Posts by streaky

Re: Brexit means brexit.

This was a rational decision that prices in the uncertainty and short-term pain. The poll sponsored by Open Britain (a pro-EU campaign group) and cited in The Guardian (a pro-EU newspaper) was designed to produce the response it got. No surprise there.

Nah man we're all racists who can't do math or look at economic data that's what it is.

Either that or there's no positive case for staying in the EU, there's certainly no downside to leaving and a massive potential upside to to leaving.

In a world where UK exports to the EU are falling, exports to the rest of the world are increasing and we can can do trade deals with countries we want to rather than being blocked by the EU who doesn't want to trade with those countries because it hurts Germany are we going to stay or leave? That's right.

The European project isn't really for the UK. I don't really wish ill on the countries still in (if they ever rebuild the EU the way it should be built I'd be happy to vote for rejoining but right now it's a disaster with a huge democratic deficit which is why you hear EU professional chair sitters talking about populism = bad without stating how they'll rebalance the democratic deficit - which is easy by the way - you just swap the legal positions of the European Parliament and the Commission; Parliament decides law and the Commission should be checks and balances as opposed to how it is today) but it really is a protectionist disaster designed to keep the UK in check and flow cash on the macro level to Germany as opposed to what it was supposed to be for.

Not for nothing but it's going to be decades before people forget de Gaulle's attitude [problem].

More on topic: higher prices means a reduction on imports of things that we don't explicitly need there and then - so what.

Re: Organ payments

Speaking as somebody who had a kidney removed as a child for health reasons and still has only one but potentially might need one in future and frankly probably could afford to buy one, don't be a clown grumpy.

There's a very long list of reasons why buying organs should never be a thing and why it's illegal in the civilised world.

Aside from that all the effort/money that would go on setting up an even close to safe system would be better spent on getting people to donate when they die. Tax breaks of inheritance and the like is something I've talked about before, but there's many levers that can be pulled to fixing the lack of donations - making it a legal default position for starters. If you're not a donor and aren't otherwise medically disqualified you shouldn't be eligible to receive them either; or at least should be put low down in the list.

Re: overhaul?

This has nothing to do with DMCA, it is plain old good trademark law and the idiotic "use it or lose" clause in it. That clause is long overdue for clarification and relaxation

Only somebody who's never discovered the joys of safe harbour in the DMCA would say something so silly.

Actually take away the safe harbour stuff and the DMCA would be a reasonably functional piece of copyright legislation. It'd still excessively favour copyright holders but at the same time at least people could make it work.

Making bullshit copyright claims should implicitly be viewed by the legal system as perjury and result in people being disbarred when they do it and then they might actually look at the shit they're sending out. Yes I am suggesting lawyers should lose their livelihoods for a first offence, then maybe it'd restore faith in the system and practitioners.

Re: Balkanisation of the Internet

What happens when *paranoid* state actors get involved. The internet was built in the first place and continues to be run by state actors. Nobody told them the hardware is far more likely to be backdoored than the software.

Re: Surely this is where an independent judiciary ...

There are many many many precedents. It's also a fundamental part of UK constitutional law and sits right alongside the principle of equality of arms (none of this comes from EU doctrine, incidentally).

Also yeah, courts would refuse to hear such cases where there wasn't other evidence, all this stuff is court-inadmissible; hell even fully warranted target-specific wiretaps of phone conversations are inadmissible in UK courts. IPA isn't for court cases.

Re: Good luck to building the same for Fukushima.

Yeah AFAIK there's no plan to do anything with the upper bio shield right now, running through the thing with a bulldozer would "allow" it to be stabilised doesn't mean they will - but I get what you're saying; it's not like it's built to prevent work being done to it. I think currently the plan is just basically keeping the dust in as much as possible if it does fall. It's so heavy any attempt to do anything with it will result it in falling regardless, hence I'd just fill it with boron and sand - boron for the obvious and sand to vitrify anything that has residual heat and for support in case anything does fall and it'd keep the dust down and also reduce the fall height. They tried it after the accident because it's a sensible thing to do but they couldn't get near enough to get anything in there - at least now there's cranes in place relative containment that it might be worth filling what's left of the reactor vessel with. Honestly at this point you could probably mostly encase it in reinforced concrete and forget about it to a certain extent - would make it easier to work around for sure. NSC opens up a lot of options for making it safer.

