Actually 80% of the NHS funding comes from general taxation. Only 20% comes from NI. Your NI contributions mostly go to pension and out of work benefits (sick leave etc).

Of course the publisher was doing something wrong, you are effectively stealing someones electricity to mine crypto for your benefit. For me this is plain theft and I would be surprised if a court would not come to the same conclusion. Actually I'll rephrase, it more like a trojan horse that is pushed to the victim without their knowledge which then steals electricity and processing power on behalf of the author.

I don't think its that easy. People buy the right to use a Getty image and then host it on their own web server. That is why Getty are unhappy that Google Image Search allows a user to easily find that photo someone else has paid for and reuse it for free. Therefore removing getty.com hosted images won't fix the problem as all their customers host them.

There has been numerous articles like this now. Apple has already explained that Face ID stores info about a persons face once a successful PIN code is entered to keep up with the users appearance over time. So whats most likely happened again is that the parents give their phones to their kids to try, the Face ID scan first fails and when the parents then put in the correct PIN code the phone stores information about the kids face together with the parents until eventually it learns to accept the kids face too. Read more here, https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

A lot of the posts above are saying you need a high frame rate camera but the video uses a 60fps camera at the end. Am I misunderstanding something or are people above not watching the whole video?

Seriously, as many people here have already pointed out, there is nothing worse than finding that a website won't take your usual password because of some obscure reason. Usually its either some extremely low risk site where you will only log in once a year which requires your password to be 12 characters long with upper and lower cases, numbers and symbols all in one. Or it will be your bank which requires a 6 letter password but won't take any special characters. We need some sort of ISO or RFC standard which promotes companies to follow a standard requirement/restraint on passwords. As many people have already said in the comments, a sensible system would have your average joe only needing to remember four "levels" of passwords, one for email, one for financial websites, one for sites with personal information and one for throw away/unsafe/log in once websites.

Its irrelevant, at least 30 of those men will be tech works and we all know that us nerds don't have girlfriends so that leaves 100 guys for a 100 women...

Drugs don't hurt anyone? So you think drug cartels who kill thousands of people every year to feed our western need for drugs don't hurt anyone? And you don't think the cost to our health systems to deal with substance abuse "hurts" or at least costs our society money (the victims being the ones who loose out because resources are instead spent on dealing with the problems caused by drugs)? The expression "there is no such thing as a victimless crime" is correct in almost all cases...

Ok well maybe I'll come find you and I'll just stand next to you all day in public and film you and record all your conversations. Then we'll see if you still believe that CCTV cameras are the same as having someone standing right next to you with a 720p camera.

People seem to be on either two sides of this. For the people who argue that everyone carries a camera in their cellphone and could be recording you, or that anyone can buy a cheaper spy camera, here is my argument for you. This is obviously a extreme parallel I am about to draw, but I am going to compare Google glasses to to guns... I see the arguments being very similar (in the US). People can legally (in several states), carry guns, even concealed ones. This is bad enough as there are people who feel uncomfortable if they just saw someone carrying a gun in a holster. Now my comparison is that what Google Glasses is doing is that they are taking it one step too far. They are basically doing to equivalent of allowing the person who carries a gun today to basically walk around with it, holding it 24/7 in a shooting position (arms straight out, finger on trigger). This would obviously scare the living hell out of most people if someone was holding a gun this way in a bar. This is effectively what they are doing with a camera now. Yes everyone has a camera on their cellphone these days, but most of the time its in peoples pockets or bags. And if it is out it is either pointing to the floor, to a table or towards a friend if you are taking a picture. People dont walk around with their phones out 24/7 and pointing it faces of random people in bars. Yes someone could sneakily film someone by holding it in a subtle way or by using a spy camera. But someone could also hold a concealed gun under their jacket and have it pointed it towards you. Just because they can do that already, doesnt automatically give them the right to walk around with it pointed towards you at all times. My point is not that cameras == guns. My point is that the step from having a camera on a cellphone in a your pocket to wearing a camera in your glasses is the same length step as going from carrying a gun in public to carrying it whilst pointing it straight out in front of you.

Come on, your view on women contribution compared to men is outdated. The problem is you live in a country where paternity leave is probably close to none existent. Give the father just as much paternity leave as the women. If they then both take out equal amount of leave then how is the man any better than the women?

I think DST should be removed and the timezones moved so that we have more daylight in the evenings after work. The majority of people in the winter months go to work when its dark and come home when its dark. That is mad, why do we want the daylight during hours were most people are stuck in doors behind a desk with no natural light? Lets give 90% of the population daylight for when they finish work! Yes I do realise that some people work outdoors etc, but those people can have their working hours changed if it so so important for them to have natural light when they work... Much better than the whole population having to suffer...

Physical obstructions will obviously always affect any satellite connection. But I strongly disagree that all connections are affected by weather. There are lot of government services and lower frequencies services like Inmarsat which can operate through any weather conditions.

Line of sight is lost at around 80 degrees. But your signal will suffer between 70-80 (however not impossible to use).

Ohh yeah and I forgot to mention weather. It will work fine through cloud, but you will loose service during heavy rain (at either your end or the earth stations end). To be weather proof you will want to look into a C-band based VSAT service (the previous service I was referring to was a Ku-band based VSAT).