Posts by Doctor Syntax 42030 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
Did you sign up today just to post bollocks on what you maybe took to be some casual social medium? Overwhelmingly of the denizens of this place are STEM folk who have a fair grasp of this stuff and some of us actually have biological backgrounds. We can spot this garbage a mile off.
Rights and responsibilities are opposite sides of the same coin. Someone whose job puts them in close contact with lots of other people where barriers such as screens can't regularly be applied, can, if infected themselves, put many of the public at risk. Those members of the public have a right not to be subject to such risks. It becomes a responsibility of those holding the jobs to respect that right. As ever, the reality is that we have to balance out competing rights. The balance society usually weighs the more serious downside, such as serious illness or death as being greater than the less serious downside, loss of a job. I'd also seriously question the professional competence of those who don't recognise their responsibility.
If it does, EVERY Cisco employee on planet Earth will need to be vaccinated, because they are all "remote".
You make a good point. As it's a US govt requirement for Federal contractors such as Cisco and the US traditionally expects everyone on planet Earth to respect its laws perhaps it should apply more widely than the US and US territory. But I suspect that wasn't quite what you were thinking.
Best wishes, you're in a difficult situation. My daughter is in a similar position in that her unvaccinated son caught it at school and she had a breakthrough infection. Her single jabbed daughter moved out and avoided it.
Probabilities aren't certainties but they're still probabilities and that's what counts when understanding and managing epidemics. Looking at the infection figures, the age distribution hereabouts since early September has been strongly bimodal. The highest peak is in the teens and the other in the age group of teenage children's parents. Since the start of half-term the overall level has been falling. I'd say the finger of suspicion points to getting the children back into school before getting round to deciding to vaccinate them. With the end of half-term I wouldn't be surprised to see infections rise again.
An alternative view (& this applies to some of the posts below) is that the US finally has a government that takes seriously epidemiology in general and this pandemic in particular. It realises that the maximum vaccination coverage is essential. I think it likely that it has also realised that its hold over federal contractors is one means of increasing coverage. It isn't, therefore, just employees working on federal sites site, nor in the contractors' offices who it intends to reach but as many of the US population as possible.
You brits should be honest about what the consequences of Brexit are.
Downvoted for failing to realise that almost half the UK population voted against it because we were fully able to work out the likely consequences.
Yes, pandemics made the problem worse
For HMG the pandemics were a wonderful opportunity to hide the effects for some considerable time. Cynical? Moi?
I'd prefer it with the discount.
I wonder if manufacturers might treat this as a learning opportunity. The "features" range from "I want" through "nice to have" to "won't buy a car with it". If enough customers make retro-fitting an opportunity to select the combination of features they want the manufacturers might continue with it. However realising what's happening would require some intelligence in the marketing departments so it seems unlikely.
My wife drives what's currently her second small Suzuki. I've never been able to work out the exact logical that determines when you can unlock the drivers door/all doors/boot in relation to each other.
One of the reasons why I didn't buy a third Subaru was the fact that it had the stupidly unnecessary electric handbrake. I did read up about it, however. AFAICR the logic inputs operating it included the seat-belt switch.
"the curved glass windows are incredibly easy use to make high speed lights fly around the sky."
I remember seeing a film shot at night from a small aircraft cockpit with a cluster of lights "flying" in fixed formation with each other and the aircraft. The shot zoomed in on the lights.
Having spent a good bit of my working life looking through optical instruments I knew the sort of effects seen in an unfocussed image of a point source. The sort of unfocussed image you might see when a camera focussed on distance is imaging reflections of near-by indicator lights. I could see the camera lens had a 5-blade aperture diaphragm.
Were the crew really taken in by it or had they spotted the chance of a good spoof?
The alternative is that other countries develop the balls to insist on privacy of personal data (looking at the EU's persistent efforts to fudge the issue with privacy fig-leaves etc. and HMG running in totally the opposite direction). At that point the big tech firms would have to start looking at different business models.
