And how
long before the news headline "You know that m$ sandbox you thought was safe... well guess who has all the data from it... thats right... everyone!"
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I am currently working for a UK company which is owned by a company HQ'd in Germany which in turn is owned by a company HQ'd in the Netherlands.
Which ends up playing less corp tax than companies stuck fully in the UK.
Its that sort of corporate piss taking that encouraged quite a few to vote out.... especially when you're a low paid PAYE employee who cant get out of paying any taxes ....
Quote: They upped their game from fraud to terrorism with all the expected legal consequences.
And all the expected extra-legal consequences of course, and all the consequences where the legal profession is not involved at all (although the human rights people may complain that leveling 14 city blocks was perhaps.. a tiny bit over the top)
What those in charge are doing are pandering to the 'daily wail/the stun" reading sections of the population.
Why?
To get them to vote for the incompetent bastards under the guise of "we're protecting the kids" from all the evils of the internet, and with your kids protected , nothing harm them.
Nothing at all... what? they cant access a sexual education/sexual health site? well they're 14 and shouldnt know about such stuff anyway......
ID to access things like the NHS.....
OK... this is the chat had when I had a TIA and managed to get a friend to come round and help me.
<m8> This is Boris, he managed to call me, found him collapsed on the sofa with a severe headache and unable to speak, I called 999 instantly
<paramedic> hello Boris. blah blah blah... nope... very confused and unresponsive, you got his full name and DoB?
<m8> yupp its ******* ************** and dob is ********
<paramedic> ok details done... lets get him to hospital ASAP
The hospital took those details and was able to look up my medical record including what drugs I was on and what treatment I'd had in the past few years..
SO WHAT IS THE FUCKING NEED FOR AN ID CARD FOR THE NHS?
Anyway... the bunch of numpties in parliment cant even organise a brexit so whats the chance with something simple like an ID card project?
And knowing this sort of project how long before it says "Buttle" on the arrest warrent when you're really after a guy called "Tuttle"?
"We've got the right guy and we have the ID card to prove it"
likely happen when they finally get sick of him and move the embassy 4 doors down the street in the middle of the night without telling Julian is that the british police will arrest him, he'll get charged with bail jumping and done for that, at which point we'll ask the swedes if they want him, if its yes , he'll be sent there post haste, if no, the US 'may' ask for him to be sent there.
In all cases , he'll fight it in the courts as far as he can, but due to jumping bail the first time , he'll be deemed a flight risk and held on remand.
Assuming neither sweden or the USA want him, he'll get deported to Australia so he can go relive old times by locking himself in his mom's basement with nothing but a mobile phone and a cat for company....
And signed to be a mindless drone.
Actually its to stay in touch with old friends who've scattered to the four winds. and the USA.
Having a fairly decent mobile, I thought "how about the FB app for android"
So I looked at the download page, and clicked 'permissions needed'
Zuckenburg.... you can f... right off. (for those who've never looked, the permissions are for EVERYTHING on your phone to be accessible to FB.... )
Oh and the targeted ads on FB are laughable... ranging from washing machines just after posting "I've got a new washing machine".... dur.. I've just spent 400 quid on a new one why the hell do I want another? to age based ads for the sort of problems faced by elderly people (and no I'm not ready for a stairlift/tena pants/equity release/care home yet!)
send a time machine back 20 yrs to the time of napster, and point out to the music companies(and movies too) that if they invested in on-line streaming of their copyright material, inserted a few ads every 30 mins or went subscriber model, they could make a shit ton of cash on their archives.
Instead they went down the copyright lawyer route which has resulted in the article 13 thing now...
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The elephant rides at midnight ???
You got the wrong group mate, this is the syndo-cryptic revolutionary party(Leninist), you want the Free radicals of Marxist-Hofferists (Trotskyist) , they communicate over on the Daily mail forums.
Where the ravings of a bunch of loons and splitters would never be noticed....
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I understand how you feel but you're living in a fools world (sorry, no insult) if you think that information like this is hidden and only seen by you and your doctor.
Well after reading this, I called up the bored receptionist at your doctors to find out you had an AIDS test 3 months ago, as well as a check up at the sexual health clinic.
