Posts by JetSetJim 2156 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jul 2009
It does look remarkably like the chaps laptop is running that screen as there doesn't seem to be a taskbar at the bottom of it. So it's more like a device potentially running XP is being used by a technician who is working on the construction, and it's unclear if it is (a) connected into the local network, or (b) likely to be left connected when the ship is at sea all ready for war.
It's very unlikely, considering the actual content on the careers site and the media coverage of the grafitti, but it wouldn't surprise me to discover that it's an elaborate phishing scam, or even an exercise by foreign intel agencies to harvest some data about potential candidates applying to GCHQ...
They could have at least linked to this page, although the data isn't there either. You'd probably have to wade through the proceedings of The Liver Meeting, which sounds like a great jolly.
Perhaps their lunches were enjoyed with fava beans and a nice chianti?
> If your mom is 73 and you are in jail you are a fsckup
Yeah, cos no-one is mistakenly jailed for crimes they didn't commit, and there is no link between poverty and crime
It is rather worrying that someone with a computer and a small antenna, plus the OpenBTS code, can install a BTS and make it look like it's connected to a proper mobile network *and* allow calls to a PSTN (I have my doubts that it actually is as the connections to the MSC/GSN/MME/SGW - dependent on tech - are not automatically handed out to anyone that wants one). Call setup signalling does not stop at the BTS, and requires cooperation from a core network node, which includes authentication and encryption.
Perhaps they've done something clever to make a firmware patch that bypasses a lot of this (including getting it distributed by the BTS rather than the device management function sitting in the core), but I still think there is detail missing from the article as to other dependent bits in the implementation.
Yes, I'm curious as to why this needs a database of the proles - I read it as "when we make a request, we may include other identifying information that the respondent ISP is required to attempt to match in a defined way" - e.g.
Please tell me all about IP address aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, where subscriber name is similar to "J Doe", and where geolocated, it was near Hyde Park on the 3rd Jan 2015. If a match is made with a pukka subscriber, give me everything to do with them.
Or is this more a generous interpretation that the civil servants will attempt to create a database with this legislation?
It is straightforward, but it's also "on an internet" and, even better, "on your web-phone", so the valuation gets bonus multipliers.
Saying that, it's a simple idea that wrecks the business model of established players, hence the fuss. Established, regulated players are insisting that the newcomers play by their rules, rather than question whether the rules are still relevant. Personally, if a driver is qualified, and the car is insured according to local laws, then does it matter if a cab is black or not - especially if there's a simple way to demonstrate that the route it took is within reason for the trip requested and not routed in a roundabout way to bump up the fees.
But Uber may well go the same way as the apps (e.g. Peerby is just one of many) that let you know someone had a power-drill to borrow in the same neighbourhood, so you didn't need to go out and actually buy one (apparently the average power drill is used for 12 minutes in its lifetime, so there should be plenty knocking around going spare). If too many jump on the Uber bandwagon, then (a) there won't be enough to go round for anyone to make a living from it, and (b) the streets will be so congested with Uber drivers no-one will get anywhere. But you could take the viewpoint that it will settle down eventually, via the foxes & rabbits analogy.
a) a la Ready Steady Cook:
two contestants get horrendously drunk on some themed beverage, then have to raid the "typical" fridge found in that themed part of the world with the equivalent of a bunch of condiments and assorted produce
Optional - contestants are either celebs or celeb chefs
b) a la Round the World w/ Michael Palin
travel the world getting drunk and evaluating the equivalent of the local kebab van (note: may wish to bring copious quantities of Immodium with you). Perhaps done in a Hairy Bikers style
c) a la Man Meets Food
nuff said, just make sure it's spicy and/or enormous (fnar fnar)
> "2% of hot dog samples tested contained human DNA "
That would be this report, which also concludes that 10% of vegetarian meat-substituted foods contain meat products.
> And that would help how, exactly?
I struggle to believe someone could design a worse-performing system, ergo any change will be for the better. For the moment, however, I don't care as I am fortunate enough to not need to use any BT infrastructure in my landline phone and broadband provision (I may move from EE, but they do at least provide coverage near my house, unlike the other operators).
Of course not, they'll just put you through to the Indian call centre where they just say anything to get you off the line without actually addressing your request. The too numerous times I've had to deal with them and this is all I've experienced. Glad to be shut of them with true FTTP now.
