Posts by IGotOut 3368 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2019
"We had peace and stability around the world when Trump was last in power."
You're not very bright are you?
Can you please tell me in which year was there no war in the world?
Or do you just mean only ones reported on Fox news?
...the half arsed sanctions are not really having much of an effect.
In Moscow, very little has changed, some prices have increased, but the Moscovites, who are the ones in Russia that have actual power, are hardly affected
Many US and European brands still have manufacturing and sales in Russia, many brands that pulled out e.g. McDonald's have just been set up as local companies and rebranded while the others are just shipped in from abroad.
We still buy petrol from Russia, just via the likes of India.
We're happy to supply weapons, as that generates money, but soon as it comes to isolate Russia and possibly lose money that's a no-no.
If we were actually serious,the whole of the EU, USA and others could simply make it illegal to do business with Russia, but nope, money
My old second hand HP laptop is just fine on Win 10. I swapped out the single spinning rust for twin SSD's, added some more second hand RAM and that's it. Boots into Win10 in about 5 seconds, does what I need to do pretty quickly and happily, even when running it's own screen plus two external monitors.
I have no intention to upgrade because a marketing droid says I should.
You probably got down voted (going by this post) for either Xenophobia and / or naivety.
The first part is reasonable in that it's true they can be hacked.
But saying that we should ban imports and trust the UK government, boy that's scary.
For starters, they would be amongst the first allowing remote take over of cars "to stop terrorism and child molesters". You can guarantee the access it will be shared with the usual suspects"
So sure say we should keep an eye on it, but I would trust anyone really.
"With an option to clear the records provided considerable monetary compensation"
So just like now then?
The poor get hit the hardest and the rich just buy their way out?
Laws were, and always will be made for the protection of the rich and powerful. Any protection it provides to the poor is just a side show.
"but has proven distinctly non generous with regard to UK pensioners winter heating allowance."
I'm sick of thie parroting if this My retired parents have far more disposable income than I do and get the allowance (same goes for my aunt).
They get the allowance, but I don't...and I'm not even that bad off.
Why should a retired person with 1/2 million sat in the bank and their mortgage paid of get the allowance, yet a young couple, with 2 kids both on minimum wage, renting some crap hole because its all they can afford get absolutely nothing?
I''ll also.chuck in child allowance into this as well.
As in on a rant, if a government wants to raise money, get rid of fixed rate fines, as they impact the poorest first. Many other countries do it Suddenly that £60 speeding fine by Lord Privileged becomes a £6000 fine. Sheikh Ikillrepoters £100,000
I know US food standards are utter dogshit compared to much of the world, but imagine the toxins the giant conglomerate food industry would put in if they had no regulation.
Now repeat for environmental issues, water (ignore Flint), monetary controls.
You'd have even bigger toxic cesspools of life than you currently do.
is the shift of responsibility.
They suggest YOU monitor your credit status.
YOU have to change all your banking cards and deal with all the shit that goes with it.
YOU have to change all your passwords and logins.
And if anything happens, YOU have to clean up the mess.
And THEY, well, they have to pay to do what they should've been doing for years. Protect their systems.
@dlinacre
Let me put it this way to you.
If all your personal information and money was kept in a bank, but then the bank left the doors wide open, with it all sat on a desk, for anyone to walk in and take would you not be angry at the bank?
Then if the same bank then turns around and says, oh we screwed up, but it's ok, all YOU have to do is constantly check on a regular basis that no one is using that info, and if they do YOU, have to clear up the mess.
Oh as a side issue, we suggest YOU change all your bank cards and passwords.
...so we can finish building what you already gave us a load of money."
"No. And if you don't deliver what we agreed upon in order that you get that money, we'll take you to court for a 109% refund"
Of course, the contracts, like many large project contracts, are probably so badly worded, it will never happen.
I REALLY hope this isn't as it reads, i.e. blame the customer, not the manufacturer. I know nothing about the system, so ..
"It affected customers that hadn't implemented Versa's recommended system hardening and firewall guidelines, and, as a result, had a management port exposed to the internet"
I hope by DEFAULT the management port isn't exposed and they are saying, follow our guides and DON'T expose it, rather than the typical, "yeah it's wide open by default and you really should lock it down"
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