My last encounter with a supercharger was the Aston Martin I followed from Uttoxeter to the M1 on Sunday.
Could tell it was about to accelerate a third of a second before it did because of that beautiful sound. Couldn't keep up with it when it did that, but kept catching up again when it hit the next traffic.
Damn thing nearly made me crash, I was keeping pace with it around and coming off the roundabout at the end of the A50 and found out my car doesn't hold the road at those speeds. I blame the rain making the tarmac greasy, although his lack of acceleration away from the roundabout suggests he may have slipped too.
GDPR mandates 72 hour notification in the EU from May 2018.
However: It's notification to a Government body, not to the impacted individuals. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out in reality - although it's also reasonable to assume that 72 hours is inadequate to fully explore and understand the extent of the breach and the individuals impacted.
In the UK I suspect Equifax have an obligation to notify the FCA. I'm not sure on the timescales for that.
Why? Which of them had any opportunity at all to prevent this?
Some of them will have worked on the breached system, but again, why would a company like Equifax ever trust them to properly secure it?
Surely the people running the company should be mandating, funding and auditing adequate security processes, including providing the right tools and skilled people to execute them.
You don't sack a DBA for failing to secure a database, you teach them how to secure the next one. You spot that it isn't secure, fix it and then wrap it in monitoring, logging, intrusion detection and all the other goodness that means that even if it does have a vulnerability you didn't spot, you can detect and respond to the breach in seconds or minutes, no two fucking months.
You're conflating racism and stupidity with being racist against a religion.
It's possible to be anti-islam without ever touching on race. The fact that people associate Islam with specific races is due to their own stupidity, and if they attack the religion as a means of attacking a race then that's also their stupidity and isn't actual racism, it's stupidity borne from racism.
Attacking the religion is not however racist. "The Koran advocates pedophilia" is an attack on Islam (that may or may not be accurate) but at no point infers or requires a Muslim to be a specific race.
I haven't encountered the term "American Exceptionalist" before so no comment on those.
I'm in Europe, I'm pretty certain the NSA get at least as much information about my activities as they do for people in the US.
What the fuck does that have to do with the EU seeking to extend the mechanisms it uses to control its member countries' citizens?
My cat just fell asleep in my arms and started quivering in her dreams. She cares more about EU citizen freedom than the autocrats running the EU and she's never even spoken to me about it.
You can't be racist to Muslims. You can however highlight the lack of logic, rationality, common sense or morality to their beliefs, you can tell them they're ignorant savage cunts and you can mock them.
In the UK you can't however incite hatred against them, so please, don't hate the deluded fuckwits, mock them and pity them instead.
I believe you'll find the fucking Irish were the problem there. If they'd done the sensible thing and rejected the idiocy of Catholic beliefs they may have become civilised centuries sooner.
Shit, they're still batshit fucking lunatic due to their archaic superstitious stupidity.
I guess I could suggest the pitcher grows some situational awareness and the guy behind the batter learns how to catch, but I'd only get modded troll. Or offtopic.
Doesn't explain why it's not legal to watch for those signals and use them though. They _are_ optional, the pitcher could just throw the ball.
I think baseball pitchers have the higher speed. They're not throwing as far and they can do a proper throw rather than being restricted to a straight arm.
I think cricket has more opportunity for the ball to do things in the air and then bouncing off the pitch adds numerous options.
don't tell me about the one variant that can finish in a day
Average length of a baseball game: 3 hours Average length of a T20 cricket game: 3 hours
Nothing is as boring as a cricket match
Average 146 pitches per team per baseball game may sound higher than the minimum 120 balls per T20 cricket innings, but at an average of less than 10 hits per game baseball is actually a slower game than Test cricket, which is a five day game. In a T20 innings a team will put bat on ball for most deliveries, scoring off over half of them.
Or consider baseball's home run rate. 1-5 per match? T20 cricket averages ten 'ball out of the ground' hits a match.
People clearly enjoy baseball. That's cool. It's just silly though to claim that cricket is by comparison boring.
would be similar to an American asking why there's no forward passing allowed in rugby. It's pointless
I wouldn't take offence at an American asking that question. It's not pointless, it's a legitimate question and not an obvious answer.
Indeed, I don't even know the answer, beyond "it's in the rules". It does lead to an interesting game, but at least the guy with the ball gets to choose whether to run, kick or pass backwards.
