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Re:let em release it
IIRC, using oyster it's 90p for a single bus journey. But your bus travel is capped at 3GBP (about $6)
Likewise, tube travel. In central London it's 1.50GBP per journey but the cap (for zones 1 and 2) is 4.80GBP. Also the bus travel counts towards this. So, if you're staying outside central London as a tourist then get a bus into the centre, travel about the centre by bus and tube and then just get a bus back to your hotel and your travel will be capped at a maximum of 4.80GBP (so long as you always touch in and out on the tube)
You can also buy a travelcard. This will be 50p more than the capped oyster fare but there's no risk of forgetting to touch in or out.
I typically use foot and bicycle in central London (because it's quicker) but provided you don't pay cash fares and use oyster or a travel card, I think the pricing for public transport is actually pretty good. Due to the fixed per journey price there are some extortionate per mile charges:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=11804929658401494669,51.511495,-0.128425&saddr=A400%2FCharing+Cross+Rd+%4051.511495,+-0.128425&daddr=51.512776,-0.124133&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=16&doflg=ptm&sll=51.51065,-0.127115&sspn=0.005863,0.012724&ie=UTF8&z=16
would be about 12GBP/mile cash fare if you took the tube rather than walked it and about 4.50GBP/mile using Oyster but you quickly reach the cap.Tim.
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Re:SDL
I disagree with SDL. pyglet would be a much better idea.
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You can play with the search query
Use Google search snippets to expose little details of the document...
I'm guessing some persistent folks will eventually be able to piece the bits together.
i.e. see how much you can piece together from the summary with the result shown by google. Adjust your search by including unique words towards the end of the snippet in one search to try to get the text that follows.
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You can play with the search query
Use Google search snippets to expose little details of the document...
I'm guessing some persistent folks will eventually be able to piece the bits together.
i.e. see how much you can piece together from the summary with the result shown by google. Adjust your search by including unique words towards the end of the snippet in one search to try to get the text that follows.
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Re:Gorilla Arm Syndrome
Some schools are bringing the angled desks back into use, because they're ergonomically superior to the flat desks.
e.g. here (Google cache because the real page has some broken javascript)
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The UK is a security joke
It's no surprise that this has happened to a high ranking UK official. The state of security in the United Kingdom is absolutely pathetic nowadays, and the country deserves to be laughed at. Before we go on, yes, I'm British.
Barely a week seems to go by without a story of confidential government (or secret service) files being left on a train, on a laptop on a train, or what not. Think I'm joking? Google for "uk lost files train" to see a plethora of stories.
For more, try a search for UK lost data. This includes November 2007's leak of 25 million people's bank details, national insurance numbers (like an SSN in the US), name, birthday and address. How about December 2007's story of the DVA losing the details of 6000 drivers?
The British government is a fucking shambles when it comes to anything relating to IT (what about the £20bn wasted on an NHS computer system that barely works - with a reported 110 "major incidents" in 2006) or the secure management of data.
In the UK, any data stored by the government (which includes most of your personal information) is extremely unsafe and should be assumed to be public knowledge.
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The UK is a security joke
It's no surprise that this has happened to a high ranking UK official. The state of security in the United Kingdom is absolutely pathetic nowadays, and the country deserves to be laughed at. Before we go on, yes, I'm British.
Barely a week seems to go by without a story of confidential government (or secret service) files being left on a train, on a laptop on a train, or what not. Think I'm joking? Google for "uk lost files train" to see a plethora of stories.
For more, try a search for UK lost data. This includes November 2007's leak of 25 million people's bank details, national insurance numbers (like an SSN in the US), name, birthday and address. How about December 2007's story of the DVA losing the details of 6000 drivers?
The British government is a fucking shambles when it comes to anything relating to IT (what about the £20bn wasted on an NHS computer system that barely works - with a reported 110 "major incidents" in 2006) or the secure management of data.
In the UK, any data stored by the government (which includes most of your personal information) is extremely unsafe and should be assumed to be public knowledge.
