Ken was against the Iraq war, and would make the best Chancellor we could hope for (if not Prime Minister).
Grow up.
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What a load of (pardon my French) cuillons.
Yes, copyright infringement is similar to riding a train with no ticket - the train is going to the destination anyway, and it's only a social contract that makes you think that you need to pay for a ticket.
That's your choice.
The music is available by virtue of being digitised - it's now as free as a train ride.
Me - I pay for my music, and my train rides, but I don't object to others sharing my ride (unless they play rap shit!).
Yes, but he did that on the back of Ken Clarke's non-interference policy.
He has since fucked up the model by imposing taxes on investment and stupid actions like the fuel price escalator and the extra tax on diesel (hint - the worst polluters on the road are Tony Bliars old friends from Stagecoach who never maintain their filthy buses - most ordinary car drivers are keen to minimise the amount of shit that comes out of their exhaust...).
Actually, Brown is a pretty bright guy, if a little misguided (hint - Straw is the worst possible choice for us - he's an opportunist arsehole who would have crawled further up Shrub's arse than Bliar).
If he can cross the charisma gap, and persuade Ken Clarke to resume his duties as Chancellor, then we might not face a total meltdown.
I'm a natural Labour voter (one grandpa a boilermaker, the other a miner), but I could never vote for Milliband (Red Sea pedestrian) or Harman (useless tart).
At the level at which you (possibly as a software engineer) deal with it, the mathematics behind the software is normally so abstracted as to be almost invisible.
That does not change the fact that at the most basic level all computer programs are just mathematics - a Turing machine manipulating program and data.
And mathematics isn't a science at all - it is a logical discipline, where (all useful) theorems are either true or not true, unlike science where hypotheses are there to be shot down, but so long as they work better than existing hypotheses they are held to be contingently true.
Fact is, it is possible to prove the correctness or otherwise of a computer program, so it's mathematics.
I can't replicate the work of a plumbing job an astronomical number of times for almost no cost. That's why there's an "I" in "IP". And don't try to pretend that just because you can't pick it up and throw it it doesn't have real value.
But it has no intrinsic value - only a notional value ascribed by the creator and enforced by copyright law.
The actual value, in the absence of IP laws, is equal to the cost of producing a copy, which is virtually nil.
When you steal copyrighted material, you are stealing
Yes, but copying something is quite different from stealing something.
Stealing something involves infringing the natural right of an individual not to be deprived of their posessions - copying something in violation of copyright law involves infringing an artificial right created by law.
If you don't understand the difference between a natural right and an artificial right, you have no business using clever words like 'vacuous' and 'insipid', you corprophagous troll:o)
My point is that the withholding of the passwords isn't criminal - there may be a civil liability, but locking the guy up on $5 million bail just isn't reasonable.
If my superiors ask me for something that I think is a bad idea, I just tell them straight that it's stupid, and if they insist on it, I make sure that there's a written record of my objection (I used to do network and physical security, but now code for a living, as there are fewer opportinities for PHBs to piss me off).
Oh, and to the idiot that modded me 'Flamebait' - may you get what you deserve in metamoderation.
Could you please point me to the American supersonic jetliner?
Thought not - and seeing as how it was bits falling of a US plane that caused the disaster that killed off Concorde, you've got nothing to shout about.
Concorde was an elementally flawed idea - too small and too expensive to develop and run, but I saw the A380 at Farnborough the other day, and that's going to kill Boeing in the next few years, especially if they lose the USAF tanker contract too.
And 'super-massive supercollider'?
That's just a drag strip with 2 SUVs loaded with lard-arsed Yanks playing chicken:o)
No - in any superconductor above absolute zero, there will be some thermal noise that locally (albeit on a very small scale) interferes with the current and creates some resistance.
It's a small effect, but when dealing with high currents (as CERN are), the colder you get the magnets the better.
Childs' problems with the department got serious June 20 when he started taking photographs of the agency's new head of security after she began an audit of who had password access to the system, the newspaper said. Childs' frightening behavior prompted the woman to lock herself in an office
So basically, he's been fired for spooking some (probably less than competent) tart that's been hired to impose security on what's already a well secured system (since no other bugger can get in and screw it up).
Well done management - I'd have sacked the new security totty and kept the networking expert.
As a card-carrying Coke-swilling social retard on a perpetual power trip, may I say that Terry's a total star.
I fail to see how refusing to give someone the password for a system which you were totally responsible for setting up, and on call 24/7/365 to support, is criminal - what is criminal is the attitude of the management who seem to have sacked the guy over a personality clash with their new security asshat, who's probably less qualified than Terry on network security matters.
I'd do the same if I was in his position - they'd have to offer me a big payoff for the information in my head, and specious lawsuits wouldn't deter me.
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Ken was against the Iraq war, and would make the best Chancellor we could hope for (if not Prime Minister).
Grow up.
What a load of (pardon my French) cuillons.
Yes, copyright infringement is similar to riding a train with no ticket - the train is going to the destination anyway, and it's only a social contract that makes you think that you need to pay for a ticket.
That's your choice.
The music is available by virtue of being digitised - it's now as free as a train ride.
