Posts by Neil Barnes 6265 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Apr 2007
I've wondered about that myself... but then, we live in world where people fight for the parking spaces closest to the gym entrance, and use an escalator to avoid the stairs to the door.
And now we are offered a system to generate power from our bodies without lifting a finger... oh, wait, all those keypresses?
You do not know what you have to hide, until it is already too late.
Yes you do. You need to hide absolutely everything you can. The concept of ubiquitous surveillance just on the offchance that you might be doing something that the state doesn't approve of it is in itself an offence to human dignity. That a commercial company should attempt to replicate the same tracking behaviour is even more offensive, and should be terminated with extreme prejudice.
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS, NOT MINE.
My late father's thoughts, when told if he did thus and such and didn't eat or drink this and that, so that he might live another year, were:
What? Another year, stuck in this chair/bed and plumbed up to god knows what and with terminal bladder cancer? Why? Sod that, bring another bottle of wine!
And yet, and yet...
My wife and I are both pensioners, both UK citizens, both DE residents, and both with complete AZ vaccinations certified by the Robert Koch Institute app, as well as paper vaccination certificates.
Yet the UK will not - as far as I can see - allow us to cross the border without both quarantine and mandatory covid tests.
We can move freely within most of Europe, but to to a country of our citizenship? Time for some joined up thinking?
The big problem is that it has all the subtlety and sensitivity of a brick in a sock... watch one video on how to take an engine to bits, and that's all you see. Watch one on paragliding and that's all you see. Watch one on vintage computers and that's all you see... surely it is not beyond the wit of man to devise an algorithm that assumes that you might be interested in more than one thing (and incidentally, not keep showing you the same video you haven't been watching, as indicated above)?
Or - just speculating here, you understand - is it simply dumping the videos with the highest advert count? I don't see the adverts so I can't really comment. But surely youtube wouldn't be that obvious?
I've been trying to get hold of small - hobby - quantities of ARM M0+ chips and there are literally none to be had. Everyone is quoting deliveries in November if you're lucky and in March or April if you're not.
And even commodity op-amps seem a bit thin on the ground.
The words that spring immediately to mind all seem near anagrams of each other: never ever sever severe veer vent eve vee peeve pervert version... but on the other hand https://wordfind.com/contains/v/ returns 2,992 possibilities.
A large proportion of their list also includes an 'e' though anchovy doesn't. Neither does zyzzyva.
Which is probably why I'm crap at Scrabble and anagrams.
It does indeed sound like normal compressed video - but that uses key frames where the whole image is sent every few frames, with frames between them showing the difference as things change. Plus lots of other goodies as well, but that's the basis.
This FENCE will have to resolve the same issue: if it gets one bit wrong in its transmission, everything afterwards is confused... so they'll have to send some sort of key frame to cope with inevitable disconnection issues, and key frames hold a shedload more data that difference frames. So it's going to be a juggling act, I feel.
Perhaps they've got a perfect transmission path, guaranteed?
Quite. And it's insuring the wrong thing: a cash return is all very well in the event of some bastard munching your system, but what you really want is a return to the status quo ante... you need to come in the next morning and everything is back to normal, only with the back door fixed.
Which, as others have pointed out, just ain't happening. And as the experts seem to agree that the only cure is a complete clean and restore (I wonder if that includes bios code too? It probably should) then a financial solution simply doesn't cut it.
It's all very nice for the companies getting the cash in when they sell the policy, but not so good when they're paying out every other Thursday. Hmm... I wonder what my late grandfather (Riley on Consequential Loss) might have thought...
More acceptable to whom?
I am unconvinced that there are any acceptable use cases for third party cookies. And the number of cookies which need to be set by first parties is really rather small, too - as shown by the number of websites which now offer to save only essential cookies (login status and the like).
Perhaps instead of proving originality, I should have said 'attempting to persuade a self-appointed group of alleged experts with a serious interest in maintaining their perceived impartiality that they are both partial and wrong'?
If you can't tell whether it's by a grand master or it's a copy, it's a distinction without a difference... except for the number of zeros on the end of the price.
Curiously, a variant of the Betamax system became standard in broadcasting - with the addition of track-following heads driven by piezo-electric actuators to improve the tracking.
But the (no doubt patented) Philips track following on the V2000 was simpler and I think better. Turning the cassette over half way through, though, that was just silly.
(I was a broadcast engineer for over thirty years).
The genie is out of the bottle.
Trying to stuff it back in is probably a hiding to nothing.
I can't believe that any technology with such a high error rate is anywhere acceptable; using for law enforcement purposes - as in, I wonder who's in this crowd? Ah, yes, he look suspicious, I wonder who he is, let's go and arrest him - is downright despicable.
Whatever happened to 'innocent until proven guilty' and 'who I am is none of your damn business'?
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