Re: seems odd
Probably Acrylic window panels on the 206 (Jet Ranger) so not as robust as Polycarbonate would be.
Don't know whether Polycarbonate is more prevalent in newer helicopters
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Thursday 21st January 2021 12:41 GMT
Conveyancing
Unless you are dealing with a very small outfit, the conveyancing work is done by non-solicitors (Legal Technicians?).
They have a pile of stuff to work through and once they have responded (i.e. not necessarily answered) to a query then it goes to the bottom of the pile until they have worked through everything else.
You are normally much better dealing with a smaller outfit for house purchases but usually Banks etc. seem to want to use their tame conveyancers rather than your own choice. This means that they screw the costs down, and the service quality declines - which is not what you want with legal services!
I have experienced this myself, with having to send the same paperwork through 3 times to whoever HSBC's chosen conveyancers were on a house purchase, and the same questions being asked again and again. Even to the extent that the purchase almost fell through because of the delays that this introduced....
If I had been able to use my local firm of solicitors then everything would have proceeded smoothly and competently as it had in the past.
Raspberry Pi Foundation moves into microcontrollers with the $4 Pi Pico using homegrown silicon
Indian government slams Facebook over WhatsApp 'privacy' update, wants its own Europe-style opt-out switch
Wednesday 20th January 2021 09:28 GMT
Re: GDPR
No - GDPR was replaced by UK-GDPR on 31/01/2020 which is regulated by the ICO.
UK-GDPR is basically the same as GDPR, although it has changes on National Security/Intelligence Services and Immigration.
(e.g. https://www.cookiebot.com/en/uk-gdpr/)
That's not to say that it couldn't change, and if FaceBook are ignoring GDPR then they will do the same for UK-GDPR of course...
You look for the largest objects in the universe and two come along at once: Astroboffins spot mega radio galaxies dwarfing Milky Way
Bye bye, said Trump admin to Huawei: You give a cheque-ie to our techies, but there's no licence to ply
That's it. It's over. It's really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We're free. We can just leave
UK network Three hikes pay-as-you-go rates by 400% to push punters to buy 'bundles'
What's that you got there, AMD? More Ryzen chips? Yeah, OK, we could do with some of those
Backers of Planet Computers' Astro Slide 5G phone furious after shock specs downgrade
Union warns Openreach that engineers are ready to vote for industrial action over new grading structure
ESA signs on the dotted line for ESPRIT, Europe's Lunar Gateway module
React team observes that running everything on the client can be costly, aims to fix it with Server Components
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Confessions at a Christmas do: 'That time I took down an entire neighbourhood'
Watt's next for batteries? It'll be more of the same, not longer life, because physics and chemistry are hard
And now for something completely different: A lightweight, fast browser that won't slurp your data
Business intelligence vendor MicroStrategy reveals it’s bought a billion bucks of bitcoin
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Sunday 20th December 2020 12:21 GMT
Re: Next up
@I’m not Spartacus
Off-topic, but I am sure that Curly-Wurlys used to have biscuit in them back in the early-ish 1970’s.
I also think that Bob Carolgees and Spit the Dog advertised the removal of the biscuit layer (with the dog upset due to the lack or crumbs with the new version).
Did I imagine this (which is worryingly specific), or is my recollection correct?
This product is terrible. Can you deliver it in 20 years’ time when it becomes popular?
Raspberry Pi to anoint ‘Design Partners’ it will recommend for industrial applications
Ad blocking made Google throw its toys out of the pram – and now even more control is being taken from us
Monday 14th December 2020 11:39 GMT
Re: Misses the point
Until then, how do you support the websites you rely on
I work in Tech and the only sites I rely on are vendors' (Enterprise) tech support ones for work. My clients are already paying license/maintenance fees.
From my perspective (>50 year-old, male) I can't think of any sites that I truly rely upon, but then I appreciate that I may well be an outlier in the demographic here.
(I also appreciate that without advertising, there would not be an El Reg for me to spout my turds of wisdom either - but I don't rely on El Reg either)
BOFH: Switch off the building? Great idea, Boss
Oh, no one knows what goes on behind locked doors... so don't leave your UPS in there
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Robot drills hole on Moon, employs robot arm to clean up mess to bring home
Amazon’s cloudy Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage would buy you your own Mac
Wednesday 2nd December 2020 09:47 GMT
Re: Always do the sums
The actual sums depend on quite a few factors.
You do need to factor in things like Reserved Instance discounts if locking in for a longer period, egress charges (look at the recent University that fell foul of this)
Also bear in mind that you can set non-Production environments to shut down when not in use to save on AWS/Azure etc. instance charges if on a Pay-As-You-Go tariff.
I am surprised at the number of end-clients not doing this!
As if Productivity Score wasn't creepy enough, Microsoft has patented tech for 'meeting quality monitoring devices'
Amazon's ad-hoc Ring, Echo mesh network can mooch off your neighbors' Wi-Fi if needed – and it's opt-out
Wednesday 25th November 2020 09:08 GMT
Re: Let me get it staright
And let's say a young guy next door ....... issues a voice command to search for the latest IED recipes, and no one knows or can prove
You have to have an Amazon Account in order to use your Alexa devices, which will have address and credit card details - at least when set up.
It's not as if Alexa is anonymous-use (that's the whole point, surely....)
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