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This is a link to the understanding of what caused issues so far as the problem is understood, /https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/10/09/updated-version-of-windows-10-october-2018-update-released-to-windows-insiders/
It appears that as of this morning it has been re-released to insiders but may not yet be available more widely.
Richard
The Google+ shuttering was probably over due as it never really caught on, so the exposure of the user, (was there more than one anyway?) was limited I was a little confused as to how long the risk existed, there was a suggestion that it had been mitigated when found with no evidence of tampering but it is all a bit messy.
As for the other one, I am not sure whether to rejoice, weep, or ignore the issue. I have heard some of the shouting, but frankly the details of what was really involved for good or ill has not crossed my radar. My worry is that the present febrile atmosphere allows a storm to be whipped up in the absence of real examination of the real threats, risks or benefits.
My two portables took 1809 without me finding any issues with either of them. One theory that was going the rounds was that the update did not like any sort of filing structure damage and was wiping out any such damaged folders.
I have got a 2018-10 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1803 update pending this morning, I wonder what that is about?
Yes Steve, My daughter and SiL thought the same way. I think we all point more or less the same way, whatever you do there is always something else to second guess and fleece you.
I have a couple of Barclay card platinum accounts, I used to have one Mastercard and one Visa card but Barclays in their infinite wisdom dropped master card. Still I have a couple of other Mastercard accounts. I do not like to rely on just one supplier given that their systems appear to be built on unreliable structures. Barclaycard were having a moment or two last month when it was time to pay the piper, they have a voice based system, it works but it was hard work compared with the Web one – when it works. At least they gave an ex-gratia payment for the troubles
A NitWit Mastercard has generally been OK, as has the 4th card from a loyalty based arrangement for M&S serviced I believe by MNBA. The silly thing is that the Barclaycard ‘Platinum’ cards have limits about 20% of those on the other two.
It is a rare month that we use 20% of the total limits and we always settle on the day the bill is available so interest rates are of no concern.
Like Dave I thinned out my cards when I ceased full time employment with my original employer. A couple of the cards were no longer worth the effort of tracking the extra accounts, so the Amex Gold and Diners were cast out. That was before web accounts so I cannot comment on how good, bad or indifferent they are or were.
Santander is a Marmite bank you love it and have no trouble or loath it because it always goes wrong, which was my eldest daughter’s experience. After three months of multiple troubles including failing to get a new account card and believe me, she tried; she gave them up as a bad job. To be honest I think they are all pretty much of a muchness, if you are lucky you never have a problem but I still consider it wise to spread your contacts across several options.
Final thought, do avoid stretch limos!
I refused to have anything to do with the string and knitting needle buggies, the prams we used came with proper supporting hard back structures though they were able to fold when needed. It took a degree of care to insert them behind the seats but avoided the need for a major size bus just for the pram – as grandparents not parents that was something we were happy to avoid. Certainly the ability to fold down the rear seats has been a boon when taking construction waste to the tip, the sort of role an older vehicle is more suited to handling than something with more current pretensions. However, this does illustrate each writer’s experiences and tastes. I guess each is seeking to show why their choice suited them. While my choice back in 2006 was based on factors relevant at that time, good fuel consumption, high reliability, not too expensive to run and hopefully easy to learn to drive on. The latter was met, but health issues killed that need. The other factors were met and over time other benefits emerged. As I said earlier, it would not be a first choice vehicle now as the dealership is too far away.
Daughter and son in lay have a SEAT, which is currently serving them, though with some unexpected running costs such as the unreliable rear seat belts that have had to be replaced as not covered by the warrantee. Many years ago we had a cheap FIAT estate, it was less flexible, could carry less but had the disadvantages of an older car, except the simplicity of its mechanical parts, reliability was not great.
