Brookson, SJD, Nixon Williams confirm hacking.
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81 posts • joined 29 Oct 2014
Umbrella company Parasol Group confirms cyber attack as 'root cause' of prolonged network outage
140,000-plus drivers sent $60m in compensation checks after Amazon 'stole their tips'
easyJet b do something similar. They waived flight change admin fees, due to Covid, but the new flight will be charged considerably more than if you purchased it directly. They simply add the admin fee they would have charged to the price of the first flight.
I changed two flights to two new ones. At the same time I bought two additional identical flights. The first leg of the changed flights was over £130 more expensive than the additional. easyJet of course deny any wrong doing saying they don't have a published price.
Judging by the way your face lit up, my inbox just got more attractive
Sir Clive Sinclair: Personal computing pioneer missed out on being Britain's Steve Jobs
You want us to make a change? We can do it, but it'll cost you...
Hacking the computer with wirewraps and soldering irons: Just fix the issues as they come up, right?
Another UK government limb that can't get IR35 right: Court service pays taxman £12.5m
Hey, AI software developers, you are taking Unicode into account, right ... right?
Ch-ch-ch-Chia! HDD sales soar to record levels as latest crypto craze sweeps Europe
The world is chaos but my Zoom background is control-freak perfection
Revealed: Perfect timings for creation of exemplary full English breakfast
A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?
VS Code acknowledges its elders: Makefile projects get an official extension – and VIM mode is on the backlog
Copy line to the next? Select, Ctrl-c,ctrl-v.
People are used to what they're used to. Sometimes what they're used to is slower compared to modern applications. But having used vi(m) for years, I doubt it's really more effective than modern editors.
Anyway, as a developer, I spend more time thinking than I do typing.
Really smart syntax checking in the editor. That's what I want.
People actually write novels about DevOps – and an author spoke about his take at Dynatrace's Perform event
Looking for the perfect Valentine's gift? How about a week of retro gaming BBC Microlympics?
Severe bug in Libgcrypt – used by GPG and others – is a whole heap of trouble, prompts patch scramble
Transcribe-my-thoughts app would prevent everyone knowing what I actually said during meetings
Signal boost: Secure chat app is wobbly at the moment. Not surprising after gaining 30m+ users in a week, though
That's it. It's over. It's really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We're free. We can just leave
Exonerated: First subpostmasters cleared of criminal convictions in Post Office Horizon scandal
Brexit border-line issues: Would you want to still be 'testing' software designed to stop Kent becoming a massive lorry park come 31 December?
Astronomers get more than they bargained for, as Mars probe InSight's instruments detects solar eclipses
An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day
Trump's bright idea of kicking out foreign students unless unis resume in-person classes stuns tech, science world
Linux kernel coders propose inclusive terminology coding guidelines, note: 'Arguments about why people should not be offended do not scale'
If the underlying issues prompting this idea were to be resolved, no one would be calling for this change. Therefore, it seems to me to be clearly necessary.
Do Baptists get offended when they visit Geneva and see statues of Calvin who used to drown their ilk? No, because the issues behind that are long resolved.
Barclays Bank appeared to be using the Wayback Machine as a 'CDN' for some Javascript
Infosys denies former head of diversity recruitment's accusations of racial bias and visa fraud
A fête worse than death: After struggling to connect into SAP's SapphireNow online shindig, we were all 'rewarded' with a Sting concert
Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler
ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree
If you don't LARP, you'll cry: Armed fun police swoop to disarm knight-errant spotted patrolling Welsh parkland
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Spacecraft with graphene sails powered by starlight and lasers
UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won't work well, asks for your location, may be illegal
As Brit cyber-spies drop 'whitelist' and 'blacklist', tech boss says: If you’re thinking about getting in touch saying this is political correctness gone mad, don’t bother
Grab a towel and pour yourself a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster because The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is 42
UK contractors planning 'mass exodus' ahead of IR35 tax clampdown – survey
Run away.
I did that twenty years ago. But it's interesting that the same story was around when ir35 was mooted back in 1999/2000.
The difference this time is that the clients have the liability which makes it harder to fight.
The changes to contractors are that those on Ltd companies will need to pay more NI. Including employers out of their fee, as dividends, already under attack, are no longer possible.
So far that puts them on an equal footing with existing umbrella company users.
Where the bite is, is that many contractors work long distances from home for relatively short periods of time.
They will no longer be able to pay the expenses out of pre-tax income, and it is that which will hit clients, as they'll find it much harder to find contractors. This will in turn impact permies, as the clients turn to cheaper options, like folk from India, thus further hastening the demise of British IT experts.
B-but it doesn't get viruses! Not so, Apple fanbois: Mac malware is growing faster than nasties going for Windows
Gee, S/4HANA. Just what I always wanted: Customers are wary of what's in SAP's sack
Customers in 'standoff' with SAP over 2025 end of support for Business Suite: Who'll blink first?
Boffins hand in their homework on Voyager 2's first readings from beyond Solar System
IT contractor has £240k bill torn up after IR35 win against UK taxman
Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching
Order!
Unless the type of the returning parameter explicitly specifies the sort order, the sort order of the returned data is undefined.
A very important basic fact.
I am astonished at the number of people who think that an SQL SELECT will return records in the primary key order. In a relational database, the sort order is undefined.
I don’t know, apathetic bloody chemists, I’ve no sympathy at all.
IR35 blame game: Barclays to halt off-payroll contractors, goes directly to PAYE
You know SAP's doing a great job when a third of German users say they 'have no confidence in it'
I've made a lot of money out of SAP being a bit crap. I see no need for it to change.
Btw, the clue is in the name of the programming language. ABAP means in German "Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor". While this is generally rendered in English as "Advanced Business Application Programming", an alternative would be "Common Report Application Programming". Or CRAP.
What do you do for a living?
I'm a CRAP programmer.
Yes, I think you probably are.