Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 21370 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
And they know which bank you use because it's in your browser history - along with all the other sites you have an account on.
And they have your live email feed so they can do a "forgot your passes" request on all of them and harvest them from your phone.
The difference is that I use Google/facebook/twitter/Android for fun - at home.
I use Windows at work in the defense/healthcare/government/police/banking/legal industries.
Industries where I go to prison if it turns out that the data I control has gone to some foreign company/government because of an operating system I installed.
So you are lending the government money at 0% in the hope that they don't cancel the scheme before your turn?
Why not live on 80% of salary, save 20%, invest it at an average 8% return and take a year off on the more than 100% you then have?
They are removed here - there is a special exemption for high tech companies (those where 50% of employees use a computer). No statutory holidays, no bank holidays, no overtime, no limit on working hours. The result is that salaries are half as much as in that bastion of pinko commie liberalism the USA.
There are also a rapidly reducing number of jobs since all the good people are in Silicon Valley and the companies are moving there to find the people.
A lot of that is because a generation ago the only contractors were lawyers/accountants/etc and they got to make the rules. When every receptionist or sandwich shop worker is an indpendant contractor expect the tax loopholes to get tightened as quickly as they were when every programmer decided that they were now contractors paying themselves dividends.
>"I'll have to get a man in".
Have we wandered into the script of a porn movie?
Now sysadmin porn - THAT is an overlooked market.
"I'm here to install your new SAN"
"ooh what a big SSD that is"
... black Linux conference t-shirt falls to the floor revealing the 6pack of the typical sysadmin.....
The shopping centers here provide electric car charging, so do all the cool trendy companies.
The big limit is that nobody is allowed to sell electricity - except the monopoly power company - so you can only charge for parking. I worked out if I parked at the supermarket every day, bought an item to get my free 2hour parking I would drive for free.
But a lot of electric cars are going to be Car2Go type schemes and 2nd cars, or apartment owners who commute locally. In US cities that is a lot of people.
Except by the Indians - China has lots of Uranium and now owns big bits of Africa.
ps. Thorium reactors are no cleaner/safer/better than Uranium. Their only advantages are if you want to make it a lot harder for yourself to make bombs or - like India - you don't have any Uranium.
"the facial recognition software does not take or store anyone's photograph"
That in a way is even worse.
You can never fly again because the computer says your face matches a terrorist.
Unlikely since I am a 70 year old women with blue hair - can I see the photo?
No there is no photo - but the 32bit hash of your face data matches one of the other 4Bn hashes in our database so you are a terrorist.
Ironically here in Canada we get all the old UK stuff on Netflix, the other half is addicted to Midsommer/Rosemary&Thyme,Ms Marple,Agatha Christie - none of which show up on UK netflix.
... more worryingly she might be planning on murdering me and is researching the best way to fool detectives
There have also been a number of accidents when thrust reversers or slats deployed during flight on commercial airliners - either because of faults or pilot error.
Adding interlocks so thrust reversers only work when there is weight on the wheels seemed like a sensible precaution - however well airline pilots were trained not to put the engines in reverse while flying.
"would that mean I need a taxi license for that city?"
Yes but more importantly you would need a license from the BCS, and be a member, and pay annual dues to be allowed to write a computer program.
We can't have just anyone writing programs - don't you care about hackers etc?
If only the BCS had the same lobbying cash as the lawyers, accountants, opticians etc
And there will be organisations that tell their users "don't click on suspicous attachments" and then email important pay/pensions forms as word doc named PDQQ-6756-BHG.docx
If you let infected files/links into your system and rely on regular users to spot them and not click - it isn't the users' fault. It's like telling them that some of their computers might have faulty PSUs with dangerous voltages on the keyboard and that they should "be careful".
Number of US planes blown up by bombs in last 20years?
Number of US airports which still don't have weather or windshear radar
Number of staff cut by the reduction of ATC to a few major centers leaving most of the US with no coverage.
Number of column inches generated by each threat ....
>but Chancellor Merkel is not going to bankrupt her nation by pouring multiple billions into South-Eastern Europe.
She isn't, she is pouring billions of euros into German merchant banks that made expensive loans to SE europe.
>It would not be so tough if these nations got to keep their favourite coin
But then they wouldn't have been able to borrow to buy German cars and Germany wouldn't have been able to afford to sell them with expensive DMs.
A real profit or a "we bought Northern Rock for £1, wrote off a £Bn of bad debt and sold it to that Branson chap for £1m" sort of profit?
And did we (or the Americans) cure the moral hazard of allowing retail banks to play speculation in the knowledge that they will be bailed out if they screw up?
One topic worthy of Worstallian analysis.
A massive collapse of all banks and the disappearance of money is a probably a bad thing.
Was the bail out, and partial nationalisation, of banks cheaper than simply letting some of them go bust and paying the depositors?
Was billions really given to merchant bankers who made a bad bet and then paid themselves bonuses with the money?
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