https://massivelyop.com/2022/0...

So, no telling what's going on any more.

Attempted Kidnapping might have been a possibility, as I understand it. Many of them had zip-tie and other restraints openly on their belts, and were very much equipped for hostage (though I suspect they'd call it prisoner)-taking.

I'm not sure how this is ever going to really work. Unlike some things, where's there's a broad consensus, with arguments over methodology, there's a large proportion of the law-makers and electorate that simply believe climate change is either A) a hoax, b) Unimportant enough that their profits are a bigger priority or C) Not their problem as they'll all be dead/in heaven (and anyway, their religion says the world is theirs to use and abuse as they please). The odds are that sometime in the next 30 years, at least one republican will get in, and the way they're going, all it takes is one "Trump mk 2" to completely ditch all those 30 years of effort. You could say the same about almost any country, but the US is currently uniquely balanced on the knife-edge.

it gets worse.

Fujitsu "had the ability and facility to insert, inject, edit or delete transaction data or data in branch accounts, to implement fixes in Horizon that had the potential to affect transaction data or data in branch accounts or to rebuild branch transaction data, all without the knowledge or consent of the SPM [sub-postmaster] in question."

If Fujitsu injected a transaction into a branch account, "this would look as though the SPM had done it."

Almost no integrity of logs to further manipulation is a bad sign to begin with.

Someone who doesn't have the right print tries it? Does it just not work at all, or does it only allow the £30 limited option?

I know an inordinately large number of people who effectively share their contactless card with their spouse/partner (just nip into the shop and pick something up for me will you please?) and it's going to cause some major behavioural changes if they suddenly can't do this any more.

and arguably, changing the Edge rendering engine was never all that necessary in the first place.

Edge's problem was never really its engine. From playing with it a bit, it didn't seem to be noticeably worse. The problem was the UI and the design philosophy, and everything that came with them.

The example I always use is that of the custom formatting that MS set up to turn phone numbers in web pages to clickable links, the idea being you could click and it would pass you through to a voip application (eg. Skype) or your phone's dialler if you were on a WinPhone. If you weren't on either of those it could get really annoying. They had an option to turn it off, but that option only worked in full IE, Edge was stuck with it.

On the other hand, they aren't wrong in some cases:

From the Daily Mail results: "The site repeatedly publishes false information and has been forced to pay damages in numerous high-profile cases."

Yup.

In power generation planning terms, this is still a thing. Over here (UK,) there's a known phenomenon where the national grid fires up extra capacity roundabout the approximate times of the main ad breaks of certain soap operas in an evening (on commercial TV, we get fewer ad breaks in general than, say, the US, so this is a more predictable thing), because of so many people getting up to put electric kettles on to make a hot drink during the break (cooker-top kettles being the exception rather than the rule here, so there's a lot of extra oomph, when multiplied.)

My wife's previous employers had a gloriously silly example of the earlier days of wireless proximity key fobs/cards. (this was in one of the Renault models.)

Essentially, the car was designed with a push-button starter, and unlike some of them, the key card only had to be near the car (they had a much more sensible version where there was a slot the card had to go into to make everything work) to start the engine.

You can already see where this is going. Sales rep has his key card in his coat pocket which hangs by his front door. Close enough for the car to register the card and be able to start, Goes out, starts engine, drives off. Leaves coat at home (along with card). The way those systems were designed, for safety purposes, once the engine was started you didn't need the card inserted/in proximity to keep it running. So he had no idea there was a problem. 200 miles later, he parks up, shuts the car off, and goes into work. 6 hours later he comes out, finds out he hasn't got his card.

Which is 200 miles away.

Nobody else had house keys to get in to get his key to bring it to him. You had to order the replacement cards from Renault in France so no spare. Unintended consequences indeed.

This shows an inherent misunderstanding of how employee protections work in the EU/UK.

You can be fired for many things, incompetence, underperformance, and others, but unless it's gross misconduct, generally speaking they can't just fire you out of hand. They also specifically can't fire you because the boss doesn't like you, on a whim because it's Tuesday, or because they think they found somebody better (as long as you are performing within your contract, to the level specified.) Most companies will generally have a contractual notice period to stop you just walking out and leaving them in the lurch.

"When it is the other way you don't have your best people in the best jobs just the people who got there first, they can never be fired. It helps to move the talent through and gives motivation to say producing"

Generally this is handled by cranking up the performance metrics until the best people rise to the top. What you just can't do is say "I know you are meeting your targets and doing sufficient work for us, but I have this guy who will do twice as much so you're fired." We consider that somewhat abusive.

Janeway worked as a character when she was allowed to be one character.. She suffered horribly from Writer of the Week syndrome deciding what she should be and how she should act. She flip-flopped from episode to episode between Team Mum, Hypocritical Martinet and "Professional Ubercaptain." When she was good, she was very very good indeed. She was just so inconsistent.

From Niantic:

"We recently discovered that the Pokémon Go account creation process on iOS erroneously requests full access permission for the user's Google account. However, Pokémon Go only accesses basic Google profile information (specifically, your user ID and email address) and no other Google account information is or has been accessed or collected. Once we became aware of this error, we began working on a client-side fix to request permission for only basic Google profile information, in line with the data that we actually access. Google has verified that no other information has been received or accessed by Pokémon Go or Niantic. Google will soon reduce Pokémon Go's permission to only the basic profile data that Pokémon Go needs, and users do not need to take any actions themselves."

To be honest, I've never had a problem with the device manufacturers, it's always been my network (carrier) that's been a pain up the ass with spending time adding their extra branding, crap apps, and the like. Even worse, mine has a blanket policy of "We'll tell you when there's new firmware, we aren;t going to give you any ETA's, status reports or anything. You have to wait until it appears (or not)

To expand on this, the context of this is the ongoing debate over the referendum on whether the UK should leave the EU. The Daily Fail is an often-hilariously eurosceptic trashrag, given to exaggerations, stretching points, massaging figures, and sometimes outright making up stories out of whole cloth. This story basically has one purpose, to make the EU look bad to try and convince the technologically illiterate masses that under the EU, people will get things imposed on them that are to their detriment, to try and force a "Leave" vote in a couple of weeks.

Most of the rest of the world has had EMV for about 10 years, often wondered why it never caught on sooner over there.