Posts by johnfbw 211 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Aug 2015
100W is a fair chunk of power, allowing them to be charged by USB might not be the most useful if you have the charger handy, but if you a DeWalt and everyone on site has a Makita you would be really happy to be able to use your mobile phone's charger!
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I wrote that - then turned to google. DeWalt and Ryobi agree with me!
https://www.xda-developers.com/usb-type-c-power-tools/
Almost every device I buy comes with a cable, I have hundreds of them lying around. As soon as this regulation comes in no-one will be providing a cable that is used in everything else.
Why would metal manufacturers put money in brown envelopes to make 20% extra off every cable, but sell 5 times less?
Presumably you are referring to SEA Rule 17a-4 which says 3-6 years, but only 2 years 'easily accessible' ie good luck after that. MiFID 2 is five year. This only refers to people directly affecting trades.
The FCA rules only required 6 months... (interesting bit of quick research)
Doesn't change the fact the fact that banks do auto purge - often after 3 months. They just don't remove it from that one backup - only accessible with a highly focused legal demand
2 days late? That is nothing, in my old place in SE London it wasn't uncommon to have leaks filling a bucket of water every minute not fixed after weeks. Some of their leaks had trails of lichen over 100m long.
One one behind my house was dug up every month for 2 years.
I worked out that in 12 years there wasn't a single week where there wasn't a leak within 200m of house. Thames Water's response was to just stop updating their leak map (and fix dates on the signs) so it didn't show the leaks
Because there is very few reasons to have gold lying around, virtually none in an office.
It is likely it was received or to be given as a bribe. Very difficult to bribe someone with multiple phones - the value significantly decreases after the first one.
Additionally the gold may have been imported without paying the appropriate import dues.
Most export controls already control final destination expert via intermediaries. Very difficult to control for consumer goods like these where Russia can just go to Currys in India.
Would the US bother to sanction a Chinese company? Depends on that days political climate (and who is lobbying with the most $$$)
I was thinking more bug bounty type affair. "I was trying to get google to pay me for the bug I found" as a defence for hacking google
There is the other one where pentesters are caught and the company denies employing them - though that is more the plot of movies than massively common
Seems a bit off
4G 30kWh for 1TB implies 3kWh for 10GB - a hairdryer running for an hour and a half is about 3kWh
I doubt base stations use either 13amp plugs nor 240V outlets, plus the average is 30kWh - but I guess that includes longer distance transmissions (who might not get full speed) and lots of users
Technically selling assets for zero value - which is presumably what has been done here is an offence and the liquidators should reclaim the assets. This would include member lists, website, and potentially goodwill (though completely abstract)
Deliberately stealing assets is theft
Sadly I have seen too many times where liquidators fees magically happen to be the amount left in the companies bank account and they just say there is nothing left (they get the first slice of the pie)
In the long run it is probably cheaper to change people (or at least the roles they do)
The number of companies I have been in where roles are massively duplicated is unbelievable, in some places roles exist that essentially unwind what someone else has done. A good holistic strategy should prevent this which means good business practices which suggests a solution might already be available.
Even if moving to a standardised solution is more expensive it could be cheaper in the long run due to decreased technical maintenance and increased throughput (and potentially non-IT resource savings)
Often if your processes don't nicely fit a given solution I think either 1) You chose the wrong software 2) Your processes aren't best practice
Highly customising a solution leads to massive heartache and often ends with political arguments and a system that doesn't work. I am a SAP Consultant and the areas I see the heavy customisation also seem to be the ones that argue they are different when they aren't really and have deep seated company issues.
Of course light customisation is almost essential in any business, but if you have to heavily customise there are other issues to look at
It might be controversial - but eventually the only way to do a lot of stuff should be online.
Almost everyone has access to a computer (often through a library).
22% of the UK don't have access to a landline so it more exclusionary to offer a phone number to do things
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