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> Work starts late because of no fault of mine

Yes, but apparently in Mick's case your name is on the product, and your reputation gets ruined if you don't play ball. A big software company can pay lawyers much longer than you can keep food on the table without pay.

Not sure if you're from the UK but if you're not then you should be aware that the BBC has become a lot more politicised as the government appointed a major donor as the director in 2021 [1] and have previously threatened the company, for example by changing the license fee to starve them of funding[2]. In addition, the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg is not without controversy and accusations of pro-government bias[3].

Unfortunately both sides of the political spectrum now mistrust the BBC's impartiality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sharp_(BBC_chairman) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Kuenssberg#BBC_political...

Glow, Slo-Mo or Substance D?

fancy doing this when they could have simply forced the fat-fingered user into an endless cycle of http redirects, popup adverts, crypto-mining banner ads and finally a "this domain is for sale" parking page..

IT Audit/Governance manager here. This is still a very common preventative/detective control in many businesses even outside of Financial Services, so much so that it is taught as part of many IT governance certifications such as the ISC2 CISSP and ISACA CISA.

Although the provenance of the control is to deter and detect fraud, it also helps to highlight key-person dependencies (where a process cannot run without a specific individual present). On the flip-side, humans are very innovative creatures and you can use this control to identify where someone has found a way to bypass parts of the process (the process time suddenly increases a lot when someone in the team is on their mandatory-vaykay, or the quality suddently drops).

I also see it used in smaller companies by bosses who want to simulate the effects of a person quitting, and how confident the rest of the team are to take over the running of a task.

Whenever I've tried this, the plants rot in the water. What am I missing? Should I be using a filter? boiling the water first?

Exactly. I installed projection systems in classrooms, theatres and lecture spaces for three years and the minimum classroom system would be 3500 lumens for a 'short throw' projector. Standards at universities were a minumum of 5000 lumens for a visible screen image.

If you're planning on being with your partner during the birth, remember your personal admin as well. 16 hours on your feet in a high adrenaline situation is easy to forget to eat and drink, use the bathroom etc until your body tells you enough is enough.. and that's usually just before your little bundle of joy arrives..

this is the exact and very obvious point missing from the article, which makes me very skeptical as to the intentions of the writer.

since all mail will now have a unique tracker on it, all the issuer need do is log who purchases which stamps and you can now track who sends mail.

this could have a chilling effect on many areas of society who communicate via items or letters sent in the post, as the anonymity and neutrality of mail is eroded.

Yes, very true. However when people forget the passphrase to their wallet and lose access to their funds, suddenly they don't want to be their own bank anymore, they want a name and number to yell at down the phone until it comes back.

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