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by cmdkeen 9y ago
And when GDPR comes in that will change to make it even more in their economic interest to take these things seriously. The higher of 20 million Euro or 4% of global turnover is enough to start making company boards ask questions about prep
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
Visit the Highlands of Scotland and you'll definitely find wilderness. The Cape Wrath trail is probably the best indicator. Also places like Beinn Eighe, where the remains of a crashed Lancaster bomber from 1951 are still scattered abo
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
Factor in the civil service pension scheme (worth an extra ~20% of salary) and level of holiday you get and it looks rather more attractive. Based on my contacts there DSTL is also a very good place to work, with plenty of interesting stuff
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
Usually because the Western submarine was tailing them at the time, a fundamentally risky business. There was a collision between UK and French SSBNs on patrol a few years back, and indication as to how quiet they can be - and SSBNs warrant
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
That's how CSRF works - I get you to communicate to the device from your "trusted" smartphone or other device. There is nothing you can do at the routing level to protect against it. It is entirely up to the endpoint receivin
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
"Assuming a competent user" is absolutely not what IoT is about, it shouldn't be what most of our decisions as engineers should be about. I don't want to have to be a "competent user" for my fridge, lightbulbs,
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
My (limited) understanding, and quoting from the article is that is is around: "holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the minimum wage". The first essentially boils down to extra money - if you work X days you get another days pay to
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
It may be on a US Navy warship, that absolutely isn't the case for other blue water navies. If anything I would suggest that having too many people involved adds confusion. The OOW has repeaters of the course and speed so that they can
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
While we may like to think of the Western intelligence agencies as all knowing for large periods throughout the Cold War they were essentially blind as to the inner working / thinking of the USSR. The occasional defectors or agents who
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
Constraint programming is a fascinating area that I loved at university. There have been a few times where I've thought it would be a useful way to solve a problem since, but brute force always won through. Is anyone out there using it
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
China has historically tolerated NK because it doesn't want to share a border with a US ally. China intervened in the Korean War precisely because the UN forces came too far north, in spite of China warning them to stay clear.
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
In the military junior leader's get taught Adair's theory of Action Centred Leadership: that Task, Team and Individual are separate things to deal with and yet mutually dependent. Which to make the primary focus can and should swi
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
Chris Bryant is of course a Labour MP. Intriguingly he was also caught up in the expenses scandal. One does wonder whether his book (which is being serialised here) manages to wonder about how the occupants of "the other place" ge
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
In the UK* it is an offence to be "drunk in charge of a vehicle" so you absolutely can be arrested and charged for being asleep whilst drunk in a vehicle. You'll be having to defend yourself in court as to whether it was like
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
It's not excellent. Nothing about data security, encryption at rest, and a whole load of things that would be covered by GDPR (yes the service is registered in Canada, but GDPR standards should be the benchmark now for what is consider
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
Here's the thing with pay scaled to cost of living, it means things like pension contributions, ability to save, any property you purchase, are also scaled. There's a reason so many people flock to expensive cities early in their
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
This is why the financial regulators in the UK have changed to consider the corporate culture when dealing with breaches. A company whose senior staff "live a compliance culture" will be penalised less for the same breach than one
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
A systems administrator downloads a random zip file and a password cracker onto his work computer, when he works for the Department of Energy, gets caught and fired. The first part of the article is surprising only in that he found it so ea
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
Why? He had the opportunity to appeal all the way to the UK Supreme Court who ruled that the extradition request was valid. Those who pledged surety over his bail were ordered to pay £93,500 back in 2012. This absolutely should not be about
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
Other legal commentators in the thread pointing out that he is still wanted for "failing to surrender" to his bail which can face up to 12 months in prison. This is what the arrest warrant will be for, not some secret US extraditi
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
This is historically where the Mafia came from, as a means to keep members of a price fixing cartel mutually honest. The old saying about "no honour amongst thieves" being solved by outsourcing to a body to provide a parallel syst
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
There's a separate, fascinating, historical incident that shaped the Royal Navy and by extension world affairs for centuries. The execution of Admiral Byng for "failing to do his utmost" lead to a culture of aggression in the
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
Initiative is very different at sea, and was especially so before the era of effective radio communications. Nations trusted their admirals and captains to effectively be ambassadors as the effect they could have on foreign affairs during p
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by cmdkeen 9y ago
Though just the other side of the bridges, up at Rosyth, there are two rather large aircraft carriers being built. Also several aging examples of what arguably replaced the battleship, nuclear attack submarines.
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Native Linux Containers on Windows Server(blogs.technet.microsoft.com)
3 points by cmdkeen 9y ago|0 comments
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
/me Quietly goes back to using Knockout and Typescript to happily pootle along building apps without worrying about routing, SPAs and other added complexity. Simplicity brings its own rewards.
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
I doubt the author was using Redux if he was praising React and Typescript...
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Their pricing page says: "The minimum charge is 1,000 transactions a month, so the transaction cost will be at least €100 a month." Doesn't look startup friendly at all.
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Because calling for the UN Security Council to do something is easy but often doesn't achieve anything, Russia, with its veto, is hardly going to allow its ally in Assad to be implicated is it? The question for Trudeau is - when Russia
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Political, not commercial. All politicians lie or are "economical with the truth". If you want to get the courts involved in judging political statements, especially in a country that has already politicised the courts to a greate

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