Re: Targeted change
"To better prepare Magic Leap for the future, we have told half our staff to 'Hop it'".
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Personally, I find the world around me, sufficiently real and interesting to have no need for Augmentation or Virtualisation.
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A number of companies were already in the throes of moving to Vietnam as a result of the trade war with the US, C19 has spurred on others to consider the same, clearly Vietnam doesn't expect China to be happy about it, and need more insight.
Fat chance of anything remotely as clear and democratic as that happening.
You only have to look at the narrow minded approach of cops and authorities to the current lockdown to guess at how these agencies will abuse access to everyones data.
If the police currently are unable to provide the necessary service to these agencies, the police forces should be expanded sufficiently to cope, I'm not in favour of larger and larger police forces but at least they would come under one set of regulations.
There does still need to be improved oversight and review as to necessity for the act in general, preferably via judicial review.
I remember reading that UC Berkeley and Russian researchers have both come up with robot cockroaches, maybe swarms of those could be developed to explore Mars. Use a PV carapace to extend their range and for more remote exploration drop them by helicopter.
Let's face it, everywhere man goes he takes rats and 'roaches with him.
"interesting2 depends on the origin/s of the contents, doner ranges in quality from CMOT Dibbler unnamed and unknown animal/anatomy to some of the excellent doner I get from a local Morroccan kebabista, though I can't recommend any doner when it's cold form the night before, for a morning after hangover breakfast.
While contact tracing is obviously useful, it seems more is spoken about it than the value of knowing who actually has C19 as soon as possible. I realise developing a simple, fast, effective and economical test is not that easy but catching it earlier and prevent contact sooner would reduce the potential number of contacts significantly.
But then what government doesn't like to keep tabs on it's population?
I think your rules have yet to be translated into Spanish.
The riders that go past my house most (covid-19 free) weekends, break most of those rules.
In winter the keenest seem to be the greybeards, some of them ride in weather that makes me want to light the fire and open a bottle of wine.
Rotating space stations may well be doable as stations but far less practicable as spacecraft. To make them function well, size is everything and the energy to get a space station sized craft moving, braking and manoeuvring is not trivial and would put some interesting stresses on the structure. Have a look at Real Engineering on YT. Can we make artificial gravity.
Credit should be given where it's due, the dips in Barcelona are world class, they come from Columbia, Algeria, Romania and many other countries.
If a Guild of Pick pockets exists anywhere, it will be Barcelona.
If you visit, all pockets should have zips and Kevlar razor resistant linings, same with bags, anything not in a sealed bag or pocket should be chained to you and be sure to regularly count fingers and limbs.
I prefer exhibitions in Madrid, a nicer cheaper city with less crime overall in my experience.
I saw on the News today that Amazon are threatening to pull out of France completely over the French being upset about workers lack of protection from infection while working.
Let's face it, if a few workers die, it's not as if there are more looking for work right now so why bother to protect them?
Whatever that means, I doubt that it includes ensuring the poor get a sufficient share of it.
Most of his vacuous statements like that, usually mean he has no clue but wants to sound as though he's on top of whatever it is and it is sufficiently content free that he can wriggle out of difficult questions later.
So, just another shit head politician!
Does anyone know if oily snakes live on volcanic islands?
To be fair data does have an important part to play in health but it can also send people on wild goose chases and can't replace actual research.
There is, also a risk of large scale health data on everybody being misused.
Not only does it need government input, it needs governments to specifically ban commercial use across the board.
While governments are at it they should also be limiting themselves and their agencies from being able to abuse this technology.
Simon can add to his list Social Services and Local government abuse, as happened before with the RIPA.
'Shut the fuck up and listen' was written into CAA rules when I worked on light aircraft air frames.
I was a very junior engineer but if I wouldn't sign off on a checklist the aircraft couldn't fly until I did.
As far as I know that was the law. What I do know, is twice in three years I refused to sign off although an owner was creating merry hell about flying to Boulogne for lunch or something because I had genuine concerns about cracks or wear in a part and my boss stood by me.
A few decades back I worked for a well known copier company, if a new client had more than three sites for installations under one contract the sale was considered to be under the national sales department, but they were supposed to pay you a percentage of the whole.
What they wiould do if you hooked a large multi site contract was to break it down into two site contracts or some other trick to make sure the best you would get was an envelope with a couple of Debenhams vouchers in it.
The beancounters would try to find a way to reduce commission on every sale anyway.
Shit company and shit job! I quit and got a degree in robotics instead.
To expand on your real world analogy, real world security is mostly about making it harder and more difficult to enter premises or steal a car.
It doesn't make it impossible to enter, given enough time and some tools anyone can break into a bank vault or office but time is whatvreal word thieves don't have, they will be discovered and caught.
Infoscabs on the other hand can operate unseen and mostly undetected usually until it is too late, even when they are detected, it is usually only their virtual presence o are difficult to catch and prosecute physically.
It will be the very people who promote encryption publicly who are likely to profit the most from an end to most encryption. Currently, many of those who provide encrypted platforms are the same people who make a living out of selling as much of everybody's data as possible, makes you wonder what kind of conversations their lobbyists have behind closed doors.
If you can get a large alligator and are keeping it between you, I suppose it had shared pet status and you can take it walkies together (provided you stay either side of the alligator.
Out of curiosity, how wide is an alligator?
I assume they are restricting this rule to American alligators as the only other extant species is ... Chinese.
Since we can't detect it directly, or touch it, feel it ,or measure it. I was wondering I f I could blame it the next time I get caught speeding.
":I was dring along minding me own business yer honour when suddenly my car went faster sndvfaster of it's own accord, I think I passed through a band of Dark Energy".
Think I'd get away with It?
I live in the Valencia region and I have to say the population is pretty much self policing.
I have been stopped once in the village 6Km from me by the Policia Local, they asked me if I was OK and doing alright..
Everywhere here is orange and almond groves and like all farming it doesn't stop soit is easy to go for a sensible stroll inthe country, just wear a mask and take a bug sprayer or a chainsaw with you.
Is Lord Sumption's first name Ass by any chance?
The last thing any plod considers himself, is just a citizen.
Kieron I wuld love to be able to upvote the article, all police forces constantly complain about lack of manpower and resources but whenever there is an opportunity to increase their ability to control the population they will find the resources and manpower no matter how petty it may be.
I was talking t my ex- wife in the UK, who told me when she also bought plants that were on sale in the same supermarket where she was shopping for essential items, she was tutted atby staff and other shoppers for buying nonessentials.
These are the kind of people who think children shoud be kept on a lead and sow grass seed with a tape measure. Small, narrow, bored little minds!
The cloud will be expanding so fast that in places it will thin out a bit leaving holes for the unwelcome to come innand poke around.
I can see WFH thing is going to not only change the view of some bosses regarding work space requirements but also terms of employment, there is likely to be a whole new style of contract coming soon.
There is also the thought that if you have to dedicate a part of your home as a workspace, you should be paid for it, in the same way others receive a tool allowance.
Answers on a postcard can be posted in any receptacle affixed to a lampost.
It's nice that fashion designers should think of those working from home in these difficult times, obviously want them to look their best, the fashion companies will go all out to have those designs manufactured by children in sweatshops that are located in countries that have no lockdow in place.
Might I suggest a line of pre-pizza stained T shirts for those working from basements?