Posts by Christoph 3323 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Dec 2007
"convincing them to sign up for military life in the Marine Corps could be a very tough sell indeed"
The stereotypical hacker physique is pretty much antithetical to what the US Marines insist on. Digging them out from behind the piles of empty pizza boxes and Jolt Cola bottles to do basic training would be distinctly non-trivial.
"Our policies prohibit agents from doing anything other than what is necessary to solve the customer’s problem"
So that's OK - they have a policy against it. You can be quite certain that a young, lowly paid, bored computer tech is never ever going to search customer machines for *.jpg in the hope of finding some raunchy stuff. Trust us!
Do these filters have to be installed on internet connected cars? (As well as fridges)
I wonder how many faults will be introduced by the extra software and possibly hardware needed.
They will have a system to add new sites, but will there be any way at all to remove false positives?
Though by US conservative standards teenager advisory sites, abortion help sites and breast cancer help sites will not be considered 'false' positives.
How long before they announce they will block fake news sites like the BBC and Snopes, and only allow true news like Breitbart and Fox News?
"We take privacy extremely seriously and access to sensitive data is strictly controlled.”
Oh, that's all right then. I'm sure the government will take good care to make all that incredibly sensitive data secure. It might even be several months before the whole database is posted to the net by a hacker.
Remember kids, your teacher is there to spy on you for the government.
The US has passed a law saying they can hack into the computers of anyone, including people outside the US.
I wonder what their response would be if a foreign government passed a law stating that in that case, any of their citizens could legally hack into US government computers?
Or some plod (or anyone else from the long list of agencies who can snoop through your browser history at will) who's a bit short of the ready looking for anyone who has accessed porn sites, then looking up more detail on those people, then selecting suitable targets for blackmail on the treat of revealing those porn site visits.
"Critical infrastructure providers also have to buy their equipment from a list that has been government tested and approved. "
So by the time the bureaucracy approves it, they will be allowed to buy 10 year old equipment that is no longer manufactured. Or equipment where all the development money was spent on bribes.
"It would be "some time" before it became clear which UK goods and services, if any, would benefit from any such trade deal, and the terms on which they would do so, Lougher said."
Because any such trade deal is entirely dependent on the goodwill of the EU negotiators to permit us to have such a deal.
If they don't feel like being generous (and why should they?) and we don't have anything to offer in return (and the Brexit people have emphasised repeatedly that we are not going to give ground on anything) then we are out of luck and up the creek.
" the CAA aren't very keen on medium sized drones working that would be quick enough and would stay in the air long enough to get involved in pursuit."
I should bloody well hope not. An operator that's concentrating on following a speeding car through urban roads is not going to be able to also avoid obstacles. A car driver can because it's all in the same place, the road route in front. A drone pilot watching the road can't also separately watch the aerial route.
And I doubt if a drone can corner as well as a car can, especially among buildings.
Flying high enough to avoid everything will lose sight of the car as soon as it takes a few corners.
It's "Because we can".
They don't need any actual use case for it - they simply grab everything just in case. It satisfies the urge to "Do something!" even knowing it's pointless, and it lets them prove that they can impose whatever they want on funny foreigners and those foreigners have to meekly kow-tow.
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