Posts by John Smith 19

The difference with this company is the *sharer* gets a piece of the profit

Whereas all the other entries listed use "sharing" means "You share your stuff with us and we share the profit we make from it with our stockholders."

The fact is the formal part of education in technical subjects often covers "reasoning from 1st principles." On the job a lot of work is done by "inspection" methods. IE Look it up in a book/on the net.

The point of teaching from first principles is to be able to handle the situation when it's not in a book IE you have to invent a solution. It also allows you to estimate if something is good enough in a certain set of circumstances or if the source is actually wrong. That's Back-Of_The_Envelope reasoning. In Programming Pearls the author showed showed a BOTE done before starting detail design on an email system showed the system would need a 28 hour day to work.

But sharing (or as it's know in business teamwork) is not really taught very well at most level to the extent people really practice it and get comfortable with it.

I hope it's *main* result will be to teach people to believe *nothing* digital

Because without very strong audit trail and encryption anything you see or hear could be faked.

Hooking the despactch table. Damm that takes me back.....

TSR utilities and at least one mainframe scheduler.

Nice to know some of those classics are still around.

Now who on this site wrote "Banks are large IT businesses with a banking license" ?

So $500k on hand for people who can use good tools and their brains

Sounds like a contest more people should know about.

If you want to be effective.

Send a letter, not an email.

Be concise. No more than a page if possible.

Suggest alternatives. No I don't want to, but you'll hear the plaintive cry of the Home Secretary, "If not this then how will we protect Her Maj's subjects from paedos, terrorists, drug dealers and money launderers*"

It's got to be worth a shot.

Or to put it another way, "If you tolerate this, then your children will be next."

*IE The usual people to put the s**t up the proles.

to sum up. Not a good bill, just (maybe) a bit less s**t tha wnat it replaces.

Because it's trying to legalize and legitimize something that was neither legal nor legitimate to begin with.

Data fetishists.

They're like cockroaches

But not quite as cute.

"gutless" by the Liberal Democrats.

And disappointing.

I think people would have expected more from Corbyn on this point.

Guess they don't want to spoil the memory of Tony Blair, who did so much to get this stuff started.

If you think this is academic

Recall the various day care centres and restaurants who've installed Net viewable CCTV.

But don't worry, no one knows the password.

Obvious thought.

What happens when the glue runs out?

BTW that's 17832x their collective body weight or 2972x their individual weight.

Which is pretty impressive.

Neat. But worrying.

You now have to trust a big piece of software to re-write the rest of your software for you on the fly.

In ways the original developers don't know and could not fix if it's wrong.

For fans of the Bourne films this is Outcome over Treadstone.

Better hope the treatment works.

Excellent news.

While space rated electronics on government funded space projects advances slowly it does advance

Historically data rates have tended to be "worst case" at all times. Letting the system raise at close range is a nice upgrade to have.

Hopefully it will become the common state of practice for future missions.

"Biometrics Commissioner" ?

That's an actual title?

What do they do?

This has been most educational.

A real insight into how group think works.

I'll say it again. The vast majority of who needs this treatment will simply not get it. They can't afford it.

Not just the big spending. Still no sign of the £60m George Osborn promised REL in 2014.

Still not arrived.

I wonder if there's a story there?

Keep in mind it's 90 000 feet on Earth,

Something like it would fly much closer to the ground on Mars, so any sensors would would not have to have as great a range.

This is very impressive. The U2 (which IIRC did switch off its engine to conserve fuel) managed 70 000, but both it and the SR71 pilots had full pressure suits to do so.

In truth the biggest issue I could see for a Mars glider is a) How do you fold it into the aeroshell and b)How do you deploy them at Mars?

The Dept of Health still thinks it's *their* data. It's not. It's *ours*

I'd also suggest the benefits to society (but not the companies, which are usually under reported) never match up to the hype of the people who want this to happen.

The "Blame the dead guy" defense?