Me - I pay for my music, and my train rides, but I don't object to others sharing my ride (unless they play rap shit!).
Yes, but he did that on the back of Ken Clarke's non-interference policy.
He has since fucked up the model by imposing taxes on investment and stupid actions like the fuel price escalator and the extra tax on diesel (hint - the worst polluters on the road are Tony Bliars old friends from Stagecoach who never maintain their filthy buses - most ordinary car drivers are keen to minimise the amount of shit that comes out of their exhaust...).
Bring back Ken!
Actually, Brown is a pretty bright guy, if a little misguided (hint - Straw is the worst possible choice for us - he's an opportunist arsehole who would have crawled further up Shrub's arse than Bliar).
If he can cross the charisma gap, and persuade Ken Clarke to resume his duties as Chancellor, then we might not face a total meltdown.
I'm a natural Labour voter (one grandpa a boilermaker, the other a miner), but I could never vote for Milliband (Red Sea pedestrian) or Harman (useless tart).
In fact, that's a Perl one-liner for factoring arbitrarily large numbers :o)
What, The Fir? The Larch? The Redwood? The mighty Scots Pine?
Sorry, but that's the only tall thin things that come out of Canada as far as my education went...
Eventually some bright spark will winkle out the truth, though hacking travel cards does seem kind of shellfish.
I'll be using mine later today to go and watch some barnacle boxing - hope I'm not all abalone :P
Hans,
At the level at which you (possibly as a software engineer) deal with it, the mathematics behind the software is normally so abstracted as to be almost invisible.
That does not change the fact that at the most basic level all computer programs are just mathematics - a Turing machine manipulating program and data.
And mathematics isn't a science at all - it is a logical discipline, where (all useful) theorems are either true or not true, unlike science where hypotheses are there to be shot down, but so long as they work better than existing hypotheses they are held to be contingently true.
Fact is, it is possible to prove the correctness or otherwise of a computer program, so it's mathematics.
Bri.
Ewww... funny, but somehow disturbing :P
Yep, and now we know where the name comes from - roNAldO!
Falls over just like the real thing!
But I do hear that Microsoft is working on 'Shitstorm' :o)
But I claim copyright on all expletives emitted by the operator when said operator strikes their thumb rather than the elongated metal cylinder :P
Well, getting corprophagous into a /. post is funny, you mocker!
But it has no intrinsic value - only a notional value ascribed by the creator and enforced by copyright law.
The actual value, in the absence of IP laws, is equal to the cost of producing a copy, which is virtually nil.
Yes, but copying something is quite different from stealing something.
Stealing something involves infringing the natural right of an individual not to be deprived of their posessions - copying something in violation of copyright law involves infringing an artificial right created by law.
If you don't understand the difference between a natural right and an artificial right, you have no business using clever words like 'vacuous' and 'insipid', you corprophagous troll :o)
If Tom Cruise is worth that much, how much is a full size actor worth?
I've got Guerilla Arm Syndrome - my AK keeps popping off at inopportune moments.
Seriously, though - it's taken me 20 years to get used to using a bloody mouse, and nobody's going to make me learn a new device at my age.
I still use as many keyboard shortcuts as I can, FFS!
My point is that the withholding of the passwords isn't criminal - there may be a civil liability, but locking the guy up on $5 million bail just isn't reasonable.
If my superiors ask me for something that I think is a bad idea, I just tell them straight that it's stupid, and if they insist on it, I make sure that there's a written record of my objection (I used to do network and physical security, but now code for a living, as there are fewer opportinities for PHBs to piss me off).
Oh, and to the idiot that modded me 'Flamebait' - may you get what you deserve in metamoderation.
Could you please point me to the American supersonic jetliner?
Thought not - and seeing as how it was bits falling of a US plane that caused the disaster that killed off Concorde, you've got nothing to shout about.
Concorde was an elementally flawed idea - too small and too expensive to develop and run, but I saw the A380 at Farnborough the other day, and that's going to kill Boeing in the next few years, especially if they lose the USAF tanker contract too.
And 'super-massive supercollider'?
That's just a drag strip with 2 SUVs loaded with lard-arsed Yanks playing chicken :o)
It'll never happen at CERN, but wait till the Japanese get involved...
No - in any superconductor above absolute zero, there will be some thermal noise that locally (albeit on a very small scale) interferes with the current and creates some resistance.
It's a small effect, but when dealing with high currents (as CERN are), the colder you get the magnets the better.
Bloody phonons, always getting in the way :o)
So basically, he's been fired for spooking some (probably less than competent) tart that's been hired to impose security on what's already a well secured system (since no other bugger can get in and screw it up).
Well done management - I'd have sacked the new security totty and kept the networking expert.
As a card-carrying Coke-swilling social retard on a perpetual power trip, may I say that Terry's a total star.
I fail to see how refusing to give someone the password for a system which you were totally responsible for setting up, and on call 24/7/365 to support, is criminal - what is criminal is the attitude of the management who seem to have sacked the guy over a personality clash with their new security asshat, who's probably less qualified than Terry on network security matters.
I'd do the same if I was in his position - they'd have to offer me a big payoff for the information in my head, and specious lawsuits wouldn't deter me.
Ha - you sed it :o)