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It is worth doing a little research on what is being ingested as ‘Boron’! Borax (sodium borate decahydrate) is the stuff your mother may have used around the house to boost the action of her detergent (normally soap & water). It works by turning warm/hot water into peroxide bleach. Borax is poisonous to humans (more so to some animals). The estimated lethal dose (ingested) for adults is 15-20 grams; less than 5 grams can kill a child or pet. Signs of poisoning include chronic coughs, watery eyes etc. Bottom line DO NOT OVERDOSE (15 grms is about 3 teaspoons)
Useful stuff ED, though the quoted product did talk of mg not grams!
I had not had time to look further though I had a nagging doubt about elemental forms of boron and some chemical formulations. I was a little surprised to find the referenced item was a vegetable supplement.
One of the issues with trace elements (and some vitamins) is that enough is plenty, too little can be dodgy and too much is fatal. Few people manage to understand the latter point saying only that it is ‘natural’, – so is cyanide.
Interesting and very probably well worth a trial.
My neck ‘could do better’ even after the spinal operation – the damage is now deemed unfixable and more recently a series of injections under anaesthetic have only eased, but not cleared the problems. At least I can now turn and move my head, though the problems my be managed by efforts on correct posture. My hands are another story, three operations and they sometimes work but the left one is giving me a new type of wrist gyp.
Dave, all sage advice, but I thought that some of these nasties will try to encrypt other networked drives, how do you engineer to stop that happening? That appears to be a key need, which can be achieved via a series of removable drives at the cost of considerable user interaction.
It would be very useful to know how and where the problem was started.
As you said it would be useful to put in place some controls,;that they have a son with issues might be relevant or a major player in the red herrings club.
The obvious potential sources gang are e-mails and dodgy web sites that appear to offer things that appeal to specific interests. Music sites used to be a major vector, not usually the valid ones but the ‘moody ones’ that offered exciting back stage views or other exciting inducements to click. However, that was a while back, money making schemes might be another source. I do not know if any of the parental restriction methods would allow some protection, black lists or restricting access to un-vetted e-mail via different, password protected user accounts?
My daughter has her own PC, with her own e-mail account but with supervision and a limited account.
However, sometime adults can be just as bad, one relation actually downloaded and installed a doubtful keylogger, my elder daughter then helped her clear up the mess she had made of her PC all on her own.
In short there is no substitute for taking care over what you open and where you visit. Yesterday my wife was sent a very dodgy e-mail from an unknown source attaching a ‘scan’ (of what?) as an allegedly PDF format item. First question, why? It was permanently deleted, not opened.
Ed is very correct, but the key is consensus. You must build a consensus before going to a meeting, let everyone know what is wanted and why it is such a good idea, get the whole team, or if necessary the whole company talking the same way and the action will emerge at the inevitable (rubber stamp) meeting. However, the chop will always be used by the ‘key man’.
This can have odd effects, the most dangerous commands and passwords for those commands will be held by the ‘key man’. Then the same password and commands will be used by the juniors who know the work. Security audits are just not an easy concept to sell in such cases.
However, unless you are Japanese you will never unravel the concepts under which they operate. I believe that Toshiba’s concept may have been right, the execution was seriously flawed. Westinghouse was a disaster with huge but not fully known financial holes into which Toshiba has been tipped.
Will they survive? How much will they have to put in to fill the holes? I do not know, but it will be a hugely damaging culture shock.
Yes, it has now started for me, apparently it should go live about 18:00 or 19:00 hours our time. I see that surprise, surprise there as an update for Adobe as well.
Shiny knobs. We talking about the products or the bosses?
Well now you come to mention it, they were interested in shiny for the sake of shiny, without knowing what they did, many clearly were shiny knobs to boot. They all got their bonuses utill the river ran dry and we all got the shaft.
Cheers. I have checked it on my phone and seems ok but I’ll wait for @sgb101 to chirp up and let me know what it’s like on his phone. Some have mentioned forumite has out passed MM or something to them words but to be honest I don’t see it so if others can point out how that is it would be good.
I do not use it on a phone, the screen is too small for that. However, your’s is far more stable, does not keeping falling over and restarting, is nice and clear for two very important starters. Add in being responsive to users and you have a good starter set of three for a bonus mark.
Dave, I blame fashion. Many of the head Honshu maybe male and of an age when fashion is perhaps not the first thing on their mind. However, as soon as they believe that others are buying into the diversification game they jump on the band wagon. Then they become suckers for the first pile of junk that comes along. It is not always junk often they simply over pay or find that selling lemons is not the same as say making silicon chips, even if you did use the chips in some other product. My old lot tried to put Steptoe to shame. They bought up a range of companies stacked out with just over the hill technology that the previous owners could not make pay. In some cases I advised not to buy, but they went ahead anyway. Of course they could have bought today’s tech for half the price using 25% of the power and doing twice ~ six times the throughput. No wonder they wreaked the company. Shiny knobs were all the range one time, even if they did not know what the knobs did or why they wanted them.