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Laws
The sad thing is, that despite there being several laws in place that could be used to punish these companies (Computer Misuse Act, 1990 and the Data Protection Act, 1998 spring to mind) they wont be.
In light of the number of breaches recently (such as the MOD losing restricted USB sticks, the Inland Revenue losing records and even the damn Navy losing recruiting information), I'll wager the government will introduce another new law to deal with this but still, you know not actually do anything about it.
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Laws
The sad thing is, that despite there being several laws in place that could be used to punish these companies (Computer Misuse Act, 1990 and the Data Protection Act, 1998 spring to mind) they wont be.
In light of the number of breaches recently (such as the MOD losing restricted USB sticks, the Inland Revenue losing records and even the damn Navy losing recruiting information), I'll wager the government will introduce another new law to deal with this but still, you know not actually do anything about it.
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Re:LastXP, et al....and how do you know that the OS you're running doesn't have an undocumented back door or a security hole or the like??
It all comes down to trust. I don't study the source code to all the open source apps I install. I just read the prevailing opinions out there on the interweb and make a judgement.
That's how I got one of the excellent eXPerience editions of XP. SP3 slipstreamed, unatended installation, no serial to enter, just pop the cd in press go and leave it for half an hour.
These 'shady' homebrew OSs are the only way your going to get a 99mb version of XP as well.
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Torvalds falsely accused of security coverup ..
"so guys (meaning not only Greg but Andrew, Linus, et al.), when will you publicly explain why you're covering up security impact of bugs", pagee...@freemail.hu
"I don't cover them up", Torvalds
"by 'cover up' i meant that even when you know better, you quite consciously do *not* report the security impact of said bugs", pagee...@freemail.hu
"Yes. Because the only place I consider appropriate is the kernel changelogs, and since those get published with the sources, there is no way I can convince myself that it's a good idea to say "Hey script kiddies, try this" unless it's already very public indeed", Torvalds
"one reason I refuse to bother with the whole security circus is that I think it glorifies - and thus encourages - the wrong behavior It makes "heroes" out of security people, as if the people who don't just fix normal bugs aren't as important", Torvalds
"I refuse to have anything to even _do_ with organizations like vendor-sec that I think is a corrupt cluster-fuck of people who just want to cover their own ass", Torvalds
http://tinyurl.com/5qyon3
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/5bdf2e1b8a90142c/abcf79768bb7ce7f?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#abcf79768bb7ce7f -
Re:Phew!
Why on Silver Street? I always thought Hawking lived on Trinity Street. You know, in Caius...
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Canary Islands
There was a scary program on UK TV a few years back talking about the possibility of something similar happening in the canary islands that would wipe out the eastern seaboard of the US - a little research seems to suggest this is greatly overhyped however.
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Speckled Computing
Google has more.
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Re:So long, thanks for all the gas.
Yeah, but over in europe, the gallons are bigger...
I don't know why you've been moderated funny.
1 Imperial gallon = 1.20095042 US gallons (only the UK uses gallons AFAIK, and only unofficially)
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Re:Don't recall that episode
I guess I'm not hardcore enough. Does this mean I have to turn in my geek card?
No, but you will lose your card for not doing something like this: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=chunkylover53+site%3Asnpp.com
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Re:Not like the olden days
Software Engineering with Ada by Grady Booch, The Impact of Ada on Software Engineering, third para down
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Re:All hail letter "g"
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You obviously don't work for Google!
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You obviously don't work for Google!
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You obviously don't work for Google!
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You obviously don't work for Google!
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In your face Del Cecchi
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Re:Which is why...
The system update is not a 'firmware' update, otherwise you wouldn't have to download the system updates again after reformatting the drive. I know from experience that you do indeed have to do this. That's all I'm trying to point out.
If putting in a fresh formatted drive fixes the system, then the problem is with the code that was on the HD, not in the firmware. Saying that the firmware is broken is like saying your BIOS is broken because a Windows startup file has been corrupted.
Seems a lot of people here need to look up the definition of firmware.
