Posts by streaky

Re: RFID tags instead of pictures.

"it beats an open server filled with pictures of license plates any day of the week"

If we're assuming incompetence now they don't have pics of numberplates (I can think of reasons why that can't possibly be true, but -) now they have name, if it's a corp account, where you live, payment info and again, times when you used a car park, road (in the case of tolls) etc and when. Can't imagine why Brazil has a systemic problem with armed car jackings of rich people.

Okay sure presumably you could anonymise such a system and have people only top-up so to speak via shops or whatever, but most people won't want the inconvenience. Not saying there should be a problem with such a system but we're assuming incompetence remember - there shouldn't be a problem with a db of licence plate images either..

Re: Port forwarding necessary

Really, it's actually not so simple to do

It's absolutely trivial if you give it a public IP.

Also by the way there's billions of reasons to use IPMI not just related to no onsite admin - if you run thousands of servers you want a way to manage them, to provision them - it's the public IP *plus* flaws that's at issue here. They're both fixable.

Re: So, to sum up. . .

To *accurately* sum up: lawfully emplaced prime minister acts entirely within the law and constitutional norms and settles parliament down a bit and they all cry like babies about things they plainly don't understand. There's gonna be such a massive turfing out after the next GE..

Re: Nothing to see here

If you don't think the backstop is necessary then you clearly don't get why its an absolute necessity. Next you'll be telling us that there is no way out of the backstop without the EU's permission, and its all a big trick to keep the UK in the EU, won't you? Spoiler Alert: There is, for both the UK and the EU, but you've read the WA and you knew that? You have read the WA, haven't you?

I was one of the first members of the public to read it, I distinctly recall live-tweeting reading it. To this day I'm fairly sure I'm one of the very few people who has. The "way out" assumes the backstop itself doesn't have nefarious purpose, which leads anybody with any sense to presume that the backstop has a nefarious purpose. You're forgetting that parliament on legal advice voted this down 3 times and rejected point-blank attempts to bring it back at least another two times. Lets pretend for a second that it's not just me and it's not just brexiteers given the vast majority of parliament are hardcore remainers, can we?

I understand the claimed purpose but the claimed purpose is a massive pile of illogical. The claimed purpose is that if there's no FTA as foreseen by the future relationship then somehow the UK blows the single market open. Why's that illogical? If there's no FTA everybody goes their own separate ways and we end up in the same place as under no deal otherwise... I'll give you a chance to think about why that doesn't do what is claimed minus backstop. ignoring the fact it's a nonsense, again, it's almost certainly going to cause the very thing it's supposed to prevent. It's illogicalception - illogical nonsense within illogical nonsense.

We've been debating for years if the common law legal system is in any way compatible with the civil law that is used around the rest of Europe, similar to how people debate if sharia law is compatible with same in various countries - the WA is the final proof that it isn't in any way. What boggles my mind is Theresa May couldn't see it and that she thought she could sneak it past parliament.

By the way on the presidents thing, yes there's 3 (I can pretend that's not absurd for a few seconds) to simply point out this - it's a colloquialism, when people say that they're referring to the president who shows up to represent the EU, the president of commission and literally nobody is impressed by the pedantic effort of correcting like that as if you know something other people don't. Everybody knows.

Oh and by the way Brexit (in any form) and the GFA are entirely compatible with each other. Three years now I've been asking people to cite the sections of the GFA that are affected in any way and nobody has managed it yet.

Re: I could never

Weapons have always been built with the assumption that GPS doesn't exist, that's the whole point of what I said. It's the difference between 10 meter CEP and 10cm CEP and nothing more - it's not even that if it's something like a modern cruise missile that actually understands what it's supposed to be hitting looks like.

Re: Bent Cops

Difference is she'll go after actual criminals. Problem with the society we live in right now is criminals are mollycoddled and law abiding public and victims are treated like trash. Aftertaste of the last Labour government with some Cameron thrown in.

Re: Families exist

Never seen a company do anything like that. Getting gbe off a company server for patches, game downloads, video etc is never a problem.

Re: And BigBank?

Not a Monzo customer, and probably never will but you have to give them huge respect for being transparent about it. Probably happens every day at larger banks and they bury it all down a big hole I'm guessing.

