Posts by DJO 685 posts • joined 28 Sep 2011
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
No they're not "nut-jobs" but they are all woefully misinformed about the benefits and costs of the EU seemingly believing every lie from the Daily Mail and friends about the evil monster in Brussels.
They seem to want a return to the 70's, not the real 70's with 3 day weeks and the UK begging from the IMF but a fantasy idealized 70's which never happened.
Cash is fine, a moderate black market can actually stimulate an economy, this sort of fraud doesn't work with cash and only benefits the criminals (who may well spend some and inadvertently provide some local financial stimulus) and is detrimental to the wider economy.
Anybody trying to anonymously move millions about is probably up to no good, possibly just tax evasion, maybe money laundering, quite likely proceeds of crime.
Someone in a oppressive regime who has millions to move is probably a member of that regime, the general populace will use the cash economy hence your argument is largely spurious.
Is there any reason other than fraud or tax evasion for anonymous bank accounts to exist?
If so a system of identity escrow wouldn't be impossible.
Then make the banks directly responsible for any money fraudulently transferred where the account owners cannot be identified. That should clear the problem pretty much overnight.
But wow, web "2.0" that does not want me to tear out my hair, teeth, eyes and brain just to get away from the horror? Great stuff!
Don't worry, this is just an early draft, I'm sure they'll come up with something in due course to seriously piss off as many people as possible.
Cue the green headlines on a purple background.
If blokes want to get their 'target' in the mood here's a hint.
This targets the "once an arsehole, always an arsehole" demographic. Anybody capable of following your hints wouldn't "need" this degenerate service.
Anyway - Only in America, this would break so many laws in Europe that happy, smiling lawyers would be queueing up have a go at them.
how disrespectful chairpersons at the FCC and FTC act towards the tax payers who pay their salaries.
Their salaries are chump change compared to what the "regulated" industries are offering so they support the larger financial contributor, the public/tax-payers can basically go and fuck themselves.
Now they can use this research to claim third party screens are a security risk so iDevices must have a genuine Apple part fitted by Apple when a repair is necessary.
Of course they could supply screens wholesale or write a utility to test a screen but that wouldn't fit the Apple philosophy.
I’m not very impressed with the ‘business brains’ in charge...
I think you misunderstand their objectives, delivering efficient public service is so far down the list it's somewhere after knighting the Loch Ness Monster for services to tourism.
No the objective is get get as much money as possible into the private sector so when they leave Westminster they can cruise into a nice sinecure at one (or more) of the companies that benefited.
On that metric they are doing a splendid job.
Of course a lot depends on who defines "legitimate", from Googles perspective everything and anything qualifies, my perspective is pretty much diametrically opposed.
GDPR got this dead right, the information demonstrably necessary to provide the service and no more is all a company can keep and none of it can be transferred to any other entity be they another company or a different division of the same company.
"User privacy needs to be thoughtfully balanced against legitimate business needs."
An apparently innocuous phrase which is wrong in every detail. User privacy is paramount and inviolate without informed permission given.
That's it, no if's, no buts, no exceptions.
I'm really struggling to conceive of a legitimate use case for such a device.
Well if they are designed to blow up and injure the voyeuristic creep, some people might consider that a reasonable use case.
Well that would require a member of the current government to have both common sense and the minimal intelligence required to see Brexit is a can of festering dog shit and the courage to come out and say so in public.
No, instead we'll just have May lurching from disaster to disaster all of her own making. There is absolutely no chance this will end well for the general populace.
Spend a night with Jenny Agutter, for charity?
Any excuse will do.
(Who says dreams never come true)
Agreed, so many idiots. The actual facts are countries almost always benefit from immigration, they generally contribute far more than they consume (in benefits).
Really it because this tranche of migrants have (the horror) dark skin. Racism is racism no matter how much they try to disguise it.
Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she with silent lips.
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
America used to be a beacon, now it's a disgrace.
Tokenising identifying information in documents would address that, but that is quite tricky and needs to be there from the start so is unlikely to be used in most current cases, perhaps future cases will do it properly (but I'm not holding my breath).
Also tokenisation creates a whole new can of worms as the token holding database is by definition stuffed full of personal identifying data, keeping that secure and current will be a fun task for administrators.
How about doing it like this:
All fines and penalties to be taken from the board of directors pension fund.
Any attempt to bolster the fund after paying a fine incurs a quadruple fine against each board member.
Well that sounds good but if implemented retiring ministers won't get a sinecure at Capita after they leave Westminster, so forget it.
Yes a boring banal message, with a CC list containing the names of agents and FBI staff.
Often the metadata is more useful then the message itself.
As most politicians seem to have little understanding of the difference between CC & BCC it's not a huge leap to assume some addresses would be revealed, with a copy of that mail it would be easy to construct a similar looking one, spoof the origin and go phishing.
If FBI staff are used to insecure mails from higher-ups it's a weakness begging to be exploited.
No, the rich own the newspapers and that's not the same thing. If you think journalists are rich, you've never met one.
Tory thinking:
Spend 2bn to save 100m by stripping benefit from the poorest citizens - Just fine & dandy.
Spend anything to stop tax evasion by the rich - No can't do that, think of the children.
Last time I was "between jobs" I was sent on a compulsory computer course.
Twas a joke, the training material was absolute garbage, once the poorly trained trainers worked out I really did know a lot more than they did I spent the entire time there correcting the course material.
That was interesting but I pity the poor sods who took the course before me, from the content I think at a pinch they could open an Excel document but little more.
Trackballs being bigger than mice and upsidedown, I refer to mine as a dead rat.
They do accumulate a fair amount of crud but are simple to clean if the ball just plops out, some hold the ball captive which makes them a pain to clean.
Don't worry I'm sure* Thales will replace the ones they crashed free of charge.
* "sure they won't"
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