Those few hundred "volunteers" are largely employed to work on Linux by the likes of Intel, Red Hat and all the other companies who, in one way or another, have a vested interest in it. Their employers are voluntarily collaborating on Linux because it's useful to them - they sell support or they sell hardware to run it on etc.
It's very likely the fact that they have to support such a huge variety of implementations - and a good few different ISAs - that ensure it's flexible. A good rule is that if you design something to carry out a very specific job it ends up being only able to perform that job. If you look at that job as one example of a much wider class of jobs and set out to support that class you end up with something that's much more useful.
Why wasn't your solution part of the Brexit negotiations?
Not, I think, because the UK negotiating team failed to take advice from you. The border would become the EU and UK customs border. It would require the replacement of the long gone border posts. It would no longer be the soft border envisaged by the GFA.
The central problem is that GDPR places obligations on anyone collecting or processing personal data which still apply if you send the data for storage or processing in another jurisdiction. If you send it for processing in another jurisdiction you need to ensure that the legislation of that country allows for those obligations to be met.
The legislation in the US fails that test. There have been attempted fudges in the form of Safe Harbour and the Privacy Figleaf with its Standard Clauses. All have failed when taken before a the ECJ. What seems to keep happening is that further fudges get offered but because the US legislation hasn't changed it's difficult to see how they could work there. AIUI what seems to be happening now is that firms are being advised to look at a business with different countries on a case-by-case basis.
The above ignores the effect of Brexit. It still applies to the EU. We now have the situation that the UK courts make the determinations for the UK. As the current UK legislation is the same as when we were in the EU a first assumption is that the UK courts would reach the same conclusion on the same facts s the ECJ. We then have to consider the consequences of either (a) the courts reach a different conclusion or (b) HMG passes a new, weaker DPA or other legislation that weakens its effects (to the detriment of the privacy of UK residents, of course).
Whilst the UK is following the same rules as the EU in the same way there should be no problem in a UK company collecting or processing data of EU residents. This facilitates UK businesses who wish to offer services to individual customers in the EU. If, however, the UK changes that then it may be in breach of GDPR in respect of such customers. Also, if a UK business were offering data processing services to EU companies then for those companies the risk assessments advised in the article would apply.
Why would you think that? If the data is sent to any jurisdiction where GDPR standards can't be met then you can't meet them. The obvious answer is to design your business processes so that you don't make such transfers.
For the EU it looks as if HMG is going to make the UK such a jurisdiction. It might make it difficult to run some forms of business in the UK with EU customers but then the PM has made it clear what he thinks about business. Getting Brexit done was more important than any business.
That wouldn't be a very effective provision. Just form the new company, then start to liquidate the old one. There does need to be a provision in law to deem the new company as being the same entity as the old one. That would put a stop to a lot of the shenanigans. In fact, I wonder if there's any provision in existing law to prevent a judge coming to that conclusion.
"we would get a stupid number of faxes per day from a car leasing company"
The solution to that is a fax modem on which you can send a stream of random nonsense to create a mountain waste paper overnight with the occasional message saying you'll stop when they stop. Better still if you find their MD's PA's fax number.
I can't help thinking that POTS and to some extend Fax are like cockroaches and water bears. They'll be the last things to go when ransomware, power cuts or whatever take out your fancy digital infrastructure. Obviously fax would be susceptible to power cuts so it's not quite so robust and a JCB can take out the lot, but as a fall-back they should be considered for a place in your resilience planning.
Two reasons.
The first is that there would have to be a readily available application for it. Such an application would be limited to real-time chat and probably just for two participants as the number of D/H key pairs would rise rapidly as more people are brought in.
The second is the network effect. There's no point in installing it if you don't know anybody who uses it and nobody uses it because they don't have it installed because...
Nevertheless, if they want to look like scammers they're going to be treated as such.
Maybe initially nobody will notice. Nobody, that is, except the scammers. When the customer gets used to this way of renewals they'll get scammed. Next time round after that the renewals are going to fall off.
No problem, the vendor manager will have had a couple of years' bonuses paid and it'll be time to move on and explain how he boosted the renewal rate at his last job.
