I'm a UK IT Contractor and like most I use a company, my company pays me a salary even if I'm not actually doing billable work. I actually take around 3 months paid leave each year. That is my choice. My company charges my clients a billable rate around ten times the UK minimum wage. This sort of setup is common with contractors in the UK, some take less time off, some more, that is their choice, they get paid a annual salary that is well above the minimum wage including leave. I could work a couple months a year and I would still be better off than these drivers.
Uber drivers are employees, that is what this case has determined, Uber think they should be able to operate under US conventions, the UK employment law has ruled they cannot.
The very same characteristics are displayed by bitcoin. The most important one is increasing artificial scarcity fuelled by late comers and secondly there is no intrinsic value.
Blockchain has a future, just like the concept of joint stock companies survived the Southsea bubble.
We've had it drummed into us for for decades that capitalism ensures the survival of the fittest businesses.
Those businesses that over exposed themselves, made bad business, over leveraged themselves will disappear and be replaced by businesses that have been more prudent.
This sort of behaviour plays into the hands of the authoritarians who want to 'clamp down' on the internet. If we do not find a way to self regulate the worst extremes, regulation will be forced up us.
In the UK we've seen Amanda Rudd, the Home Secretary (similar to US Homeland Security), demand backdoor access to to end-to-end encryption.
Not only does sleep disruption play a role in the declining mental abilities that typify Alzheimerâ(TM)s disease, but getting enough sleep is one of the most important factors determining whether you will develop the condition in the future.
The interests of social media companies and the interests of politicians are divergent. What interests the public and the public interest are divergent. Very little of this is about the truth, it is about self interest.
What we are seeing is social media acting as a big multiplier of the Herman Chomsky media filters, aka group think.
I'm pointing out several plausible alternatives that blow away the assumption that this is real.
The likelihood that this would be 'found' in this way, that it would include sensitive data, that it would not be encrypted all amounts a fail of Occams Razor in a very big way.
The vast majority of lost USB drives will end up lost for ever, swept up in rubbish, buried in decaying leaf litter.
That the device contain sensitive data, that it was found, that it was examined, that this data was unencrypted, that it found its way into the hands of a journalist all stretch the base assumption well beyond braking point.
My original submission included making the point that only an idiot plugs in a found USB but this has been removed in the edit and my scepticism has been lost.
The reported fact that this was found on the street amongst fallen leaves is highly unlikely and suspicious. It does provide plausible deniability for the journalist over their source, but my money is this will be revealed to be a hoax.
The newspaper that published this story, offers to pay for stories. My belief is that there is a very good chance this will be revealed to be entirely a hoax. A assembly of public source data to get a reward/story bounty from the newspaper.
It is possible, but unlikely this could be a honey trap for the journalist, or anybody with the USB including attack code intended to compromise their PC/Network. This is how STUX worked.
The UK has ordered this aircraft for our new Queen Elizabeth Carriers. The first was completed and 'in service' but has no aircraft. The second is due next year. The lack of aircraft will not be resolved until '2023 at the earliest' according to our Ministry of Defence. The avionics will not complete until at least 2022, given this software is already 5 years late, that seems like an optimistic prediction. The F35 is a lemon; with airframe cracking problems, engine reliability problems, leaking fuel systems and late avionics.
It is gross misconception to assume that spending more money reduces the over all cost. It is a decision tainted by the emotional investment accumulated in the system making it harder. It is a failure to make rational decisions on the future spending based on historical spending. The more invested in something the harder it becomes to abandon this lemon.
Firefox is an excellent example of why that view lacks nuance. The Netscape code base had become bloated and unmanageable, so we got Firefox. Continuous re-factoring is essential to progress.
Flexera has an agenda to manage "Software Composition Analysis", which is intended to manage your exposure to Open Source Software.
I've come across this tool in consulting gigs and is essentially a catalogue of OS tools and libraries usage. This is something that be easily acheived open source repositories such as Nexus.
The _NSAKEY was discovered in Windows NT 4 in August 1999 by Andrew Fernandes of Cryptonym. It could be confirmed and reset by any hacker with a copy of NT. I did cleared mine and most of my tech colleagues did the same
In the early days, Slashdot was the place that broke many IT news stories and acted as the bridge to get these into the mainstream media. Something that was acknowledge BBC back in 1999 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci... Things have changed a little, it is no longer slashdot taking the same lead but the role of the net in breaking news has only increased.
We also shouldn't forget the Slashdot Effect which unintentionally knocked sites of the net with the amount of inbound traffic it provided.
Too many developers solve the problem at a low level programming domain language and constructs. They need to learn to solve the problem. Decompose he problem in natural language with natural language abstractions. Test Driven development, particularly using BDD for requirements and Unit Testing is a very effective approach that allows the implementation to be varied.
Infrasound from mains hum would not surprise me as a trigger and attributing it to malicious intent down to the stressful situation, elsewhere people attribute this to ghosts or electronics hypersensitivity.
I would try swap out all the power supply transformers in effected areas.
symptoms that have no plausible organic basis; symptoms that are transient and benign; symptoms with rapid onset and recovery; occurrence in a segregated group; the presence of extraordinary anxiety; symptoms that are spread via sight, sound or oral communication; a spread that moves down the age scale, beginning with older or higher-status people; a preponderance of female participants
Slashdot Mirror
Somebody that fills their basement with Taxis?
We've seen this before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm a UK IT Contractor and like most I use a company, my company pays me a salary even if I'm not actually doing billable work. I actually take around 3 months paid leave each year. That is my choice. My company charges my clients a billable rate around ten times the UK minimum wage. This sort of setup is common with contractors in the UK, some take less time off, some more, that is their choice, they get paid a annual salary that is well above the minimum wage including leave. I could work a couple months a year and I would still be better off than these drivers.