I have grown chary of recommending specific solutions, rather I seek to encourage a wider exploration of options against needs and testing the validity of assumptions. Lugging a large vehicle about every time when the maximum need rarely arises may not be the best choice. Would a recently qualified driver or their partner be more at home in something else? Having had two children and now two grandchildren, yes I am one behind in the body count. But having dealt with children while living in several different countries and continents I have grown to value flexibility. In my book one size, colour, style, etc does not match all needs. The choice is personal and must allow all factors to be weighted by the chooser when they make their selection – try before you buy is certainly worth a punt. As is remembering that today is one snap shot of life, tomorrow, next week, month, or year may see different needs arise.
A deep rear load space sill will likely become an issue of changing importance as the dogs age.
Continuing after I had to rush off, my reason for mentioning the Jazz is that it has five doors, the great flexibility it has delivered to us and the height of the rear sill, which suited our increasingly elderly Labrador, either on his own or when he joined my daughter’s two dogs in the rear. There are many possible cars that could suit your needs but in the end it is a matter of lets and balances. Nothing is perfect.
A greater issue than insurance and to a lesser degree tax is the issue of maintenance and your ally here is a good trustworthy garage. Someone who does what is needed and at a cost that you can find reasonable.
Nothing will take buggy and dogs though the Jazz would take either. It worked for me as it was needed for a range of reasons that often changed with the times.The dealer changed to a location 20 miles away so the love affair with Honda cooled and we now have a couple of Kias. We still have the depreciated Jazz as its current low value works as a family hack, tip runs, hospital runs, supermarket runs ,all OK. But personal issues play heavily.
Having had two terrible Fords I have a prejudice against them… everyone has their own favourites and their own ‘never users’.
I agree with the comment on buggies/prams. Some are more suitable for putting the car into, than putting into the car…
I cannot argue with any of the above, though I wonder why you are going for the car before you have a full licence? I would expect that to change the insurance landscape. Years back I bought a Jazz as eldest daughter was learning to drive and neither of the other ‘then’ cars would be insurable. Then she had a medical condition and that was that for ten years or so, during which she collected in no special order a partner/husband, a house, two children and two dogs. Two child car seats do go in the Jazz along with two fair sized dogs, one is a husky. The Jazz is now in its 13th year and just about run in with 98,000 plus miles; The photo from 2013 shows the dogs in the car, car and dogs both still with us. The Jazz has generally been good for spare parts only an electrical problem and worn brake pads/disks. Sometimes, I repeat, sometimes a good broker can help to focus your search.
October 8, 2018 at 1:37 pm in reply to: Will our tech even work if ever we have a confrontation? #26917Stock or securities manipulation is the major issue that the authorities are concerned about and most would rightly agree with that position. However, there are other possible issues. Perhaps the placement of a major order and the need to get a ‘very good deal’, an alternative supplier who is itching to break into the market, so on and so forth. None of those are directly or indirectly in the securities fraud business, though a sales person might get a useful bonus. Perhaps it was aimed at darkening Bloomberg’s halo, or perhaps they were just collateral in the way. What is has done is darken the image of using China for anything much of anything and mud sticks as we all demonstrate in our own lives to greater or lesser extents, no smoke without fire and all that.
As for news organisations being careful ‘managers of news’ more like manipulators of information. This is frankly old news. Go buy me a war was the Randolph Hurst tag line before WWII and we have all seen many such stories bending to the whims or dictates of the owner or sponsor. I have in the past run news centres so I was able to see both the events being reported and the reports being filed. While some stories were pure fiction others were so slanted that a 3 year old child could have been made to appear as a machine gunning mass murderer more easily than you would believe the bilge-water some
fiction writers, sorry reporters concocted. Some wrote ‘first hand reports’ without ever going near the events in question.The one constant in this is that one person has been itching to make a solid case for not using China for technology manufacturing, though I have some concerns that even his twisted mind would have held off from getting his hands into a sticky mess like this. Would some of his bigot friends be so scrupulous? Read up on the Hurst empire and wonder.
The Post Office card is provided by Bank of Ireland UK, there are only a small-ish number of providers offering these card services, MBNA is another in addition to the banks which may or may not deal with their own card services. While I understand your concerns about changes, they usually arise because of some possibly sloppy previous work, a suspected data break in, or a change of platform hardware/software.
