medical matters in the Slaughterhouse
So much for the saying āRags to rags in 3 generations.ā
At least the Trump cunts donāt appear on that list, which will piss him off mightily.
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Bigly.
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Considering the fact that Iām still typing furiously, the 24th September did seem more than a bit optimistic.
Although TBF that didnāt stop MIFID 2, the last regulatory cock up I worked on.
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Oopsā¦
FFS! 
Iām getting increasingly frothing-at-the-mouth e-mails from banks encouraging me to share my mobile phone number with them so that it can become the āwhat you ownā factor for 2FA online banking authentication. They seem to think that my phone, which falls out of my pocket on planes, trains, automobiles and footpaths the length and breadth of the country, which is a desirable theft target in and of itself, which connects to the internet which (Iām led to believe) is where hackers live and which is prone to technical failure (poor signal, flat battery etc) would be a ābetterā option than the little card reader which stays within reach of my PC. Thereās stupid. And then thereās so stupid that you even believe that.
I was out for a walk yesterday. Every so often my phone rang. It was Virgin Media trying to flog me shit (Iāve stopped picking their calls up, but the ringing is still annoying). Given that my card reader canāt shove itself in my face like this maybe I understand why business really wants my mobile number ā¦
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Last time they did this, I angrily told them to stop - and the person agreed to update their contact preferences. Iāve not had a call since.
I had the same with 3, I eventually told them that if another person rang me I would cancel the contracts on both of my phones, no more calls.
The card reader doesnāt check your fingerprint
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Nor is it wi-fiād to the behaviour-control device surgically implanted into my forebrain. But if Apple and Samsung have their way thatās only a matter of time ā¦
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Weāll all have blue teeth connected to our brains!
if you have a NatWest card reader you prefer ANYTHING, totally unreadable screen
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I much prefer validation by SMS to card reader. But I see no reason why we canāt have both, whatās wrong with customer choice?
whatās wrong with customer choice?
Mwahahahahaha!
Actually, that was a very specific term that probably shouldnāt come up in searches.
Nothing to see here, move along.
I do. But all the three card readers I have (NatWest, Smile and VirginOne) appear to be made by the same company, just with different coloured faceplates and logos. Theyāre not the easiest things in the world to read, but Iād assumed that was some combination of cost (cheapānānasty go together) and low power for maximum life of the non-user-replaceable battery.
This ^. At home, where I do my banking, my phone is usually not in my pocket and usually switched off. I have enough of a life that I resent spending any of it tracking the phone down and then waiting for it to boot, although this would save me most of the time otherwise spent waiting for Vodafone to forward me the SMS. The card-readers, by contrast, are near-instant and so simple that itās hard to see how they could let me down.
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@MGOwner time to break out the mullet and moā combo again (absconded foliage notwithstanding)? It seems all the rage in Strayan Straya these days.