Re: How long until

But whereas previously your complete browsing history was recorded by a pseudo-legal system under the pretext of National Security, and presenting that as evidence in a court of law would involve admitting their capabilities, now they can just print out the logs from the ISP and present that.

All they can say is you connected to a server at a certain time, which in most cases would also include thousands or millions of other people at the same time. That's not evidence of any sort. So yeah, what's this law for again?

Re: Next steps

Your own comment proves why it'll never happen, that's literally the end of the economic system.

Re: Copper cabling, crap service

This is plenty of bandwidth.

No, it isn't. It's a dog's breakfast is what it is. It's true that in the middle of nowhere we could use that sort of speed to cover up the fact we're getting short-changed, but in urban areas is astonishingly poor form.

Re: 5 years - then another 5.. and another

I have no issue with poor service to non-city areas, there's all sorts of good economic reasons why it's expensive to do and there's a certain level of acceptance that it's hard, even the nordics get that. It might even be possible that in trying to give everybody equality of access we're actually harming the network itself.

My issue and it'll continue to be my issue is we're as a country (from tax revenues) and as individuals (as customers) paying through the nose for very crappy service from very crappy networks even where the economics of FTTH/P make perfect sense purely because we keep using the worst available options for service delivery. Somebody in government needs to get a grip on the actual roll-out of decent service rather than just throwing money at it and hoping the problem goes away because it never will.

It'll take far more money than we're talking about to re-roll FTTH to countryside areas, even with somebody competent pushing it.

Re: Cloudy Security?

it would be subject to EU data protection laws

Doesn't stop the NSA (or GCHQ or the BND) doing whatever they like so why would it stop the Chinese?

Re: Lawyers

NW3 was the govt farming out prosecutions to the US.

This would be making shit up to blame anybody but HP's board for something that isn't even a crime in the US (doing one's job to globally expected standards).

Ever sent an email in your life about anything related to work or personal life or visited online banking or ordered something online. By US standards this could be a wire fraud charge even in the absence of actual fraud.

Hence why CG-Lite is a thing. Most services people care about are on IPv6. When customers are having their internet destroyed by CGNAT on IPv4 providers should be at least saying "but look at all this wonderful IPv6 you have" and there'd be no problem.

Whole thing is an incompetentfest.

It's *hugely* important. And yes it's been solved, and that's why it's useful for spotting clowns walking through your door.

it would be interesting to know how the court drew any conclusion about support from just one noun

It would be interesting to know if the French media, police or courts know that daesh is a word that IS find offensive and if they know that's the reason the name is used in western media - because it actively pisses them off.

Using the word daesh in an IS controlled area will get you relieved of your tongue.

Re: Stealth..

I realise that the F-35 is the thing to poke fun at of the decade and some bad decisions have been made - but people don't actually think that do they? It's a replacement for the F-16 and F-18 that's far more capable than both.. so... people don't actually think that do they?

Re: Those of us old enough to remember . . .

"Going to have to be a very clever laser"

This technology has been around for years.

Re: All according to plan

It actually increases the debt where it's foreign denominated which a chunk probably is and has zero net effect on Sterling denominated. It does however increase the costs of imports and decrease the cost of exports to foreign customers helping to attack the trade deficit (to the extent anybody outside the US gives a toss about trade deficits) - so yeah all according to plan on that front. Don't see the problem.

FWIW Carney is a clown who should be fired at the first opportunity - and gold isn't any more real money than a bag of dirt.

Re: Value

That's 1/3 of an NHS non-league team right there.

Re: Microsoft..

You're talking about small fines versus the potential for Microsoft to be broken up into smaller pieces, best case and unlimited fines. One's worth taking the risk if you're Microsoft and you can undo the damage caused by broken old OS stacks versus the potential for effectively company deletion.

Re: DNS issue?

All DNS records have a dot at the end of them, some things hide them but they're definitely there.. And yeah split horizon faecal leakage would seem to be the issue here.