Achandler

United Utilities lose 25% of the water they put into the system in the North West. Could you imagine another Utility provider losing so much of what they provide! So customers have to subsidise them pumping water into the ground because the regulator says 25% loss is fine. How a leakage target can be try to get 75% of your water to customers I'll never know.

Airwatch tends to have setting per version type. So the settings will just say affects Android 4.1.1 and newer for example. When a 3rd party puts a different front on it, or doesn't use default Apps then it can be a bit of a pain to either re-add them if you remove them by default, or to control them as they open aren't. So quite often mobile phone manufacturers have there our camera/ messenger app etc. It does a half decent job though on most things, I work in a the private sector (well kind of) so we don't have smart boards or the like.

Ahh the wonders of law, one piece is definied well and restricted another gets out a huge paint roller and covers everything left right and center and thus creates inconsistancy. Maybe the regulations need reviewing vient he amoutn of data schools collect on pupils nowadays, but obivosuly that would be years and years away.

The question has to be asked as what exactly an Education Record is, as every school records different things and differently. There is the obvious things that all shared, such as exam results etc but for example cahsless catering and the food a child has bought, could a student request a parent doesn't see that? Not all schools have systems that record it, so is it covered. I'm sure it is a nightmare to work out.

A Sophos Web Appliance is not the UTM, hence I put the full name it. The UTM has loads of options in it, the just web filtering box is poor.

I currently have to put up with a Sophos Web Appliance for internet filtering it is a terrible product which has probably now been resigned to the scrapheap in favour of their new XG gateway etc. I have nothing good to say about it, but then it's an older product which I hope they don't sell anymore.

Police are issued phones nowadays that are encrypted. They get 3 chances at their pins normally before it locks and needs unlocking centrally normally, or they do atleast around here. Also recording on their own phone means if the evidence is needed in court, their personal phones can be seized until after a trial, so it's in their personal interest to not use it. I'm not fully sure if a recording of footage is good enough for a court case though, probably enough for an interview or confirm a crime though. Obivously you would still check their credentials unlike the above...

Best solution is let it break, or get fans and open the server room door and blow the air out. Don't spend your own money fixing your place of works problem, life's to short and that's not up to you to do!

Employers are actually limited to the number of spaces they are allowed to offer, to encourage use of public transport. I think the situation outside of London possibly is rather simple, and is the case in most major cities. Public transport is poor, usually you can go into the centre and out again and not across the city, think Manchester, we have a really busy inner and outer ring road, but no trains or trams that follow that route (especially the outer), clearly people need to travel that direction or there wouldn't be a motorway! Want to travel 5 miles between two big suburbs, thats 20 minutes in a car or 2 hours on public transport, which inevitably costs more. People won't change to public transport unless it is as good as or better then driving, while it slower, more inconvenient and more expensive, it's a farce. But the ideas from councils is to make driving worse, limiting parking, restricting routes, without fixing the issue to start with. If public transport was good enough, then less people would drive, roads would be clearer, air pollution better and people might even cycle if the roads were emptier. However, this plan would have two issues, it takes more then a 4/5 year government cycle and costs money, so no reward for the current bunch of people in charge so they aren't interested. I hope, which is not someting I thought I would, that automatic cars/ taxis becomes a thing and it seems to be the only thing that might resolve decades of poor planning. Until then you can legally park on the pavements in the vast majority of areas, don't obstruct it or obstruct a dropped kerb and you are fine.

Yeah water you don't have a choice, I still find it amusing that all the pipes are linked, so Wales couldn't pump water to London. So you get situations where one place has a drought and another flooded, its genius.

Water is regulated, well much better then the standard of the energy industry. However, I do think there is an arguement to how a company can make profit while still leaking huge amounts of water and sewage (I'm aiming at Thames Water here, as they ar emsot high profile). Surely you fix those issues then benefit not continue to benefit while "continuing to improve" and the usual rubbish they come out with.

If your not on a meter, you could turn your taps on all day and still pay the same. Everyone should in my opinion be charged for what you use, as that's the fairest way. Smart energy meters are a different kettle of fish and I don't and won't have one, I already have a meter. I don't need a little display running to tell me what i'm using.

I think everyone should be on a meter nowadays, it's stupid that they are optional. You use the water, so you pay for it, seems fair but thats a different arguement. It depends on the size of house, for example, a none water mater terrace for me was £28 a month, moved to a bigger house with a water meter and we pay £35, but a big chunk of that is the fixed price to take the water away, as there is still some dependency on size of property.

You can be lazy, delete the account, the profile from the machine and then it will sysprep. Obviously you'll need to create anoher admin account first. Basically no apps can have been clicked on any account before a sysprep

If you paid to have it posted to you and then paid to return the faulty item, then I would expect the return postage paid. If they paid to send it to you (so free shipping) but you have paid to return it, I think it is kind of acceptable. You are relying on the goodwill of the company though technically, however, most accept that if they shipped a faulty product they expect to pay to have it returned.

They still have events in Manchester where they do that type of still and screws that are a pain to get out a number plater etc.

On the printer settings in the actual server not papercut

Eco mode within the printer defaults or similar

You realise that the current advice is not to time limit passwords anymore, enforce the complexity ofcourse but the National Cyber Security Centre recommend against it. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/articles/problems-forcing-regular-password-expiry

Connect to a windows box using the "Connect to Server" (from memory), put in the IP, username etc then copy it across? You can then create a Windows box temporarily if you want. Or copy the backup to somewhere else on the server then just reinstall the older version and load the backup

As Tesco's would say Every Little Helps! They might not have done their forks yet but at least they are thinking about it.

Yeah in future give Google all your personal data... You want to wait for at least 4 days of drying before you decide it is dead for sure.

When i say I still do it, I return to sender it all. I don't forward it to them. I paid the Royal Mail for a year of redirects incase we missed changing an address somewhere, the old occupants should do the same!

I always just return to sender them and have done for about 5 years now, it's no real effort for me. If you think its bank statements, then looked for the return address and google it, if it is a bank and you have alreayd RTS them before. Ring the bank tell them you want to speak complaints team, say I have returned these as not known at this address before, you continue to send them, mention that they are required legally to keep their records up to date when they are informed they are wrong etc. You'll get an apology in the post and probably a check to keep you happy. Usually banks pay out £50 or so if they have been informed before. I once got £50 from Barclays because they kept sending me marketing letters, I told them twice to stop and they didn't the 2nd time they even sent a letter confirming they would and apologising. They sent me a 3rd letter and I complained again and they gave me £50 and they stopped.

I didn't realise you can see how many requests every user has submitted, I thought they were anonymous, makes for some interesting reading about who submits what type of requests and how many. I might try and find the person who submits most, I bet there is someone out there submitting them daily to places!