Posts by Gordon 10 3468 posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
And manufacturers are still flogging laptops without 8hrs battery life. No thanks. Hungry CPU and weedy battery do not a happy combo make.
For £1.4k you can get a decent MBA or MBP that will have a better keyboard, battery and trackpad and run 99% of windows tasks just as well as that this think. , AND it will depreciate less.
(Only mentioning Apple because the review did, other laptops are available)
I might suggest a small modification. The *western* Nation States would desire a Monopoly on Hacking
Also how out of date is this. No mention of anything released in the last couple of years. If you cant move faster than this its pretty pointless. any vunerable assets will be long gone/aliased.
Bullshit.
GDPR covers the legal process for the collection PII regardless of method. It would have been a bloody wide TOS for an App to have covered the entirety of contract tracking, and would immediately have failed the "informed consent" test for non-digital collection channels.
The failure of a PIA was on the whole Test and Trace program not the failure to do a PIA for the App part of it.
As others have said on this thread it takes about an afternoon to do a PIA (much longer to implement the best practises of course), but the PIA is effectively the MAP not the directions. Its just the same as a set of SDLC or Programming Best Practise guidelines. It tells you where your risk areas are and how to mitigate them.
Like for example make sure your staff know that leaking PII could leave the organisation facing multi million £ fines, and having procedures in place to go agressively after staff who breach PII related policies.
Go do your homework.
What utter crapulence.
You mendacious apologist.
Every day's delay is lives saved.
A week earlier lock down would have led to approx 50% reductions in the current death rate due to the way an exponential progression works. (google it)
The viral density goes down, those who catch it get it milder and later.
The PPE gets spread about more evenly and with less peak demand - less NHS staff die.
Less CV-19 riven patients get discharged to nursing homes to infect their new friends.
etc etc.
A triple cloud deployment is a recipe for disaster - force the precious professors & researchers to use 1 or at least bring it down to 2. Using all 3 is luxury they shouldn't have.
$50m for a triplicate set of VPC's and rules plus a billing monitoring tool is a total waste of Students and Tax payers money, when infrastructure discipline is free (less the arguments).
You can tell its public sector - thats a very poor cadence.
I wonder if they have included Algo/Model updates in their patching process? Surely if its known to generate biased results it needs to be fixed asap, some biases could be the equivalent of a zero day for the poor schmuck on the receiving end.
Also whats the penalty going to be applied to the Plod for not swiftly applying the Algo "patches". (rhetorical question. I already know the answer is "nothing").
An ML aglo with a non-pubic training dataset several orders of magnitude worse than a piece of closed source code, as with code you (mostly) have to explicitly include bias. (if ethnicity <> 'white' goto stopandsearch). With ML the bias is implicitly generated by problems with the training dataset **as well as **any explicit bias as part of the algo spec.
If not a legal mandate to expose the training dataset there should be a standardised test dataset used with performance against expected norms documented and signed off prior to production usage. This is what happens when Tech outruns the legislation.
And how will Galileo and/or BritGPS change that, given that Mil Procurement takes decades and that no doubt BAE and their ilk will add several million to the base price if we want to support multiple GPS-like systems.
And just how much does military bang gear rely on GPS-a-likes anyway? Presumably they all have alternative redundancy built in like Inertial navigation etc etc. Put a £ price tag on it - that then gives us the ROI and business case.
Galileo was EU-level nationalistic willy waving. BritGPS is worse if only because our pockets can't cash what our false brexit pride wants us to have.
A fail for your comment and a fail on the whole sorry subject.
That would never work in Germany. Unlike the surveillance state UK, Germany is far more privacy aware.
Plus it would be massively disproportionate. Freely sharing your health data with goo-apple is one thing. Them passing it on to the state is quite another. First it would be COVID, then Flu-season, then something utterly spurious like Paedo-terrorists.
Because thats the whole point of a private prosecution, and for the most part its a valid way of getting justice when the CPS won't take action.
This part of the system is fine, whats not is that there is no comeback (afaik) for a retrospectively malicious private proscecution which is now demonstrably what the Horizon ones were.
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Why will it be more complicated? By your own admission there will be less things whizzing around Earth-Moon transfer orbits than LEO.
FWIW said transfer orbit is no more or less complicated than rendevous with a space station, possibly less as the Moon is a bigger target :D. (Probably the same as Lunar Gateway would be the target)
This shouldn't need saying on such a data aware forum as El Reg, but just for Anomentards everywhere (yes the fail is for you AC).
His data (if he genuinely works at a trust) <> centrally collected data.
Hence both, either or neither could be "good enough" for this purpose. As external observers on a public forum we will never know.....
We dont trust them. But in this case they are the lesser of the 2 evils.
Since this is primarily a tech. & user trust problem who has the least likelyhood of screwing this up either deliberately or accidentally - the UK Govt or GooApple?
Google for all its evil user monetisation is a "trusted brand" compared to UK.GOV
That this meant the UK app was going to be blocked as they have made a big deal of doing GPS access as an addon. In reading the details looks like they can still go ahead as long as they dont access the Google or Api contact tracking API in the same app.
I think this then puts a lie to the fact that the Data Guzzlers at NHSX and friends can use the Google/Apple API's.
I do wonder what happens if Scotland say decides to develop a separate app based around DP3T - do either Apple or Google have a separate AppStore for Scotland?
@Cynic.
Direct conflation from you here :
"I don't care what colour arm-bands they wear, if they have the power, then they are part of the government."
I'd stop digging. Otherwise all your downvotes will cause a negative reality inversion and before you know it you'll turn into Jake*
*Insert other contentious commentard of your choice.
Are these "point in time" measures as the waves pass us or can we see a longer period than that ie do Gravitational waves travel at different speeds? Presumably these mergers happen over thousands or milllions of years hence why they can see so many, but also presumably they are seeing a tiny snapshot of the process.
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