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The sinking of the yacht is thought to be primarily due to its design - a 75m main mast in aluminium with a stow-able keel that would typically be stowed whilst at anchor. Water spout hits vessel, tips it and the large mast that isn't being counteracted by the keel means it lays side on in the water and fills up through open hatches. There's a video of a water spout incident (in Auckland I think) where a catamaran gets backflipped and a yacht gets pushed over but its keel manages to right the vessel.
This sounds like the friend of someone senior said "I can do that" when discussing a medical registration system and they promptly got the gig on an outsource-to-the-boys adventure. Outright dumb-fuckery then ensued as they endeavoured to create said system. A few corporate hangers-on were subsequently employed along the way to offer a veneer of substance.
As for "For clarity, the register of all our nurses, midwives and nursing practitioners is held within Dynamics 365 which is our system of record," the spinner continued. "This solution and the data held within it, is secure and well documented. It does not rely on any SQL database. The SQL database referenced by the whistleblower relates to our data warehouse which we are in the process of modernizing as previously shared."
If it doesn't rely on a SQL database but you make use of a data warehouse which is SQL then YOU rely on a SQL database. So, technically correct but utterly wrong. If that doesn't have the same levels of governance and security then what the primary system has is somewhat moot given you are obviously stuffing that data into it.
The original ethos of open source was not about enabling corporations to amass wealth. Instead, it was rooted in a philosophy of sharing, collaboration, and mutual benefit. The intention was to democratise access to technology, not to subsidise the research and development costs of wealthy corporations.
The problem with such an open model of sharing and collaboration is that you don't get to choose who benefits, and those who aren't so generous will always just take take take. I believe there's a license for that.
It's a bit like leaving an unwanted kids bike on the sidewalk with a "free to a good home" sign on it. Chances are it won't be going where you intended.
You'd think that such requirements from so many would lead to some kind of collaborative or governing body to go about getting a solution built. Then you wake up, realise it would be a somewhat larger government IT project that would inevitably fail at large cost as everyone starts to chip in with must-have requirements and customisations for minimal gains, and carry on with your day.
From 2019, the council had planned to adopt the Oracle system with few modifications,
Good decision on low mods, not sure about system
replacing a heavily customized SAP system.
Good decision - heavy customisation just leads to regular headaches around upgrades, loss of knowledge etc.
However, officers later decided to adapt the system and write modifications,
Really bad decision.
some of which failed, leading to onerous manual workarounds and inaccuracies in reporting.
with a predictable outcome.
I have a feeling they could have had a lot better than 7% sales growth this year (though nowhere near 50%) if they had maintained their demand (i.e. if Musk had just shut the hell up
They were always going to fade as soon as someone came along to eat their lunch. In this case BYD. Tesla had first mover advantage which they used. As soon as manufacturing was moved to China that advantage diminished as the IP was there to be taken. BYD are a battery manufacturer by trade, and what's the most costly and important part of a BEV? Advantage, and sales lead, BYD.
We don't know the precise details of them picking him out though do we? After all the company (their employer) had already "recognised" him using AI and informed the cops. No reason not to think they didn't run the match past the employees beforehand whereby human biases took over. If I was one of the people present during the robbery and you showed me a photo of someone that is, presumably, a close enough match and asked "is this the one" I'd likely confirm it too. Whereas if I were just presented with a selection of similar looking individuals the result may well be different.
And, yes, let's blame AI because too many people consider computers infallible whereas their opinion of people is less, and rightly, so.
If the infiltrator is effectively nation-state backed and the motivation is likely more political with a side offering of cash then the damage can be massive. Especially when you don't know how long they've been in your systems or potentially how they got there.
More nonsense from people who actually thing Ukraine (without direct US/NATO intervention) could ever defeat Russia!
Your comment reminds me of a scene in Layer Cake where Daniel Craig's character is driving a hard bargain on a drug deal.
Duke: You wouldn't be so ****ing flashy if you didn't have him standing behind you would you?
Gene: Yeah, but he does though don't he.
I think this could start to sound the death knell for Red Hat. Its previous selling point was support and stability allowing software vendors the ability to have a one-stop "works on (Red Hat) Linux" option.
Debian has stability and both support and stability are offered by Suse, Ubuntu, and potentially Oracle to varying extents. Containerisation, SAAS etc means that Red Hat's opportunity space is shrinking (likely prompting this nonsense) and if one of those other distros can seize the day it will thus have fully enshittified itself with this move and provided a case study for future reference.
I read
It's Oracle's IP, and they have a right to monetize it the way they see fit, and every customer who uses it has an obligation to be in compliance. No one is questioning that, but if I were receiving that email, I'd probably make a phone call back to Oracle and have a conversation with them and ask them questions without giving much information away.
and thought "I'd just tell them to go get fucked"
The funnier thing is that, although they could enforce the inability to use the app on UK iPhones by forcing Apple to not allow UK phones to install it, the EU is busy working on Apple allowing alternative app stores of which overseas ones not affected by this would be perfectly fine.
I wish them the best of luck trying to squeeze the Germans for extra money. If they said they'd give 6.8 large then that's what you're getting. If costs have risen because you're delaying then they'll view that as your inefficiency and tough shit. There's clearly other players they can subsidise, TSMC seems like a reasonable horse to back.
Does anyone know whether the registry tweaks will prevent this updating? Family member's laptop using some version of Windows 10 kept prompting about Windows 11 upgrade so, after searching, I found a registry tweak that locks the installation on a certain version. I was wondering whether this still holds true? Likelihood is I need to update to the latest 10 version to get security patches and lock it on that if possible. Using Windows 10 Professional (I think).
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