Posts by DJO 709 posts • joined 28 Sep 2011
The big problem with fax is that there is no method of asserting the recipient is the intended one
Wrong.
An important benefit of faxes is the reception receipt, admittedly these generally ignored by they contain the reception time and the recipients number. In fact this is the reason that faxes are usable for legal documents while other more easily spoofed methods (such as email) are not.
Further, there must be sanctions for violating this principle, with real teeth- think multi- million dollar fines to the government, just as they would give The Face Book, Google, etc all.
So you want to penalise the tax payers?
Fining the government has zero effect as the money just comes from the exchequer, no, if you want sanctions then disbarment from public office, personal fines to (then ex) ministers, confiscation of property, tar & feathers might be a bit too far but the principle of pubic humiliation as punishment for crimes against the people they are supposed to serve is correct.
I really think fines for corporate malfeasance should be paid out of the board of directors pension fund, if that runs out then from the board personally.
Otherwise it's just another business expense - and for the board it's bonuses all round, as usual.
Cheaper yes
You wait until the majority of users are 100% committed and returning to in-house would be almost impossible due to "letting go" the staff with the necessary skills.
Random CIO, Approx April 2020: "Ohh look, MS just jacked up the 365 subscriptions"
Not true, usage of smart meters can save a fortune in energy charges, if you are a very large consumer such as a hospital, factory or university campus.
You need to know where power is being wasted in order to cut consumption and comprehensive readings at least every 30 mins are invaluable in this context.
However for domestic use they are in 99% of cases a complete waste of time, money and resources.
Also SMETS1 is a fuck-up, it should never have been rolled out except as a technology test for smart meters.
not coughing up the 30,000 e-mails
I assume you'll be just as vigilant in insisting the Republican party finds and coughs up the 2 million emails they illegally deleted?
If not then you are just another hypocrite.
Spatz
Are you gullible or stupid?
It must be one or the other, either you believe the Trumps when they say their use of private email (commercial, really insecure) was completely innocent.
Or you think the CIA/FBI agents who set up and installed the presidential email server used by the ex-president and his wife ballsed up the job and left it insecure.
Here's a hint: Trump always lies.
The problem of course selection for optimal observation and of signal integrity back to Earth both have the same solution.
Don't send one probe.
Send a probe, then next year send another one* and then another and so on so you have a chain, when the first one arrives it makes simple observations so the following ones can alter course to make a better observation which can instruct the next ones and so on.
For signals each probe acts as a repeater sending the signal to the probe behind it.
* Actually it might be easier to launch them all at once but give them slightly different speeds so they form a chain that way.
Why would anybody want to dig a tunnel to bloody France?
Maybe they were digging a tunnel from France.
Beware, as the first batch of Gemini that came off production had keyboard problems and had a different-than-promised SoC
To be accurate the first ones off the line had exactly the SoC that was promised in the original specification, the subsequent ones had a slightly better SoC.
The keyboard issues were largely rectified by the provision of replacement mats.
I'm trying not to be but once the 500 early backer limit was reached they extended it to 750, so perhaps there's less urgency than first seemed.
Hopefully the Mk1 will have some resale value, they're still selling them at about double what the original backers paid so it "might" be possible to recoup some expenditure.
The sensor list includes a compass as did the list for the Gemini but due to the magnets used to hold the case shut it was disabled at the hardware level. I've asked if they've sorted out this issue - perhaps using a spring instead of magnets but their reply was uninformative, i.e. the respondent didn't know one way or the other.
No plate tectonics, no magnetic field
Er, the field is generated in the core, plate tectonics occur in the crust - there's about 5,000km between them and one has no bearing or causation on the other.
PS
"Role" not "Roll"
Obviously, there's no point in searching for "life, but not as we know it Jim" if we have no idea of what it might consist of.
Search for what we do know about first - look for high concentrations of free Oxygen and we wont go far wrong.
As for non C based life it's unlikely at what we would consider normal pressure and temperatures, however in high pressures and very hot or very cold then all bets are off, there could be life in gas giants, Saturn could be teaming with life but currently we have no way to identify it so there's no point in looking for it.
But basically anything that gives the companies an excuse to declare bankruptcy is to be avoided.
As usual the solution is painfully simple - Limited liability should not apply to fines or criminal proceedings.
One might almost think the incumbent administration has a vested interest in not doing so, I can't think of any other reason not to make that easy change.
