Posts by Gordon 10 3879 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
It's perfectly fine to use an e-bike but a bit pointless unless its the only bike you own. The effort you put in is electronically adjustable with the cursor keys anyway so if whizzing up hills floats your boat - knock yourself out on a normal bike. The only time power is checked as mentioned in the article is on the Virtual racing circuit - there you would get banned for power doping.
It's a compliment - not a substitute - it lets you do MORE or an equal amount of cycling regardless of the weather or the time of day. You can literally wander downstairs in your jimjams on a freezing/rainy/pitch black day and do an hour or more of a workout in your own home.
If you are into the training/enhancing your fitness side of things you can work in a far more controlled environment where there is no wind and an inconvenient hill doesn't show up right in the middle of your 110% effort.
It's also pretty cost effective - base model trainers with bluetooth controlled resistance start at £500 and include in-built power measurement which is considered the gold standard for cycle training. There are only a few powermeters for bikes that come in under that - most being in the 500-1000 range. Obviously you have to add in a bike and a laptop/tablet/AppleTV but keen cyclists are likely to have both those already. A keen cyclist will probably spend similar amounts on their kit to a keen gamer to put it into perspective.
In this particular case probably yes. But in many B2B industiries where there are multiple middle men then its possibly to be a join controller.
The travel industry is a good example. You might have a travel agent, a website/aggregator, the service or content owner all interacting and adding value to fundamentally the same customer data in different ways. Joint Controllership is very common.
Re AC
"Afraid not. While an organisation can and usually is both a controller and processor in some capacity, when it comes to the specific data handling in question you are exclusively *the* controller or *a* processor. For a given data item and activity you cannot be both and the disclosure responsibility is solely the controller's."
Not quite correct as the same data can be used for different purposes and its the Purpose that defines Controller/Processor i.e. what they say they are doing with the data. It's possible that someone can be a controller and processor for fundamentally the same data, but with different Purposes. In practise though this doesn't happen very often if only to keep each parties sanity, but can happen in big corporates where the left hand isn't speaking to the right hand on either side.
The bit where you try to translate legal purposes to business processes and the into data processing and storage is where Data Privacy legislation breaks down imo, because fundamentally you are trying to translate something abstract and legalistic into IT systems, and the end result is usually a fudge/risk acceptance that doesn't suit anyone perfectly to but is the pragmatic response to avoid getting trapped in a blizzard of edge cases.
"The processor, acting on the controller's behalf, is only required to disclose breaches to the parent controller and not the end data subject (who they are generally prohibited from contacting anyway"
Correct - but you are assuming the 3rd party was a processor. It's possible they were another controller, though that wouldn't explain the radio silence unless there is a dispute between the LP and the Third Party over which category they fall into, and the contracts haven't been updated for GDPR to be clear on that point.
Good digging on the Deletion Policy though - that was going to be my next question.
+1 on OpenCore. Just wasted an hour investigating whether I should upgrade my 27" iMac's AMD card and use OpenCore to get to the latest version of MacOS. Came to the conclusion that as I mainly use it for Target Display mode for my 2018 Macbook it would be not worth the effort and the loss of TDM.
Since one of the advantages of MacBooks is that external booting is trivial seems silly not to have an CCC'd version on standby prior to pressing the big upgrade button. Not that I blame the user, Apple's software updater shouldn't be so aggressively pushing a version x.0 piece of software.
Offing staff nearly always shows up front savings even including redudancy packages well before the inevitable cost consequences come home to roost. Expect costs to go back up and service to decline further.
Real Estate sales are pretty zero sum as well. Generally property is an appreciating asset so real estate sold now would have been worth more next year - far better to lease out to a developer and rake in ground rents.
Classic MBA short sightedness.
I was well aware of the Cloud act when I made my initial post. Bollocks can they force anything.
Personally I would have chosen M$ as they have history of fighting overreach from the Cloud Act. But the same arguments apply about AWS.
AWS UK will be operating as UK entity and the ability of the US Govt to compel that entity is limited in exactly the same way M$‘s US entity was unable to compel its Irish entity.
If AWS doesn’t hold the keys and neither the US Govt or AWS US have physical access to the UK based bit barns the risk of the USG getting their hands on the data is minimised. Half the staff at that bit barn will be working for the UKG on the side to cover this contingency specifically.
So yes apart from a bit of mindless whining in the press there’s nothing to see here. A fully UK based operation would have been better but name me anyone UK based and owned who comes close the range and depth of the big 3’s services. Or perhaps maybe you would have preferred AliCloud?
"Alas, a frightening attitude that is all too common in many countries that were previously believed to be liberal democracies."
I think you are confused by what a democracy is - its literally "control of an organization or group by the majority of its members." Guess what anti-vaxxers are, a tiny, dumb minority. I have no problem with someone not being vaccinated for genuine medical reasons. For those muppets who think it infringes their freedoms - get over yourselves. Your freedom to get sick and infect others is not a freedom I care to tolerate. You're basically the equivalent of office smokers from the 80's.
Someone I know was fit, double vaccinated then caught Covid and was utterly bedridden for a week, and 2 weeks later still can't climb the stairs without passing out. He's going to lose months of his life and health to Covid - and his case is considered mild. I've no wish to even tolerate any higher risk than I have to of that happening to me.
Since every anti-vaxxer increases the chances of that happening to me - no f*ck you very much, get your jab or get marginalised.
