* Posts by EvilOldBugger

4 publicly visible posts • joined 10 May 2021

'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary

EvilOldBugger
Unhappy

EU Citizens

There was an advert on TV yesterday, I think Channel Five, saying that EU Citizens needed to register as EU Citizens before June 30th, or they might lose the right to health care etc. So, something that affects a small? percentage of the population can be publicised, but something that affects everybody (including those EU Citizens?) gets no publicity whatsoever.

Only goes to show what really counts here.

Apple to summon staff back to the office in September

EvilOldBugger

Re: If I worked for them

To me it seems fairly obvious - we have proved we can work from home successfully (and avoided getting infections such as flu, colds and covid) so where it applies, we should be allowed to carry on.

Obviously, where the job requires it, we will still need to travel into work. I am currently slowing down ready for retirement, so was only working three half days anyway. even before lockdown, whether I came into work depended on what I was doing. So, if it was simple coding then I did it at home with all the advantages that gave me. If it was user testing, then I would go into work, as the ease of user feedback made that worth while.

Post lockdown, I will probably be spending more time physically at work than my manager but that's fine, we seem to have communicated via email quite successfully. If further clarification was required, then Teams was fine.

If they tried to take that away from me, would that be grounds for unfair or constructive dismissal?

Microsoft to unveil 'what's next for Windows' ... Rounded corners and what else?

EvilOldBugger
Windows

Re: Rounded corners?

How long before Apple sue them for infringing on the rounded corners copyright?

US declares emergency after ransomware shuts oil pipeline that pumps 100 million gallons a day

EvilOldBugger
FAIL

Internet links

It seems like a number of commentards are assuming that the infection came in directly from the Internet, whereas the article actually does not mention the vector (as I recall). It could have been a link on an email, that infected the (probably high level Managers) PC, and was transferred from there to their infrastructure, or any other route.

Still, I agree it is unlikely anything will be done about it until the incident has some major effect on the person involved (by that I mean a sacking for the manager, not the innocent means of transfer), but will that happen? Unfortunately, probably not. The article does mention that 'Colonial Pipeline appears not to have worked towards short recovery time objectives'.