Re: Applies where?
No, but it does contain E-numbers banned in many European countries.
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Certainly does seem an odd choice, as I thought HSBC were rather Islam-friendly: HSBC Amanah
Where do they draw the line with these little 'upgrades'?
"I know, it'd be good if there was some sort of graphics chip included"
"Yeah, and a solid drive to permanently store data"
"Oooh, and how about we add a keyboard so you can type stuff on it?"
"We'll need to add a pointing device as well, like a mouse"
"Definitely - and a screen so you can see what you're doing!"
"What about sound, let's add a couple of speakers"
"OK, good idea. We can put it all in a case so it can sit neatly on someone's desk."
Well done, you just invented the PC!
I wonder if they implement rate limiting?
If not, you could theoretically get a gang of 10,000 criminals to try 100 PINs each, all over the country.
Assuming there's more than one user of the app, several of those PINs will be valid over a 2-hour period.
And trying 50 an hour sounds feasible to me.
"maybe your DOB even" - really?
You think that offers MORE security than a random 1-in-a-million chance?
Assuming I don't even know you, I can already narrow your DOB down to about 1 in 30,000.
More realistically, I can assume you'll be in a certain age range (i.e. probably of working age) which improves my chances no end.
If I know you, I have your money.
What was your first pet's name, just out of curiosity?
This reminds me of some maths textbooks in the 90s, which tried far too hard to be politically correct.
To the point where every problem was introduced with the same formula of two common British names and a random Eastern/Asian name thrown in:
"Tom, Jane and Harkandreepashka have two apples each..."
"John, Sarah and Cho-Hu-Fung are stood on the points of an equilateral trianle..."
etc.
Sing along now...
http://youtu.be/TjDAiq2-xeU?t=15s
There was a redback on the toilet seat, When I was there last night.
I didn't see him in the dark, But boy I felt his bite.
I jumped high up into the air, And when I hit the ground.
That crafty redback spider, Wasn't nowhere to be found.
I rushed into the Missus, Told her just where I'd been bit.
She grabbed a cutthroat razor blade, And I nearly took a fit.
I said 'Just forget what's on your mind, And call a doctor please.
Cause I've got a feeling that your cure, Is worse than the disease.'
There was a redback on the toilet seat, When I was there last night.
I didn't see him in the dark, But boy I felt his bite.
And now I'm here in hospital, A sad and sorry plight.
And I curse the redback spider, On the toilet seat last night.
I can't lie down, I can't sit up I don't know what to do. And all the nurses think it's funny but that's not my point of view.
I tell you it's embarrassing and that's to say the least, For I'm too sick to eat a bite, While that spider had a feast.
And when I get back home again, I'll tell you what I'll do: I'll make that Redback suffer for the pain I'm going through.
I've had so many needles, that I'm looking like a sieve. I promise you that redback hasn't very long to live.
There was a redback on the toilet seat, When I was there last night.
I didn't see him in the dark, But boy I felt his bite.
And now I'm here in hospital, A sad and sorry plight.
And I curse the redback spider, On the toilet seat last night.
"Fire investigator Jeromy Hicks [...] said: "It went boom""
Wow, 'Jeromy'. That's some valuable insight right there. Until I read your detailed analysis I was most confused by this complex chain of events. But your way with words has helped explain it to me in layman's terms.
Keep up the good work.
Why should companies have to bother actually registering their brands to defend them?
Surely if someone other than Google tried to register .google, it would be sufficient for Google to tell ICANN "erm, 'scuse me but that's our brand name! Don't permit them to register it, cheers."
ICANN surely can't turn round and say "well unless you buy it, we'll let them use it", because trademark/copyright law trumps ICANN's jurisdiction on internet names.
It'd be like Companies House allowing me to set up "The BBC Ltd." unless BBC agreed to register that company name.
So if any marketing bods want to send me their $185k registration fees instead of blowing them on pointless "defensive" registrations, I'll go halves with you.
Irrespective of whether or not The Pirate Bay was 'bad' or 'good', it's a sad day, sat here atop the slipperly slope of censorship.
Sure, sites have been taken down in the past, blacklists have been used to filter the illegal stuff out of our reach, but this is definitely another level.
My predictions for the years to come, if we don't manage to reverse this:
- 'Ordinary' people will become familiar with using proxies, TOR, VPN etc. as part of 'normal' internet usage to circumvent the ISP-level blocks. Kids will show their previously tech-unsavvy parents how to do so and once their use reaches a critical mass, the Govt., Judges and Lobbyists will take note.
- Rather than see the mass avoidance of censorship as a wake-up call that the whack-a-mole censorship can never work for long - if at all - they'll add the proxy servers, VPNs, TOR nodes to their hitlist because they're obviously a BAD THING that enables people to do BAD THINGS.
- ISPs and website owners will be ordered to maintain some sort of net ID scheme, whereby they must attribute every action on the internet to an individual, else they're liable for their customers' actions. They comply because they can't afford not to.
When will parents learn to take responsibilty for educating themselves and subsequently, their offspring?
This guy clearly had no interest in what his daughter was doing and no knowledge of whether she could make purchases on the device he let her use unsupervised.
I'm no Apple fan but I think letting him claim up to $5 million "damages" is unfair on Apple!
He's now had to pay the in-app "idiot tax" and got a bonus parenting wake-up call - call it quits.
"your current location as determined by your IP address"
So, not your location at all then? Yes, oppressive government, I know "IP address" sounds like "my address", but it's REALLY not the same thing. Trust me.
OK, so there's a strong correlation to location but do governments seriously think their net-savvy citizens haven't heard of proxies?!
Hell, most of them probably already run a TOR exit node from their bedroom!
Will someone please educate politicians as to how the internet works as clearly none of them use it.
Without constant supervision there is no way on earth you can prevent a specific individual from accessing the internet.
Fine, cut off service contracts held in their name or at their address, but then what?
Watch them to make sure they don't go to Starbucks?
Ban visiting mates who are known to have internet access?
Oh and why reward them by removing Facebook from their lives? They should be made to do EVERYTHING via Facebook until they're so sick of it, they voluntarily become Luddites.
And I'll bet he didn't have to pay any 'excess baggage' fee, even though he was smuggling the equivalent of two suitcases in that belly of his.
You know you're a little fat when you can't fit into a seat; should definitely have purchased two.
I think a new pricing model should be introduced:
Ticket cost = BC + (CW * S * PPK)
BC = £Basic charge (minimum cost)
CW = Combined weight of body, clothes and all luggage
S = Number of seats required to accommodate you without spillage
PPK = £ per kilogram
This way, fat people will either slim down to get better value, run out of money and starve or better still - stop taking up my personal space with their lardy overspills.
"The council said it will address any weaknesses uncovered during the audit by January 2012"
Why does it always take so long, and why are timescales of that magnitude tolerated?
How about you stop sending out confidential spreadsheets next flippin' week, you lazy fools.
Basically, they got caught messing up and their response was "yeah, we'll sort it next year" - and that's acceptable?
Already happening as far as I can tell.
Google recently "adjusted" their Al Gore Rhythms to push content-scraping sites to the bottom, after the duplicate content had started ranking higher than the original source.
Black Hat SEO is full of posting dodgy links with your competitor's site referenced alongside to put them in a bad light.
Yet to see any of these sinister data-harvesting schemes have the decency to operate on an opt-IN basis.
And yes, I know it's because there would only be a handful of people enrolled, but still...
As for a UniqueId providing anonymity - erm hello, it's *unique* and tied to the movements of an *individual*.
For details of how that strips away any anonymity when coupled with other seemingly harmless data, ask the chaps who released the AOL search logs.