Thing is being fired for lying on your CV or in interview is rarer than hen's teeth. I have two siblings who have or still work in employment law in the U.K. Neither has ever come across such a case ever. One of them sits as an employment tribunal judge as well.
As for what is said in an interview it will be he said, she said and vrey hard to prove. Personally I have come to the conclusion that other candidates are telling big fat lies in interviews and I am loosing interviews/jobs as a result of my honesty. My sister an ex employment lawyer has told me flat out that I am too honest and need to tell lies in interview. Go figure.
I appear to be able to turn it off on my Z1 Compact. However you are correct that it will make no difference to having stuff stolen from a card in your wallet.
Except in the UK the typical coal plant is in the >1000MW range. A quick check on Wikipedia and I can only see Carrington B at 860MW, Estong Grange at 800MW, Lynemouth at 420MW (it powers an aluminium smelter exclusively) and Rugeley B at 1000MW at 1000MW or lower power.
The remaining coal power stations are generally significantly bigger so Drax at just shy of 4000MW, Longannet at 2400MW, Cottam at 2000MW, Eggboruogh at 1960MW, Ferrybridge C at 2000MW, Fiddlers Ferry at 1989MW, Ratcliffe-on-Soar at 2021MW .
Stop putting USA numbers onto a UK report. Just re-enforces the stereo type the rest of the world has that all Americans are parochial twits.
For what it's worth putting turbines in the Pentland Firth tidal stream is as stupid idea. Much better to build a dyke (it's only ~10 miles wide) and extract more energy.
What makes you think people don't die sitting at desks? As an extreme example the vast majority of those in the twin towers in NYC on 9/11 who died, sat at desks all day and died at work. There are of course numerous other examples ranging from Legionnaires deaths caught from faulty air conditioning to electrical faults and office fires.
Thing is today a chip scale cesium atomic clock with inputs for synchronization to GPS is under 2000USD and the size of a box of matches. So it is perfectly possible.
At least in the U.K. which is where the article is about. Basically underground car parks at private residences don't for practical purposes exist in the U.K., which is why the article *NEVER* mentions them at all.
Never liked the idea of a keyless car, just being near the car means anyone can get in the car as you approach. Heck even if it is parked on the drive and the keys are inside. One of the stupidest ideas in existence really.
Really, don't think a drug gang is going to have one as an alarm in the various locations they operate from in case the police decide to do a raid as one example?
Even worse you can see the gender difference in monkeys. Put more clearly monkeys who have *NEVER* seen a toy in their life will exhibit classical gender differences when presented with a mix of wheeled toys and dolls.
That should put paid to any notions that it is down to cultural barriers.
The real question is why if dark matter makes up the majority of the universe is there none if it within the solar system? We know there is none because if there was any significant quantity it would show up the orbital mechanics of the planets and General Relativity has those nailed to the wall with a sack full of six inch nails.
So if dark matter is real then we have to also believe the solar system in which we live is "special". At this point the whole concept falls foul of Occam's razor in my view.
I also take issue with the fact that the primary reason we believe dark matter exists is because Newtonian simulations of galaxy's don't work without more matter. Sorry but claiming dark matter must exist while using a theory of gravity that is known to be wrong does not cut the mustard. Yes I understand that a simulation of an entire galaxy using General Relativity would be "dam hard" and require a lot of computer time. However in my view you need to do that simulation first *before* you start claiming there is a tonne of dark matter in the universe.
The problem with the Debian and Ubuntu bug fixes not updating packages is lets say I maintain an open source package and it is in Debian. I spot a bug, fix it and release a *BUG* only update with a new version number say 2.1 instead of 2.0.
What Debian now do is wacked out stupidity. They "backport" the bug to the 2.0 package and release a "Debian 2.0" version of the package. I now as a maintainer of the software know what is in a version 2.0 of a package because Debian have been frankly dicking about, because they think they are the only people in the world that might do bug fix only releases. Makes them a bunch of jerks to be honest.
I say this as someone who users Debian and has packages in Debian that this sort of stupidity has been done to in the past.
No they changed something that they where not authorised to change. That in the UK is flat out illegal. The Computer Misuse Act 1990 is quite clear on this and they are a U.K. company.
Two wrongs don't make a right, was hopefully something that your parents taught you when you where quite small.
The issue is that the FTDI driver is deliberately reprogramming a chip that is not theirs and for which they have no authorisation to do so. This is an unauthorised modification and illegal.
You cannot stick something in a license agreement that allows you to break the law, because the courts will hold that part of the license agreement null and void.
As many many people have said the right and legal thing was to simply stop working and post a message to the user that the chip is a counterfeit/clone.
They are a Scottish firm subject to U.K. Law (specifically Scottish law). As such unauthorised modification of computer materials is a criminal offence punishable with a maximum sentence of six months in jail or a 5000GBP fine.
