Posts by Woodnag

It's worthless. Two massive loopholes

1. Small businesses with less than $40 million in revenue are exempt from the APRA.

2. The legislation gives individuals the right to sue for privacy harms, and disallows mandatory arbitration in claims involving minors or a substantial privacy harm – set at $10,000 – or specific physical or mental harms.

For 2, if there's a flagrant abuse, how do you prove a monetary damage?

Re: Troubling developments

My FreeNAS (never upgraded to TrueNAS) runs a treat, but the two mirrored USBs with FreeNAS keep crapping out as USB sticks get unreliable with MLC. Annoying to repeat a scrub and get more corrected errors. So I see why going to SSD was chosen.

Re: The owner has two Ferraris. They have that kind of money

A service manager told me some 6 months ago about a current model Lambo waiting 3 months for tyres. Different sizes front/rrear of course.

Just say no....

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot]

"TurnOffWindowsCopilot"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot]

"TurnOffWindowsCopilot"=dword:00000001

Re: What an absolute joke of an equivalence

Zactly.

VCRs were largely used to time shift programs for personal use, which is why they passed the court tests.

If a VCR was used to make a new film for commercial use from 100s of snippets of existing films (analogy to LLMs), that would be illegal.

It's worse than that. Here's the actual notice from https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/serco-leisure-operating-limited-and-relevant-associated-trusts/

TERMS OF THE ENFORCEMENT NOTICE

By no later than the date three months from the date of the Enforcement Notice Serco shall take the following steps:

1. Cease all processing of biometric data for the purpose of employment attendance checks from all Relevant Facilities (and not implement biometric technology at any further facilities).

2. Destroy all biometric data and all other personal and special category data that Serco is not legally obliged to retain, including any such data stored by, or on behalf of Serco (including instructing SWT Software Limited to delete any such data held on behalf of Serco).

The destroy instruction is very vague. ICO really don't know what Serco is "legally obliged to retain"? Why is any of this illegally grabbed bio data under some unstated retention requirement?

Re: Well good thing the UK had Brexit

Shirley if you got married it wouldn't "strengthen her case to remain here" but give her a right to do so, after the proof of valid relationship tests?

Re: National insurance numbers?

Sure... but TFA says "Southern Water has admitted between five and ten percent of its customers had their details stolen..."

cafés close for lack of lunchtime customers

The Apples and Googles have canteens, so local lunch places close anyway.

.aand then, go here to see if it is supported by DD-DWT

https://dd-wrt.com/support/router-database/

Re: The right to bare arms?

Nice Walther in the pic though...

When linked to payment method as you say, a good way of building up a lot of different pictures of everyone's faces to improve identification in future...

Re: If government contracts with Fujitsu

These were mostly private prosecutions. The mechanisms for PPs and lack of being able to contest "the computer said so" evidence is a major problem.

Considering US/Israel spies sabotaged Iranian cyclotron PLCs, you'd think the follow-on plan would be to ensure that the favour couldn't be returned...

Re: In fairness

In fairness, if a human driver dragged a human body under their car the human driver would be prosecuted.

Re: I think the WFH rate will creep up

Close.

Two choices:

1. Work from home, but we're flattening the salaries to lose the regional allowances for areas with high cost of living, on the presumption that you can move to a cheaper area.

2. Train you replacement who will work from home in a country with lower salaries.

Sheldon Jacobson did the original TSA Pre-Check research...

Re: Still not interested

Maybe gov could explain what "world leader in AI" actually means.

Re: £108k

That might cover the cost of initial silicon, depending on process node.

The whole "chip strategy" is virtue signalling that Something is Being Done.

UK would be better to negotiate low pricing from Cadence etc for qualified startups.

Re: Not.

It wasn't that important. The "secret military blueprints" headline is just silly.

He passed on "CUI and other sensitive information". CUI = Controlled Unclassified Information.

...as demonstrated by the ads for a type of product for weeks after purchase. Targetted, sure, if the pretense is maintained that the tracker doesn't know that the purchase was already made.

Your examples are people whose actions caused financial damage to the 0.1%.

IBM laying off oldies improves the financials.

Re: Data is just like breathing

Close. The lesson for TikTok is to have a large office in Eire. Works for FB.

Re: I need to look at how the test is done

It sounds strange to me that the testing was done 3 years after product release.

Re: please forgive my lack of knowledge...

DD-WRT runs OpenVPN, so you could run the VPN link directly on a (DD-WRT supported) router...

Re: Genuine Question

It's like your NI number, innit.

No.

Re: Disinformation?

You've highlighted the exact problem.

Anyone who points out Western disinformation or lies or propaganda is tarred with "oooh, you must be a {citizen of enemy of the moment}.

Re: Expose

I heard that Hugh Hefner found God.... no, sorry, that's porn again. Not the same.

Re: @imanidiot

For privacy, avoid being in a group photo including people that love to tag photos....

Re: Sue You, Jimmy!

Also, Google serves ads, so it has every website categorised by type. They could easily disallow calls by their tools from certain URLs. They choose to pretend that they are not a party.