Hmm, while I certainly do not want to sound like I'm condoning the BNP in any way, I must say that it still bothers the government would think it could bar its employees from belonging to *any* particular political party. Especially coming from America, where people were hunted and had their careers ruined simply for being members of the communist party, which was surely much less evil than the BNP.
PCs are still required not to bring their beliefs into their work, whether registered member of a party or not. If anything, allowing them to be members of the BNP publicly could serve as an excellent lead for any misconduct investigations, as opposed to driving their beliefs underground.
A serving detective whose anonymous blog carried criticisms of government ministers and police bureaucracy has been disciplined by his force.
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Mr Justice Eady said the blog contained opinions on a number of social and political issues relating to the police and the administration of justice.
He added 'Night Jack' had expressed strong opinions on matters of political controversy and had also criticised a number of ministers.
The judge said the blogger had known he risked disciplinary action if his employers found out one of its officers was communicating to the public in such a way.
This was one of the main reasons why "Night Jack" was keen to maintain his anonymity, he added.
Certainly sounds like unreasonable political censorship to me.
The real story here, is that the UK government is trying to censor the opinions of its employees. This is totally unacceptable. The officer should be free to express whatever political opinions he wants, including being critical of his superiors, as long as he does it when he is off-duty. This really makes me angry. Everyone seem to be ignoring just how bad this type of censorship is, instead focusing on the fact that they "outed" him. The real issue is the fact that he needed to be anonymous in the first place...
This is the best suggestion posted so far, for companies that absolutely must run their Windows stuff once in a while, but a great way to wean them off of it. Wish I could mod this up.
Gee, it sure is swell that we have found yet another way to reduce the amount taxes corporations have to pay (since they can claim all of this personal usage as a business expense), not to mention giving these individuals a tax break the rest of us are NOT entitled to. What a great country.
There should be no debate on this issue. Is SAP releasing its software under a Free and open source license? If not, then it is NOT a friend of open source. It really could not get any simpler than that. Companies which produce proprietary software do not understand or agree with OSS philosophies and are certainly not friends...
The fact that you were wrongly accused is part of the historical record. Ideally, any you should have the right to request a link to a follow-up story explaining what happened. Even without that, however, if someone is going to judge you for *charges* that you were not convicted of, then would you really care about their opinion of you in the first place?
The service these college paper archives are providing is a gift to society! We very much need to hold people accountable for their actions, and these things must be easily searchable! Especially for job candidates and other things, employers need to know exactly what kind of person they are employing...and while I am a firm believer in people's ability to grow and change, one cannot run away from one's past! Far, far too many students do entirely idiotic things in college, and then proceed to have well-paying, rewarding careers. This must end! These people need to realize that they are responsible for each and every one of their actions.
The majority of YouTube video is so worthless I couldn't imagine ever paying for it. Sure, those forwards you get from people are cute and/or amusing for about 5 seconds, but nothing I would ever want to pay for.
On the other hand, perhaps giving users the opportunity to make some money in the form of micro-payments could actually increase the quality of what is made available. In this case, it would definitely be worth it. I would just like to see the money going to individual user-content-creators, not big, professional media companies.
Yes, but no one stole anything! Again, they merely transmitted a radio signal. The fact that it happened to coincide with a frequency used by another country's satellite is no doubt annoying to the satellite's owners, but you can't fault the people sending the message. The U.S. does not own frequencies either. Sure, they are restricted within our borders, but outside, and especially in open space, is fair game as far as I'm concerned.
I AM an American you insensitive clod! The satellite is in open space, and American does NOT own open space. It's not as if they're breaking into something in America... If I decide to go store my stuff outside of my house, and don't secure it, then it certainly is my fault if someone steals it!
If the incompetent soldiers at the U.S. Navy can't figure a way to secure their own satellites, why should the citizens of another country on the other side of the planet be prosecuted, fined, or worse, merely for sending out a radio signal that happens to match the same frequency the U.S. military used? This is insanity. It makes me angry that the Brazilian government is cooperating at all with the U.S. Defence Department in targeting these individuals. They should be protecting them! If a U.S. soldier is wounded in the field and is unable to radio for help, he or she should curse himself first, for joining the military, and second his idiot government for designing such an insecure satellite.
I hope more Brazilians and others from around the world get in on this act! Perhaps there's a way we can use it to multicast data as well, that would be brilliant!
I hope not, because surely no one will ever need more, just as they will never need more than 3 processes.
Seriously-- really love these restrictions. They will just continue to drive people away from Windows. And I'm sorry, but even "starter" users will notice this. Windows users always have a million of those stupid little apps running in their tray like "Weather Bug" and the like. I wonder how they measure this? Does it affect programs that run as browser plugins (but still separate processes) like Java or Adobe Reader?
