Comment Re:About to start on my own. (Score 1) 164
Yeah, it's definitely regional. I'm Scottish and even we don't deep fry turkeys. You roast them in the oven and it's delicious.
Actually UK law does require they let you do that. Of course they don't have to agree to your modified contact, but the opportunity to examine and edit to must at least exist. It is a legal requirement, without which the contract is void.
I use the TOSEdit extension to edit web site TOS whenever I sign up, and they always seem to accept my changes.
What do you mean by "seems to"? Does the other side not say they're agreeing to your changes?
Right, but in keeping with the spirit of this intent, policing the extraction of personal information from broad data might have a better chance of getting reasonable legislation than policing its storage. Plus, you might be able to catch someone's use of info easier than its storage of info.
No, this has actually been tried. It's very difficult to show that someone is using information in any particular way. The main way is to take their data processing software apart and see what it does with what. Doing that on a large scale is seriously not going to fly with anyone -- neither businesses: revealing trade secrets, nor individuals: it's not an effective way of protecting privacy.
Yes, and you'll have to promptly sue yourself.
It would only make a difference if it was true, of course.
IT should be there to offer training and provide guidance but in the end it's a support function, not a business driver. IT is there to support the sales staff, not school them or patronize them.
What a very 1980s view of IT. We work in partnership with the business to both deliver the expected value from existing services and to identify where additional business value can be gained from process changes. We're service driven rather than sales though, sales is something of a dirty word in my industry at the moment.
To me, that sounds like the same thing, euphemised.
And here I thought that your 's' key had broken and you were forced to use the dollar sign instead...
It looks like a few people in the thread are suffering from that same fault.
With your bare hands?!?
