I take your point but I always have a chuckle when a remake of a 20 year old BBC show like House of Cards gets passed off as outstanding original content.
Or perhaps the officials are wrong and the guy is overpowering a much weaker studio-to-transmitter link and using the station's own signal to broadcast his onanistic outrage.
Looks like the officials have been poorly summarised in the original article; it seems like a radio van to studio link was hijacked.
“We are told by Ofcom who are investigating the matter, that you only need, and this is the frightening thing, a small transmitter and if you can get near where there is an outside broadcast or a signal and you can overpower that signal [and] you’re on the airwaves.
The world should stick to metric. 200uS is one five thousandth of a second
Actually, it's one five thousands of a Siemen; case matters. I guess this whole newfangled upper and lower case thing is too hard for those writing their posts on an ASR-33.
, the company's last remaining director Jean-Charles Charki, said that Vertu was insolvent and unable to meet its June 30 payroll obligations of about 500,000 euros.
Right there you have illegal behaviour under UK law.
And the offence would be? Trading wihile insolvent is illegal, and some of the other rumours sound very dubious. Applying for administration because you can't meet your bills (~chapter 11 for US readers) is however what you should legally be doing as a director.
Are they suggesting that Harvard students should be housed in California prisons?
That wouldn't be a bad idea. A 1978 documentary, Scared Straight!, had a group of juvenile delinquents meet harden convicts who scared the crap out of them to convince that a life of crime doesn't pay.
Unfortunately "Scared Straight!" is a textbook case of an idea that sounds good in theory and makes good TV but when you do do proper controlled trials you discover that it is worse than useless: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
How do you violate a contract you never agreed to?
The defendent agreed to the contract by stating publically on their website they licenced the code under the GPL. They could argue that they were lying when they said that and they were merely wilfully infringing copyright but I doubt that would end well for them.
However, their DR planning did get them running again within a few days which is more than most companies can manage.
Most companies wouldn't manage to recover in a few days from an actual disaster. However, all that seems to have happened is that they fried a few servers. Doesn't take a lot of planning to get some spares in and recover some toasted machines. Not knocking the guys on the ground, who probably had to work quite hard to do it but trying to fixup the primary site because the failover was dysfunctional is no evidence at all for a good DR plan.
Also, we don't know where the surge came from, or how it was able to break any local redundancy. That all looks like poor FM.
I was told by a former boss that "If a person could be gone for two weeks from their job then that person's position in the company is unnecessary."
That's a really poor attitude even purely from the business' point of view, because it encourages people to make themselves indispensable. And if your business continuity plan doesn't include staff, then it's worthless.
Interestingly, I discovered that banking regulators in the UK at one time, _required_ two weeks holiday for traders. They thought it would help shake out rogue traders because they would have to have someone else look after their portfolio at least once a year.
"demand for PHP, WordPress, and LAMP skills are seeing a steady decline, while newer frameworks and languages like React, Angular, and Scala are on the rise."
is one of the more sensible remarks on the list. There is a lot of churn in the popularity of web tooling. C++ disappearing by next Tuesday OTOH.
It's not wormable out of the box on a client but any service that hands off an incoming file to the scanning engine is potentially vulnerable. You could get a long way with a worm that spreads over HTTP, SMTP, SMB, IM.
If I had to wager though, what happened is that they blew contract renewal with their IT contractor and they are unable to know who they are supposed to pay and what.
FWIW: my guess is the now the previous owners have taken the money and gone, there is nobody left to run the business. New owners have decided its cheaper to go legal on them rather than hire them back as consultants.
Wait, did you say that the recent elections in Ecuador elected a president who said one of his first priorities would be to kick that etiolated freeloader out of the embassy? I wonder if they'll throw him from the balcony and see which police force catches him?
That would be an alternate fact; in the real world Guillermo Lasso was the losing candidate.
So what about Asia? Biggest of them all? Is that also smaller on this new, slightly PC-ish projection?
The Peters projection should preserve area, so they should all be correct. The problem is that it has other distortions, which is why it's not a huge favourite with cartographers. Unfortunately, given a choice between Mercator and Peters, folks went for the slightly PC Peters.
As for it being new, it may be new in American schools but the argument has been rumbling for thirty years or more.
WTF is wrong with people who put money into Kickstarter, Indiegogo or whatever?
Surely the deal is clear enough. You put your money into a speculative venture. Development and/or manufacture of a thing that does not exist yet. It may come to fruition or it may not.
Why on Earth are they kicking like infants when it all fails?
Normally I would agree with you: sometimes a project burns through all the cash before getting a working product and then they go silent whilst they scrabble around trying to salvage something. However, they don't usually then have the money to burn on lawyers to try to keep the story under wraps. That does smell bad, and they deserve to get Streisanded all over the net for that, at least.
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I take your point but I always have a chuckle when a remake of a 20 year old BBC show like House of Cards gets passed off as outstanding original content.
"Ofcom said maliciously causing radio interference was a criminal offence carrying a potential sentence of two years in prison and an unlimited fine."
I refuse to play the maximum sentence game.
It will be awhile, but if the pirate continues doing this, they will find him and grind them into dust.
This isn't the US. They'd fine him a few £100, confiscate his gear. Suspended sentence if he's really unlucky.