The current BT/Openreach interface is a shambles. Rip it up and start again please. Icon is the only other solution.
>this evidence will have disappeared "due to the runaway expansion of space".
Doesn't that just mean they'll need more sensitive instruments? The evidence surely doesn't disappear, it dissipates - so collectors will need to be that much larger. What could one see with a radio telescope the size of a planetary system?
Or they could invent time travel :)
Yeah - not many inventions, and almost none of them applicable in civilian life:
Tanks, machine guns, tactical air support, poison gas, sanitary napkins, sun lamps (yay for rickets!), Daylight Saving Time, tea bags, wristwatches, veggy sausages, the zipper, flamethrowers, tracer bullets, interrupter gear (for shooting through propellers), air traffic control, depth charges, hydrophones, aircraft carriers, drones, mobile x-ray machines, industrial fertiliser, field telephones, blood banks (and effective transfusions), camouflage, protective helmets, submarines, gas masks, hospital hygiene, plus, I'm sure, a huge amount of knowledge gained in dealing with severe physical and mental trauma as it was "produced" on an industrial scale.
..and if some joker exploits the API to tell the system that there are loads of UAVs at the end of runway 1 at Heathrow, what happens? Heathrow grounded for a false alarm, or do the 747's continue to take off - potentially into a cloud of UAVs which I'm positive isn't a good thing for a jet engine
> I'm rather mystified as to why you first berate me for bemoaning the lack of a particular feature then proceed moan about the absence of another particular feature ?
Presumably because the 5 and 6 actually had wireless charging, as opposed to not a single Nexus having a memory card slot
> There is a genuine belief amongst advertisers that people love adverts that are sufficiently well-made
I'd even agree with it - have seen many an entertaining advert in the past, from the schmaltzy John Lewis ones, or to the amusing ones for Marmite or cider. Neither of which makes me buy anything - I already liked Marmite before seeing an advert, and I already shopped at J-L for some stuff because their shop assistants actually seem to care, and you get a decent warranty.
Yes, the adverts "raise brand awareness", but unfortunately the corollary for this is that advertisers then chase every last gram of that, and use a wide variety of budget and skills, which means that the vast majority of the adverts are complete pants. And that paradigm has moved from the telly and into the internet business model.
The internet is turning into the equivalent of American TV. I'll keep my blockers, thank you very much.
> Maybe blame the car behind, like a human driver would do?
Indeed, that's what the coppers do at the scene of most accidents when someone inevitably bumps into someone in the traffic jam that ensues. If you weren't quick enough on the brakes, you're driving without due care and attention. If you were driving too close, that's reckless driving. Either case, have some points and/or a fine.
Icon - that's what you should be able to do if the person in front does first
Meh - Voda says "Broadband not available at your postcode", BT says "Superfast embiggened broadband available", but I wouldn't trust either of them to organise a beverage-enjoying session at St James's Gate, Dublin. Thankfully someone else came along offering FTTP, which is even more embiggened than anything BT can offer me for the next 50 years or so, even if they update their infrastructure.
Icon - what should happen to all BT call centres
I'm sure it's not just the poor plods salary that needs covering. No doubt there is a certain amount of overhead that sucks up the large bulk of this.
Plod doing a mindlessly tedious job of looking at the face of everyone that exits that building may well fall into the category of job that requires frequent breaks to stave off inattentiveness - therefore a multi-plod solution is required, or frequent transporting in/out of replacement plods.
Plods are probably required to fill out (in triplicate, by hand) contact reports for each and every sighting of someone that comes out, presumably graded against a "risk assessment" that it might be JA.
Those reports are presumably filed, laboriously transcribed into some archaic system by plod at the end of each shift.
Then there's probably a weekly 1st line management review of all such reports. And a monthly 2nd line management review, etc.... (not sure how many layers of management there are).
On top of all that, there's the inconvenience to the shift planners in shuffling everyone else around to maintain adequate staffing levels (for some value of "adequate") while a number of staff are assigned to this useless duty, which probably means hiring more staff (with commensurate training costs attached), or other staff doing more shifts (at various overtime rates).
Overall, it probably would have been easier to just ignore him, possibly putting a few grand up as a reward for information leading to his capture.
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