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Comment Re: One of those "nobodies" (Score 1) 603

Why would she marry her brother to "sneak him into the country"? She's a US citizen and was 28 when she first married.

"To petition to bring your sibling (brother or sister) to live in the United States as a Green Card holder, you must be a U.S. citizen and at least 21 years of age. Permanent residents may not petition to bring siblings to live permanently in the United States."

https://www.uscis.gov/family/f...

Comment Re: Don't like it? Leave. (Score 1) 466

You must be feeling immensely clever with that post, which isn't surprising because you're obviously too stupid to understand the difference between:
1. Injecting extra words mid-sentence multiple times through a text.
2. Adding a link below the entire text in a different colour and size (the link is smaller than the tweet text).

Comment Re: So almost everyone in New York City had Covid- (Score 1) 334

Not deliberately. That would imply that Boris Johnson actually made a decision. Michael Hestletine, a former conservative minister made this comment about the man:
"a man who waits to see the way the crowd is running and then dashes in front and says, âFollow meâ(TM)."

Unfortunately in this case he wasted too much time trying to work out the crowd's direction.

Comment Re: WTF (Score 1) 100

It's more akin to giving a salesman your address and him checking the windows and doors from the outside. He can then use that information to report back and tell his company "it looks like the property has been broken into, so maybe we shouldn't trust the person who claims to be the owner".

You may not appreciate a vendor doing due diligence, but I'm struggling to find a country where port scanning is illegal.

Comment Re: This exploit can be easily defeated (Score 1) 92

I do this in my local pub. You have to turn up early to get a table* for the pub quiz so I go straight after work, eat a sandwich I bought in the supermarket**, buy a drink and do a bit more work.
I've never even asked someone else to keep an eye on it. It's one of the few places I'd do it though, but they definitely do exist.

* It's very small and the quiz is very popular.
** They don't serve food so they're happy for people to turn up with their own food, takeaway, etc.

Comment Yes, but our industry had shut down. (Score 2) 65

It's a small company so I'm developer, sysadmin, etc. Our systems have been built to allow remote access from the get go. All we added were headsets and SIP clients rather than users using their mobiles.

It's made no difference however as our industry shut down (not quite overnight, but as good as) so there's nothing for users to do.

I've still got work to do which is keeping me sane, but it's got to be horrific for everyone else.

Comment Re: High pucker power! (Score 4, Funny) 87

You know that's not true. There's somebody in mission control pressing WASD to keep the vehicle on track. I'm sure they saw that engine starting to glow redder than the others and right clicked on it to shut it down.
The impressive thing is they didn't screw up the staging. That's the really trick part...

Comment We've made it optional (Score 1) 109

We run what is essentially a serviced office with bespoke systems for brokers, and were lucky to have built in remote access from the start. Saying that, we've now bought headsets and SIP clients for everyone, plus laptops for staff that didn't already have them. So everyone can work from home if they want to.

That said, I told my boss that if we all have to self isolate, I'm calling shotgun on the office being my office from home.

Comment Re:Easy fix (Score 1) 165

The only false claim that is perjury is if they knowingly don't have the copyright over the work they claim.

But in these cases, surely they're claiming they have copyright over works that contained the word "did", which they obviously don't. "Obviously", because in order to determine whether they have a valid claim they should be actually looking at the works, rather than using the "blind man firing a shotgun indiscriminately" approach.

Comment Re: This is straight up conflict of interest. (Score 1) 53

This has always been the case. But that's not the reason for the SIM lock. The reason for the sim-lock is to lock the customer in, so they can't take their very expensive phone to another carrier and thus the carrier has just subsidized a $600 phone to another carrier. That's fine, and in fact I agree with that, since people will in fact do this. But if you've paid out the subsidy/termination fee, the phone should be unlocked, no questions asked.

Are customers that have subsidised contracts not locked into a contract? In the UK bundled phones tend to be on a 18 or 24 month contract, Sure you can move your phone to a different carrier, but then you'd be paying two carriers.

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