Posts by peter 45

Re: "They looked for the password on the CD . . ."

Santander...Muppets? Tell me is is not so.

All ID information gone missing a couple of weeks after giving it to them? So when exactly that happened to me and they told me that it had never happened before, they were lying? Who knew?

How about answering the security question of 'whats your address' and to be told I got it wrong. Then finding out they had mixed up my old address and new address. Then being blamed for giving them the wrong information when they were the ones who copied the (correct) address from the utility bill.

Finally finding a piece of paper containing another customers account details and address attached to the back of a bunch of photocopying they gave me.

Santander. Only found in the same sentence with 'Security' and 'Data Protection' with the word 'fuckwits' appended.

Re: Nothing is 'free'

Yep.

'Free' is not the same as 'worthless' or 'without value'. Just how many commentators on here don't realise this is outstanding.

Re: Have they finished the aircraft carriers yet?

"long term military procurement strategy involving rolling and properly scheduled asset renewal to create a steady work programme for design and build"

You are talking about SMART procurement introduced in the MOD in late 1990s / early 2000s.

All good talk, well meaning and sounded wonderfull.......till you came slap bang up against the Financial guys on both sides. Soon as you did, it all disintegrated into contracts, budgets and profits. The Financial Departments, and I assume behind them the Treasury, acted as if SMART procurement didn't exist. From my experience, lots of talk but not a thing changed.

1. So?

2. So?

3. So? Still a machine gut that can kill.

4. Bren Gun conversion. http://norfolktankmuseum.co.uk/bren-l4/

5. Wooosh. Pointing out illogical standards.

Re: How do you enforce a termination penalty against a dead person?

Happened to me.

When my father died I called one of them up to inform them and to ask about cancellation, final payments etc. I fully expected to be told to send in proof (death certificate etc) but the only response I got was to be told that they 'could not speak to anyone except the account holder'.

That pissed me off so much that I just sent a letter (recorded) telling them the account was cancelled and that if they had any debts or needed any more information to send them to me, the executor, and I just cancelled the direct debit.

They kept sending increasingly frantic letters addressed to my father threatening all sorts of dire retribution.....and I just kept responding with the same letter asking them to apply to me as the executor.

After well over 9 months later and probate granted, I got a letter addressed to me (finally!) stating that the phone was now cancelled I was now responsible for all of his debts...including the 9 months for the time phone that had not been cancelled. I simply sent a letter back enclosing all of the correspondence up to that point, with an invitation to take me to court.

Never heard another word.

Re: Episodes

Yep. Eddie looked as if someone's granddad had wandered onto the set by mistake.

Re: Just treat them the same

Doesnt matter. You can still spend 24 hours in the cells before being charged then subject to a restricting police bail bfor an extended period before being brought in front of the magestrates. In the meantime dont be surprised to be stopped regularly in your car and be subject to inspection to see if there is anything they can do you for.

Do not underestimate to power and vindictivness of the police to make your life a misery all perfectlu legally.

Re: I think it *will* be a ghastly mess

"The marginal costs of manual meter reading are less than five quid a year per household. The savings on that don't pay for five hundred quid of smart meters."

Now this is the most important point. Whenever you listen to an asswipe Politician touting the position that 'we are only doing this for YOUR benefit, you know', you will know just how much they are bulshitting.

Re: Many years ago, in a world not far enough away...

I worked for a defence company which had not made a particular item for many years, and we had thought that it had been withdrawn from servicebut we suddenly recieved an order. The costs were going to enormous as the drawigs had to be entire production line had to be started up from scratch. That was until one guy mentioned he had seen a pile of them down an Army Surplus store. They were all bought up and put through a refurb programme and delivered at a fraction of the cost.

We later heard that a storeman had thrown them out because he knew they were obsolete, but the 'system' had not yet cought up so an order for replacements was placed. The stores ended up with the exact ones thrown out.

6 months later we saw them back in the Army Surplus store again.

