"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."
From the UK Data Protection Act 1998.
If this hasn't been followed then the law has been broken and the perpetrators should suffer the consequences. Which is currently a fine of up to £5,000 per offence. Directors being liable. With potentially 11 million offences that could add up to a lot of money.
Make oil expensive. All sorts of efficiency improvements and novel energy production methods will become viable. Fusion is frankly irrelevant.
You see people are naturally wasteful. If something is cheap, it's not worth using efficiently and so the overwhelming majority of it is wasted, look at oil, coal, nuclear etc. 60% of the output is thrown away before the electricity even leaves the power plant. Look at the housing, businesses still using single layer glazing, no wall or roof insulation. Open windows with air conditioning etc etc etc. Look at the automobiles, 15% efficient overall, the sales of 15mpg vehicles in the US, the land of cheap oil, the sales of 55mpg vehicles in europe where fuel is far more expensive.
You see, right now, we do in fact live in an incredibly energy rich civilisation. Energy is cheaper now than it has been ever before in human history. It could be cheaper still, almost half the price it is now, less even, simply by becoming more efficient. And we don't bother with that because it's just not worth while becoming more efficient.
So... Fusion is irrelevant, we already have cheap power. Making it cheaper just means people will waste more of it. It's human nature and economics. In that light fusion research gets more than enough funding for what's really a highly speculative investment.
It attempts to bypass the market. So instead the laptops will end up being sold on ebay or similar where they'll go for the real market value of the device.
Look at the US, France, the UK. It's the middle class who decide they want a bit of a say in how things are run. Marx and Lenin... Middle class intellectuals. Why do you think the middle class is usually the first attacked by the revolutionaries after the revolution?
The free market in China will build an independently wealthy middle class which will eventually demand a say in how their country is run. It means there's going to be political change. It might take 20 years, but it'll happen.
"I use Linux so sue me" web site with a list of businesses and individuals who are willing to call MS's bluff.
This is a simple give me your money or I'll hit you tactic. The *only* successful strategy against that is to stand up to them right now. So band together and make sure they're going to see who they'll be up against if they do try to sue. They then lose whether they sue or not.
You can clone the passport, as the article says the facial biometric is a joke, 20-25% false positives or negatives. Which leaves just the photo, a bit of makeup, coloured contacts, hair dye. So essentially the new passport is no better than the old one but gives people the warm fuzzy feeling that all is right with the world because the computer says so.
It means you can get away with all sorts of stuff and then claim "It wasn't me mate", someone must have cloned my passport.
We do have some complete fuckwits in charge. Of course, we do have some complete fuckwits voting for them, so it kind of balances out. Someone care to suggest an improvement on democracy?
Basically what this means is there's a lot of completely incompetent management in the healthcare sector generally. Actually I think this is better because the US organisation being private can be bankrupted and replaced by someone who actually has a clue what they're doing. The NHS will simply continue sucking the taxpayer dry without the incompetent twits having any sanction against them at all.
Actually I checked the price vs several other currencies as well as gold. It's also dropped from 20% - 70% against the various currencies. You're wrong that everything would have doubled in price, the dollars are soaked up with the highest inflation being in the highest demand commodities. e.g. Oil, property.
So what you're saying is that there's a gap in the market which nobody thought about till now which could save companies thousands to millions of dollars a year in energy costs. Hmm.
They call it stop/start. Cheaper than a hybrid. They beef up the battery and starter motor to cope with the stop/start. It increases the mpg by about 20%. It doesn't wait 30 seconds though it switches off when you put it in neutral while stopped.
This is correct; many OS advocates believe Open Source automatically leads to better code. The truth is that most OS coders are just average. Many OS project members believe that when experienced guru X leaves the project, others will follow (or worse, they try to compensate the guru's absence with many average coders). Turns out the good devs are NOT expendable.
The single largest most prominent web browser from the biggest software producer (or is that IBM?) in the world does not properly support the single most useful advance in web page standards for years, and yeah, that's style sheets, not ajax:P . IE 5 and 6 have to be handled explicitly where all the others, including the open source, just work. I haven't tried IE 7 yet but I do hope they've finally fixed things.
Slashdot Mirror
Up to £5000 per offence. With 11 million offences they should probably have taken security a bit more seriously.
"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."
From the UK Data Protection Act 1998.
If this hasn't been followed then the law has been broken and the perpetrators should suffer the consequences. Which is currently a fine of up to £5,000 per offence. Directors being liable. With potentially 11 million offences that could add up to a lot of money.
No need for TOR, simply an open proxy like Squid on millions of machines.
The Data Protection Act requires that businesses and individuals take precautions to protect personal data.
That's simple.
