The BBC does not advertise (other than promoting its own services) nor are the channels funded by the licence fee legally available outside the UK. The adverts you are referring to are presumably courtesy of the crooks who are 'stealing' the content and reselling it in their own wrapper.
A number of the BBC stories amount to publicity-seeking parents violating the privacy of their non-censenting children by allowing them to be named as subjects in, particularly health-related, stories.
Note for parents: Children are not your property. Even if you think that publishing self-serving stories about them in the media or on the web is your prerogative they will eventually grow up and decide that you had no f***ing business so to do.
As this is a European company it is subject to European data protection and privacy legislation. Many countries have given their enforcement agencies quite significant enforcement powers to punish abuse and there is pressure for the penalties to be increased to the point that non-compliance is not going to be viable business model:
You are looking for a job that requires skills and qualifications as a barrier to entry and that does not depend on discretionary spending by the client.
Your choices boil down to 'undertaker' or 'COBOL maintenance'.
C.
Mass release of technical preview software is is showing contempt for users and developers by wasting both sides' time by duplicating effort.
In my experience the best way do it is to initially release to a small sample of users an fix the issues they raise. Then release to a somewhat larger sample and fix the issues they raise, etc. If you are getting more than a handful of duplicated reports then you are ramping up too fast. If you are getting reports in at a rate that exceeds your developers capacity to evaluate them and, if necessary, follow up with the user then you are ramping up too fast.
I don't even see why there are so many other posts about Kermit, laplink, file transfers, PCMCIA, etc etc.
Worst case is that the hard drive has a proprietary connector and you have to solder an adapter on.
Because rule #1 when trying to get data off twenty-year-old hardware is "If it's working, mess with it as little as possible."
In my experience, you can safely ignore this scam. I've had several of these, have ignored them, and the domains in question were still available for anyone to register months later.
Namgge
The UK also has strong personal data protection legislation, and a regulator with teeth (six figure fines are not uncommon). These protections (or obstacles depending on your PoV) will kick in soon as the addresses get linked to individuals (owners, occupiers, etc.).
In my experience, if you are upgrading legacy code that assumed straightforward ascii then utf8 is the way to go. It was invented for the purpose by someone very smart (Ken Thompson). If there were a 'Neatest Hacks of All Time' competition utf8 would be my nomination.
The only real issues I've encountered are the usual ones of comparisons between equivalent characters and defining collating order. These stop being a problem (or more precisely 'your' problem) once you abandon the idea of rolling your own and use a decent utf8 string library.
Based on my experience as an executor, you should pick the best one or two photos from each significant occasion, record the date, location and the people (forename and surname) it shows in a plain text file and trash the rest. Fortunately chronological order is both the easiest and best way of organising such a collection. Don't bother keeping pictures that don't have clearly recognisable people in them because it's only these that will be of any interest in future.
Then, when you die your kids will inherit a nice collection of ca 100 family photos complete with enough information to make them interesting and give them a context.
To all of you who are sued for filesharing, you should ask the following proofs or you are not guilty or no copyright-violation has happened at all:[...]
The claimant does not have to prove anything to you they merely have to persuade a judge that, on the balance of probability, they are more likely to be telling the truth than you.
So, you're an employer who is short of skilled labour. You sign up to a scheme that requires the skilled personnel you do have, let's call her Nellie, to spend a significant fraction of her time training a school-leaver who's been told to sit next to her for three years. After three years the apprentice says 'Thanks for all the help, I've just been offered a nice job with another company.'. Only a C-level executive would think that this is going to work out well.
This sort of scheme has been tried before in the UK. For example, when there was a shortage of physics and maths teachers in schools a decade or so ago. Long story short, it was paying early career physics and maths teachers a bit more that fixed the problem.
Not really. The nice/nasty thing about Apple's walled garden, depending on your point of view, is that if just one user notices and reports your malware doing something it shouldn't Apple can revoke the relevant certificates and it's game over within a matter of hours.
Since one also has to provide proof of identity and pay a subscription to get the certificates in the first place unless the author took a lot of trouble to create a false identity they could be tracked down and prosecuted.
Now, I am sure there are flaws in this system, but it raises the bar to the point that there are easier ways for a hard-working computer-savvy crook to earn a living.
If your business needs a working VPN and your current supplier isn't capable of providing one you must to cut your losses and procure a new solution. And this time get someone who knows what they are doing to run the procurement process.
Once you have the working alternative in place let your lawyers try to recover costs if you must. But my experience, which is that the behaviour you are experiencing is what happens shortly before the supplier goes bust.
Namgge
The author is overselling himself. You haven't scammed a scammer until you've got them to send a bag man from Nigeria to a remote Scottish Island to collect your investment in cash.
Slashdot Mirror
I suspect it's more about a mechanism for stopping this sort of news:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/...
, i.e. the repeated 'news' stories that UK members of parliament are pretty heavy consumers of porn themselves.
I stand corrected.
