Corporal_Punishment
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- Comment on Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I should not be held responsible for the wrongdoing of men’ 5 hours ago:
Fair, but that’s assuming he took it in even amounts, which some of the purchases suggests he didn’t.
And even with that amount of income, I’ve seen her statement where she says it was all his own money, but frankly I don’t believe her.
If you’re married, you will always have a rough idea about how much money you have in shared and individual accounts, and the idea that one of you can go out and spend £60k+ on a motorhome and another £80k+ on cars without having to discuss the purchase beforehand with your spouse isn’t a reality I’m familiar with.
The other stuff? Sure. But rocking up in a brand new electric car just seems a bit much to me. If my wife turned up with a new motorhome my first question would be “where did you get the money from”.
- Comment on Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I should not be held responsible for the wrongdoing of men’ 22 hours ago:
The fact that she has denied knowing about it, not even questioning where all the extra money was coming from, and the police believed her is laughable.
- Comment on Salmonella infections in England at highest level in a decade, figures show 2 days ago:
Wouldn’t it be a shame if it was all the raw milk/barely cooked meat influencers who had been struck down.
- Comment on ‘My hospital room is unbearable’: how the heatwave is affecting Britons 2 days ago:
I work in a public building. Our office is essentially the loft, and its unbearable. The aircon stopped working years ago and will cost approx 30k to repair/replace. So it won’t be repaired/replaced.
- Comment on British canals are 2 to 4 ft deep and don't have currents. Did they not know how to simply stand up? 5 days ago:
They didn’t fall in. They lowered themselves in, they’re wearing waders and there are two of them to help each other if they need it
- Comment on Farage under mounting pressure to prove Russian hack claim 6 days ago:
Irrelevant. Doesn’t matter how it leaked, it still demonstrates that he is a slimy piece of shit
- Comment on The Bad Beer That’s an Incredible Beverage 1 week ago:
The choice isnt between IPA, stout and shitty piss water.
Other lagers do exist, as well as pilsner. In the UK in the hot temperature we’re currently having i enjoy Rheinbacher from Aldi/Lidl.
It’s light but also actually tastes good.
- Comment on What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV? 1 week ago:
Mine does really small, quiet barks and “runs” in her sleep. We think she’s chasing birds in her dreams which is her favourite daytime activity
- Comment on Senior civil servants to get bonuses for first time to reward ‘doers, not talkers’ 1 week ago:
And what about the people who actually do the work?
I worked for the civil service for 10 years. The only way to get any sort of pay rise was to get promoted. No bonuses, nothing.
So I left and got a similar job that pays 10k more
- Comment on Teenagers’ non-custodial sentences for rape under review, UK government says 1 week ago:
That judge needs his hard drive checking.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 1 week ago:
I agree
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 1 week ago:
I agree, 700k is suspiciously high but without additional information its hard to say what is driving it. Unless each separate component of a request is considered to be a separate request. But who knows
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 1 week ago:
To help understand, it might be useful to know that the basic principle in the UK is that communications networks are considered to be a public utility. Anything you do on that network is considered to be a public communication. Now the detail of what you’re actually doing is hidden becaise of encryption. But your identity is not.
Its the same principle as if you call or text people. Your phone number,like your IP is owned by the service provider.
Finding out who the IP is registered to is no different than asking a mobile company who the number belongs to.
Same as your car number plate.
Looking up an identifier to see who it is linked to isn’t an abuse of process
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 1 week ago:
I agree.
Requesting communications data from an ISP isn’t any of those things though.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 1 week ago:
A judge issuing a warrant just for the police to try and identify a suspect isn’t feasible or proportionate. Same logic would apply to requesting CCTV etc.
It would grind everything to a halt.
Where the warrant comes in is if you need to search a house and seize things.
As for the scale, I agree it does seem high. But like I said in another post, there isnt a cop in the land who has the time and inclination to put in subscriber requests just for the fun of it. The majority of those 700k requests will be on the back of a formal complaint/allegation of a crime.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 1 week ago:
You can change your IP/Mac.
Most people cant.
Most people when signing up to an email address don’t do that straight away, or they inadvertently log in using their real one at some point.
As for the first bit? No idea, I’m not from London. But 700,000 requests potentially represent 700,000 complaints from people about alleged criminal activity. Might be less, might be more. But I can tell you now, no cop in the land has the time or inclination to start searching for this stuff unless its a crime thats been reported to them.
