Posts by SonOfDilbert 84 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Sep 2018
Barcelona is full of adults on electric scooters, hoverboards, mini skateboards, electric skateboards, electric bicycles, electric uni-wheel things. Adults. Fully-grown adults. Often in suits. Female. Male. All of them. Often on the pavement doing 15kph. Annoying as buggery.
You took the words out of my cynical, embittered mouth. Have a pint (although, popcorn would be more appropriate, methinks).
I have no particular love for Dr Z - in fact, I think he has allowed his creation to become a Frankenstein - but why turn up to your own witch hunt trial where the accusers have pre-judged the outcome and probably know very little about the tech and challenges behind the scenes at Wastebook Towers?
I don't _think_ there's a legal requirement for him to turn up, is there?
According to 123-reg support guy I have bee chatting to, if you can't turn the privacy off then it's because you previously opted-in to free whois privacy. The guy told me that if this is the case then no charge would be made and you would be 'upgrade' for free. He also told me that you have 30 days after a charge to cancel the 'upgrade' and get a refund.
Anyway, I think it's time I transferred away from 123.
This is strange given that MS have claimed that they are now in love with Linux and how much open source they say they contribute and how many patents they have opened up for all to use.
Must be a business decision. Oh, wait, maybe their whole about-face on open source and Linux is also just another business decision...
"In fact so well, I now call it Fragile.
Agile is fine for fluffy end-user stuff and business reporting, not operating systems and really important stuff."
Hooray - someone actually criticising the current state of what most companies think of as Agile. Here, have an upvote!
Ah! Those were the days! Reminds me of the time that the Exchange information store used to stop when the 15GB limit was hit. If some poor schmuck tried to restart the information store service, the whole store somehow became corrupt and had to be restored from backup. Such fond memories of praying that the restore was going to work at 2 in the morning.
<quote>Felt pitched password managers. "For the longest time, I was too prideful to use a password manager," she said. "Then I got locked out of basically every account."</quote>
Honestly, I think that password managers are a horrible single point of failure. Personally, I think a reasonable password along with 2FA and/or biometrics is a better approach than inventing unmemorable passwords all stored in a single place.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that...
...if you buy a bundle, the carrier is extending you credit and so you are covered by the Consumer Credit Act in the UK (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/39/contents). This can actually be quite useful to consumers who experience issues with their goods as it extends additional legal cover to consumers. This act is also the reason why some consumer organisations recommend buying large purchases with a credit card and then paying the balance off ASAP.
Either way, whether bought outright or on credit as part of a bundle, I believe the goods must be fit for purpose and not break before a reasonable time period (whatever that may be).
BTW, (again, correct me if I am wrong, but) this act and the Sale of Goods Act trump any manufacturer, vendor or carrier guarantees, terms or conditions. They are statutory and cannot be negotiated away. They are enshrined in law. They are a beacon of hope in the wilderness of consumer despair. Etc.
Yep.
Years ago, when the carriers started upping their contract lengths to 18 and then 24 months, I put a spreadsheet together to compare network carrier bundle details. I compared how much in total the packages would cost monthly and yearly and compared those total costs against buying a handset outright along with various SIM-only deals. The price difference is significant and since then, I have never bought a bundle of evil again.
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