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There is a well informed info thread here:
Btw this is the sort of data a record holds:
MSOA number, NHS number, date of birth, gender, ethnicity. Plus of course all your intimate medical history.
As MSOA data is limited to 7000 people, the dob info alone pretty much cuts it down to about twenty people, so I can see why Private Eye was worried.
Since Thatcher started the sell off of UK National Assets all subsequent Governments have joined in. I have no problem with our SELLING data, the problem is that it is relatively trivial to de-anonymise it, as your data is linked with your MSOA area (~7000 people), and according to a recent Private Eye article it would be relatively trivial to use Facebook and other data sets to link your personal data with your name.
A report by MPs states that this linking should become a criminal offence. However I see no sign of this on the statute book.While I’m fairly relaxed with my data becoming public I can see that those with genetic or other inheritable problems would be extremely worried if such data got into the grubby paws of insurance companies etc. If this worries you, I suggest that you write to your MP demanding that CEOs, and CFOs be made criminally liable for any attempts to link individuals to their anonymous records,
Write to your MP if this worries you.
All the very best with the move. Glad you sorted things out – wish I could have helped, but I’m a soft southerner!
I tried to reply yesterday, but the system ate it up without a trace. There are two things I am sure of. First is that sympathy is the last thing that Bob wants, and second, I am really crap at giving sympathy!
I did however make a similar comment to PM’s with respect to your wife, she is not just ‘basically good, she is a golden nugget of a lady!
I hope that your g’son has a chance to look through all your many reminiscences. They give an insight on a different time that had its own challenges and periods of happiness. These are the sorts of tales that are missing from the history books, but bring a deep understanding of that era. My secondary school English teacher once plagiarised someone by pointing out that tales of the common people such as those in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales bring those people back to life once again. (especially the naughty bits of the Miller’s Tale!)
Ian Hislop in ‘Have I got News for you’ had the best quote on the subject.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000wft9/have-i-got-news-for-you-series-61-episode-8
Cummings and all politicians lie when excusing themselves, but tell the truth when criticising others!
According to Krebs, installing the Russian language pack avoids many ransomware attacks.
I’m not sure that I would use this as my main line of defence!
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/
According to this report, Iceland may be a contender for the place where most bitcoins are mined. (cheap electricity, and a cold climate)
It actually wasn’t that bad in C as it was just a question of plagiarising the standard code that others had written – this is a good example : https://www.edureka.co/blog/linked-list-in-c/
The main value of dealing with things at low level is the ease of modifying the code to do things like doubly linked lists, and all the other forms such as circular lists, stacks, hash links, block chain where the links are encrypted etc. Of course all these can be done in C++ but that adds a layer of obfuscation where you do not really know what is happening due to all the safe programming overhead.
most other micro’s couldn’t boot off anything.
Not strictly true.
In 1978 the Apple II was using floppy disks well before the Atari 400 was even launched! However, like all modern PCs the bootloader was in ROM and after some checks it executed whatever was in the first couple of tracks of the floppy.
I’d guess that your Atari actually booted from ROM then loaded its tape system for a second stage boot.
I think we should encourage them, we would be financially better off without them! It would also rid us of the hyper-expensive Trident dooms-day machines, which are of zero use in any small conflicts. All in all a win-win for the non-united kingdom.
Unfortunately my old company had committed to Apple IIs by that time. We were cheapskates and would have had no problem in trying Atari as that period was one of getting people to become comfortable with computers (lunch hours were spent playing Star Trek etc.). Later on we even tried the Sinclair QL! – That could have been a great business machine if only Sinclair had not gone for their silly tape drive. In all other respects the business software suite was well ahead of its time.
A group of associated values is essentially a ‘tuple’. In Python for example this would be used for parsing things like csv tables, or many other collections in standard format such as XML, RSS, or JSON data structures. I first came across tuples in Visicalc (the spreadsheet program that was copied by Lotus 123, Excel etc.).
I think Bob’s advice may be the best route, but before doing that ask how long their internal review will take. The Law Society will only act after the internal review is completed.
You ‘could’ blitz your way through the game much faster, especially if you were playing in a squad. However I don’t want to make anyone conform to my irregular play hours, so I take more singular pleasure in the crafting/building aspects to bring about a defeat of 20 metre trolls. (a second level, non-boss NPC that keeps popping up).
China did not work out quite as intended. With only one child per family, most opted for a son, and aborted if a daughter was expected. As a result China has a population with a large percentage of randy males and a dramatically falling birthrate. After 20 years or so the leadership concluded that this was a disaster and reversed their policy.
As an alternate to StackOverflow I recommend CodeProject the posters and moderators are far more balanced than SO’s bigots. It is very VisualStudio biased (I think it had some M$ tie-in early on). I have been a member for a number of years. There is often something interesting on the site (assuming you are biased towards Windows and VS).
March 31, 2021 at 7:18 am in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #68119Still every reason to avoid flying on a Boeing and in consequence avoid flying on Ryan Airways (big commitment to the MAXimum disaster).
Even after all the deaths and subsequent air worthiness checks, the Boeing kludge to fix their oversized engines is still causing trim failures resulting in emergency action being required.
Just for completeness this YouTube gives some tips on RFI shielding for components.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD1j-a4e5Tw
The very last tip is worth watching for its innovative sandwiching of heat shrink tubing and tinfoil.
I cannot make a new topic (Forum bug?)!
However if you get Gremlins in your wfi or SSDs it could be that they are interfering with each other. Unleash the tinfoil hats!
Intel link explains all:
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