If the Tories can't blame the EU for their mistakes and inaction they'll blame the Brexit process, after that they'll have to find some other excuse for their incompetence.
But the threat to penalise company directors is I suspect like most Tory promises, a few good headlines and then, nothing.
Modern li-ion batteries manage about ten times the energy density (in J/kg) of lead-acid.
Not comparing like-with-like.
You are comparing a theoretical ideal Li-ion to a cheap-and-cheerful car battery. A real Li-ion has 3 to 4 times the power of a Lead Acid but that just a normal one, by using lighter materials, a lead film electrode, and acid gel the power to weight ratio can easily be doubled so the actual increase for Li-ion over Pb-Acid is about a factor of 2 to 3, nowhere near 10x and nowhere near as important as the increase in efficiency offered by modern motors.
" It's also impossible to charge duty on electricity used to drive a car without charging duty on other electricity. Electricity is electricity."
ROTFLMAO
As soon as there's enough electric vehicles to significantly impact fuel duty revenues there will be the introduction of a mileage tax. All electric cars have GPS and are connected to the internet, they know exactly where you've been and when and WILL rat you out to the tax people when asked.
They aren't there yet other than in certain use cases
Batteries have improved incrementally over many years. But the power to weight ratio of the latest batteries isn't that much greater than for good old lead acid batteries, the ease of handling and the ability to form into useful shapes and speed and relative safety when charging is the main differential.
Motors made a massive jump in efficiency when Neodymium magnets became available and economically viable - that was the spur to make mass market electric vehicles feasible. Concentrating on the power source as the most important factor in the development of electric cars is an easy mistake but a mistake all the same. Other factors like regenerative breaking are arguably more important than battery development.
I'm not saying battery technology isn't important, of course it is but its not as important as some people seem to think, currently batteries are pretty good but ther's a limit to how much power can be squeezed into one as there's always the problem than any sufficiently dense power source be it electrical or chemical is effectively a bomb so the main areas of improvement are to wring as much out of every erg and so we're back to the motors.
Actually it's the development of rare earth magnets that allow the creation of extremely powerful and efficient lightweight motors that was the primary reason for their success where previous efforts have failed.
The batteries are irrelevant if you don't have suitable motors.
Pussy not eat his fish, pussy get thin and waste away, I think.
You really should apologise to Douglas Adams
Footnote:
The President in particular is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. (DA - HHGTTG 1)
I tried to work out if your random capitalisation spelt out some acronyms or acrostics but no it's just rubbish semi-illiterate typing. Pity.
Trade and manufacturing dominance is cyclical.
150 years ago the USA shafted Europe by wholesale IP theft and cheap labour, then one country after another took up the mantle and China is now the leader but development there will push labour costs up so another country will take the crown, probably India and then if they can sort out the corruption African states will then eclipse India.
Yes China is being naughty but no worse than everybody else was when it was their turn to lead.
couldn't this have been done rather more quickly and efficiently by batches of simple SQL UPDATE queries
That's just crazy talk - a simple solution for a simple problem, plainly you don't work in commercial I.T.
I'd task rovers or Mars-specific drones to find caves
No need, there are deep canyons that dwarf the Grand one in the USA, setting up camp at the bottom of those would limit radiation to just when the sun was directly above, solar panels and reflectors on the surface could provide power and redirect light.
Eventually sections could be roofed over and sealed to provide a reasonable working environment.
For a start there's no such thing as "zero G" (except perhaps at the centre of a star), the ISS is in free fall.
Secondly mass in unchanged whether in 0.001G or 1G or 100G and it's the amount of mass which matters.
This is America we're talking about, once their lawyers have taken their fees the perps will be lucky to have $25 left let alone $25m.
Is "whataboutery" the only defence of Trump you can find, good grief, get a grip.
Anyway did I say it started under the orange one, of course not but it is a great deal worse and far more overt under Trump than any previous administration.
And if so, why haven't the bureaus themselves been directly challenged for dereliction of duty?
Where the fuck have you been for the last couple of years?
Their "duty" under Trump is to cosy up to the big cable providers and to soak up as much lobby cash as possible. Serving the public is now the antithesis of the role.
you'd think 14Tb is excessive and yet...
Of course there will be outliers who do need humongous amounts of disc space but they are very much the exception to the rule.
The vast majority of users will never need anywhere like that capacity and if they don't have multiple discs with redundancy then it's a disaster waiting to happen.
