Facebook's policy is to delete all user data including photos after 3 months of an account being deleted.
There was an uproar about not being able to trace a user account just two days ago regarding a revenge porn case in Holland.
Now, how are they going to physically remove data from a cold storage solution? I highly doubt they'll be using R/W discs as removing the data would require wiping the disc and rewriting 50gb of data again.
What happens when a user wants to delete an image permanently. If it's stored on an optical disc are they going to destroy the whole disc and burn it again?
That'll be one hell of a class action lawsuit, I'm almost tempted to buy a Samsung laptop and just leave it plugged in until it's compromised so I can join the compensation gravy train.
I'd be willing to bet upwards of 95% of the US knows nothing of Lush cosmetics, the rest of the world know them very well and, the US isn't *the world*.
They're an upmarket / prestigious cosmetics manufacturer started here in the UK. If you walk past a lush store you can smell it a mile away, they're known for extremely nice / strong smelling, things.
I was born and bred in London before living in Stockholm for a few years, Dusseldorf for 2 etc. I've worked and stayed for extended periods in Amsterdam, Berlin, Budapest, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Valencia, Rome, Florence, New York, Istanbul...(the list goes on)....
Every international city has it's own characteristics but ultimately they all share 2 common things, a unique cultural 'vibe' / identity (the style of the buildings, the food you can eat there etc) and 1 other thing: tourism.
London is unique in the fact that it has everything from every place you could ever imagine. London evolved as a series of smaller villages ("hamlets") that all had their own unique characteristics that slowly grew to merge together. Combine that with the British empire and the way the country was in essence founded over many centuries of immigration and pooling of resources from every corner of the world and you have one big melting pot of culture where you can pretty much see, do, buy, eat anything you want to.
They say if you're bored of London you're bored of life, in 30 years I haven't seen everything and I was born here, so how anyone could ever see everything in a week, 2 weeks, month, year I have no idea, you can't call it shit, you're just in the wrong part of London.
I've lived North, South, East and West and I live in Chiswick as of the past 2 years, down the road from where I was born, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else now. There are parts of London I hated living in (especially East London), but each area is so drastically different from another there's always somewhere that will suit someones personality.
The same applies to every other city I've visited, Amsterdam for example is an awesome city in the centre, go to west Amsterdam though and it's a completely different place, it's a fucking shit hole. Does that make Amsterdam shit? No, it doesn't.
Contrary to what people think we're a very chatty city and we do talk to people (it's true everyone's always in a hurry though), all too often people rely on tour guides and manufactured tourism maps to direct them to the usual crap instead of telling you to go off the beaten track, the best way to see a city this size is by asking someone who's from here.
RBS, HSBC, several other big banks (around 20 that I know of / have worked at) have the same mainframes and suffer the same issues with IBMs incompetency.
Whoever modded my comment flamebait must work for IBM, did I hit a nerve for speaking the truth? I've had to deal with IBM on so many occasions directly at work and time and time again they've let us down.
RBS are building a new system, with IBM ironically, while other banks are trying to move away from them.
I find it quicker to type out an address or any form while tabbing through it than correcting an autocomplete tool that got it wrong or missed a field, guess it depends how quick you type.
I'll put money on it that this is IBM's fault / incompetence again, not the bank.
Extremely dated infrastructure and mainframes that handle all those payments / systems, are all IBM. Combine that with their incompetence and I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.
ISM messages, MQ, COBOL, Java stacks that just make my brain hurt thinking about.
I have a migraine from thinking about that, thank fuck I don't work at HSBC anymore.
If you ever want the worst environment in the world to work in as a programmer, go work for a big bank.
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Facebook's policy is to delete all user data including photos after 3 months of an account being deleted.
There was an uproar about not being able to trace a user account just two days ago regarding a revenge porn case in Holland.
Now, how are they going to physically remove data from a cold storage solution? I highly doubt they'll be using R/W discs as removing the data would require wiping the disc and rewriting 50gb of data again.
What happens when a user wants to delete an image permanently. If it's stored on an optical disc are they going to destroy the whole disc and burn it again?
If I had mod points I'd mod this up.
This thread is epic - http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3228322&highlight=batman&page=1
Unless they're fighting the EU court, they're not exactly renowned for being lenient.
Which I'm thankful for.
