 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Again !!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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It was probably awarded to a British contractor.
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@Orange200,
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It was probably awarded to a British contractor.
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Was that an attempt at humour?
A quick google search suggests it's the Belgian arm of Unisys.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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No surprise there then - any government or quasi government doing an IT project always makes a pigs ear of it....and quite a few in the private sector
Still cannot work out why it is needed as my passport is always swiped on the way in and out of Spain so presumably the data is going somewhere - presumption a great danger of course
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@countryman, it may be scanned into and out of a single country, but what if you enter shengen at say Switzerland and leave from Norway,
I think the current system is entirly based on the stamps in your passport. And I'm very impressed how quickly the border police scan though my passport, pair up entry and exit stamps, add up the days and ensure it's less than 90 days.
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The brit bashers would have been out in force if this was the other way around.
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| countryman wrote: |
No surprise there then - any government or quasi government doing an IT project always makes a pigs ear of it....and quite a few in the private sector
Still cannot work out why it is needed as my passport is always swiped on the way in and out of Spain so presumably the data is going somewhere - presumption a great danger of course |
So the government can spy on you. Somewhere deep routed in the t&c you tickbox to accept will allow it. This is why EU was so hell bent on getting data-sharing access to UK systems.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Just reviewing a contract for work and one clause states that all information will be shared with the USA!
This is for works carried out in the UK
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Hmmm, let's hope they see sense. For example if I cross on Eurotunnel in March for skiing and have biometrics taken (valid for 3 years), how will I know I won't get caught in summer queues behind people who are doing their first registration?
Surely there will need to be 3 different types of filter kiosk - Flexiplus, First registration and 'Sorted'??
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| stewart woodward wrote: |
Just reviewing a contract for work and one clause states that all information will be shared with the USA!
This is for works carried out in the UK |
I think that is something to do with where the server farm may be located and the USA is a big home for server farms
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@kettonskimum, You don't - almost certainly likely to lead to increased queues at ferry and tunnel. Hopefully, they'll agree some way of pre-registration before travel
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I was hoping that they would iron out all the problems in the summer so that it would be easier for those of us not planning on going to Europe until next winter. 
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You know it makes sense.
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| kettonskimum wrote: |
Hmmm, let's hope they see sense. For example if I cross on Eurotunnel in March for skiing and have biometrics taken (valid for 3 years), how will I know I won't get caught in summer queues behind people who are doing their first registration?
Surely there will need to be 3 different types of filter kiosk - Flexiplus, First registration and 'Sorted'?? |
The biometrics are taken every time; there is no 'first registration'.
The checks also have to be done in the border, which in the case of Eurotunnel is a small patch of land in Folkestone. As things stand the current proposals will be impossible to implement there.
Hopefully they will just delay it further, past the next ski season.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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there is no 'first registration'.
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Well there is, when you have to set yourself up on the system and provide the biometric details. It is this which will be more time consuming. Subsequent crossings within the 3-year period will be quicker as it is just validating you against the recorded info
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thank f*ck I have a residence permit for a Schengen area country. Let's hope there's a lane at Dover/Folkestone to skip right past the queues. |
I very much doubt that there will be, there is no EU lane currently. Us continentals have to slum it with the "inselaffen" 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| stewart woodward wrote: |
Just reviewing a contract for work and one clause states that all information will be shared with the USA!
This is for works carried out in the UK |
That will because we have ESTA visa waiver for USA & USA already has access to the same data anyway.
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| davidof wrote: |
| andy wrote: |
Thank f*ck I have a residence permit for a Schengen area country. Let's hope there's a lane at Dover/Folkestone to skip right past the queues. |
I very much doubt that there will be, there is no EU lane currently. Us continentals have to slum it with the "inselaffen" |
There was an EU lane at Dover when we came through on Friday night. It was closed!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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WTF is this doing in the piste?
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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| Whitegoldsbrother wrote: |
| WTF is this doing in the piste? |
well it's relevant to travel to European ski resorts.....
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