Posts by Woodnag 653 publicly visible posts • joined 24 May 2010
The license is a carryover from the original radio licenses, when the equipment was expensive. The expectation for decades has been that everyone watches live TV, hence detector vans back in the day and now letters + home visits. What a waste of resources. Just fund it from the exchequor like most else with a negotiated budget.
"...data analytics capabilities supporting critical strategic, tactical and live operational decision making across classifications across defense and interoperable with Nato and other allied nations Palantir systems"
"data analytics ... across classifications"
UK Army is involved in population surveillance and protest management.
"Visit Scarfolk today. Our number one priority is keeping rabies at bay." https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/
UK will leave ECHR soon anyway, because as this case shows, the massive ramp up in surveillance across the country (physical and online tracking) is incompatible with basic right of privacy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mxy2j2elro
"The Conservatives will take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if they win the next election, Kemi Badenoch has announced."
Welcome to Scarfolk.
"Foxglove says the government now accepts the decision must be quashed, claiming officials concede there were insufficient measures to hold the developer and any future site occupier of the site to environmental impact commitments."
The end result will be that the planning consent will be retained, with extra safeguards for environmental impact mitigation mutually agreed between gov and developer. The mitigation will turn out to be non-binding of course.
"The civil liberties-focused Open Rights Group also argued against a ban, saying it would require widespread use of age-verification across the internet."
This is the whole point. Goverments don't give a monkey's left testicle about kids, screen time adiction, resultant lack of face to face socialisation skills etc.
Goverments do care about accurately de-anonomising every social media account.
Which is what this will do.
There's a value to Office 2003 (with Compatibility Pack) and Office 2007 installs because they just work forever after a single payment, also without insisting on cloud, AI helpers etc.
Of course MS keeps updating Exchange so that earlier versions of Outlook get pooched for non-subscription O365...
El Reg story says "The company has since pumped out plenty of posts pointing out that its poulet is proper repast, made of actual chicken from well-run farms."
Errm, not quite.
Per company statement https://www.thecampbellscompany.com/newsroom/news/company-statement-on-the-garza-lawsuit-and-alleged-audio-recording/ says:
“The chicken meat in our soups comes from long-trusted, USDA approved U.S. suppliers and meets our high quality standards. All our soups are made with No Antibiotics Ever chicken meat. Any claims to the contrary are completely false.”
They said ‘chicken meat’, not ‘chicken’. Would you say "Honey, we're having chicken meat for dins"? No. You'd say "Honey, we're having chicken for dins". That qualifier word 'meat' is hiding something.
Win11 is fine, if you install an earlier pre-AI version (23H2 here) using an ISO that has been decrappified with tinybuilder11 first, and then you spend a day with WinaeroTweaker and other stuff getting it to do what you want, not what Redmond wants.
If UK gov gets their mitts on a mechanism to allow remote phone locking, the following will happen.
1. Capita will get the contract to manage it
2. Capita will get hacked and the access stolen, so crims will be able to offer a lock-a-phone-on-demand service
3. UK gov will start locking phones of people they don't like, such as attending certain protests, which also kills the video recording of said protests
"The issue was so severe that in September the UK government had to step in with financial support to the tune of £1.5 billion as JLR struggled to bring its systems back online."
Because parent Tata Motors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Motors (a public company) can't afford to pay for its own screwups, so the cost is socialised to the British taxpayer.
"Digital ID will act as no deterrent to illegal arrivals". True, but when the ID is required for every monetary transaction, then it will be difficult to live in the UK without the ID. Of course, no-one will actually want to live under those cicrumstances either, so those that can leave, will. Before the east coast is under water.
"Class actions only ever benefit the lawyers."
They are intended to provide a viable mechanism to penalise a company financially for actions providing deliberate low value harm to a lot of people.
Where the 'penalise' money goes is actually secondary.
It more or less works if sender and all recipients are on the same outlook server... but ever under that perfect circumstance, if a recipient forwards the email before the recall, the recall is pooched. Recall just starts the Streisand Effect. Oooh, recalled... what's embarrasing here?
"Anton Carniaux, director of public and legal affairs at Microsoft France" would have no knowledge that US gov had issued an NSL to get one off or continuous access the foreign data. So his statement that the scenario had "never happened before." is BS, because he would not have been in the loop, and he surely knows that.
The more pics of your face in identical poses, the more accurate the identification will be in the future of *you*.
Tell me why that's in my interest?
Of course the pics go elsewhere. When caught at it, what will be the repercussions? An un-auditable promise to delete?
Yes.
So the lede "Australia not banning kids from YouTube – they’ll just have to use mum and dad’s logins" is ignoring the huge elephant in the room, which is that mum and dad will now have to log in to YT.
A fantastic gift from the Oz gov to a foreign surveillance company.
Let's look at the official statement: Microsoft said it "does not have access to your export code and cannot help you recover it if it is lost."
"does not have access" implies that the code is actually saved somewhere.
"cannot help you" covers both business decisions and physical limitations. Just like I cannot help you rob a bank.
For Windows, I prefer a 128GB SSD as the C: drive, an HDD for D:, and locate the user standard directories (Docs, Video, Pictures, Temp etc) on D. Easy to backup user stuff by just copying D:.
If the SSD isn't encrypted, the unused areas compress well when imaged, so "sudo dd bs=4M if=/dev/sda | sudo gzip -c > Date_C_drive.gz && sync" from a live Linux USB provides a backup similar in size to the used storage, and 128GB doesn't take long. If encrypted, don't bother with gzip. And the backup can go on the D drive initially, so fast.
Try reporting a stolen car or bike to UK police.
They jot down the details and then ignore it.
So we are expected to believe that the police are wanting to put resources into deterring phone theft?
What the UK gov wants (ok, what MI5 and the Met want) is a mechanism in place to remotely disable people's phones. Going to a Greenpeace demo? The ISMI catchers will capture all the IMEIs within a radius and those phones will be suddenly disabled as the kettle is being put in place. End of text-based demo management, end of camera functionality.
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