"a tool for parental and employee control"
Parental control ?
If you're a parent and you use this "tool", you fail at parenting.
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Agreed.
Besides, how can they say such bollocks when we were locked in during Covid and the work continued just as well ?
Hello ? We were there, we know.
The only difference here is that it is state government. I do acknowledge that WFH is not going to take care of citizens showing up at Reception for an administrative problem. For that you obviously need a meatbag (or more) at the desk. But I doubt that there are that many government workers who are in direct contact with citizens. Those who are not can very likely be dispensed from going to the office.
Yeah, the bigwigs are having an existential crises, we get it. They don't see their peons any more, poor things.
With all the audio data available from all sorts of sources on the Internet, that doesn't seem to be much of a barrier if you're seeking to spoof the voice of anyone who is known. Celebrities, politicians, major CEOs, all of them have their voice on publicly-available sources somewhere.
Now, if you're targetting someone for specific reasons that is not a social media aficionado, it makes things a lot more complicated, especially if you do not know the person socially. You're going to have to find a way to meet the person, get the person talking and put your mobile phone down to record the conversation. That will mean cleaning up the recording afterwards, which is never an easy task.
So, the basic question really is just how well recorded does the target's voice need to be ? Will a few dozen seconds in the street suffice, or do you need a few minutes of sound booth recording ?
The only guarantee they have is that Borkzilla will, in the end, do whatever it damn well pleases and it will see them in Court if they have the gall to disagree.
Also, some Borkzillasuit declares no idea for mobile gaming and the decision is to buy Activision ? Does Activision have an extensive mobile gale catalogue ?
How about making games for mobiles ? Is that not an idea ?
Oh, right, that's work. You're not too good at that.
Sorry but I have to disagree with that statement.
It's easy to blame them for not speaking up but you acknowledge that they can disappear, yet you do not seem to take that into account.
So what would you do if you knew that voicing your discontent in the morning could very well have you shipped to a camp in Siberia in the afternoon (or worse) ?
Oh, and just a reminder : torture is still very much a thing in Russian prisons.
No, they are not.
A contract is a legally-binding accord by which two parties agree to a set of clauses that, in theory, should provide some sort of benefit to both. The importance of the words "legally-binding" is that one of the two parties cannot modify the terms of the contract without the other party's consent.
Ts&Cs throw that last bit out the window. When you agree to the Ts&Cs, you have no right to modify them, nor do you have any right to refuse that the website, sole proprietor and manager of their content, modifies them as it suits the website.
Ergo, Ts&Cs are most certainly not a contract. We need to find a better, more suitable qualifier. An extortion, parhaps ?
Fog. Millions upon millions of tiny droplets of water floating in the air.
Does that mean that heavy rain can also potentially cut, or severely diminish, performance of the laser beam ? Because if so, then any place that has a monsoon season is going to need a backup plan, as in a fiber link.
The countdown has started to the revelation that this is just another false declaration.
Old topics deleted ? No. They will be marked as deprecated, with the date of deprecation carefully stored for future reference.
You don't fool us, Google. Ad data is never deleted anymore, it just piles up higher and higher.
Um, they were the lyric, right ?
The words don't change simply because someone else posts them.
And it's not because you are trying to get money out of other people's work that you have any copyright claim worth a damn.
I must admit that this Supreme Court baffles me. On the one hand, it does make a lot of right decisions, like here. On the other, Roe vs Wade.
I don't get it.
And, a few paragraphs later : "we're a brine salt mining company".
Seems to me that brine is liquid, and IIRC, on this planet liquids flow down. So 3PL could very well set up shop in the non-preserved area and start extracting brine, the brine in the preserved area is not going to magically not flow to the extraction area.
Let 3PL come back with tech that they can demonstrate won't disturb the surface, then talks can start.
But who am I kidding ? There's money to be made, and the party that reversed Roe vs Wade wants it. NASA's going to have to find some other solution.
Only if the IT department is up to snuff, which doesn't happen very often where hospitals are concerned because, whatever the technical level of the people in the department, it's practically a given that they don't have the budget to do everything they need to do.
Well, Humanity could plausibly have built a swarm of space umbrellas to control the amount of radiation that reaches Earth, and could plausibly have built an asteroid deflection facility on the Moon by then, so if we can avoid scorching the Earth ourselves in the meantime, we might have a fighting chance to still be on Earth.
Not to mention that, in half a billion years, there's plenty of time for scores of generation ships to carry excess population to viable destinations while they slowly go crazy and forget why they're in space in the first place . . .
I'd argue that Man in this context is supposed to be the general human being and not the human male, but first I'm sure that if they were intelligent enough to infer that they wouldn't have put that in a replacement list and second, it seems that Humanity is going to the dogs anyway, so why bother ?
Maybe it shouldn't be white US males handling this project. I think there should be some European, South American, Asian and African input as well. I don't feel part of the KKK when I say that a process is hung, or that I'm killing it.
But they still offer commercial trips.
Am I supposed to be surprised that something may have gone wrong ?
I would have thought that offering a commercial service would be surrounded by guarantees that are a bit beyond "We designed the sub with NASA". I would have supposed that there would be a clear trail of paperwork pointing to all the tests that have been done and approved by some authority that is not an employee of the company.
Apparently not.
And if the answer is "nobody would be foolish enough to certify", then the response should be "Well I'm not going".
They went, and I'm guessing they'll stay.
Frankly, throwing yourself out of a plane with just a few meters of cloth to keep you alive seems positively reasonable in comparison.
Well done.
Shame that you can't have the same attitude towards the dinofuel industry.
Or maybe Musk should buy a few politicians, like they did ? Ah no, there's the whole "cutting costs" thing.
Oh well, nothing lasts forever.
All required because someone, at the specification stage, wrote "local currency" when discussing currencies and everybody just went along with it.
After all, you're only setting up a cloudy thingy on a communications network that goes around the world, it's not like you should actually take into account any specific financial considerations, such as accounting departments in multinational corporations having to deal with multiple currencies, right ?
Right.
Pretty much confirmed what I thought : there is no legal possibility of preventing Big Money to merge. However, there is definitely the legal possibility of making a company split in two, if you're willing to go the distance, spend decades in legal wrangling and make hay for scores of lawyers.
In the meantime, apparently the only thing possible is basically banning the results of the merger in the countries that don't like it, which will do squat as far as consumer interest is concerned.
Yay capitalism.
I'm sure that they'll happily turn themselves to Cisco, right ?
Cisco, a company based in a country that has all the laws required to force it to reveal information to its Goverment.
While being forbidden to reveal publicly that it is doing so.
Yeah, much more secure than Beijing.
Intel : Full year 2022 results ? $63.1 billion
NVidia 2022 : $26.91 billion
HP 2022 : $63 billion
Raytheon : 2022 income at $5.2 billion (for some reason, Raytheon prefers to officially talk about its sales and share price instead of its revenue)
So, tell me why these companies needed a few piddling millions of government money to do that research.
That money should have been awarded to startups that had a good idea (okay, have to find some, but still).
"when we move to the Star Trek phase," it will allow the "technology to be our friend."
Well that clears a lot of things up as far as UK Gov is concerned. They're waiting for Captain Kirk (Pickard ?) to beam down and solve all their problems.
Now I understand NHS better.
Notionally. From the citizen point of view.
From the view of Boris Johnson, you're only good to be knifed in the back, tortured until you give up your banking details, then have your body stuffed under teh sofa while Johnson and his ilk empty your accounts and go party with some Russian oligarchs.
But, apart from that, yeah, you're right.