Posts by FrogsAndChips 869 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jan 2015
To be fair, I've seen a positive trend recently, where more CMP will now default to opt-out when you choose to 'Manage my choices'. They will still make it easier for you to 'Accept all', through careful placement and highlighting of the choice buttons, but at least the Reject option is a 1-click process.
"The kilogram is safe"
If you meant that the value of the kilogram is linked to a physical artefact, I've got some news for you: https://www.bipm.org/en/si-base-units/kilogram
"the tech on the other side who listens to what you had to say earlier"
Based on my experience of these calls, the person you're transferred to *NEVER* *EVER* has any clue of who you are, why you're calling or how many of their colleagues you've already talked to. They just restart their script from scratch, starting with your name, DOB, first line of the address (then the rest of the address anyway), etc. Which of course adds another layer of frustration onto the unfortunate caller having to provide that same information over and over again.
The Paris metro paper tickets are the worst I've seen with regards to demagnetization. I once had to replace half a 10-batch of them at a counter, they had just been sitting for a few months in my wallet (not any magnet in there, and nowhere close to a mobile phone) and were completely useless. So unpleasant to be at the gates and waste everyone's time trying them one by one and not finding a working one.
Then it's the most overcharged service in history, as it clearly doesn't take hundreds of billions every year to run it. But we know that only a fraction of taxation goes on running HMRC. And as you say, that's fine. But let's cut the crap of calling us customers. What we are has a name: taxpayers.
Extraterritoriality is manageable. Some countries/cities won't let AirBnB advertise rentals unless the owner has previously obtained an authorization number, and AirBnB will have to report how many nights have been booked in the last period for income tax purposes. They can also be made to collect the visitor tax where applicable.
Let's hope this ends better than in the song.
99 years of war left no room for victors.
There are no more war ministers nor any fighter jets.
Today I'm making my rounds, see the world lying in ruins.
I found a balloon, think of you and let it fly (away).
(translation of the original German lyrics)
"To what point did they modify the deciphered text to reach their goal or manipulate Mary to reach that goal?"
There is little doubt that she had knowledge of the plot and greenlighted it, but yeah, Walsingham played her by letting her believe the comm channel was secure so that she would disclose her involvement.
For some albums that I want to add to my home media player but am too lazy to rip from the CD sitting on my shelves.
For this show that I started watching on Netflix but the last season is now only available on Amazon or Apple TV and I don't want to subscribe to an extra service.
Can they really announce that with a straight face? I've been with Hyperoptic for 5+years, not only has my subscription price not changed (it's actually gone down because I moved 5 months ago and got a 2-year promo price) but they also increased my bandwidth from 20/1 to 50/5 over the years at no charge!
This article is about lawmaking. It's the job of the députés (MPs) and senators to ensure that the laws they pass comply with the constitution and regulations and don't contradict other laws. DGSE and DGSI operate in a grey area , if the law inconveniences them they'll find a way to circumvent it anyway.
I thought there would still be more than that. Must mostly be the freighter versions I can see in airports then.
I once had the chance to travel on the upper deck of one of these. Was on a waitlist for a flight back from SFO, finally got my boarding pass, and it's only when the stewardess directed me to the staircase that I realised I had been upgraded to Business! Quite an experience it was...
I share your pain. I sometimes watch YT on my TV via Roku, and wish there was an adblocker that could rid me of this junk, but apparently even pi-hole can't do anything about that. As a resort I only watch shows which I know won't be interrupted by ads - I can live with 10-20 seconds once at the start of the show.
It should be noted that the auditors pointed out the password age issue as a non-compliance to the DOI's own password policy, not as a general principle. Instead, they recommended it update its 2016 policy based on current NIST guidelines, which no longer mandate periodic password changes (which result in changes from passw0rd1 to passw0rd2) but focus on strong passwords /passphrases and MFA.
Let's agree to disagree.
You clearly need to think outside of the box. WFH has been a win-win for the employees and companies, empowering the former to achieve a better work/personal life balance, while helping the latter towards zero-carbon and sustainability objectives.
If we embrace AI and VR innovations, we'll get the better of both worlds and be at the forefront of the bleeding edge, maximising opportunities in a post-pandemic context driven by multi-talented Gen-Z achievers which will shape our future growth.
Same here, I just change the last letter and it's alright. It would even pass the 'different from the last 10/20 passwords' test. We've moved to HelloForBusiness and device-linked PIN, but the password is still required to access some internal apps so now we have to remember both PIN and password.
So you've created 1 really strong password, and with a bit of training you'll be able to remember the sequence of upper/lowercase and special chars. Now what are you going to do? Use it on every site? Firstly, that's bad practice, secondly you can be sure that lots of sites won't accept it as is for various reasons (too long, not the right special chars, there should be at least 1 even number, penguins are evil...). So you'll have to adapt your already complex password to a particular website, and remember which alteration you made. Rinse, leather, repeat for every website that doesn't like your vanilla password. Eventually, you'll end up with lots of variations of your initial password that you'll have to match to lots of websites, and you may finally realise that it's easier to let a password manager generate a strong and unique password for every site and their specific complexity requirements.
Don't think these users are the only ones who fall for phishing attacks. I'm well-educated about these and generally careful and able to detect them, but I've fell twice this year to company phishing tests, because I was distracted at the time I received them and the message made sense to me so I let my guard down and clicked on the wrong links. In the end, these campaigns are a helpful reminder that no one is infallible, that all it takes is 1 in a million to breach the defences, and that technology alone can't protect you.
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