Posts by Doctor Syntax 40413 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
"Clearly there is little point complaining as they are not listening so just move to another bank that does listen, where is the problem?"
Finding that other bank that does listen. Most of us are running out of choices.
"We are currently experiencing large volumes of customers accessing our mobile app and internet banking which is leading to some intermittent issues with people accessing our services."
But isn't that what your mobile app and internet banking is for? Or are you still expecting customers to call into the branches that you've shut?
"Presumably it costs so little for them to keep hounding you, on the off-chance that if you haven't bought it"
That doesn't explain car dealers from whom you've just bought a car keeping spamming texts etc. The people who place these adverts don't seem to be thinking at all, they're just addicted to advertising.
"GDPR means MADNESS."
Not really. It's just another set of rules as to how you do business. You have to comply with accounting rules for instance. If you sell food you have to make sure you're not poisoning people. If you sell electrical equipment you have to make sure you're not electrocuting people.
Basically all GDPR says is that you don't abuse the trust people place in you when they provide data for some purpose. If you were planning to do that then the madness lies with you. If you weren't it's stuff you should really have been doing already.
"I really whish I was not living and working as an IT consultant in Europe."
In that lots of businesses weren't treating personal data properly already you should be pleased to be working as an IT consultant in Europe. It should mean more clients.
"How does a European keep their personal or corporate financials on the right side of the law now?"
You've half answered your own question. There are statutory reasons to keep this data. You are permitted to hold data for statutory reasons.
"So in the State of Nevada where the government wrote PCI into law, meaning you are obligated to comply with all provisions of the PCI DSS, it's OK to keep all of that data. Presuming you are subject to GDPR, of course."
Yes, but if the data subject is in the EU then GDPR restricts what you can do with them. You can use them for compliance. You can't sell them on. You can't use them for marketing pestering.
"Do I have a requirement to demand that any access.log records pertaining to my site are restricted?"
Yes, you are the data controller..
"Who is responsible for ensuring that the web server logs are maintained in accordance with GDPR?"
The client in the first place, they will be the data controller..
Your hosting company is processing the data so they have responsibilities but the data controller determines the manner in which data is processed.
In both cases the data controller needs to ensure that this is in the contract.
Like Bill and David I've been on both sides including having a job that covered development and production. My one question of those who need to make frequent changes to the database is "Why?".
Once a database, or at least a line of business database, in in production it's holding data that's practically and legally significant to the business; the work the database does is paying your wages. Making changes has costs both in terms of risks and performance, the latter possibly involving downtime. In code your can patch and re-release. If you damage the database you may not be able to recover lost data and may not have the information to reconstruct what's missing if you have to revert to a backup.
As a developer you really should have a good understanding of the data so that by the time the system goes into production the schema should provide a good representation of the real world. If you are making frequent schema changes you need to stop, review and put the database into the shape it should have been in the first place. If there are frequent changes of requirement of kinds you really can't anticipate (experience comes in useful here) then maybe you need to review your strategy.
"I've always wanted to know the shysters took their cut out of the plaintiffs' hide instead of making the defendants pay the fees and costs."
As this and similar cases involve shareholders suing the company they own it really doesn't matter. They can pay as plaintiffs, they can pay as defendants, it's still their money.
"They all get the same treatment of termination within 20s."
That's not very public spirited of you. If nothing else you could try "Just a moment. There's someone at the door. Can you hang on a moment while I go answer it." and put the phone aside until it starts whining.
"The problem with international calls is that, just as with the internet, the network that received the connection has no way to know if it can trust the network that originated it."
The phone network does, however, have the ability to label the call as international and to display a warning if it's then trying to spoof a number.
"younger people, who have grown up with the ubiquitous use of computers and smartphones, and particularly the advent of Google and Wikipedia, make no effort to retain such things, as they can just go and look them up when needed"
What's "when needed"?
The allusions usually make a point succinctly because they carry all the cultural associations. So, yes, the younglings who don't retain those things can look them up if there's a need to understand the point that someone else made albeit at the cost of taking rather longer to understand what the point.
If the need is to make a point and they don't know such things they don't even know to look them up and therefore they lack the resources we oldsters have.
"To be a (eg) biology teacher, you need at least a degree in the subject, preferably a masters or PhD."
Perhaps I should point out the SWMBO taught biology and has a PhD - in that order and all a long time ago. As at the same time I worked briefly in a biological suppliers that went bust. Apparently I still owe her several pairs of dissecting scissors.
"bringing in leadership experience from other domains obviously has it's own strategic value"
In too many cases these days the leadership experience being brought in seems to be to cut all costs that give the business an ongoing future and cash in on the businesses reputation for as long as it lasts.
"But don't get me started on a rant questioning why MS-Outllook doesn't seem to include the Search index within the saved PST files."
Seamonkey email client (similar to Thunderbird). Just opened the 2009 archive, note the first title, search for one partial word on the complete account: that email and several other matches from other archived years found about as quickly as it took to put them up on screen.
"Now if I need something, I search my inbox - turns out that's quicker that remembering if I put an email from someone I met on my 2001 trip to Scotland in 'save', 'golf', or 'travel' and looking in each"
Archive complete years. Then you don't need to search your complete inbox, just 2001. Which reminds me, must archive 2014. And 15...
"A better metric would be to count how many times Steve Jobs has been in court as compared to Bill Gates. Gates faux geek persona was what let him for years, get away with murder."
Not wishing to take sides between either of them but the second item on that page is Apple suing Microsoft.
"How do you explain the 2 year delay on your CV?"
Depending on who he's explaining it to it could be the high point of his CV.
"Clearly not a danger to anyone and most probably learned from his mistakes so what could he have done to piss off the authorities?"
We know what he's done to piss off the authorities. He's shown up a whole lot of very senior US officials as being completely crap at managing their own security and inconvenienced them into tightening up, possibly to the state they should have been in all the time. And not only that, he could do it while not even being bright enough to avoid being caught.
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