Posts by Doctor Syntax 40432 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
Thanks - adds context.
It still leaves the issues of just how much they had - that weasel word "included" - and whether they needed it all. And whether the drivers knew it had been passed on. We're still not at the stage where data is regarded as toxic: you may need to have some but it's safest to hold as little as possible. And insufficiently guarded is doubly toxic.
It's the board that needs to get the message first. Then they can kick the complaints all the way back down the ladder. There does seem to be an inkling in govts that critical infrastructure is - well - critical. They might even be getting insistent about it. We can only hope that they work out PDQ what they need to insist on.
“encourage compliance, prevent harms before they occur and learn lessons when things have gone wrong.”
One hopes that this would consist of a severe bollocking pointing out GDPR's provisions for action against senior members along with notice that this will happen next time and an insistence that at the very least this will be an item on the annual reports of everyone in the command chain.
But I doubt it. ICO have given up the fight.
Growing up in the post-WWII years the typical usage seems to have been anyone involved in the sort of R&D that won the war (excepting, of course BP & the like which we were never told about). As such is was a term of respect. The IoPs problem seems to be that it's neglected to polish its own image.
" If you want to message someone on telegram, use telegram. If you want to message someone on WhatsApp, use that."
And what if you just want to have one ID on one system instead of buying into every service every would-be tech bro sets up
I don't have to have a mobile on every network and a landline from every landline operator because they all inter-operate.
I don't have to have email addresses with multiple MSPs because email inter-operates.
What's proposed here is to try to make messaging work the same way.
The problem here is not with what's done and why. It's with the term "crop". If that's what's offered to the user then it's reasonable to expect the user to think that that's what will happen. What's actually happening would be better described as "frame".
LibreOffice Writer acts in the same way and the compress option only affects the image's resolution, not its boundaries.
It seems to be a general thing with "cropping" tools. I had the task of turning some Word documents of books into PDFs. The files turned out to be much bigger than expected, largely because the supposedly cropped images weren't. In one case several different faces had been "cropped" out of a larger image. The entire image was embedded several times. I think there must be a misconception amongst devs that "crop" really means "frame" as that's what seems to be happening. Fortunately Gwenview did a proper cropping job for me (other FOSS image editing tools are available).
"that was the good SCO"
Good it was but it still managed to price itself out of the market that could have been its own. It was doing well in the small server market but was too dear for the desktop. They did throw developers the sop of a distribution with full developer tools (which were an extra for the the normal server product) but with only a 6 month licence (although there was nothing in the software to enforce that).
By supporting them Microsoft not only spread FUD against Linux, the effort and cost of the litigation weakened SCO. Without that it might not have been as easy for MS to take over the server market.
Having made that mid-life transfer - although that was into IT - I can endorse the idea of a mid-career change. However, in my case the trick was to have built up the skills for the second career as a side-line in the first. If you've worked in IT in some particular industry review your experience of that industry. Have you picked up sufficient knowledge of that to transfer out of IT into a wider business role?
This is, or should be, about FOSS. You cannot hold individuals, even citizens of a democracy, responsible for actions of their governments with which they do not agree, nor should you punish them for them and these would-be FOSS contributors are not even living in a democracy. What would you do in their situation?
"I am under no obligation to publish more if I choose not to, just because someone wants a copy"
OTOH you should not have a problem if someone else makes a copy for the person who wants one. No skin of your nose etc.
In fact, my local history group has published a number of books in small print runs. This introduces the problem of what to do when they go out of print. Given the economics and likely sales of a second print run we have decided to put them on line as PDFs. Other historians, schools or whoever can still obtain copies & we don't have to deal with on-demand publication which can't be achieved at our typical prices.
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