Or perhaps the officials are wrong and the guy is overpowering a much weaker studio-to-transmitter link and using the station's own signal to broadcast his onanistic outrage.
Looks like the officials have been poorly summarised in the original article; it seems like a radio van to studio link was hijacked.
“We are told by Ofcom who are investigating the matter, that you only need, and this is the frightening thing, a small transmitter and if you can get near where there is an outside broadcast or a signal and you can overpower that signal [and] you’re on the airwaves.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv...
The world should stick to metric.
200uS is one five thousandth of a second
Actually, it's one five thousands of a Siemen; case matters. I guess this whole newfangled upper and lower case thing is too hard for those writing their posts on an ASR-33.
https://xkcd.com/465/
Right there you have illegal behaviour under UK law.
And the offence would be? Trading wihile insolvent is illegal, and some of the other rumours sound very dubious. Applying for administration because you can't meet your bills (~chapter 11 for US readers) is however what you should legally be doing as a director.
Are they suggesting that Harvard students should be housed in California prisons?
That wouldn't be a bad idea. A 1978 documentary, Scared Straight!, had a group of juvenile delinquents meet harden convicts who scared the crap out of them to convince that a life of crime doesn't pay.
Unfortunately "Scared Straight!" is a textbook case of an idea that sounds good in theory and makes good TV but when you do do proper controlled trials you discover that it is worse than useless: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
How do you violate a contract you never agreed to?
The defendent agreed to the contract by stating publically on their website they licenced the code under the GPL. They could argue that they were lying when they said that and they were merely wilfully infringing copyright but I doubt that would end well for them.
However, their DR planning did get them running again within a few days which is more than most companies can manage.
Most companies wouldn't manage to recover in a few days from an actual disaster. However, all that seems to have happened is that they fried a few servers. Doesn't take a lot of planning to get some spares in and recover some toasted machines. Not knocking the guys on the ground, who probably had to work quite hard to do it but trying to fixup the primary site because the failover was dysfunctional is no evidence at all for a good DR plan.
Also, we don't know where the surge came from, or how it was able to break any local redundancy. That all looks like poor FM.
I was told by a former boss that "If a person could be gone for two weeks from their job then that person's position in the company is unnecessary."
That's a really poor attitude even purely from the business' point of view, because it encourages people to make themselves indispensable. And if your business continuity plan doesn't include staff, then it's worthless.
Interestingly, I discovered that banking regulators in the UK at one time, _required_ two weeks holiday for traders. They thought it would help shake out rogue traders because they would have to have someone else look after their portfolio at least once a year.
/, when it isn't a path separator, and \0 would be my first two corner cases to check.
"demand for PHP, WordPress, and LAMP skills are seeing a steady decline, while newer frameworks and languages like React, Angular, and Scala are on the rise."
is one of the more sensible remarks on the list. There is a lot of churn in the popularity of web tooling. C++ disappearing by next Tuesday OTOH.
Not a clear cut instruction. Is it really SMB1 or SMB2 as the NAME of the entry?
Yes.
The FCC should be given vast regulatory power over the Internet; the FCC's tech team doesn't know what a DDoS attack is.
Begging the question much?
It's not wormable out of the box on a client but any service that hands off an incoming file to the scanning engine is potentially vulnerable. You could get a long way with a worm that spreads over HTTP, SMTP, SMB, IM.
If I had to wager though, what happened is that they blew contract renewal with their IT contractor and they are unable to know who they are supposed to pay and what.
FWIW: my guess is the now the previous owners have taken the money and gone, there is nobody left to run the business. New owners have decided its cheaper to go legal on them rather than hire them back as consultants.
It doesn't matter if the containment field doesn't hold - the company is based in Milton Keynes.
Hate to spoil your joke but the company is based down the road from JET in Oxfordshire, nowhere near Milton Keynes. Different Milton.
Wait, did you say that the recent elections in Ecuador elected a president who said one of his first priorities would be to kick that etiolated freeloader out of the embassy? I wonder if they'll throw him from the balcony and see which police force catches him?
That would be an alternate fact; in the real world Guillermo Lasso was the losing candidate.
Is this microsoft's personalized OS for God?
It's the one that God wants you to use, as Numbher Six might say.
https://xkcd.com/1813/
So what about Asia? Biggest of them all? Is that also smaller on this new, slightly PC-ish projection?
The Peters projection should preserve area, so they should all be correct. The problem is that it has other distortions, which is why it's not a huge favourite with cartographers. Unfortunately, given a choice between Mercator and Peters, folks went for the slightly PC Peters.
As for it being new, it may be new in American schools but the argument has been rumbling for thirty years or more.
If a politician went faster than light would she break her election promises before she got elected?
WTF is wrong with people who put money into Kickstarter, Indiegogo or whatever?
Surely the deal is clear enough. You put your money into a speculative venture. Development and/or manufacture of a thing that does not exist yet. It may come to fruition or it may not.
Why on Earth are they kicking like infants when it all fails?
Normally I would agree with you: sometimes a project burns through all the cash before getting a working product and then they go silent whilst they scrabble around trying to salvage something. However, they don't usually then have the money to burn on lawyers to try to keep the story under wraps. That does smell bad, and they deserve to get Streisanded all over the net for that, at least.
I see ISO 13406-2 has been withdrawn; things have moved on a bit since the bad old days.