European data protection laws mean that data can't leave the EU to be processed in anyway that is illegal in the originating country. A few thousand GPB or Euro, depending where you are, per offence quickly adds up on the volume of customers in even a local supermarket.
A total novice can design, cut and stitch a bag to custom fit all their individual devices for £25 of material. An off the shelf bag you are talking about, created by an experienced leather worker is into the £££ range, a custom bag finished to that standard I wouldn't even be able to guess as I don't think they commonly exist unless you have a leather worker locally, and those skills are being outsourced now or guarded as they slowly age out of employment.
Being able to pop along to your local maker stocked with 10 affordable cutters rather than the 2 they may have at the moment and walk out 90 minutes later, £30 lighter for the time, with the components needed for a custom made leather bag and finish it up during a Daredevil marathon on Netflix has a certain appeal to people.
I have been a private Taxi operator when I was a student so I have a few numbers. If I owned my own car and maintained it and wanted to work within a company structure, I would have paid 40% of my fare to them, this fell to what I earned as a driver of their vehicles to I took 25% of the fare, and was made up to minimum wage if business ran slow. If I took the owner route, on a typical short run of 2 miles my taxi rate without waiting times would have been £7, with £4.20 coming into my pocket. If I was working an UBER rate, I would charge £5.60 for that run with 80% coming back to my pocket which is £4.48. Added up over a night thats a bit extra in my pocket with the customers coming straight to me. I can also spend that time sitting in the rank waiting for customers the old fashioned way, and also have my mobile phone on for phone bookings and for UBER bookings. I can mark myself as unavailable if I am on a long run or just leave it on and use it like my normal scheduler. If I do a long run, between two twos which was another common run at the begining or end of an evening, a 20 mile journey in the cab would cost the customer £42 with £25 in my pocket, the UBER route, 31.50 with the same £25 in my pocket. The system only starts going in the Taxi companies favour on airport runs which would have netted 67.50 vs £61, but that a 50mile journey, and you can pick someone up pretty much 100% of the time to come back. From my point of view it works out much as such the same, I don't have to deal with drunk people and cash.
UBER in the UK are already covered under our existing private hire car laws, they require background checks and they are required to hold a PHV Operators Licence. Insurance would also have to be as a commercial driver and as such cover public liability of passengers as part of the policy, as well as increasing the policy cost.
Outside of London however there is not such a protection racket running for Taxi drivers, and private individuals have always set themselves up as operators. What UBER means for these drivers is they can piggy back on their infrastructure and let them handle payments. Sounds like a win for the private operator.
Surveyed ALL teachers, not just computing teachers, this covers 24yr old NQTs for Secondary School Computing Science to 65yr old Primary visitin Home Economics teachers.
It is only the primary teachers that are panicking over teaching computing as the "IT" provision they previously provided was a joke. I have a number of friends who are Primary Teachers who should not be expected to be masters of everything. I as a Secondary School CS teacher am not expected to go down to English and lecture on the importance of Character X in Play Y, so expecting a general Primary Teacher to pass on anything other than the bare essentials of computer use is absurd.
If this article actually said that 68% of specialist computing teachers were concerned the pupils knew more than them I would be seriously concerned for the subject, but that is not what it said.
Also from a Scottish POV, this is all an English Shit Storm, please stop using the catch all UK, up here in Scotland our curriculum was changed a few years ago, we develop our own curriculum and testing strategies. The concept of state curriculum and standardised testing in anything other than certificated courses is pretty alien here.
The Asus has to make money on that, Google has to make money on that and the retailer has to make money on that. The only reason Google are making such a big thing about buying from their Play Store is so they can claw back a little more money.
So how do these people get their ridiculously complicated physics stuff crunched by ridiculously complicated machines?
Because they know the equations for their ridiculously complicated physics stuff, and most physicists are expected to be literate with computer programming. I have two PhD friends, both in Physics (meteorology and cosmology) who are now both hardcore coders due to their training.
If the EU is looking to fund it's support for failing Eurozone countries with Anti-Trust fines then we're in a worse shape than I thought. Does Google have 1trillion Euro in cash?
