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Yeah, the UK should just man up.

I'm sorry, I differ. 17 million people voted to leave. 16 million voted to remain. There are 64 million people in the UK. 2 major regions voted to remain. This is the best example I have seen thus of the 'Tyranny of the minority', and this is not democracy in action.

Reporter/EU Official: When will you trigger Article 50 already?

UK Government: Mañana

Reporter/EU Official: ¿En Español?

UK Government: Sí, en Español.

Reportero / Oficial de la UE: ¿Cuándo va a desencadenar el artículo 50 ya?

UK Government: Mañana.

Reportero / Oficial de la UE: ¿Mañana?

UK Government: Sí, Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnyaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaa.

Reportero / Oficial de la UE: Ah, sí. Mañana.

Well, not anymore. Laptops, and computers had huge change from the 70's to the early 2000's.

We're going through the same technology change with mobiles now, but that even seems to be tapering off now.

The demise of the Red Squirrel (in the UK) maybe more due the the loss of habitat than than because of the Grey Squirrel. The Grey Squirrel may just be a convenient scapegoat.

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/infd-8c8bhc

This backspace as the back button in web browsers never worked very well for me, and only seemed to work when I was entering something on a webpage. It never bothered me that it didn't work, and I never found it useful, but when it did seem to work, it would destroy a long post. I support the removal, or disabling by default.

Wow,just wow! Here in Scotland, that man's behaviour would be called vexatious.

Vexatious behaviour is not tolerated in the courts here; most of the time.

Brilliant. Thanks for this! I loved OS/2 when I used it briefly, but my computer wasn't powerful enough to run the OS let alone making any dev environment run. IBM should have shipped their Dev environment with OS/2, and then it might have caught on as it then would have had a very low barrier to entry.

Honestly, soak the calls for as long as possible. Always press the button to get connected to someone. Don't answer any of the questions in the survey. Just generally try to waste as much time on the callers end. The "surveys" are not real surveys, but rather a way to try to get to opt in to a sales calls.

I love trying get to the PPI callers to explain to me what bank accounts, insurance, credit cards are, finally saying that I might have had a bank account, or credit card, then try to get them to explain to me what the PPI is. I had a guy on the phone for about 40 minutes one day while I was waiting for the ferry.

The best thing you can do is get connected to a human as quickly as possible, so you can soak the call.

The other day I didn't really have time to take one of these calls, but I pressed 3 to be connected to someone, and left the phone. After about 5 minutes of being on hold, leaving the phone off the hook, I then heard someone going hello for about 2 minutes.

Another tactic I have is to claim some interest, but that I have to call them back as I am changing phone numbers/jobs/houses, or that I don't have time in the next few weeks, but when I find a moment I will call them back. I refuse to give a 'good time to call' because I am so busy, but when I have a moment I will return the call. This is an amusing tactic because most of the they claim they can only make outgoing calls, and that I will have to give them a time. I generally suggest that them must have an incoming phone number for other purposes, so surely they could give me that number. Usually they decline, so then finally I try to get the persons phone number on the other end of the call. They generally say that is their private number number, to which I say that this my private number, so it really would be quite fair for me to contact them on their 'personal' number.

This seriously works, as I only get one call every month or two. I have also gotten a bit of a reputation at work for these types of calls and my co-workers have not end of amusement that I engage with these callers in this way.

Lenny? I just do some mundane task while I am soaking their time.

These calls are using an anti-pattern of most people who are disinterested will hang up, but those who are interested will continue to talk to the person.

Their economic model depends on uninterested parties hanging up as quickly as possible. To disrupt their economics, take their call.

I know things are a bit different in the US and Canadia where the mobile/cell call receiver also pays for minutes. Here in the UK, and the rest of Europe, only the call initiator pays for the call. If you are calling from a land you will pay a higher rate to call a mobile (an 07 number).

In the UK/the rest of the world where everyone has to pay calls by the minute, things maybe a a little different here than in the US of A, and Canadia.

My approach is a little different than to hang-up as quickly as possible, as this is a behaviour that the telephone solictors use to their advantange. In short, I try to soak a call for as long as possible. The best tactic is to be a little bit dumb, but fean interest in whatever the person is calling about. I generally find that getting them to explain each sentance they say about 3 times is about right, before moring on to the next sentance.

Anyway, I answer all calls, and press the button to talk to a human, then try to keep the human on the line for as long as possible.

The cost centre for these automated calls is for a human to talk to me. On at least 4 occasions after being an affible fool for about 20 minutes, without the sales person on the other end, they have said "okay, I get it, you don't want us to call you, and we will put you on our 'do not call list'". At which time they promptly hang up in a huff.

I my numbers, work, cottage/holiday home, mobile, work mobile, and work line now only get about 1 call a month, of which I am more than happy to take, and generally ends with the above result. Previously I used to get 4 or so random unknown calls a day.

I also notice that after calling for a taxi, the number of unwanted calls goes up.

Uhm, if you have been offered 'Stock Options' that means you have invested (sweat) equity, and therefore, I think, that you get to see the books, just as any other 'investor'.

Didn't Austin get rid of Uber and Lyft because of the entrenched/encumband 'taxi' industry and the big finance industry owning and financing taxi 'licenses'?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/cab-medallion-own...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2014/09/08/wish-yo...

Gordon Brown saved what was left of the world economy by bailing out RBS, Lloyds, and BoS, and forced the US to similarly bail out several of the US banks and auto manufacturers.

It could have been a lot worse.

The babyboomers dismantled the banking regulation in the USA and the UK which directly lead to the banking crash of 2008. They have also left us with a massively destabilised geo politics, and these weird problems with Islamic fundamentalism. The babyboomers exported all of our manufacturing jobs to China, so they could buy cheap goods from Walmart.

