Comment Police chief to read out selected reasons given (Score 1) 150
Before a council meeting...
Should have the desired effect!
Comment Just the case number? (Score 1) 150
Shouldn't be an issue to have that data available to a remote enquiry without giving any wider access
Comment European law makes this behaviour very illegal (Score 5, Informative) 150
The UK sees a steady flow of people such as medics and police officers sacked for this
Comment But is it any use? (Score 1) 28
I was going to ask whether this sort of research is worth funding, and then read the post about protons being a super mobile sea in which the Oxygen is a stable lattice. That's just the sort of crazy discovery that leads to breakthrough in the long term.
Now all we've got to do is explain the hexagon and decagon on Saturn. Over exposure to '2001' at a young age makes it hard to avoid jumping to a certain conclusion...
Submission + - US legislators complain about secretive British court and Apple encryption (theguardian.com) 1
Bruce66423 writes: 'A bipartisan pair of American politicians is telling Britain’s most secretive court to stop hiding its handling of Apple’s legal fight against a government demand to break into its customers’ encrypted data, warning that Whitehall’s taste for secrecy is “needlessly” straining relations between the two allies.
'The letter, shared with the Guardian ahead of being sent to the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT) on Friday, is signed by the Democratic senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and the Republican congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio.
'The row dates back to January 2025, when the Home Office served Apple with a technical capability notice under the Investigatory Powers Act, which requires companies to assist law enforcement in providing evidence. The UK government demanded that Apple provide a mechanism to access encrypted iCloud backups worldwide, a call the company met by withdrawing its Advanced Data Protection encryption feature from UK users the following month. Apple’s challenge to that order at the IPT was later thrown out after the Home Office withdrew the original notice and issued a narrower one targeting only British users’ data.'
'The letter, shared with the Guardian ahead of being sent to the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT) on Friday, is signed by the Democratic senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and the Republican congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio.
'The row dates back to January 2025, when the Home Office served Apple with a technical capability notice under the Investigatory Powers Act, which requires companies to assist law enforcement in providing evidence. The UK government demanded that Apple provide a mechanism to access encrypted iCloud backups worldwide, a call the company met by withdrawing its Advanced Data Protection encryption feature from UK users the following month. Apple’s challenge to that order at the IPT was later thrown out after the Home Office withdrew the original notice and issued a narrower one targeting only British users’ data.'
Comment Beware Nigerian billionaires' children (Score 1) 206
The fact that most of the Left seems to end up giving such kids a bonus over the children of a low paid White worker reveals the problem absolutely. Add in the fact that Harvard discriminated against Asian kids because otherwise they'd be massively over represented, and the absurdity / scandal becomes obvious. There is a good case for giving kids who receive free school meals a few extra points on SATS, but that should probably be the absolute limit to what the system should allow.
Comment What else can the algorithm suggest? (Score 1) 149
Road A is blocked. Road B is the only alternative. So of course it will divert the cars onto road B. The degree of detailed understanding of the roads required to avoid this may be possible in the long term, but at the moment it's always going to happen.
Comment Yes but is it genocide? (Score 0, Flamebait) 61
Yes, it's fashionable to believe that what happened in Gaza was genocide. Given the state of Mosul recently and Berlin in 1945 when they were cleared of well prepared resisters, let alone what's happening in Sudan, it's a dubious claim. If the chatbot is offering an alternative perspective to people who've merely adopted the term without good reason, then it's spreading the truth...
Comment Democrat expenditure not much less than Republican (Score 3, Informative) 61
Party Total Expenditure (in billions)
Democratic $6.7
Republican $7.6
Not 'a fraction'
Source: FEC
https://www.fec.gov/updates/st...
Comment China needs the US? (Score 1) 500
Why? What am I missing? Except as an export market - which is rapidly fading - I can't think of anything China needs from the US. But maybe I'm missing something.
Comment Blame the Mayor (Score 1) 60
It must be him. Honest. After all if Trump is assumed to be responsible for everything by some people who apply no thinking before speaking, then surely Mandani deserves similar treatment.
And no, to be clear, I'm not a fan of either of them...
Comment This is clearly discrimination against AIs (Score 1, Interesting) 56
When James T. Kirk solves an impossible problem by hacking a computer, he gets commended for it. When an AI does the same, it gets into trouble...
Comment Bridges and tunnels are EXPENSIVE (Score 1) 44
A feature of my area is that the pedestrian crossing across the freeway I refer to above is between two areas of social housing (projects). About 3 miles away there is a similar, though somewhat less busy, freeway located near a school to which the relatively wealthy parents send their kids. THAT'S got a bridge...
Comment ANPR is a different system (Score 1) 44
Automatic Number Plate Recognition is, as you point out, a pernicious form of government overreach. But at least in the UK the two aren't related.
Comment Interesting reply, thank you. (Score 1) 111
n/t
