Posts by EnviableOne

Not an Apple Fanboi but ...

At least you need physical access unlike Intel's SMT and SGX ....

Re: You know you’re doing privacy better when...

Apparently i am simultaniously 10 years oolder than myself and 20 years younger and also both male and female and from seven or eight town around where my IP geolocates to.

Re: An old idea

Race is not just about colour of skin either.

English on Irish or Scots

French on Belgian

Japanese on Korean

Spanish on Catalan or Basque

Racism is bad, and we are all affected, yeah some are less bad at it than others, but we all got tarred by the same brush.

Untill we give up making arbitary distinctions based on where you or your ancestors have come from and start treating each other with the respect we deserve, the cancer of racism will live on

Re: Just do what I do.

If they fail to broaded their hiring practices or fail to consider the non-minority candidates from new hiring practices, then they are discriminating on grounds of race, which is illlegal.

The standard higring practices discriminates against many, not just minorities, and puts breaks on social mobility and stifles inovation.

They should be looking to cast as wide a net as posible and excluding factors from their decision making that will impact on the inclusivity of their process.

Arbitary quotas do not solve the problem, what has to be done is to change the culture and the process that lead to it, only by having a more inclusive system with a merit based system can we produce a diverse team that will cover all the problems from all the angles and allow us to achive the best solutions to problems and come together as one society working together for the common good.

Re: Nothing rhymed

both the USA and Federal Germany are relativley new countries, that have defined their Constituions in an age where such things were recorded and are based on some of the documents that form part of older more nuanced constitutions.

the UK has no one piece of paper, or single document, but has a system of common law and core documents that form a far more rounded and nuanced system than those relative younglings.

The Magna Carta (1215), the Petition of Right (1628) , the Bill of Rights (1689), the Act of Settlement (1701) all confer rights on the people and form part of the UK constitution, it also contains other un written rights like the common law duty of confidentuality.

Re: Relax...

Bash is probably better, but you can do just about enough with MS Batch Scripts or Powershell, and even the local user can run those

Re: Relax...

Even a .NET dev would use native commands in Powershell to parse the raw csv.

Re: Relax...

Its Not PHE, its the Delloite/Serco Test and Trace Dashboard that needs the excel 2007 format stuff

Re: Someone is to blame

She is, despite Duncan Selbie still being notianlly head of PHE, PHE have been rolled into the new National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP) which She is Interim head of....

But still the blame has to land at the feet of Andrew Lansley and the Health and Social Care Act, that ripped the Public health boards apart and gave the responsibilities to local councils, without the funding, and deposited the central parts in PHE, so it was basically a controll centre for something that no-longer existed.

Maintaining a Public Health infrastructure is expensive, but when an epi or pan demic comes along it repays that in spades, but if you dont have one, it starts to look like a good line item to cut in a budget

Re: So all phones are tracked

All phones are constantly tracked, not just apples.

When the phone checks into the base station it delivers its Service identifier (SIM number) and its hardware identifier (IMEI) so Apple know their IMEIs of the phones supposidly destroyed, but using SS7 they can find them active on the network, and if they want to push the protocol, can actulally locate the device.

Re: Sickening

Depends on theiir definition, and based on the case atleats 100k of the "Can't be referbished" were of a condition where someone would pay for them.

Re: CSV?

Actually Excel's default seperator is the tab

Tab-delimited CSVs are a PITA, atleast most parsers can take any seperator and text qualifer, even excel manages this....

but still why the Deloitte/Zuhlke/Serco system needs office 2007 XLS files and can't read CSV i will never know.....

Re: 'spreadsheet software as "human middleware" in the sector'

csv is more the middleware used by the NHS, Excel is just a convinient viewer of csv data, as so many of the systems can't talk a common language, you get the system to output a nice csv, that you can get an integration engine to translate for other systems to consume.

so why the track and trace dashboard can't handle the raw CSV files I dont know

Re: Vnext - and so it starts

vNext : taking bets on release names:

Exchange 365

or

Exchange Server (Exchange Server 2109 .....)

are the front runners

Re: Source as requested.

Problem solved

the app is the NHS Covid-19 app

the Deloitte -> Serco system is "NHS" Test and Trace

Re: Old iPhones.

They are also ignoring the fact that the Checkm8 hardware bug exists in everythind with below an A5-A11 chip, which allows free reign on the system without need for it to be unlocked.