Re: DPA requests
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At best you could locate the repeater, but you would have to go to he actual post and put equipmente to be able to pinpoint the culprit.
I suspect that if he has LOS to the mast he would stop...
Also, he could be transmitting for narrow beam to repeaters using a van, and no way you are going to find him.
I suggest you go to Backblaze.... they have no linux support and you have to tweak the client to have 2 threads if you dont live in the us, but appart from that it is decent, and now it also allows you to manage other peoples backups, so quite similar to your current setup I guess.
Beware that versioning retention is worse as many have pointed out.
I use it with both my main computer and the missus and it works quite well (using means having had to recover stuff).
I think they want to get rid of it, but can't.
Well treated, you can keep using it essentially forever, just isolate it as much as possible. BTW. most computers should be isolated anyway.
I was the administrator of an IBM 360 running CMS... in the late 90s!! That beast of a machine should have been replaced long ago... it was SO slow...
Ohh it is way worse.
You, the citizen that has a passport, pays taxes etc, get in the DDBB.
A random criminal is identified as you by the system, and gets charged.
No, wait, YOU get charged, or, worse still, now the police thinks you have been detained X times.
Of course, they would not tell you, and you will wonder why cant you get a new job.. as they are checking your backgrounds and voila!! you have police records!! good luck proving this is incorrect.
If you read his document, you will see it is a mixed bag.. many things he says are true and backed by studies. Others, are not.
He should have restricted himself to a shorter document with the points that are backed up, and the message would have been the same.
He would still have been fired... but he could at least better decend himself.
Anotjer tbing: people are no really critics of the document but of what they think the document means.
I dont agree with many of the things he says, yet he is not wrong when he claims that google is no longer hiring based on merit (I would say they hired based on geekness at some point).
Posting that was naive, has plenty of bias and firing him proves a big part of what he said and is dangerous.... you should not fire someone because you dont like his political ideas.
The data networks are natural monopolies, as are train networks, water and swage systems, etc etc.
So it is not a good idea to make them private, unless you plan to personally benefit from the deal.
As for the companies to invest.. why would they? the more money you put into the network, the more data you will have to deal with.. and a similar amount of money.
You only compete IF the other companies are giving a better service.. and with the services being what they are in the UK, it just makes no sense.. there is almost no competition and they are all ok with that.
And also fiber to the cabinet.. bolody stupid. It is cheaper (yes, CHEAPER) to put fiber to the home.. but hey, somebody wante to reuse aluminum cables that should have been thrown away long ago.. to save pennies... and now we are all stuck with useless vdsl and assymetric connections, that are no good for using SAAS clouds.. and that is the future.
Failed because they have been abandoning mobile phones/pdas for the las 19 years.
Every 2 years, new "Windows CE/Mobile" paradigm, incompatible with previous devices... and well, peoples trust just gets killed.
Windows is being killed by abusive licensing in the workplace, and at home it is being replaced by cheaper tablets.. running a windows shop is SO expensive...
The main use I had for it was to micromanage my team, as we where all remote workers, I could see who was typing or not... and chat with them in case they are at the keyboard.
But the MSN already got that long long time ago.. as for the contacts.. well, I see it as an intracompany thing, that makes it way more secure, if limited.
The software kept getting worse...I had to cancel my premium subscription... and uninstall it, first from the mobile phone, as it was eating the battery, and then from the desktop, as it was eating ridiculous amounts of memory and CPU. I just use the web skype, and that is good for me... but I prefer hangouts these days, it works better. YMMV as plenty of ISPs throttle google and google services...
The main issue here is what services we provide in the uk. And the main bread winner is banking. In order to continue being a leader in banking we must comply with eu rules, or they will take it from us, as simple as that. Now, they probably dont want the repercussions of that, but they can do it and there is little we can do about it.
We just have to deal with that.