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The GDPR was implemented in UK law by the Data Protection Act 2018

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/contents

Which is still in force

In the 2019 fiscal year, LinkedIn brought in $6.8 billion worth of revenue

$272m isn't small change for each infringement, and there's millions of them here

[0] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/linkedin-statistics/

If it's stored in a reversable fashion, it means somebody can pretend to be me, therefore auditing is meaningless.

I talk transatlantic and further a lot on t'phone, no real issue

What latency? 100ms is fine for pretty much every internet use there is.

What happens when your 1G FTTP is plugged into a 48 port switch with a 10G uplink and you're throttled to 200M?

In the US, patients should go to urgent care for minor health issues that are unlikely to require a fully outfitted trauma and surgical unit

Just looked up the one near to my hotel. Closes 6PM. Not much use at 2330.

"Not just the 4th and 17th character - the whole thing"

If any company asks for the 4th character of your password, that means they are storing your password in a reversible fashion, and they should be dumped.

The online account should never be logged in by anyone other than the owner. The person on the phone, if their job requires it, should have read/write access to your account, but that should be audited as "Joe Bloggs" accedsing the account

Wasn't a joke.

I went to the US on business - our corporate insurance means there's a $1000 excess that we pay up front.

Went to a hospital for a minor issue. At no point was there any price list shown, at the end I was asked for $390 before been given my prescription. That was the end of it I thought, sickeningly high charge for 2 minutes with a doctor, a 10p tablet, and hours of waiting around. I asked for an itemised bill, but they couldn't give me one.

A few weeks later I get another bill through the post for another $390 (slightly different amount), complete with the entire bill. The whole bill was about $2k. The 10p tablet? $250. In fact they originally gave me a 50mg one for $9, then took it off the bill, then gave me 2x25mg ones for $250. I then had a $1100 "uninsured discount" which brought the total price down to just before $800.

The bulk of the bill was a single line that was fairly incomprehensible but seemed to cover pointless taking my blood pressure 3 times and the 2 minute consultation with a Doctor who barely spoke to me, and renting the chair for a few hours I guess.

edit: see http://imgur.com/ERjjQBil.png

The U.S. is seriously broken.

Good job it wasn't in america, she'd have woken up, seen the bill, and had another heart attack!

One thing that really harms the utility of cameras is face coverings. Over the last 20 years the two most prolific face coverings in the UK have been attacked in society - Hoodies and Niquab/Burkas. For various reasons the UK populatino has been conditioned to see a face covering and think "Crime". The UK's equivalent of Trump has denigrate people wearing veils, the media has spent a decade attacking "hoodies" [1]

I'm sure it's a coincidence.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/boris-johnso... [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hoodies-lout...

Massive campaign contributions is not as common in Europe

Also far more complex - the political groupings in europe (EPP, ALDE, etc) are far looser organizations than the US parties, and power is spread in lots of different levels. Most Euro countries are coalitions of smaller parties too, defence in depth.

The US and UK suffer from having just two parties that from time to time get all the power. Infiltrate one party and your time will come. Infiltrate both and you're safe.

Cover every roof in Austrailia with a solar panel and you're pretty much set. No extra land use needed.

https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2019/06/13/australia-c...

Carmichael coal mine is planned to be 447 square km [0], over half being "surface disturbance area"

Insolation at that location is about 2.1MWh per square metre per year, or 2100GWh per square km per year. [1]

Solar panels are around 20% efficiency, so lets call it 15% to include things like support areas.

The area used by that coal mine could generate 2100 x .15 x 447 = 140TWh per year

Austrailia currently uses 190TWh/year [2], so an area the size of that one mine could generate the majority of Austrailia's electrical requirements.

That's just back of envelope numbers, if we look at existing solar plants though, Solar Star in California generates [3] 526MWh/acre, or 130GWh/sqkm -- so this plant would generate 58TWh a year, still over 25% of requirements

There are many problems with solar power, but space use in Australia is not one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael_coal_mine

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Australia#/medi...

[2] https://www.aer.gov.au/wholesale-markets/wholesale-statistic...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Star

1sqkm is 300GWh a year at 20%

A patch of land 20 miles by 20 miles generates enough electricity for the entire Aus requirements.

That’s an order of magnitude less than area taken by austrailia’s roads.

We seem on track to avoid the jump to the left in the UK, alas we've already stepped to the right several times

My understanding (mainly from Star Trek) is that most of the fun of baseball is the stats.

The onus is on TFL to vet the drivers.

Uber lost the license because they were 'not fit or proper', nothing to do with vetting, seemingly because of a feature of the website that seemingly allows drivers to upload new photos and get other people to drive for them

A key issue identified was that a change to Uber's systems allowed unauthorised drivers to upload their photos to other Uber driver accounts.

Other minicab firms of course don't have a photo on an app, and the passenger has to check the photo once they've got in the car (I believe PHV drivers have to show their PHV license from TFL), which puts passengers in a far worse situation when the driver doesn't match. I wonder how many small minicab firms have been determined to be not fit or proper.

What difference in vetting is there between Black Cab drivers and Minicab drivers in London?

What difference in vehicle maintenence?

The vetting process may be flawed, but it's flawed in both hackney carriage and phv licensing. This was acknowleged by say Milton Keynes, which gave a Hackney + PHV license to an applicant with convictions for rape and other serious sexual offences [0]

I have no confidence in London that the vetting process works, and the authorities are far more interested in retaining an obsolete cartel. Rather than fix their vetting procedure (which has always allowed dodgy minicab firms, which were never a threat to the powerful black cab industry), they concentrate on Uber.

[0] https://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/pressreleases/2014/aug/taxi...

gnumeric is great for simple tabulated data as far as simple charts etc, but the advanced features that spreadsheet lovers use aren't available.

Private hire drivers are vetted, and their cars have to undergo enhanced MOTs

Rising nationalism in the 20s and 30s eventually leading to major armed conflict from 39 onwards.

I think it's an important take away for product owners - if people chose your product because it 'just works', they aren't going to be happy when you change it so it doesn't 'just work' -- i.e. introducing reliability bugs, changing useful features, etc.

They may not leave immediately, but at some point a competitor will come up with a 'just work', and it will be very hard to get them back.

Tech has always been terrible. What was unusual about the iPhone was it just worked.

Never heard of it. Wikipedia says

for profit

And

Its editorial position is strongly antifeminist and frequently accuses feminists of being misandrist.

somewhat different to things like the white ribbon campaign that it tried to hijack. There's plenty of charities and organisations working to stop domestic abuse of men. This looks like something that would fit well with breitbart.

Which is the "most famous of them"?

In this UK it's probably "mankind", hosted on a microsoft owned IP, I assume azure.

I've just looked at the to 4 sites for mensrights and see hosting on Azure, GCP, Cloudflare and godaddy.

Do you have any links to any cloud or other hosting company kicking out any mens rights sites?

2000 was always the future - probably for 3 or 4 generations of kids. 2020 seems arbitary

The ads I ran in the 90s were cut and paste html along the lines of

<a href='http://doubleclick/adid'><img src='http://doubleclick/ad.jpg</a>

I never ran puch the monkey stuff, but I think that was something like <object src='http://hell.com/argh'>

Not really, Windows is handling DoH as a system service, which is great

Chrome (and firefox) are providing their own DNS, away form the system. This means that loading www.blah.com in chrome, firefox and opera will result in 3 different DNS lookups, and potentially 3 different results.

Windows is doing it right.