It may be due to the workplace (or just the carpenter) using that as an excuse, but really, UK health and safety regulations aren't what you think they are.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/ind...

Have you reported your experience to your MP? The best mechanism in the UK for fixing this kind of exploitation is via the democratic process. If your MP is not interested, then report to your MP's opposition candidates and the Work and Pensions Committee. It may not get your issue fixed, but they will be interested in your testimony and will feed into future improvements.

Again, poor gopher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Poor gopher, always forgotten.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Russell was of course referencing Adam Smith's example of the pin-maker. I.1.3 here in Wealth of Nations:
http://www.econlib.org/library...

[OK, I'm late to this, but haven't seen this point made]

Even if it was a vulnerability in the front-end (in a DMZ, I hope), a totally compromised front-end shouldn't have allowed anybody to exfiltrate that much data. The backend should be locked down with methods that allow the front-end to access only one per call, and access patterns monitored to disallow harvesting. The actual data should be at least another step away, and encrypted in case anybody steals a the whole as a blob. There's bad architecture here, regardless of any owning of a public-facing website. This might have been a long-drawn out slow exfiltration, but it doesn't sound like it. The whole infrastructure may have been owned, but again, that can't be blamed solely (or even mostly) on any vulnerability in the top layer.

This is poor science. The training set was from photos on a dating site from people who self-identified their sexuality. Presumably the photos weren't passport photos, but ones chosen by the individual to appeal to their targets. That's biased right there.

Also, there's an ethical question about using the photographs, as others have pointed out. I'm assuming that the subjects did not consent to have their images used for this purpose. They may be public images, but there's an ethical question about the use for such an experiment.

OK, it costs a fortune at the moment, but can I just give a cheer for a hot-pluggable format for NVRAM? I've used the Samsung 960 pro M2 2TB, and it's blinding fast, but my Ops guys won't touch it for production as it means downtime on a failure (and it looks like we've got a failure after 4 months - thank goodness for warranties)

I'm looking forward to 1PB in 1U, but my prediction for that being realistic is 2022 @ $120k.

PM Turnbull: "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia."

Yeah, good luck with that.

Ding ding! Mod up - this is a tried and tested game.

Exactly this. The peace process was well underway before any James Bond voice prints and satellite tracking. Technology didn't bring peace to Northern Ireland.

Exactly this. The peace process was well underway before any James Bond voice prints and satellite tracking. Technology didn't bring peace to Northern Ireland.

Yeah, I think that was his/her point.

Similar, mid-70s.

I would have been 4/5. We had a game with an square grid (maybe 8x8 or 10x10) where you laid down one of a number of overlays with illustrations on each square. You would have to pair an image from the left side of the grid with an image on the right side. You'd do this with a couple of banana plugs connected by wires to the top of the grid, which had a lightbulb and buzzer. Each image had a hole cut out near the bottom, so you could make contact with the metal pad and hardwired connections beneath. Even at that age I eventually realised that this one here on the left always went to the same corner of the right side. So new overlays were never really scrutinized, it was following the pattern (with a bit of 3 trys per connection) of the first games we finished.

Hmm, 70s.

Guess I'm naïve & behind the times (I don't find time to consume the legal free material I want to watch in the UK), and they may be everywhere, but I was suprised to see one at a family member's house, bought it 'from a guy'. They were genuinely surprised when I told them that it was illegal to use (yes, I didn't expect them to be that naïve either), and that it was torrenting (therefore they were sharing material), so they might expect a notice from their ISP at the least.

It was a modded Amazon fire TV stick, extremely easy to use. As somebody who hasn't seen TAFKAXMBC for a few years it has gave a very impressive UX, and the legal apps were much better than my chromecast legal apps and (admittedly couple of years old) smart Blu-ray box. The film they put on (Nice Guys) also helped with my Spanish, due to the burnt-in subtitles, but the media companies are going to have a real problem fighting this out-of-the-box easy entrance to illegal sharing.