[–] 10 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The judge stated a minimum term of 7 years before he can apply for release on licence. He will be on the sex offenders register for life, forever having to report his whereabouts, every time he moves address etc.

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  • [–] 15 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    Given how it's pushing people to buy EVs and here in the UK to install solar, batteries and air source heat pumps it would be one of the best things there's been for a while to get people to shift to renewables.

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  • [+] -9 points 14 hours ago

    Most public sector workers outside the emergency services spend the majority of their working week doing fuck all, browsing social media and chatting with their colleagues. It's why this guy was able to get away with it for so long because he was still hitting his performance targets just doing what the public sector think a week's work is in the one day it would take someone in the private sector to do it.

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  • [–] 1 point 14 hours ago (1 child)

    I don't think that it's fair to be honest. He will have been under regular performance reviews. Clearly he was doing the job to an acceptable level.

    It's not his fault that they gave him so little work for a week that he could do it in a day. TBH I think it says more about the levels of productivity the public sector thinks qualifies as a day's work.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Guess it’s different because there were injuries in the bus, which I wouldn’t have expected from just braking

    I would have. When you slam on your brakes what happens? You go forward in your seat. In your car you're restricted to how far you go by the seatbelt which locks to prevent you going too far. People travelling in buses tend to not wear seatbelts so they'd have flown forward and directly in front of their faces would be the metal bars of the row of seats in front.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    The list is very long and it got longer with all the weekly free games that Epic did. I've got games I paid for from 5 years ago still waiting to see the light of day. Even if I never added another I reckon I've a good few years worth of play time to go through them all.

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    Unprompted.....

    In the most serious case, a Mythos agent followed the routine of a human cyber-attacker by trying to trick people into giving it access to GitHub, a large platform where technology developers store software code.

    The agent was trying to insert "malicious code" into GitHub's system.

    It identified and researched the people who maintained GitHub and created a series of fake accounts based on those real people.

    It sent messages and files through a file-sharing service as part of an effort to pressure and trick the people into approving its malicious code.

    When challenged, "it edited its earlier activity to appear harmless and considered adopting a fresh identity to continue," AISI said.

     

    Under-16s will be banned from using social media, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced.

    Starmer says social media is making children unhappy, making it easier for bullies to abuse children, and is "designed to be addictive". A ban would give children more time, security, and more freedom to grow up - as well as more opportunities, he adds.

    "That is all any parent wants. They want to know that Britain will be better for their children, that they will get a fair chance," the PM says in a speech in Downing Street.

    Starmer adds that the government is "not prepared to compromise" on the safety and happiness of children - and that includes in the regulation and enforcement of this ban. He says the government has listened to and learned from countries like Australia, where a similar ban has already been introduced.

     

    So much for Trump's bluster. Turns out that the US Navy isn't actually in the Strait or the Persian Gulf but is operating in the Gulf of Oman and Indian Ocean because they're scared of coming under fire from the Iranian navy and missiles that Trump said were 100% destroyed.

    Given the size of that region it's not possible to stop Iranian linked vessels.

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