Posts by Chris G 6754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
Absolutely!
This is purely a marketing exercise that will give Google and the insurance companies excessive access to your data and protocols.
In addition it will enable the insurance company to dictate security processes and to refuse or limit payment in the event of a successful attack, if you haven't followed their (usually obscure) recommended practices.
In the position of Haworth and his pet board members, would resign but theses nest feathering scavengers show little sign of having heard of decency.
We can probably expect an attempt by them to break their toys and then throwing them out of the pram before they have to give them up to any successors.
When most researchers write a paper, the language and words they use are usually well considered and intended to convey as accurately as possible, their conclusions up to the point of writing.
When someone else comes along and rewrites those papers in a way that devalues any of the researcher's statements, the paper is no longer fully valid because it doesn't represent the conckusions arrived at.
Lawyers may deal with words but few of them have anything better than a glancing knowledge of most of the things they may address from time to time other than the law.
Lawyers should stick to screwing people in court not second guessing the intent of researchers.
@ Dr Syntax
Opinion pieces are a dime a dozen but opinion pieces that don't pull their punches and say what many of us are thinking are rare.
This article definitely deserves a bucket load of upvotes as do a few other El Reg articles of late.
I always thought the ' Save the NHS' campaign was an odd choice of words, now, it is becoming clearer what they were saving it for.
The offer is big enough to sound like a lot of money but small enough in terms of turnover to make little difference to the company.
Basically, it's insulting to the lusers.
The Trump ploy of bleating about children's data may go to the Communist party seems to me to be less of a bad thing than the same data going to Feacebook or Google. What exactly is the CCP going to do with such data?
Blackmail those same children years later when they are adults?
"A nice idea, but in practice, how do you make that work? "
There are already a bunch of national and international bodies that could cover the job.
British Standards Institute, CE, TUV, ISO and so on, all the manufacturer would need to do is pay them for additional certification to cover repairability. Since most of these organisations are members of the ISO it wouldn't be that hard to achieve a set of international standards.
Absolutely, they need to avoid GIGO as much as possible and the bigger the project the more difficult it is to ensure that all that goes in is valid.
Plus I suspect there may be a number of important factors that we are not even awate of yet.
An additional concern is if addressing climate change is achievable, what is the default that is being aimef for and is the correct one or even desirable considering that our ecology is an evolving system?
I quite like the swarm idea, then you could equip individual rovers with more specific sensors rather than trying to cram as much sciencr as possible onto one large machine. I know in launch terms it may be less efficient but would increase flexibility and redundancy in the event of rovers that break down.
It's not only water, a lot of ex-pats who come to Spain as well as holiday makers keep their fluid intake up but because many Brits and Germans have low sodium/sugar diets find they still suffer from heat stroke because they don't get the isotonics right.
Of course those who overindulge in alcoholic beverages also need to replace rather more than just from sweating.
Is ripeness a benefit when a sample gets to the lab?
Perhaps it will ensure swift processing.
As far as non production of homework/documents/files are concerned, the best I have heard was by a mate at school in the sixties. "I was kidnapped by a flying saucer, they must have kept my homework!"
The whole class collapsed in laughter including the teacher, my mate Pete got a week of homework detentions.
"Under GDPR and the UK equivalent, all cookie options must be opt-in. "
Which makes me wonder why so many European and UK sites still have only the blarb that says you can change options in your browser. It's about time, if Europe and the UK are serious about their legislation, that they had a simple reporting system for sites that don't comply with the regs.
This from Bitcoin.org:
"All Bitcoin transactions are public, traceable, and permanently stored in the Bitcoin network. ... Anyone can see the balance and all transactions of any address. Since users usually have to reveal their identity in order to receive services or goods, Bitcoin addresses cannot remain fully anonymous."
Given the above I can see various authorities may be quite happy to let anyone buy bitcoin and establish wallets.
