Posts by Dodgy Geezer 1773 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2007
Modern cameras and gps systems could to provide an automatic note of the point on the grouns a beam came from instantly, at very low cost. This could be a fitting for all aircraft similar to the reversing camera on a car.
Then all you need is a surveillance camera feed for that area at that time. Which you can get frequently. Problem solved...
Haven't we got rid of all the cyclists yet?
They are using a deeply unsafe Victorian mode of transport which ought to be banned from the roads, and limited to recreational and sports areas. Just like horses.
If they keep on operating a conveyance where the first thing to be contacted in a collision is their body, they will continue to die in accidents which are otherwise survivable if they were to use proper protection.
Yeah. Like that's going to happen.
Do you know how many people have a vested interest in the system which provides a choice of two figureheads, for both US and UK politics?
ALL of them. Every single person who has anything to do with this corrupt process earns their living from it. How are you going to get any change with that kind of investment in the system?
...Dr Swinbourne and colleagues have been observing the more common Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat's mating behaviours to develop a breeding model for the northern cousin....
...Dr Swinbourne has not just happened upon a local Wombat S&M club...
If he has, the Northern Cousins are going to be SO surprised by the human's attempts to help them to breed...
...If a car suffers mechanical breakdown it gets bricked, but if a safety modification becomes available the driver has to bring the car in at their convenience. It is not a case of rushing to the nearest service centre regardless.
If a driver suffers a health incident, say a migraine or a heart tremor, they have to take the decision whether to continue the journey. It is not a case of calling an ambulance regardless....
That is the case NOW. But the inexorable trend over the last 30 years or so has been to introduce a voluntary requirement, then follow it up with compulsion.
Expect to find it illegal for people outside a specified BMI to drive a car at some point in the next 20 years...
...focusing first on sites with more users and those "most frequently visited" by children. But responses point out that it is hard to establish traffic levels robustly and questioning how the BBFC will identify which sites are most visited by children....
I never knew CBeebies had a porn section...
..."Would a judge side with the ICO?"
Side isn't the right word. Judges are impartial and will impartially conduct the relevant tribunal....
Are you living in the 1950s? That hasn't been true for a long time. The courts are now REQUIRED by law to discriminate in favour of various groups of people in a number of ways....
Actually, they are very unlikely to kill an innocent man. If they shoot you, you must be guilty of SOMETHING.
For example, Harry Stanley was guilty of turning around when someone shouted from behind him...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Stanley
Charles de Menezes was guilty of coming out of his home at the wrong time...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes
Ian Tomlinson was guilty of walking down the street...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ian_Tomlinson#Earlier_encounter_with_police
and so on.....
Interesting question. What can you say to the ICO if you really don't know what data you have collected?
I'm guessing that the ICO would respond that you MUST know about all the personal data that you collect - when you ask for it you should document the fact.
In which case, has it become illegal to ask open-ended questions which may result in someone giving you some personal data that you didn't anticipate?
...and that would achieve the most important aim of the proposal, which is to force punters to use password managers that get in their faces and firmly insist on complex and fresh passwords for every online service...
...worry about the current increase in specialists anxious, not to advise us, but to FORCE us to behave as they would like us to?
In the UK you can no longer buy squash without artificial sweetener, because the companies have been forced to cut the sugar. The NHS discusses, and in some cases implements rationing of health care on the basis of BMI. There are many other examples.
There are names for people who are forced to do things against their will. And they are not 'free citizens'...
Buy Epson.
Epson sell their printers at rock-bottom prices, because they make all their money from ink. So they also try the same software tricks on.
However, Epson printers are very common. So there are no end of third party utilities out there to reset the Epson counters, or take over the whole driver process.
So, biy a new Epson printer, load hacked third-party drivers and use third-party Continuous Ink Supplies. Job done...
...BUT .... the issue is that the whole of society IS by its very existence PRO White....
Er...not exactly. The whole of WHITE society IS by its very existence PRO White. You will find that the whole of ASIAN society IS by its very existence PRO Asian, and the whole of BLACK society IS by its very existence PRO Black.
It's just that in the West we have been shoehorning different cultures together on the assumption that everything would be marvelous....
...An afterthought: the fuel injection systems and much of the engine control electronics for all engines found to be cheating were made by Bosch. Maybe that should be the place to look for the actual perpetrator?
Just a thought....
Not a very good thought. Bosch simply made systems as requested - just like a knife manufacturer makes knives. The 'actual perpetrators' are the ones who lied to the regulators.......
Purple Drain,
Drainy night in Dallas
It might as well Drain until September
I can see clearly now the Drain has gone
Walking in the Drain
Famous Blue Draincoat
I have seen the Drain
It's Draining Men
It never Drains in Southern Texas
One Drainy wish
Only happy when it Drains
Over the Drainbow
................................
People attack the weakest link.
Here I would corrupt a lowly police official, so that he would provide me with the officially-obtained keys to anyone I wanted. That's why creating a central repository is such a bad idea - it's a single place you need to attack to gain access to everything.
You could ask for a 20 key encryption process. The one target is the operator. And look how easy it is for crims to get data out of DVLA...
...2. Designing a secure encryption algorithm (especially one that is provably secure) is hard; many, including skilled cryptographers, have tried and fallen short.
3. Implementing a secure encryption scheme is hard and rarely done; many, including highly skilled and experienced programmers, have tried and fallen short.
4. Guaranteeing that a vulnerability free implementation of a provably secure encryption algorithm in an environment so that it is not vulnerable to operating system defects, both when installed and after all future OS modifications is hard, and since the nature of future changes is unpredictable, unlikely to be attainable.
..........
I doubt that managers at NSA or any other major SigInt organization worry much about this problem....
Funny, that.
Because they lost a lot of sleep over Phil Zimmermann and PGP.....
...10kw is more than enough for the average house and combined with solar/wind would make for a much more flexible power network ...
Since solar/wind is not reliable, you would need to have nuclear able to service the full power requirement.
That being the case, why would you want to turn nuclear off whenever the wind blew, and then turn it on again whenever it stopped? Turning things on and off is wasteful - as is creating two power generating systems when you only need one. Just use the nuclear, and save money by not buying high-maintenance wind turbines.
Nuclear fuel is VERY cheap and long-lasting, so there's little point in saving it....
...The batteries on the black box have run down, so they could have a ship right on top of it and never find it. The odds of recognizing it via sonar at such depths are quite small...
I wonder how they found the Air France 447 crash using sonar after two years then?
I know! Perhaps they use autonomous vehicles to go down to the ocean floor and conduct a search only a few hundred feet up...?
.."I cannot give all answers today but I can commit [to taking] the necessary steps. I promise will not happen again... [and that we are] united in our resolve to be transparent about what went wrong.....
I think I can guarantee that this is the last we will hear about it, and that the government will fight tooth and nail to avoid any internal findings being published....
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