Posts by Tom 38 4344 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jul 2009
Not any different the CDC cultivating, creating and keeping dangerous virus and bacterial cultures just in case we ever need to develop an antidote.
In fact, it is very different. The CDC collect and cultivate virii and bacteria in order to develop treatments for them. The NSA collect and cultivate exploits in order to develop weapons based on them.
If the CDC spent their time developing weaponised Ebola, then sure, it's exactly the same.
I think Sales has it's issues too, mostly around customer lists :)
That is straight up corporate theft, and I've thoroughly enjoyed the times that I've been asked to produce logs and evidence of a particular sales bod downloading client lists and corporate data the day before they hand in their notice.
In the UK, your company can put whatever they like in to your contract regarding no-compete clauses, and you are largely free to completely ignore them - your right to pursue legal employment outweighs the contract provision.
Only in specific scenarios can a no-compete be enforced, typically when a company takes out an injunction against another company from hiring their staff - and the High Court agrees - then if the second company does subsequently hire staff from the first company, that company can take relief from the second company (note - not the employee in question).
So that is probably the grey area.
Plus, she is a domestic extremist. She lives in this country and holds views which are beyond what most people in this country consider proportionate - in other words, extreme.
If the Greens were to resort to direct action, I have no doubt that she would be involved in some shape or form because of the extremity of her views and lifelong devotion to "the cause", and so I can totally understand why people monitoring domestic extremists would have her on their list.
I don't know British politics that well, but imagine if instead of London Mayor if Boris Johnson were an MP given quite a bit more power and time in the media than he has experience or expertise for, but with more paranoia, much more sycophancy toward the Prime Minister (like Grayson acts toward the President), and a shorter temper.
Yep, wrong example - Boris is a rival to the PM, he doesn't go after him directly, his allies regularly send out stalking horses to try to discredit Gove/May/Grieve to strengthen Boris in the party and weaken Cameron.
I think the best analogy would be to Michael Gove - deeply ambitious and sycophantic, will do anything his master wants.
you do not throw your income away on commuting
Most "work from home" schemes still have you coming in to the office on a regular enough basis that it is still cheaper to buy a monthly/annual rail card than a succession of day returns.
So its like you save on commuting, without actually saving on commuting.
Sure the independent labels can do set up their own sites; they are doing so.
Why does that mean that Google are allowed to keep their advertising revenue when illegally uploaded content is added to their site?
Google want to play it both ways;
a) you can agree to our offer, and when your content is placed on our site we will give you what we consider a fair cut.
b) you can not agree, and when your content is placed on our site we will keep all the money we make from it and you can go fuck yourself.
Seems a bit aggressive, don't you think?
Three currently only have bandwidth at 1800MHz, which is very very poor at penetrating buildings. This is universal to the Three network, all the other networks have bandwidth at 900MHz. Therefore if you are on Three, and have a good connection indoors, you are pretty close to the cell and so your experience is atypical.
Other networks have bandwidth at 900MHz and 1800MHz, and so have better indoor penetration. Three have a deal with (I forget, T-mobile?) to trade some frequency to give them some slots at 900MHz to rectify this, which I think comes in to effect in October.
It sounds good, but there is nothing to force operators to provide an adequate service in the zone that they have been allocated.
Could we not just make it more/very expensive for the network to be carried on competitors network where they do not have capacity? If they pass the cost on to the consumer instead of investing in more POP to reduce future costs, then they become more expensive and less competitive than their rivals that do have capacity.
This way, the whole thing becomes a market driven by consumer demand. If you don't provide an adequate network, you will have to raise prices, which will then mean you lose customers eventually to the networks that do provide an adequate service and do not have to raise prices.
No not at all. Individuals work for an organisations.Individuals (working for an organisation) recording in public aren't covered by that code of practice (not law).
Individuals acting for the benefit of an organisation are not individuals, they are agents of that organisation.
One of the clues is in the initialism "CCTV" - it means Closed-Circuit Television. This code is not for individuals (whether they work for an organisation or not) wearing Glass.
lolwut?
As for "Paterson added that wearables containing cameras used by Glasshole organisations to capture video or pictures will need to adhere to the regulator's CCTV code of practice, which is currently undergoing a review."
This is false, people do not need to adhere to the "regulator's CCTV code of practice" at all. It's a code of practice (not law) and it doesn't even apply to individuals recording in public.
Clarified? In the UK, organizations do not have the same rights as people.
And yet another thing to distract from work*. 5 years ago, I could quite easily say "this is a no email/phone day", put the phone on do not disturb and only check my emails at 5pm.
Nowadays, if people don't get an immediate reply to their email, they IM, and my browser beeps and pops up the message, regardless of what workspace I am on. Worst of all is flowdock, which I'm now mandated to be on several flows, most of which are irrelevant but still cause browser notifications to pop up - "@everyone ready for the call?" - not a call I'm on, but thanks for disrupting my thought processes to remind people about a meeting in their calendars.
Then, 3 minutes later, the same message arrives in your inbox and then your phone. Gaaaaaaaa!
* He says, posting on the register....
I think you are showing your own biases tbh. Is it not possible to criticise someone silly for being silly, without being accused of misogyny because the silly person is a woman?
