'Touche'
Southend airport bar is spectacularly awful. Actually remarkably bad. It's like a travelodge conference room, no pints, no glasses...and no change or card payments.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 11:46, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

You could always not drink?

(PsychoChomp, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 11:48, Reply)

that won't help the repulsive decor and Viking office chairs

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 11:49, Reply)

Lakers?

( Peej, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 11:50, Reply)

WTL

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 11:51, Reply)

as in 'I've never been anywhere. ..'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 11:52, Reply)

I liked that Lakers Bar opened at 5 in the morning
Booze at 5am is never wrong
( Peej, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 11:53, Reply)

I tell you what, this illegal downloading isn't as convenient as the kids would have you believe.
50+ minutes to download the thing, then a search* to find a program that can open it.
Got it now though.

*Not by me, the computer offered to do this for me.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 11:53, Reply)

you just got spywared.

( Kroney, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 11:55, Reply)

Meh
One of your lot will fix it.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 11:55, Reply)

Sure, if you pay them 60 quid to run an app.

( Kroney, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 11:57, Reply)

I don't pay them
And they're on a contract.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 11:59, Reply)

So you're downloading pirated material onto a work machine?

( Kroney, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:00, Reply)

I figured if there was anything wrong with it, the security measures they have in place would prevent me from doing so.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:01, Reply)

I see.

( Kroney, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:04, Reply)

did you get both discs?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:05, Reply)

Only disc one so far.
That took long enough and now Kroney is scaremongering me :(
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:06, Reply)

I am doing nothing of the sort.
I'm sure your company will be fine with it.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:08, Reply)

I don't think they will.

( Bazongaloid, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:09, Reply)

Nah it'll be fine.
It's kind of a don't ask don't tell deal. If they find it by accident they'll just tap their nose at you and turn a blind eye. It's only if you go around shouting about it that they're forced to make an example.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:12, Reply)

it's a Hawkwind album not child porn

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:17, Reply)

Wait... what?
I think I've downloaded the wrong thing.
Shit!
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:18, Reply)

Haha yeah, that's fine.
Nobody really gives a shit about licencing, anyway.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:19, Reply)

they really don't.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:21, Reply)

Downloading torrenting software onto corporate machines
is actually implicitly encouraged.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:22, Reply)

small businesses don't have the time or inclination to give a shit.
I can guarantee this from personal experience
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:25, Reply)

Unlicenced and pirated software is absolutely fine.
I don't know why you think I'm suggesting otherwise.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:28, Reply)

I don't think I have downloaded any software.
Edit: I mean apart from the thing that Windows said would help me.
And Bill Gates said that, so it must be fine.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:28, Reply)

If you got it off a torrent site
you'll have needed a client to download it the torrent. If your company has any kind of security at all, then it'll be setting alarms off.

If not, then your IT department's not worthy of the name.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:30, Reply)

We don't have an IT department.
We have to adhere to strict hygiene guidelines here.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:31, Reply)

The primary reason why our knickers get in a twist, by the way
is that these things often carry malicious software that can fly around an internal network like wildfire.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:32, Reply)

I bet you wouldn't snort some drugs you found on a bog floor in a pub either.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:34, Reply)

You'd have to be some sort of demented loon to do that sort of thing

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:39, Reply)

On a serious note
if there isn't actually a decent bit of DRM to stop you installing multiple copies of a program on different computers, is there realistically anything a large corporation can do to find out if you are using it's software in accordance with the licence? We're talking very small business use here?
( Bazongaloid, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:31, Reply)

It's difficult to say.
I know my company's been threatened with legal action by various software companies in the past. As for small business, I couldn't tell you, I have no experience of it. I can tell you that the threat of malware alone should be enough for IT to do something about it.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:35, Reply)

if your firm gave a shit about inappropriate internet you would have been sacked for b3ta yonks ago

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:15, Reply)

Innit.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:16, Reply)

We had a guy drop off a laptop with 7gb of grot on it
I would have turned a blind eye but the Temp he gave it too reported it. Poor fucker.
( Peej, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:06, Reply)

I store my grot on the main server.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:07, Reply)

Our security guy does that
He thinks we don't know about his Japanese piss porn, but the truth is we just don't care.
( Peej, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:11, Reply)

Tell me about it
Apparently I raped my way through 35GB more than my download allowance on my work account last month. I have no idea how, I though I was being quite careful. I've asked them how much I actually used just to check.
( Bazongaloid, Mon 17 Jun 2013, 12:07, Reply)