Dear El Reg
I know its a well know acronym in Australia, but please stop shortening New South Wales. It looks too much like NSFW which immediately attracts attention from co-workers
Regards
J
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Are you just trolling?
Yes, there have been issues, but in what universe are any of the above proven today to be the cause. The root cause analysis is still under way, the result of which will probably never be made public. Everything we're being told is rumour and conjecture, including probably what has been fed to MPs.
I reiterate, you're just trolling and that's why you're AC
If the researchers are reporting it is peoples Tax Returns then apart from Child in Chief Trump they shouldn't be public tax returns. Oh, wait, Trump hasn't published his Tax Returns either, only his predecessors did that.
Once when recovering services without a plan we asked the business for their priority list. Top of the list was the Management Information System (MIS).
Me: "Are you sure you want MIS back first?"
Senior Manager: "Yes, its critical"
Me: "Really?"
Senior Manager: "Don't question me, its top priority!"
Me: "So you want to be able to report that none of your staff are doing any work rather than not be able to report but know they are doing something?"
Senior Manager: "Maybe Workflow should be first priority then"
Given you get 9 months to deliver the accounts in the first place, there really shouldn't any excuse for being late at all.
It's not like delivering accounts is inventing or developing something, it is a simple reporting of facts that happened. (#CreativeAccounting)
Surely the Germans are rehabilitated now? In which case, you should not be able to use Google to search for the Holocaust.....
Which is where it all becomes even more complicated. I'd suggest the Holocaust remains in the public interest and therefore trumps the right to be forgotten. But there are deniers out there who might feel differently...
"People may leave the public sector, but once applied to private sector, if they leave that, they are going abroad or on the dole. For most, it will just mean sticking with it."
All that will happen is a general acceptance that everything is inside IR35 for privately owned contracting companies and a rates balancing will take place.
The sad thing is that HMRC are advised by the big accounting consultancies who have a vested interest in getting their expensive daily rate "contractors" on site. PWC, EY, Deloitte, McKinsey et al view the individual contractors as cheap competition and are therefore directing HMRC on how to eliminate the competition. In Public Sector land, the real loser is the Public who will need to spend twice as much on Public works than they do today, putting the profits in the pockets of the shareholders of the big consultancies.
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It really is Schrödinger situation - until he walks out the door of the Ecuador Embassy nobody knows if he really will end up in the USA.
If he walks out, is arrested and jailed for jumping bail, and a subsequent extradition request is submitted, he's totally vindicated, and it's grounds to reject the request.
If he walks out, is arrested and jailed for jumping bail, then walks free after serving his time, it proves what an asshole he has been and how insignificant he is considered by the world.
If he stays in the Embassy, we'll never know what the outcome would have been. Until he opens the box, we'll never know...
Which is one of the reasons courts are very particular about the presentation of "taped" evidence.
Never having been interviewed under caution but going on what I've read the machine makes two copies of the interview and the accused (or their legal council) retains one copy (audio and video). This is acceptable in court. That hidden dictation machine in your pocket - probably not admissible in court.
Forensics these days can also detect tampering with recordings. Amongst the methods is analysis of the background electricity hum, something that cannot be faked and cannot be spliced
" an interesting measurement of lines of code - 71,500 lines is 1 WaP. Which is based on the length of Tolstoy's book "War and Peace" (Oxford World Classics edition)."
One for the Standards Bureau
"I'm fine with governments having the authority to kick down people's doors. (It's not like anyone has ever been able to stop them doing that anyway.) And by analogy, I'm fine with them seizing people's phones and brute-forcing the content out of them"
Expanding your analogy, I doubt anyone is comfortable suggesting the authorities have a master key to every door lock in the country just so they can get into criminals homes more quickly, so why would anyone be comfortable with a master key for encryption.
Expanding further, the authorities aren't requesting everyone leave the back door to their house accessible (yes, they need to kick that one down as well), so why should anyone suggest devices have an accessible back door.
"...you can get the location data from the phone company. It's almost as good as having someone on their tail the whole time."
I'm still waiting for the authorities first court request of this data when a body is found is suspicious circumstances. What were all the devices near the location in hours around the pertinent time.
"It is a "near certainty" that Beijing was aware of information exchanged between Intel and its Chinese tech partners because local authorities routinely monitor all such communications"
It is a "near certainty" that Washington was aware of information exchanged between Intel and its ... partners because local authorities routinely monitor
"Satellite broadcasting is incredibly expensive..."
Satellite broadcasting is comparatively cheap in comparison to setting up ground based transmitters or cabling huge areas. That's how the business was actually able to operate and make profit. Remember Sky(1989) pre-dates ADSL(1998). Dishes aren't going anywhere in a hurry.