Re: Maccas closed?
> Anyone remember Wimpy in the UK?
It still exists.
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> Maybe in the US where there are no laws to prevent that…
As if EU laws made sense… Just look at the stupidity of having to agree with cookies on every bloody website training uses to click OK without thinking or reading. This example clearly indicate that nothing good would come from EU rules, just a ton of unexpected consequences.
> Even if there were a dozen of genes directly contributing to "violence" (e.g. testosterone upregulation) and we were to root them all out from the gene pool, the odds are we'd end up with a non viable genome altogether (e.g. testosterone has so many non-violence related functions).
If you understood science, you would know that finding a specific gene is not a requirement for stating that there is a genetic predisposition.
Predisposition to violence is genetic. Note the term “predisposition”, there is still a chance to ameliorate it by early childhood training.
Unless you prefer a religion on woke to the actual science and prefer to pretend that “inconvenient science” does not exist.
The company I work for mandates use of centrally administered Lunix on their laptops. It is Ubuntu.
While I like Lunix on servers, the desktop-related functionality is crap (at least compared to Mac, I am not a Windows user).
Before relatively recent upgrade my laptop had to be restarted every time I brought it into the office because it would not recognise that it was connected to an external screen. After the upgrade it keeps forgetting to take the size of the side bar after screen is locked resulting in maximised windows partially obstructed.
There is no way you can avoid some9ne to have an access, whatever “robust procedures” you invent. Someone has to administer the database and access to it and that person will be able to download.
There is no choice but to trust someone.
On the other hand the6 managed to find who has done it, so the setup was not that bad.
According to the text “there was no impact on customers”, so router continued working but something was not right.
It is quite possible that someone was afraid that the router won’t go back to live after the reboot and did not want to start having an impact on customers without a spare router being on hand in case the old one won’t come back after the restart.
> it's odd it's nearly always those countries.
Why it’s odd? If you live in one of those countries and do damage to the West while earning some money, you are safe from prosecution.
North Korea is a special case - you don’t keep the money and you are advised by the government who to attack. In the other 3 you are making money while being safe.
> The law was changed in the late 90's that changed that made computer created evidence infallible
You misunderstand that law.
The law says the computer system results should be trusted unless there is evidence they should not. There was evidence, but Fijitsu people (including their software architect who should have known better) testified that the system should be trusted.
The law exists to prevent lawyers trying to derail trials by claiming you have to prove your calculator does sums correctly.
> MPs live on a gravy train, they get a fabulous salary
MPs don’t get “fabulous salaries”. I spend 80% of my time at work actually coding and I am paid better than MPs. They have an awful job that I would never want to do. And many of them today are not sure they have a job at the end of this year.
This envy towards politicians is just stupid.
Everyone blames too PO brass or lawyers, but one expect them to be ignorant of the IT problems.
In my book the worst were Fujitsu IT people who were giving evidence that condemned the postmasters and who should have known about the issues .
E.g. the Software Architect Gareth Jenkins.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/garethjenkins
The first thing that enemies of fire speech do is call all speech they don’t like “hate speech”, “bulling” etc.
This includes both National Socialists and Communists in the countries where they got power.
If you did not know North Korean propaganda insists that there is free speech in North Korea, they only “ban lies and hatered”.
Everyone seems to forget about Gareth Jenkins, a Fujitsu “Lead Deal Architrct” and other employees of Fujitsu who were used as an expert witnesses in the trials.
Politicians would not know much about computer systems, but they should have known the reliability of the system they have created themselve.
At this point Covid has already became just another flu-like decease. It is here to stay and it is as danegerous as flu.
As for “long Covid” - there is “long flu” as well (post-viral syndrome), just that it never got the same publicity and hence its numbers were not considerably enhanced by psycho-somatic cases.
> humans are the opposite: we evolved for a narrow temporary stable climatic band...
Only someone who have no actual knowledge but is completely captured and brainwashed into environmentalism can say that.
The humans are the only animals on earth who can adapt to any climate, because we have brains. We can survive and adapt in any climate because instead of being perfectly suited for the current one we happen to live in (like dinosaurs were) we can change our environment artificially to support our lives in any of natural ones.
> emphasized that companies could colllaborate on something
Companies don’t need Open Source if they want to cooperate.
They want Open Source to get stuff for free. And one can’t blame them - everyone of us like a freebie. It is the idealistic stupidity of those who support open source for ideological reasons that resulted in programmer’s work being undervalued.
“Open source compliance” means companies ban their programmers to use any software that has a licence which might potentially make them either pay or make their code open source.
So whatever clever new licence one makes up it is not going to work - the software with a restrictive licence will lose to the current open source competitor.