"Windows has detected that you are not rich enough to run this program." Give us more money if you want to browse, chat, listen to music, AND open that photo you just received.
It's funny that this "starter user" segment is one of the two that Linux targets so well--extreme beginners, and advanced users. It's those damn middle users who *think* they know what they are doing but refuse to actually learn that cause us so much trouble.
When will these idiot marketers get it through their head that I don't want to be deceived! I AM WILLING TO PAY 1 EXTRA CENT ON EVERY PRODUCT simply in order to avoid the "99" syndrome. Price things evently. $.70, $1, $1.30, none of this.x9 crap, please make it stop! It hurts my brain and makes me so angry. You can MAKE MORE MONEY if you just round up! Why can't we all just get along?
Why would someone go out and help these proprietary-peddling companies?!? Don't people understand, they NEED to let users crash and burn for using software that is proprietary and created by vendors with a mysteriously slow ability to patch their own products. Adobe has proven itself to be evil on more than one occasion, and now people are bailing them out! I just don't get the logic...
Personally, I prefer Evince/ghostscript anyway...it's always way faster than the garbage Adobe Reader, and not susceptible to such vulnerabilities.
I can't believe you're actually asking that here. Yet perhaps I should considering some of the comments above! You should be paid for your *time* developing the software, but it should be fully modifiable and re-distributable by anyone. We need to get away from this notion of protectionism in our development, and see ourselves as the mere labourers that we are. As long as one gets paid for the work they have done, there is no reason the code should not go on to be shared, improved, and redistributed. You just need to convince your idiot bosses of this.
You're right of course, I meant TV and internet in general. It seems like there is much more competition here, through Sky, DSL and the other IPTV services, etc. But it's far from perfect. I'm much happier with Freeview than the OTA offerings in the US, if only they had OTA HD here...
Fuel taxes in the U.S. are a JOKE. It really is a pittance. I also don't think it's the right way to do it, since fuel can be used for purposes other than driving. If we paid fuel taxes the way they do in Europe, then it might be acceptable. Yet here they talk about having a gas tax "holiday"
Roads, bridges, etc. need to be paid for. There is no way around this. I'd much prefer these projects to be financed primarily by the people who use them most. Of course, we all should chip in something, to have them available for emergency services, etc. but the heavy drivers and commuters that are destroying the environment should pay the bulk of the cost for the maintenance of these roads.
Yes, it is very unfortunate that so many Americans do not, prefering to kill the planet by driving everywhere and wasting energy on ridiculous amounts of electronics equipment.
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Hmm, while I certainly do not want to sound like I'm condoning the BNP in any way, I must say that it still bothers the government would think it could bar its employees from belonging to *any* particular political party. Especially coming from America, where people were hunted and had their careers ruined simply for being members of the communist party, which was surely much less evil than the BNP.
PCs are still required not to bring their beliefs into their work, whether registered member of a party or not. If anything, allowing them to be members of the BNP publicly could serve as an excellent lead for any misconduct investigations, as opposed to driving their beliefs underground.
I didn't actually read the linked article (Times? Really?), I had only read the BBC article on the subject yesterday: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8103731.stm
A serving detective whose anonymous blog carried criticisms of government ministers and police bureaucracy has been disciplined by his force.
...
Mr Justice Eady said the blog contained opinions on a number of social and political issues relating to the police and the administration of justice.
He added 'Night Jack' had expressed strong opinions on matters of political controversy and had also criticised a number of ministers.
The judge said the blogger had known he risked disciplinary action if his employers found out one of its officers was communicating to the public in such a way.
This was one of the main reasons why "Night Jack" was keen to maintain his anonymity, he added.
Certainly sounds like unreasonable political censorship to me.
The real story here, is that the UK government is trying to censor the opinions of its employees. This is totally unacceptable. The officer should be free to express whatever political opinions he wants, including being critical of his superiors, as long as he does it when he is off-duty. This really makes me angry. Everyone seem to be ignoring just how bad this type of censorship is, instead focusing on the fact that they "outed" him. The real issue is the fact that he needed to be anonymous in the first place...
This is the best suggestion posted so far, for companies that absolutely must run their Windows stuff once in a while, but a great way to wean them off of it. Wish I could mod this up.
Gee, it sure is swell that we have found yet another way to reduce the amount taxes corporations have to pay (since they can claim all of this personal usage as a business expense), not to mention giving these individuals a tax break the rest of us are NOT entitled to. What a great country.
There should be no debate on this issue. Is SAP releasing its software under a Free and open source license? If not, then it is NOT a friend of open source. It really could not get any simpler than that. Companies which produce proprietary software do not understand or agree with OSS philosophies and are certainly not friends...
