Posts by alain williams 2644 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2007
Maybe the rest of us should crack their research labs and grab the blueprints.
I am not one who usually advocates such action, but China regularly steals tech info from us. Sauce for the goose & gander.
If we do not do so then I doubt that China will hesitate to use whatever advantage that it has against us.
It is a shame that as a species we do not cooperate for mutual benefit. Maybe something of Darwin as the cause.
Backblaze do provide ssd-drive-stats.
I am fatigued at all these corporations that assume that I consent to their slurping and sharing my data.
The one that currently annoys me most is how many web sites have www.googletagmanager.com in them and do not ask if I consent to that. OK: my /etc/hosts maps that to 127.1.1.1 but most people do not know how to do that.
Oh: El Reg - you have googletagmanager ... when are you going to ask us if we want that ? To see how it should be done go to https://ico.org.uk/
the outgassing will act like a rocket
How much gas, how quickly, what force ? I suspect that most of the heating will be absorbed by the rubble/sand/... close to the nuke, some of it will be vaporised. So some material will be made to move but most of it very little. The result will be that it bulges for a bit but most of it will still hit us.
After a few years gravity will have pulled it all together again.
He might be able to wiggle out of paying (part of) some of what he is being sued for but I would have thought that the lower payments would be dwarfed by the legal bills. We know that lawyers do not come cheap.
Then what is the reputational damage ? Or has he decided that he does not have any reputation worth trying to salvage ?
This includes big tech and people at home.
So if you spend all day on Youtube or Netflix then expect to have to pay for the large number of GB that you will use -- just as Youtube/Netflix will have to pay for those GB to get to the backbone/Internet-exchanges.
The problem is that ISPs like to advertise all-you-can-eat packages at some low cost. They then find that they lose when a couch potato burns through many many GB.
The solution is simple: £X gets you Y GB, if you want more then you have to pay more. The trouble is that the ISP marketing departments do not like this reality and go crying "unfair" to government.
At least they care about privacy.
I doubt that the UK government will do much, especially seeing how they are giving Plantir all of our medical data.
What needs to be added is how google sucks up personal data via google-analytics javascript that is embedded in many web sites. Users are not told about this let alone given the opportunity to opt out.
Ten years time and some country is having a go at another. Large nuke power sites are well known. SMRs are designed to be delivered by truck thus their locations will not be as well documented. Some future Putin wannabe wants to freeze a country into submission and so takes target practice at civilian infrastructure and hits one of these that it powering a hospital.
The release of nucleotides hardly bears thinking about.
It will be blamed on the locals of course ... but the wind does not care and will blow this everywhere.
Ideas that will harm them. This seems obvious but is not. "protect" too much and you can harm by hiding them from ideas of which they should be aware and gain understanding through discussion.
Having your view challenged can make you stronger - if done in the right environment.
This was discussed by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in today's Reith Lecture. It is worth listening to.
One group that can cause kids (& adults) harm is religious organisations. Their attacks on LGBTQ+ people can make those people depressed, upset, fearful, ...; their pushing the meme that those of other, or no, faiths are wrong/evil is harmful, the pushing the idea of a god when their is no real evidence makes people prone to baseless ideas from scammers, conspiracy theorists, politicians and you get abuses like the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God reported today.
I know that my comment will not please many people, but please do try to think rationally before down voting.
Holper is beyond the reach of the USA and so will not pay the fine. Neither will he stop creating bots & fake accounts.
Pity as my sympathies are with Meta. It does put a warning down for others who play such games & are more accessible.
I suppose that Holper will have to be careful when he travels outside Belarus, but that is about it.
Did any of you check what that Javascript does ? No, I thought not.
Just showing a list does NOT need Javascript ... but here is a company that is supposedly in the security business that is encouraging us to accept bad practice. Too many web sites force the use of Javascript for things that can be done without.
Then they have a password generator, there is an on-line version ... I did not check if it was generated on their server or locally using Javascript. You would be foolish to trust either of them, the generated passwords could be kept by them -- I have not checked, but they could be.
Maybe I am just showing that I am a grumbling old git.
Who go to some random web page that has a facebook image + javascript. Facebook has no agreement from people like me to collect or process my personal information.
I do block Javascript from facebook but that does not 100% stop them and most do not know (or care enough) to do so.
Facebook are not the only ones guilty of this.
must be entirely UK owned, run, controlled, ... otherwise our personal data will just run overseas for profit and political (mis)use. Unfortunately I doubt that this condition will be imposed.
Having clauses in the contract to prevent misuse will not stop it. The USA especially has crap data protection laws and USA Freedom Act (son of Patriot Act).
However: I fully expect that my personal data to be exfiltrated by Plantir and some lame excuse/apology made as response to a scandal in a few years time.
I like to use separate tools for separate jobs. If everything handles email ... which one do I use ?
This is partly trying to keep the user always in their product ... but life is not like that, you are not always in conferences (unless very unlucky).
It also gives zoom the ability to look through emails to profile the user to be further able to sell stuff.
Use separate tools and reduce the privacy gouging that the tools can do. Use open source stuff: even better for privacy.
Jacks of all trades is a master of none.
Edward Carroll Stone was inspired to enter the fields of planetary science and space exploration by the launch of Sputnik in 1957 - wow, what a career!
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