It isn't an under the table thing, at least in the UK. For the generalloy used frequency bands for this, there was an auction for the spectrum. You can get access to parts not being used by the people who bid on it.
You can also get an amateur radio license, and use frequency not normally used for this, but that probably means using SDR as most devices designed to use LTE will only work on normal LTE bands etc.
No bribes, connections, or anything shady etc needed.
There's also around 400 MHz of dedicated sharing-only spectrum in mobile bands, available in the UK at a flat price per 10 MHz required.
(Replying to GP)
At least in the UK, no bribes or envelopes of cash required. Nobody is going to want to help someone try to get started from scratch, but the spectrum access isn't anything like what you fear, at least in the UK. No connections required, the forms are all available online, and if you ask nicely and want bulk licences, you can use a spreadsheet instead for your requests, which is a bit less hassle than PDF forms.
Replying to sibling since we've maxxed out comment depth...
> It was $62 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday. I can't just go displaying that in a program. Nor is it meaningful to me without a decimal conversion.
It's just as meaningless to me even if you do the conversion to base10 for display... I don't do deg F intuitively and would have to convert to Celsius in my head. It's all about what we are familiar with.
Right but the world runs on base 10 is all i'm trying to say. It's needlessly difficult to use anything else (aside from hex or binary in very specific situations). In some college sophomore philosophy class you could argue for base 27 but it doesn't make your system usable or intelligible.
> It's needlessly difficult to use anything else (aside from hex or binary in very specific situations)
Totally agree. I'm a programmer, so I do need to know those, and as an embedded developer, even more. The average person not so much. I thought that's what this particular thread was all about.
Sure, I can work it out, and I do use F when talking to friends from the USA. My only point was that I deal with hex numbers all day, so they're more intuitive to me than Fahrenheit is.
I think that under certain circumstances the reply link doesn't show past a certain depth, but you can still (unless the comment is dead) click on the time link to get the page for the comment and reply there.
So, I can't see how they can argue that the code generated is not a derrivative of at least some of the code that it was trained on, and therefore encumbered by a complicated, and for anyone other than GitHub, impossible to disentangle, copyright claims. If they haven't even been careful to only use software under one license that does not require the original author to be attributed, then I don't see how it can even be legal for them to be running the service.
All that said, I'm not confident that anyone will stop them in court anyway. This hasn't tenmded to be very easy when companies infringe other open source code copyright terms.
Until it is cleared up though, it would seem extremely unwise for anyone to use any code from it.
The problem with the GDPR is that it is only as good as the authority enforcing it. There are complex rules (from memory about a third of the text, but it is a while since I read it all and this was the bit I was least interested in) on which authority is the one in question that means you can somewhat choose your authority, and some of them are not enforcing it at all. This is how Facebook and Google etc are able to do things that clearly violate it I think.
This is the DB that contains the usernames and (hashed) passwords right? What do they expect? That you have a separate DB for authentication from everything else? What does that achieve? If you DoS the auth DB, you still DoS the application in this scenario.
They try to sell us external/internal Auth service, similar to KeyCloack with their support. What pentesters want to achieve is not improved security, but to sell their services as DevOps and developers. This were not what we expected from pentesting.
They also desperately need to improve things like the store, which has no wish lists, no way to see all of the titles in specific categories, etc, at least on mobile.
There are multiple third party services which use the API to make daily copies of your documents, exporting them as MS Office documents. Yes, this isn't perfect, and you can lose some info in the files, it is pretty good for the most part. Nobody shpould be using G Suite without this, IMHO, because this happens too often.
You can also get an amateur radio license, and use frequency not normally used for this, but that probably means using SDR as most devices designed to use LTE will only work on normal LTE bands etc.
No bribes, connections, or anything shady etc needed.