Re: Not an alterntive
It's an alternative source of news. You can listen to BBC radio and read the news site without a license.
This discussion is not about what pay, it's about ensuring the news can pretend to be independent.
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Something we did fairly regularly when I worked at a hosting provider, you find someone has hot linked to an image off one of your servers and suddenly bandwidth goes up dramatically to a particular site.
Unfortunately that was a professional setting on family friendly web shops so no chance of putting anything rude up, just a new image with the words "image thief" on them usually.
Normally I'd agree that Broadband advertising is a shambles and a load of bollocks (upto..Xmbps???)
But in this case customer signed up for a introductory rate with clearly stated costs after the rate runs out and they act like it's all a surprise?
It's an introductory rate, of course it will go up.
Smacks of idiots who are incapable of taking some personal responsibility.
You really can't just "go to the game" particularly for the bigger clubs they are very strict about who can get in. Want see Liverpool vs Man Utd? Then you had better have been to 5/10/15/20+ other games the previous season to even get a look in at the tickets for that.
I think most peoples biggest bug bear is having to pay both BT and sport full whack for half of your teams games.
How about you both air all games and compete based on punditry/coverage. I know I don't want to hear Michael Owen so would count BT out.
"They still insist that all PCs in the trust are kept on 24/7 as there could be a an update that needs dropping on them urgently,"
That's run slightly contrary to their change control management which takes weeks to approve even a simple change.
There's a very good chance the left and right hand aren't aware of each others existence of course.
I also doubt it takes into account those of us who can be bothered to do the retentions dance, I've never had a problem calling EE, telling them about a deal through Carphone warehouse on their, or even another, network and them matching it via a line rental discount, takes 20 minutes maximum if you're polite about it.
They're usually happy to carry over a previous discount as well, meaning my line rental actually ends up cheaper than the offer I'm giving them as an example.
Because the bad guys are absolutely going to wait for a judge to say that they can access the data.
It's not about having the correct procedures for law abiding citizens to adhere to, it's about collecting vast quantities of personal information with no reason to beyond "it could help".
If this amount of data is accessible to anyone, then it is potentially accessible to the bad guys as well.
On the other hand if the plod are only collecting data relevant to people who are under suspicion then the less huge vault of data becomes much less attractive.
I'm not sure the bottles of water analogy works, to simple.
We've one bunch of people screaming that they took our jobs.
And then another screaming that if EU labour dries up there won't be enough workers.
Always puzzled me as those 2 statements cannot both be correct at the same time.
Not sure I can make the water bottle analogy work.
Is not a small operation, I'm wondering if these people knew full well they were making fraudulent phone calls, or if the bosses have hoodwinked them all into believing they have been contracted by the IRS to make these calls?
Also, how scared are US citizens of the tax man to pay up like this?
There was a good confession on Simon Mayo earlier this week where a lady took her 13 old kid to a comedy show with Sara Pascoe. The lady had told herself that she lets her kids stay up until after 9 anyway to watch TV, so what harm could a comedy show have?
I think she ended up with quite a shock when she realised just how much the TV is filtered, even after 9pm.
Complaining about a text is easy, forward it to 7726 (SPAM).
You'll get a text back asking for the sender number if it wasn't forwarded on.
Used to do this quite a lot, not had to in at least 6 months though, wonder if that's because my number made it to the "don't send it here, he'll bother to forward it on as a complaint" list.
"I recall that one washing machine I owned did exactly that: it would stop the spinning, rotate back and forth a few times, then try anew."
My current samsung (front loader!) eco bubble does that if it finds the load is unbalanced, swishes round a couple of times to try and level it before going hammer and tongs on the spin cycle. A couple of times with a big heavy sheet it's refused to spin.
My grandma still runs a top loading washing machine, so I've always assumed these were the old way, and front loaders are newer and better. I can always remember having a front loader since being a kid.
A quick Google shows that front loaders will clean better, spin faster, use less water, and use less energy. but cost a few quid more.
A case of the US lagging behind?
I've an Alfa 159 2.4 Turbo Diesel engine, with a DPF and EGR. It's 200BHP and returns around 38MPG up and down the A65 every day, so I think your Auris is probably on point, the golfs are clearly doing something they shouldn't to get those results.
Again similar reports on the forums that removing the EGR and DPF can give you much more power and MPG, presumably at the cost of more NOX emissions.
I think the DPF removal is more to do with back pressure, it's basically a huge blockage that has to be overcome to get the exhaust fumes out the back. A lot of people have everything removed, I bought mine second hand with both DPF and EGR removed, but had them both put back on by the garage as DPF is now an MOT requirement and they are cracking down on it.
If you notice the other article they have running where it appears that Apple will only allow people to their press events who get a major hard on for anything fruity based then I'd have to say it's all the more important that El Reg continues their coverage, so we get some alternate views on the propaganda.
Hopefully a fanboi or two may stumble upon the articles and find themselves enlightened.