Why do you interpret a question challenging some arcane practice (that isn't even in the fucking rules) as 'arrogant'? I expect sportsmen to know how to play the fucking game, that isn't arrogance.
suggests one is better than the other, which you should know is subjective.
I know people that have a lot of exposure to both and prefer baseball. Obviously they're wrong, and sure, my question was framed to reveal my views on the matter. That's not arrogance, it's just that cricket is clearly the superior sport.
Evidence? Well, it's played far more widely, it has far more supporters, far more people playing, the fielders don't need fucking big gloves just to catch a ball, it has infinitely more variety and the players determine for themselves how to play.
The catcher then gives the signs to the pitcher about what pitch to throw next. The catcher needs to know what the next pitch is so he can position accordingly to catch it. There are also signals to the defense about positioning, which can change from one pitch to the next.
So basically the catcher is incompetent and the pitcher is incapable of picking his own pitches?
Try watching cricket, a similar game in which the guy with the ball makes his own decision on how to deliver it. A fast bowler will choose from an in swinger, out swinger, reverse swing, seam, leg break, off break, yorker, bouncer, slow ball, on a length, full, on the leg side, on off stump, outside off.. all these options and more.
He also knows how the field is set and will bowl accordingly.
Why does baseball need every single fucking play directed by someone else?
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My last encounter with a supercharger was the Aston Martin I followed from Uttoxeter to the M1 on Sunday.
Could tell it was about to accelerate a third of a second before it did because of that beautiful sound. Couldn't keep up with it when it did that, but kept catching up again when it hit the next traffic.
Damn thing nearly made me crash, I was keeping pace with it around and coming off the roundabout at the end of the A50 and found out my car doesn't hold the road at those speeds. I blame the rain making the tarmac greasy, although his lack of acceleration away from the roundabout suggests he may have slipped too.
GDPR mandates 72 hour notification in the EU from May 2018.
However: It's notification to a Government body, not to the impacted individuals. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out in reality - although it's also reasonable to assume that 72 hours is inadequate to fully explore and understand the extent of the breach and the individuals impacted.
In the UK I suspect Equifax have an obligation to notify the FCA. I'm not sure on the timescales for that.
If a company has through their action or inaction caused harm to an individual, that's surely a tort?
You don't have to be a customer of a chemical company to sue the living fuck out of them when their poor environmental control kills your children.
Why? Which of them had any opportunity at all to prevent this?
Some of them will have worked on the breached system, but again, why would a company like Equifax ever trust them to properly secure it?
Surely the people running the company should be mandating, funding and auditing adequate security processes, including providing the right tools and skilled people to execute them.
You don't sack a DBA for failing to secure a database, you teach them how to secure the next one. You spot that it isn't secure, fix it and then wrap it in monitoring, logging, intrusion detection and all the other goodness that means that even if it does have a vulnerability you didn't spot, you can detect and respond to the breach in seconds or minutes, no two fucking months.
Well, in the UK there's a metric fuckload of regulation to which they must adhere.
There's also something fun coming down the track: GDPR. Equifax are very very lucky that this happened in May 2017 and not May 2018.
I read (but can't verify) that enrolling through this site requires you to agree no to sue Equifax.
Read the T&Cs carefully.
Disclaimer: I have monetary interests here, so don't trust me.
For around 8 seconds until their user base deletes their entries and/or sues for defamation.
You're conflating racism and stupidity with being racist against a religion.
It's possible to be anti-islam without ever touching on race. The fact that people associate Islam with specific races is due to their own stupidity, and if they attack the religion as a means of attacking a race then that's also their stupidity and isn't actual racism, it's stupidity borne from racism.
Attacking the religion is not however racist. "The Koran advocates pedophilia" is an attack on Islam (that may or may not be accurate) but at no point infers or requires a Muslim to be a specific race.
I haven't encountered the term "American Exceptionalist" before so no comment on those.
England went secular and built an empire. Ireland stayed true to its religious stupidity and continues to be a fucked up place.
Draw your own conclusions.
the holocaust is fake
No, it is not. It is very well documented, evidenced and people still alive experienced it first hand.
You are either an idiot or a cunt, although I wouldn't rule out both.
I'm in Europe, I'm pretty certain the NSA get at least as much information about my activities as they do for people in the US.
What the fuck does that have to do with the EU seeking to extend the mechanisms it uses to control its member countries' citizens?
My cat just fell asleep in my arms and started quivering in her dreams. She cares more about EU citizen freedom than the autocrats running the EU and she's never even spoken to me about it.
