Re: No shit, really?
It's interesting research though. If true, then someone needs to be asking hard questions of NASA what testing they did on the instruments before sending them to Mars.
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Maybe never if it becomes standard. Few people work a 6 day week[*] these days since that new fangled idea of only working 5 days caught on :-)
* some of the people posting above excepted of course. Although anyone working 50-60 or more hours per week, especially where it's expected, standard and in some cases even unpaid, well, you're in the wrong job. Ok maybe for a short period, or to gain experience but anyone on a fixed salary should only be doing extra hours when it's needed, ie exceptions, not standard practice and should be a decent enough salary to account for those hours. Voluntarily working more hours for more pay because you need or want the extra cash is a different thing.
I suspect that would be more likely since otherwise you'd have some companies operating, eg Mon-Thurs, some operating Tues-Fri and other Mon-Fri. Companies need to interact with other companies so without a national decision for everyone to go Mon-Thurs confusion will likely abound. Likewise, with this international interconnected world, there would still be problems dealing with the rest of the world. Time zones already cause enough confusion without wondering whether a particular company will be operating on a particular day.
"I found the article strange to say 4 days and no hours change, I'm sure everyone would be pleased if they are paid for a 37.5 hour work week (5 days) but only did 30 hours (4 days) of actual work. Seems a good deal."
From the article "The crucial point of the pilot, in which 3,000 UK-based employees participated, was that no one's salaries changed, nor were they required to work extended hours, the so-called "4×10 schedule" (four 10-hour shifts) tested by Atlassian and others."
I think there may be different trials being referred to here or different companies trialled different ways of achieving a 4 day week.
Back in the day, when I was late teens and working at the local swimming pool, we switched to a 4 day week with 2x10 + 2x9.5 (39 hour week was standard then). It was great. Closed on Sundays and about about every 6 weeks, the shift pattern meant days off were Fri, Sat & Sun followed the next weeks pattern of Mon, Tues, Sun so almost a week off every 6 weeks :-)
Even when the 486 was pervasive in the industry, I'd not describe home computers as pervasive in general. Not by a large margin. Even when the Pentium CPU first came out, less than 20% of households had a computer. And by computer, that could be any make or model including Spectrums, Amigas etc. In 1993 when a 486DX2-66 was top of the range, you could still go out and buy a new budget PC of XT grade with a piddly little 20MB HDD or even a dual floppy, no HDD model. It wasn't until this century that computer ownership reach 50% of households.
"A quick test on an unlocked PC showed that the filters were indeed doing their job, and she actually wanted to go to moneyworld.co.uk. She was most embarrassed when I explained this to her."
Yes, one of the unintended consequences of both the publicity .com got in the media (and still does) thanks to the "dot com boom" and the desperation so many "local" companies have for wanting .com URIs. Many, many users sort of expect a web address to end in .com. Possibly less of an issue these days with so many people just searching for sites rather than manually typing in an address. Even now, some people look at you funny if you give them a URI with .co.uk or anything other than .com unless they deal regularly with, eg. .gov.uk or .edu.uk.
Since they are only asking for 3 days per week in the office, ie hybrid, I suspect quite a lot of those who said "over my dead body" will still show up. There will be a spectrum of people for and against returning to the office from the hard core to the "well, it's only three day a week, I might as well". With a partial, but compulsory return to the office, it's much less of a black and white issue
And yet it did when the Great North Red Wall suddenly gained some large blue holes at the last election. Admittedly because of single issue voting in the main, but it shows that it can happen.
I wonder if "voter apathy" is most of the problem with "safe" seats? Here, we've not had a Tory MP since about 1834. it was a Liberal MP from then until Labour came into existence. Labour won, then the Libs won it back, then Labour won again in 1935 and have never lost since. Most people I know either vote Labour or don't bother to vote. It's the sort of constituency that I think would benefit from compulsory voting. Even if Labour continue to win, at least we'd know it was a real majority and get a true measure of what that majority really is or isn't.
"Is this option still available to the UK tax payer?"
Yes. They even send you a letter some years before state retirement age to let you know that you are behind on payments so you can decide if it's worth buying back the "missing years". My wife got that letter as she was 4 years down from being entitled to a full state pension. We decided it was worth paying the missing bit and now she gets full pension.
French, or at least a version of it, was still in use in legal documents up to the 18th century and in common spoken usage at official and aristocracy levels into the 15th century, so no, speaking or writing in French probably wasn't "secure" from the "English" in any way back then.
