
Re: Age Tokens
Zero Knowledge age verification could be done - but since that would mean those offering the services couldn't earn a penny from your browsing habits, I wouldn't hold your breath.
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"IR35 is a reform unveiled in 1999 by the UK tax authorities..."
Not really. This was a punative tax regime brought in by Labour's Gordon Brown and his side-kick Dawn Primarolo in order to try and kill off self-employment and freelance working in the IT sector. Ironic that it is was under the existing Tory government that that task has now all but been completed.
"PS - I haven't done any statistical analysis of the distribution of chosen numbers."
That's ok. Somebody else has.
tl;dr version - pick the least popular numbers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/240734.stm
No, they mostly don't deliberately hobble good CPUs.
What actually happens is that you have a target chip performance of (e.g.) 2.5 GHz. - and then during manufacturing and chipcheck is that you will find that some don't work at that frequency, while others work beyond the design frequency. Most though tend to work around the initial design frequency. [Think about something called distribution curves].
However, not all cores on chips are equal. So typically poorer performing cores are diabled and those chips sold for less, while those with all cores performing well are sold for more.
Of course, where you have chips with disabled cores, you have the option (if you know what you are doing) to run things at lower clock speeds and see if you can re-enable those poorly performing cores and get more bangs for the bucks you spent.
Kinda sad that we now have to consider Kaspersky (and even Acronis (RTFM where it came from)) as fatally compromised. They are both great products, but the scenario though that a gun isn't now being put to the head of Eugene Kaspersky is no longer something that can be ignored as a possibility.
Kinda makes the case (if it wasn't made already) for doing your day-to-day surfing and web shopping, only ever in a virtual machine.
"If a company wants a worker to be inside IR35 then they write a contract that puts the worker in scope. The individual circumstances of a contractor don't matter at all."
Not really. If a contract puts you inside IR35 - i.e. makes you an employee - then you are an employee - that's actually really always been the case for all practicle purposes (from even before IR35) - regardless of your actual working conditions.
The problem is really the opposite of what you describe - if your contract puts you outside of IR35 - HMRC are free to disregard your contract AND then you will have to prove your working conditions put you outside IR35 - even if any reasonable person would regard then as barn door conditions that illustrate self-employment.
Why exactly would you be wanting to defrag a Windoze NTFS drive by booting into Linux (rather than Windoze) on your dual-boot machine?
Now don't get me wrong, you might want to be booting up some Linux based password cracking utils and file manipulation tools to be deployed against a Windows system - but these aren't the sort of thing your average user or business is likely to be doing on a day-to-day basis.
If your purpose is really wanting to run some heterogenous network, you'd already have some common platform command-interpreter tool installed on your systems that received a command and told the system to get on with defraging in its own native way (and tell me when you are finished).
Loads. It is a common and well understood terminology in bus-based protocols. There's a gargantuan amount of code out there. People randomly changing terminology will cause a massive amount of confusion because one person's terminology will be meaningless to another person.
His choice of "dependent" is wrong as an alternative term for "slave" device. Slave devices are not dependent on the Master device to function - if anything it is the other way around - the Master device is dependent on the Slave device to be able do its job.
Something like Requester/Supplier keeps with the conceptual Master/Slave in terms of representing the functionality.
"My previous comments about contact-tracing app vs privacy were viciously down-voted. And maybe I deserved it then. Before down-voting my comment (again), put yourself in the shoes of the people who have died and their family."
Anyone using emotional blackmail deserves to be downvoted for that reason alone.
(The fact that you even resort to emotional blackmail probably means your arguments are pretty shit too).