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If you think about it, that's not as bad as it sounds: it's only about 1 1/2 working weeks if you think about the extended Christmas break and associated bank holidays.
Not that I'm used to defending BT - generally they are useless - but in this case it's reasonable(ish).
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What extended break? Christmas Day and New Year's Day are Fridays, the Bank Holiday will be on the following Mondays. For services like BT there will be full working Tuesday through Thursday of both weeks.
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Which is only 3/5ths of the usual service - and a lot of people save annual leave to get a eleven day break for the cost of three days off! 
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And I'm yet to be convinced that BT have ever offered a "full working service"
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OriginalGriff wrote: And I'm yet to be convinced that BT have ever offered a "full working service"
Well yeah. That's why I suggest bypassing them altogether as I have for the last half dozen moves.
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Hmm matter of interest do you have a BT line or Sky?
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Line rental and telephone service go to Sky but all land line hardware is BT Open Reach's responsibility ultimately. When a repair was necessary here to a broken socket it was Open Reach who had to be summoned by Sky.
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Why does Google have so many open proxies, they are elite, https, and just sitting there flapping in the breeze?
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.
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To better can spy on you my dear. 
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Honey pots did occur to me, no profit in it though.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.
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The obvious 'answer' is "why not?"
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The cost in bandwidth, the reason-whats the profit reason? There are too many of them to be a security oversite.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.
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Despite the EU's slippery grasp on reality not everything Google does is for profit (shouldn't really have to point that out when the whole thing is predicated on cost free services to users but ...). They already have servers dispersed across the world to provide localised services and back-up for each other. Why not use them to provide a little extra service too? It certainly makes more sense than having a small number constantly over-subscribed surely?
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Premise;
People who use proxy's are evil.
Google is evil.
Google has open proxies to spy on evil people. When they come out of the proxy tunnel their http accesses and traffic are recorded and for sale to various organizations (insert "organization" here that may be interested). What GoogleAd and GoogleAnalytics hooked scripts don't grab the google proxy does.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.
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R-i-i-i-i-i-ight! Could I interest you in my range of tinfoil hats at all?
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Now here I am doing the morning download of emails and get the gem below.
I was pretty sure the net had evolved past the scams of yester-year but I got this:
Quote: Dear Friend,
I am Mr. Christopher Wilmot and it is my wish to solicit your assistance in investment collaboration/partnership in your country. Meanwhile I have emailed you earlier but to no response from you.
In my first email I mention about an abandoned sum of ($26,700,000.00) that belong to a deceased customer here in my bank.
I am ready to invest this fund with you in any sector such as manufacturing, agriculture, real estate, hotel business that can bring in good turnover at expected time
This will be of great benefit to both of us and I cannot achieve this without
your support, therefore I need your cooperation to receive this fund after which you will be eligible for 50% of the total amount, while 50% will be mine.
kindly respond direct to my private email (chritopherwilmot202@outlook.com)for more information and please delete if you are not interested.
Sincerely,
From Christopher Wilmot
Now I am wondering if that cousin who died intestate has carked it again and that Nigerian Prince wants to give me money for using my bank account! (Learn to spell western names for the Email address) 
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Send 'im to 419 Eater[^] 
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: I was pretty sure the net had evolved past the scams of yester-year
Really? I get at least 3 of these a week! Plus dozens of gorgeous Russian girls whose soulmate I am, competitions I've won, messages I've missed and bank accounts that I must protect from fraudsters. There is a little less scam spam around than in the golden years but it hasn't changed much. Why fix it if it ain't broken?
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Well, what are you waiting for!?
Sounds like a sweet deal and you're sitting around in the PUB anyway! 
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hhuhhuh uhhuhhhuh hhuhh you said "Wilmot" uhhuhhuh huhhhuhh
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: Quote: Dear Friend,
Tell me "friend", when did wisdom turn to madness 
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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When I got a sniper rifle!
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I am a servant of the well-known fire, wielder of the flame of Anus. The bright damp shall not avail you, Flame of Ipspool!
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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I'd vote him* if he renamed New York(or Washington) Trumptown.
*Pretty sure I get a vote given the coverage here
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Trumpolis, Otisburg... OTISBURG?
That would almost work as movie quote. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
modified 15-Dec-15 7:15am.
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