Change in benchmark
In the early 90’s we were all transfixed by a Middle Eastern outfit that apparently could deliver by rocket in forty-five minutes.
Caused quite a stir at the time….
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Here in the UK ambulance crews generally work 12 hour shifts. The same applies to many clinical hospital staff and I dare say others as well.
In some places in the US ambulance crews work that pattern, or 24 hour shifts, sleeping on station ready for nocturnal call outs. There are variations depending on local demand.
Whilst I see calls of this nature on both sides of the pond, no left wing politician (others don’t call for this reduction so don’t apply to this issue) on a visit has ever explained how this reduction in hours for the same pay would work whilst such a service is provided. I’m sure many staff would love to work a 2 1/2 day week but response times and service levels might not be maintained to even the current standards.
I wish I could purchase one of those that would work if connected to a modern pc, are any readers aware if such a thing is made and where to buy?
Just for printing “normal” letters in the office it would be a hoot, or if connected to some device that generated alerts that really do require prompt attention
Given that it is effectively unlawful not to register to vote in the UK, this basically affects everyone over the age of twenty or thereabouts.
Thank you UK government
If I had been responsible for something similar as a data controller in a commercial enterprise, I’d expect a hefty penalty. Probably here it will be seen as “not in the public interest” to prosecute.
For the government’s definition of public interest.
Once installed a screen saver on a colleague’s pc that made the text on the screen appear to melt slowly and fall down the screen.
I pre-empted a little before she stepped away from her desk by asking a few times if anyone else smelled burning “possibly electrical“.
A little while later she she wandered off to get a file (real, paper based), came back and was shocked to see her monitor show what looked like her typed work collapsing in on itself and I told her it must be on fire inside.
She duly ran to the staff kitchen to get a jug of water and only when she was about to throw it over the monitor did I tell her what I’d done, mostly to avoid the risk of injury to her.
She was a bit of a gym bunny but the resulting painful punch to my arm was worth it
We purchased Mac Mini Server a decade ago with Server OS X Leopard directly from Apple Business. I made the case to management regarding the server features as opposed to the cost of separate hardware (various decent brands) and licensing of our then (and current) MS applications.
We loved that we could run our own mail server as part of the application (with some other nice features), and a few other useful bits like shared folders, nothing particularly complicated or highly technical as we really didn't need much more.
After some testing and learning in IT, we were ready to deploy for user testing for a period of parallel running.
There was an apple OS update that we applied as advised to keep "secure" against new threats, the next day on switching on, all the "server" functions had gone. Just like that.
Enquiries revealed that despite purchasing the OS as part of the unit, it was no longer supported, we could re-purchase the "app" for a tiny sum but no guarantees from Apple that it would remain supported or not be withdrawn at a later date (and in fact all the useful features such as mail server have since been removed from later versions). They were very coy about it but had a compensation scheme to give you back the value of the app ($20) but only if you were registered in the US. UK (and presumably other) customers were very much "not first class citizens".
Had we gone live, been through the testing period and completed the transition it could have wiped us out as a small company.
Their attitude was that we could now purchase the functionality from 3rd party vendors, putting us back to the sort of costs we had with MS, and a complete inability to do this in-house.
Caveat Emptor
(We'd have purchased about 30 seats of hardware, along with portable devices in varying numbers had this worked, plus another several hundred seats after a later takeover that expanded our footprint considerably, along with other hardware, but I guess that's still not even small beer for them. Users still resent the windows phones forced upon them later....)
Given that the US military allegedly copied one from their Nation's TV series involving a Federation centred on Earth, it would be a Travisty [sic] if the MOD didn't do something similar
https://media.moddb.com/images/downloads/1/46/45736/federation_logo_t2_Custom.gif
I wonder if they keep all their files on the Server-LAN
The repurposed motorcycle leathers, thank you
Sorry, I ran out of puns.
The Eagle Squadrons seem to have formed about the time the battle ended, so I am not able to inform you of their involvement however there is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-British_personnel_in_the_RAF_during_the_Battle_of_Britain#United_States
Didn't Captain Scarlet have an issue with radios being 1500m from source?
