If you have a business requirement for keeping someone's data then even if they tell you to delete you do not have to delete it to comply with GDPR. You just need to show evidence that the data you are holding is required for the functioning of the business. So. Customer orders goods, pays for them, has them delivered. Customer then leaves a review on your site praising the great goods he has ordered. You save the customers details required for processing the order and the review in your data store. Customer decided to raise a GDPR request saying he wants all his data deleted. You delete the review, as it is not required for any business reason. You do not have to delete his order or delivery details as these details are required for the operation of the business in cases where there might be a query or as required for auditing purposes. Such is my understanding of GDPR after reading about it a lot. We deal with medical information within the EU and US so we get to play with GDPR, HIPAA, NHS and a whole load of other 3-5LAs that all want things done differently.

defenestration, exsanguinate and antidisestablishmentarianism are words that really should be used more often in normal conversation i think.

If you get him started on GameMaker one of the best things you can do for him is to give him the link to[

Tom Francis's Youtube Channel

](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN6dZWXUEzA&list=PLUtKzyIe0aB2HjpmBhnsHpK7ig0z7ohWw)He has made some excellent games using GameMaker and is very good at describing how to do it.

Before purchasing any of them make sure you do the "Has this camera appeared in a security related news article" check. Some of the major brands have been known to have hardcoded unchangeable passwords and very lax security, looking at you Foscam.

Try this one for a freaky looking graph https://www.google.com/search?q=x*sin%28y%29&oq=x*sin%28y%29&aqs=chrome.0.69i57j0l3j69i62l2.226j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&brd=1#q=x*cos%28y*sin%28x*%28cos%28y*sin%28x%29%29%29%29[^]

I'll see your Cobol -> VB transition and raise you a Cobol -> Informix 4GL -> Java transition.

I almost joined them, even drove over an hour to the nearest place they had the test (back when I had too much free time) Got there and waited along with the other testees to be told that the examiner (a member of mensa) had crashed her car into a wall while ringing the test center to tell us she would be late) I decided that if that was the level of intelligence of the members I didn't really need to be one!!.

Traffic Light switching algorithm that actually means the traffic moves better, rather then just faster.

Binging it from Ireland gets everything BUT the openoffice.org website.

I've upgraded 3 machines and clean installed 1 from Vista to Weven and never had a bit of bother with any of them. I PING backuped each box before starting, left the upgrades running overnight and all was fine and dandy the following morning. If you choose to do a clean install over an existing install without deleting the previous version everything including the program files directory etc will be put in the windows.old directory in case you need anything back after you've done the install.

Or if you are a cheapskate like me, simply use the nice big cardboard box the laptop came in as a laptop desk. Triple saving : Save the environment by recycling the box for another purpose. Save your laptop by removing the main source of dust in the fans, your clothes. Save your bloodline by not sterilising yourself with the insane heat from the base of the machine :) [^]

In Ireland the company I used to work for would charge about 750 euro per day for development work, increasing to a max of 900 per day if we didn't know the client/hadn't come to an arrangement with them. However for things like website development we would charge a lower rate of about 450 per day and then farm the work itself out to contractor sites like elance and get the work done for 1/2 that amount. We found those sites useful only if the work was fully detailed in a specification document and of a relatively easy nature. Anything that got too technical or involved more then a week of coding we did inhouse, as then the outsourcing cost us more then it saved us.

Why not install the os, set it up exactly the way she wants it to be, then make a Ghost image of it to a CD or DVD? Then when she screws up the OS, just do a restore from the image. That way you aren't limiting her to using the CD, and if needs be, all her favourites etc can be copied off before the next restore is done. Alternatively if you can find out how she manages to screw up the OS, then give her account restricted privileges so she cant do the same thing the next time.

If this is using magnetic induction is there a chance that if you accidently leave your credit card on the mat, you end up with a nice, and useless, piece of plastic once it wipes out all the information on the strip?

This happens to me a lot as well, especially when I am typing in at constant speed rather then just in short bursts, like in code. My personal opinion on why it happens is that your fingers have developed muscle memory for certain words so they know how to type them without your brain being engaged. Then when you start thinking about the words you are typing, your brain and your fingers get out of synch, your brain tells your fingers to type the 'h' when your fingers are already moving on to the 'e' and you end up with 'teh' as the two signals fight with each other. My solution to it was to simply slow down a bit, or let word autocorrect sort it out for me :) Of course this does require you to remove the words 'from' and 'form' from the dictionary or you end up sending your boss a message with 'Please find attached the from form helpdesk' :)

I would simply mention that it was an acute health issue which will not re-occur. If they push it further then that, then it starts to wander into a legal area, as a company cant discriminate against a person on health issues, and if they require further information then that, then its obvious that they require the information to factor it into their decision.

Target graphic designers in your area and offer them a service whereby they design the site for their clients, offering them a content management system tailored to their needs and you then program the back end for it. My former employer made a tasty profit doing this. We would work directly with the graphic designers. They would design the website, we would then draw up a design spec in plain english for the client, detailing the layout of the site, what pages they would be able to edit etc. Then for each customer we would tailor a backend for them with a database holding their text, images etc. It was very loosely based on products like joomla etc, but much more simplistic, giving them only what they needed to manage the pages they wanted to edit. If you can place yourself as a backend provider for a number of graphic designers then you will probably end up turning away work once word gets out in the area.