ANd the details have leaked up because you think everyone hoovers up all of your details
BTW , your wife wants a divorce because "WTF were you doing at a sexual health clinic, let alone having an AIDS test", your employer has said "Oh an AIDS test... you must be a druggie, you're fired, and your health insurance co just found out and raised your premium by 500%.
Oh and having a 4" penis is a bit on the small side too.
how us techie types can yell "The cloud is not a good idea as we're going to get outages in service."
And its as if the manglement put fingers in their ears and go "lalalalalalalalala we cant hear you" (I think the offsite snake oil salesman put spells on them to make them to that)... then fire all the doom mongering tech types.
Until today when the senior manglement say "wheres our emails?"
brexit thing has been a clusterfuck of unimaginable proportions.
Take migration... (actually migration problems are really caused by westminister doing things such as not bothering to check how many people are coming here vs the expansion in services/housing to cope...BOTH parties are equally as guilty of this as the other.)
What should have been said is "EU nationals working here pre-brexit have an unlimited time to remain here, post brexit, EU nationals get the same rights as the rest of the world"
If the EU wanted to play silly buggers around that, we restate the 1st phrase
Sadly the 'government' (read 300 cats in a sack) decided to do things differently, then have a leadership election.... then an actual election (needing the support of some northern irish throwbacks.. when will they realise its not 1689 anymore!!) hence we're in clusterfuck.
a couple more years and there'll be plenty of tales of
"The smart meter said I used 100 quids of electrickery, the supplier adjusted the direct debit to match, the bank rejected the debit as there was only £50 in the account, therefore the supplier automatically switched off the power..... all this took less than 3 seconds and we're left sitting in the dark"
Thats the real reason for smart meters, because at the moment you have to do expensive things such as going to court for a warrent and getting people in to cut off the power for non payment....
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I don't really know what the article means by "notifications" but it may refer to the system to track food.
That comes in handy when suddenly a bunch of people start falling violently ill and it is discovered that all of them had lamb the day before. We currently have a system where we can trace (across Europe) every piece of meat in the supermarket to see who packaged it, who cut it, who slaughtered the animal and who reared it.
And it still didnt stop us getting horse burgers and horse lasagna dressed up as beef....
And those huge sausages were very suspicious....
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"for the children - for their own good. because we're good people and we know better..."
Which begs another observation from Pterry
The king at the top is good.... lets hope his 2nd is good too because he rules in the name of the king.... and lets hope his assistants are good because they also rule in the name of the king and it only take 1 bastard to bring the system down.....
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But how can it work reliably without a load of IT people tinkering with it all the time?
BECAUSE it doesn't have a bunch of IT people tinkering with as directed by a PHB who doesn't know any better.
Its as bad as the bright spark who decided to make us save all our data on the backup server in order to make his life easier when it comes to doing off site backups.
Only thing is.... the server has gone dead and needs a reboot.... and hes the only one with a key to the server room and hes on holiday until Tuesday......
The EULA does not take away your rights under the consumer rights act to having a decent product that works.
After all... Ford could make you sign an EULA saying that any accidents are the fault of the driver....
However , if you manage to beat the M$ lawyers , all you'll get back is the cost of the win 10 licence
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It would be possible to go on a recruitment drive for CompSci teachers (there's enough software engineers out there who don't pass the age test for most jobs). But solving the problem (instead of hiding it) costs actual money.
And more than likely , dont have exactly the right piece of paper to show the education department's HR people
"But I've been programming for 30 yrs everything from flight control software to mentoring the web-dev team"
"Sorry.... you need certificate 456252-TX-665c section 5 to teach basic programing....no certificate, no chance of an interview"
got this working well enough (IE getting less than 90% false positives)
Its time for the next stage... replacing the border guards with automated border drones
"Drop the purple donkey... you have 20 seconds to comply"
"Drop the purple donkey or you will face lethal force.. you have 10 seconds to comply"
"Drop the purple donkey or you will be shot.. you have 5 seconds to comply"
"Non-compliance with order , you have been shot....... please enjoy the rest of your visit to the EU"
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"How long does it take to train a customs drone?"
Ages, you have to teach them to read every line of the form and be able to nitpick and then reject anything they dont like
Like for example the export form says "routers" , the import form says "router", that means your shipment is stuck in customs for 3 months while they sort out if the shiper is one router or many.
