I found it uncomfortable to watch it making a request once someone pointed out to me that it highlighted letters in the order SOPA when waiting for a response
Depending on the type of connection it's fairy easy to set up squid as a proxy for outbound connections so everything appears to come from the squid box which can have a static address and can be added to an allow list
There are strict guidelines about what data can be shared for research purposes and researchers only get access to the data they need - not your full medical history.
Access is audited and you can request information on where and for what purposes your data is shared.
You can also easily opt out of your data being shared for research purposes.
Depends on what jurisdiction, and if you are familiar with privacy law in different regions, the exceptions to that are often sweeping, with the additional issue in some systems that regulations can be made by lower level authorities without the same level of public scrutiny or debate.
It's the wild west for data, and privacy people have done what they could over the last 20 years, but the tech has accelerated so much in the last 10 that those prior assurances aren't what we think they are.
All health and social care organizations in England must comply with this by September 2021 (delayed from original date due to the pandemic). This was based on a recommendation from the previous National Data Guardian.
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have different policies.
Massive data sets were mobilized for covid-19, and I advise anyone politically exposed that it would be unwise to consider their health records a secure secret, and to challenge the security controls on any private electronic information.
If you really have a privacy risk, you already know how to avoid these issues, but everyone should understand and always assert their privacy rights, because there are a lot of parties interested in taking them.
Does anybody know how what3words is dealing with this?
Do locations suddenly have a new 3 word location, or have the words stayed the same and the location they refer to (in GPS co-ordinates) changed?
well, plenty of places could have moved out of their box. many urban properties are quite narrow; i lived on one not even 2.5 metres wide, so every 3m box would be in use (and potentially then some) on that street. (i didn't have an address living there either, but w3w wasn't going to help that problem much. easier to give a recognisable landmark.)
That's a cool little project, but it runs counter to almost every Windows upgrade I've ever performed. The natural bit rot of long running windows installations has always made a fresh install a much stronger guarantee of success than an upgrade.
My guess is that it's the keeping around of third-party drivers made for the previous OS that causes the majority of upgrade "rot."
If older editions of Windows just forcibly purged all the drivers when you upgraded, and told you to reinstall them afresh from the installation CD/OEM site (where you'd then get a version that's maybe for your current OS instead), that could have saved everyone quite a few headaches.
Then again, with major peripherals (displays, keyboards/mice, Ethernet cards, USB controllers) being much less standard than today, ripping out the OEM's driver could wedge your computer.
Certainly. I honestly never even expected a Windows update to be guaranteed to succeed simply because the surface area for them to test is unimaginably large - the same was not true for Macs (at least once OS X got good), so when a Mac OS upgrade failed I was generally more surprised.
FreeBSD has QoS available via PF and ALTQ. As for performance, Netflix chose FreeBSD for their CDN for the better network performance over linux.
I do take your point about hardware support on consumer routers though - most of these are based on linux so its relatively easy to get linux based *wrt installed on them
Stop thinking like QoS has a singular meaning. ALTQ provides the aforementioned '90s-era inferior QoS techniques, and it isn't even available on FreeBSD without recompiling the kernel. The dummynet module is a little more modern, and in February patches appeared implementing the CoDel and FQ-CoDel AQMs that Linux has had for four years.
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman did not invent public-private-key-encryption. It was invented in secret by mathematicians working at GCHQ before Diffie and Hellman but not publicly acknowledged until 1997 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Ellis
Well, technically yes. But a) the invention of asymmetric encryption at GHCQ was kept secret, so Diffie and Hellman did not know about it; they invented it independently, it happens from time to time. And b) AFAIK, GHCQ did not develop asymmetric encryption into anything practically usable, they did come up with the basic concept, but stopped there (again: AFAIK - I am happy to be corrected if I have been misinformed there).
