Re: And deliberately so
I don’t use Amazon or their website so can’t comment on their internal search, but Google-sourced search sites are now poisoned with page after page of Amazon ‘results’ before getting to real, useful answers.
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That’s a solution for you because you understand how this works, and that’s fine. Unfortunately 99% of people don’t have that level of knowledge, so unless you send them on a short infosec course when they buy a phone another solution is needed; that solution should be provided by Apple.
Indeed. I just did searches for 'Horizon', 'Post Office' and 'Fujitsu' on the homepages of the Grauniad, Mail, Torygraph, and BBC. Only the BBC gave a result:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-68061662
The media work on a 'news cycle' that pushes stories off the front pages after about 10 days, and this story is no different.
Private Eye and Computer Weekly have longer memories and won't let this go away, but the mainstream media have lost interest already and the general public will too.
Wonderful as this esteemed publication is, it is only read by a few thousand people. It’s the same with Computer Weekly and Private Eye (although PE now has a higher circulation than the Torygraph). The politicians have felt able to ignore the reports in the ‘specialist’ press, but the TV documentary had millions of viewers so now they have to appear to be doing something to redress the injustice. Whether they will, of course, is another matter.
I suspect Sunak will simply cancel Vennel’s gong, and the Sun & Mail will declare everything sorted & go back to footballers & celebs.
Sky Q set-top boxes did a similar thing until they were patched a couple of years ago. They sent out multicast SSDP requests, slowly at first but then the rate ramped up until the WLAN was swamped. It was easy to see with Wireshark. Until they acknowledged the problem, Sky was telling subscribers to reboot the box every night, but in their forums people were spending money on switches with VLANs, new routers, homeplugs etc. I was lucky as I have a UnifiAP on which I can stop multicasts on the LAN becoming broadcasts on the WLAN.
My car has 'smart' cruise control which works well on motorways etc., but it behaves like a learner driver when coming up behind a slower vehicle. It brakes smoothly but far, far later than I would, so I usually hit the brakes long before the car has reacted.
A friend has a similar system in his car and he uses it on all types of roads, which is terrifying.
Keeping salaries private between the company and each employee gives all the power to the employer. It allows them to underpay people who are not strong negotiators and/or not friends with their boss, and unless those people are willing (and able) to up sticks and move employer, they may never know they are underpaid.
I think it's a generational thing - in my (boomer) generation hardly anyone is prepared to say what they earn, whereas my kids' generation are quite open about it.
If someone ‘deservedly gets paid more’ the onus would be on the employer to demonstrate why they were more deserving. As I said earlier, without transparency the employer can reward people based on criteria which have nothing to do with ability or performance.
I suggested that salaries are visible only within the company, not because I see a problem with transparency but because that’s where direct comparison is most relevant. Pay across companies and sectors could also be compared with anonymised data.
I’ve always thought all the salaries of a company’s employees should by law be visible to everyone within that company (and nowhere else). At the moment only the employer has the full picture.
As you discovered, it would highlight discrepancies and would discourage the employer from treating one person better than another based on sex, race, old school, or whether they are/are not golf buddies.
I call greenwashing on this.
"Using a fully electric drone supports Royal Mail's continued drive to reduce emissions associated with our operations, whilst connecting the island communities we deliver to."
"By leveraging drone technology, we are revolutionising mail services in remote communities, providing more efficient and timely delivery, and helping to reduce the requirement for emissions-producing vehicles."
So instead of piggybacking onto the existing ferry services which will continue to run, they are setting up a completely separate means of transporting letters and parcels. This isn't about "reducing emissions", it's about money.
I’m not sure I’d want to brag that I’d spent £10k on an interconnect! It brings this to mind:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XbUF0aXHLhw
It’s interesting to note that studios use good quality cables, but eschew the magic earthing boxes & other nonsense so beloved in the hi-fi world.
All the points you make are true.
However, the obvious comparison to this is Saturn V, and a search for 'Saturn V failure' only brings up results of 'The Day the Saturn V Almost Failed: 50 Years Since Apollo 6' and similar.
The Saturn engineers were surely no smarter than SpaceX's, so what is the reason for the difference in results?
I'm in my 60s so I admit a bias towards the old stuff that, you know, went to the moon and all that.
Life expectancy from birth has fallen slightly in recent years for men, and is static for women. Another source:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/lifeexpectancies/bulletins/nationallifetablesunitedkingdom/2018to2020
“Life expectancy at birth in the UK in 2018 to 2020 was 79.0 years for males and 82.9 years for females; this represents a fall of 7.0 weeks for males and almost no change for females (a slight increase of 0.5 weeks) from the latest non-overlapping period of 2015 to 2017.”
“In the UK, Thames Water, which serves parts of London and the Thames Valley, announced earlier this year that it has begun efforts to try and quantify how much water is being used by datacenters within its area of coverage, and said it wanted to work with operators to reduce their overall water usage.”
Water meters.
You’re welcome.