And god help you if the contents of the box dont match up.. "sorry mate.. theres 25 routers in the box, but the paperwork says "routers" without saying how many... I cant let that in.. its more than my jobs worth"
When dealing with customs and excise, you're always far better off headbutting a wall..... repeatedly, it does'nt take as long and the long term effects are pretty much the same...
would be making it illegal to charge for IP transfer... unless its being sold to a independent 3rd company.
eg Google cayman islands cannot charge Google UK 4 billion quid/yr for using Google US's IP when both companies are fully owned by Google US.
But if someone like Search UK (an example company) wants to use Google's IP, then they can be charged 4 billion quid for it....
But then the lawyers/accountants will quickly find any loopholes in the tax code, helpfully inserted by tax officials/politicians who later goto work for the multi-nationals....
Had my superhub 2 'upgraded' to a 3 a few weeks ago.
What a pile of poo
Plus the phone only seems to work for about a week after the engineer has 'fixed' it again (looking at the local phone cabinet.. I'm surprised any of it works..)
But why dont you switch?
Because openretch supplied BB is even worse....
They dont always spend the cash flow on R&D.... it goes in 'Buying IP from suppliers"... in other words, google UK buys intelectual property from google US in spite of the fact that google US own 100% of google UK..
Which is a bit of a piss take.
Especially if search engine UK based here in dear old blightly has to pay MORE in tax than google
Heck looking at some of figures I bet the small co I work for pays more in tax than google et al
And yet there are people who would...
Lets just say a defector has a pacemaker fitted.... much easier just walking past him and reprogramming the pacemaker to ignore any problems than to say , smear his front door in nerve gas solution....
hes not staying in the embassy because the US will try to nab him once the british have lost interest (about 3 days after fining him £100 for jumping bail), but hes staying there because hes hiding from the people who DO want some harm to come to him.... I.E the people he stiffed for 1 million quid when he jumped bail...
Pity he hadn't taken refuge in the Saudi embassy..... couldn't see them putting up with his cat crapping on the carpet for long.... ;)
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buying the brand, the IP and their customer list is very valuable for your business. You buy the lot, incorporate the brand and some of their product lines but close the production in the Midlands.
this went on well before the in/out vote.
Company A spends X number of millions on R&D, suffers a share price fall because the share holders wanted all that R&D money for themselves, Company B (a competitor) moves in with an offer to buy the shares at Y price, current shareholders sell up, Company B promises to keep on production at Company A's site....... 12 months later Company A is shut down and everyone fired.
Company B now has a monolopy, and all of company A's IP.
Or Company B takes over company A, and needs to shed staff, Company A is based in a country where its easy to fire people..... Company A is shut down.
Thers no brexit angle to that behaviour because it goes on all the time regardless of brexit, german re-unification or greece's economy imploding
OK I'll admit perhaps I didnt define critical system too well
But given m$'s attempts to muscle in on the robot market (something that fills me with fear)
Quote: "After all, it's not like people die because of a bug in their system."
PCs ARE used in critical systems ... MRI scanners, Radiotherapy machines, industrial robots to name a few.
A bug in win 10 introduced by automatic updates CAN kill in those circumstances... its not like "Oh I've lost the power point document I've been working on for 2 days" , its more like "Opps I've just given that cancer patient 10 times the gamma ray dose I should have"
Which is why those sort of machines have "For gawd's sake dont let windows update run" signs on them.
Or in the sector I deal with "Welcome to Linux, booting machine application, have a nice day"
And put into words many of us feel windows is currently a shit show
On the QC thing.
I work in aerospace manufacturing........ how many of you would be happy to fly on a plane where the only people to have done any QC work would be the plane spotters brigade?
No takers..... why does something critical as a desktop OS have no real QC ?
any way we can sue M$ under the consumer rights act?
Eg... I go out and buy a new PC loaded with win 10, 2 weeks later a m$ update borks and bricks the thing.
Surely then the PC becomes defective goods and must be replaced or refunded by the supplier
But would we (being us consumers) put up with this behaviour from any other customer/business goods supplier? Oh I've just got a new car/tv/washing machine/toaster....... after 2 weeks it doesn't work because the manufacturer 'updated' the software ...
ANd once the system is built and ready to be tested , the civil servant in charge will hand you a piece of paper completely changing what it is you have to do.
The the minster hands you another piece of paper telling you to disregard the first 2 jobs specs and build a bridge across the Thames....