@Chips
Shame you had to poison a sensible first statement with a bollocks second one.
Mankind has survived millenia of disasters true - billions of people didn't, the world lost trillions of hours of development, and more billions had to suffer unbearable emotional, mental and physical anguish. Frankly if we dont take steps to minimise that we dont deserve to exist as a species.
"You're assuming that the alternative is actually a professional sysadmin running a hardened server cluster in a secure DC and not just an open S3 bucket."
Not quite. I was assuming there was a higher chance of that compared to a random server under the tills. No absolutes!
Yikes. So instead of 1 or more Vendor employed professional sysadmins, a central secured DC and the protection of enormous fines if kids PII is lost they are relying on 65 sites with variable IT security practices and zero cash to spend on it?
The heads have been hoodwinked. In this case on the schools premises seems like the least safe option.
I hope the relevant councils have Data Protection insurance!
@Doublelayer & @Hayrick.
Unfortunately you are both starting from the wrong premise - that is that that average user cares about the difference between client side and server side scanning.
They don't. Technical implementations aside - the average user has nearly always made the wrong choice when it comes to accepting intrusions vs convenience.
Whilst you're arguments appeal to the techies and the enlightened I see no reason why it would appeal to the average user, thus you are shouting into the void.
The whole reason Spanner, Yugabyte etc exist is that they do distributed better than Postgres. Which thanks to GDPR/Data Privacy is a rapidly growing niche.
Postgres's strength is its forkability and versatility. You can start with vanilla PG and go wide (distributed) or deep (MPP) with minimal relearning/refactoring. You can even get Oracle compatibility if thats your bag (EnterprisedDB).
@da39atinfoilhatravingloon
Selective interpretation of the facts mark you out as a rabid anti-vaxxer and I claim my £5. Can't you go back to weather forecasting Piers?
It's a matter of public record that for 12-15 yo's the clinical outcomes are finely balanced, and hence why the recommendation by the JCVI said the benefits were marginal (not what you are saying at all).
The 4 CMO's took into account that kids would miss school and also tend to pass the virus on. This was what swung it into "single jab" territory.
Facts rather than your sub-facebook internet bullshit below.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/14/uk-covid-vaccinations-for-children-aged-12-15-what-you-need-to-know
Right assessment but you missed out several actors.
It was also Private sector (Tory donating) Management Consultants re-inventing wheels that the NHS already had simply because the Govt wanted to transfer public funds to the Private sector, regardless of whether there were any benefits for the public.
Managment consultants are ok - provided they are directed and steered correctly. Once you start letting them steer the conversation your are f*cked. Which is exactly what happened - a cynic might say by design given idiot was in charge.
"It certainly sucked up to Blair when he was PM, and still regularly features him uncritically - which must be a little awkward today as they cover the Pandora Papers."
You've just shot yourself in the foot. The BBC along with Grauniad are the UK leads for the Pandora Papers reporting and have had hold and been analysing them for months - Blair naughtyness and all.
It's almost as if the BBC permits their journalists multiple viewpoints - almost like their are trying to be evenhanded and balanced. Name one other media organisation that does that?
I'm not a great fan of the BBC but the fact that successive Governments keep trying to break it suggests to be its doing something right.
"Last time I checked GCHQ and MI5 are part of the military command."
You're wrong they all have separate chains of command its part of the checks and balances of the UK State.
MI5 report to the Home Office. GCHQ report via the Foreign Office (same as MI6 as they are more external looking) and MOD via the Secretary for Defence.
They are deliberately all segregated bodies because their duties should not often overlap tho they may work in partnership. For instance members of GCHQ, the Army and MI5 dont have the power to arrest civilians (outside of Acts of Civil Emergency where all bets are off)
I know the UK doesn't have a written constitution as such, but it does have a body of laws and precedent that serve as the same thing.
I'd be mildly surprised if this was within the bounds of their operating parameters. Its only the Army's job to monitor and quell civil disturbance if requested by HM Govt. Otherwise its the Rozzers, GCHQ's and MI5's job.
Feels like bureaucratic overreach.
This would be one more step down the path to becoming a banana republic, though tbf we're much closer than we were 2 years ago.
Its possibly also a GDPR breach unless they wholly collect data in aggregate - iffy legitimate interest.
If the issue concerns them so much why dont they offer to buy back the masts they flogged off to Arquiva in the first place?
You dont get to sell an asset for a quick buck then act all outraged when someone else does the same or tries to consolidate the market. This was an obvious risk and they are due the consequences shoved where the sun dont shine. They dont like it up 'em.
(An aside how many times have they flogged off their mobile telco's only to buy another at 10x the price). Greedy inconsistent cnuts.
In practice its quite a cunning and effective design.
Newbies are horrified by it so proceed cautiously, whilst experts know that there are 2 routes to every exit so take the route of least congestion, and everyone has to proceed though at least 2 giveways so speeds are relatively low.
Once you learn to treat each roundabout as a separate entity it becomes pretty easy. You just have to silence the gibbering voice in the back of your head that's pointing out you are navigating the Central roundabout anti-clockwise.
Some Tupe arrangements dont require a P45 to be issued. Known as PAYE Succession, though if this was the case here you would have expected the chaps to have been onboarded to Northgates payroll.
Not issuing a P45 when due is also additional evidence that it was an unfair termination.
Fingers crossed they have a lawyer clever enough to get them more than Statutory Redudo. Hopefully a decent notice/redudancy clause in thier original council contracts.
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