Re: Regional data centres
Pretty sure Murder is a human rights violation.
328 posts • joined 7 Oct 2009
You have had the same experience with Cora that I did - trying to pay in a cheque via the mobile app it gave me an error "Something went wrong" - trying several times over a period of days just kept repeating the error so I turned to Cora who promptly talked me through the instructions again and failed to grasp the error was being generated by them, so there wasn't any way I could re-word it usefully! When I resorted to swearing she actually told me not to, so obviously somebody foresaw the likely results of human interaction with the bloody thing. I gave up and went into branch eventually.
"your bank, et all, ARE NOT going to call you regarding your existing account and then ask you details about that account. They have no reason to do so."
The problem is they bloody well do do this (RBS) - they'll call you and then ask for details to verify it's you: they get upset when you point out that since they called you they need to verify it's them to me before I'll give them any info.
"I wish the smart people working on WiFi would stop obsessing over speed in lab conditions, and put the same energy on reliability instead."
You know I wish they'd do this in a lot of areas - not just Wifi, or even IT - let's make what we have work properly before starting out on the next thing: it's a never-ending life of things that just don't work properly.
We do have Papercut, and in fact over the last 12 months it shows a massive reduction in printing - the majority of printers have printed 0 sheets in that period. Of course the office still being closed may have more to do with this than Papercut! The number of toners/printers/cases of paper that people have sent home though has gone through the roof.
The really puzzling bit is how with two people that do the same job one works quite happily with no home printer at all, and the other "can't function" without one.
The alternative is that they've got so much that they regard it as a chump change investment that might pay dividends, but equally might lose completely. Bit like less well off people buying a lottery ticket; reason says you're not going to win, hence just throwing your money away, but the tiny chance keeps people playing.
Ransomware is currently impacting businesses all across the globe and is getting out of hand," ESET UK cybersecurity expert Jake Moore told The Register.
Is there any evidence that any ransomware attack has been carried out using this technique? 99% of them always see to start with tricking a user into clicking on a link, or opening a document, so surely this is the place to invest time and effort - ie user training. The problem always seems to be that in most places there is little if any sanction against the person who actually caused the problem, so little incentive for users to get it right.
On the other had so many things seemed to be "designed" nowadays to fit the designers view of what is aesthetically pleasing with function not even on the list; quite surprising buildings aren't similar.
Of course the millenium bridge over the Thames was struck by the "make it look good" first and worry about function later after it was built, so maybe that's a single contradiction to your argument.
"I did tell the receptionist but they weren't interested, I did mention Data Protection but she informed me that GPs were exempt."
I'd have a word with the ICO - GPs most certainly are covered by the Act, so you've got a breach, refusal to correct an error and demonstration of insufficient training all in one go here.
I've never thought Apple were that bothered about the Enterprise with MacOS; all the things you take for granted in a Windows Domain are either not available at all, or you have to use Third Party tools to provide them. Seems like Apple offer the absolute minimum that any company will accept and no more.
How does this square with the US CLOUD act? As far as I can see it and GDPR are pretty much directly contradictory - as a US company Amazon would have to follow any requests under the CLOUD act, which could place them (and NHS Scotland) in breach of GDPR. It appears the only way to 100% avoid this is to use an EU headquartered Cloud hosting company?
"Added to that, HR have told us that we have to use up all our accumulated leave by the end of May, or lose it. Since I didn't go anywhere last year I still have most of a year's leave to take, so I'm off for the whole of May. With nowhere to go."
Not sure where you're based, but the UK have put into law that you can carry over holiday for 2 years.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rules-on-carrying-over-annual-leave-to-be-relaxed-to-support-key-industries-during-covid-19
We had an argument with our insurers after a building fire where smoke permeated through the Data Centre, leaving very obvious carbon on all the kit: Our insurers wanted us to have it cleaned and reuse - we pushed back asking for a warranty from them against any future early failures (and consequent losses) - at that point they decided to buy us all new kit. Shysters the lot of them.
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