Because the focus and tone of these stories is “lily the silly woman who squandered tax payers money on a frivolous website”
Take the word "woman" out of it, and sure, that is the tone and focus of the previous article - how silly people managed to get silly amounts of public money and do silly things with it. This article is actually about the irony of said silly person moaning about people complaining that their project is silly and a waste of public money. Silly.
Imagine being able to see the world feed whilst the cars are out of view, or see the pit stops if you aren't opposite the start/finish line?
It still only solves one problem - "how do people at the event view more of the event". It does nothing to decrease the ever growing on demand traffic, which TFA suggests it will.
The fact that it is cell specific should make improving the experience of people at events easier - they can provide special cells within the stadia that broadcast the content.
There is certainly a need for it when massive traffic volumes are generated by large sporting events such as the World Cup. EE has reported that the goal scored by ex-Everton player Tim Cahill for Australia at 5.21pm on Wednesday 18th June resulted in the biggest ever single data spike across the EE network as people took to social media and streaming services to watch replays of the goal.
So this technology would not help - these people were not watching a single stream broadcast to all users simultaneously, they were all individually served the content as they demanded it.
So yes, super cool to be able to broadcast TV within a cell (although, if you're at the game, just watch the game?), but it will do sweet FA with managing the demand of people who are not at the game and want to watch snippets of it at a time that suits them.
It's hard to see how why this should be labeled boring when it includes a bunch of patches that "are a little too experimental."
The patches are experimental because they alter API or ABI. BoringSSL is boring because it strips back what an SSL library does from "everything + the very latest in development protocols" to "enough to make an encrypted connection and verify keys".
One of the main reasons heartbleed had such an effect was that almost anyone who offered OpenSSL on their webserver had been forced to upgrade to the newer, "more secure" OpenSSL 1.0 series in order to pass "security audits" which are simply "Is version > x".
COTS is great when you agree that the function performed by the COTS will be what the COTS currently performs.
It's not so great when some dickhead thinks that he can buy COTS (cuz it's cheaper, natch), and yet still thinks he can customize every single damn thing about it, and change his mind constantly about what each customization is.
Consultants don't give a fuck, if the customer want "cheap" COTS, then they send an integrator and make their margin on the customizations, where as if they can convince the customer that you need bespoke, they send the architect and make their margin that way.
it will sound much more like an IT tech trying to explain why THIS kind of thing is exactly the reason why he/she requested that $500 switch instead of the $200 one that the boss eventually bought from the local store.
What do you think happens in that scenario, PHB goes seppuku-o-clock, or shifts the blame to the vendors/beancounters?
If half of all vehicles switch to electric, you'll have a surplus of petroleum.
Really? I'd imagine that what would actually have is a massive reduction in extraction rates in order to maintain current petrol prices.
Before half of all vehicles switch to electric, we need a battery technology that works at scale and is cheap enough to be used in half of all vehicles. Li-ion is already the most popular kind of battery ever made, and electric cars use the most popular kind of li-ion cell - the Tesla S has 7,000 of them. There simply isn't the scale for li-ion, despite it being one of the most mass produced items on the planet.
I meant England deserved not to win, they only deserved the draw with such negative play. 360 in 100 overs means the opposition will play a bit more than 390 in 90 overs.
New Members Bar: The "New" refers to the bar not the members (who very much have not been described as "new" for several decades.
The pavilion at Lords is a weird stratified place. Members is where you go when you want to get a good view of the action, its on the top tier next to the big pavilion stand, but don't want to suffer the stuffiness of the Long Room or the crush that is the Bowler's Bar. When I worked there, it was also next to the media rooms, so you had Trueman, Blofeld, Johnners, Frindall et al having lunch up there, but sadly they are relocated to the other side of the ground now.
Mind you, it got me wondering if they would ever transmit multiple sound channels, one of the crowd, one of the commentators etc. (or a choice of commentators) then you could switch the wankers off and just watch the game but keep the crowd response. That would be nice.
Lots of sports on sky these days gets transmitted in 5.1, with the commentary on the centre channel, crowd sounds on the other 4 - I just unplug the centre.
Shame this doesn't usually work with BBC or ITV.
Crikey Spartacus, the Lords Hamper is a bit outside of my range. I've only been twice as a punter, ticket £90, beer £5, burger+chips £12. I think I enjoyed it more when I worked there as a barman (New Members Bar, top left of pavilion, good view of the wicket from the bar).
PS: SL didn't deserve the draw, England did - they should have declared the night before, silly sentimentality to give Ballance the chance for a ton. They would have had 10 overs at them with the new ball that night, another 10 overs fresh the next morning with a newish ball, and 20 overs at the end of the day with a new ball instead of 10. Über-conservative.
When I first got their service I was receiving only 0.5 MB/s.
Do you mean 0.5MB/s, ie 4 Mbit or did you mean 0.5 Mbit?
Isn't this just an "ADSL can be shitty" scenario though? I expect there are people with VM ADSL that get a shitty 0.5Mbit too.
Braindead support is braindead though. Be had excellent support lines, even the Bulgarians were super knowledgable and could fix any time I had issues.
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