The babyboomers did not start running things until the 1980's, and they are definitely not responsible for very many social services, but I would agree that they did help facilitate a more tolerant view of minorities, and that is something to be commended, but that doesn't negate the their overarching negative impact on just about every other social program: housing, education, healthcare, immigration, out-of-work benefits, disability benefits. All of these have been massively cutback over "their" tenure, so they could cut taxes for themselves, during their most productive and prosperous years, so they can continue live their extravagant lifestyles.

The babyboomers are a disgrace to what their parents and grandparents did and stood for.

Obamacare is a positive development in the USA, but there have been massive (public) healthcare cuts (in relative terms) in every other country with a modern economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Daiches

All of the social advances happened despite the Babyboomers, and largely because of the 'Greatest Generation.' The Babyboomers have engaged in a systematic reduction in taxes since the 1980's when they took over the economy, and therefore government's abilties to fund things like education. The babyboomers had free and lowcost education across most western countries, yet now most young people now graduating from university now leave with crippling levels of (student) debt.

Our infrastructure is crumbling, our young are getting poorer and poorer education and we are told we can not afford these public services as tax receipts go down. The babyboomers have been at the wheel for the last 30 years, and they have left us a mess to clean up from their greed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10171591/10-Bab...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/who-dest...

https://www.ced.org/blog/entry/are-we-about-to-let-all-of-th...

I blame the baby-boomers and their "It is all mine attitude". The baby-boomers have systematically dismantled all of the social advances since WWI. This is yet another indictment of their greed.

For those who don't know what rkt is, I am presuming that it is the App container runtime: https://coreos.com/rkt/ https://github.com/coreos/rkt

Yes, this. As a "good" client, please help me get a sense of the spend that I will need to budget for, and the time it will take. That is what I am asking for by a "ballpark". This idea maybe totally simple, or able to do with some effort, or very difficult with concerted effort. Please give me a 'rough' estimate. From there we can formulate a more concrete action plan. Maybe that is some consultancy time, or maybe I have to drop this idea. I get that a $1000 or £1000 will help focus the clients mind on whether this is a worth while venture, but please just keep it simple.

Dear IT Consultancy Principle, you just do not get it. I am a business person, and yes, I do need a ballpark estimate. I do not know what I am asking for is 10 minutes of work or 10 years. Please help me narrow down my expectations. Is it 10 days, or 10 weeks, or 10 months? I really do not know. Your company has done some good work for me and I trust your judgement. Please give me a very estimate of what I am asking for is reasonably achievable. If yes, then awesome, let us proceed to the next stage. If no, then please help whittle down my request into something more simple, and easily achievable.

--I am an internal IT and Development Manager. I work with internal clients everyday who do not know what they are asking for is a simple content change, or a major architectural rethink. My internal clients need some help with the /business analysis/ of what they are asking for is a sensible thing. They do not know if a series of pages only accessible to their external client is something simple for us to achieve, or something that will take a decade. They really don't. Their job is to drive things forward for their clients, and my job is to look at what all their requests look like across our company and push forward the things that will help everyone.

Your job as a consultancy is to help us clients determine what is low hanging fruit and what is not. You might have something easy to ship as a client data access system, and it would take you 10 days or 10 weeks. Or it might take you 10 months. Or it might take you 10 years. The company I work for for could probably do A, B, or C, but definitely not D. If it is D, then how can we simplify the requirement? That is your job as a consultant.

Is there a simple and easy to follow guide to running Hurh/Mach in a virtualisation environment? Virtualbox? KVM?

Between in 1 in 7 and 1 in 8 in countries where women do not have any real access to modern healthcare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_death

1 in 20 (~50 in 1000) in the UK until 1940/1950. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1633559/

and lots of interesting reading here: https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1...

Really? Controversial, yes. Do you have any science to back that up?

CPS means something different in the UK, Crown Prosecution Service.

Pre modern medical times, like before the 1930's or so, something like 1 in 10 women died in child birth.

Exe installers in general, and nullsoft and inno in particular create windows installers that are non standard. Please do not use them. Please only make .msi installers. I have to deploy 1000's of apps across our network, and .exe installers cause so much pain. If you are going to have have some sort of .exe installer, please ensure that you document how to run the installer in a quiet way, and how to customise the installation from the commandline.

Yes.

And you are a technical user who probably is responsible and thoughtful about what you do on your computer. Most people are not.

We give our people who have reasonable need Local Admin.

Giving local admin to the non-technical staff who want to download 'free' software (not FLOSS, free as in beer) because they think (at best) that they are saving the company money, but instead infest their computer malware. Most people are totally disinterested in their computing environment, let alone managing it. We standardise on certain packages because there is utility in having common programs from support, training, and administration points of view, but ultimately if there is a good reason to get/use something else, we will do that.

Furthermore, any user with a local admin access can use a Kerberos 'Golden Ticket' leverage attack to gain full domain access across the entire realm.

Are you seriously telling me that you want the teller at your bank to have local admin access to his workstation?

How about the person at the IRS/CRA/HMRC/<you government tax office> that you just called?

Local admin has its place, and certainly the first test is that will the person endanger their system by running dubious programs. The next question is if that person does infect their system, can they clean up the mess themselves?

We went from a situation where we had local admin across our estate where we had at least one virus problem a week to one where I can not remember the last time we had one. Finally, can you really trust a Windows workstation after it has had an infection?

Give everybody in the company local admin rights. This will give all staff the ability to experiment and learn more about technology. Since everyone now has local admin and they can now manage their own computers, you can fire the IT staff who previously managed these workstations.