The UK is in a strange position, where it must have regulations that are fairly similar to those of the European Union in order to benefit from cross-recognition and not hinder trade with its main partner. In this case, NIS2.
But at the same time, they don't want to admit it and are rewriting these standards in a very specific way so that only British engineering firms and consultants can draft regulatory documents or ensure compliance.
It ensures a monopoly for these engineering firms and consultants.
So there are legitimate reasons for doing this, such as avoiding having to write reports and request authorizations from oneself, not having to disclose certain sensitive information, etc.
The right way to do this is to draft a framework law and a few decrees along the lines of “administrations XXX and YYY will apply NIS2 with the following exceptions and adaptations ....”
This avoids creating overly broad exemptions, ensuring that there is a reference framework, and preventing each administration from developing its own system.
This is very common in the arms and nuclear sectors, where many civil norms and standards clearly state “not applicable to nuclear” and the nuclear standard states “apply civil standard XXX, with the following specific provisions, the competent authority is the ONR.”
Declaring an overly broad exemption from the outset is not the right way to go about it.
They will play the same game as Russia. They will not annex the whole of Greenland and will try to keep the intensity below that which would justify a full-scale armed conflict.
They will claim to annex only the territory of the American bases, then it will be a 10-mile strip around the bases, access to the sea, airspace, the exclusive economic zone, etc.
They can play this game for months and years if we let them.
Crimea came under Russian control because it was home to Russia's largest naval base, Simferopol.
For most time series, noise in time measurement is negligible.
However, this does not prevent complex coupling phenomena from occurring for other parameters, such as GPS coordinates.
At the time when this took place in Berlin, in the Berlin Congress Center, which was rather small, there were only a few hundred seats available, and most of them had already been allocated before they even went on sale.
It was also a great excuse to spend New Year's Eve in Berlin.
"Liberation of the Freebox", A slightly crazy Frenchman embarks on a quest to find exploit and write a complex exploit chain, using PrDoom and the Linux HFS+ driver to gain root privileges on his set-top box. All this in order to unlock the recording of somewhat rubbish TV channels such as TF1 and M6.
And he waited almost ten years and the retirement of the hardware to reveal it because he didn't want it to be patched.
If you are into hardware emulation "From silicon to Darude sand-storm" is fun.
It's always better than a link in the sticky post on the manufacturer's phpbb forum. I bought some audio equipment directly from a Chinese company, and everything look like a hobbies/student project.
Keep in mind that for a lot of Chinese companies, it's difficult to (legally) access some outside resources.
My company hosts our docker images on quay.io and docker hub, but we also have a tarball of images that we post to our Github releases. Recently our release tooling had a glitch and didn't upload the tarballs, and we very quickly got Github issues opened about it from a user who isn't able to access either docker registry and has to download the tarball from Github instead.
It doesn't surprise me that a lot of these companies have the same "release process" as Wii U homebrew utilities, since I can imagine there's not a lot of options unless you're pretty big and well-experienced (and fluent in English).
I bought a MiniPC directly from a Chinese company (an AOOSTAR G37) and the driver downloads on their website are MEGA links. I thought only piracy and child porn sites used those..
I am somewhat amazed how you can manufacture such expensive high tech equipment yet are too cheap to setup a proper download service for the software, which would be very simple and cheap compared to making the hardware itself.
Maybe it is a Chinese mentality thing where the first question is always "What is the absolutely cheapest way to do this?" and all other concerns are secondary at best.
..which does not inspire confidence in the hardware either.
Maybe Chinese customers are different, see this, and think "These people are smart! Why pay more if you don't have to!".
"- All-in-one toolbox: Arduino UNO Q combines the powerful Qualcomm® Dragonwing™ QRB2210 microprocessor (MPU) with a real-time STM32U585 microcontroller (MCU) – no matter what you’re building, it’s your new go-to tool!
- AI in a blink: unlock AI-powered vision and sound solutions that react to their environment."
Okay, so if you want to use a microprocessor that isn't targetted by an open-source compiler and assembler, you're going to have to use proprietary stuff.
Service reminder: Peertube is mainly developed by academics (at least half of whom are French) to host educational content. Competing with YouTube is not their priority. Their priority is to be able to present a history course on the Second World War without having to contort themselves to avoid saying ‘Nazi’ and pass under the radar of automatic moderation.
It's a great project, but it's not a replacement for YouTube, and that's fine.
But at the same time, they don't want to admit it and are rewriting these standards in a very specific way so that only British engineering firms and consultants can draft regulatory documents or ensure compliance.
It ensures a monopoly for these engineering firms and consultants.
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