Clap your hands if you believe in the finest wines known to man?
]]>Any food from the EU that would have been perfectly safe to import on the 28th March 2019 isn't suddenly going to become toxic on 29th March. The only thing that would stop food supplies coming into the country would be if the government was stupid enough to order it stopped, and even this lot of halfwits should see that's a very bad idea (if only because they'd be booted out at the next election). Same applies to any other import. If the EU wishes to get bureaucratic, which it undoubtedly will, goods going to the other way will get held up, but that should be at the French end, not Dover. Ultimately, like any tariff or non-tariff barrier it will hit the buyers who impose the tariff more than the sellers.
Incoming tariffs are something we get to decide on, not have imposed on us. The WTO agreement only sets the maximum tariff levels, we're perfectly at liberty to have 0% tariffs on anything we like, which would reduce the cost of all food from outside the EU (like New Zealand butter and lamb).
The "dairy as a rare luxury" report was commissioned by a dairy company, I'm only surprised the LSE put their name to it because it was rubbish. The UK is pretty much self sufficient in milk and cream (https://dairy.ahdb.org.uk/market-information/processing-trade/imports-exports/uk-dairy-trade-balance/#.W1A-g5DTW9c). We import a lot of cheese, but delays in cheese imports don't matter as the entire point of cheese is that it's time shifted milk. We also import some butter, but again it doesn't matter if it takes 6 weeks to come from NZ to get here.
As for Amazon walking away from the UK, IIRC the UK is their second biggest market after the US. Why the hell would they want to hand that over to anybody else?
]]>The same way as they can be sure of the identity behind any action on the web site - whatever authorisation mechanism they use. Either request deletions via the web site or get a time limited nonce from the web site to be included in mail requesting deletions. That guarantees the agent requesting deletions has access to the relevant authorisation. Add a three phase handshake and you can deal with many cases of leaked information. Anything else is the user's problem - the GDPR legislation talks about proportionate controls, you don't need sworn copies of birth certificates, finger prints and DNA samples to run a parish newsletter.
]]>The best system I've seen had one (largish) text field for "your name" and another one for "what short name do you like to be called by?". That immediately avoids any assumption about name structure and allows personal preferences. For example, a Japanese friend of mine likes to be called "Mack" for short rather than the more usual Furukawa-san, which no algorithm is going to get right.
]]>The ECHR has nothing to do with the EU so is unaffected by Brexit, (although certain Tories and right wing tabloids hate it). GDPR is a consideration for anyone who keeps personal details of EU citizens no matter where on the planet the data gatherer exists. So the only thing affected by Brexit is handling personal details of UK citizens, and we'll have to see what the government does about that.
]]>That case applies to dynamic IP addresses. I have fixed IP addresses and any technically competent person can find my name, address and telephone number from my IP address alone(*) so it does count as personal data.
(*) Until ICANN gets its act together and does something about GDPR.
]]>Can you/do you wish to say which gives you the higher amount of money? I've been buying your books in hardback where possible in order to maximise your revenue from me (for purely selfish reasons of course :-). I have a handful of authors I want to support this way, so how should I be buying in the future?
]]>As a nit-pick on nomenclature, and because I've been rereading the Odyssey, I suggest that would be a siren rather than a basilisk.
And as an interesting coincidence, the 1990 story collection Digital Dreams contained both David Langford's What happened at Cambridge IV, which introduced the idea of a basilisk, and Neil Gaiman's Virus about a computer game so addictive you can't stop playing.
Like gravity wave telescopes, the ideas have been around for a while, but the technology is now catching up and making the ideas implementable. Fortunately I think the rather ad hoc and fallible nature of wetware will preclude a "one algorithm attacks all" solution.
]]>$DEITY, is it 40 years?
And yes, bloody ridiculous the whole thing. I'd like to think this would stick a cattle prod up the relevant people, but strongly suspect we'll just see the same old security theatre. Amber Rudd was her usual highly disappointing and obviously out of her depth self on Today this morning.
]]>UK trade paperback version.
P 325, principal cast list:
River Douglas, Rita's sister.
Whereas PP 126-7 & other places, River is "he" and "brother"
P 326, principal cast list:
Elana Hjorth, Huw Hjorth's wife Huw Hjorth, Explorer General Brilliana Hjorth (Huw's wife)
I.e. Huw has two wives in this list. I think Elana is actually Hulius' wife.
]]>I'd agree with the first sentence, she succeeded because the Tories regard intelligent leaders as dangerous. As for the second sentence, look how well that idea worked in Italy with Berlusconi.
]]>"‘More politics? How absolutely f**king fantastic’, says Britain"
and
"Theresa May announces last election"
Some days the idea that I've probably got considerably less than 20 years of life expectancy is remarkably comforting.
]]>River Douglas is described as Rita's sister but is Rita's brother in the main text.
Both Brill and Elena Hjorth are described as Huw Hjorth's wife. I think Elena should be Hulius Hjorth's wife.
]]>Not to mention turning OGH into a 25 year old girl.
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