But I don't see why a company in the VPN market can not come up with a simple consumer product that would encrypt a users traffic. There has been some proliferation of this type of idea for users of public WiFi connections, ie a one-click third party app that anonymises internet traffic. I can see a market for this type of product if enough of a buzz is made about it. Of course this just draws attention to a nice little work-around that we have, and might focus attention on combating it, but judging by how cack-handed governments are when it comes it this area, I doubt it.
I already use a lightly encrypted and anonymised VPN service to avoid traffic shaping when watching movies and playing games, and when accessing US services, all this would do is make me plug my service directly into my router, instead of just activating it when I needed it. All these laws will do is force more people to go down this road, I'm not doing anything wrong, but I also don't want Johnny Government looking over my shoulder at everything I do.
Sure they are, they share many characteristics of being a race, similar cultural background, they share a Celtic background with the Scottish, Cornish, welsh and French, shared language in Irish Gaelic, small geographic ancestry from the west of Europe, and distinct physical appearance, they are all small, red headed drunks with a perchance for green and pots of gold.
It was a local man that told the US students about how the sea "washed" a 78 tonne boulder up onto the beach. I would suggest the locals knew this happened and just didn't care or bother to work out why. Occasionally a storm will blow sea-weed from the beach 2 miles to my front door during a storm, so I assume that's normal because it always happens. Their rocks are just a bit bigger:D
The only way to make any of these ID's secure is to have them linked to faces and biometrics, which are quickly accessible, and require both human and computer verifications. eg, put your thumb here Mr Up-To-Know-Good and let me check the fingerprints we have had on file since you were born, along with the drivers licence and passport we have on file for you, and any other data we have kept on you over the years. My problem with this system is, you can't have one without the other, and do we really want the other?
I live in a town of 14k people and we have just moved to 8Mb broadband speeds, the closest City, of around 250k people moved to 20Mb a year or so ago. There is no estimated date for my town to get access to BT's fibre network or Virgin's Cable network even if it ever comes to the City 13 miles away. I would not consider myself rural, im an hour's drive from the capital and 10 minutes drive from one of the major oil ports in the north sea. I'm in Scotland BTW, and the busy side, not the mountains, blue ocean, and unhappy crofters side.
Spikes typically categorise a one off short term increase, where as a surge would represent a more long term increase. Certainly when speaking about electricity, a spike in voltage is typically a short rise in voltage due to some transient event.
No I live in Scotland, where we don't give a hoot what colour skin you have. People just tend to get along when you stop blaming others for your problems.
Fossils ? You think that there has been enough biomass to create this much gas. There's a reason it's called Natural Gas, nothing to do with dead flora and fauna.
My detectors on the blink, so for the good of Humanity I'm going to assume that was sarcasm, just poorly implemented.
Thank god Britain has moved away from this! even the cheap meat in the UK is rarely from futher than the continent, most supermarkets won't stock any other meat than british, unless its maybe a new zeland lamb or a danish pig. The thought of importing meat from Botswana because it is naturally low in fat and mixing it with beef which is high in fat, rather than just cutting the fat off before you mince it, and using that fat for beef dripping, suet, lard, and countless other rendered fat products seems odd?
You will find meat from South Africa from trade suppliers, but even then not that much, because the british beef/pork/lamb/chicken etc labeling is worth so much to us. So no, i dont want skinny cows raised on reclaimed rainforest, with visable bones providing my meat thank you very much. I'm looking at the field that supplies my local butcher and local supermarket outside my window. I'm just off for a Rib-Eye....
Yes the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK holds companied accountable for not securing data correctly. Broad principles are below:
1. Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully and, in particular, shall not be processed unless-
(a) at least one of the conditions in Schedule 2 is met, and
(b) in the case of sensitive personal data, at least one of the conditions in Schedule 3 is also met.
2. Personal data shall be obtained only for one or more specified and lawful purposes, and shall not be further processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes.
3. Personal data shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose or purposes for which they are processed.
4. Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
5. Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
6. Personal data shall be processed in accordance with the rights of data subjects under this Act.
7. Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data.
8. Personal data shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.
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European data protection laws mean that data can't leave the EU to be processed in anyway that is illegal in the originating country. A few thousand GPB or Euro, depending where you are, per offence quickly adds up on the volume of customers in even a local supermarket.