Really this kind of capacity is only of use to enterprise systems where they can afford to buy discs by the box full.
My Photo and Video library are close to 7Tb[1]. That's Stills going back to 2003 and Video back to 2014. All shot by myself. A quick check showed that I've added 476Gb this year so far and it has been a quiet year.
Which kind of makes my point - in 15 years you've generated almost (let's round up) 8TB so a 28 TB system assuming a slight annual growth in your output will last for another 25 to 30 years.
Far longer than the discs themselves will last and depending on your age, possibly longer than you will last.
Also as others have stated, 14TB in a system without redundancy is insane.
I also store various VMs
Ah, a valid use that may well eat a lot of space but how many VMs are needed?
I would love to get 28 TB of storage in my two bay NAS
Why?
At an average of 2GB per movie that's about 14,000 films, do you really need to watch 2 films a day for 20 years?
If music is your thing then assuming good quality FLACs at about 500MB per album that's 56,000 CDs worth or roughly 20 years listening for 8 hours a day every day.
Maybe you like reading, epubs average at about 250kb so about 100 million books, you may be a fast reader but not that fast. Mind you buy another one and you could store every book ever published (approx 130 million).
That's of course once you've collected and collated it all which would take a few years.
Alternatively I suppose it's big enough make a local mirror of PornHub.
Presumably if they had tipped of investors prior to public release of information that would be insider trading which is very illegal.
Corsets are never "optional"
No it's up to 4% (or 20 million euros but the higher would apply) of global turnover
That's the penalty for a tier 2 infringement, this kind of issue is a tier one infringement which is up to €10 million, or 2% annual global turnover – whichever is higher.
The determination of penalty level takes into account previous behaviour of the organisation or data processor but that can only be applied to actions since the introduction of GDPR so while it might not explicitly specify a penalty escalator that is what'll happen, except for really egregious offences.
It's 2% and that's only after repeated naughtiness.
The penalties that can be handed out under GDPR start low but increase for every repeat offence so an accident will get a slap on the wrist and a small fine, but regular "accidents" will attract the full force of the law - Assuming the local regulators (ICO - I'm looking at you) are up to the task.
I'd sure as hell expect one working for Intel to understand CPUs, no different than I'd expect a lawyer working for Oracle to understand databases
Not necessarily but I would expect them to pass their work to an expert in the field for checking before it's released. That's called "due diligence" and lawyers are supposed to do it.
You don't mean Brenda Saxe-Coburg do you, everybody knows who she is.
Ah "Don't be evil" but nowhere do they say "Don't do evil" there's a subtle but significant distinction between the 2 phrases.
Even a huge EU GDPR fine may cost less than what they earn from the data.
Maybe once, possibly twice but thereafter, no chance.
The GDPR penalty scheme has increasing penalties for repeat offenders leading ultimately for persistent repeat offenders to the much proclaimed 2% of global turnover.
"Croydon" contracted from Crocus Dean which roughly translates to "Saffron Vally".
Now that conjures an idyllic tranquil scene, shame it's a complete dump.
DLT was also a rubbish 70's DJ but I thought this couldn't be about him but then I read this: DLT has resulted in “the widespread use of language and terminology which is frequently fuzzy, imprecise - That's Dave Lee Travis.
If your accuser is an algorithm, doesn't that mean source code on the table?
The source code may well be perfectly fine, but if the training data was biased it matters not an iota how good the code is.
I suspect the code is just as crappy as the training data but it might not be.
Spoofing the from address in an email is not exactly tricky, in fact it's so easy I doubt it's really a "security hole", any SMTP client can (and by design, must be able to) do it although the ability might not be exposed.
When is a £140K breach of the DPA not a breach of GDPR?
When it was committed before the GDPR came into force.
You really do not want to give this or any government the ability to introduce new laws retrospectively.
It's from Wells Fargo; expect duplicity and misleading presentation.
Damn commies, the true American way is to pay twice as much for half (or less) of the service, think of the poor cable executives, if you're not robbed blind they can't have the lifestyle they obviously richly deserve.
Hulk always angry. Smash!
So he's plugging instant mashed potatoes, I suppose he's preferable to the stupid alien robot things that they used to have.
https://www.novelties-direct.co.uk/Plastic-Groucho-Glasses.html
https://www.funpartystore.co.uk/guy-fawkes-anonymous-mask.html
I'd love to everybody at all public events in London wearing something like these.
Perhaps the organisers could hand them out at the gates
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