"So yes indeed, here in the UK at least, the answer to the question "If you commit lots of robberies, does only the first time count, even if you rob the same person?" is a resounding 'yes'."
While true, sentencing guidelines allow the judge to increase the sentence based on those TICs. The criminal gets less than if later charged for additional sentences but usually more than for just one. eg say 1 year sentence for 1 burglary, but the sentence range is 1-5 years and s/he gets 2 or 3 years for the additional TICs instead of a year or 2 for each in later convictions. Admitting to those TICs is taken as a good thing too in the eyes of the court, ie pleading guilty usually gains the criminal a lower sentence than a not guilty plea and the full-on court case.
"Environmental Health dept,"
Thanks! I was having a brain fart and for the life of me could not remember the department name and wasn't making the assumption you were in the UK either.
And ta for the fuller explanation of what happened despite the almost "too much detail" :-)))
If you use commodity fingerprint readers with commodity software and it happens to be or become a popular system then miscreants gaining access to that database of fingerprint hashes could probably find a way to inject the hashes into other systems using the same h/w & s/w to gain access as that person.
Fortunately, as yet, there are not that many occasions where a person is expected to use a fingerprint scan for access to system so it's unlikely they will beusing the same type of system at multiple locations/organisations. In effect, it's currently security by obscurity, which we all know is not good security.
"but try getting a signature from a dead guy!"
Trump, and some of his cronies, seemed to think that was quite a significant issue at the last election and caused their "not really defeat, it was really a win" result, even without evidence.
limited liability only relates the liability of the owners in relation to debts the company may have. It's nothing to do with the company liability to illegal or criminal actions. At best, it might partially protect the owners from bankruptcy inducing levels of fines, but that depends on the why the fines were levied and if the court decides the owners may be personally responsible.
If there were multiple people having the same illness from eating certain foods, you really ought have reported that to whatever the local equivalent of Trading Standards, Food Standards Agency or local council department responsible for food sellers. Just being greasy doesn't usually cause the shits. That's most likely some variant of food poisoning.
"Good to see some are being taken to task over their total failing to follow the law."
Yes, but this isn't law enforcement, the justice system or the regulators doing something. This is individuals kicking up a stink, gaining publicity, forming class actions etc.
"The case, brought by an Illinois woman...". So not even a case of reporting it to the authorities to start the action. She had to actually bring her own case to court before the legal system actually took notice. So how much else is going where people have neither the funds or ability to start an "action" and are being ignored when reporting it?
There's already gait analysis. The real question in my mind though is WHY does a VR headset need to send back such an enormous amount of telemetry on even the slightest movement or interaction? But then I stop and think about who it is collecting the data and realise they don't care. They just collect EVERYTHING and then find a use for it afterwards, however creepy that may be. Linking VR identity data to a specific person is probably the easiest part of it considering what's already been collected on you even before you first attach a VR headset.
The most obvious solution (to the government regulators) is not to ban the touch screens as a driver distraction, but to mandate that the driver is nor allowed to look at or touch it while in motion. Therefore a co-driver must sit with the driver to operate those controls. If you don't have a passenger, you must employ a fully trained and government approved/licenced co-driver. For safety reasons of course with the added benefits of the job creation aspects.
Yeah, my windows are multi function. Turn the handle 180deg and the top of the windows opens inwards leaving about a 15cm gap at the top. But turn the handle only 90deg and it opens fully like a door. I'm not sure those type are allowed under safety regulations these days, almost certainly not higher than ground floor. Judging by the neighbours, upstairs windows all seem to open outwards about 15cm at the bottom.
I see where you are coming from, but in this case they are updating to a precisely known platform, both in terms of hardware and soft/firmware with no additional user installed 3rd party apps or miscellaneous 3rd party hardware and drivers. Assuming they don't cock up and push an update intended for the wrong platform/software version :-)
usually at high speed with entire disregard for the junction because it has "right of way"
A nice and proper use of quotes there to highlight some peoples (mis)understanding of but not realty of roundabout usage :-)
Surprisingly few people understand that "right of way" on a roundabout is given to those already ON the roundabout, not just to those coming from the right.
