Especially since it's a historically sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Mithraism. Actually, reading about the Swastika [wikipedia.org] here and how popular of a symbol it was before the rise and all of the Nazi Party, I'm shocked that you don't see it more often in Western nations.
Swastika-type symbols were used in Europe from ancient times, but not always the 4-branched version. The 3-branched variant occurs in celtic symbols, from pre-christian and early christian eras (this is related to the three-branched whorls which are encountered even more often). It's carved in rocks and in monuments and drawn in illuminated manuscripts from the "dark ages" and early middle ages in the British Isles, especially Ireland. The 3-branched swastika, bowdlerized into three joined legs, is the symbol of the Isle of Man (named after Mananan mac Lir, the Irish god of the sea).
Clearly, they should have named it MacWolfenstein or perhaps O'Wolfenstein (to avoid annoying Apple), and replaced all of the 4-branched symbols with 3-branched ones.
Fullscreen flash on Linux is just one of those/. memes that gets recycled past its "best by" date. It probably still applies to some combinations of graphics hardware and driver, especially older stuff.
I've been involved in this field for about 15 years. The funniest misconception I've run into, time and time again, is that an unmaintained UPS, unmaintained battery bank, unmaintained transfer switch, and unmaintained generator will somehow act as magical charms so as to be more reliable than the commercial power they are supposedly backing up.
A lot of folks don't really contemplate what a loss of power means to their business.
Some IT journal or salesperson or someone tells them that they need backup power for their servers, so they throw in a pile of batteries or generators or whatever... And when the power goes out they're left in dark cubicles with dead workstations. Or their manufacturing equipment doesn't run, so it doesn't really matter if the computers are up. Or all their internal network equipment is happy, but there's no electricity between them and the ISP - so their Internet is down anyway.
I'll stand behind a few batteries for servers... Enough to keep them running until they can shut down properly... But actually staying up and running while the power is out? From what I've seen that's basically impossible.
I've never had the headache of maintaining a business infrastructure, but must cope with our small setup at home. The LAN printer is the only IT thing without UPS power. The server, router, and optical switch are on one UPS. Two PCs each have their own smaller UPS which also power ethernet switches, and there's a laptop which obviously has battery power built-in. All of the computers, including the server, are configured to shutdown if the batteries go down to 20% (for the laptop, it's 10%).
We live in the countryside, so power outages happen (too often), especially the annoying 1-10 minute outages which mean someone is working on the power line. The optical fiber never seems to go down, so I guess they have good power at the other end and at any intermediate units. The kids keep on surfing the net (or doing homework, or whatever) right through most power outages. They know to finish up and save any work if the battery starts getting low, and get an automated warning when the battery gets down to 30%.
So our IT at home stays up and functioning for a while during power breaks. The TV and related stuff, on the other hand, are left at the mercy of the power company.
why the UK seems to have such a strong desire to enable a big brother society even efore the US does
Airstrip One has always been at the forefront in the heroic conflict with our eternal enemies in [mumble]!
Moreover, the Department of Information will insist on levying Information Retrieval charges for the procedures and materials used on those who are assisting the Department with inquiries.
Sorry for the mixed dystopias, but it seems they're all bearing down on us.
Or leave a note on someone's car when you scratch it with a shopping cart.
An illegible cursive note on their windscreen, of course. If it's written using a diamond-tipped stylus, there's actually no need to scratch the car with a shopping cart.
They're definitely on track for an igNobel prize. Using a red herring instead of the salmon would have made it a near certainty. A kipper would normally be the best choice, apart from the lack of a head/brain.
Fixed that for you.
It's hard to distinguish between a remote kill switch (which is not controlled by the owner of the device) and various other types of malware.
She should get fired for doing her private stuff on a hospital computer that ended up being compromised,
She should, *IF* it was a violation of her employer's policies. Some work environments allow personal use on personal time, and you can't fire someone for doing that if you don't have a rule against it.
Actually, one of our subcontractors has specific rules authorizing this. Their employees can mark that they're using the PC (or web, actually) for personal purposes for up to 30 minutes per day. When this time is active, the access controls which block non-work-related sites, such as youtube, are disabled for them. The other firewall duties and anti-malware functions remain in operation. The time is apparently logged and capped, and the 30 minutes can be taken in increments through the day, but unused time is not carried forward to the next day.
It seems a fairly enlightened approach, without too much potential for abuse.
Don't you wish your girlfriend was a geek like me?
My wife is a geek - we both have engineering PhDs. Our kids seem to have inherited this disability, too...
then perhaps linking to material which infringes copyright would not constitute an infringement of copyright...
As far as I know, it doesn't. But I guess that depends on what country you're in.
Indeed, it is country-dependent. But this ruling at least makes the position somewhat clearer in Canada. It's much murkier in some other countries, where people have even been sentenced to jail and given large fines, merely for hosting trackers (TPB in Sweden).
