up net neutrality was a really good idea or not
Ofcom measured UK's 5G radiation and found that, no, it won't give you cancer
This is your last chance, HP. There's no turning back. You take blue poison pill, the story ends. You take the red Xerox pill, you stay in Wonderland
Re: @J. Keith
HP used to outsource much of their laser engine development to Canon (and paid a hefty price for doing so) - the printers outside of the marking engine themselves tended not to be rebadged but homegrown, although as time progressed, lower end (and one assumes eventually higher end) machines were outsourced for design as was much of the software, Having not worked for HP (when it wasstill an integrted ish company although the instruments has departed) for more than 10 years, I could not make a guess as to the current situation.
Assange lawyer: Trump offered WikiLeaker a pardon in exchange for denying Russia hacked Democrats' email
Samsung will be Putin dreaded Kremlin-approved shovelware on its phones, claims Russia
Going Dutch: The Bakker Elkhuizen UltraBoard 950 Wireless... because looks aren't everything
Re: Not cheap
Those were the days. As a PhD student, and skint, I rescued an old teletype from a skip (it took three of us plus two skateboards underneath to get it the two miles home). It then served as a local printer for the house) with the proviso that it could only be run when (a) everyone was swigging beer in the kitchen or (b) everyone else was out.
Auf wiedersehen, pet: UK Deutsche Bank contractors plan to leave rather than take 25% pay cut for IR35 – report
You, FCC, tell us again why cities are only allowed to charge rich telcos $270 to attach 5G tech to utility poles?
Report on AI in UK public sector: Some transparency on how government uses it to govern us would be nice
HPE's orders to expert accountant in Autonomy trial revealed
BOFH: Darn Windows 7. It's totally why we need a £1k graphics card for a business computer
Contractors welcome Lords inquiry into IR35 before tax reforms hit private sector but fear it's 'too little, too late'
LCD pwn System: How to modulate screen brightness to covertly transmit data from an air-gapped computer... slowly
Former Autonomy boss Mike Lynch 'submits himself' for arrest in central London
Twitter says a certain someone tried to discover the phone numbers used by potentially millions of twits
Finally, that cruel dust world Mars proves useful: Helping scientists understand Earth's radio-scrambling plasma
Vulture discovers talons are rubbish for building Lego's International Space Station
Re: "a pain when using the pieces to create something new"
I remember purchasing my youngest son (a prolific Lego builder with an enormous collection of bricks - mainly purchased in job lots from car boot sales at knockdown prices) a book of lego designs for 'interesting things'. He thought it was great and carried on taking some of the designs and constructing increasingly bizarre electromechanical widgets that swung/crawled/shed dangerous lego bits arond his bedroom and the house in general. One of my best purchases (at retail costs) was a 'lego hoover'. It saved many a foot injury and the early introduction to the kids of creative anglo saxon.
BT: UK.gov ruling on Huawei will cost us half a billion pounds over next 5 years
In your face short sellers! Tesla goes two quarters in a row without losing money
It’s not true no one wants .uk domains – just look at all these Bulgarians who signed up to nab expired addresses
Short, generic names free from cybersquatting claims can often be sold for tens or hundreds of times what people ordinarily pay for domains.
I suspect they also have some value for scammers - retain the .uk equivalent of someones .com or .net, pack th site with opages that look the same and offload some nasties on the off chance that they will stick.....
So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance
El Reg tries – and fails – to get its talons on a Brexit tea towel
Re: A perfect demonstration of eccentric British understatement
I prefer the Daily Mash's chearful 'news' - Brexit 50p coins ‘can be sharpened and thrown at the rats trying to steal your last potato’ https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/brexit-50p-coins-can-be-sharpened-and-thrown-at-the-rats-trying-to-steal-your-last-potato-20181029178799
US govt 'told Germany that Chinese spies bug' Huawei 5G kit. It also told the world Iraq had WMDs ready to deploy...
In case you wanna launch your boss into the Sun, good news: Earth's largest solar telescope just checked and, yeah, it's still pretty fiery
It's been one day since Blighty OK'd Huawei for parts of 5G – and US politicians haven't overreacted at all. Wait, what? Surveillance state commies?
UN didn't patch SharePoint, got mega-hacked, covered it up, kept most staff in the dark, finally forced to admit it
Ding-dong. Who's there? Any marketing outfit willing to pay: Not content with giving cops access to doorbell cams, Ring also touts personal info
Accounting expert told judge Autonomy was wrong not to disclose hardware sales
Remember the Clipper chip? NSA's botched backdoor-for-Feds from 1993 still influences today's encryption debates
Boris celebrates taking back control of Brexit Britain's immigration – with unlimited immigration program
Re: Good, good.
This. It happened to two people working with me, one of whose partner (an NHS surgeon) was ordered to leave. The "mistakes" were rectified with much expense. The joke going around was that the Home Office had release trial orders for practice or maybe through incompetence (as believable). The result - with many multinational couples was the establishment of a European R&D and direct sales group (70% of our business is with EU companies). Funnily enough, there were no problems in (a) getting some decent premises at an extremely good cost and (b) no shortage of people who wanted to be part of the first established team.
Take DOS, stir in some Netware, add a bit of Windows and... it's ALIIIIVE!
I remember 20 odd years ago asking why there were no drivers for an HP scanner for HP machines running NT (I was working for HP at the time). "HP's view is that Windows NT is the future of personal operating systems, and the company is determined to keep it there" I was told (and he kept a straight face...)
"The world," recalled Miffy, "looked decidedly rosy, which might have been why my then employer let my 25-year-old neophyte self be the technical lead for our migration to NT4."
Maybe her employers had been celebrating a little to hard and too long which gave them a decidedly rosy view of the ease of network migration? Having said that I well remember that at 25 I was also a stupendously experienced, fantastically capable engineer as well......
This episode of Black Mirror sucks: London cops boast that facial-recog creepycams will be on the streets this year
One-time Brexit Secretary David Davis demands Mike Lynch's extradition to US be halted
Re: Saccolas
If we could get a believable statement on whether she had diplomatic immunity that might help understanding. Reports are all over the shop on this and there appear to be little one can actuall believe rather than pander to your favourite confirmation bias. But I agree that diplomatic immunity - even if occasionally abused is a good thing.