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Re:Not Sure I'm Getting It
The problem with Google is that you generally need to know the name of a thing before you can search for it. Be enlightened at the coolness. Yes it is a very good idea, it was big in the 80s. You are right that it will be big again in a few years when there are lots of idle cores sitting around.
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Re:Uncanny valley
Reminds me of this video on a charity called Common Purpose.
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Re:That's odd......
Actually, I think you'll find Hotmail has more of a habit of losing non-spam messages.
Hotmail has another weird bug with firefox - some accounts (mostly @msn.com) have to log in twice. Here's a long forum post about it, here's a pretty bug report, and here's an easy fix. -
Re:That's odd......
Actually, I think you'll find Hotmail has more of a habit of losing non-spam messages.
Hotmail has another weird bug with firefox - some accounts (mostly @msn.com) have to log in twice. Here's a long forum post about it, here's a pretty bug report, and here's an easy fix. -
Re:That's odd......
Actually, I think you'll find Hotmail has more of a habit of losing non-spam messages.
Hotmail has another weird bug with firefox - some accounts (mostly @msn.com) have to log in twice. Here's a long forum post about it, here's a pretty bug report, and here's an easy fix. -
Semantic & generated feeds
Aside from the RSS feeds of Slashdot and the main UK dailys, I like to read semantically or search engine generated feeds:
Delicious popular tag 'politics':
http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/politics
Delicious popular tag 'science':
http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/science
Google News search 'biodiesel', an endless stream of positive news:
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&ned=uk&q=biodiesel&ie=UTF-8&output=rss
I'm hoping that Delicious may eventually allow combinations of tags, e.g. popular uk+politics.
Plus a few other plain RSS feeds:
BBC Technology:
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/technology/rss.xml
XKCD A webcomic of romance and math humor.
http://xkcd.com/rss.xml
Tech-On Asian Technology News:
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/index.rdf
The Guardian's 'Comment is Free' article stream with comment section:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/rss
Buffalo Beast, US political satire:
http://interglacial.com/rss/buffalo_beast.rss
Fabians political society:
http://fabians.org.uk/index2.php?option=com_ds-syndicate&version=1&feed_id=1
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Re:No stickers in the UK
Here in the UK you rarely see bumper stickers, yet road rage is not exactly rare. So I don't really see the correlation. Having said that, whenever I see the Jesus fish on the back of a car, I do want to run it off the road on general principle. But maybe that's just me.
We may not have bumper stickers but for a short period every 2 years, in England at least, there is a national scheme to mark poor drivers. Bad drivers are forced to display a red cross on a white background, very bad drivers must display multiple or excessively large symbols. A very useful scheme and I'm not sure why we don't follow it year round.
Some examples can be seen here.
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Re:China censors political speech
It is just staggering to me how the bias on slashdot in favor of "free speech" has blinded so many to the terrible horror that children face when abused in this manner. Those children have rights, not the least of which is just the simple right to privacy after the fact, such that their pornographic images are removed from public view. A child's right to privacy, especially in this circumstance, trumps your supposed 1st amendment right to "free speech" - particularly given that this "speech" is not the least bit protected under constitutional law.
Here here! These children have rights to block non-related information to their abuse!
What are you, a idiot? The reason why people are annoyed about this is because it's entirely blocking other communications (stuff that isn't child porn).
Hell, there are certain alt.* boards I visit which don't have child porn. I don't think blocking all alt.* boards when the evidence is only "child porn on 88 newsgroups -- out of roughly 100,000 newsgroups that exist." is a suitable solution. -
Form BS 7671:2008 (stroke 6?)
Whereas in the real world UK, I have to get an electrical contractor to fill in form BS 7671:2008 after I have simply replaced a smashed light switch.
The fact that I live out in the sticks and that I cannot find a qualified electrician who will drive out to do such a small job, seems not to bother either the department of information retrieval - erm, I mean the local council planning department, nor my house insurers.
FFS. Replacing a light switch is no more difficult than wiring a plug. If you're dumb enough to cock that up, you probably have someone who looks after you anyway.
