“Time to belt-up and prepare for more of these stories,”
If you're in that line of business, time to read up on GDPR.
And a nice article for nominative determinism.
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A base station needs two connections, one to receive from the Things and the back-haul. Yagis are directional so it looks as if these are the back-haul. That means they must have two aerials up there. As per the original article this installation avoided planning permission because a building can have up to two aerials but what happens if the building already has one aerial up there? Are they breaking planning rules in such cases?
"With 'personal edition' in the About screen, this isn't going to get installed in schools or colleges in UK"
Is it too cynical to suggest a whole stack of "targeted" versions - Personal, Educational, NGO* - that differ only in "About" and splash screens so that PHBs everywhere believe it's special to them and the rest of us just use it?
*Getting NGO take-up is one of their concerns.
"The developers of an open source project are typically not structured in such a way as to offer paid-for support."
The bulk of LO code comes from a group of companies who are structured to offer support. Their problem is that the delivery of LO, either as rolled in with the rest of a Linux distro or downloaded from the LibreOffice site isn't driving enough business their way.
The marketing slides talk about a win-win situation. Instead they've created a lose-lose situation by putting the banner in an RC where it got spotted before they could go public. The bener would have been intended to support whatever public announcement they were going to make. Instead they're running round in circles trying to support the banner.
I still don't understand how they were going to put the whole thing together. If the various eco-system companies' are fragmented - even if only by branding - it will just confuse the potential customers. I suspect it was going to have been a pig's ear anyway but they've just made certain of it.
One peculiarity is that they seem to be worried that TDF is seen as a software vendor. Part of the plan is to push LibreOffice as the brand. As far as most people are concerned LO is the brand and they've never heard of TDF. For a most of the rest LO is still the brand and TDF is some sort of shadowy thing in the background.
"Just, when it's open source, it's very difficult to make people pay for it"
I had a client using a commercial ERP system for which some - but not all source was provided. How else do you think I could tell them how to fix their bugs?
"Maybe ads don't actually need eyeballs to make money these days"
Remember the advertising industry only sells advertising. If the advert gets blocked before reaching eyeballs but still gets charged to the advertiser it still makes money. At least as much as it ever made and quite possibly, by not having a negative effect on the viewer, being slightly better for the advertiser's bottom line that it would had it got through.
So, no, they don't need eyeballs to make money.
"The US space agency's boffins hope the experience will help them figure out ways to improve the bot's modest self-driving capabilities."
An opportunity, maybe, to improve self-driving vehicles without risk to other road users of collateral damage.
"It stops if it doesn't have enough information to complete a drive on its own."
On second thoughts, no. Modest it may be but it's already way ahead.
"As for the down votes, would the commentard care to explain?"
I think it works like this. You commented on something which someone wrote which was utter bollocks; so much so that whoever wrote it can't argue back. Most of us in that position would be able to say "OK" and move on. Occasionally someone can't so all they can do is follow you round downvoting you.
Wear your downvotes with pride. They mean that whatever you wrote was write and somebody's acknowledging it.
"I was hoping the work from home thing might lead to LESS disruptively common team meetings."
You need two computers. One for work & the other for teams. The latter, with its slightly dodgy network connection, could have its camera pointing to you working solidly on the other.
A further problem is that having an app simply spamming low risk people with "get tested" messages threatens to effectively DDOS the testing system at times when it is more under load anyway.
Clearly things are different in Canada. The approach here seems to be don't bother with testing, just tell people to self-isolate. After they've had a few false alarms people will just ignore it on an individual level and on the public level its reputation will plummet and the whole thing will end up being dropped.
"the system presently doesn’t track whether an individual who has been warned to self-isolate ultimately contracts COVID-19."
An absolutely basic metric not being collected.
Just go and self-isolate for 2 weeks. We don't even want to know if we're wasting your time. We certainly don't want to know if we should be telling you to get tested instead. And did the Committee not challenge her on this? Surely even though they're MPs a Science & Technology Committee should have some inkling about this.
I discovered a client's system was set up to do a backup from the live system to the hot standby overnight. I also discovered that he rcp, ftp or whatever it was would be terminated if not complete by start of business next day. I also discovered that although it probably worked when first set up but by the time I came on the scene there was no way it could be completed overnight and probably hadn't been for months years.
Fortunately there were also tape backups.
Having an Indian telco on board suggests that at least one other bit of the coverage will be used and I'd guess they plan to rent out other parts as well.
But "increase the satellite count to 48,000"? Coming soon - HMG statement "We will be the world leader in Dyson spheres".