Re: Terrifying
"Churchillian leadership skills" is a very high mark to aim for....
well since Winnie apparently succeeded despite (?) being drunk most of the time perhaps we should consider Farage .. . or Boris's dad?
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My cynical side thinks that far too many people saw the change to Win10 as a leap too far, and if they had to handle that much change they might as well go for Ubuntu/ Mint, this would allow these people to put a foot into that camp while remaining firmly tied to ms' apron strings.
My whimsical side remembers a PC User Group meeting in London around 1985: a senior honcho from ms UK said that the next version of msDos would be binary compatible with Unix..... at a meeting a couple of months later this was completely pooh-poohed -then they handed out free copies of Windows 1.0 - on a good commercial PC of the time the windows part was so slow as to be unusable (the underlying was still Dos).
My realistic side sees this as a possible alternative to Win10/Ubuntu dual booters.
(The tricky bit may be threads/ processes).
Alice had a brand new pair of roller-skates
Bob had a brand new key
Bob put the key in a strongbox and padlocked it - he kept the Key
Bob sent the box to Alice
Dick intercepted the box but couldn't open it, so sent it onwards
Alice double-padlocked the box and kept her Kkey
Alice sent the box to Bob
Dick intercepted the box but couldn't open it, so sent it onwards
Bob took off his padlock with his Key
Bob sent the box to Alice
Dick intercepted the box but couldn't open it, so sent it onwards
Alice opened the box with her Kkey
Alice took out the key and put on her roller-skates
The rest is musical history ffolks.
An amazingly biased, and factually unjustifiable statement.
and fwiw quite a number of India's rural poor have/ have access to a cellphone (probably not 'Smart') - that can provide weather, market/ crop prices - as sms (which costs ~ 50 paise).
During WWII everyone in the UK had a National Identity Number (and a NI card). At the end of the war the government conceded to liberal (small l) concerns and announced that they were abolished. Fairly soon after that it was announced that they were needed after all - to use the new NHS - they became NHS numbers. I don't think they are used now (the NHS apparently followed the maxim that "an alternative identifier can be easily developed" - indeed they may have followed it repeatedly).
It does however illustrate the fact that from time to time there is a genuine need for the state to identify its citizens; the fact that this is now done in round about ways is, quite honestly both stupid and hypocritical.
IMHO dry pipe water may actually be safer ...
plus ca change!
that was also the consensus (tho' rarely implemented) opinion 20 - 25 years ago.
... pull all the boards, detergent wash, distilled water wash, warm air blow dry (yup, hairdryers) - reportedly better than 90% recovery.
Jeez, what kind of gas-based fire suppression system shakes buildings and seriously damages equipment?
Well, as I commented in a Contingency Planning report for xxxxxCo some years ago "I have been unable to confirm the Ops. dept. claim that soldered 15mm copper tubing can handle the release of unregulated CO2"
[missing lightbulb icon]
.... but when halon was banned for refrigeration, some cowboys started using butane (works very well unless you get a leak!).
Surely no-one would replace fire suppression gas with butane....
if my Excel spreadsheet is to be believed the chance of a random sample of 10 people containing one or more who understand this stuff is of the order of six sigma.
So I don't think I'm alone in believing that those who do claim to understand it budded off into their own microverse some decades ago!
I think Mr Orlowski underestimates the number of people affected - and annoyed - by this (including peripathetic journos?) . It's not just TV, radio is also restricted - Classic FM politely asks for your postcode if you claim to be 'resident', but the BBC is more restrictive, and just unavailable on some devices.
For UK access why not ask for postcode plus TV licence no. - this would at least prove that an entity which is quite possibly you/part-of-your-household has paid for use of the content - after all, it would be easier though less honest just to set up a proxy tunnel. There's probably something similar for other countries.
That's the point I was making - having them come to your device and have you unlock it is the same thing. Don't comply, then go to jail until you do. It removes the protection criminals enjoy without violating anyone else's right to privacy.
I have an encrypted file on my computer, I made it years ago, it contains nothing of any interest - but - I have absolutely no idea what key I used. So would jail time be appropriate?
there is no need to encrypt credit card data because it should be on a server with no public-facing network connection. You only need it to collect your fees don't you?
(Please tell me it's not stored so that it is available to shopping websites that your customers may use!).
and...
" we very rarely seem to build up new entreprenurial companies that then go global....
...this again clashes with the usual diagnosis that being British is excessively rapacious ..."
The East India Company comes to mind - outrageously successful for a very very long time --- if only they'd had vaseline for those cartridges.....
Somewhere in the Midlands, in what by now is probably a desirable live/work conversion, there is an old Victorian iron pillar with the upper-case alphabet plus numerals stamped in a spiral around it.
One day an engineer, either hung over or on a promise, did a rush job of inserting a custom character in the print chain (not drum in this case). Now IBM issued special sets of graduated fractional-ounce torque spanners so this job could be done properly, but they weren't used. On test the chain snapped, came straight through the printer casing and wrapped round said pillar, with the results described. Fortunately the engineer was not in the way - the chain would not have slowed measurably if he had been.
I'd forgotten about bursters - jeez - I used to take home the cylinders of carbon paper and saw them up to fuel our solid fuel boiler!