Posts by Chris G 6754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
For the likes of Elsevier and Springer and their I'll, they must be missing out on a few dollars.
What really galls me is the way they frequently archive well known or older information that is or should be freely available, put it behind a paywall and seem to massage search results such that you need to scroll through countless pages of search results to find the free and open source papers.
These publishing companies must must have teams hoovering up old tech and patents.
Considering the opening of the article is about the health risks of sedentary sitting, I would think the last thing you would want is a motor.
A crank a few times a day will add to daily cardio vascular exercise and benefit the worker.
Although frequent cranking in a busy office environment may irritate colleagues.
I built a scissor lift bench for my workshop using a scaffold jack it is easy to use even with a hundred kilo load on it.
It's not only the kind of Darwinian candidate who climbs into the back seat, there are all the others who will read a text then reply, read the reply and watch the video or click the link and then be very surprised when they realise the car is not going to stop before hitting the truck/tree/old lady etc.
Like most investor driven companies, Google only pays lip service to ethics and morals that are beyond obvious criminal action. The bottom line is profit, only when they are either caught out or in danger of being caught out doing something that catches the public's attention will they address or at least appear to address concerns.
Google are nowhere near alone, the attitude applies to most profit driven companies, governments and politicians.
It was clear when Marian Croak said it " It damages the brand" not that " We genuinely want to do good"
That sentence pretty much sums up what I was thinking as I read the article.
The statements from Crest seemed to be a lot of words that didn't really say much.
I suspect an easy route to certification to enable access to bidding may be quite beneficial to some....
Alistair, your Spanish is fine, hotos kind of precludes procreation.
Ninety percent of the 'latest' thing items that show up in the world are only of real interest to the whippersnappers who are trying to sell them, the best things to acquire while en route to becoming your dad are health and peace of mind.
The other handy thing is a nice knobbly stick to poke the whippersnappers with.
That has one of the video clips I saw, the modern US Navy are apparently still using WWII gun cameras.
I could get better photos of aerial objects at air shows in the seventies with a Practika camera and Ilford film.
I assume the aliens use some kind of cloaking technology that turns modern cameras into antiques.
Going by a Daily Mail article that was sent to me by a mate in the UK, the US navy have been encountering some unusual flying objects, judging by the description of the manoeuvres of one craft, it had some kind of inertialess drive, if only we could do a rental deal with the owners, Mars trips could be regular.
They probably don't have any investors as they are a not for profit but it may put others off of the notion of dealing with them in any way.
I would be reluctant to engage a company that appears to attemp to cover it's own inadequacy by taking legal action against whoever pointed out said inadequacy.
As an NFP whose money were they using to pay for their lawyers?
Spencer should really also be credited with inventing the first password management system too.
In any event, his microspheres changed a significant part of how we communicate and buffer our memories.
My fridge never has less than five or six Post it's reminding me to do something or other.
Oddly,foreigners seem to be able to do ID quite well in many countries, in Spain I have no qualms about my ID card, if I still lived in the UK, I would sooner leave the country than live in what would rapidly become a country where ' Papieren Bitte' was a common demand.
In Spain we don't get utility bills printed on bits of dead tree, this is a modern country!
I would rather the records were kept securely and locally but with secure portability designed into the data storage system requiring the individual's permission if they need to transfer any of them to another site.
That is how it works in Spain where I live, formerly we lived in Ibiza and my wife still works there, in order for the local hospital to access her records, she was required to show ID and health card before the records could be sent.
There are protocols for when the patient is unable to participate due to health.
Given the history of authorities of all sorts in the UK losing and misplacing records, a central DB just means they can lose them all at once (or sell them in a lump).
They are just about to offer it to rural areas in Spain but at €499.00 for the kit and €99,00/m, I don't see many rural Spaniards going for it unless they really need it for business.
Most people in the hard to reach bits are not that well off.
In Spain we have a National identity number which is linked to health and most other things, in Spain it works fine, if I lived in the UK I would trust any government to not take liberties with it.
Banking here generally works smoothly, even old farmers in the rural area I live in, will pay by contactless card.
As for cheques, the only time we really use them is for a ' porta d'or', translates more or less to 'carrying gold' you just take it to the branch where the issuer banks and they pay you the cash value, no questions other than showing you ID number.
The article doesn't make clear what low frequencies and high frequencies OQ are considering.
If the devices they are linking to are using standard tech, I don't see how the signals are going manage five or six hundred kilometers each way when an average range for most 5G devices is about a thousand feet.
With luck the same will happen with the FB app as well and it will finally fall over and sink into the foetid swamp it crawled out of.
"as it erases your message history, removes you from all of your WhatsApp groups, and deletes your WhatsApp backups,"
Yeah! I really believe that feacebook will dump anything of potential value to them.
The turkeys will be responding to the 'call for information' feeling that they will have made some contribution to an improved act.
What they are likely to discover as the axe is raised over the chopping block, is that none of their views will have contributed and the New Improved Act™ contains whatever the Home Office wanted from the start.
Encryption (or a version of it) may rear it's ugly head at the reveal, not mentioning it now is a good tactic.
Considering who is promising the review, I wonder if there will be prison sentences for typos and floggings for clogging keyboards with pizza crumbs?
Aside from any likely governmental ridiculousness, the act does need an overhaul so this is hopefully going to be a good thing, also including recommendations or standards for in house hygiene may be helpful as a means to go some way towards preventing attacks in the first place.
A good article and one of the points it highlights, is that those who are supposed to protect us and our privacy are one of the most immediate threats to it.
Not only are they a threat but either lie outright or are extremely economical with the truth, why would we trust anyone who shows such dishonesty with much of our most intimate data?
Looks like a case of one step forward and half s step back.
Still, so long as the beancounters and share holders are happy, it's not as if customers are important is it?
Oh! Last time I was.in Mildenhall, it was in Suffolk.
Once again I tried the corrections button but on my phone nothing happens.
"A fully autonomous system needs to be able to cope with" a dickhead, or multiples thereof, human beings are inventive and there are no limits to the levels of stupidity some of them are capable of.
If allowing for those levels of Darwin Award winning behaviour is not planned for the auto pilot is not fit for purpose.
Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg and others are for much of the time, just playing the Influencer game. Because they know that people who are under the impression they know what they are talking about the people pay attention to them, then, having effectively insider info based on what they know they are going to say, they can prepare and play the market accordingly.
A game as old as the markets they trade in.
The Pentagon would like ethical hackers to test and provide fixes for their leaky IT boat out of the goodness of their patriotic hearts while eating prawn an lobster salads and putting said ethical hackers onto a list of potential persons of interest?
The Pentagon are expecting to spend something like $733 billion this year and they can't find a few pennies for bug bounties?
That's interesting, because the Martian police growlers on their cars are very low pitch and Martian voices are rarely lower pitched than about 100Hz.
I suspect the filtering is due to the embarrassment at being nicked for parking and flying in a slither only zone, so soon after landing.
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