Posts by graeme leggett

Re: What an absurd situation

ECJ is invoked in cases relating to EU law.

Wouldn't ECHR be the right court of appeal? assuming invoking Human Rights Act 1998 etc

Re: Telly Tax or Adverts

World service is also getting £290 million from central gov across the years til 2020

The victim ignored standard procedures.

In the aviation world, this would be followed by "Why didn't they follow procedures?", "what would have happened if they had followed the procedures? " are the standard procedures right?" and "how do we get them to follow standard procedures?"

And in the InfoSec world, it's just point and laugh? Not the way to progress.

Re: Are we surprised?

That's cars not people. The rules, even if you don't like them, are clear. Unlike Google's.

https://www.police.uk/information-and-advice/automatic-number-plate-recognition/

And also unlike Google, there is a possible risk-benefit balance to society.

Re: SS ranks

Shouldn't it be in italics as well ?

Bitte schon

Re: The price of freedom...

dividing by Chinese population (~1.3 Bn) roughly $10 per head.

Re: "it's the way a cloud company deals with them that sets the grownups apart."

Act! CRM is by Swiftpage these days.

Sage have their own CRM to sell you

Re: Logic?

But if you're a goods vehicle operator you need an operators licence.

If driving people around you may need Private Hire or PSV licences.

You may also need to keep up to date with driving skills, and if over 45 renew driving licence at 5 year intervals, over 65 every year

Re: Coffinships

Prince of Wales was more or less brand new, having been commissioned the same year.

She sank because a torpedo hit one of the propeller shafts. As it was turning at full revolutions, the damage opened up all the bulkheads the shaft passed through and therefore water in. Which reached the dynamos and killed a lot of electrical power. Once the pumps failed she could not counter the flooding and rolled over about hour and a half later.

Re: You're being too picky

I'll add to that.

I'm presuming that the idea behind Atlas is to learn how to do things - such as bipedal locomotion - not necessarily that Atlas is the final product.

And if Atlas is an evolutionary step to an endpoint that is Atlas-shaped- that the end is something that can fit in a human environment and achieve a multiplicity of tasks as a replacement (temporary or not) for a human- not just specifically moving a box.

Re: Council Vote?

Why do councillors vote on such matters? Because it's a large wedge of public money, and because you don't want the lone individual executive in charge of IT making the decision.

Same for infrastructure, planning officers make recommendations and elected representatives vote on whether to build road or not.

Re: Independence of expert comments?

Yes. Basically join IPSE and you can get cover such as " up to £2000 if ill and unable to drive for two weeks or more"

And they say that Uber is contributing to cost of the scheme.

I think there's a definite element of COI. If only that "workers" are more likely to join a union than an association of contractors.

"you'll have the Daily Mail screaming about kids seeing p0rn"

Meaning the mailonline website right hand sidebar ? "all grown up" "flaunts curves" "...stuns in a bikini..." "beach body.." "plunging dress" etc etc

Re: yes, it's very nice but...

"wasn't expecting that one."

So much material, so little time...

perhaps it's the knock on effect the are concerned about.

Take hypothetical bird - "the yellow-winged ground duster"

The ground duster (lovely plumage by the way) eats two insects. From March to July the larva of the Red backed caterpillar and from August to November the Blue legged Beetle. The latter fattens it up so it can survive until March rolls round again.

Did you know the Red backed caterpillar is a farming pest? Nibbles the growing buds of Unobtainium vulgaris (a useful crop) destroying it. But their numbers are usually not excessive.

Now one year the Blue legged beetle population drops, precipitously. Yellow-winged dusters (you remember them? - #Connections ) can't find enough food in November and most are dead come the New Year. Consequently the Red-backed population explodes in Spring - crop gone. Finito. Not a sausage.

Re: It really

"cheaper what exactly will that have achieved?"

An illustration of the law of supply and demand...

and/or

An increase in the usage of roof mounted solar panels ?

Re: Missed a point...

There presumably must be a possibility that the approach might work, else why try such a suggestion. Unless it's to flush Boeing and US Gov's position into the open.

Re: Silly Valley

Orac was a bit wilful though. And mean.

You: "Orac, phone my wife"

Transparent blinky cube: "I am too busy to deal with your petty concerns at the moment. And for your information, your wife is currently in a bar with co-workers and doesn't want to be interrupted by you."

Re: Doctor Who

It was his end, but the moment had been prepared for.

The company will not have to delete any information that they are required to keep by law.

So records of the hypothetical employee's pay and national insurance including the NI number, employee roll number will all be retained for quite a while longer than 30 days

Re: "back catalogue of programs"

BBC Worldwide money is already used by the BBC for making programmes.

Eg BBC America co-production credits on some programmes including Dr Who and Top Gear if I recall

Re: whats worse than ads is NO ads?

As VM includes the terrestials, there was news available from BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and 5

The news channels on Virgin Media (you need full package for all but Sky News is included at base) is

BBC News

Sky News

BBC Parliament

CNN

Bloomberg

CNBC

Euronews

NDTV 24x7

Al Jazeera English

France 24 English

NHKworldHD

Re: Just a thought.

While you're at it, you could use the RAT (Ram Air Turbine) to generate electricity for your electric engines....

I remember 1981 when a Guardia Civil commander (Antonio Tejero Molina) entered the Cortes and had a bit of a go at a coup d'état. "por Espana"

There were tanks on streets of Valencia etc. Then Juan Carlos denounced it, appealed to remaining military and it rather fizzled out.

Re: But it probably came with an arbitration clause...

Is the arbitration clause even legal in your area?

A quick looksee suggests it would be certainly up for consideration as a unfair clause in EU area.

Re: Restriction of choice?

an interesting subject - what's the take up of Uber in those countries perceived as less car-centric and with a history of bicycles and public transport? eg the Netherlands

Re: Sky

If I remember correctly from reading Which in the past, their surveys are of Which subscribers using the service.

So they are both self-selecting, and from a certain demographic.

If I also remember correctly Which do give this info in the reports in the magazines - the number of respondents giving ratings

Re: Ah, memories.

saw one in a skip outside a house near mine the other day.

Thought 1 - "haven't seen an OHP in use in years"

Thought 2 - "wonder if it still works/could be repaired/could be turned into something else"

Thought 3 - "you haven't even replaced hinges on a door that needs sorting, what makes you think you'd do anything with an OHP except keep it in garage and then (years later) throw it in skip"

I see a new business opportunity. The creation of datasets of fictional (though plausible) individuals for testing purposes.

First line of licence "All names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production dataset are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred..."

Those who used to make character generation programs for RPGs (out of Basic and spreadsheets as I recall), it should be no problem. And possibly fun.

[Talking of RPGs - room for a quick plug for HumbleBundle's WHFRP offering ? ]