smells like...
"The Government respects the privacy of its citizens,"
Chicken, no
Horse, no
Cow, close
Ah, that's it BULL.
The one next to the green wellies please...
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Possibly worth mentionning to the boss that, if like me, you haven't had a pay rise in the last few years, then compared with the cost of living your salary is already more than 10% reduced.
Only way I'd accept this is to have it in writing that when things recovered I'd get the 10% back with interest and a noticable rise as well. (effectively meaning I'm lending the company 10% of my salary until times improve, which they have to pay back as soon as they can).
Paris, 'cos I don't think she'd be happy with any less than she's getting....
"The safeguards we will want to put in place certainly will. And we may need legislation to test what a solution will look like."
Are we talking safeguards to ensure the gov can't be sued when it looses everyones personal data (again) or safeguards so they can do what the hell they like with it including thinking up more ludicrous ways of taking more money out of our pockets under the guise of 'taxes for the good of the majority'
And, why the hell would they need legislation BEFORE they even think about testing the concept? Sounds to me as if they're already committed to doing it regardless of what anyone else thinks or says.
Nuff said..
Though probably, if the system was for a prom invite, the data had probably been exported to either excel or access and used as a mailing list, which the non-technical beleive to be part of the same system.
That would explain 2 instances of the user data, but not how it got the attendance records, unless the IT bod decided to write an Access routine to query the SIMS database (probably a lot more accurately than SIMS does it) - I seem to recall that the SIMS databases aren't particularly secure.
This sort of piss poor software writing goes on all the time for school applications, no standards are adhered to except 'the writer always uses a capital letter at the start of a variable name' type of standards, and schools have to pay silly sums of money for this sort of crap because there's no other choice. (I know, used to be an IT bod in a school, got out as soon as they tried to give me a final warning for not doing something that was technically impossible with the resources we had).
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Paris, well soft ware Hurr Hurr , ahem.
I'm with Ron on this, mainly for the following reasons...
I work in the computer industry (yes, I have a job and I actually work for my pay) and none of my co-workers has blue-ray yet either. We' (like so many others in this recession hit country) sensible enough to wait until the prices have fallen to that of normal DVDs as we can't justify the extra expense at the moment.
It was the same with VHS to DVD, no-one I knew that was going to buy a format that was twice as expensive as the one they already owned. (and Yes, I do still have a VHS player, I've got 200+ films on VHS and I'm certainly NOT going to pay for them again)
Yes, it'll be nice when we all get access to higher resolution imagery, but that isn't going to happen when existing technology is still working and providing acceptable quality.
However, I can foresee a time in a few years when the current batch of players etc.. have come to the end of their working lives and are needing replacement - THAT is when Blue-Ray will really take off, unfortunately that's probably also the time when the CPI is likely to drop them and find something new.
"Regarding the cat, NYC animal control operatives said that "as long as the cat was not injured in the attack, they will not pursue cruelty charges". Disappointingly, the New York Post is unable to name either the make of the flying laptop or the variety of apples deployed during the domestic. ®"
but what was the cat's name?
Paris since I can see her doing this (except with a trained rat instead of a cat)
but this will be seen a LOT more in the future as companies seek to exclude themselves from any liability. Daft thing is it'd probably cost themless to give him a small reward than to pay the legal team for the letter, and they might even get som positive publicity from it, whereas this will only turn out badly for them.
It'll be interesting to see if the driver retains his job...
I bet this wasn't the only copy HE had of that one either. 10:1 in 6 months time one of his 'relatives' will be offering a similar service to the same companies, and possibly fiddled so they can't prosecute this time.
It's a sad fact of our times that if this sort of service will make people money, they'll do it - whether it's legal or not. Only problem is that the government are making their own and they're passing laws quietly to make theirs legal.
"For while the industry argues the benefits of different OSs punters don't give a toss - they are still buying phones on the basis of good-looking hardware"
Hmmm, Nope. I specifically look for the O/S before I go for a phone/etc.. since I have a toolbox of applications that have taken me a while to put together via various sources, and that I use on a day to day basis.
New (or different) O/S means that I need to find these apps again (and mosylt have to pay for them again) and that's just for the device, there's all the host (PC etc) communications and connectivity software to re-install.
This is why a LOT of businesses stick with a particular flavour of phones (very often Nokia) as it vastly reduces re-training time and cost, and most business people know how to fly a Nokia phone.
Admittedly this decision might mean that you don't have the newest features or the flashiest interface but at least it's not confusing the users all the time with changes - this means everyone wins. Individuals however can make their own choices.
using a data cable/InfraRed/Bluetooth and synchronising it with your PC? It's a system that's been around for years and works very well with little or no errors.
Is this just change for change sake, or people just trying to be trendy and doing it 'through the internet'.
As an aside, I suggested this to Orange about 7 years ago and never even got a reply, sure wish I'd kept a copy of that email.....
"Anyone who can read TechNet articles can get WSUS running in an afternoon."
Well, they might be able to if ...
a) they had a machine to put it on (this was a 'lowest quote' system)
b) the managers allowed them the afternoon to do it
c) they didn't think they'd be sacked for doing something that wasn't approved by the IT Policy Direction Committee. (I was nearly had up on that one for changing the background colour on my PC)
All in all, don't blame the Techs, sounds like they've got enough to deal with as it is.
could you get them to reject anonymous calls, whenever we've phoned up to complain about all these call centres that phone at all times (OK mostly during mealtimes) we've always been told "NOTHING WE CAN DO" from BT, the same BT that allows Indian call centres to reverse the charges without telling you after you've been trying to figure out what they want for more than 2 minutes.
/Rant
"A spokesman for BERR said the government had not yet received the EU's new letter. "Should we receive such correspondence it will of course receive our full attention," he said."
... that the government will 'lose' the letter (if they haven't already) - hell, losing things is the only thing this government seems to be any good at.
Paris 'cos - well - obvious innit.
... that they will finally start to fit new homes with a low voltage ring main? Does anyone know what standards they'll be using? (are there any standards yet??)
Seems like a VERY good idea (easy to separate subnets by room etc..) and pretty secure, how will the PC transmit the data back to the network though? (lots of questions to be answered)
Imagine you're whole home running on 12V - make it easy for battery backup.
Another example of how the american system thinks it owns the world. I think the only reason this has happened is that the judge/senator/politician in question thought he'd make a quick buck and ended up losing heavily - hell, he probably complained and tried to get his money back which they would naturally refuse. I'd love to see his browsing history and prove this.
It's the old proverb, he who complains loudest has something to hide.
One question, can I seize the Kentucky state website because it can be accessed in my village, and it causes offence to me?