Yeah, see, he made us do it. We were completely under his spell. We had no will of our own. We didn't know what he was doing.

Popular with both the sons and the minions of Robert Maxwell.

Some people write great CV's. Some people are great at doing the job.

When you think about it WTF makes anyone think the two groups should remotely match outside management roles? It's correct HR's 1st goal is to dump as man candidates as possible. So you need to put in the minimal to get on the list.

But in IT you can set up practical test environments.

If they're tolerably acceptable to HR set up the test and tell them "This is the sort of task at the sort of level we would expect you to be able to do from joining. You have x hours and we're looking for <relevant outcomes EG program, object design, network layout> by then."

Give them an office, the necessary tools and let them get on with it.

Either they can get it done or they can't.

Oh dear. Let's see if this works better than last several times.

There are various problems with this

People say it's a "comms" problem because they can't get standardization on the data they pass so they resort to email (at one time IIRC it was faxes, so I suppose that's an improvement.

Most people don't realize that a lot of the process consists of filling in forms or following a schedule set by courts or the laws they enforce. forms + calendar + database --> case management system. See https://www.oyezforms.co.uk/word for people who do this.

But everyone's CMS is different, although I think they could be made to send and receive standardized emails. So you're needing maybe both human and API interfaces depending on the volume being handled.

On the govt side you've got high & county courts, police (multiple), CPS (different offices), probation service, prisons (130+ IIRC) and of course European I/O for Europol arrest warrants..

And let us not forget the need for serious audit trails to identify exactly who added (or changed or deleted) what entries at what time.

This is presided over by Michael Gov and the Home Sec is Teresa May, neither of whom like each other.

OTOH I have used the web based Small Claims system in the UK and found it worked fairly well at accepting my documents, tracking the calendar for court dates and ensuring everyone was at court on the day.

Wot, you got no sympathy for the bad man?

Oh, you don't.

Seriously the trouble with these vermin is another group will think "Hey, this is a great idea."

Somehow bad s**t keeps coming back up the U bend of life.

Sounds clever

But I don't know enough to say if it is.

Anyone else hearing "I want a recount, and a car with really shi**y gas mileage

and I want a recount

And then I want my old job back."

I think you know who this needs.

The *multiple* bugs suggest it's their *development* process that's fu**ed

Not that their developers can't write OK code.

No pen testing.

Badly set up upgrade server.

This is like a masterclass in how to f**k up IoT

But to be honest I doubt they are the worst.

As usual it's a 50/50 chance.

May work, may not.

The good news is they've fixed all the stuff that went wrong before so either that's all problems fixed or they've found another item that needs to be tided up for next time.

Which might be the last item that needs to be fixed and the next one after this comes down like a charm.

Or not, in which that fix list gets a bit longer.

Thursday morning should be interesting.

"as well as remotely monitoring the thing "

What could possibly go wrong with such a capability?

Note however that it *can* be tested in pieces and stages, like an aircraft

Not like an all-or-nothing ELV

You can they will be eyeing up the NHS

And you can be Hunt will be welcoming them with open arms because under that bu***it new trade agreement they are looking to "negotiate" it would be illegal not to.

Your date safe in their hands?

I don't think so.

Who doubts this has not *already* been done in the wild?

IE by burglars out burglaring.

Always been sus about wireless burglar alarms.

figured the "I'm still here" beacon signals the sensors would have to send to the main unit would eat batteries.

Never considered the security would be so s**t as well

Oh dear

Overtime at Fort Meade.

"Judicial Redress Bill " AFAIK this only applies to *US* citizens

EU nationals --> foriners --> F**k em.

I'm confused.

Are they saying ""No fishing trips on EU data" IE "We think a 20-30 YO Black haired EU national committed a crime in <nowheresvill, USA> and want a list of all EU nationals for elimination purposes

Or

"Sure, no problem. Bulk requests have no expectation of privacy."