Posts by Roland6 10709 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Apr 2010
Yet (I assume) they still pay the rest of the remuneration package, or is that like training (remembering EDS) reclaimable from the job hopping employee…
To me the person is simply deferred salary, thus, and especially in the case of defined contribution schemes, the employer contribution belongs to the employee from the outset.
Years back, ie. when I started work in the 1980s, joining the company (defined benefits) pension scheme, required 2 years of service, ie. Getting a pension was a perk that had to be earned rather than as now - a mandatory component of an employees renumeration. The case gives a clear illustration of just how far behind and unenlightened the US is with respect to employee pay.
>” but Windows 10 and 11 also steer people into opening a Microsoft account unless they disconnect it from the Internet”
Agree about the steer and irritating regular reminders to use an MS account, but to date I’ve not had to disconnect from the internet to force out-of-the-box W10 and 11 to create a local account. Perhaps my problem is that I don’t use the Home edition…
>” If anyone has evidence of that data being misused”
The trouble is identifying a definitive evidential path and identifying what exactly is being reported where.
Recently, I had cause to look up adl.windows.com (a failure to connect was listed as an error in the windows event log) and discovered a treasure chest of URLs and domains Windows uses for outbound telemetry connections, the majority not obviously connected to MS. Obviously, the always on news feed et al adds to this list and could be regarded as camouflaging the telemetry reports.
Given we know, from Kaspersky, what a simple cloud-based AV scanner can detect and report back on, we can be sure the Windows telemetry will be much richer.
Plus with MS, like other U.S. companies (eg. Cisco) being subject to US law and thus open to the approaches of the NSA et al - just like Huawei as a Chinese company is subject to Chinese law and Chinese government “influence”, we know the data is likely to go beyond MS product improvement department…
It is going to be interesting, as if the data is systematically going beyond MS QA, it is only a matter of time before some of it appears on the dark web…
I remember discussing multi-modal interactions circa 2001 with respect to 3G devices. These obviously, were based on work done in the 1980s at PARC.
Interestingly, Applevwith the iWatch etc. seem to have done the most but this is still an under developed area. I do think MS’s constant rehash of the UI is holding back the development of really useful IT.
Windows has always failed, and continues to fail in the tablet mode:
Take one iPad hold on either portrait or landscape then rotate 90 degrees, note what happens and the time taken. Now repeat with Windows…
Interestingly, Andriod finds this simple test challenging…
That’s an interesting picture with a single 1 TB micro SD card
I was wondering how they got to 5TB, given the largest SDXC card is 2TB, but it seems none of the reputable vendors has actually released one for sale yet.
The USB pen drives, the largest ultra fit I’ve seen are 256GB. However, given the use of ultra fit, I question why they needed to use a pair of cables to attach the drives to the Raspberry.
Personally I was expecting a USB connected NVME SSD, potentially paired in a RAID 1 configuration.
Naturally, we are assuming the picture is of what was sent into space..
Your scenario presents an interesting conundrum, namely at what point FISA section 702 and the amendment would come into effect. Because even if you were using a US phone, there would be nothing to link you or those you communicate with (regardless of actual geographical location) to identifiable US citizens (*).
Personally, I would suggest given the pace at which technology is evolving, the FBI continues as usual and as a defence simply say they thought they were recording conversations between AI’s.
(*) I suggest identifiable means they have unambiguously matched to a person in the US passport database.
Aside: You can afford a steady stream of burner phones and SIMs, that is suffice to draw attention to yourself…
Follow the money…
The real people of interest are those involved in tax avoidance/money laundering; so they may be monitoring the communications to/from a tax haven and obviously they will gather communications between US nationals and foreign nationals about their (and their business’s - legal or not) financial transactions.
"Managers own the promotion process, which means it is their responsibility to support your growth through regular conversations and stretch assignments, m and to complete all required inputs for promotion,"
So managers are unable to discharge their responsibilities by picking the phone up or having regular zoom/teams sessions etc.
If a manager is unable to build and manage a distributed team then they need to be looking for an alternative career.
It’s the frustration of watching anything on ITVX, it wants you to watch the adverts so no fast forward of adverts and active confirmation you want the stream to continue playing before each ad…
The stupidity of the app developers, means the Humax PVR isn’t going to be retired anytime soon.
