Re: At any normal company
"....but I'm fairly sure I could comport myself in a more civil and beneficial manner.". I'm sure nobody doubts that!
Posts by Thicko
59 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jan 2014
No more Mr Nice DoJ: Tesla gets subpoenas over self-driving software claims
TETRA radio comms used by emergency heroes easily cracked, say experts
Look who's fallen foul of Europe's data retention rules. France and Germany
FYI: BMW puts heated seats, other features behind paywall
BT strikes to start this month, 40,000 workers to down tools
Monday 18th July 2022 10:35 GMT
The problem of course is that the Tories face both ways in public at least when it comes to wages. They give the spiel about the high wage, high skill economy to the faithful but killed decent training and introduced more restrictive laws on striking. The reality is that they do the employers (and donors) bidding. Pay rises have been at or below inflation since Osbourne a decade ago. This little economic downturn seems to be yet another good reason for the government to permit further squeezing of wages. Where do all those saved wages and pension contributions go? Shareholders of course with a bit to the senior management to ensure the plebs are kept to the wheel. Factor in runaway house prices also engineered by government policies and its obvious that the divide between them with and them without will soon be wider than the Amazon. And just as uncrossable. Back to the good old days you might say, if you are one of the owner classes.
UK science stuck in 'holding pattern' on EU funding by Brexit, says minister
Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the BBC stage a very British coup to rescue our data from Facebook and friends
Competition watchdog? We've heard of it. But emergency comms firm still on track to Airwave hello to £1.2bn
Wednesday 6th October 2021 07:55 GMT
ESN is the Brexit fantasy of the telecoms world. Everybody who wants it keep saying its just one more small hill away whilst almost everybody else wonders if they will live long enough to see it. And finally there are those who just keep taking the coin wherever and however they can. What an utterly British mess.
UK Test and Trace chief Dido Harding tries to convince MPs that £14m for canned mobile app was money well spent
Thursday 4th February 2021 07:51 GMT
Re: [Apple & Google] have been on the record as saying that the UK app … is a world first
I guess they are crowing about the addition of the QR code combined with contact tracing as a "world first". Every time I hear that phrase from this government I get the distinct uneasy feeling soft soaped into swallowing yet another half or three quarter lie.
Under that pile of spare keys and obsolete cables is an IoT device: Samsung pushes useful retirement project for older phones
Leave.EU takes back control – and shifts its domain name to be inside the European Union
Hundreds of Facebook moderators complain: AI content moderation isn't working and we're paying for it
New lawsuit: Why do Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with Google via cellular data when they're not even in use?
Monday 16th November 2020 12:51 GMT
Re: How
Assuming you are not rooted you could try Netguard
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.netguard&hl=en&gl=US
You can block individual programs and system programs access to the web through either wifi or mobile data or limit them whilst roaming.
it does require a little setup to get it right but it works for me. i use the pay version downloaded from Github to add a hosts file to block lots of iffy web addresses when surfing.
With less than two months left, let's check in on Brexit: All IT systems are up and running and ready to go, says no one
Thursday 5th November 2020 08:03 GMT
Re: QR
I get the feeling that deep down this brexit mad for it government thinks those Jonny Foreigners (not one of them went to Eaton you know!) will be as disorganized as they are. Those Dutch started training additional customs officers 3 years ago. I get the feeling Britain is going to get a nasty lesson in January.
Brit accused of spying on 772 people via webcam CCTV software tells court he'd end his life if extradited to US
Trump's official campaign website vandalized by hackers who 'had enough of the President's fake news'
Thought the FBI were the only ones able to unlock encrypted phones? Pretty much every US cop can get the job done
Friday 23rd October 2020 09:06 GMT
Re: I'm not stopping you...
If you happen to have run into a cop having a bad day, it will do wonders to diffuse the situation. If you have done something wrong 'man up', then 'shut up', and call a lawyer, before you say *anything*, other than, 'I think I should speak to an attorney before i talk with you.'
I expect this could work if you are white. I would be a bit more nervous if I wasn't.
