Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

>Companies that control cell towers could presumably use the same technique

They do, our local authority buys the data to analyse rush hour traffic patterns.

The data is anonymised by the cell company. Mostly because the phone companies have to work closely with govt and know that they would get stamped on, and the traffic engineers don't care who you are - just that somebody went from A-B and took C minutes.

Re: Not nearly enough....

Yes but there it has been some time since they deployed the army against people with a different religion.

A couple of the permitted universities are in the Eu. So you can lure people from France's principal research university to come and work in Bracknell, perhaps tell them there is a Pret A Manger ?

Re: Not nearly enough....

>The reason why they left is IR35, high tax and poor healthcare.

That's not entirely fair, you're forgetting the world class xenophobia

It created a huge shortage of ballerinas who now have to be imported from top 50 universities

Re: It's all fizz, pop, and bang

Yes MIT switched 6.0001 from Scheme to Python because of Lenin

Re: Hmm

>One of the remain arguments was that freedom of movement didnt depress wages. A lie that has been sunk over and over.

Or it depressed individual wages, if you had no skills and were competing with cheap immigrants for fruit picking jobs, but raised overall wages because it grew the economy and created jobs.

You could go back to guilds, have all developers make £M but there would be no jobs for developers because nobody could afford one.

Re: "London was the tech capital of Europe"

Perhaps in the Maudslay and Whitworth era

Re: With respect, that's bollocks Sir

Any american that qualifies for this visa is going to see a massive drop in medical care coming to the UK.

Medical costs in the US are insane and options really suck if you are poor, black and/or live in Alabama.

But if you have a Stanford CS PhD and work for a FAANG with their medical insurance - then moving to London is going to be a bit of a surprise when you sprain your ankle playing squash and expect to get an MRI on the NHS within an hour.

Re: It's all fizz, pop, and bang

Have they considered exit visas, to solve the skills shortage?

Asking as a Cambridge PhD graduate enjoying the West Coast life rather than working in London being paid less than a tube driver.

>remove the possibility of freeloading on the NHS.

So they aren't paying any tax or NI?

In fact the NHS is freeloading off them. They will be paying top rates of tax which will go to the NHS care of the elderly, where nearly all health spending goes. Young graduates aren't a drain on the NHS whatever their skin colour

Re: "London was the tech capital of Europe"

For certain areas of tech, the important part is the 'was'

Re: Spot On

Is Elon really being a 'MUSK' (new 4 letter word) or is this a clever redundancy plan that is cheap and doesn't worry Wall St ?

>It's 18 in the UK now. Until recently, it was 16

Is that still age of consent?

I remember when the gay consent age was going to be lowered from 21 to 18 and there was a pride campaign against, quite naturally, demanding equality.

Re: Wrong approach

>.....how would anyone actually know that a snooped message "can be used against you"?

If you have an encrypted message you are either a terrorist (if skin brown) or a child pornographer (if skin white )

>Still distributing images of a minor is unlawful...

The point was that the UK (and much of europe) have a bizarre feature where the age of consent/marriage is 16 but child porn laws are imported from America and use 18

So taking a picture of your wife breastfeeding would be child porn.

Re: Wrong question answered

Or local authorities using anti-terrorist laws to track dog crap and fly tipping

Re: Wrong question answered

The 'foot in' is having a button in ACPO's secret lair that let's them also access everything on your phone - in case you are the sort of potential criminal that doesn't love the Police enough

Re: It will happen . . .

Except they are going to play down the child bit, it will be scanning images on your phone to spot immigrants

In Britain, and most of Europe, you can get married at the age which Americans are only allowed to buy a machine gun.

Hashes attempt to detect known images.

If you are doing this on people's phones you are presumably trying to identity new images from the phones camera

How is the algorithm going to decide if a picture of a baby in the bath is child porn? Or distinguish a legal image of your 16year old wife from an illegal photo of a 17 year old ?

Or the second son of a monarch, or CEO of any large USA company, or TV/movie executive

Re: Champagne

Yes all those Eu bureaucrats on the Sunday Times rich list - unlike our poor elected finance ministers

How the F--- is this legal?

Everyone is free to bribe politicians, rich and port alike - that's democracy!

Re: No foresight required

The problem is that ARM's model isn't that profitable,

It can only charge licensees bugger-all% of what it would cost to make their own design or switch to RISC-V.

Large scale architecture licensees gain most value but pay even less.

ARM's only value to a buyer is to stop a competitor owning it.

Re: There you are

But that's the advantage of doing this with a defence contractor - you know that the government will bail it out

Re: do you want fries with that?

Except it doesn't have student loans