Posts by CountCadaver 1339 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Sep 2018
No the message you normally see on peanuts is "may contain nuts", the reason is that peanuts are legumes and not nuts.
Those with a tree nut allergy may not be allergic to peanuts and vice versa.
So if the facility handles an allergen then it has to be declared to the consumer because anaphylaxis can be fatal.....
Whereas HMRC/DWP would cite "items received in lieu of pay" and cite flights, accommodation etc and then bill you for the (assumed and worst case scenario) value of them. It will only get worse with encroaching powers to gain access to bank accounts, next will be email providers etc....
Chain together AI doing the following -breaking into/otherwise gaining access into USA military systems where it reaches max privileges, either finds or infers the sequences contained in the "football", number spoofing /access to the classified phone network, voice spoofing
Giving....an AI that now can and might well order a nuclear strike and the meatsacks on the other end are drilled to obey as the voice on the other end is who they are expecting or worse the president telling them we are at war and to fire all damned missiles against the sick sick people who want to destroy us...
Sobering....
Hopefully it doesn't happen.......
Automated "defence" systems, no different to a dystopian sci fi where step off the "approved route" or the AI decides you are a threat then BRAAAP.....
Already they have "man traps" listed on planning applications, no different to treating humans like hunted animals with zero consideration towards someone suffering a medical emergency or injury....
Mine involves a drill press and a hss drill bit putting multiple holes though the drive and it's platters
Anything with anything I want to make sure no one nefarious gets their hands on, gets the platters a meeting with a an angle grinder (destroy the disk surface physically)
Though I have wondered if throwing some weld beads down would be effective.....clamp return lead on platter, put welding rod in holder and throw some hot passes down, let the electric arc scramble the magnetism,.the heat to demagnitise the surface and warp the platters
That would be windows XP, with windows 2000 (formerly NT5) being the starr of that process.
XP, led to multiple service packs until number 3 shut *most" of the gaping security holes in the operating system.
XP beget Vista, Vista beget 7, 7 beget 8, 8 beget 8.1,7 beget 10, 10 beget 11 and so forth...
Xbox game pass is a surprisingly good value offer on the pc if you like to flit.between games or you have kids that want to play something new regularly. Where ultimate gives you Xbox and pc games as well as streaming games (if your net connection is fast enough)
The software is almost as good as steam is....almost....
Journalist was sent out in the last 20 years to visit a Gurkha training camp in the jungle, told where he is to go to, gets to the camp and queries the lack of guards with the officer and how lax it all seems
Officer gives a signal and all up the path the journalist had walked down up pop various gurkha soldiers, many close enough to put a kukri through him...
Iirc it made his blood run cold
If i was the MD, I would have highlighted that a new start obeyed policy and confronted me, yet I was still getting reports of longer standing staff failing to confront unfamiliar faces
When I was in college I worked in a petrol/gas station, now in Scotland, plod are NOT permitted to buy alcohol in uniform whether on or off duty, my brain logged age restricted product (as alcohol was the main category and tobacco was the other)
Well one night in comes the chief superintendent for the area (for the USA folks think of 2 levels above who the dept captain answers to) in uniform, asks for whatever his favourite smokes were, my brain recalls no age restricted products to police officers in uniform.(And the penalties and legal headaches for breaching this), I politely refuse and cite why, he assures me that there is nothing stopping a police officer buying tobacco in uniform, I'm already aware of social engineering and I hold firm, sorry but to my knowledge I am legally NOT permitted to sell you tobacco while you are in uniform, he goes for the polite version of *I'm a police officer so I think I would know* (but wasn't aggro at all unlike many of his subordinates), he gives in and we part on friendly terms, I check later and realise my error and make a note to apologise if I see him again.
Well he comes into see my boss, relays his tale, she being of the company mindset where laws got selectively enforced alongside the "do what coppers say if you want to avoid a kicking" worldview, apologises profusely and tells him she will give me what for and will haul me over the coals,
he stops her right there and says "actually I came into praise him, it's good to see a young person who ISN'T intimidated by the uniform, he wasnt aggressive or rude, he was polite but firm, he stuck to what he knew and didn't back down, if that had been a test purchase then if he had given in then he and the company would have been in serious trouble. I'm pleased also to know that if he stood firm against a high ranking police officer it means he will hold firm against my subordinates and that's a good thing"
My mum worked for the same company (started as a Saturday job and I kept it going while I was in college) so she was pleased (despite her being paranoid that if you talked to cops that either they would 'fit you up' for something or if someone saw you talking to a cop they would 'put your windaes in for being a grass'...no I have no idea why she thinks that way....)