Today, I am the Harry Tuttle of electrical wiring.
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Re:As opposed to the US ...They also weren't apprehended on US soil, You're quite right; many were kidnapped from the territory of sovereign states, allies in some cases, who are not terribly impressed to find US spooks running quasi-legal "disappear squads" where the US has no jurisdiction whatsoever.
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Re:Who knew?
Certainly many do, and they will buy comfortable cars instead of SUVs.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=voted+%22most+comfortable+car%22&btnG=Search&meta= -
Re:ISO standards themselves are closed!
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Re:reasonable doubt
I still don't feel really comfortable with jurors making decisions based on "looking into people's eyes", as one of the jurors was saying; given how many people believe in astrology, mind reading, new age, and other supernatural stuff, I think there there's a lot of potential for bad decision making there.
I totally agree. Mainly because it's way too easy to deceive. A while ago Tomorrow's World (the BBC's pop-science show) did a series of experiments called "megalab". One of them involved getting a someone to tell the truth and a lie on TV, radio and in print and see in which medium the public were most likely to be able to distinguish. People were worst with TV, better with radio and best with print. Here's a link to a paper refencing it -
Re:What a surprise
Next week: local resident arrested for 42 days without charge for putting the bins out too early.
Life imitating art. Well sort of : http://news.google.co.uk/news?q=bin+%22two+fingers%22&btnG=Search+News
Example: http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.2317800.0.anger_over_two_finger_bin_rule.phpA COUPLE were left annoyed after being told their wheelie bin containing grass cuttings was not emptied because binmen could not lift it with two fingers.
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Re:Support Lines
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Re:It's like watching ugly people kiss
Office 2007 is actually very successful. Don't allow yourself to be manipulated by the Slashdot anti-Microsoft sentiments.
I also found the assertion of the GP hilarious. Do you interpret this graph as showing Microsoft's impending doom? If you do, you need glasses. -
Has been done before with PS3s
The guys in Antwerp have probably got themselves the greater number crunching power, but reconstruction of tomographic images has been done using similar multi-core hardware. See the following (pdf alert) from the University of Erlangen, which uses a cluster of PS3s for a great use of commodity consumer hardware http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imp.uni-erlangen.de%2FIEEE%2520MIC2007%2FKnaup_Poster_M19-291.pdf&ei=t_FBSKnZKoie1gbh2Y23Bg&usg=AFQjCNG7vNGmMM2hBrYdVKbwZAJZL0oS3Q&sig2=sEdlnPROC77CZ_KJ5OOgrg .
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Re:Java????
See also the hyperoperators of Perl 6:
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Re:Huh?
I can tell you don't live in Swansea.
They've just spent millions of pounds and several years carving up the main roads through the centre into "metro" and normal lanes, supposedly to accommodate bendy buses here. It's caused no end of disruption and queues, the new system is a nightmare to navigate for everyone - drivers, cyclists and pedestrians alike - and I've yet to see sight or sound of a single bendy bus to make the whole job worthwhile.
So just remember, no matter how bad the roads are in your area, it could always be worse. Unless you live here. -
Re:This interests me.
I recently bought an old Jornada 720 PDA for about $60 off ebay.
200MHz StrongARM processor with 32MB RAM, running Windows CE.
But the Jornadas can Run Linux (I run the Jlime distro), and it has a compact flash slot for storage (I put in a 4GB CF Card).
I can VNC, SSH, do X forwarding and do a host of other things. It also has a PCMCIA slot, so many standard PCMCIA cards would work, including wireless and 3G cards.
Also a hardware upgrade is in the works, within the next few months an upgrade will come that will boost the RAM to 128MB for about $100.
All in all, I am really happy with it. Initially typing on it was a bit tricky due to the smaller keys, but I am getting used to it, I can almost touch type now.
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
If found older (English) peer-reviewed papers by this Author here and here. He doesn't seem to have published much on this since then, except for a very vague patent application to be found here.