We know there are a lot of, er, distractions right now but NASA's got some sweet video of its asteroid rubble raiser
Life with Amazon's fitness band: Upload your half-naked pics to see how fat you'll look without exercise. You now sound stressed – relax!
Road trip on Mars: Thrill as Curiosity rover races up to 0.06 miles per hour. Marvel as it takes a mile-long detour
Sorry to drone on and on but have you heard of Ingenuity? NASA's camera-copter is ready to head off to Mars
All-electric plane makes first flight – while lugging 2 tons of batteries aloft
Ex-Imagination Technologies boss tells UK Foreign Affairs Committee: Britain needs to stop overseas asset stripping
Wednesday 6th May 2020 07:36 GMT
Re: And who will pay ?
The use of the" friend of a cabinet minister" is a straw man. There are very good reasons why other countries protect their valuable assets. Our usual laissez faire attitude to almost everything in business is no way to protect a national asset.
I dont know exactly what the government would say. Do you? What do other countries tell their security sensitive companies about who they can be sold to? Whatever it is, we should say it too rather than nothing at all. Or even worse, just mumble some flubbery about profit and freedom.
Capita to place bit less sauce in outsourcing execs' share awards packets
Capita cuts projects, furloughs workers due to 'unpredictable level of disruption' from COVID-19
Fancy that: Hacking airliner systems doesn't make them magically fall out of the sky
If you're wondering how Brit cops' live suspect-hunting facial-recog is going, it's cruising at 88% false positives
Thursday 5th March 2020 08:18 GMT
How does Metplod tech accuracy compare with China's implementation? I'm not saying plod tech is always bad but form long experience I know the Met like to pay over the odds for second best as many former colleagues will testify! Can anybody comment? I've walked around Oxford Circus occasionally and that square at Stratford many a time and its always very, very busy so it seems to me that they only ran their cameras at each location for an hour or so.
If I was the first person bagged on plodcam in the UK Id want to get into the Guinness Book of Records!
That one person was bagged in just a couple of camera hours with such a small database of faces means they probably loaded the mugs of know local wanteds into the system or they just got very lucky.
Forget looking for fugitives, how long before Border Force have the system up and running at every airport making it impossible to go on hols before settling your tax bills or outstanding tv licence?
Maersk prepares to lay off the Maidenhead staffers who rescued it from NotPetya super-pwnage
Wednesday 4th March 2020 08:43 GMT
"Having control of employment rights in the UK parliament is not the same as running them down..." Technically you are correct but you would have to be pretty deaf to Priti Patel and co and their clear and oft stated intentions. That you added "completely" to your comment as in "completely biased against..." lends weight to the idea that you are so heavily biased in favour of brexit that any inconvenient fact is just false news to you.
US Homeland Security mistakenly seizes British ad agency's website in prostitution probe gone wrong
Ad network ransomware crook to flog £5k Rolex after court confiscates £270k in ill-gotten gains
Controversies aren't Boeing away for aircraft maker amid claims of faulty oxygen systems and wobbling wings
Wednesday 6th November 2019 18:33 GMT
"Boeing South Carolina is strictly driven by schedule and cost," he told the Beeb. Boeing denies his claims, let me cogitate. Whistleblower risks all to inform world.... And Boeing denies all. Who should I believe. Well I'm not a daft as a brush Brexiter so I go with the whistleblower I suppose, unless Mr Gove can persuade me otherwise!
HMRC chief digital wonk Jacky Wright takes flight back to Microsoft's light
HP printer small print says kit phones home data on whatever you print – and then some
Google takes a little more responsibility for its Android world, will cough up bounties for mega-popular app bugs
How do you sing 'We're jamming and we hope you like jamming, too' in Russian? Kremlin's sat-nav spoofing revealed
Tuesday 2nd April 2019 16:32 GMT
Would it be possible to use electronically steerable antennas that can check that satellites are in the approximate direction that they say they are in? That way you might detect whether one or two sources are in disagreement with the others? I'm guessing it will be harder to accurately spoof signals from several different directions.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
