15:54 - 16:59; the political angle!
Found the video quite informative; the guy knows how to deliver an engaging lecture.
“They’re right to say that it creates a vulnerability. The promise of end-to-end encryption is that it’s only you and intended recipients that see the message. I’ve not seen a solution yet that doesn’t break that promise”
The people who proposed this bill and targeted encryption in this way are, sincerely, morons. They may be other things too, but that moronic streak cuts through all of it.
If you create a weakness or back door into something, you must realise that you’re not the only entity that is going to be able to find it and exploit it.
Breaking encryption is basically the end of online security and privacy. Forget banking, forget shopping, forget bookings for restaurants and travel, forget filing or paying taxes, forget seeking legal, medical or financial advice - without encryption none of that is safe. You can create all the exemptions you like but the balance will be impossible to achieve without undermining the bill itself or leaving out key areas.
If providing safety is the real goal here, spend the money on educating the public on good practices and safe habits. Spend the money on tracking down the people involved in creating heinous material and rescuing those being exploited.
Don’t do it by destroying the privacy and security of an entire nation and further wrecking the economy while you’re at it.
Morons.
Nasty stuff. There was an incident that made the UK national news when a professional cyclist was hunted down by thieves on motorbikes.
Beyond submitting camera footage or calling law enforcement when an incident has occurred, I do not know how you would go about stopping the guy you're describing.
For those who like me are wondering why folk are sucking sand out of the sea in the first place - the TL;DR bot missed this bit:
"Sand and gravel makes up half of all the materials mined in the world. Globally, 50bn tonnes of sand and gravel are used every year – the equivalent of a wall 27 metres high and 27 metres wide stretching round the equator. It is the key ingredient of concrete and asphalt.
“Our entire society is built on sand, the floor of your building is probably concrete, the glass on the windows, the asphalt on roads is made of sand,” said Peduzzi. “We can’t stop doing it because we need lots of concrete for the green transition, for wind turbines and other things.”"
The quote you've picked out from the article seems key; small sample, unreliable statistics.
I am not a military person; I do not know the lingo. All I can say is that the footage I have seen coming out of the Ukraine suggests that these days the soldier on the ground or in a light vehicle can have a huge impact on the battlefield. They seem to have very capable and very mobile weapons that will knock out tanks and aircraft; they also seem to have remotely operated weapons and drones. What is happening over there doesn't seem to be the asymmetric warfare that would have been seen in, say, Iraq.
The impression I get is that the fictional "Modern Warfare" battlefield is here today.
How well tested and adapted is this rarely seen rarely used British tank?
How much have anti-tank weapons evolved since the last design and upgrade?
How was that tank actually damaged anyway?
I've no idea. But I am curious.
Not quite nothing...
On the one hand, the SNP would argue that there was a material change of circumstances since the first referendum (Brexit, basically) and that a second referendum would only be fair.
On the other hand the Supreme Court has ruled that the Scottish Parliament does not have the power to legislate for a referendum on Scottish independence. The only way it is going to happen is if the Westminster Parliament allows it to happen. Those fateful words - "once in a generation" - are likely to prove binding rather than advisory.
In short, the SNP have more or less got nothing.
There is one more thing though. Brexit might be a complicating factor in more ways than one. How soon should a vote to rejoin the EU be permitted? Would the timescale for another EU referendum affect or be affected by the timescale for any further votes on Scottish Independence?
The Scottish independence vote. That would be the one where a Scot living in England didn’t get a say, but an English person living in Scotland did. For such disenfranchisement of Scots diaspora, the SNP should never again preside over a Scottish independence vote.
Has he considered the possibility of Percy, Nigel and Rupert working together? The first two loosening things up for the third one to simply walk away with the bike?
In any case if a cycle thief really wants your bike they are going to get it. No one on the street is going to challenge them, and if the value is high enough they’ll break into storage units, sheds, office buildings, houses, blocks of flats, whatever.
If your route is predictable, isolated enough and you’ve been spotted, they’ll just push you off your bike and nick it mid journey.
The only real deterrent I have is that my bike is so crap that the resale value isn’t worth the effort of cutting through the three D-locks or specifically hunting me down. If for any reason that maths changes, there’s not much else I can do.
forcing change outside of the polling booth
Separate to my other reply; what do you mean by this?
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