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My old company used to have business cards that had a photo as well as a name, position etc. From your comments, you would not be surprised at the number of people that appreciated receiving such a card. It was even more valuable in Asia where all the Gweilos (white devil ghosts) and Gweipos (white devil women) look the same to the residents!
They were actually pretty useful within the company as you could refresh your memory of names/faces before a meeting, and not have to hold an entire conversation without using someone’s name.
What are the £ costs?
Roughly £200 capital cost, the main cost being Amazon Echo at £150.
Ongoing costs are guesswork:
“Amazon’s S3, Lambda, and Rekognition services for the face matching.
These services are free to get started, and you can recognize thousands of people at your door every month for pennies.”
This looks like it uses an AI system that uses a face profile for the people you know, or who have called before. As such its main value is in flagging strangers at your door or those you want to always pretend that you are out. If you linked this with a phone based system to handle strangers you could do things such as saying ” I’m having a shower at the moment, please leave the package by the door”. However you could of course drop the AI and just link your phone to a doorbell camera and acheive the same!.
Not on Synaptic so you probably have to follow the more complex procedure given in the blog or here.
Mint make some very strange choices with respect to what is in or out of their repository. I suspect it is adhering to its idiot-simple choices and webmin got kicked out because of the difficulties that many have when setting up Samba.
No arguments from me, and I’m a pensioner!
Young people have a much harder time with nearly all the facets of life than the pensioner generation:
a) Lower social mobility – the abolition of Grammar and Tech Schools made it much harder for the diligent and/or bright to get on.
b) The free University education enjoyed by TBLiar and his cronies has long gone.
c) It is MUCH harder to get and keep a job.
d) It is about twice as hard to afford a house
e) The ability to build asset equity is much harder.
f) You now live in a ‘1984 State’ where either the Government or Commerce tries to snoop on every aspect of your daily lives.
There are a few up-sides to compensate. Health was much more of a lottery when we were growing up. Living in a house with ‘ice-fairies’ on the windows, no central heating and outside toilets is now pretty rare in the UK today.
[edit] The solution is a Dutch-style’ revolution. The young need to get out and vote, and vote for people of their generation. The reason Governments tremble with the thought of offending pensioners is that they out-vote twenty-year olds by a factor of at least three.
A doorbell with Face Recognition — nice.
That said, this was no doubt sponsored by the Google/NSA/GCHQ combo!
“48GB is just too small for a PRACTICAL Windows 10 boot drive”.
I have extended Dave’s statement a little.Although you will find that Win10 will INSTALL in 20GB of disk space, the inevitable slew of Windows updates will require a complicated clean-up of old installs and from time to time cause seizures. For reasonable use I’d say that 64GB is probably the real absolute minimum, but you will still have to be careful where programs get installed. For my nickel 128GB is the practical minimum if you don’t want to do too much regular maintenance.
If you use Steam it really is worthwhile getting a large SSHD as a second drive and ensure that all your Steam setups use it.
[edit] Although you said Win8.1 I think as a games player you should upgrade that to Win10 asap to get the Win10 gaming improvements that will soon get used by the games makers in their new games. For that reason I referenced win10 in my reply. link
I agree that Therasa May produced a far more measured response under commons questioning. link. However the initial statements that were put out stated ‘We are treating this as a case of Islamic terorism’. In fact you still get the BBC (and others) referiing to ‘so-called Islamic State’. I believe that they should entirely drop the term and call them what they are – perverted Salafists.
From the reporting I have seen he was in fact a Muslim convert and probably radicalised in prison.
I have a very good urbane Sunni friend who blames Margaret Thatcher and TBLiarr for making ‘deals with the Devil’ by allowing the more radical elements in the Middle East to fund and staff Mosques. He said that many London mosques have very radical preachers, and the funding and appointment of Clerics is still overseen by the Middle East..
As you have spent time in the Middle East I do not need to repeat the extreme neo-Nazi views that the Salafist right-wing of the Wahhabi espouse, and how evil these views can be, or the way they use this to pin all the woes of the world on the ‘non-humans’,
I’m surprised you got more speed out of the same fibre from a different ISP as it’s all the same Openreach product.
Lower contention on a fixed chunk of bandwidth?
I’m sorry that the UK powers that be have once again perpetuated the ‘Islamic’ smear. It is akin to a terrorist act by a Ku Klux Klan member being called ‘Christian terrorism’.
Salafist Wahabbis have no claim to the great body of Islam, and it is only our Government’s fear of offending some of the Arab States that stops us naming names as done by nearly every other country in Europe for example Germany. Instead we smear and offend the whole of Islam.
You do not have to scare the public by over-reacting – just take away the soft high profile, high publicity targets in tourist areas. Bollards need not be obvious, they could and should look like pretty plant containers.
As JCD points out, vehicle terrorism needs little or no organisation and is almost impossible to anticipate. We need to quickly implement a few simple measures to reduce this threat.