A total novice can design, cut and stitch a bag to custom fit all their individual devices for £25 of material. An off the shelf bag you are talking about, created by an experienced leather worker is into the £££ range, a custom bag finished to that standard I wouldn't even be able to guess as I don't think they commonly exist unless you have a leather worker locally, and those skills are being outsourced now or guarded as they slowly age out of employment.
Being able to pop along to your local maker stocked with 10 affordable cutters rather than the 2 they may have at the moment and walk out 90 minutes later, £30 lighter for the time, with the components needed for a custom made leather bag and finish it up during a Daredevil marathon on Netflix has a certain appeal to people.
I have been a private Taxi operator when I was a student so I have a few numbers. If I owned my own car and maintained it and wanted to work within a company structure, I would have paid 40% of my fare to them, this fell to what I earned as a driver of their vehicles to I took 25% of the fare, and was made up to minimum wage if business ran slow. If I took the owner route, on a typical short run of 2 miles my taxi rate without waiting times would have been £7, with £4.20 coming into my pocket. If I was working an UBER rate, I would charge £5.60 for that run with 80% coming back to my pocket which is £4.48. Added up over a night thats a bit extra in my pocket with the customers coming straight to me. I can also spend that time sitting in the rank waiting for customers the old fashioned way, and also have my mobile phone on for phone bookings and for UBER bookings. I can mark myself as unavailable if I am on a long run or just leave it on and use it like my normal scheduler. If I do a long run, between two twos which was another common run at the begining or end of an evening, a 20 mile journey in the cab would cost the customer £42 with £25 in my pocket, the UBER route, 31.50 with the same £25 in my pocket. The system only starts going in the Taxi companies favour on airport runs which would have netted 67.50 vs £61, but that a 50mile journey, and you can pick someone up pretty much 100% of the time to come back. From my point of view it works out much as such the same, I don't have to deal with drunk people and cash.
UBER in the UK are already covered under our existing private hire car laws, they require background checks and they are required to hold a PHV Operators Licence. Insurance would also have to be as a commercial driver and as such cover public liability of passengers as part of the policy, as well as increasing the policy cost. Outside of London however there is not such a protection racket running for Taxi drivers, and private individuals have always set themselves up as operators. What UBER means for these drivers is they can piggy back on their infrastructure and let them handle payments. Sounds like a win for the private operator.
Surveyed ALL teachers, not just computing teachers, this covers 24yr old NQTs for Secondary School Computing Science to 65yr old Primary visitin Home Economics teachers. It is only the primary teachers that are panicking over teaching computing as the "IT" provision they previously provided was a joke. I have a number of friends who are Primary Teachers who should not be expected to be masters of everything. I as a Secondary School CS teacher am not expected to go down to English and lecture on the importance of Character X in Play Y, so expecting a general Primary Teacher to pass on anything other than the bare essentials of computer use is absurd. If this article actually said that 68% of specialist computing teachers were concerned the pupils knew more than them I would be seriously concerned for the subject, but that is not what it said. Also from a Scottish POV, this is all an English Shit Storm, please stop using the catch all UK, up here in Scotland our curriculum was changed a few years ago, we develop our own curriculum and testing strategies. The concept of state curriculum and standardised testing in anything other than certificated courses is pretty alien here.
The Asus has to make money on that, Google has to make money on that and the retailer has to make money on that. The only reason Google are making such a big thing about buying from their Play Store is so they can claw back a little more money.
So how do these people get their ridiculously complicated physics stuff crunched by ridiculously complicated machines?
Because they know the equations for their ridiculously complicated physics stuff, and most physicists are expected to be literate with computer programming. I have two PhD friends, both in Physics (meteorology and cosmology) who are now both hardcore coders due to their training.
I wish I hadn't used all my mod points this afternoon...
If the EU is looking to fund it's support for failing Eurozone countries with Anti-Trust fines then we're in a worse shape than I thought. Does Google have 1trillion Euro in cash?
But I don't see why a company in the VPN market can not come up with a simple consumer product that would encrypt a users traffic. There has been some proliferation of this type of idea for users of public WiFi connections, ie a one-click third party app that anonymises internet traffic. I can see a market for this type of product if enough of a buzz is made about it. Of course this just draws attention to a nice little work-around that we have, and might focus attention on combating it, but judging by how cack-handed governments are when it comes it this area, I doubt it.
