Posts by David 164

Re: Patching speed is probably the issue

Really, why can't the core OS and libraries be auto-patched for security as most Linux distros do?

I'm going to take a guess and presume the mobile phone operators being the control freaks they are want to test each an every patched first, also they probably worry about being blame for customers going on their data limits unknowingly, through this could be solve by making it only wifi only feature, auto patched over wifi. Another issue is Motorola and others laying their own software on top of android, there some potential for new security patches to break these software.

Re: Of those 12..

It was the F-22 and not the F-35 that had the suffocating pilot problem, which have since been resolved.

BAE probably borrowed the code of the Americans and gave it to MI6 for safe keeping, after all if rumours are to be believe BAE been taking classified US technology and sharing it with the British MOD for decades.

Actually as I understand it BAE is building or assembling components for all F-35s in the world, not just the UKs.

Re: Hurrying slowly

Yeah but which politician is insane to activate Article 50 single handedly, it always good to spread the blame and get parliament to do the dirty work for you.

I suspect it will soon change to, it won't be activated until a new government is elected in a general election and the public is allowed to choose which party they want leading them out of the EU.

Re: Not good for UK science

Didn't you get the memo, the leave campaign promised all of that money to the NHS.

Re: "...Theresa May, who is considered more moderate..."

They already blame the European courts of human rights as much as it is possible to blame them.

Re: Terrifying

When was the last time Britain hared off on its own?

Sierra Leone. Which was entirely a British military operation. 2000

Re: What kind of moronic thinking is that?

Except that dealing with experiments on the patients directly with new drugs or surgical techniques, which at the moment Google isn't doing. What Google is doing with this set of data is training it neural network to recognise when a patient has kidney problems from their medical records. CQC, NICE and other organisation already does this on a regular base, NICE use patient records to confirm whether drugs are as good as they claim and whether they are worth the price we are paying for them. CQC use them to spot where parts of the NHS are failing.

Helsinki Declaration will only come into effect once Google start to test its technology in a live clinical environment and are monitoring real patients, presumably in real time because that the moment when they are actually experimenting and using patients as guinea pigs.

Re: This has health privacy implications far beyond just the affected patients...

Deepmind are British researchers.

Re: revenge porn

You have almost certainly gave you consent, which the NHS almost certainly stored at one of its storage sites or servers.

Re: But....

They actually state they don't sale ads in the UK, given that where nearly all of it profits are made, there very little generation of revenue and thus profits being made in this country. I don't like this anymore than you do but the politicians could change the law tomorrow if they wanted, they won't because they themselves would be hit by such changes to the law.

Re: What kind of moronic thinking is that?

Ambulance driver missed signs of sepsis,

Nurse missed signs of sepsis,

Doctor missed signs of sepsis,

consultant missed signs of sepsis,

Google software didn't, another life save.

Bet that headline doesn't meet your narrow view of the world does it?

Every data protection form I have ever signed have included giving permission for my data to be analyse and process by third parties, this is no different. If people don't want to read them that their fault.

Re: Why not let Google be your publisher

Which would mean it couldn't be index by a library or by any other organisation like bookshops and Amazon, which would mean no one would ever be able to find your book, great for secret manuscripts about your secret cult, not so great if you actually want people to find and buy your book. I thought this site was meant to be filled with intelligent people.

Go to Google books and you will find there are no ads on the site.

Re: Now Google has won

Why would they shut something down which they can use to enhance some of there most important research such as AI and translations software?

Re: "Out of print" is a mortal sin

For the publishers, who have spent decades making sure they lost track of the owners of copyrights so they didn't have to pay out to the authors or their inheritors any money they were rightly owed.

Nokia never caught up with Apple, they got to distracted making phones look like lipstick.

Re: carte blanche to erase history

Society and people expectations are still adapting to having all of this information available with a few press of a keyboard.

I very much more doubt someone in their twenties really cares about some photos that the person that they are interviewing took in Ibiza or down at the local, I know someone who 29 interview employees for a major bank T department yes he could find out a tonne of details about the people who he interviews by searching the web but he doesn't because he accepts that this information little to no effect on them being able to do the job, whilst he knows some of his older colleagues who are in their 40s do have their puritan views and will refuse to employ someone who has a few dodgy pics on some profile page they probably can't even remember setting up or happen to have been arrested for some crime in their teens.

It often older generations that have these prejudices and well frankly we probably have to wait for the old dogs to retire or die to get rid of them.

Re: Rape victims not a great example

One of the problems with that is, it can often be other people coming forward with accusations that allows the police to build up enough evidence to get a conviction in the first place.

Re: Rape victims not a great example

But names slip out all the time for one. An it only rape victims that get their name protected.

Here a scenario,

one person get a accused of raping a women, they get found innocent by the courts but another person at the same trial get found guilty, the first person who got accused and found innocent, their name will still be mention in articles about the case and is often brought up in job interviews or down the pub. Now they themselves decides they have had enough and so ask for the articles to be removed from Google.

The person who is found innocent deserves to be able to get along with their lives but the person found guilty deserve have their name in the media, so how is Google meant to react. If I was reviewing the case I would have a lot of sympathy with the bloke that is found innocent and decide to remove the article. Unfortunately the side effect of this decision could easily be the actual rapist name also being removed from the Google index.

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Right to be forgotten is a lot more complex to implement than it supporters would like to make out, especially when it comes to criminal cases. Often articles and news sites like to cover the whole history of criminal cases, so police suspects are often mention in article long after they became irrelevant to the cases as well. Again do they deserve to be forever tainted with the case?. These are the questions the supporters of this decision have to answer and justify.

That presume the media will keep us inform about removals and keep fighting mistakes. With many media companies struggling financially their little incentive for them to spend money on fighting Google decisions.