Re: Gartner says something clueful?
To be fair, it does say people should be allowed to fail, in which they are experts.
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Ignore the main story one second.
"Multiple billing aggregators and payment processes - including Visa - raised questions about excess chargebacks and fraudulent behavior over the years as well, we're told. "
The payment processing companies KNEW the scammers was committing fraud, but yet still happily took money from victims and only gave it back when disputed.
I think we know whom the really crooks are.
Your partly right about caller ID but it can very, very easily enforced.
All numbers have to have an underlying bearer number. Some telcos INSIST that your "spoofed" number lies on top of your carrier number block.
E.g. 0800 123 123 must be presented on the companies bearer number e..g 01234 000 - 999.
This is no different on VoIP using asserted ID and source IP.
It would be trivial for telecoms companies to say drop all presentation numbers not on a valid bearer for financial services.
...well I was a trustee of a small local internet cafe by day and drop in youth club at night.
The only people paid were the full day staff and part time youth workers.
Local anti social behaviour dropped 95% in the first year.
We helped get dozens of people get back into work.
We helped teach many elderly use computers.
We turned a known trouble makers life around so much, he became a professional photographer and a qualified youth worker.
Helped lonely people join social groups.
The list goes on.
Where was this, some inner city shit hole?
No, in an affluent, middle class conservative village.
And before you say "Government should do this", just look at all the services Birmingham are now cutting, the very same things charities support.
You want better services? Then pay for them, but people would rather have a £2 a week tax break.
...the other issue with VCRs (and audio cassettes for that matter).
When you bought blank media, there was a levy to help (in theory) go to a fund to compensate for piracy.
So how about MS etc, pay into a fund every time a query is run that uses stolen material?
Yeah thought not
"Martin argues that a ban will only work if governments collaborate on establishing a framework of support for organizations that are attacked and don't have the resources available to recover."
Absolutely no fucking way.
Do you think
A) They will make 100% sure that they are protected as much as possible, with good strong security teams, and a good solid plan for recovery ir
B) they will go "Who cares, the tax payer will bail us out. Investing in all that IT stuff cuts into my stock holding payouts"
As for using the troubles in Northern Island as an example, thats just a piss poor example. If you'd like to explain how a company or person was to take reasonable measures against either Republican or Loyalist terrorists killing you or blowing up your property, other than trying to keep your head nice and low, feel free to explain.
...she was going to a very boring convention, so she got completely off her face.
Apparently sales and marketing bods can't cope with a loved up woman dancing half naked on a table at the coffee stand in the middle of a large convention centre.
Yes she got fired, but she didn't care, she landed a dream job a few months later.
Prompt:
Derogatory article illegal immigrants, ideally followed by story on same page about terrorism or rapist.
Derogatory article about Europe
Derogatory article about trans people.
Derogatory article about Meghan and Article. Any drivel will do.
Article about potholes and labour councils
Badly researched article on latest medical breakthrough
Derogatory article about millennials
Article about latest food fad
Rinse and repeat Daily Mail
"More BS from Vermin
around here, the Vermin network is still using the original cable that was laid in the 1980's by NTL."
My parents were on the old Telewest cabling, yet their entire support team were utterly moronic.
They kept getting drops EXACTLY every 5 minutes. From the get go I said it was a synch issue (could see it in the logs) and it was an upstream fault. I worked in telecom and network for 20 years and had seen this issue plenty of times.
4 engineers to the house, 2 teams in the street, 20 "support" calls, and always it was the same...reboot ..must be a router issue.
Here is the kicker. EVERY SINGLE PERSON we dealt with was too stupid, or badly informed to spot that there were (that I became aware of) about 6 other house with IDENTICAL issues. Guess what, every single one were old Telewest customers.
No idea if they ever fixed it, as all of the affected people left after being with them for 20+ years.
Totally agree.
Had a dispute with Orange broadband (pre EE).
Part of the package should of included free international calls to Orange customers in Europe, however after multiple attempts to get it working by them (typical brain dead support) I got an arrogant rep telling me basically tough
So I cancelled the contract in. They promptly tried to claim the remainder of the contract. I told them nope.
Got a threatening letter from legal team, so counter claimed in small claims for breach of contract
As soon as that hit the legal team, 100% refund,plus costs plus £200 "goodwill".
I guess having to send a very expensive rep from London to the midlands for a case they had no chance of winning wasn't worth their time.
Because those Princesses demand that they have full admin rights, have unrestricted internet access and are allowed to install any software they want, because "Well don't you know who I am"
Combined with the "P4ssw0rd1" syndrome, because anything else is to difficult to remember when the PA isn't about and there you go.
"Some level of disruption was expected throughout such a fundamental transition to a new system,
No.
If you have done your fucking job correctly, their should be no noticeable disruption.
If we can transfer a contact centre, over a year with all it's add ons, handling a 1.5 MILLION calls a month, running 24/7/365 and not drop a single fucking call, then you have no excuse.
What it takes, is a huge amount of prep work, a mountain of installation planning set up and this is the hard bit, testing, testing and more testing. And after testing, checking, checking and even more checking.
These days it seems to be...looks ok. Lets go live and any issues we can sort them as and when we can be bothered.