I am very much closer to Steve’s view point about password security having seen some very sloppy work while working in the past. Mind you I do not usually have anything that I use an out and about mobile to access, password controlled or not, so I can usually find a way to confirm the correct password version using various tools.
To be fair, (I hate being fair) they do say 8 ~ 20 characters. Some people have pet phrases that they use to generate a password and make it easier to remember the code, it could be a poem, a bit of a nursery rhyme, or something more personal- ‘I hate Mondays/shopping/putrid_transport’! etc with letters plucked from the words, e.g I2_aohu!.
Some people go extreme, hence the maximum length rule. Most sites do require special characters, a number or two and usually a capital letter. There is a lot of personalisation possible. Many sites appear to have the same or very similar rules engines grafted into their offering. I changed my router password and now it thinks the original one they applied is crap being too short, too easy, etc. in which cases why did they choose it in the first place?
I guess it depends what you mean by crime across county lines being a recent development. The Home Counties Chief Constables were talking about it ten years ago when May threw her tantrums and started the savage Police cuts. It has grown since then: in fact burglary has even been recently outsourced to Chileans!
Nice change of subject focus, County lines has been a recent cause of concern with burglary being a well established craft industry run by well known families who bring in their foot soldiers. As I said the pace of change has stepped up but the one hitting the headlines has been the running of small-ish children from towns into other locations where their associations are not known. Very damaging to the children with the objective of making them hard to identify. however, you know that all along didn’t you. The Chilean connection is relatively recent but run by some well known foes, and yes that one does require the central organised crime agency to tread on toes.
When two fists Prescot was ruling a neighbour became a local councillor. However, she soon learned that she, and the rest of the councillors could only ever do what Prescot allowed them to do, say or agree to. She left the role after a pointless time trying to improve local affairs for local people. In a position like those you are so keen to complain about, you soon learn that making enemies of those with control of the tools of the business is rarely a way forward. So if you want to be effective you work behind the public gaze and try to build agreement.
County lines are a relatively new development and the level of end to end support needed by many agencies is very significant and, I understand in some cases almost impossible to achieve, even when carefully worked on. Social services are a key missing part in many areas and reluctant to become involved. In my area common services have been combined across areas, though county lines have not been displayed as a key publicity earning problem. Though I have no doubt that they are an aspect of (low) life in some of the towns and villages. Already such as ANPR is playing a part in changing dealer habits with the use of subscription car hire becoming a choice for the mules. As such drug dealing is an evolving and ever mutating problem the management of which is not best suited to the long time scales of local politics and rivalries. Certainly not one where the greatest demand is to improve lost property management, which I said earlier has almost nothing to do with crime fighting or even crime management. So, why is police time wasted on unproductive paperwork? Because no one else wants to deal with the mess – we already know it is NOT a legal matter.
As for Steve’s comment about his daughter’s attitude to the police, I blame the ‘playground mafia’. No doubt some child or another has had a relative fall foul of the law, in some areas perhaps more than 25% of the kids have. Such things as drugs, using, buying or selling them under the pedestrian underpass* on the way to school. Driving an untaxed car or in a dangerous manner, etc. So they have a chip on their shoulder that their relative is in trouble for being caught – note not for being an idiot and breaking the law in the first place. As everyone knows such people are always ‘innocent’ and never guilty.
*It was happening several days a week on the way to granddaughter’s school.
October 7, 2018 at 10:52 am in reply to: Will our tech even work if ever we have a confrontation? #26851This is a truly wonderful story that has the great advantage that either side of the great divide can, with equal sincerity say, ‘Of course they would say that’. lo and behold that is what has been happening. The alleged ‘victims’ claim no knowledge so that theorist chant ‘of course they would say that that’. If it all happened a little while back and if it failed the way that the third party witnesses say it all fits so wonderfully well with Trumps current timing and message of, ‘Don’t trust the thieving/murdering/raping* foreigner. (*Delete or add to as required.)
So who has gained?
The story alleges that out of hundreds of items churned out a few made their way to some specific customers, suggesting stock management that must be the envy of almost all organisations not subject to recent communist rule!
