Pretty pointless as it will still be idiot's with zero vision and foresight at the treasury that controls everything.
Posts by David 164
575 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Aug 2009
UK civil servants – hopefully including those spending billions on tech – to skill up in STEM
EU still set to OK Microsoft's Activision slurp, UK disagrees
OpenAI CEO heralds AGI no one in their right mind wants
Research raises questions: Are instruments taken to Mars sensitive enough to find life?
Iran steps up its cybercrime game and Uncle Sam punches back
NSA super-leaker Edward Snowden granted Russian citizenship
UK blocks sale of chip design software company to China
Royal Navy will be getting autonomous machines – for donkey work humans can't be bothered with
Hard drives at Autonomy offices were destroyed the same month CEO Lynch quit, extradition trial was told
The UK is running on empty when it comes to electric vehicle charging points
Re: Some things that would help the situation
1 - Done, Already mandated by the government legislation.
2 - Done, the law now require all charges to take chip and pin
3 - Done RAC already have mobile car battery rechargers https://www.rac.co.uk/innovation/ev-boost
So all your demands are being met already. Anything else you want to add on to your list.
Mike Lynch extradition: Uncle Sam offered Autonomy founder $10m bail if he stood trial in the US
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch loses first stage in fight against extradition to US
Pipe down, Jeff. You've only gone where Gus Grissom went before, 60 years ago today
Bezos v Branson: Battle of the wannabe Space Barons as Virgin Galactic cleared by FAA to start flying customers
Re: Of the two,
You say that but Branson is now working with Rolls Royce and Reaction Engines on producing a engine for his Mach 3 supersonic jet.
It no guarantee but I could eventually this partnership being expanded to include the construction of a SSTO vehicle at some point, after Virgin Galactic has run it sub orbital service for a couple of years and is turning over a profit.
I also think it only a matter of time before Virgin Galactic is merge back with Virgin orbit.
Also someone other than me has got to be thinking Virgin Galactic and stratolaunch would be another good merger with such a aircraft capable of handling Virgin Orbit launches and possible multiple SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rockets at once all with the same vehicle.
Uncle Sam recovers 63.7 of 75 Bitcoins Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware crew
Good news: Boffins have finally built room-temperature superconductors. Bad news: You'll need a laser, a diamond anvil, and a lot of pressure
IBM unleashes AI on two space problems: How to map all the junk in Earth's orbit, and how to put more up there
Revenues from in-app purchases swelled 32% to almost $30bn for Q3 2020 – and Apple snaffled most of it
UK govt reboots A Level exam results after computer-driven fiasco: Now teacher-predicted grades will be used after all
Re: Too late for some.
Universities will now have to review their chosen students some pupils who were awarded better grades than their mocks will now have only their mocks grade which might not be good enough for that university. Expect a lot of changes and a lot of anger. Luckily for universities they have got a slight get out of jail free card in that the number of foreign students are expected to be low, freeing up spaces for english students this year.
University ordered to stop running women-only job ads
Rip and replace is such a long Huawei to go, UK telcos plead, citing 'blackouts' and 'billion pound' costs: Are Vodafone and BT playing 'Project Fear'?
All sides in this debate is playing project fear card.
Fact is, if the chinese want to spy on us they are going to spy on us, Britain not having a huawei of our own going around installing gear on mobile networks around the world didn't stop GCHQ from hacking country wide mobile phone systems , it isn't going to stop the chinese. This is why GCHQ just don't about what equipment they use, they know if they can hack anything, the chinese can.
Brit police's use of facial-recognition tech is lawful, no need to question us, cops' lawyer tells Court of Appeal
Re: This is legislation which affects everyone, immediately and continuously
You would lose any such vote. No under the stupid rules you put in place but under rules that would be written by the electoral commission and where someone who isn't making a vote is presume to vote no, I might not turn up to vote but I have no problem with the technology.
Re: Keep a straight face.
I presume he meant cctv that is monitor live by human operators, who can then manually track the user across the area of cameras they have access to. In this way it no less intrusive than a live human operated camera feeds that are run by super markets and many other venues. Or indeed many of London own cctv cameras are now monitor live by human operators.
Ransomware scumbags leak Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX documents after contractor refuses to pay
HMRC claims victory in another IR35 dispute to sting Nationwide contractor for nearly £75k in back taxes
One-time Brexit Secretary David Davis demands Mike Lynch's extradition to US be halted
Tesla has a smashing weekend: Model 3 on Autopilot whacks cop cars, Elon's Cybertruck demolishes part of LA
US Embassy in London files extradition request for ex-Autonomy boss over HPE fraud charges
Is this the US simply trying to snatch him before the UK trial ends, thus they can maximize the pressure on him to accept a plea deal when in a US prison cell?
If he wins the UK trial. That will be a big stick to bash a US jury over the head with in any trial. An Lynch doesn't sound like a guy who will go down without fighting.
Also could Lynch team call Justice Hildyard to the stand in the US as part of his defence, I could imagine a Justice Hildyard would be better receive than some of the FBI witnesses.
Europol wipes out 30,000+ piracy sites, three suspects cuffed to walk the legal plank
Hundreds charged in internet's biggest child-abuse swap-shop site bust: IP addy leak led cops to sys-op's home
Match.com? More like Match dot-con, claims watchdog: Cyber-lonely-hearts 'lured into forking out to view bot spam'
IR35 blame game: Barclays to halt off-payroll contractors, goes directly to PAYE
Re: Interesting
The difference is plumbers and electricians are employed for small periods of time to carry out a job, often in a specified period of time, most of the time there isn't even a contract involve especially if they are working for the general public.
Many IT contractors are essentially employees who have spend years at a company. The company keep as a contractor to save money. That why people in the IT industry are scared and why electricians and plumbers aren't.
For A IT contractor that works like a electrician or plumber does, they should have no issue at all, they go into a job, do the job and the leave and the contract is terminated. These are relatively rare because most IT people need time acclimatise to the set up at a company before they become useful. An even simply projects can have long gestation period, much longer than your average plumbing or electrician job.
Re: Interesting
Most of the time, painters and electricians they come in do the job and go and are never seen again. This is targeted at people who spend years at a company as a contractor working under a contract that state for example that person as to be in at 9am an depart 5pm and 1hr break.
Re: IR35 idiocy
Yep, the one where the only thing that has been agreed is nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. Which is why it design so they can roll over all existing laws for eternity because that how long they know negotiations will take. Well at least ten years, which is a eternity in politics.