Posts by Gordon 10 3879 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
afaik some of the more mobile Oil rigs just have big tanks in the "feet" that are flooded to provide stability, with only some tethers/anchors actually going down to the seabed.
One of them might be a good contender for the HMS Muskpad. although I would guess they cost a couple of orders of magnitude more than a barge with a flat deck and some station keeping thrusters.
Which may be valid if they are ultimately shooting for a pad based on land.
Surprisingly Cleggy seems the closest to getting it right. Shame some of their other policies are so whackdoodle.
From the Beeb
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30673625
Mr Clegg said he backed targeted measures to identify suspected extremists and if necessary examine their communications, saying the state had always reserved the right to "steam open a letter" if it thought those behind it meant harm to others.
But he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that one element of what Mr Cameron was proposing would go much further and would involve "scooping up vast amounts of information on millions of people - children, grandparents and elderly people who do nothing more offensive than visiting gardening centre websites".
"Privacy is a qualified right. If someone wants to do us harm, we should be able to break their privacy and go after their communications," he said.
"But the snoopers' charter was not about intercepting communications.
"It was about storing a record of all your social media activity, of every website you have visited of every single individual in this country, of people who would never dream of doing anyone else any harm, would never dream of becoming a terrorist or having anything to do with extremist ideologies.
"The question we need to ask ourselves, in a free, open society as we defend our values against the abhorrent attacks we saw in Paris, is where do you draw the line?"
The 4G decision looks stoopid from so many angles.
As mentioned Tetra seems to work for most of the use cases apart from the data rate. Needless to say if they *really* need image type data then the new handsets are going to need a battery sucking screen to view it.
It seems to make far more sense to offload any high bandwidth needs to a separate device.
How many spare batteries will be needed? Whats the operating time of an Airwave handset now?
I appreciate they are probably flat out bug fixing and issue handling at the moment but it probably would make sense to look at some of the policies from the other games out there such as EVE - even to the point of nicking it whole where it concerns general conduct.
Poor guys are under so much stress at the moment that they aren't making great decisions.
@AC
Come back when you understand what a jigsaw attack is Big Pharma shill.
I don't think anyone has any objection to understanding the efficacy of treatments using this data but it should be driven by the NHS to get the maximum medical and commercial bang for the buck rather than used by Big Pharma and Insurance Companies to shaft us.
I call bollocks to you on that one AC. Its not that simple. Otherwise the US Tax man would be seizing all the profits Apple and Co. are storing oversea's.
You would have been far more correct to say there are a complex web of legislation and treaties whose interpretation in different legal and govermental remits can sometimes result in the appearance that the Patriot act trumps everything. Don't get me wrong its a steaming pile of dog crap that needs to be repealed - but the reality is far more nuanced than you are shrieking about.
I remember when Oracle tried to pull this stunt with my company at the time telling us we needed a per transaction license for the database supporting our Online booking engine. Given that this was for a significant country-wide ecommerce site the license volumes were in the range given for DEFRA. Needless to say they were given a robust F*ck You until sense prevailed.
As others have stated I suspect there is a combination of conflating of different license types, plus some fast ones being pulled by Oracle salesmen against civil service PHB's who knew no better.
To be fair (if I must) I seriously doubt the Civil service were the only people to fall for this trick.
"Worsthall fails to consider that mobile phones in poor countries will not work well if there are multiple carriers - too much dispersion - which, in the absence of government regulation, would result in monopoly carriers"
How on earth do you justify that cobblers? With a real life example please. Why is too much dispersion a problem, and why would it occur in the first place?
The government has a regulatory role to play to ensure that spectrum is allocated reasonably and to dissuade cartel behaviours, Im not sure they should be more rewarded for that than they already are through pre-existing channels such as tax, and spectrum regulation. If a Government makes the right regulatory decisions they are "rewarded" by economic growth and a booming tax take. It they try to over-reward themselves they close down market opportunities and create stagnation and lack of growth.
Is no guarantee of zero tax/duty treatment neither is second hand nor declared low value. Basically you play customs roulette with a high proportion going under the radar but plenty being caught by hmrc or the courier companies themselves using the admin fees as a profit center.
Plus with declared low value you risk any insurance not paying the full worth should the courier company shag your parcel (hello yodel)
Indeed. The question of whether buses are more efficient than other forms of transport is irrelevant - right now there is no other form of transport that is more efficient for a buses particular use case if there were anything materially better buses would not exist
so yes the article was a long form troll. Or OpEd if it's written by a journo.
One suspects that if the US were serious about this particular case they would have been happy to go the treaty route already - that they haven't suggests this has always been about establishing a precedent for doing an end run around international treaties and laws
agreed. Whilst research into closing off these vulnerabilities is always good, log this somewhere below unknown USB keys in the threat hierarchy.
If I had a farm of Mac Pro's in an office somewhere I would be slightly more worried, but since my MBA rarely leaves my house or my sight when travelling I dont see this as a big risk.
Except millions more people can now afford an iPhone or an iPhone knockoff than could 5 or 10 years ago in Indonesia.
Economic growth in developing nation is pretty tough on individuals but very good for entire populations. The fact of the matter is that people have to endure shitty conditions for much less time than those generations who went through industrialisation in most Western developed countries.
Now unless you have a magic wand that can conjure western lifestyles overnight, I suggest you read Tim Worstall's latest article before getting on your Dickensian high horse.
How on earth does a few exit nodes being taken down relate at all to the directory servers being taken down?
Presumably this guy had a sizable set of servers operating as exit nodes but I would actually like to know what proportion of the available TOR bandwidth his servers represent - presumably it's peanuts.
You'd be wrong on the first of those assumptions in the UK.
You can self-certify for the first 7 days of an illness and the company can do nothing to force you to get a note from a doctor. In fact most doctors these days will refuse to give you one.
https://www.gov.uk/taking-sick-leave
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