Posts by Andre Carneiro 391 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jun 2007
It’s a bit unfair to compare an infrastructure as it was 20+ years ago with the current one, especially considering the pace at which it has changed.
Telecoms have changed immeasurably since the Government owned them, and just because they made a meal of it last time doesn’t necessarily mean they would cock it up this time.
(Wishful thinking?)
Surely what's at stake here is not the reward model, whether the amount she is owed was disproportionate or even whether it was fair.
There was a contract. A contract! And in that contract, presumably, Oracle (rightly or wrongly in your eyes) agreed to pay a certain percentage that they then reneged on and THAT is the crux of it.
Speaking as a non IT industry professional, I do get the impression that if a Proxy is all Cleanfeed is, then circumventing it is trivial to say the least.
I would imagine that anyone willing to look at kiddy porn will certainly have the motivation and, after a simple Google search, the knowledge to bypass it in 30 seconds.
Why even bother running it unless for other nefarious government-mandated purposes?
So the personal, medical, highly sensitive, highly confidential data of 29 patients is worth just under 2 grand?
Not nearly harsh enough a punishment, IMHO.
I'm pretty sure that, as a doctor, were I to commit the same a naughtiness I would be looking at a much larger fine and an interview without coffee with a General Medical Council Fitness to Practice panel.
(EDITED to correct typos)
I spend a lot of time in Portugal and, whilst generally more expensive, pretty much every connectivity option is better over there than in the U.K.
Wider LTE coverage with better overall speeds and a major deployment of FTTP in pretty much every major city and now into smaller ones and also some rural areas.
All those things that, according to BT (in my eyes one of the most evil companies in the world), are unrealistic, unaffordable and "nobody wants or needs".
Harrumph!
I'm by no means a File System guru (in fact I'm not even an IT professional), so this may be a stupid question.
I gather ZFS seems to have very many desirable characteristics that we're now getting with AFPS (bit rot detection being one of them). Would it not have been easier for Apple to simply implement ZFS rather than writing a whole new FS instead?
AP disconnects on any modern Airbus aircraft (and even in the good old A310) trigger a VERY LOUD (as in "can often be heard by the passengers in the first couple of rows) CAVLRY CHARGE aural warning, an AUTOFLIGHT - AUTOPILOT OFF warning on the Electronic Centralised Aircraft Monitoring System (ECAM) and a MASTER WARNING alert.
Can't be any more obvious, but probably a lesson learnt over the years.
The worst thing is that I very much suspect at least half of that information is just mindless duplication of the same data.
Nurse does obs, writes them down. Doctor comes to review patient, writes same obs down (to prove he's seen them). Physio comes to see patient, writes same obs down AGAIN (for the same reason). This is just an example: the time I spend duplicating information that is already documented is utter infuriating!
(Just one of my MANY bug bears with IT in the NHS at present)
Couldn't agree more,
I get the impression journalism has firmly hit The Age of Hyperbole.
And it's making me slightly nauseous.
Oh, how I miss the British stiff upper lip...
(DOI: I'm not British. I'm one of those disgusting Europeans who came here to take your jobs, freeload on the NHS, pay your taxes, etc., etc., etc...)
I'm not entirely sure of what exactly the advantage of this migration actually is. TETRA is quite reliable and seems to be perfectly fit for purpose.
The ability of vehicle mounted devices to route portable device calls is also pretty useful and I'm not sure that this will still be a feature of the new system.
Not entirely sure that better data throughout is actually significantly useful for the Emergency Services.
Other than money for grabs, does anyone know what the point of all this is, exactly?
It's probably more of a Three issue, to be honest.
The whole Feel at Home thing is much better on paper than in real life. Every time I used it it (Portugal, Austria, Spain) it has been SO slow (irrespective of signal strength) as to being virtually unuseable.
There's still nothing like forking out for a native SIM if you're travelling to the same country for more than, say, a week or so...
It would seem that the poor quality journalism that was the hallmark of this campaign (on both sides) lives long and prospers...
They have been instructed to ensure that should Article 50 be invoked it is done so in a lawful manner which will not be open to challenge.
SOME people are clearly trying to do something properly instead of the continuous shitstorm we've been having so far, you see...
To this day I still don't understand why roaming is so expensive.
From what I gather, voice and data these days are pretty much simple IP transit.
Voice is pretty low-bandwidth anyway so the bulk of charges would be data.
IP transit for data is no more costly for a MNO than for any ISP (and the costs are dropping every year), so why are MNOs charging orders of magnitude more? It seems to me like a "pretend charge" created by MNOs to fleece other MNOs.
Whilst I agree that someone should probably have been able to advise you of this (but that certainly wouldn't have been the poor kid at the local Three store), I believe it has been policy with all the mobile carriers to severely restrict outgoing services on their networks?
I'm assuming you're using a CPE with a public IP address, of course.
Incidentally, my Home Signal is working fine. I'm sitting at home with a signal strength of -68dBm on my iPhone :)
If you have half decent broadband you can always deploy a Femtocell at home (3 Home Signal). You can't buy them in store but if your signal is nonexistent at home, Customer Retentions will get one sent out to you free of charge.
They work well, actually, the little blighters :)
Pretty sure Vodafone have a similar product (SureSignal, if memory serves right), but you'll have to pay around 50 quid to get it.
... provided they translate to better quality of service.
Back home in Portugal, I can get 4G pretty much almost everywhere and the service on any of the operators is generally quite good.
Yes, it's more expensive (and none of the three operators offer unlimited data packages, for example), but I, for one, would be willing to pay a bit more to get a decent service.
OK, let's try this again, as it seems you've not read the article or the comments.
As one of the previous posters succintly ecplained "What Ars did was to create two versions of the benchmarking tool Geekbench — one that the system could identify as Geekbench and one that it couldn't. The code remained identical". These two versions of the benchmarking tool with IDENTICAL CODE delivered two different results depending on whether the system could identify it or not.
Is "the problem here" slightly more visible now?
I fear that may not be quite right.
It is well known that staffing levels decrease at night and weekends. It would appear from this study that what many in the NHS have felt, actually is true: reduced staffing levels lead to increased morbidity and mortality,
I believe the medical royal colleges have tried to impress this upon the "powers that be" for years: we need more staffing round the clock, 24/7. Hospitals should never run on "skeleton staff", regardless of the time of days or day of the year.
But, of course, this comes at a price. And when hospitals are struggling to keep the staff they already have or are considering redundancies, increasing staffing levels is clearly not happening any time soon.
I think it's important, however, to get a grip on reality: Healthcare in the NHS is of very high quality even if individual patients experiences may not always be so. It's good that these "deficiencies" are brought to light, though. The NHS strives to always improve. My opinion anyway.
I remember when WoW was unplayable for a number of days. Virgin kept saying it was peering this and Telia that and eventually accepted that their idiot "traffic shaping" software had cocked everything up.
I left them for their sheer incompetence managing that one incident and have never looked back.
I will try my best never to be one of their customers ever again.
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