Posts by Richard 12 6108 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2009
94 of whom were not a person of interest, yet were stopped, searched and otherwise inconvenienced because the computer said so.
When we already know that the Met have great difficulty in avoiding murdering innocent civilians, promoting those responsible all the way instead of firing them for gross misconduct, does one trust that none of those 94 will even survive the night?
The web client is unusable by definition as Flash is long banned in all sane workplaces.
And vSphere is both dodgy as heck and very incomplete.
In-place updates are also very difficult. It is so much harder to patch ESXI than it should be.
Seriously considering Xen tbh, but migrating is a pain that I don't have time for.
Follow the rules to the letter.
Apologise (in writing) to the customer, perhaps giving the contact details of the authorising manager who hasn't authorised you to do the job the customer is paying for.
Otherwise you risk being the subject of the next witchhunt.
As I understand it, the main reason is that there's no point in treating early slow-growing breast cancer above a certain age.
Many of the treatments would kill you, while a slow growing cancer wouldn't actually affect you in any way before you die of something age-related.
More aggressive cancers are an entirely different thing, however those aren't generally found this way - or at least, not early enough to help.
Check your breasts and your balls. Seriously, do that often.
His company is subject to said yoke, and is known to have broken the law of the land.
The committee can direct the DoP to prosecute for these breaches of the DPA, and next month can direct the DoP to bankrupt Facebook Inc. 4% global revenue done four or five times...
The UK also has the power to detain any foreign national visiting any part of the UK or Territories, just like the USA does. The UK just doesn't use that power as often as the USA.
Apple are consumer, IBM are professional/business services.
They aren't comparable.
Consumer services is trivial functionally with massive numbers of (traditionally) fickle direct users, who have no legal power at all if the service doesn't work or is terminated, while business services are the exact opposite.
It's simply toxic overall.
SO reached critical mass and the arseholes took over. It's the most probable result of any large grouping - the people yelling insults drive away everyone else, and then anybody joining later on finds a toxic group, and leaves.
It needs strong moderators early on to prevent that, which SO did not have.
SO used to be a useful place to ask and answer questions, and now it isn't because you will be shot down for doing either.
My most popular answers now have multiple "You're an idiot, RTFM" comments. Yep. I wrote that bit of manual after answering the question, so future people don't have to suffer SO.
So yes, any women etc will rightly assume the place is toxic towards then. Because it is.
There's a lot of applications where Alt + Click and drag does something.
That's one of the two most common 3D navigation paradigms.
As an application developer, I do not want the windowing system to eat any mouse shortcuts that happen inside my client area.
Resizing functions need to be kept to the decorations provided by the windowing system, bevause that way I don't need to know what they are to support them on all platforms.
Except that German employment law does apply, because those rights cannot be waived.
That is one of several reasons why the legal challenge is practically certain to go all the way.
Or the whole thing declared illegal in a summary judgement, which would have the same effect of course.
So you want to receive hundreds or thousands of phone calls and physical letters asking you to "renew your domain"?
Or threats of personal violence against you and your family from people who disagree with things on your website?
Those are the actual, real consequences of the ICANN whois system putting this personal information online.
There is genuinely no purpose whatsoever for personally-identifiable whois data. None.
It is almost certain that there are people trying to use OSHA as a stick to beat up Tesla because they lost their job.
It happens to every company sooner or later, and Tesla have just fired quite a lot of people.
The state OSHA office are rightly obliged to investigate all allegations, and I hope they are taking them seriously.
Even if it is a false allegation, there will be things Tesla should do better.
Unlike most UK local government, who tend to completely ignore their legal duty to investigate H&S reports, and then whitewash over the hospitalizations they could have prevented.
Sounds like an obvious consequence of a poor design, rather than an intentional one.
So incompetence, not malice.
If the aircraft is supposed to be flying straight and level and starts to nose-up, the autopilot needs to apply nose-down force.
So far so obvious.
If it has control of the trim tabs, anything it does not know about that causes flight to deviate from straight and level might adjust the trim tabs.
If it doesn't have any way of knowing whether that attitude change came from the pilot or external forces, moving the control column would take it out of trim as the autopilot does exactly what it was designed to do.
It would seem that is what happened. And it's inevitable from such a design.
'Cos that's just plain silly willy-waving.
Version numbers are meaningful in a few ways:
Compatibility breaks. There are always lines where forward, backward and interoperability compatibility can't be maintained.
Feature checks. Features get added, replaced and removed.
Downgrade. It might not be practical to downgrade back to the previously-installed afterwards.
Upgrade stages. It might not be possible to support upgrading from all prior versions.
It is very useful to signal these barriers in the version number, or to at least make it easier to document - "Compatible with 3.x and 4.x" etc.
- Marketing tends to ruin all the above of course, commonly with either "big numbers are good" willy-waving, or by requiring particular numbers for particular features. "Can't call that v2, we promised feature Y would be in v2!"
If you think that your data is likely to be used to your detriment, you will either lie or you won't seek treatment at all.
Thus these people will simply wait until they collapse on the street and have to be taken by ambulance, at huge cost to the NHS.
Or they'll spread something around for years that would have been easily treatable or preventable.
Once again the Home Office demonstrate a complete and total disregard for the obvious consequences of their actions.
My phone number and my name are not in the phone book.
Yet I still have a phone number and people can still phone me.
My name and address are not in the public (edited) electoral roll.
Yet I can still vote.
My name, addres and phone number do not need to be in the public whois database for my domains to resolve correctly.
As you said, there is no difference and ICANN simply needs to comply with the law or suffer the consequences. It is neither technically nor politically difficult for them to do so, as most registrars already do offer a service which would comply - at extra cost.
Large parts of Flash were insecure by design. It was a happier time, when everything and everyone on the Internet was sunshine and flowers*.
Then they started trying to bolt on protection so a malicious Flash file couldn't steal your data and set fire to your living room.
Unsurprisingly, trying to cage a wild beast is difficult, and it can still escape to eat your homework.
* hahahahahhaaa
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