When I had a small role in anti-terrorist planning our main objective was to persuade any attacker not to hit our important areas, and try to persuade them to look for apparently softer targets elsewhere (preferably ones that were actually well defended, low value or belonged to our competitors).
Sensible rules should not result in undue limitations to operational expediencies. Even I could think of a dozen or so cluster keywords that would spit out most of the suspect list. Someone with operational knowledge could extend that to twenty five keywords that mathematically should go down to individual adult level within the UK Make it thirty keywords and you cover everyone in Western Europe. Add in a few exception status markers e.g. must not be a celebrity, mp, judge journo, related to the inputter etc and you will have a list that few would find a problem to identify a group of potential people to be investigated.All this could and should be set up and agreed well in advance of any operational situation.
The real problem comes when you have the list of 100+ people for whom detailed surveillance data is required. It is at that point that a judge should be looking at the selection criteria and exceptions and ruling yea or nay to individual surveillance or data retrieval. Not something that would get in the way of anything operational and would take maybe half an hour to do.
I will not be drawn on commenting on French bureaucracy or their notoriously corrupt judicial system. The French are something else – a cross between one of the most corrupt societies on earth and one that likes to be able to micro-manage individual lives. Maybe there is a link in that observation.
I once went on a course that included a group of French Government tax auditors – it was the classic ‘who gets the single kidney machine’ consensus group. The group I was in pretty much unanimously decided to dump the tax crooked evaders, which then prompted an outcry from the French auditors that ‘Everyone cheats on their taxes, you just have to look at the numbers of French cars queuing to get into Switzerland each weekend!’.
Water filled 35 gallon barrels make quick and dirty bollards that are easily removed if required. Cost, in bulk, less than £10 each. If the authorities ensure they can be used for advertising space they can even be self-funding!
“In a past life I often used to machine scan hundreds of thousands of records, perhaps millions looking for perhaps one or two that matched certain criteria. Only that subset was ever examined; it was more like ANPR checking for markers ,though not in real time and long before ANPR ever existed.”
Richard the only problems I have with that sort of system are:
a) Approved criteria for the scan – who sets up the criteria and who approves it.
b) What oversight (automated or otherwise) is there to prevent abuse BEFORE it takes place.
As El Reg reveals, our system of Governmental bodies doing self approval is evidently flawed and wide open to abuse.
e.g. Coppers stalking their ex-partners and their boyfriends.
We NEED the judicial review that the European court mandates.
In point of fact, post Brexit we MUST change our ways or we will have very serious data exchange issues not only with the EU but also the US and others. Brexit tears up our membership of the EU data club, and we must in future meet the more stringent rules that they apply to outsiders.
Many moons ago, before EU data harmonisation, I was involved in negotiating moving personal French data to the UK. Even in those days it was a bleeding nightmare that consumed huge manpower resources both in its negotiation and implementation. It is a matter of economic survival that the UK becomes an approved EU data repository.
Bollards help to separate vehicles from pedestrians and provide some refuge. They can even be made to be easily removed if that is an issue.
Although I have headed the previous post to concentrate on the French innocents I obviously have similar feelings for the family and friends of the Policeman (and others(?)) who were killed or injured in the attack.
That sentiment obviously does not include the ‘alleged’ attacker who I hope went off to purgatory knowing that he was missing a few vital bits !
The usual comment I used to get when I was in such a situation was that it was obviously my fault because “I did not go in with the positive attitude required to make it work!”.
[edit] The only time I remember ‘winning’ in that situation was when I ran a parallel quick & dirty pilot to demonstrate an approach we thought would work.
Not squite ure what you mean by ‘IDE’. The Pi Zero W comes with no OS, software or anything else. However you can load download and install either Linux (a Debian varoety) or Windows 10 (no gui) onto an SD card (its primary storage medium). The Debian version is Raspbian Pixel and comes with a very usable GUI.
If you really mean IDE – then yes, the Debian version has Python 3 and a choice of very different but quite usable IDEs (One of the primary purposes of a Pi is to teach school children how to program. The Windows version uses a .Net system and a version of visual studio. The entrance costs to using Windows hardware are a little higher so I have not yet had a play with it.
If you can overcome the usually soldering barrier then the Pi zero is also a pretty good little card to learn how to make useful and functional bits of tech ranging from home automation through to robots.
Maybe, (perhaps) we will see some amendments to UK’s RIPA which respect the common-sense judgement handed down by the EU court of justice. The EU’s judgement would appear to respect the need to protect the public from terrorism and SERIOUS crime, but throws out the current PC plod and Local Authority rights to monitor someone for trivial offences such as whether they have a live-in lover (An actual case of just one of the abuses that FOI has revealed).
The Ryzen team are lucky in that Intel have nothing much planned on the desktop front for this year. The only thing they have to worry about are Intel price cuts!
What would really worry Intel is any hint of ARM compatibility in the Ryzen range as there is a strong rumour that Microsoft is sailing down the ARM path for their future server farm installations. Link
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