Given that it's Rick Astley, and there's an option to 'watch this video in higher quality' on the page, I take it that the high quality version has no Stock, Aitken, Waterman content:o)
As you say above, he's sold out to get the nomination.
Now that he has the nomination, I'd expect him to return to his 2000 persona - by far the most sensible Republican that I can remember (though Bush Senior wasn't too bad - he just upset the pro-Israel lobby by threatening to cut subsidies if they didn't stop illegal settlements).
All I can say from a British standpoint is that we certainly would prefer it if you didn't elect Hilary;P
I've read 'Guns, Germs and Steel', and found it interesting and insightful.
GP, however, gives a perspective on the campaign that wasn't addressed by Diamond - I'd hesitate to dismiss his post out of hand.
Yes, there were benefits from the posession of technology by the Spanish, but the indigenous people weren't rolled over quite as easily as popular history reports - indeed, there are still indigenous peoples in South America that are still resisting 'civilisation'.
Well, I'm sitting here right now listening to Youssou N'Dour's latest album - 'Rokku Mi Rokka', which hasn't been promoted at all in the UK (he's Senegalese, and spends what he doesn't need on various projects in Africa).
None of the Subjective Gatekeepers have led me to this music - it's my own choice to buy the CD and support the artist.
I don't personally mind having to have my own 'not crap' filter - I can tell within 10 seconds or so whether a piece of music is being played well, and my tastes run from Gregorian chant to rap - the style is less important than the execution.
Give me variety, and let me choose - and let the A&R men and the fat cigar smoking publishers starve.
What it has all been about, is the exploitation of 'popular artists' by a bunch of scheissters who add no value apart from promotion.
There's no controlling of tastes, merely a promotion of fashion.
Now that there exists a means of subverting the business model of said scheissters, they are upset, and will tickle the tummies of their tame congresscritters with green until the law prevents the distribution of independent music.
The database connection flaw is serious, but not just because it is stored in plain text.
It is serious because it is in an open standard, and even if it were encrypted or obfuscated in some way, the way to reverse that encryption or obfuscation would have to be documented too (so that others can implement it properly).
The very act of embedding an ODBC connection string rather than a DSN in an open document format is what is wrong here - not the fact that it's in plain text.
Mod up to 11, please - I thought exactly the same when reading the article.
Feynman was exceedingly fond of beer and generally having a good time - maybe it's because the study was based on ornithologists rather than physicists that this negative correlation was found:P
It wasn't the feds data mining the records - it was the bank through which Spitzer made the transactions.
It's standard practice to flag unusual numbers of transactions that approach the $10,000 limit at which they become notifiable, since that sort of pattern can indicate money laundering.
The evidence was passed to the IRS, who then involved the Justice Department since Spitzer is a political figure.
If there's any funny business going on, it's at the Justice Dept which may have gone on a fishing expedition using wiretaps.
Had Spitzer not been a politician, he would likely have got a call from the IRS asking him to explain the transactions.
Had Spitzer been a Republican, the Justice Dept. would probably have swept it all under the carpet.
Correct - I'm just surprised that nobody has come up with a scheme like this before, since the technology to do so has been around for at least 8 years (I was involved in a failed ISP startup in 2000, and planned out a lovely network of layer 7 switches, proxies etc. which looks in hindsight eerily similar to Phorm's setup, but didn't see hijacking browser sessions as ethical or desirable - good job the funding failed, as we had a right bunch of sharks on the sales and marketing side).
Equally, the risk that the 'terrorists' will ever harm you personally is infinitessimally close to nil, so WTF is the point of the 'war on terror'?
Besides, if the Clinton bitch gets into power, she may not come after you, but she'll be willing to allow mass surveillance to enforce whichever nutty plans she has to take more of your money off you - expect a US version of the UK's RIPA legislation, allowing everyone from the FBI to the local dog warden to surveil you at will.
If you look down the bottom right of all the BBC News pages, you'll see two little tabs called 'Most Read' and 'Most Emailed'.
The 'tracking' involved doesn't amount to much more than a page impression counter to enable the BBC to see what interests people most (though I have my worries about such data being used to promote a dumbing-down of editorial policy - lowest common denominator and all that...).
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.
One of the best and most concise poets ever to grace the English language - I was a maths nerd at school, but Larkin made me enjoy the humanities nonsense we had to study.
More likely, the setting of the teacher's expectations for each child affected how much time and effort the teacher was prepared to invest in the child, and that is what governed the outcome.
It's not subtle - it is played out in every classroom every day of the year, and is one of the main factors affecting the performance of children in schools.
It's even worse now, with the target-based model of education we have in the UK - kids from disadvantaged backgrounds are even less likely to get the assistance they need to flourish, while the nice middle class kids with both parents resident will get the majority of the teacher's attention.
It's an unintended consequence, but given the calibre of most of our politicians the majority of government policy results in such adverse consequences.
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We are the Knights who say 'Ni'!
