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#2884650 11-Mar-2022 08:30

Logging on to every corporate Windows device ever and that extra step. You know the thing. That hit enter to accept the terms and conditions blurb before you can enter your password.

Why can't that be on the password screen itself? I.e. it says something like by logging on you accept blah blah blah.

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#2884652 11-Mar-2022 08:32

huckster:

Logging on to every corporate Windows device ever and that extra step. You know the thing. That hit enter to accept the terms and conditions blurb before you can enter your password.

Why can't that be on the password screen itself? I.e. it says something like by logging on you accept blah blah blah.

that's an admin set annoyance... it should simply be part of your employment contract.

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#2884656 11-Mar-2022 08:40

dimsim:

that's an admin set annoyance... it should simply be part of your employment contract.

Agreed. Under orders from Lawyers no doubt. But why can't Microsnot have it on the actual login screen....?

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#2884820 11-Mar-2022 11:12

Deamo:

Lawyers asking for me to send them drivers licence, passport and/or birth certificate & proof of ird number just as an unprotected pdf, via email... ya know, because email is so secure :/

ugh, I don't understand why this is so hard. There are functioning third party systems that do identity verification in minutes.
I asked if I could send a passworded zip archive & call him to provide the password.. this is no-go, becuase he doesn't have/know 7-zip, winzip & their receptionist is away until next week.
Passworded pdf files are no-go too.. it's soo hard to remove a password from a pdf file. sheesh.

Won't be using this lawyer again.

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#2884826 11-Mar-2022 11:25

Deamo:
ugh, I don't understand why this is so hard.

There are legal requirements for what is and isn't acceptable in these cases. Ever wondered why a lawyer sends you a PDF that's a giant rendered bitmap of a document embedded in a PDF rather than a real PDF?

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#2884841 11-Mar-2022 11:37

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The increasing number of retailers in NZ who do not stock shoes in half sizes.

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.

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#2884842 11-Mar-2022 11:38

I once asked a lawyer to look at some employment questions. He asked me to provide copies of passport and proof of address. He also asked me to visit their offices because sending those wasn't enough. He had to sight the original documents and make sure I was who I was claiming to be in person.

All because of anti-money laundering laws.

Yes, there are services that will do it online for you (like the ID verification we use on Geekzone). But they charge up to $15 for verification and lawyers don't make enough money to cover that, right?

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#2884843 11-Mar-2022 11:39

huckster:

dimsim:

that's an admin set annoyance... it should simply be part of your employment contract.

Agreed. Under orders from Lawyers no doubt. But why can't Microsnot have it on the actual login screen....?

Probably because lawyers have decided that it needs another step to agree to so that it is enforceable.

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#2884853 11-Mar-2022 11:54

neb: There are legal requirements for what is and isn't acceptable in these cases. Ever wondered why a lawyer sends you a PDF that's a giant rendered bitmap of a document embedded in a PDF rather than a real PDF?

I have no issue providing what information they require for AML checks. I dislike their attitude of "trust us, all our clients do it this way, it's fine."

The only options they'll accept are straight pdfs via email, or hard copies delivered to their office next week.. I'll be doing the hard copy thing next week.

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#2884856 11-Mar-2022 11:59

Deamo:

neb: There are legal requirements for what is and isn't acceptable in these cases. Ever wondered why a lawyer sends you a PDF that's a giant rendered bitmap of a document embedded in a PDF rather than a real PDF?

I have no issue providing what information they require for AML checks. I dislike their attitude of "trust us, all our clients do it this way, it's fine."

The only options they'll accept are straight pdfs via email, or hard copies delivered to their office next week.. I'll be doing the hard copy thing next week.

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?

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#2884857 11-Mar-2022 12:01

Price increases by stealth.

My local sandwich place has steadily increased it's prices by about 20% over the past 6 months, I get it, that's OK.

Nek Minnit, sandwich gets delivered and they have cut the sandwich by what I am estimating is 30% in length.

I get hospo is hard right now, but 50% increase in a few months? Their sandwiches are good, but not that good.

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#2884886 11-Mar-2022 12:37

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?

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.

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#2884888 11-Mar-2022 12:43

Behodar:
It is no longer 29 patches out of date. It is now 15 patches out of date.

So the patch policy is as summed up by these guys?

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#2884998 11-Mar-2022 13:35

neb:
Deamo:

ugh, I don't understand why this is so hard.

There are legal requirements for what is and isn't acceptable in these cases. Ever wondered why a lawyer sends you a PDF that's a giant rendered bitmap of a document embedded in a PDF rather than a real PDF?

Isn't that because they print the document to store it in physical file then use a copier to scan to email as pdf?

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#2885002 11-Mar-2022 13:41

dimsim:
Isn't that because they print the document to store it in physical file then use a copier to scan to email as pdf?

It's because bitmap-image PDFs are a lot harder to manipulate than standard Turing-machine PDFs.

And before someone jumps in to say that you can still manipulate bitmap-image ones, you're meeting legal requirements, not creating a bulletproof digital artefact, and for that Turing-machine PDFs don't meet the requirements while static-image PDFs do.

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