Re: A waterford crystal clock about the size of 2 packs of playing cards

How about a nice gift pen celebrating our ten years in employment partnership, nicely engraved with the Company's name.

I found the exaxt same pen in a catalogue of corporate gifts. Cost was £2.50 each, including the engraving of your choice.

I returned it, attached to the catalogue with a nice note, to our Company's HR advising them to insert it in an appropriate orifice, assuming of course it was not too tight 'cos the evidence suggested otherwise.

Re: James is a dick...

Too right. I had a similar situation where I had written programmes to automate a large part of my job (the job was not a programmer), but because I had now made it easier, the boss reasoned that anyone could do it and replaced me. I was professional enough to document all of the automation and to try to each my replacement as much as i could in the week handover period, but i could tell that nothing was going in.

Several months later i got a phone call from the boss. The computer had crashed and trashed my programmes. I explained there were automated backups and that the documentation explained how to reinstate. He said that the new person did not have the expertise to do that and wanted me to come in and do it myself.....and that i should do it for free. I told him that my contracting fee was £10,000, paid in advance and was waiting for his cheque.

I later found out he had to hire two more people just to do the job that I was expected to do on my own.

Re: continued Open Source Adoption

They take money out of the local economy in taxes, and then give some of it back by spending it locally.

And this boosts the local economy does it? Wot, better than...for example...by not taking money out of the local economy at all you mean?

Re: colour...

And now its "brown to shit yourself". Because the old colour killed you, but the new colour only loosens your bowels, the change was obviously done as a health and safety improvement. I for one thank them /s

Re: And your point is?

"key fob for their car doesn't need batteries"

Er, yes, if you want to continue pointing you key fob at the car to lock and unlock it, it does.

Re: LAW ABIDING

In a lot of cases 'looking for any excuse possible to take it away'.

Re: But retail banks are clueless about security

THEY phone YOU, withholding Caller ID (which can be spoofed anyway) and ask you "security questions"

The only response to that idiocy is to start by insisting they answer your security questions. Their only response is 'but I cannot give out any information'. I then report them to their fraud department as an attempted pishing. Probaby wasting my time as they still do it.

Re: It's nice to see people are chipping away on the DMCA

'Only in the US.....'. Tosh.

In the UK there are shops on the high street who will unlock your phone for a tenner. I think every one of the high street mobile phone retailers sells unlocked versions of popular phones (possibly not every phone nor every shop: I cannot check everything). I have bought nothing but unlocked phones for 10 years now.

In curtailing personal freedoms, the US is turning into the world leader,

Re: Conversation loop

I won't even go via the states, not even on just a refuel stop.

Every person had to be 'imigrated' (passport inspection, stamp and fingerprint), we were not allowed any further that the single room overlooking the aircraft, and as soon as they reached the last person, we all had to be 'emigrated'. It took four sucking hours.

All this for a sucking refuel stop and the sucking plane had finished refueling within half an hour.

Never...never...never again.

Re: Churnalism

'middle easter'. Is that like saturday evening, half way throught the long easter break weekend?

(Sorry, couldn't help myself)

Re: Good luck with that...

Oops that site has been blocked. Never mind, google pirate proxy, couple of clicks and away we go again. (Other options are available. Results may vary)

Re: Tell me who

"It's a Penal Tracking Device - you are supposed to wear it aroud your ankle."

For a second there i read penile tracking device and had a scary moment wondering where we supposed to wear it.

Re: I wish ...

"open shops now, I wonder who did that first?"

Cough......Sony.......cough

(Not a clue if they did it first, but I just picked an example of a hi-tech retailer selling their own products in their own shops on the high street years before the Apple resurgence on the back of the Ipod....let alone being first with the idea of opening their own stores)

Re: GCHQ isn't the problem

" don't remember what the passphrases are"

So you are guilty of a criminal act.....you just haven't been charged for it yet.

That is how this law works, right?

Re: slow death...

I'm trying to be sad....but I just can't.

Re: Perhaps

"putting the annoying one in a Golf"

Sorry but can you give me a better clue?