That happens on mini roundabouts too. There used to be a three way one on my route. It got to the point where so many people were being timid about "who goes first" that I almost always went first. Never had a bump or caused a bump there and, of course, once I went over, the guy to the right of me could also go 'cos the guy on the left now had to give way to me so we all got moving again :-)
(It was basically a T junction, my direction being straight over the "cross bar" of the T and the majority of the traffic coming the other way over the T crossbar was also going straight over, so careful watching of indicators and drivers faces at all times :-))
"while most junctions use 'give way', not 'Stop'"
Yes, "most". I don't know about the rest of Europe, but in the UK there are both Give Way and Stop junctions, Give Way being in the majority. Broken "give way" lines + Give Way signs and solid "stop" lines with Stop signs.
You MUST stop behind the line at a junction with a ‘Stop’ sign and a solid white line across the road. Wait for a safe gap in the traffic before you move off.
"Doesn't even know the speed limit for a significant proportion of the time."
Really? That's pretty piss poor. My unconnected but regularly updated satNav rarely shows an incorrect speed limit on the display. Usually, it's because the map update lags the real world changes, as you'd expect, but this attentive and human driver can read the road signs. But a car with cameras AND a built-in, internet connected SatNav should have the most recent mapping data AND be able to detect and read speed limit signs. The only excuse ought to be where there are changed speed limits AND the signs are missing or obscured.
It's quite likely also that "recall" may have some legal (IANAL!!) ramifications too in that it's a (now) known manufacturing defect which has safety implications and therefore MUST be attended to within some time limits set out in the certification of the vehicle.
And as the other poster said, it's also about customer perception, something Musk is well aware of with his use of "Full Self Driving" and "Autopilot" that was and is clearly aimed at setting a certain level of perception that "Driver assist" or "Advanced Cruise Control" might not.
Seriously? They are only discovering this after the public release? Did no one at MS try to use it for more than 5 minutes before getting bored or distracted by more shiny? I know testing is frowned on these days, especially at MS, but Shirley it can't take more than 10 or 15 minutes to discover how crap it is.
And do they really think a "long" conversation with a chatbot is only 10-15 minutes?
Try the other USB-C port, next one down from the one normally described as the charging port.. If that works, then the first port is most likely physically damaged. If you get the same result, it MAY be damaged too, more likely it's an issue with the charging circuit on the system board anyway. And yeah, it seems most manufactures have gone down the route of power socket/USB being on the main board these days.
And FWIW, we are getting most Lenovo spares within 3-5 days of ordering now. Still not back to pre-pandemic/supply chain collapse time frames but nowhere near the weeks or months that some parts were taking over the last couple of years, mainly some screen and keyboard models.
Most of the customers I deal with replace their kit when the warranty expires. The pandemic panic purchases are, in most cases, about to fall out of their standard 3 year on-site warranty period over the next year, starting about now. At least some have told me they won't be doing the usual full-on replacement cycle though. They'll spread out the purchases and replace as kit fails. They won't be paying for out of warranty repairs. Depending on the customer and their in-house IT peoples time and skills, they may swap some bits about to make working laptops, most probably won't unless it's something simple like battery or SSD.
It'll be interesting over a longer term to see what happens in the US. Will cannabis use increase significantly? Will it ever become fully legal? How will that affect drug driving charges? Will other more expensive, more harmful and definitely illegal drugs start to decline? There is a model in the Netherlands to look at, but their attitude to cannabis started quite some while ago, before the harder drugs were quite so ubiquitous and "designer drugs" weren't really a thing yet.
Really? Thanks, I didn't know that. When are the US credit card companies going to declare the arrival of the 21st century? :-)
Considering the early adoption of credit and charge cards in the US, it seems odd not to advance with the times. Here in right-pondia, chip and PIN was introduced for both debit and credit cards at the same time nearly 20 years ago. Contactless was introduced for credit cards only 4 or 5 years later and the debit cards a couple years after that.
Do you still have to sign after the swipe and have the signature checked by the seller? That extra time consuming process was one of the reasons for switching to chip and PIN. It's faster so you can serve customers quicker, reduce queuing length and time and make more money.
"(We call it "earthed" on this side of the pond.)"
I know we do but you don't punish your kids by earthing them so the pun doesn't work :-)
And yes, I know, "grounding" isn't really a right-pondian punishment term either, it's a left-pondian import :-)
...on how to spot a scam.
It probably goes without saying that one of the red flags mentioned but not highlighted as a red flag is the scammer saying they wanted their fee in bitcoin "to avoid taxes". Well, that's not avoidance in most civilised countries, that's evasion and should be a huge red flag to anyone in legitimate business.