Posts by Gordon 10

Hopefully

They will be keeping their beady eye on Care.data

Does it matter if the beeb were late?

The more times this gets dug up - the higher the fractional likelihood of something getting done about it.

Especially in an election year.

A mockery of performance related pay

When the exec's are paid huge sums for presiding over a great companies decline - something is wrong.

Has this pay been approved by the shareholders as yet?

Follow proper procedure

Did the muppets who did this not get the memo about uploading all confidential data to Dropbox?

Joke - but the clock is ticking until it happens.

Oh FFS

Im all for technoporn but really? Are they building a fast car or some sort of mini-tech empire?

2 Simple solutions

Use GP surgeries to co-ordinate any screening or similar program. Since they will have a full set of records there wont be a problem.

They will also be able to screen out those people who would normally come into scope but shouldn't. ie avoid sending screening letters to those already in the terminal stages of the disease.

Alternatively give up trying to flog my medical data to the private sector. Ring fence it for the NHS and public (university) research only with a punishment equal to 10 years in prison AND 10% of worldwide turnover for the person AND the company who misuses it.

Since the 10% of worldwide turnover fine is already used in simple anti-trust cases I see no reason to have anything less stringent for my personal data.

Organising the Techies

It seems clear that the snoopers charter is not going to go away having been identified by our lords and masters and their civil service puppet masters as a fundamental part of the bread and circuses needed to fight "the war on terror".

I cant help feeling as techies we are missing a trick relying on the likes of ISP's and the occasional condescension from Google and the like to push it back. Given how deep they have their hooks in the politicians its only a matter of time before they see something to be gained by allowing this legistlation to pass.

So pop quiz - what can we as techies do - that we are uniquely suited to do - to fight this in an organised manner, without necessarily having to closely align with any other protest group?

Answers in replies please......

Fair play to them

On the hardware front at least. MS seem genuinely committed to producing good quality hardware and whilst the Surface 3 isn't to my taste I've been haunting eBay for a Surface 2 and am likely to take the plunge any day now.

Probably still silly money as a straight out tablet replacement but as an ultraportable laptop it has some legs.

This is when I support the collection of metadata

Identify some of the suspected members of lizard squad, get a warrant to access their *recent (and future)* isp and phone records, *BAM* throw the book at the odious little toads.

Note to "CallMeDave" & TheMillipede all done within the remit of existing legislation.

Not withstanding the Fed's are probably working over the next "Sabu" as we speak.

What parameters are selectable

for consideration of migration?

Fed Access Yes/No

NSA Access Yes/No

MS Corporate Ownership US/<rest of sane world>

wankers

with this kind of crap endemic within Govt organisations its no wonder any techie worth their salt would slag "callmeDaves" encryption disposal proposals at every opportunity.

When you can't even rely on an organisation to admit complete malfeasance there is something majorly wrong.

Lets not forget they tried to get criminal charges raised against the committee.

Govt powers or any sort - take a leaf from Zammo's book - just say no.

Quote this

Anytime this shite come up.

" “Far-reaching data collection in France would not have prevented the odious attacks in Paris. As with previous attacks, the perpetrators of the Paris attacks were already known to security authorities and had been the subject of investigations and supervision measures.

"Instead of creating an ineffective dragnet on all air passengers, security authorities should have been exchanging the data they already had on these suspects,”

Whats this got to do with a US court?

ie if the components are sourced and sold in the Far East, for delivery to the US in various oem boxen, other than FUD whats the court going to do? Put Netlist in the position of trying to shut down the big 4's server sales and see if it has the balls to try it.

A savvy SanDisk would be assessing the competition in the sector and judging how easy it is for the big 4 server vendors to jump ship. A couple of sweeteners on the side may be far less costly to buy some extra time.