That'll be one hell of a class action lawsuit, I'm almost tempted to buy a Samsung laptop and just leave it plugged in until it's compromised so I can join the compensation gravy train.
You've got to be fucking shitting me?
srslah
You can smell the store a mile away, they're not hard to miss :D
Wow, even the most remote / rural coastal islands in the UK have a national mail service and rubbish collection :-/
Huh, you mean this isn't standard in the US? When do you get bin collections?
I'd be willing to bet upwards of 95% of the US knows nothing of Lush cosmetics, the rest of the world know them very well and, the US isn't *the world*.
That they are.
They're an upmarket / prestigious cosmetics manufacturer started here in the UK. If you walk past a lush store you can smell it a mile away, they're known for extremely nice / strong smelling, things.
My other half loves them.
Hmm, time to build a new one. Shall we start a github project?
I was born and bred in London before living in Stockholm for a few years, Dusseldorf for 2 etc. I've worked and stayed for extended periods in Amsterdam, Berlin, Budapest, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Valencia, Rome, Florence, New York, Istanbul...(the list goes on)....
Every international city has it's own characteristics but ultimately they all share 2 common things, a unique cultural 'vibe' / identity (the style of the buildings, the food you can eat there etc) and 1 other thing: tourism.
London is unique in the fact that it has everything from every place you could ever imagine. London evolved as a series of smaller villages ("hamlets") that all had their own unique characteristics that slowly grew to merge together. Combine that with the British empire and the way the country was in essence founded over many centuries of immigration and pooling of resources from every corner of the world and you have one big melting pot of culture where you can pretty much see, do, buy, eat anything you want to.
They say if you're bored of London you're bored of life, in 30 years I haven't seen everything and I was born here, so how anyone could ever see everything in a week, 2 weeks, month, year I have no idea, you can't call it shit, you're just in the wrong part of London.
I've lived North, South, East and West and I live in Chiswick as of the past 2 years, down the road from where I was born, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else now. There are parts of London I hated living in (especially East London), but each area is so drastically different from another there's always somewhere that will suit someones personality.
The same applies to every other city I've visited, Amsterdam for example is an awesome city in the centre, go to west Amsterdam though and it's a completely different place, it's a fucking shit hole. Does that make Amsterdam shit? No, it doesn't.
Contrary to what people think we're a very chatty city and we do talk to people (it's true everyone's always in a hurry though), all too often people rely on tour guides and manufactured tourism maps to direct them to the usual crap instead of telling you to go off the beaten track, the best way to see a city this size is by asking someone who's from here.
RBS, HSBC, several other big banks (around 20 that I know of / have worked at) have the same mainframes and suffer the same issues with IBMs incompetency.
Whoever modded my comment flamebait must work for IBM, did I hit a nerve for speaking the truth? I've had to deal with IBM on so many occasions directly at work and time and time again they've let us down.
RBS are building a new system, with IBM ironically, while other banks are trying to move away from them.
...and slashdot with all its tweaks couldn't implement a decent captcha. gg
n.
I find it quicker to type out an address or any form while tabbing through it than correcting an autocomplete tool that got it wrong or missed a field, guess it depends how quick you type.
Hardly, all my passwords have uppercase, lowercase characters, numbers and special characters.
I sometimes forget one and have to reset it via email, but my email and apple ID passwords are some of the strongest of all of them.
For one off accounts or sites I don't give a shit about I tend to choose trivial passwords, ironically they're usually the ones I forget.
I never store any passwords, card details, I don't use autocomplete etc, my keychain is very, very empty.
Apart from the 6 dozen wifi networks my laptop has connected to.
Safest place for any password is in your head, I even know all my cards off the top of my head.
To be fair I don't even use the keychain for anything other than wifi network passwords.
I'll put money on it that this is IBM's fault / incompetence again, not the bank.
Extremely dated infrastructure and mainframes that handle all those payments / systems, are all IBM. Combine that with their
incompetence and I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.
ISM messages, MQ, COBOL, Java stacks that just make my brain hurt thinking about.
I have a migraine from thinking about that, thank fuck I don't work at HSBC anymore.
If you ever want the worst environment in the world to work in as a programmer, go work for a big bank.
Ouch, serves me right for gloating at the Samsung keyboard exploit.
Ahahahaha. Ahahahahahaha.