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#2968824 15-Sep-2022 20:46

kiwiharry: Security tags must be the latest fashion accessory to sport these days.

The result of outsourcing home detention to the lowest bidder?

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#2969057 16-Sep-2022 11:05

Home Detention at Walmart. lol

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#2969262 16-Sep-2022 17:16

The Register: Uber's IT systems have been comprehensively hacked

Judging from screenshots leaked onto Twitter, though, an intruder has compromised Uber's AWS cloud account and its resources at the administrative level; gained admin control over the corporate Slack workspace as well as its Google G Suite account that has over 1PB of storage in use; has control over Uber's VMware vSphere deployment and virtual machines; access to internal finance data, such as corporate expenses; and more.
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There have been further claims of unauthorized access to a Confluence installation, private source code repositories, and a SentinelOne security dashboard used by the app developer.
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Even the US giant's HackerOne bug bounty account was seemingly compromised

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/16/uber_security_incident/

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#2969283 16-Sep-2022 18:25

PolicyGuy:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/16/uber_security_incident/

I assume the "what the" is that the kid compromised them by texting an employee pretending to be IT and asking for their password? And the employee actually furnished it?

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#2969379 17-Sep-2022 08:34

The official blurb for this... "hopeful".

https://wellington.govt.nz/your-council/elections/2022-elections/information-for-voters/candidate-information/mayoral-candidates/donald-newtown-mcdonald

Note that this is solely about the foxtrot factor; bear in mind that this isn't the Politics forum if you reply :)

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#2969390 17-Sep-2022 09:04

Behodar:

The official blurb for this... "hopeful".

https://wellington.govt.nz/your-council/elections/2022-elections/information-for-voters/candidate-information/mayoral-candidates/donald-newtown-mcdonald

Note that this is solely about the foxtrot factor; bear in mind that this isn't the Politics forum if you reply :)

What if everyone votes for him - "just for fun"

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#2969394 17-Sep-2022 09:13

Don is a well know local.

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#2969396 17-Sep-2022 09:23

When I went to POHQ in Europa House around 1978 Don was a records clerk. I think memorising the filing system numbering was a trivial thing for him.

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#2969416 17-Sep-2022 11:29

I got nothing

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#2969433 17-Sep-2022 13:14

I love Don's long standing policy of halving the population.

He also announced two innovative new policies at the recent Island Bay Meet the Candidates event:

Confiscate all cars from rich people and give them to disabled people.
Change the date and time system so that there will be 10 months in a year, and 96 hours in a day.

I will definitely vote for him.

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#2969438 17-Sep-2022 14:02

alasta On Don... 96 hours ?

Having time based on Sumerian Sexagesimal ( Base 60 ), might be irksome to some.
Well Babylonians who inherited base 60 math from Sumerians.
That also gave us geometry in base 60, 360 degrees etc
Logically they divided day into 360 parts.
Maths class in base 60 must have been a scream.

We can blame Egyptians for the 24 hour day thing apparently.
They went base 10 with their daylight hours, logical enough, 10 fingers and all.
But then you have 1 hour each twilight and in morning so thats 12.
So to give fair share to night they gave that 12 ?

An hour might also have some natural significance.
My observation is meetings stop being productive near an hour.

As pointed out History is written by those that can write.
So we can't be sure they took this from others whose writings we don't have.

But 96 hours in the day, um where would 96 come from ?

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#2969446 17-Sep-2022 14:56

It was a scheme hatched by lawyers and plumbers who could charge an hour for their previous 15 minute.

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#2969461 17-Sep-2022 17:07

We've just had a person going door to door from Trustpower in our Street. (Wearing a logo'd jacket)

Why knock on a door and wait less than 10 seconds before moving on to the next house.

Didn't do every property, mine included and we are NOT a Trustpower customer!

If you are walking past a property why not leave a card in the letterbox?

Why not include a small discount code aligned to the sales person so that if an enquiry is made they know where the lead came from?

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#2969464 17-Sep-2022 17:25

Knocking campaigns are usually run by a contracting company. Often contracted for signs on the line and nothing else. Safety may be a factor in the knock decision or based on marketing database.

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#2969499 17-Sep-2022 18:41

We have a red "Do not knock" sticker on the mailbox and front door that usually stops these unwanted intrusions.

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