And I’m guessing from your tone you obviously dont agree with any of it. Which begs the question, if you become a victim how would you feel if the police simply responded “yeah we don’t know whos doing it and we aren’t gonna bother trying to find out, good luck”?
- Comment on Question for The Boys fans: how can Vought International possibly, in-universe, “save” superhero reputations? 1 week ago:
“We can turn you into a super hero, in exchange you’ll have this explosive device implanted in your brain which is on a dead man’s switch”
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 1 week ago:
As always, a misleading story.
You’re minding your own business.
A stalker starts sending you threatening emails and messages saying they’re going to hunt you down and rape you.
You have no idea who it is, tried blocking them so they create a new account/buy a new ohone.
You report it to the police.
Police request communications data from the email provider to obtain an IP address. Also provides information that was given when the account was created, any geo-tagged data, any information about linked accounts that are used for 2fa/recovery.
They then request subscriber data from the ISP linked to the IP address, as well as things like the MAC to make sure they capture information about the device being used.
Now police have enough evidence to obtain a warrant to search the home address of the sender. They can seize the device (forensically linked earlier) and arrest the suspect for questioning.
This is exactly the process I followed many years ago. It kept an innocent woman safe and resulted in a potentially dangerous sex offender being arrested and dealt with.
- Comment on No evidence of formal security vetting when Andrew became UK trade envoy, minister says 1 week ago:
As a data protection professional, I’m curious.
Firstly, this data constitutes the personal data of Andrew. He might be a cunt, but he still has rights under UK GDPR. Regardless of his notoriety, there’s nothing in law that allows an organisation to share his employment record.
Secondly, again as its his personal data and he was an employee, why does the Foreign Office etc still have his employment records 26 years later?
They should have been destroyed in line with their retention policies. Most retention policies put a strict 6 years + remainder of the tax year in order to comply with tax legislation and the limitations act.
- Comment on Standard Chartered to replace 'lower-value human capital' with AI 1 week ago:
He told reporters: “It’s not cost-cutting. It’s replacing in some cases lower-value human capital with the financial capital and the investment capital we’re putting in.”
So…cost cutting then.
- Comment on Time for a bit of medical education 1 week ago:
Amoxicillin is up there twice. Once for “broad spectrum”. The other seems to only be for ear, nose and sinus infections.
The graphic is shit and misleading.
- Comment on UK Sees Lowest Viewing Figures for Eurovision Final Since 2010 1 week ago:
Well the general theme of the thread was about just that. And its been pretty much a hot topic everywhere else when talking about eurovision.
But as it stands I was actually genuinely curious as to why they were in it. Australia being in it is so absolutely absurd it didnt register with me.
- Comment on UK Sees Lowest Viewing Figures for Eurovision Final Since 2010 1 week ago:
They’re literally murdering thousands of people, but me questioning why a non-european country is participating in a european event is hatred?
Bore off
- Comment on UK Sees Lowest Viewing Figures for Eurovision Final Since 2010 1 week ago:
Ahhh, cheers. Now do Australia :D
- Comment on UK Sees Lowest Viewing Figures for Eurovision Final Since 2010 1 week ago:
Oh. Still doesnt really make much sense but hey ho.
- Comment on UK Sees Lowest Viewing Figures for Eurovision Final Since 2010 1 week ago:
Someone please explain again why Israel, a country that is definitely not in Europe, is participating in a european competition.
- Comment on Parkrun and other sports bodies face legal action over transgender inclusion 1 week ago:
Maybe I’ve been asleep for a few years, but i thought parkrun wasn’t a competition? And that all genders ran together anyway?
- Comment on Nigel Farage bought £1.4m property after receiving £5m gift from British crypto billionaire 2 weeks ago:
Me not getting a decent pay rise is the fault of immigrants in boats, surely?
- Comment on Hedge fund proposes £1bn buyout of UK’s biggest private hospital operator 2 weeks ago:
Nothing to do with Reform potentially getting into power and proceeding to gut the NHS forcing us all into private healthcare…
- Comment on Nigel Farage bought £1.4m property after receiving £5m gift from British crypto billionaire 2 weeks ago:
Nobody gives a £5m gift without expecting something in return.
Corrupt to the core and a sign of things to come if he gets into power