The BBC does not advertise (other than promoting its own services) nor are the channels funded by the licence fee legally available outside the UK. The adverts you are referring to are presumably courtesy of the crooks who are 'stealing' the content and reselling it in their own wrapper.
A number of the BBC stories amount to publicity-seeking parents violating the privacy of their non-censenting children by allowing them to be named as subjects in, particularly health-related, stories.
Note for parents: Children are not your property. Even if you think that publishing self-serving stories about them in the media or on the web is your prerogative they will eventually grow up and decide that you had no f***ing business so to do.
As this is a European company it is subject to European data protection and privacy legislation. Many countries have given their enforcement agencies quite significant enforcement powers to punish abuse and there is pressure for the penalties to be increased to the point that non-compliance is not going to be viable business model:
http://www.computerweekly.com/...
Namgge
You are looking for a job that requires skills and qualifications as a barrier to entry and that does not depend on discretionary spending by the client. Your choices boil down to 'undertaker' or 'COBOL maintenance'. C.
Mass release of technical preview software is is showing contempt for users and developers by wasting both sides' time by duplicating effort. In my experience the best way do it is to initially release to a small sample of users an fix the issues they raise. Then release to a somewhat larger sample and fix the issues they raise, etc. If you are getting more than a handful of duplicated reports then you are ramping up too fast. If you are getting reports in at a rate that exceeds your developers capacity to evaluate them and, if necessary, follow up with the user then you are ramping up too fast.
Because rule #1 when trying to get data off twenty-year-old hardware is "If it's working, mess with it as little as possible."
Or Kermit as an alternative to Zmodem.
In my experience, you can safely ignore this scam. I've had several of these, have ignored them, and the domains in question were still available for anyone to register months later. Namgge
No, you clearly don't.
Anybody able to afford this upgrade is probably too old to be have eyesight good enough to see it.
The UK also has strong personal data protection legislation, and a regulator with teeth (six figure fines are not uncommon). These protections (or obstacles depending on your PoV) will kick in soon as the addresses get linked to individuals (owners, occupiers, etc.).
In my experience, if you are upgrading legacy code that assumed straightforward ascii then utf8 is the
way to go. It was invented for the purpose by someone very smart (Ken Thompson). If there were a 'Neatest Hacks of All Time' competition utf8 would be my nomination.
The only real issues I've encountered are the usual ones of comparisons between equivalent characters and defining collating order. These stop being a problem (or more precisely 'your' problem) once you abandon the idea of rolling your own and use a decent utf8 string library.
I wonder which politician has been sent one of these notices...
Based on my experience as an executor, you should pick the best one or two photos from each significant occasion, record the date, location and the people (forename and surname) it shows in a plain text file and trash the rest. Fortunately chronological order is both the easiest and best way of organising such a collection. Don't bother keeping pictures that don't have clearly recognisable people in them because it's only these that will be of any interest in future.
Then, when you die your kids will inherit a nice collection of ca 100 family photos complete with enough information to make them interesting and give them a context.
Namgge
And fuck Betamax!
To all of you who are sued for filesharing, you should ask the following proofs or you are not guilty or no copyright-violation has happened at all:[...]
The claimant does not have to prove anything to you they merely have to persuade a judge that, on the balance of probability, they are more likely to be telling the truth than you.
It's not what the words sound like, it's the sentences you use them to make.
So, you're an employer who is short of skilled labour. You sign up to a scheme that requires the skilled personnel you do have, let's call her Nellie, to spend a significant fraction of her time training a school-leaver who's been told to sit next to her for three years. After three years the apprentice says 'Thanks for all the help, I've just been offered a nice job with another company.'. Only a C-level executive would think that this is going to work out well.
This sort of scheme has been tried before in the UK. For example, when there was a shortage of physics and maths teachers in schools a decade or so ago. Long story short, it was paying early career physics and maths teachers a bit more that fixed the problem.
Not really. The nice/nasty thing about Apple's walled garden, depending on your point of view, is that if just one user notices and reports your malware doing something it shouldn't Apple can revoke the relevant certificates and it's game over within a matter of hours.
Since one also has to provide proof of identity and pay a subscription to get the certificates in the first place unless the author took a lot of trouble to create a false identity they could be tracked down and prosecuted.
Now, I am sure there are flaws in this system, but it raises the bar to the point that there are easier ways for a hard-working computer-savvy crook to earn a living.
Namgge.
If your business needs a working VPN and your current supplier isn't capable of providing one you must to cut your losses and procure a new solution. And this time get someone who knows what they are doing to run the procurement process. Once you have the working alternative in place let your lawyers try to recover costs if you must. But my experience, which is that the behaviour you are experiencing is what happens shortly before the supplier goes bust. Namgge
You need to start taking your medication again.
As service-user I've always had the impression that the NHS database was a large Excel workbook and a load of VB macros written by interns.
The author is overselling himself. You haven't scammed a scammer until you've got them to send a bag man from Nigeria to a remote Scottish Island to collect your investment in cash.