Stopping their device driver working with clone/counterfeit chips is fine. Making modifications to data help on such chips is outright illegal.
They may well be providing drivers themselves. However if you already have an FTDI driver installed then Windows is not going to install the clone driver and bingo your device gets borked.
Given that FTDI are a UK company and subject to UK law (specifically Scottish law) then they are almost certainly in breach of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 which makes it an offence to make unauthorised modification of computer material. It is highly unlikely that anyone with an effected device authorised FTDI to make the changes. Unfortunately the maximum penalty is six months or a 5000GBP fine.
The rise in crime since WWII is a historical blip in a long term (on the scale of centuries) downward trend.
Why it is dropping is the million dollar question and nobody knows for sure. It is commonly known as the "Crime Conundrum" and it is unlikely that prison has anything to do with it because the same drop in crime is being seen across the developed world with countries that have wildly different incarceration policies.
Just use chilled doors on the racks have lower air con costs anyway and not have all that issue with trying to blow air around efficiently. Basically hot air exhausts through the back of the servers and immediately hits a gigantic radiator which has chilled water flowing through it and out the back of the rack comes cool air. Works a treat.
Except the MOAB is 11 tonnes of TNT equivalent and the Russian FAB 44 tonnes of TNT equivalent. That is they are three orders of magnitude smaller than the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Really reading your link looks like Reagan era budget cuts resulted in the Mirror Fusion Test Facility being shut down on the day it opened with no experiments ever taking place. Quite how this proves it does not work is an exercise left to the reader.
The moment you stop caring about your safety is the moment you put *MY* safety at risk. A simple one would be total brainless morons who inflate their life-jacket inside the aircraft because they where not listening and as a consequence impede my exit. Yes this does happen there are a number of well documented cases of aircraft ditching and people inflating life-jackets inside the aircraft and people needlessly ending up drowned.
Given obesity is the biggest public health crisis facing the U.S.A. that the Center for Disease Control (and many people consider it a disease) is spending a small amount of money looking into unexplained differing rates of obesity in different sections of the population is surely a sensible and prudent decision.
My only beef with red light cameras is the only driving offence I have is going though a red light so an ambulance barrelling down the road behind me with blues and twos going would not have too slow down ended up with me having a fine and points on my license. Won't be doing that again.
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Thing is being fired for lying on your CV or in interview is rarer than hen's teeth. I have two siblings who have or still work in employment law in the U.K. Neither has ever come across such a case ever. One of them sits as an employment tribunal judge as well.
As for what is said in an interview it will be he said, she said and vrey hard to prove. Personally I have come to the conclusion that other candidates are telling big fat lies in interviews and I am loosing interviews/jobs as a result of my honesty. My sister an ex employment lawyer has told me flat out that I am too honest and need to tell lies in interview. Go figure.
I appear to be able to turn it off on my Z1 Compact. However you are correct that it will make no difference to having stuff stolen from a card in your wallet.
Except in the UK the typical coal plant is in the >1000MW range. A quick check on Wikipedia and I can only see Carrington B at 860MW, Estong Grange at 800MW, Lynemouth at 420MW (it powers an aluminium smelter exclusively) and Rugeley B at 1000MW at 1000MW or lower power.
The remaining coal power stations are generally significantly bigger
so Drax at just shy of 4000MW, Longannet at 2400MW, Cottam at 2000MW, Eggboruogh at 1960MW, Ferrybridge C at 2000MW, Fiddlers Ferry at 1989MW, Ratcliffe-on-Soar at 2021MW .
Stop putting USA numbers onto a UK report. Just re-enforces the stereo type the rest of the world has that all Americans are parochial twits.
For what it's worth putting turbines in the Pentland Firth tidal stream is as stupid idea. Much better to build a dyke (it's only ~10 miles wide) and extract more energy.
What makes you think people don't die sitting at desks? As an extreme example the vast majority of those in the twin towers in NYC on 9/11 who died, sat at desks all day and died at work. There are of course numerous other examples ranging from Legionnaires deaths caught from faulty air conditioning to electrical faults and office fires.
Thing is today a chip scale cesium atomic clock with inputs for synchronization to GPS is under 2000USD and the size of a box of matches. So it is perfectly possible.
A mechanical watch can never be more accurate than a quartz one, excepting you have a really rubbishy quartz one and a really good mechanical one.
Put simply you cannot change the laws of physics.
At least in the U.K. which is where the article is about. Basically underground car parks at private residences don't for practical purposes exist in the U.K., which is why the article *NEVER* mentions them at all.
Never liked the idea of a keyless car, just being near the car means anyone can get in the car as you approach. Heck even if it is parked on the drive and the keys are inside. One of the stupidest ideas in existence really.
Really, don't think a drug gang is going to have one as an alarm in the various locations they operate from in case the police decide to do a raid as one example?
Even worse you can see the gender difference in monkeys. Put more clearly monkeys who have *NEVER* seen a toy in their life will exhibit classical gender differences when presented with a mix of wheeled toys and dolls.