Re: Same old smokscreen

EU citizens in the UK have legitimate fears about their future status. First they were forced to register (at cost), then the cost was removed, but they were still forced to register. Nobody knows what their status will be.

Lets have them not register. Then in 50 years when there's literally zero record of them having a right to live in the UK when they try to get help in old age deport them. This nonsense is literally why the Windrush scandal happened - because soft in the head morons didn't think they'd ever come across an immigration system in their lives. Get a grip.

Re: Brexit

Our EU membership causes a situation where we need to have an immigration system that is unfair and racist - leaving the EU is an opportunity to put together an immigration system that is fair and not racist. That's not contradictory and it is a fact.

As for fixing the EU's problems from within they've had 40 years and laughed in the face of everybody who has tried - including Emmanuel Macron, the saviour of the EU. They won't change in another 400 years unless somebody leaves it who is bankrolling it and even then it's a crap-shoot. Delusional is the most polite word I can use to describe ideas like that.

I mean it only applies to things said in the House. It's not like the EU were politicians have total immunity from prosecution or anything..

MP's total exemption from the terrorism act (even for actions outside the house) is utter nonsense though.

Re: Time Wasted = Billable Hours

Rabinowitz isn't a US brief, he's part of a well respected commercial law firm in the UK - if there's a problem in that regard it would be being directed by a US brief rather than the in court thing. Also if HP think they can have somebody extradited over a civil claim (and I've seen no evidence they think that) they're out of their minds. Not gonna happen.

The smart thing to do if they wanted somebody to prosecute would have gone after their former board for not doing due diligence and I'd draw attention to HP's out of court settlement to back that up.

Re: Brexit FUD

Lemme put this the most polite way I can muster. My word you're a miserable fuckwit. You have literally no idea what on earth you are talking about.

Re: Literally..

She's not operational until 2020. Everything right now is some degree of sea trial. It's all shakedown if you want different language.

Re: Active users?

Dunno but given how frequently it signs itself out for *no reason* maybe if it's you bother to sign in.

Re: And so it goes on...

Well given the Single Market is a few steps ahead of the WTO ie. because it only has/had 32 members (EU28 + 4 others) and so can move quicker than the WTO

The WTO has no position on tax. You're confusing them with the OECD I suspect.

it does make one question the Brexiteer belief that trading under WTO rules is going to be so much better

Because we.. already do.. with our 5 biggest trading partners?

By the way, the sheer volume of extra tax revenue from out own internal market that we'd gain from leaving without signing the WA would grossly far more than cover losses from say losing 50% of goods sales to the EU which nobody is saying is going to happen (will me more like in the 5-10% range), and that market is only about 30% of the the 20% of the UK economy that is goods.

Re: quite sensible

I wonder if Cisco exec would say the same

Of course they would. They'd be talking nonsense but they'd say the same without thinking twice.

Only way to be sure is to test. Huawei are tested and are happy to go along with that testing. My thing is I don't mind much what we do as long as we're holding everybody to the same standard.

Re: I was fine with the first indictment

Well no they've now accused him of espionage in the strictest sense. They haven't even got to the GRU/Trump stuff yet..

Re: That woulda be a spicy tamale

GDPR does cover processing for law enforcement, it gives a total exemption. As national security. My point was as an EU regulation there's no real reason to transpose beyond convenience - it has to be effectively word-for-word else it's moot. It already overrules national law.

Re: 1984 !

Exactly which form of Brexit did the referendum mandate? No single one.

Leaving the EU means leaving the EU. Only one single option matches that description and I'll give you a hint: it doesn't involve a customs union, single market membership or freedom of movement or not being able to - effectively or actually - negotiate trade deals.

What governments do once we've left is up to them (though I have some ideas) - but the mandate of leaving the EU is so clear even remainers managed to figure it out.

First principles. The mandate is judged on what voters were told in the referendum process. It was clear what leaving meant. Trying to retcon it after the fact doesn't change the facts, this stuff is easy to test.

Re: team viewer

Yeah I recall it very clearly - at the time systems were being compromised and teamviewer took pains to make it clear that they weren't compromised. Class action seems to be the only way to resolve this.

Re: Not my face

Can't sue the police for malicious prosecution without first winning your case.