Make oil expensive. All sorts of efficiency improvements and novel energy production methods will become viable. Fusion is frankly irrelevant.
You see people are naturally wasteful. If something is cheap, it's not worth using efficiently and so the overwhelming majority of it is wasted, look at oil, coal, nuclear etc. 60% of the output is thrown away before the electricity even leaves the power plant. Look at the housing, businesses still using single layer glazing, no wall or roof insulation. Open windows with air conditioning etc etc etc. Look at the automobiles, 15% efficient overall, the sales of 15mpg vehicles in the US, the land of cheap oil, the sales of 55mpg vehicles in europe where fuel is far more expensive.
You see, right now, we do in fact live in an incredibly energy rich civilisation. Energy is cheaper now than it has been ever before in human history. It could be cheaper still, almost half the price it is now, less even, simply by becoming more efficient. And we don't bother with that because it's just not worth while becoming more efficient.
So... Fusion is irrelevant, we already have cheap power. Making it cheaper just means people will waste more of it. It's human nature and economics. In that light fusion research gets more than enough funding for what's really a highly speculative investment.
It attempts to bypass the market. So instead the laptops will end up being sold on ebay or similar where they'll go for the real market value of the device.
Look at the US, France, the UK. It's the middle class who decide they want a bit of a say in how things are run. Marx and Lenin... Middle class intellectuals. Why do you think the middle class is usually the first attacked by the revolutionaries after the revolution?
The free market in China will build an independently wealthy middle class which will eventually demand a say in how their country is run. It means there's going to be political change. It might take 20 years, but it'll happen.
Everyone run a proxy.
There's a reason our brains aren't made of silicon and our bodies aluminium.
"I use Linux so sue me" web site with a list of businesses and individuals who are willing to call MS's bluff.
This is a simple give me your money or I'll hit you tactic. The *only* successful strategy against that is to stand up to them right now. So band together and make sure they're going to see who they'll be up against if they do try to sue. They then lose whether they sue or not.
You can clone the passport, as the article says the facial biometric is a joke, 20-25% false positives or negatives. Which leaves just the photo, a bit of makeup, coloured contacts, hair dye. So essentially the new passport is no better than the old one but gives people the warm fuzzy feeling that all is right with the world because the computer says so.
It means you can get away with all sorts of stuff and then claim "It wasn't me mate", someone must have cloned my passport.
We do have some complete fuckwits in charge. Of course, we do have some complete fuckwits voting for them, so it kind of balances out. Someone care to suggest an improvement on democracy?
technology. So in a sense, they've already been hacked. The word "DOH" springs to mind.
We allow these people to vote! They get to decide that George W Bush would be a fabulous leader. That invading Iraq is a great way to catch binladen.
Kaiser Permanente are clearly much more efficient at wasting money than the NHS, almost 3 times more efficient at it.
Always got to do it bigger and better.
Basically what this means is there's a lot of completely incompetent management in the healthcare sector generally. Actually I think this is better because the US organisation being private can be bankrupted and replaced by someone who actually has a clue what they're doing. The NHS will simply continue sucking the taxpayer dry without the incompetent twits having any sanction against them at all.
Actually I checked the price vs several other currencies as well as gold. It's also dropped from 20% - 70% against the various currencies. You're wrong that everything would have doubled in price, the dollars are soaked up with the highest inflation being in the highest demand commodities. e.g. Oil, property.
So what you're saying is that there's a gap in the market which nobody thought about till now which could save companies thousands to millions of dollars a year in energy costs. Hmm.
I've just turned powersave features to ma
They're better when they're fresh! Just ask your local IT guy, he might even have some fresh drives which will be better than your tired old one.
Join climateprediction.net. Americans obviously need not apply.
They call it stop/start. Cheaper than a hybrid. They beef up the battery and starter motor to cope with the stop/start. It increases the mpg by about 20%. It doesn't wait 30 seconds though it switches off when you put it in neutral while stopped.
http://www.gizmag.co.uk/go/3709/
1: invest in energy companies.
2: wait
3: profit
Doesn't everyone know that one? The other is.
1: Invest in banks
2: wait
3: profit
The single largest most prominent web browser from the biggest software producer (or is that IBM?) in the world does not properly support the single most useful advance in web page standards for years, and yeah, that's style sheets, not ajax
If we're talking technical, diagrams and the like...
Bunkai Jutsu, Ian Abernethy
Five Years One Kata, Bill Burgar
There's a bunch in the same vein but those two stand out as exceptional.
Advanced programming in the Unix environment, Stevens.
Again, there's a bunch of programming (in various languages), sysadmin manuals but that one gets to the heart of the matter.
Collins complete DIY manual, Jackson & Day
I wish I hadn't binned a couple of my old Maths and Stats books when I moved.