I already use a lightly encrypted and anonymised VPN service to avoid traffic shaping when watching movies and playing games, and when accessing US services, all this would do is make me plug my service directly into my router, instead of just activating it when I needed it. All these laws will do is force more people to go down this road, I'm not doing anything wrong, but I also don't want Johnny Government looking over my shoulder at everything I do.
Depends if you are taking a Sociological or Anthropological view of race.
Sure they are, they share many characteristics of being a race, similar cultural background, they share a Celtic background with the Scottish, Cornish, welsh and French, shared language in Irish Gaelic, small geographic ancestry from the west of Europe, and distinct physical appearance, they are all small, red headed drunks with a perchance for green and pots of gold.
It was a local man that told the US students about how the sea "washed" a 78 tonne boulder up onto the beach. I would suggest the locals knew this happened and just didn't care or bother to work out why. Occasionally a storm will blow sea-weed from the beach 2 miles to my front door during a storm, so I assume that's normal because it always happens. Their rocks are just a bit bigger :D
The only way to make any of these ID's secure is to have them linked to faces and biometrics, which are quickly accessible, and require both human and computer verifications. eg, put your thumb here Mr Up-To-Know-Good and let me check the fingerprints we have had on file since you were born, along with the drivers licence and passport we have on file for you, and any other data we have kept on you over the years. My problem with this system is, you can't have one without the other, and do we really want the other?
I live in a town of 14k people and we have just moved to 8Mb broadband speeds, the closest City, of around 250k people moved to 20Mb a year or so ago. There is no estimated date for my town to get access to BT's fibre network or Virgin's Cable network even if it ever comes to the City 13 miles away. I would not consider myself rural, im an hour's drive from the capital and 10 minutes drive from one of the major oil ports in the north sea. I'm in Scotland BTW, and the busy side, not the mountains, blue ocean, and unhappy crofters side.
Spikes typically categorise a one off short term increase, where as a surge would represent a more long term increase. Certainly when speaking about electricity, a spike in voltage is typically a short rise in voltage due to some transient event.
No I live in Scotland, where we don't give a hoot what colour skin you have. People just tend to get along when you stop blaming others for your problems.
Ignoring your obvious racist message, developing countries have better things to spend their resources other than an army of robot worms. But scientific research does take place in more relevant fields http://m.scidev.net/en/science-and-innovation-policy/r-d-in-africa/news/south-african-scientists-win-first-obasanjo-science-prize.html
I was implying that they could replicate the Mars Climate Orbiter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
Just run this as a joint mission between the US and the EU, problem solved.
Fossils ? You think that there has been enough biomass to create this much gas. There's a reason it's called Natural Gas, nothing to do with dead flora and fauna.
My detectors on the blink, so for the good of Humanity I'm going to assume that was sarcasm, just poorly implemented.
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Thank god Britain has moved away from this! even the cheap meat in the UK is rarely from futher than the continent, most supermarkets won't stock any other meat than british, unless its maybe a new zeland lamb or a danish pig. The thought of importing meat from Botswana because it is naturally low in fat and mixing it with beef which is high in fat, rather than just cutting the fat off before you mince it, and using that fat for beef dripping, suet, lard, and countless other rendered fat products seems odd? You will find meat from South Africa from trade suppliers, but even then not that much, because the british beef/pork/lamb/chicken etc labeling is worth so much to us. So no, i dont want skinny cows raised on reclaimed rainforest, with visable bones providing my meat thank you very much. I'm looking at the field that supplies my local butcher and local supermarket outside my window. I'm just off for a Rib-Eye....
Yes the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK holds companied accountable for not securing data correctly. Broad principles are below: 1. Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully and, in particular, shall not be processed unless- (a) at least one of the conditions in Schedule 2 is met, and (b) in the case of sensitive personal data, at least one of the conditions in Schedule 3 is also met. 2. Personal data shall be obtained only for one or more specified and lawful purposes, and shall not be further processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes. 3. Personal data shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose or purposes for which they are processed. 4. Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date. 5. Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes. 6. Personal data shall be processed in accordance with the rights of data subjects under this Act. 7. Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data. 8. Personal data shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.