Posts by Phil O'Sophical 7402 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Oct 2011
Airgap the systems that manage electoral data from those that can receive mail. Make it a criminal offence to break that air gap, and jail the first few people who are caught doing so as a lesson to the others.
This isn't rocket science, the military have long experience in handling data at varying levels of confidentiality, and many software suppliers have off-the-shelf systems which can support those models. Why do electoral systems not have the same requirements?
Not quite. We had an LH flight to FRA that was delayed, and then the connection to CPH was cancelled due to bad weather. LH put us up in a hotel in FRA for the night, with an assurance that we would be on the CPH flight the next morning.
At check-in I asked about our bags and was told that they were in FRA and would be loaded onto our new CPH flight.
In CPH we learned that one bag was still in FRA, but the other was still in our original departure airport, not even having made the first flight. None was in CPH with us. It took LH three more days to finally get our bags to us, in yet another city. Not just 'lost' baggage, but incorrect information about how lost it was!
Hmm, Brexit is bad because we can't exploit foreign low-wage labour? Interesting position.
For your information, exactly the same situation prevails in the EU as well. For example, restaurants and other businesses in France can't get staff either, even though their unemployment rate is almost twice that of the UK. This is not a Brexit issue.
"The rest of the world is holding us back" is the rhetoric of the likes of Putin and Kim.
Really? I can't imagine either of them admitting anyone holds them back. It's not what I said, anyway.
If what you said were even half-way true, our economy would be overtaking that of the EU nations, rather than lagging behind. In reality, we have a brain-drain, and many research establishments are in dire financial straits directly because of brexit.
In reality it's only 18 months since Brexit, far too soon to see the actual effects of such a huge change. During that we've had a pandemic, an energy crisis due to Putin, and yet all the doomsday predictions haven't come true. Financial staff are actually moving to the UK, nuclear fusion companies are setting up here (staying on track for the article), etc.
I've never seen any country leave a major political grouping and be instantly successful, it usually takes 10-20 years to even catch up, so no surprises there. If you think leavers excepted anything else it just reinforces that fact that you don't really understand Brexit.
Brexit parochialism
Yet another commenter who still (wilfully?) doesn't understand Brexit.
Brexit is the very opposite of parochialism. It gets us out of the parochial, over-regulated, walled garden of the EU, and into the wider world of the 100+ countries that are not in the EU. Many of them have companies that are setting up in Britain, with British expertise, to do fusion research and prototyping.
it is entirely hubristic to suppose that a single nation...is going to be able to achieve the same ends, from scratch, in a shorter timescale, and with far less mone
And yet private companies are doing it, and doing it in the UK, see https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/02/the-promise-of-fusion/
"Oil and gas firms are joining private investors, and the likes of Google, Jeff Bezos and PayPal founder Peter Thiel are backing the sector.
Now the UK is feted as the most fusion-industry-friendly country in the world, with the prospect of supply chain and regulation certainty on the horizon, as well as playing host to future experimental pilot plants. Companies have been founded around the world, from India to China to Australia, as well as North America and Europe.
“In one fell swoop, the investment in private fusion companies has doubled – it’s really exciting,” says plasma physicist Dr Melanie Windridge, founder of Fusion Energy Insights. She compiled a survey of 30 private fusion firms worldwide, published in November by the Fusion Industry Association (FIA), which revealed 18 firms had attracted $1.8bn (£1.3bn) of investment, rising shortly afterwards to $2.4bn (£1.8bn). This was trumped by the announcement that US-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems – a spinout from MIT – had raised a further $1.8bn to build and operate a pilot plant, with construction under way in Massachusetts and predicted to run by the end of 2025."
"Fifteen years ago, we asked people to be careful if they were giving their children kites for Christmas and where they were flying them. Now we're asking parents to be very careful with where their kids fly their drones,"
The advantage of kites is that the kids don't get a second chance to short the power lines...
Because they work from home as a video editor / CAD engineer / software repackager / audio engineer and need to shift hundreds of GBs of data daily?
So, pay for a business broadband service, like you would if you worked in an office.
Declaring your home as your office and then expecting to get a professional service for domestic prices is hardly reasonable.
British postal addresses are particularly variable and therefore difficult.
Postcode and house number is all you need, the rest is just redundant window dressing. Often better to ignore it anyway, people who live just across the parish or county boundary from a more desirable address often use the "wrong" town/county name because it sounds more upmarket.
In the UK, and possibly in other places, banks have a legal obligation to act on written instructions from their customers. In the past they had to deal with these scribbled on scrap paper, or perhaps on soiled napkins after a late night gambling and drinking session. Cheques were introduced as a way to make sure that written instructions were clear and legible. For as long as the legal obligation exists I'd expect some form of cheque-like documents to remain.
it didn't take long for the thieves to know this is exactly what would happen
That's a general problem. A friend's house was burgled & her hi-fi stolen. The insurance paid up, but also advised her to wait a few months before buying replacements, since the thieves would probably come back in a month or so to lift the expected new stuff.
There was an article in a French motoring magazine where they interviewed various gendarmerie officers, and few of them knew the exact rules. Most thought that it was a legal requirement, although you're quite correct that the law in France merely requires that the vehicle lights must operate correctly, and you can be fined if you cannot make them do so. It's a rather ambiguous rule.