The Japanese way of working has some curious effects. I knew one sales person who ended you tendering for an entire bridge building contract. He had to go to a (Japanese) competitor for much of the work, but his lot had one factory on short time and really needed a good contract to sell the lanterns for street lights. He won the contract and his light maker was kept in work.
Landis+Gyr is one on the seller’s list.
Yes, it is an unholy mess. Westinghouse have a fair bit to answer for and there is mutter in some quarters that fraud or dishonest dealing might also be about to come to light around that hopeless operation. A fire sale of some active and reliable operations looks likely, with some other well known names about to be knocked out to whosoever will bid.
Richard
Just spotted the lovely new submit button, it’s awesome.
My daughter’s dogs gave up hacking IDIOTIC (Internet Direct Integration of Threats Including Chaos) things as they contained too much noise and no little benefit. They then gave up chewing them as they have too little taste and not much crunch. They prefer the challenge of chasing rats, but have to settle for chasing pigeons due to a shortage of rats.
They work on the idea of if it smells like lunch, looks like lunch and ultimately tastes like lunch then eat. They suggest that others follow this suggestion and get some real benefit all round.
They would like the latest update to cover off the MS word exploit, it is supposedly out today, I would also like that fixed.
Malcolm,
You are right with both posts, I could not agree more with your suggestions, especially ‘pay it off early’. As for the over 65 package, – ‘roll your own’ you know it makes more sense.
An example where the user never gets an opportunity to set a password is given by this DVR exploit. (Luckily not one that seems to affect the UK). This one looks to be unfixable unless the DVR owner has registered their equipment.
Quite; surely this a prime example of the sort of stuff that should not be allowed to connect anywhere near any sane user’s internet connection? I assume that it could benefit from some form of front end processor as an external gatekeeper to hide its existence.
I am not sure which versions of the TP-Link router people are using but this is a warning about some versions,
Sorry it is a long link that splits.
Richard
The crime stats should be those supplied by the Police. The problem is poor staff work where the person entering the details is lax in pin-pointing the exact location and it automatically gets dumped on the central location in the reporting district. Overall district crime is OK but street level may well go astray as a result. [edit]You can get a better handle by searching on crime-types e.g. violent or ASBOs link
I was told a while back that many shop lifters are caught ’round the corner from the places where they did their deeds’. This caused the arrest to be shown in an area with no shops, could this still be the case?
PM, would that be somewhere near to Bedminster Down? As I recall that was always referred to as somewhere they would eat their young given half a chance in years gone by. But after 50~60 years the old memories do not sharpen up.
Yes Dave the ebb and flow of locations is amazing. My father lived in a now bulldozed area which was OKish at the time he was growing up but the houses were getting time expired in the 1950s. We live in Fishponds just after the war, I do not think I would want to be there now.Sometimes I take a virtual drive round the old areas, some are long gone and some are almost unchanged.
I had heard suggestions that Clifton was losing is gloss, but my connections with Bristol are all dead now so I do not have much in the way of contact. I will give the cycling a miss thank you, however friendly the town. I am too old to start that lark.
Deptford in London was a terrible place a few years ago but I understand that is now improving, however, I have no plans to go there ever. You can get knifed even walking through Blackheath which used to be the bees knees of places.
In all matters financial there are elements of both luck and timing, backed by sound judgement. When buying a house, remember location is everything, but of course finances, work and commuting set limits on what can be done. This article has some tips that look to be reasonable advice on spotting good locations near the start of their price growth curve. You can almost use the opposite to spot the future dogs. You can get a lot of area data from places like the Office for National Statistics or Police Crime figures. (You might have to wait a while to get a good return in London’s Stratford, but trend the crime stats and when they start to fall as this could be a good time to speculate! The ones who did this in London’s Islington made a fortune.)
You are right, had I sold the first house at the best price it would have been
close to worthsold for eight times what we paid. As it happened we sold for about five times what we paid, before interest paid out in the early mortgages days, all sorts of taxes, (rates and others), lost interest on the cash, legal expenses, insurance, repairs, etc. Overall the net gain was very likely about the same as on the endowment.If you are looking for a degree of protection the worst house on the best street was the maxim. A blighted house suffering from work in progress that will end perhaps within the next couple of years can be a good bet*, Though as ED said, buying at the bottom in an about to improve district usually wins.
I missed out on a flat in north London, I did not act but they fell to £3,000 and would not sell because of a mjor road scheme 12~18 months later they went over £12,000 and then they never stopped rising.
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