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Steve, I’m afraid you are blaming the wrong people. Those responsible for the parlous state of the Police are the elected Politce and Crime Commissars. In the main these just do the bidding of the Home Secretary and administer the cuts. I’ve yet to hear of any of these political toadies raising objections, they just take their 100 grand and pass the opprobrium to the genuiinely overworked police force.
The Political Police and Crime Commissars are exemplars of all that is wrong with our failed democracy.
At machine code level you are pretty much forced to use a pseudo-goto for a lot of your code as branch instructions need somewhere to go. The purist approach to removing goto in higher level languages can be done but subroutines etc are a lot harder to program and require stack manipulation. Assembler just conceals all these compilation level nasties!
When you are using peeks/pokes/push/pop etc in Basic you are actually very close to machine code level.
No arguments with anyone about the appalling decisions made by May following her disastrous Police Conference meeting, and her decimation of the Police Forces. She conned the public with comments about saving money but rejected all the County amalgamation proposals from Chief Constables (these would have produced far greater savings by chopping chiefs and support workers rather than the front line) as she feared a stronger coordinated Police voice.
Unfortunately we are where we are. I actually welcome PCSOs as the good ones get to know their patch and the criminals (real and potential) in it. Better them than nothing and better this than May’s stupid idea of doing everything through tech and intercepting all communications (without warrants). This would only ever catch amateurs, professional criminals have far more potent tech at their disposal such as USB dead letter drops or encrypted software defined radio.
She manages to make a complete cock-up of everything she touches. It would not be so bad if it only affected Torys when in opposition but unfortunately she continued to be promoted way above her competence level and now has a whole country to cock-up.
October 5, 2018 at 7:15 pm in reply to: Will our tech even work if ever we have a confrontation? #26787It gets even more interesting in that Bloomberg refute the denials! link
The companies involved also state that they are not under any gag/compulsion orders, so one assumes that they honestly believe their side of the story.
To summarize:
a) A bunch of ‘intelligence’ spooks leaked the revelation to a Bloomberg tech reporter in sufficient detail to identify the apparently rogue chip.
b) Bloomberg have at least one report by Facebook of firmware updates for the rogue that triggered alarms.
c) The three major tech companies were identified who ought to know their product inside-out. They deny the reports.
d) Bloomberg confirm the veracity of their reports.
Your theories are as good as mine, either Bloomberg are wrong or an unprecedented cover-up is going on.
Unfortunately Richard unless there is a change in the law your suggestion cannot work. The Police have to be in the chain because of the ‘stealing by finding’ interpretation/case law of the Theft Act.
October 5, 2018 at 11:33 am in reply to: Will our tech even work if ever we have a confrontation? #26771Interestingly everyone denies it ever happened. Maybe it was NSA spyware and everyone is now doing a hush-up!
There are also reports that the firmware for the rogue chip was even updated – link
Good luck – phone your local CAB they have more problems with TalkTalk than any other ISP!
“After 30 years in the police and having to deal with lost and found property I have no sympathy for very many people”
Apparently an attitude shared by the whole of today’s police force as they have said that due to Tzar May’s cutbacks and the overhead of (useless) Police and Crime commissars they are no longer logging lost property. They will for a while continue to take in found property — presumably for sale!
[edit[ they did not actually give any reasons but we all know why!
You tried, but unfortunately when companies outsource their businesses they have to have rigid rule books. Common sense and customer service goes out of the window.
A lot of Python applications are based on using on-line information. In order to do this efficiently you need some knowledge of html/css. For example I use a Python library program called Beautiful Soup to strip out web site data fields, I could not do this without knowing some html, other apps go for sql based data but again you need to have an entry point.
However if you wanted to write a ‘pretty interface then you would use the tkinter library. Python can be dauntingly huge, and some of the on-line help is nit-picking in its approach to noobs. Stackoverflow can be really pissy and unhelpful. The wiki however is pretty good.
Boilers are interlocked to high-heaven to protect you from yourself! The thing that was forever going wrong on my old boiler was the electrically operated valve that switches the flow between hot water and heating. A sharp (not too hard) wrap with a wooden mallet sometimes unstuck it.
“She also turns down valves on radiators.”
Depending on your house this can make sense. People do not normally sleep well if too hot. Setting the bedroom radiator valve to halfway (permanently), often saves energy and maximises comfort. The same applies for kitchens that get hot from the cooking. Whereas living rooms often need to be at max.
However if SWMBO is continually fiddling with them, you are correct in asking her to stop.
My advice would be that your ideas are good but too ambitious. Learn the basics using one of the many free resources. e.g. CodeAcademy, or this one.
I personally prefer to write simple games to start out as this gives me the most gratification.
I generally check mine early September, as the plumbers normally get very busy during the first cold snap.
If you get to see your gastroenterologist again, it might be interesting to raise the subject of faecal transplant and see what he/she says. A bad balance of gut bugs is starting to get blamed for a whole range of things including autism!
sensering hole parts of the Internet..
That puts a very different meaning on touchy-feely vlogs.
Oooh-er vicar there are a lot of Conservative public-school types who would just love that, no matter how it is spelt!?
Cosmetic except when the Staff Nurse rips them off. Then it is b-painful!
Actually I was thinking of the Coalition Government’s failures to punish the Banking Sector especially RBS. The treatment levied out to Fred Goodwin was laughable. Sure the shareholders were punished, but there were no investigations of culpability of the auditing sector or the officers of the greedy banks. Only the US did this!
I also failed to understand why we never acted against the US Banks who knowingly bundled up dodgy mortgages and sold their toxic bundles to RBS etc..
I do agree that TBLiar and Brown acted irresponsibly in the noughties, and many of their antics raise questions with respect to their ethics, but all our ‘democratic’ institutions have question marks against their governance..
a bit like the souls dashing after Corbyn into the darkness.
After every period of excess there is a period of (over) correction. Unfortunately post ‘the crash’ the wrong people suffered and the wrong people profited. The system is now overdue for a period of correction.
As you say Richard, they were the victims of Corporate greed.
Although Montagu Private Equity in principle carries the can, it depends if they have grabbed a bit of the secured credit trough. The administators of course get first dibs. Bottom of the pile will be the suppliers and other unsecured creditors.
I thought that the unacceptable face of capitalism had been cleaned up. I was obviously wrong.
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