Chrome is Google’s browser, Chromes privacy sandbox is Google’s…
From other articles about Google and Chrome, it is clear Google want ALL data from Chrome interactions for itself - remember Chrome’s incognito mode and privacy sandbox don’t stop Google collecting data about you. Given Chromes dominance in the browser market , this would seem to be monopoly behaviour…
Suggestion would be for Google to divest Chrome, but still have to contribute financially to the Chromium open source project.
Was to try and directly interact with Apple, it should have simply told Ireland its arrangement breeched its agreement with the EU and hence they owed the EU these additional monies every year until they can show their arrangements satisfy Irelands agreements with the EU…
>” No, it's actually quite straightforward.”
In the examples you gave, it should be, because each entity is a separate business entity. However, once the companies are part of the same multinational, games can be played….
So that Chinese manufacturing company changes from profit making to a pure cost operation, because it is more tax efficient to have the profit declared somewhere else…
Likewise that Luxembourg web store is just a customer order processor, who pays some other entity for the privilege of selling to the EU and thus also doesn’t generate a profit…
“ Better to make it much harder to block projects”
[https://www.economist.com/britain/2023/10/26/britain-must-overhaul-the-way-it-approves-infrastructure ]
Clearly the articles author has never tried to object to a planning application, as if they had they would know the UK operates a permissive planning system which is already weighted in favour of the planning applicant.
The real problem the UK has with infrastructure is politicians procrastinating and thus only giving permission for a project to go ahead at the last minute. The catch is that only once the project has received government go ahead is the planning application made, hence because they wanted to start it yesterday but cannot because the plans need to be improved, they complain about the planning system, when the supposed delay due to the planning system is whollly down to them. We will see this being played out in the coming years as government finally realises it needs to bring on line a new nuclear power station every year for a decade, starting last year.
>” At the end of the day, the council's decision comes down to "Does this proposal comply with the planning laws?".
Not necessarily always the case…
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/families-fear-losing-homes-as-football-club-plans-to-buy-them-to-expand-stadium/ar-AA1jAydT
But your objection to not be rejected out of hand needs to be wholly based on planning law.
>” can you explain what remarkable amenity value this field has”
It’s a greenfield.
A greenfield can become a park or become a wood and thus a place which people can freely wander. Okay the M25 is noisy, but traffic noise is part of the urban landscape. It surprises me just how much housing development around the country, in recent years, is on parcels of land like this.
> "rolling out of technology by multinational companies that precludes lawful access to data."
The guidance notes don’t restrict this to the IT industry, so any multinational company eg. A pharmaceutical company, or even a company with a UK and say a Paris office, would need to get UK government consent to the rollout of new digital communication security arrangements…
UK regulations and VAT rules make it easier and cheaper for the property developer to demolish the current building and build a new pastiche version.
I refer the reader to the Gleneagles hotel in Harpenden Hertfordshire, where the hotel was totally demolished and replaced by flats with the modern facsia replicating (don’t look too closely and definitely don’t have a photo of the old hotel frontage to compare) the original. This saved the developer 20% VAT on the cost of the (new) build.
And green field can be very easily turned into brown field…
To take a local example a field (*) on its own is “green field”, as are two fields either side of a road, however, if you include the road/rotting concrete track in the development the parcel of land becomes brown field…
(*) Size doesn’t seem to be a factor, so think 3,000 homes per “field” and road sub 10 metre wide formation.
The best use would be to locate the datacentre under a market garden/greenhouse complex.
If you are a little more up market, perhaps the roof might make a nice vineyard or even support the large scale cultivation of pineapples. (See https://www.heligan.com/news/pineapple-success/ ).
>” The governments priority at the time, rightly, was speed over value for money.”
If this really was the case, they would have spoken to bona fida medical supplies experts and contracted with existing suppliers albeit at a premium price.
The CoViD inquiry is showing that the government didn’t take CoViD seriously, so it is becoming increasingly clear, CoViD was just a convenient cover story for Tories exploiting an opportunity to throw public money at their mates. About the only thing that the government did that could be described as forward thinking was its up front investment in vaccine research.
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