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  #2885008 11-Mar-2022 13:57
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richms:

 

Either way the file will probably end up sitting in a wide open share on a non patched windows server open to the entire network so really does it matter if you go in person and they scan it themselves?

 

 

My wife recently saw a lawyer (should I be nervous?) and his 'file server' is big piles of manila folders spilling off shelves and stacked up all over the floor.

 

So yeah, in a way, sitting in a wide open share. :-)





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  #2885093 11-Mar-2022 16:20
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Behodar:

 

Bingo. I've just had IT at my work upgrade something. It is no longer 29 patches out of date. It is now 15 patches out of date.

 

 

 

 

Reminds me of when I was working at a large corporate in Auckland circa 2017. Some major Windows vulnerability was publicised (EternalBlue), one of our competitors was hacked, ransomwared etc. Turns out you were ok if you had applied the most recent patches (released March 2017). Our CIO / IT Director / bigwig guy sent out an all-staff email saying "we're up to date, we're not vulnerable, we're actually advising our clients on how to respond and check their cybersecurity". Curiosity got the better of me, I checked the patch logs on my laptop. Turns out no patches had been applied since August of the previous year. Checked the laptop of someone else in my team, same story. Responded to the CIO's email with a single sentence and a screenshot. About 10 minutes later I received a call from a very frantic IT manager, then about an hour later every machine in the company proceed to force an install of all outstanding updates... No one said thanks.


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  #2885095 11-Mar-2022 16:26
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cddt:No one said thanks.

 

 

They never do.

 

 





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  #2885122 11-Mar-2022 17:19
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elpenguino:

My wife recently saw a lawyer (should I be nervous?) and his 'file server' is big piles of manila folders spilling off shelves and stacked up all over the floor.

 

 

So they're more secure than 99% of companies out there then.

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  #2885125 11-Mar-2022 17:24
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neb:
elpenguino:

 

My wife recently saw a lawyer (should I be nervous?) and his 'file server' is big piles of manila folders spilling off shelves and stacked up all over the floor.

 

So they're more secure than 99% of companies out there then.

 

and way more secure than email


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  #2885226 12-Mar-2022 00:27
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neb:
elpenguino:

 

My wife recently saw a lawyer (should I be nervous?) and his 'file server' is big piles of manila folders spilling off shelves and stacked up all over the floor.

 

So they're more secure than 99% of companies out there then.

 

Yeah they sound secure but badly in need of a defrag.





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  #2885337 12-Mar-2022 13:50
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Well, after ~21 years of phone ownership without any major issues, I broke my phone today :(

 

Coincidentally I'd ordered a new one a few hours prior, but I assure you that I didn't break the old one on purpose!


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  #2885358 12-Mar-2022 16:14
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Behodar:

 

Well, after ~21 years of phone ownership without any major issues, I broke my phone today :(

 

Coincidentally I'd ordered a new one a few hours prior, but I assure you that I didn't break the old one on purpose!

 

 

Anecdotally there used to be a surge in insurance claims (phone breaking and being dropped in the toilet) just around the time new models came out.





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  #2885493 13-Mar-2022 08:38
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freitasm:

Behodar:


Well, after ~21 years of phone ownership without any major issues, I broke my phone today :(


Coincidentally I'd ordered a new one a few hours prior, but I assure you that I didn't break the old one on purpose!



Anecdotally there used to be a surge in insurance claims (phone breaking and being dropped in the toilet) just around the time new models came out.



When I was still living in the UK the mobile companies used to supply new handsets for free if you signed up to a new contract every couple of years.

I don’t know if they still do that, given the price of phones these days. It was good though - new shiny phone turned up in the post!





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  #2885497 13-Mar-2022 08:45
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When you listen to an entire series of audiobooks and then when you get to the penultimate book in 12 books, Audible says “Sorry. Audible is not authorised to sell this title in your region. “

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  #2885508 13-Mar-2022 09:22
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When a restaurant no longer cooks itself, is only a convenience food warming-up stall, but wants to charge restaurant prices.





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  #2885560 13-Mar-2022 13:57
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richms:

 

Shoe sizes in general. I didnt know that kmart here used weird sizing instead of standard US sizing so ordered a whole lot of shoes the wrong size. They have a sizing table that is there which is their excuse, but if they are going to use something weird like UK sizing, they should label that on the product page.

 

 

? Isn't UK shoe sizing the standard sizing in NZ?


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  #2885561 13-Mar-2022 14:01
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Not that I've seen. It's usually in US.


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  #2885567 13-Mar-2022 14:15
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Behodar:

 

Not that I've seen. It's usually in US.

 

 

Since when? It might depend on the type of shoe? I guess it's possible that standards have changed since I started wearing shoes.

 

Edit: A quick google seems to confirm that UK is still the NZ standard for Men's shoes... (admittedly a lot of shoes have multiple sizes listed)


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  #2885568 13-Mar-2022 14:23
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When you buy fruit salad but get fruit mash

 





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