@AC, thanks for themiddleclasseconomist link, that pretty much hits the nail on the head;
"In 1991, a basis for determining Apple Computer Ltd.’s (subsequently AOE’s)
Irish branch net profit was proposed by Apple and agreed by Irish Revenue.
According to that ruling, the net profit attributable to the AOE branch would be
calculated as 65% of operating expenses up to an annual amount of USD [60-
70] million and 20% of operating expenses in excess of USD [60-70] million. "
From page 9
So if you're a fictitious headquarters with minimal overheads then everything becomes profit, and your profit as calculated by the government is in no way related to your sales.
Each BT engineer seems to follow their own rules. For example I've recently had 2 PSTN lines installed at an office.
The first bloke (in his 40s?) was more than happy to run the cable up from the demarc on the ground floor, up to the 3rd, then across the ceiling tiles on the 3rd to the comms cabinet and fitted the NTE there.
The 2nd bloke (in his 20s) point blank refused to go above head height under any circumstances, he was willing to attach a long cable to the demarc on the ground floor and leave it up to us to run it up the 2nd floor.
Not sure if that's a generational thing?
But there's not a cat in hells chance that giving the housing benefit payments to the other halfs brother would be a good idea, he really could not be trusted to actually give it to the landlord, it would be frittered away on full price dominoes take aways for the family or any other tat he fancied.
I can't say I've heard either of them to be honest, good to know though.
It has however been a long time since I had to clean malware of a desktop, I think last time I did that Spybot and Adaware were top of the bill for removing malware.
But then I work infrastructure, so very little need to see a desktop bar my own. No need to be arrogant about it like no-one in particular however.
Different experience to me, though we have Barclays, Bottom Line have been pursuing us relentlessly to upgrade ePay to the newest version. As far as I can it's exactly the same software with the old cipher suites removed and new ones added, yet they want £2k+ to do the upgrade.
"Eh, I'd think if you're swapping the drives often enough for caddy wear-out to be an issue, then maybe you should have bought better drives to start with?"
My last place bought a bunch of really cheap dell servers, and went so cheap as to not to get hotswap drives and no cable arrms. Within a week we realised we had a whole batch of dodgy disks. That wasn't much fun.
As for the article, " the other drive caddies were placeholder dummy caddies."
As it is for all Dell servers, so you have to buy their drives. Until you've enough dead servers to cannibalise the caddys from.
Whilst FDs online system is nowhere near as complete as HSBCs, it does let you get the basics done. Never understood why they can't just take HSBCs code base and reskin it, but then I guess this little incident may give us a clue why!
Their phone support is 2nd to none however, and you can usually get all the answers you need off the first person you speak to.
More than likely, I've had entire departments of web developers at companies making very good money using pirated Adobe throughout.
I priced up the legit stuff and got laughed out of the owners office.
Yet when someone asked for an installable local copy of the software they created they refused on the grounds it might be pirated.
"more interested in your $2500US "
To be honest I think that £/$2500 is pretty much on the spot between "too much for any muppet to learn the answers and pass" and "What I'm spending won't be offset by increased salary".
Unlike MS where you can just brain dump from exam collection and pay £99 to become an "expert".
"It's like the assholes I meet in tech who run to google search every single solution they need, rather than craft it themselves using only man pages, the first party docs, and the software/hardware itself."
Have you tried the user manuals on most software released as a service? You'll get a perfect guide, screenshot by screenshot, of how to do something, but no context as to why you would need to do it, or how it will affect other areas of the product. The proxy I run at work is a perfect exactly, "here's how to set up a facebook policy, click this click that, click finish". Ok, but what does that mean exactly? What effect will that have on the traffic?
And as much as I'd love to be given the time to try every setting and see how it responds it's not very often I have that much time, usually it needs implementing yesterday. So a decent book (such as the "mastering" series) is an absolute god send, those peoples jobs is to sit there and play with all those lovely settings I can only dream about.
On the other hand a home lab alone simply isn't enough. There's no way I can dream up some of the random shit management decide they need (which they never actually do), so planning out actual projects with business requirements is impossible.
"Typical NPower, took 4months to get a refund on an overpaid direct debit"
Take it up with your bank, not npower, if the amount is incorrect then they'll refund the money immediately and then you can take it up with npower. I've done this on numerous occasions.
From the guarantee;
If an error is made in the payment of your Direct Debit, by the organisation or your bank or building society, you are entitled to a full and immediate refund of the amount paid from your bank or building society
If you receive a refund you are not entitled to, you must pay it back when the organisation asks you to
I seem to recall Dell offered some sort of cloud service not to long back either, they were peddling it to our management team when they fell for bought one of the Dell preconfigured vStart racks and Dells cloud was supposed to be available for us to burst into when we needed.
6 month later we got an email saying the cloudy goodness was no more.
"Being a Fiat, the Ferrari would probably give you the dreaded/annoying flashing odometer CANBus error and you'd have to get a "proxy alignment"."
Had this on my Alfa 159, £30 for MultiECUScan + £15 for a cable, all sorted and the damned odometer stopped flashing at me.
Not sure how far you'll get with something newer though.