May 6, 2018

May 6, 2018 by yorksranter 1 comment

80% accuracy is not nearly 99%

I am beginning to worry that the government, and specifically the Home Office, thinks 80% accuracy is nearly 99%. At the same time as the FT was arguing for a national biometric identity database, it also dropped this scoop. The Home Office seems to have used some sort of voice identification test in an effort…

May 6, 2018 by yorksranter 2 comments

What’s worse than ID cards? The ID card register without the cards

A lot of people seem to think the Windrush scandal is an argument for national ID cards, and as a result, the Financial Times ran this collection of four short articles on four different experiences. This includes two European ones that are kind of OK, the disastrous Indian Aadhaar project, and one that hasn’t happened…

GripAIAA.6.2019-1289.pdf
so the Marscopter had the Snappy 800 for higher-level navigation, a fast but dumb Cortex-R for sensor fusion, and some kind of FPGA to stitch it all together
Primary school children left in tears after vicar tells them ‘Santa isn’t real’ | Schools | The Guardian
He also said that their parents bought their presents and ate the biscuits left out for Santa // as an Anglican, it's only surprising he didn't also tell them there was no God
(20) A £160m CCaaS Tender - the biggest and nastiest this side of 2030? | LinkedIn
very good although I think the point is missed that the boring benefits payment administration should boringly pay, dammit, and its bungling incompetence in this trivially simple task is a consequence of the revolutionary culture war IDS declared when he was king
Home / Twitter
The Hurricane wing was checked out at NPL; NPL told Camm the thickness/chord ratio didn't matter; he went ahead with the Typhoon like that but didn't ask back; it was probably the wind tunnel
Aaron Y. Zelin on X: "This has been their “voting” process over the past 7 years. From my booklet “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham” https://t.co/zUPsVBrFXc https://t.co/c8DYhHEhy0" / Twitter
HTS election very DDR.
Lobbying firm with close links to Beijing gained access to influential UK figures | Daily Mail Online
In 2014, Mr Yang – who goes by the more anglicised name of Chris Yang – arranged the first UK-China Business Leaders Summit, where he was photographed with then chancellor George Osborne. He is not the only senior Hampton executive with close links to China. Jean Jameson, its senior vice-president, is UK secretary-general for the […]
Prince Andrew's China 'spy' scandal aide ran secret trust fund intended for princesses
The Duke controlled 75 per cent of Lincelles through his Urramoor Trust while Harry Keogh, another friend and adviser who was the subject of a sexual harassment probe at Coutts, was listed as a fellow controller. Mr Keogh, a former managing director at Coutts, the Queen’s bank, resigned in March 2018 after he was accused […]
Kareem Shaheen on X: "Bashar al Assad’s private gym overlooking Mt Qasioun. Who the fuck needs TWO jacuzzis?? https://t.co/Klow01ONlM" / Twitter
beautiful view but no iron. this is how you lose an empire
sqlite/src/os.h at e8346d0a889c89ec8a78e65abc33257a6c6fb81a · sqlite/sqlite · GitHub
But then ** Mcafee started using SQLite in their anti-virus product and it ** started putting files with the "sqlite" name in the c:/temp folder. ** This annoyed many windows users. Those users would then do a ** Google search for "sqlite", find the telephone numbers of the ** developers and call to wake them […]
‘Fame is a drug like LSD’: Robbie Williams on success, sexuality and his simian movie alter ego | Robbie Williams | The Guardian
Where I’m from we do two things really well; kindness and violence