(The only link I can find to anything related to the episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8RsdDEWAy8 , sorry its not the episode itself).
There's probably a radio joke to be made here about Spectrum, but does that apply to DAB?
I don’t work for NSO group, and I have no social media accounts, but if there’s a way of getting the latter situation enforced by the likes of FB (just so long as that includes them not silently compiling data about me from elsewhere and using/selling it) then where can I sign up?
....in the same way that worms compost kitchen waste.
Quite by chance I was at a motorway services* the other day and saw quite a few of these. Alas regulatory approval would preclude these particular specimens from use in this case.
*Alternative locations for concentrations of such lifeforms abound.
As when dealing with patients who may not be totally au fait with what they take, or why (other than “the doctor told me to”) there’s half a chance of working out underlying health conditions from the medication lists*, which may help determine what they need right now.
As always with medical care, it’s not the only criteria to use.
*repackaging tablets into dosset boxes is a good idea, particularly for those with memory or organisational issues, but often there’s little or no useful indication of the contents
I think that "not being a practical and enthusiastic cyclist" for things including getting to and from work (both in his time as MP, Mayor and journalist) while based n London is not a charge that would fairly be held against Boris.
Now he's PM, there are some different considerations such as the security of what he needs to carry around with him, and it would be the same even if JC* became PM
*Those with long memories may recall the Not the Nine O'clock News item where it was noted that "Even the initials are the same"
"Liverpool's World Museum scanned visitors with facial recognition surveillance"
Surely the value of facial recognition is to identify people you want to be aware of and who you know about. I can see that there is a valid use by public authories for trying to detect wanted/missing/vulnerable persons, (once proper rules have been sorted out), but for a museum?
What database are they comparing visitors to?
Are they worried about either of the Dr's Jones purloining some artefact for the next film in the sequence?
Are the mugshots of John Robie or Sir Charles Lytton loaded onto the system?
Are they worried that frequent visitors will be exposed to a cumulative dose of magic emanating from the exhibits and suddenly find themselves acting like John Hannah surrounded by non-Nestene Autons, so they're building up a database to decline entry after N visits?
Connect underslung wieght to centre of trampoline so that it is stretched to the maximum possible with release mechanism that can be either automatic (as in mousetrap type thingy) or manual (remotely) for more fiendish fun after fox has been lulled into false sense of security. Consider angling entire assembly towards a "receptive" neighbour's garden.
Bait trampoline with leftovers from summer BBQ or similar
Observe test results of launcher, repeating as necessary/possible and apply for funding for UK Space Program
Starfox!
The kit is quite heavy. Come the zombie apocalypse, it will be easy for marauding gangs of feral survivors/evil mutants to locate and beseige those shelterig therein due to the large pile of rack equipment to be found near otherwise innocuous "electricity substation" or "Metro station fire escape" doors.
Allowing the power company to draw from your UPS seems to be like renting out the water from your fire extinguishers to alleviate shortages during a drought. All very lovely (I can just imagine the beancounters wanting to sign up to "maximise the return on the hardware investment") until a rare confluence of events tips you into the mire and you find your piles* are empty.
There's a reason UPS are installed, and I don't think it is because of the infalibility of the power supply networks.
*To clarify for the younger reader, an old term for a battery, not the result of management action once it all goes wrong.
Perhaps you might monetise the original (and much missed) Bonsai Kitten website that I read about on El Reg many many years ago. The outrage factor from those not really getting it then might be equally replicated now, perhaps even enhanced with the "help" of social media
For younger readers, have a gander around https://web.archive.org/web/20020207132327/http://www.bonsaikitten.com/bkintro.html
I seem to recall something, not long ago, about a car ?Chrysler/Jeep? being “taken over” remotely, possibly via the entertainment system and braking being applied (not by the driver). I’d provide the links but now if I had time, but think there was a recall affecting large numbers of cars in the US. Perhaps a copy of El Reg’s articles and useful comments appended by readers could be forwarded to those making this technological mess, and perhaps also to any sensible military or political leaders with some power of oversight.