The very first computing book I ever bought was Rodnay Zaks' How To Program the Z80, when I was 14 or 15.
Ah, nostalgia.
RIP Bernard.
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There will also be a workforce implementation plan, led by Dido Harding, which will aim to put the recommendations in the Topol review into practice.
We're all doomed!
What she knows about data governance and privacy could be written on the head of a pin, and still leave room for the manufacturers name...
you have to wonder why sensitive data was stored in a spreadsheet in the first place
Well I don't find it particularly surprising, whether it's correct or not is another matter, but collating and storing student's marks in a spreadsheet doesn't sound wildly improbable, and it's a bit of a stretch to consider that information "sensitive". As noted above, it used to be common for student grades to be posted on a noticeboard for all to see.
We wouldn't trust an IoT lock either; as far as lights go, the auto-on outside lights make things significantly easier for us. The same goes for the motion sensor that turns on the dressing room light when you enter, the Nest thermostat we occasionally turn on and off remotely and the voice control on bedroom lights when we are feeling lazy and can't be arsed to stir ourselves.
it does seem that anything on the forums not condemning the IoT as the corporate tool of Satan, used solely by idiots, isn't very well received.
@Ian K,
I think you are missing the point. It is perfectly possible to have all these conveniences, to control your lights by voice or from a smartphone app, and all the other things, without the need to use the internet or someone else's server.
That is why people on this forum are disparaging of IoT, it is unnecessarily complicated and prone to being made obsolete or unusable at the whim of the manufacturer or service provider, much more so than discrete electronics or equipment based on internal WiFi connections.
If you think that what has happened to the Honeywell thermostat is acceptable, then fine, carry on as you are, but understand that a lot of the technically minded people who post on the Reg have seen this coming for a long time, and it won't be the last time this happens.
A graphic demonstration of why using cloud connected services and appliances is a stupid idea. You are always at the mercy of the provider, and if they go bust, or change focus, or move on to the next big thing, then you are stuffed.
As far as I know you have no legal recourse if a company decides to remove a cloud service they were providing for an appliance like this.
I wonder if the willing volunteers were a representative sample of the expected target for this monitoring- that is, someone suffering from chronic heart problems - or whether they were a bunch of young undergrads. I would suggest that if the latter, it invalidates the testing, as the ability to accurately monitor blood-flow and ecg will be much more of a challenge in older patients, who may well suffer from poor circulation which will be exacerbated by sitting on a toilet seat.
"I think the lesson is that you can never leave configuration up to humans.
No, the lesson is, don't expect developers to be good sysadmins - or vice-versa. Security should be done by somebody competent in the field, just as development should be.
"The real lesson... is that by turning security into code, it can be built, tested, and managed in a completely automated fashion. To the maximum extent possible we have to get the humans out of the loop.
And what a fucking nightmare that would be, if security was left up to automation.
Such as open source.
There is still no readily available open source alternative which gives you all the features of email, calendars, collaborative working, active directory and single sign-on that Office 365 does.
Sure, you can, at great expense of time and effort, cobble together disparate bits of open source software to do a similar job.
But the time and effort come at a cost to businesses, and require someone with decent IT skills to get working and keep working. Why would any business bother?
It sounds like there could be some additional effect but it's strange this new study doesn't mention sleep once in 33 pages.
That's because the scientists carrying out the study are looking for results that are NEW and EXCITING and SPAAAACE and WOO!, and anything so mundane as sleep deprivation doesn't fit into the narrative...
Sorry, I went a bit Bombastic Bob there.
With regard to the footnote story, about social media and child suicide, I noticed a BBC headline saying "UK could ban social media over suicide images, minister warns".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47019912
I thought that might cause a bit of a flurry, can you imagine the outcry if the general populace couldn't access FaceGooInstaTwitchat?
Or maybe the UK populace are so cowed nowadays that even that wouldn't rouse them?