Posts by ChrisElvidge 756 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Aug 2011
A perfectly serviceable 4G phone - data, SMS, voice - on 3G go enough bandwidth to run a single ROKU box.
Change to 4G. Data and SMS still OK but NO voice. Surely not beyond the boffins of wireless? More evidence that wireless networks are run for the benefit of carriers, not users.
Still, the council is urging residents and service users ..... should double-check their bank and card details and keep an eye out for anything dodgy.
Why are the councils keeping bank and bank card details after the completed transaction? If it is/was still needed, data should be encrypted.
Solution: big datacentres must provide their own power (and water) resources OR start paying into the general fund for this i.e. taxes. No more offshoring profits before working out how much tax to pay. Also applies to anyone paying "parent companies" for rights to use their name. After all, they use public money in order to provide healthcare and our paid-for educated staff.
If everyones' personal details are stored in a huge database then the whole population is at risk from a single hack. My guess is that the details held will include name, date of birth, nationality, National Insurance number, passport number, driving license details, phone number, address and biometric data. Basically more or less everything someone needs for identity theft.
That is everyone except politicians, senior police officers, senior armed forces officers, Lords and above. Add to this list as required.
The UK's headlong charge into AI comes after separate study published earlier this month found 75,000 days of manual work each year might be saved with the adoption of an AI tool designed to speed up analysis of feedback from government consultations.
WIWAL 'manual work' was digging up roads (navvies), collecting rubbish (dustmen) etc.
Now it seems to mean 'pushing paper around'.
Its main semiconductor fabrication plant is in Hamburg, Germany, but many of the chips produced there are sent to China to be packaged and assembled into finished products.
So bring the packaging back to Europe.
Surely sending the chips to China and then importing the 'finished article' is wasteful.
Energy is essential for delivering the UK governments' AI ambitions, but Britain faces a critical question: how can it supply enough power for rapidly expanding datacenters without causing blackouts or inflating consumer bills?
Inflating comsumer bills must never be allowed to happen. We have to get to the stage where the more energy you consume, the higher price per unit you pay. So homes get cheaper 'lecy than industry.
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