You can't be racist to Muslims. You can however highlight the lack of logic, rationality, common sense or morality to their beliefs, you can tell them they're ignorant savage cunts and you can mock them.
In the UK you can't however incite hatred against them, so please, don't hate the deluded fuckwits, mock them and pity them instead.
I believe you'll find the fucking Irish were the problem there. If they'd done the sensible thing and rejected the idiocy of Catholic beliefs they may have become civilised centuries sooner.
Shit, they're still batshit fucking lunatic due to their archaic superstitious stupidity.
Snaggle toothed? pasty-assed? fucking darkies?
You appear to be a racist cunt.
Yeah, an AC explained too - https://slashdot.org/comments....
I guess I could suggest the pitcher grows some situational awareness and the guy behind the batter learns how to catch, but I'd only get modded troll. Or offtopic.
Doesn't explain why it's not legal to watch for those signals and use them though. They _are_ optional, the pitcher could just throw the ball.
Why doesn't the pitcher just tell the batter what he's about to pitch, then? It was clear why the catcher makes the calls.
It wasn't clear, which is why I had to ask. The pitcher could just, you know, throw the fucking ball.
Seriously, that's the dumbest thing I've read on /. in a while.
You clearly don't read your own posts.
Despite the higher velocities in Cricket
I think baseball pitchers have the higher speed. They're not throwing as far and they can do a proper throw rather than being restricted to a straight arm.
I think cricket has more opportunity for the ball to do things in the air and then bouncing off the pitch adds numerous options.
But yet, the batsmen have a broader
paddle
bat. They're not called paddlesmen.
don't tell me about the one variant that can finish in a day
Average length of a baseball game: 3 hours
Average length of a T20 cricket game: 3 hours
Nothing is as boring as a cricket match
Average 146 pitches per team per baseball game may sound higher than the minimum 120 balls per T20 cricket innings, but at an average of less than 10 hits per game baseball is actually a slower game than Test cricket, which is a five day game. In a T20 innings a team will put bat on ball for most deliveries, scoring off over half of them.
Or consider baseball's home run rate. 1-5 per match? T20 cricket averages ten 'ball out of the ground' hits a match.
People clearly enjoy baseball. That's cool. It's just silly though to claim that cricket is by comparison boring.
would be similar to an American asking why there's no forward passing allowed in rugby. It's pointless
I wouldn't take offence at an American asking that question. It's not pointless, it's a legitimate question and not an obvious answer.
Indeed, I don't even know the answer, beyond "it's in the rules". It does lead to an interesting game, but at least the guy with the ball gets to choose whether to run, kick or pass backwards.
Why do you interpret a question challenging some arcane practice (that isn't even in the fucking rules) as 'arrogant'? I expect sportsmen to know how to play the fucking game, that isn't arrogance.
suggests one is better than the other, which you should know is subjective.
I know people that have a lot of exposure to both and prefer baseball. Obviously they're wrong, and sure, my question was framed to reveal my views on the matter. That's not arrogance, it's just that cricket is clearly the superior sport.
Evidence? Well, it's played far more widely, it has far more supporters, far more people playing, the fielders don't need fucking big gloves just to catch a ball, it has infinitely more variety and the players determine for themselves how to play.
The catcher then gives the signs to the pitcher about what pitch to throw next. The catcher needs to know what the next pitch is so he can position accordingly to catch it. There are also signals to the defense about positioning, which can change from one pitch to the next.
So basically the catcher is incompetent and the pitcher is incapable of picking his own pitches?
Try watching cricket, a similar game in which the guy with the ball makes his own decision on how to deliver it. A fast bowler will choose from an in swinger, out swinger, reverse swing, seam, leg break, off break, yorker, bouncer, slow ball, on a length, full, on the leg side, on off stump, outside off.. all these options and more.
He also knows how the field is set and will bowl accordingly.
Why does baseball need every single fucking play directed by someone else?
That's a violation of Federal law punishable by fines and imprisonment.
I'll giggle if Tim Cook and his HR chief get imprisoned. Sadly unlikely.
Strange, it looks to me like you're projecting your own racism onto the parent poster.
Not to mention assuming their political affiliation.
Where, exactly, does the Constitution require invading another country in order to arrest a US citizen for trial?
Must be right next to the bit authorising murdering your own citizens without one.
All of which is irrelevant. Stop the green card lottery to put fucking Cantor and Siegel out of business.
You kidding? We could've killed them both off, all at once.
Such a lost opportunity.. :(