It seems unlikely to me that the first move an earnest discoverer of a new energy source in Japan would be to call an Italian newspaper. All the more since he seems to be working in academia and would thus have a strong incentive to publish in a peer-reviewed journal first (you don't get the Nobel prize for an article in "Il sore 24 ore"). But, here are the papers. Form your own opinion... -
Re:Mass Hysteria
Don't you mean iPood?
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Re:monitored is not free
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Re:And on the plus side. of plus-size..
15 Miles really isn't a significant cycling distance. I used to cycle this route (genericised for relative anonymity) daily to work, it used to take roughly 30 minutes depending how I felt, I was also in good company. (I now live literally next door to work, I do still cycle to college in the evenings, via this route)
To be fair London is mostly as flat as a pancake, particularly the North East (The boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets quite literally don't have a hill between them), but it's also definitely not a cycling city, something you're very aware of while trying to keep up an adequate speed 2 lanes from the kerb to cross a flyover. I have, however, come to enjoy Vehicular Cycling and happily use major junctions without incident. Segregated cycle facilities are usually rubbish anyway, sometimes absurdly so..
My point is one about attitude. The first few days you do the ride it will seem hard, no doubt. You may have to get up early, you might need a shower (or at least some wipes and a change of clothes) when you get in. It will, however, become normal very quickly. Cycling produces endorphins that will keep you happy all day, you'll lose weight and look and feel better, as you become fitter you'll sweat less and arrive at work feeling awake and happy, you'll wonder why everybody else drives to work, wondering why they won't even try it. You'll also save money on fuel and maintenance.
It sounds to me like you're scared of both the roads and the exercise. Both become normal, daily things that hold no fear very quickly. I'd be interested to see a map of your proposed route to see how bad it could possibly be. If you're 3.5 stone overweight it sounds like the time to do something about it is right now, take the plunge. -
Re:And on the plus side. of plus-size..
15 Miles really isn't a significant cycling distance. I used to cycle this route (genericised for relative anonymity) daily to work, it used to take roughly 30 minutes depending how I felt, I was also in good company. (I now live literally next door to work, I do still cycle to college in the evenings, via this route)
To be fair London is mostly as flat as a pancake, particularly the North East (The boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets quite literally don't have a hill between them), but it's also definitely not a cycling city, something you're very aware of while trying to keep up an adequate speed 2 lanes from the kerb to cross a flyover. I have, however, come to enjoy Vehicular Cycling and happily use major junctions without incident. Segregated cycle facilities are usually rubbish anyway, sometimes absurdly so..
My point is one about attitude. The first few days you do the ride it will seem hard, no doubt. You may have to get up early, you might need a shower (or at least some wipes and a change of clothes) when you get in. It will, however, become normal very quickly. Cycling produces endorphins that will keep you happy all day, you'll lose weight and look and feel better, as you become fitter you'll sweat less and arrive at work feeling awake and happy, you'll wonder why everybody else drives to work, wondering why they won't even try it. You'll also save money on fuel and maintenance.
It sounds to me like you're scared of both the roads and the exercise. Both become normal, daily things that hold no fear very quickly. I'd be interested to see a map of your proposed route to see how bad it could possibly be. If you're 3.5 stone overweight it sounds like the time to do something about it is right now, take the plunge. -
Re:yahoo, orkut
One of the better online SF communities is the venerable rec.arts.sf.written newsgroup (available here for the usenet-challenged), worth reading for an unusually high level of discussion (if you can ignore the usual sprinkling of spam). There are plenty of people there who'll make useful suggestions if you let them know what you like already.
Check out SF Site for tons of reviews, excerpts, and another forum.
I actually find Amazon quite useful for discovering new stuff (especially now they have excerpts from a fiar number of books). It doesn't need to be 'dicey and expensive' if you buy secondhand or discounted stocks from Amazon Marketplace traders with decent feedback (or similar small dealers that sell via ebay or AbeBooks ).
Why not subscribe to one of the major SF magazines like Interzone or Analog ?