Already FUD is starting to rule.
Should we trust Chinese makers?
Should we trust those who purchase from those who use Chinese makers, (e.g. Apple who are mysteriously getting a current free pass from Trump’s tariffs an odd one that)?
Will the defence sector have been blown with these dodgy goods in their network?
The FUD industry is now on double time and what did it cost?
Perhaps a few dodgy hotel rooms, or were the alleged meeting every held? Perhaps a few dodgy actors and a story that is being embellished daily by all sides as the theory polishers and theory tarnish makers get to work.
On a personal note I do find it odd that industry is being trusted in an increasingly imperialistic expansionist China to make building blocks on which others rely for vital defence services. Bloomberg has for years been trusted by many though for some, their stories do not always quite ring out as balanced and without some shielded motive.
Still, if the financial impacts are to be a measure of reactions, perhaps the story has achieved its FUD aim. Perhaps the value of off shoring has been reduced. Perhaps its costs been inflated in the minds of those pulling purse strings.
Oh and were my recent grocery orders and miscellaneous goods requests leaked to some inscrutable team who are building up a profile of my activity. Perhaps, after seeing my Google tracks from my Chinese built phone and Google managed data services, they are wondering why I am not wandering a field along a bridleway yesterday or today. They answer is easy, no dog sitting, so no dog walking and clearly no dead letter drops either. Rather I did visit another town which may be able to offer some very expensive accommodation and training for a disabled relative.
The changeover relies on open reach, (over reach?) and it is down to them to say when they can/will do the job. If the internet service preventer (ISP) comes up with a best guess idea but the right date is the one OR confirm and TT should have told you when it would be. I was told by my ISP that it would be on the 13th on one set of papers and the 15th on another. When I questioned the difference I was told that the 15th was the OR date when the work would be done. It was the right date and duly things happened on that date. I guess that TT ‘forgot’ to pass on the details. It might get done today or perhaps next week now that it is getting later in the day. TT should know, if someone can read the papers.
@dwynnehugh, I fully understand your position and have considerable sympathy. I understand that the vast number of items do not appear to ever be reclaimed and thus get auctioned off, some being apparently quite valuable items. At one time lost property was regarded as a ‘service’ but as attitudes to ‘stuff’ has changed so the need to monetise everything has also grown. I can also understand the attitude of the banks to lost and found cards. At one time they would try to get cards returned to them, but I understand a probable attitude that once it is known to be out of the holders ‘chain of custody’ it should be considered tainted. Who is to know if the card was once in a stolen bag and e.g. dropped by the thief to encourage the legitimate holder to find it, be relieved and carry on without every realising their loss and so not report it as missing? Thus giving the thief more time to exploit the card details.
Surely in any case, lost and found is technically not a police matter but a civil one unless a crime has been committed? In these days of minimum wage for everyone regardless of their capability or value, it would be impossible to run a civil sort and return operation at least in part staffed by those whose abilities fall below that required for a ‘full pay’ activity? Thus those of restricted capability(1) are blocked from a possible way forward and such activities as property recovery must pay its way or not get done, like everything else. So, making it a cost centre with a profit and loss account becomes the result. Human nature being what it is, auditable records became essential, though the level of skill and training required should fall well below that needed for a paid ‘officer(2)’ in most organisations.
(1) I have several ‘real life candidates in mind who are now unlikely to ever find real world paid work due to their limitations.
(2) Officer in this case being a generic term meaning anyone trained to do other more specifically skilled duties, signalman driver, accountant, etc., not just a police officer.
As for your @dwynnehugh signature, remember the TAWs (tax and wasters) attitude is unless it can be taxed to death it ain’t worth a light though in this world everything has to be paid for one way or another.
Finally got there, after a few machine specific issues I suspect. There are the usual program associations to sort out, but it did finally arrive in fairly short order. The MS desire to coral users to use (suffer?) only MS chosen programs is a bit of a pain, but it has drawn adverse comment elsewhere before.
I ended up leaving it all night, and by morning the feature update had failed to install with no reason. I will try it again this morning.
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