The latest one is MEGA - Make ENGLAND Great Again
So little Englander mindset again "we ruled half the world you know!!" "Folk should show us, their betters more respect, I'll tell you they wouldn't have dared in the glory days of the empire, back then we wouldn't have taken that, no we would have invaded them and slaughtered them all" or one I've heard "Them Euros made us give up our empire and all to make us fail, what with them being not being grateful for us having to save them during world war 2, they should have been paying us reparations and treating us like kings, but no they have to wreck our country like they wrecked their own"
The old "demarcation" lines. Something that Openretch staff still seem to view as a good thing, given how bolshy, rude and downright abrasive they are
Their employer is just as bad and sees themselves as the GPO still, but where they don't have to deal with the proles. Transco don't tell you to "phone your gas supplier" if your gas supply cuts out or there is a lack of gas pressure , nor does the DNO tell you to phone your electricity supplier if the power goes off or there are issues with the power frequency or voltage being supplied.
No in both those cases you get a usually friendly member of staff who takes the details, checks their systems for any other reported faults and dispatches someone to *properly* investigate and repair the fault.
Openretch? "If we don't find a fault we are sending a £100+ bill" - way to dissaude the reporting of faults (imagine Transco/the DNO saying that, they would be up in front of the regulator or a parliamentary committee in days after the newspapers kicked off)
"I can't see a problem" "we are only really interested in voice quality" or was highlighted at an employment tribunal "bodge it so it will pass the automated test as we aren't willing to spend the money to repair the fault, and if it passes the rest then there is no fault"
(where a former operative testified they had been told by management to fit a master socket in an access pit before the likely fault location in the cable run and retest and then fell the customer they had fixed the fault, so that Openretch could avoid the apparently large cost of digging up and replacing vast amounts of cabling due to no spare pairs being left in the multi core cable, where this would leave the customer with a degraded service but the line would pass testing so openretch could deny the fault existed)
Or inversely "a doctor???? Get your head out of the cloud kid, your not that clever, the big folk of the world won't accept you, nah you'll be stacking shelves, sweeping floors and scrubbing lavvies like the rest of us"
and
"college? University? Fat chance, like them across the back, told their son/daughter, no chance, you are getting a job and that's the end of it, no ifs no buts, you are lucky we let you go to those exams and didn't kick you out of the door at 16 like we could have"
I suppose a halfway house for mathematics is supplying a complex problem to solve, supply a list of equations to every candidate and then grade them solely on the strategy they used to solve the problem.
Won't happen when the exam boards want to grade everything by machine or by minimum wage drones referring to answer keys....
In the world of work, when exactly are people deprived of access to reference materials or the ability to consult coworkers or others within the industry?
There are edge cases but by and by, if schools were really preparing kids for the world of work, they would hold classes on browsing social media while looking out of the window, sitting through pointless meetings, making pleasant sounding but meaningless contributions, handling 2 competing jobs at once to keep a roof over your head.
Alternatively to teach them about success - let them experiment and don't punish failure by marking their card, teach them financial and critical thinking skills, teach them entrepreneurship and not to think "oh well someone more intelligent and wealthy already thought of this/tried it and it didn't work out/already has it in development/itll be too much hassle and grief and it'll just be easier to work for someone else - things working class kids often get drummed into them at home and at school which kills the ambition and life chances of many
Disability fraud is for example so low it can't be measured and most of what the papers call fraud is actually "fraud and error", majority of which is errors being made by the professionals at the DWP.
Worse than many are actually underpaid and aren't claiming what they are entitled to or being wrongly told they aren't entitled to it when they are.
UK social security payments are markedly lower than other European nations and our papers compare us with the hellscape known as the USA where vast numbers of people are sleeping on streets or in their cars while working as they can't afford housing or the employment they can get isnt reliable.
Where the mentally ill aren't treated but instead harassed, criminalised, assaulted and abused by a system that views them.as sub human and expendable.
UK social security needs a root and branch purge of the private sector medical insurance infiltrators who have spent 30+ years stoking allegations of fraud to cause division while creaming off vast sums for themselves.
Sadly I can see this coming.....
"After the govt acted decisively to protect Brits from the disgusting filth, paedophilia and terrorism laden hell laughably known as the world wide web by cutting the connection, instead you can now subscribe to BritNet or GBNewsNet today and get access to a carefully curated true blue British real information super highway free of woke extremism and instead with common sense restored. All you need is your bank details and your British passport/driving licence, take both of these to your local GBPost office and they will record your details along with taking a photo for your Brit net profile, all so you can rest assured you are safe and the common sense no nonsense Britnet experience will be free from scammers, woke extremists, asylum seekers and other detritus"
*Puke*
pedal bike would be a good comparison - can still find parts for bikes sold decades back and some boutique companies will still service and supply parts for bikes they sold 50+ years ago, ditto high end fountain pens where their makers will take back, clean, service and even replate barrels on pens old enough to be my grandfather (and he's over 90)
To quote from your link in another post
"While sources inside the company during the launch of Hardcard claim it was the first HDD controller integrated into the drive printed circuit board,[6] Xebec, a HDD controller manufacturer in the early 1980s, had already done that with their Owl product around August 1984. It was a complete 5.25 inch half-height HDD with an integrated controller and drive electronics on the same printed circuit board with a SASI interface.[12][13]"
Perhaps what the other poster was referring to?