I read recently that the Feds seized some $3billion in bitcoin from corrupt federal agents, if they decide they want to tax you they can, at minimum they can seize your wallet even if they can't open it.
I have Google Assistant snd the mic disabled on my phone, the icon for the mic however, is always functional and placed where it can be inadvertently touched so I constantly have a pop up asking to allow or deny the mic for Google.
I have found that shouting at the phone doesn't help at all but it hasn't stopped me.
Sales people are often a pain in the arse, but a lot of them get screeed over by bosses.
I did a six month stint as a copier salesman in the early eighties, aside from the fact that you were pushed to get clients locked into crappy lease purchase with supplies contracts with very dodgy small print on future pricing.
There was fight over commissions constantly.
I had two huge multiple sales taken off me and handed to the 'National sales' after I had done all the work that the bosses knew about, never even got a thank you, so I went back to the client and recommended a better supplier after walking out of the job.
Robots? Who needs them?
Where I live, we have several autonomous choices for trash removal; foxes, feral dogs or wild pigs, as an added bonus, occasionally humans will empty the bins (straight on to the ground) looking for anything useful or sometimes even the bin lorry gets there before any of the scavengers get there.
To me these ideas smack of being a cradle to the grave creche, where individuality is frowned upon and corformityis the desired norm.
If you take this kind of automated living too far, it gets to the point where humans are mo longer necessary and in fact, hinder the smooth running of the place.
Texas refused to join the US national grid to avoid Federal oversight among other reasons.
I suspect there may be changes in even local regulation coming soon, particularly after the Texan power companies trying to charge as much as $5K to householder for five days use of power during the freak winter they have just had. Apparently they use a pricing auction system based on the level of demand.
Even if 50,000 turn up, they will probably be sleeping in their hire cars because unless the new Catalan government makes its own rules, there won't be any hotels or hostals open.
Still, on the basis that there is. O such thing as bad publicity, at least the MWC is in the news.
Well, at least it will give the Barcelona pickpockets and bag snatchers something to do, they've had a rough time of it since the lockdowns, they don't get furlough either, no union or guild to protect them.
The conference may just coincide with a new round of separatist riots too, the Çatalunya government has just been voted in and it has a huge separatist majority, plus the locals are not happy with the Spanish government's heavy handed approach.
There were either a lot of Pakistani money launderers running around collecting ATM bonuses or a few who were REALLY busy. I don't know what kind of max payout you can get from an ATM in Pakistan but if it was a grand a time, that was 6000 payouts.
This sounds more like a 'clearing the books' exercise just like the cops getting a gullible perp who has been arrested to cop to every unsolved crime on the books as 'Taken Into Consideration', because it will go easier for him if he admits to it now instead of later when they stitch him up.
If Bill Gates is going to talk about climate he has to talk about the rest of the environment too, just to be clear I haven't read his book, only this article so i don't know what else is in it. But, pooh pooing tree planting, while it may be valid in terms of climate to some degree, is still necessary in many places where harvesting and/or forest fires have destroyed trees and the habitats that go along with them.
If we don't address the horrendous rates of extinction that are currently happening as I write this, many of which are due to habitat loss that is not related to climate change, the world's biodiversity is likely to hit a tipping point in the not too far distant future so having arrested global warming will be limited in saving the Earth as it is only one of many things that we need to address.
Wrist watches are useful, when I am biking or kayaking I can just glance at my watch for a number of functions. My phone is waterproof to the point that ai can take pics down to a metre and a half below the surface with it but why risk it falling out of a mount into the sea or off my bike at 100+ KPH when I can glance at my wrist.
Also handy when half way up a climb on a rock face.
Between 1000 Mshaft engineers causing havoc and the perpetrators of the solar winds attack, is that the Havoc1000 approach is chaos based, whereas the solarwinds attack was highly defined,seemingly well executed and didn't appear to rely on frequent patching.
So, maybe a hundred devs.....
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