That should put paid to any notions that it is down to cultural barriers.
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The real question is why if dark matter makes up the majority of the universe is there none if it within the solar system? We know there is none because if there was any significant quantity it would show up the orbital mechanics of the planets and General Relativity has those nailed to the wall with a sack full of six inch nails.
So if dark matter is real then we have to also believe the solar system in which we live is "special". At this point the whole concept falls foul of Occam's razor in my view.
I also take issue with the fact that the primary reason we believe dark matter exists is because Newtonian simulations of galaxy's don't work without more matter. Sorry but claiming dark matter must exist while using a theory of gravity that is known to be wrong does not cut the mustard. Yes I understand that a simulation of an entire galaxy using General Relativity would be "dam hard" and require a lot of computer time. However in my view you need to do that simulation first *before* you start claiming there is a tonne of dark matter in the universe.
The problem with the Debian and Ubuntu bug fixes not updating packages is lets say I maintain an open source package and it is in Debian. I spot a bug, fix it and release a *BUG* only update with a new version number say 2.1 instead of 2.0.
What Debian now do is wacked out stupidity. They "backport" the bug to the 2.0 package and release a "Debian 2.0" version of the package. I now as a maintainer of the software know what is in a version 2.0 of a package because Debian have been frankly dicking about, because they think they are the only people in the world that might do bug fix only releases. Makes them a bunch of jerks to be honest.
I say this as someone who users Debian and has packages in Debian that this sort of stupidity has been done to in the past.
No they changed something that they where not authorised to change. That in the UK is flat out illegal. The Computer Misuse Act 1990 is quite clear on this and they are a U.K. company.
Two wrongs don't make a right, was hopefully something that your parents taught you when you where quite small.
The issue is that the FTDI driver is deliberately reprogramming a chip that is not theirs and for which they have no authorisation to do so. This is an unauthorised modification and illegal.
You cannot stick something in a license agreement that allows you to break the law, because the courts will hold that part of the license agreement null and void.
As many many people have said the right and legal thing was to simply stop working and post a message to the user that the chip is a counterfeit/clone.
They are a Scottish firm subject to U.K. Law (specifically Scottish law). As such unauthorised modification of computer materials is a criminal offence punishable with a maximum sentence of six months in jail or a 5000GBP fine.
Stopping their device driver working with clone/counterfeit chips is fine. Making modifications to data help on such chips is outright illegal.
Under UK law unauthorised modification of computer material is a criminal offence. FDDI are a UK firm.
They may well be providing drivers themselves. However if you already have an FTDI driver installed then Windows is not going to install the clone driver and bingo your device gets borked.
Given that FTDI are a UK company and subject to UK law (specifically Scottish law) then they are almost certainly in breach of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 which makes it an offence to make unauthorised modification of computer material. It is highly unlikely that anyone with an effected device authorised FTDI to make the changes. Unfortunately the maximum penalty is six months or a 5000GBP fine.
The rise in crime since WWII is a historical blip in a long term (on the scale of centuries) downward trend.
Why it is dropping is the million dollar question and nobody knows for sure. It is commonly known as the "Crime Conundrum" and it is unlikely that prison has anything to do with it because the same drop in crime is being seen across the developed world with countries that have wildly different incarceration policies.
Just use chilled doors on the racks have lower air con costs anyway and not have all that issue with trying to blow air around efficiently. Basically hot air exhausts through the back of the servers and immediately hits a gigantic radiator which has chilled water flowing through it and out the back of the rack comes cool air. Works a treat.
Except the MOAB is 11 tonnes of TNT equivalent and the Russian FAB 44 tonnes of TNT equivalent. That is they are three orders of magnitude smaller than the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Really reading your link looks like Reagan era budget cuts resulted in the Mirror Fusion Test Facility being shut down on the day it opened with no experiments ever taking place. Quite how this proves it does not work is an exercise left to the reader.
In Europe it is now standard for the passengers to be told not to inflate the life jacket till they leave the plain..
The moment you stop caring about your safety is the moment you put *MY* safety at risk. A simple one would be total brainless morons who inflate their life-jacket inside the aircraft because they where not listening and as a consequence impede my exit. Yes this does happen there are a number of well documented cases of aircraft ditching and people inflating life-jackets inside the aircraft and people needlessly ending up drowned.
Given obesity is the biggest public health crisis facing the U.S.A. that the Center for Disease Control (and many people consider it a disease) is spending a small amount of money looking into unexplained differing rates of obesity in different sections of the population is surely a sensible and prudent decision.
Lotus Elise is a 1.4l four cylinder engine and does 150mph.
My only beef with red light cameras is the only driving offence I have is going though a red light so an ambulance barrelling down the road behind me with blues and twos going would not have too slow down ended up with me having a fine and points on my license. Won't be doing that again.