My theory is that Azure and AWS are having issues due to a large number of multi-cloud GCP customers failing over. They're just overloaded - it's not one or two GCP regions that are down. It's all of them.
Although I've been having issues with AWS all day, since before GCP went down. So I'm not sure.
Leopards ate their face.
I hate to victim blame, but don't put your genetic data online. My sister did, and I share 50% of mine with her. I am (IMO) justifiably angry about that (we're still cool though, but this is not something we'll ever agree on).
Everything, and I mean everything you put online, or send anywhere, including to government, will be leaked eventually. Share your data with that thought in mind.
That's great, if it's an option. It's a government overreach if it's mandatory.
Thanks for the clarification, I'd only read the linked article and not the website (which to be fair to me, wasn't mentioned in the article).
The challenges I presented are still valid. Sure, they'll "ensure accessibility for those with...", but it never works out that way. The closest thing I can think of is a driver's license being our de facto standard ID card in Ontario. My brother, who doesn't drive, doesn't have one, so he has an "age of majority card" - and nobody knows what the hell it is. I think something like this proposal would have the same effect. Sure, it's technically usable by those without a smartphone, but in reality, not having one is still a massive challenge.
A simple read-only (write-once, technically) smart card that keeps a picture of you and can be protected by a PIN or password is a much better idea. It doesn't need to be updated when new information is stored. It's cheap. It's accessible to everyone. It's superior in every respect. It can replace driver's licenses (a challenge here in Canada, and the US, due to differing areas of federal and provincial/state jurisdiction). A smartphone app is an implementation, maintenance, legal, and security nightmare just waiting to happen. We all know it's gonna cost a fuckload more than £10M to keep it running. Just create a smart card that's basically a database key; there's no reason the data itself needs to be on the card beyond a few simple points, maybe picture and date of birth so it can be used to verify age of majority.
None of this even mentions my objections to making it mandatory to carry ID. Not in my Canada, thank you. I personally see requiring me to carry ID to walk my dog, or forcing me to identify myself to any government official any time other than when I'm requesting a government service or I'm being arrested as an egregious offense to my right to be left the hell alone.
If you're not looking at the road, you're not driving safely.
You're an idiot of the kind that believes they are the only exception.
I don't want the Big Bad Government to control me, no.
But I do want it to control assholes like you who endanger me by believing that only they are able to drive safely while staring at their phone. Laws exist specifically to protect the rest of as from reckless, selfish idiots like you who give not a whit for the lives of others.
You are free to do whatever the hell you want, free of government intervention (or at least you should be), unless that "whatever you want" endangers me. Your right to swing your fists stops at my face.
You are not special. You are not unique. You are just as dangerous as everyone else if you're playing with a phone while you're driving. Believing otherwise is just stupid and selfish, and the reason we need this Big Bad Government that you seem to hate so much.
It sure is.
But both are still distracting, and dangerous enough to others that it should be illegal.
Put the phone down, you dangerous selfish prick. You are a danger to everyone around you. You are not unique in your superhuman ability to drive safely while distracted.
Or yanno, mount it to the dash, like everyone else.
Not everyone has, or wants, a cellphone. Even among those who do, many have just a candy bar or a flip phone. A bill like this can never become law - it's tantamount to forcing an entire populace to purchase a smartphone. It has serious civil liberties and logistical hurdles.
A much better idea is a smart card, or some kind of hardware device. Protect it with a "Personal Identification Number", or a yet to be invented smartcard+fingerprint reader (concerns with biometric identification notwithstanding). Call it a... PIN card. This would have the benefits of A) Being much cheaper and easier to replace, B) Being issuable to those who don't or can't own a smartphone, and C) Not requiring citizens to hand over their entire digital lives to get an ID checked. It could work like, I dunno, a PIN card like you have from the bank - which serves the same purpose: identifying you to the bank.
The fact that this is even being considered suggests to me that either someone saw a flashy powerpoint and hasn't yet been schooled on the legal and logistical challenges, or B) It's a pork barrel project. Either way, it's a problem in search of a solution. The problem is "We need a more verifiable way to identify people when required by law". A smartphone app is not the only possible solution.
I'd even be OK with a smartphone app, as long as it was an option, not a requirement - but we all know where that road ends.
How the hell do I get that all back and forth on a bicycle.
Hauling that from store to a bicycle, or a bus....then all the way from bus stop for front door....or on a bike....well, I'm not as young as I used to be, I could see a quick heart attack what with the summer heat already hitting 90F here daily with high humidity (I live in New Orleans area)....
With a bike trailer. I don't usually (because it's a pain in the ass), but I do on occasion, carry that much behind a bike. It's not that difficult.
Although I'll grant that it could easily be an insurmountable task for the less active or healthy or young.
And fuck everyone who follows him. He's a despot, a wannabe tinpot dictator.
That is all.
https://github.com/iorate/ubla... will at least block it from search results. I have it enabled for Google and DuckDuckGo.
Yes.
That's why I've had it blocked from my search results for at least five years now.
No, you were told, from the beginning, the exact opposite, that masks were necessary but that because N95 masks were in short supply you should not run out and get one - preventing essential medical staff from getting them - until further notice. And when N95 masks became more widely available, you were advised to get one.
From the very beginning, you were advised to find some way of masking. The only question was whether you should use an N95, not whether you should mask at all. And the argument against N95s was never, ever, that they were ineffective.
Two lies sandwiching a blatantly stupid complaint. This is symptomatic of how our country has fallen.
No.
I (in Ontario, Canada) was told that unless you were trained on how to wear a mask, that using one would be useless at best, and actively harmful at worst. That unless you knew how to properly use one, you would handle it too much, and contaminate your hands with the as yet unknown virus. I wish I could find a source, however I remember this very clearly, as I have a lot of family that works in healthcare, and they parroted this as well. This was a flat out lie; there simply wasn't enough of them, as we had destroyed our emergency stockpile a few years prior.
This one lie, on its own, did incalculable damage to the trustworthiness of the government response and greatly harmed any trust in any future advice.
The rest of your comments are true and valid, but on this one point, at least from my perspective, you are dead wrong.
Oh I love this. Would mod you up, but it's already at +5 so I'll reply instead.
"AI is very good at answering questions. But it's a long way off from knowing which questions to ask".
(Paraphrased, yes, but I'm stealing it.)
So why is it here?
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce.