So if linking to libellous content does not constitute a libel, then perhaps linking to material which infringes copyright would not constitute an infringement of copyright...
The analogous case would be for the link in question to be directly to downloadable material, hosted elsewhere. A torrent tracker would probably fall into this category. If the link were to a torrent tracker which is hosted elsewhere, then it would be even less likely to be judged an infringement, based on this precedent.
I'm opposed to intentionally displaying that sort of thing where children can see it
So you think babies should be blindfolded when breastfeeding? Or should the breastfeeding be unintentional? Very confusing.
Go to a beach in the South of Europe, or in a touristy area of the Caribbean. A good number of the ladies bare their breasts where children can see them. Whole families go skinny-dipping together in the Nordic countries. Nobody cares, not the police, not even the kids...
As Oscar Wilde said: "If God wanted us to be naked, we'd be born that way."
The first few weeks of video would be quite educational, if they actually used a ship like the Beagle. Puking over the side every few minutes as the ship rolls at the least ripple on the sea, puking in horror on discovering what a state-of-the-art "marine head" was in the 1830s, puking at the sight of the maggoty gourmet cuisine served to officers and VIPs, puking at the smells of one's fellow voyagers (want a shower? dream on!). Almost like a twisted reality TV with green faces. Then there's the little issue of all that sodomy, grog, and the lash.
I've published two books in LaTeX and will sing its praises for hours, but it cannot sanely be called simple or easy to use.
There's a difference between producing output and producing good output. Doing the latter is rarely simple or easy, but is often easier with LaTeX than with Word or OpenOffice, especially if the document in question is long and requires consistent structure.
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Especially since it's a historically sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Mithraism. Actually, reading about the Swastika [wikipedia.org] here and how popular of a symbol it was before the rise and all of the Nazi Party, I'm shocked that you don't see it more often in Western nations.
Swastika-type symbols were used in Europe from ancient times, but not always the 4-branched version. The 3-branched variant occurs in celtic symbols, from pre-christian and early christian eras (this is related to the three-branched whorls which are encountered even more often). It's carved in rocks and in monuments and drawn in illuminated manuscripts from the "dark ages" and early middle ages in the British Isles, especially Ireland. The 3-branched swastika, bowdlerized into three joined legs, is the symbol of the Isle of Man (named after Mananan mac Lir, the Irish god of the sea).
Clearly, they should have named it MacWolfenstein or perhaps O'Wolfenstein (to avoid annoying Apple), and replaced all of the 4-branched symbols with 3-branched ones.
Fullscreen flash on Linux is just one of those /. memes that gets recycled past its "best by" date. It probably still applies to some combinations of graphics hardware and driver, especially older stuff.
I've been involved in this field for about 15 years. The funniest misconception I've run into, time and time again, is that an unmaintained UPS, unmaintained battery bank, unmaintained transfer switch, and unmaintained generator will somehow act as magical charms so as to be more reliable than the commercial power they are supposedly backing up.
A lot of folks don't really contemplate what a loss of power means to their business.
Some IT journal or salesperson or someone tells them that they need backup power for their servers, so they throw in a pile of batteries or generators or whatever... And when the power goes out they're left in dark cubicles with dead workstations. Or their manufacturing equipment doesn't run, so it doesn't really matter if the computers are up. Or all their internal network equipment is happy, but there's no electricity between them and the ISP - so their Internet is down anyway.
I'll stand behind a few batteries for servers... Enough to keep them running until they can shut down properly... But actually staying up and running while the power is out? From what I've seen that's basically impossible.
I've never had the headache of maintaining a business infrastructure, but must cope with our small setup at home. The LAN printer is the only IT thing without UPS power. The server, router, and optical switch are on one UPS. Two PCs each have their own smaller UPS which also power ethernet switches, and there's a laptop which obviously has battery power built-in. All of the computers, including the server, are configured to shutdown if the batteries go down to 20% (for the laptop, it's 10%).
We live in the countryside, so power outages happen (too often), especially the annoying 1-10 minute outages which mean someone is working on the power line. The optical fiber never seems to go down, so I guess they have good power at the other end and at any intermediate units. The kids keep on surfing the net (or doing homework, or whatever) right through most power outages. They know to finish up and save any work if the battery starts getting low, and get an automated warning when the battery gets down to 30%.
So our IT at home stays up and functioning for a while during power breaks. The TV and related stuff, on the other hand, are left at the mercy of the power company.
The summary says this may take a lot of people by surprise,
It's surprising how many people are surprised by obvious things.
why the UK seems to have such a strong desire to enable a big brother society even efore the US does
Airstrip One has always been at the forefront in the heroic conflict with our eternal enemies in [mumble]!
Moreover, the Department of Information will insist on levying Information Retrieval charges for the procedures and materials used on those who are assisting the Department with inquiries.
