Posts by wolfetone 4437 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Aug 2011
Or you could just mandate national services like the NHS use a national provider. Have it headed up by GCHQ/NCSC. Let them control it.
This fucking nonsense of getting CEOs who exist to make their company's turn a profit to write some meaningless document is just that - nonsense. It won't force them to do anything that requires spending money and time on making it do the job it's meant to do.
What's to learn here other than they don't target schools/hospitals and they don't do anything in Russia?
I came here for an idea as to how M&S and the Co-Op got smacked by it. Not how people are guessing what this DragonForceBallZ are up to or operating.
Jesus Christ the BBC have more useful information about the hacks than El Reg right now.
They will join a long list of people who have been wronged by governments over the years who will await some sort of compensation. A long, long list.
Put it this way, if the victims of the blood scandal who have died, or are dying waiting for something over what they suffered during the 1970's/1980's, can't get their justice - do the Post Office victims think they'll get seen to sooner?
Has your data fundamentally changed since the Equifax hack?
Remember - you didn't need to be an Equifax customer to have been affected. You only had to have been dealing with a 3rd party who used them for a credit check.
We're all fucked. This M&S hack is the one you hear about, I'm certain there are others that haven't been revealed.
I'd recommend John Lewis for a suit. I'm 6ft 3 and I find the clothes are better at JL than M&S anyway.
Also, as a tall bloke - do you too get fucked off that all the 33 long jeans are always at the bottom of the rack, while the 29" leg trousers are on the top rack?
Surely it should be the other way round!?
It's a learned behaviour.
My lad is 3 years old and we've never put a phone on in front of him to watch anything. We'll put something on the TV for him when we're with him, and we're talking through it.
We'll be in a resturant and a kid the same age as my boy will be just sat their watching some shite on the tablet while the parents are either on their phone or doing something else entirely. No thought or process to what the child is doing or any engagement.
My boy will kick off if he's bored. But there are plenty of things around. Give him a toy car, sheet of paper, or even walk around and it occupies them. Or you could put a digital nanny in front of them and be done with it.
Parenting is fucking hard, especially as we're in a world now both parents have to work to stand still. If you've had a hard week, and a child who's particularly crap today, I don't blame them for opting for the digital nanny.
"HMRC loves brown envelopes."
The postman turned up with a load of letters, and as I walked to them I saw 2 brown envelopes. And I go "Oh no it's a brown envelope!". My 3 year old who loves letters coming through the door, thinks it's all magical, couldn't understand why I'd be so down on a brown envelope. He thought they were special because all the other letters are often in white envelopes.
It then dawned on me that my child could well turn out to be a future HMRC tax man.
They would be the good guys if they had the bottle to follow through with it.
But no, they've said they were never going to do it. So it's the same old shit. Disappointing on one hand but then par of the course with a faceless entity that doesn't give two shits about the world it exists in.
Why is it China's fault that American doctors perscribed patients incredibly strong and highly addictive pain medication, at which point American health insurance policies pulled the ability from these patients to get them in an affordable manner?
Why is it China's fault that America, so hell bent on Crapitalism, built an economy whereby the lowest bidder always wins regardless of the quality of the product?
Why is it China's fault that countless American administrations have thrown the American working people under the bus and left them for dead?
Why is it China's fault that America doesn't see the benefit in education, and would rather their country was full of people just barely able to pull a trigger and pay for bullets rather than be educated enough to see that having gun drills in schools is not ok?
Windows 7 isn't the best overall OS. It's 2nd best. 1st best is XP.
XP you could do you anything on it. Stick a DVD in and let it autorun. Great!
Windows 7? You try to do anything with that and all you get is "Are you sure you wanted to install this?". Every time. Every damn time. Fuck off with the nagging already.
I knew about it before we had our boy and as soon as I saw him start smashing anything containing a button battery I took it off of him. The toys just aren't well made and the batteries can just fly out.
It's the magnets I didn't know about. He has magnetic blocks and I know at least one of the tiles broke open and a magnet fell out. When I saw it I said to him (he's 3) that the tile is broken and we need to throw it away, which he was fine with. 10 minutes later he's come up with this small grey block (must only be 5mm thick and 20mm long, if that) and said "Daddy this came out of the block we need to throw it away". Thought nothing of it at the time other than a bit proud my boy was intelligent enough to spot something like that. Now I'm just full of fear, like I have been with button batteries, that he might swallow one of them or stick it somewhere.
I think the UK has a long history of following the USA in everything it does.
In the long run, the returns on that policy haven't really proved fruitful. It's weakened the UK and caused no end of problems up and down society. Everything from the ever increasing rate of privatisation right through to national security.
It's times like these I really wish Hugh Grant was the Prime Minister, Martine McClutcheon worked at Number 10 with her sizeable arse, and Billy Bob Thornton sexually harrassed her. At least them MAYBE the UK would tell the USA to fuck off to where it came from and not come back.
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