Given that it's Rick Astley, and there's an option to 'watch this video in higher quality' on the page, I take it that the high quality version has no Stock, Aitken, Waterman content :o)
OMGNazis!
Bloody Sais - trampling on us real Britons!
Good job too - she'd have run out of fuel before she got out of the driveway.
As you say above, he's sold out to get the nomination.
Now that he has the nomination, I'd expect him to return to his 2000 persona - by far the most sensible Republican that I can remember (though Bush Senior wasn't too bad - he just upset the pro-Israel lobby by threatening to cut subsidies if they didn't stop illegal settlements).
All I can say from a British standpoint is that we certainly would prefer it if you didn't elect Hilary ;P
Get off my lawn!
Music is for everyone - it's just that they don't make decent music anymore ;o)
If you like it (I'm still making up my mind), then support the guy.
It's a bit Glass, a bit Satie - and if you visit his site, you'll see he's bipolar and schizoid, so don't beat up on him for a little self promotion.
GP, however, gives a perspective on the campaign that wasn't addressed by Diamond - I'd hesitate to dismiss his post out of hand.
Yes, there were benefits from the posession of technology by the Spanish, but the indigenous people weren't rolled over quite as easily as popular history reports - indeed, there are still indigenous peoples in South America that are still resisting 'civilisation'.
None of the Subjective Gatekeepers have led me to this music - it's my own choice to buy the CD and support the artist.
I don't personally mind having to have my own 'not crap' filter - I can tell within 10 seconds or so whether a piece of music is being played well, and my tastes run from Gregorian chant to rap - the style is less important than the execution.
Give me variety, and let me choose - and let the A&R men and the fat cigar smoking publishers starve.
There's no controlling of tastes, merely a promotion of fashion.
Now that there exists a means of subverting the business model of said scheissters, they are upset, and will tickle the tummies of their tame congresscritters with green until the law prevents the distribution of independent music.
It's the Jaffia, stupid!
Please see the dominatrix down the corridor for your corrective treatment.
Duress codes.
Enter one code to authenticate normally, another to flag up that you are being forced to authenticate.
Not quite ironclad, but an extra level of safety.
I'm not just any controller, I'm the Fat Controller, you insensitive clod!
It is serious because it is in an open standard, and even if it were encrypted or obfuscated in some way, the way to reverse that encryption or obfuscation would have to be documented too (so that others can implement it properly).
The very act of embedding an ODBC connection string rather than a DSN in an open document format is what is wrong here - not the fact that it's in plain text.
Feynman was exceedingly fond of beer and generally having a good time - maybe it's because the study was based on ornithologists rather than physicists that this negative correlation was found :P
It's standard practice to flag unusual numbers of transactions that approach the $10,000 limit at which they become notifiable, since that sort of pattern can indicate money laundering.
The evidence was passed to the IRS, who then involved the Justice Department since Spitzer is a political figure.
If there's any funny business going on, it's at the Justice Dept which may have gone on a fishing expedition using wiretaps.
Had Spitzer not been a politician, he would likely have got a call from the IRS asking him to explain the transactions.
Had Spitzer been a Republican, the Justice Dept. would probably have swept it all under the carpet.
Obama - he hasn't had the ethics bypass that Clinton obviously suffers from, and if he gets in you're likely to regain more of your freedoms.
Unfortunately, Obama's going to get shafted by the superdelegates, so you'll get McCain, as nobody with half a brain will vote for Clinton.
Correct - I'm just surprised that nobody has come up with a scheme like this before, since the technology to do so has been around for at least 8 years (I was involved in a failed ISP startup in 2000, and planned out a lovely network of layer 7 switches, proxies etc. which looks in hindsight eerily similar to Phorm's setup, but didn't see hijacking browser sessions as ethical or desirable - good job the funding failed, as we had a right bunch of sharks on the sales and marketing side).
Besides, if the Clinton bitch gets into power, she may not come after you, but she'll be willing to allow mass surveillance to enforce whichever nutty plans she has to take more of your money off you - expect a US version of the UK's RIPA legislation, allowing everyone from the FBI to the local dog warden to surveil you at will.
The 'tracking' involved doesn't amount to much more than a page impression counter to enable the BBC to see what interests people most (though I have my worries about such data being used to promote a dumbing-down of editorial policy - lowest common denominator and all that...).
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
One of the best and most concise poets ever to grace the English language - I was a maths nerd at school, but Larkin made me enjoy the humanities nonsense we had to study.
More likely, the setting of the teacher's expectations for each child affected how much time and effort the teacher was prepared to invest in the child, and that is what governed the outcome.
It's not subtle - it is played out in every classroom every day of the year, and is one of the main factors affecting the performance of children in schools.
It's even worse now, with the target-based model of education we have in the UK - kids from disadvantaged backgrounds are even less likely to get the assistance they need to flourish, while the nice middle class kids with both parents resident will get the majority of the teacher's attention.
It's an unintended consequence, but given the calibre of most of our politicians the majority of government policy results in such adverse consequences.