Sorry for the mixed dystopias, but it seems they're all bearing down on us.
Neither the summary nor the article (I know...) mention what it's going to cost the heirs to get the rights back.
Probably nothing. The law in question makes no mention of payments, simply tha
Or leave a note on someone's car when you scratch it with a shopping cart.
An illegible cursive note on their windscreen, of course. If it's written using a diamond-tipped stylus, there's actually no need to scratch the car with a shopping cart.
They're definitely on track for an igNobel prize. Using a red herring instead of the salmon would have made it a near certainty. A kipper would normally be the best choice, apart from the lack of a head/brain.
this kill switch seems to be malware.
Fixed that for you.
It's hard to distinguish between a remote kill switch (which is not controlled by the owner of the device) and various other types of malware.
If the provider uses rot13, they can consider that good enough
But they're already using rot0. Isn't that good enough?
She should get fired for doing her private stuff on a hospital computer that ended up being compromised,
She should, *IF* it was a violation of her employer's policies. Some work environments allow personal use on personal time, and you can't fire someone for doing that if you don't have a rule against it.
Actually, one of our subcontractors has specific rules authorizing this. Their employees can mark that they're using the PC (or web, actually) for personal purposes for up to 30 minutes per day. When this time is active, the access controls which block non-work-related sites, such as youtube, are disabled for them. The other firewall duties and anti-malware functions remain in operation. The time is apparently logged and capped, and the 30 minutes can be taken in increments through the day, but unused time is not carried forward to the next day.
It seems a fairly enlightened approach, without too much potential for abuse.
Don't you wish your girlfriend was a geek like me?
My wife is a geek - we both have engineering PhDs. Our kids seem to have inherited this disability, too...
if MS stopped working on superfluous bullshit
Bullshit is not superfluous to MS.
then perhaps linking to material which infringes copyright would not constitute an infringement of copyright...
As far as I know, it doesn't. But I guess that depends on what country you're in.
Indeed, it is country-dependent. But this ruling at least makes the position somewhat clearer in Canada. It's much murkier in some other countries, where people have even been sentenced to jail and given large fines, merely for hosting trackers (TPB in Sweden).
MS licensed this technology, then called "Photo Tourism", from U of Washington in 2006 http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/
So if linking to libellous content does not constitute a libel, then perhaps linking to material which infringes copyright would not constitute an infringement of copyright...
The analogous case would be for the link in question to be directly to downloadable material, hosted elsewhere. A torrent tracker would probably fall into this category. If the link were to a torrent tracker which is hosted elsewhere, then it would be even less likely to be judged an infringement, based on this precedent.
RV = Recreational Vehicle.
It's a synonym for "girlfriend".
Since you're probably unfamiliar with this term, here's an explanation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlfriend.
At what age do you suggest the law should no longer apply?
A few decades after you're dead, perhaps. Just like copyrights.
So what do you know, maybe when you'll be older you'll owe your flying car to current research on gravitational waves.
And gravity-defying breast implants for your wife...
What I want to see is accurate gaze tracking.
I like the idea of making a 'click' noise with your tongue for a simple, intuitive, self-contained interface
A hiccup could be inconvenient.
And don't go near the computer when you've got coughs or sneezes, or need to blow your nose.
For the record, every time I grab an iPod I feel like I'm prying it from Steve Jobs cold undead hands.
Fixed that for you...
I'm opposed to intentionally displaying that sort of thing where children can see it
So you think babies should be blindfolded when breastfeeding? Or should the breastfeeding be unintentional? Very confusing.
Go to a beach in the South of Europe, or in a touristy area of the Caribbean. A good number of the ladies bare their breasts where children can see them. Whole families go skinny-dipping together in the Nordic countries. Nobody cares, not the police, not even the kids...
As Oscar Wilde said: "If God wanted us to be naked, we'd be born that way."
Microsoft says "no"
Adding anything after the "no" is superfluous. We've learned that the hard way.
Whether it sucks or it blows?
Apparently, it sucks... and spits.
Anyone know how they're doing live video at sea?
The first few weeks of video would be quite educational, if they actually used a ship like the Beagle. Puking over the side every few minutes as the ship rolls at the least ripple on the sea, puking in horror on discovering what a state-of-the-art "marine head" was in the 1830s, puking at the sight of the maggoty gourmet cuisine served to officers and VIPs, puking at the smells of one's fellow voyagers (want a shower? dream on!). Almost like a twisted reality TV with green faces. Then there's the little issue of all that sodomy, grog, and the lash.
I've published two books in LaTeX and will sing its praises for hours, but it cannot sanely be called simple or easy to use.
There's a difference between producing output and producing good output. Doing the latter is rarely simple or easy, but is often easier with LaTeX than with Word or OpenOffice, especially if the document in question is long and requires consistent structure.