Uber drivers are employees, that is what this case has determined, Uber think they should be able to operate under US conventions, the UK employment law has ruled they cannot.
It tends to confirm the original sacking was probably justified.
The very same characteristics are displayed by bitcoin. The most important one is increasing artificial scarcity fuelled by late comers and secondly there is no intrinsic value.
Blockchain has a future, just like the concept of joint stock companies survived the Southsea bubble.
http://www.historic-uk.com/His...
We've had it drummed into us for for decades that capitalism ensures the survival of the fittest businesses.
Those businesses that over exposed themselves, made bad business, over leveraged themselves will disappear and be replaced by businesses that have been more prudent.
So why has this suddenly become a problem?
... and I'm pretty sure most bots, will for the time being will be tweeting at the 140 characters.
This sort of behaviour plays into the hands of the authoritarians who want to 'clamp down' on the internet. If we do not find a way to self regulate the worst extremes, regulation will be forced up us.
In the UK we've seen Amanda Rudd, the Home Secretary (similar to US Homeland Security), demand backdoor access to to end-to-end encryption.
Not only does sleep disruption play a role in the declining mental abilities that typify Alzheimerâ(TM)s disease, but getting enough sleep is one of the most important factors determining whether you will develop the condition in the future.
https://www.newscientist.com/a...
The interests of social media companies and the interests of politicians are divergent. What interests the public and the public interest are divergent. Very little of this is about the truth, it is about self interest.
What we are seeing is social media acting as a big multiplier of the Herman Chomsky media filters, aka group think.
I'm pointing out several plausible alternatives that blow away the assumption that this is real.
The likelihood that this would be 'found' in this way, that it would include sensitive data, that it would not be encrypted all amounts a fail of Occams Razor in a very big way.
The vast majority of lost USB drives will end up lost for ever, swept up in rubbish, buried in decaying leaf litter.
That the device contain sensitive data, that it was found, that it was examined, that this data was unencrypted, that it found its way into the hands of a journalist all stretch the base assumption well beyond braking point.
My original submission included making the point that only an idiot plugs in a found USB but this has been removed in the edit and my scepticism has been lost.
The reported fact that this was found on the street amongst fallen leaves is highly unlikely and suspicious. It does provide plausible deniability for the journalist over their source, but my money is this will be revealed to be a hoax.
The newspaper that published this story, offers to pay for stories. My belief is that there is a very good chance this will be revealed to be entirely a hoax. A assembly of public source data to get a reward/story bounty from the newspaper.
It is possible, but unlikely this could be a honey trap for the journalist, or anybody with the USB including attack code intended to compromise their PC/Network. This is how STUX worked.
The UK has ordered this aircraft for our new Queen Elizabeth Carriers. The first was completed and 'in service' but has no aircraft. The second is due next year. The lack of aircraft will not be resolved until '2023 at the earliest' according to our Ministry of Defence. The avionics will not complete until at least 2022, given this software is already 5 years late, that seems like an optimistic prediction. The F35 is a lemon; with airframe cracking problems, engine reliability problems, leaking fuel systems and late avionics.
It is gross misconception to assume that spending more money reduces the over all cost. It is a decision tainted by the emotional investment accumulated in the system making it harder. It is a failure to make rational decisions on the future spending based on historical spending. The more invested in something the harder it becomes to abandon this lemon.
Firefox is an excellent example of why that view lacks nuance. The Netscape code base had become bloated and unmanageable, so we got Firefox. Continuous re-factoring is essential to progress.
This is exactly how evolution is expected to work and originally documented by Darwin' study of Galapagos Finches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Flexera has an agenda to manage "Software Composition Analysis", which is intended to manage your exposure to Open Source Software.
I've come across this tool in consulting gigs and is essentially a catalogue of OS tools and libraries usage. This is something that be easily acheived open source repositories such as Nexus.
Many eyes make bugs shallow, but that doesn't work if you keep them closed.
The _NSAKEY was discovered in Windows NT 4 in August 1999 by Andrew Fernandes of Cryptonym. It could be confirmed and reset by any hacker with a copy of NT. I did cleared mine and most of my tech colleagues did the same
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Gates was interviews by BBC news and flout out denied its existence.
https://cryptome.org/nsakey-ms...
In the early days, Slashdot was the place that broke many IT news stories and acted as the bridge to get these into the mainstream media. Something that was acknowledge BBC back in 1999 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci... Things have changed a little, it is no longer slashdot taking the same lead but the role of the net in breaking news has only increased.
We also shouldn't forget the Slashdot Effect which unintentionally knocked sites of the net with the amount of inbound traffic it provided.
When a car company makes a dangerous product, they get sued by the victims.
When gun manufacturers and dealers do the same they need to be held similarly accountable.
A free market solution.
More guns, more violence.
More guns, more suicide.
More guns, more dead cops.
More guns, more dead kids.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and...
Too many developers solve the problem at a low level programming domain language and constructs. They need to learn to solve the problem. Decompose he problem in natural language with natural language abstractions. Test Driven development, particularly using BDD for requirements and Unit Testing is a very effective approach that allows the implementation to be varied.
Infrasound from mains hum would not surprise me as a trigger and attributing it to malicious intent down to the stressful situation, elsewhere people attribute this to ghosts or electronics hypersensitivity.
I would try swap out all the power supply transformers in effected areas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
symptoms that have no plausible organic basis;
symptoms that are transient and benign;
symptoms with rapid onset and recovery;
occurrence in a segregated group;
the presence of extraordinary anxiety;
symptoms that are spread via sight, sound or oral communication;
a spread that moves down the age scale, beginning with older or higher-status people;
a preponderance of female participants