Well that really makes no sense. Countless other software is also widely used on BSDs... I don't see any reason to tie the two together.
lol, I wasn't questioning whether KDE could *run* on *BSD! I was referring to putting this story in the BSD category on Slashdot.
I didn't know KDE was a BSD project now.
The fact that you were wrongly accused is part of the historical record. Ideally, any you should have the right to request a link to a follow-up story explaining what happened. Even without that, however, if someone is going to judge you for *charges* that you were not convicted of, then would you really care about their opinion of you in the first place?
The service these college paper archives are providing is a gift to society! We very much need to hold people accountable for their actions, and these things must be easily searchable! Especially for job candidates and other things, employers need to know exactly what kind of person they are employing...and while I am a firm believer in people's ability to grow and change, one cannot run away from one's past! Far, far too many students do entirely idiotic things in college, and then proceed to have well-paying, rewarding careers. This must end! These people need to realize that they are responsible for each and every one of their actions.
The majority of YouTube video is so worthless I couldn't imagine ever paying for it. Sure, those forwards you get from people are cute and/or amusing for about 5 seconds, but nothing I would ever want to pay for.
On the other hand, perhaps giving users the opportunity to make some money in the form of micro-payments could actually increase the quality of what is made available. In this case, it would definitely be worth it. I would just like to see the money going to individual user-content-creators, not big, professional media companies.
Yes, but no one stole anything! Again, they merely transmitted a radio signal. The fact that it happened to coincide with a frequency used by another country's satellite is no doubt annoying to the satellite's owners, but you can't fault the people sending the message. The U.S. does not own frequencies either. Sure, they are restricted within our borders, but outside, and especially in open space, is fair game as far as I'm concerned.
I AM an American you insensitive clod! The satellite is in open space, and American does NOT own open space. It's not as if they're breaking into something in America... If I decide to go store my stuff outside of my house, and don't secure it, then it certainly is my fault if someone steals it!
If the incompetent soldiers at the U.S. Navy can't figure a way to secure their own satellites, why should the citizens of another country on the other side of the planet be prosecuted, fined, or worse, merely for sending out a radio signal that happens to match the same frequency the U.S. military used? This is insanity. It makes me angry that the Brazilian government is cooperating at all with the U.S. Defence Department in targeting these individuals. They should be protecting them! If a U.S. soldier is wounded in the field and is unable to radio for help, he or she should curse himself first, for joining the military, and second his idiot government for designing such an insecure satellite.
I hope more Brazilians and others from around the world get in on this act! Perhaps there's a way we can use it to multicast data as well, that would be brilliant!
I hope not, because surely no one will ever need more, just as they will never need more than 3 processes.
Seriously-- really love these restrictions. They will just continue to drive people away from Windows. And I'm sorry, but even "starter" users will notice this. Windows users always have a million of those stupid little apps running in their tray like "Weather Bug" and the like. I wonder how they measure this? Does it affect programs that run as browser plugins (but still separate processes) like Java or Adobe Reader?
"Windows has detected that you are not rich enough to run this program." Give us more money if you want to browse, chat, listen to music, AND open that photo you just received.
It's funny that this "starter user" segment is one of the two that Linux targets so well--extreme beginners, and advanced users. It's those damn middle users who *think* they know what they are doing but refuse to actually learn that cause us so much trouble.
When will these idiot marketers get it through their head that I don't want to be deceived! I AM WILLING TO PAY 1 EXTRA CENT ON EVERY PRODUCT simply in order to avoid the "99" syndrome. Price things evently. $.70, $1, $1.30, none of this .x9 crap, please make it stop! It hurts my brain and makes me so angry. You can MAKE MORE MONEY if you just round up! Why can't we all just get along?
Use Moblin, it boots in seconds!
It's really amazing...
Why would someone go out and help these proprietary-peddling companies?!? Don't people understand, they NEED to let users crash and burn for using software that is proprietary and created by vendors with a mysteriously slow ability to patch their own products. Adobe has proven itself to be evil on more than one occasion, and now people are bailing them out! I just don't get the logic...
Personally, I prefer Evince/ghostscript anyway...it's always way faster than the garbage Adobe Reader, and not susceptible to such vulnerabilities.
I can't believe you're actually asking that here. Yet perhaps I should considering some of the comments above! You should be paid for your *time* developing the software, but it should be fully modifiable and re-distributable by anyone. We need to get away from this notion of protectionism in our development, and see ourselves as the mere labourers that we are. As long as one gets paid for the work they have done, there is no reason the code should not go on to be shared, improved, and redistributed. You just need to convince your idiot bosses of this.
Heh, touché! Too easy to think of home as "here" sometimes, my mistake.
You're right of course, I meant TV and internet in general. It seems like there is much more competition here, through Sky, DSL and the other IPTV services, etc. But it's far from perfect. I'm much happier with Freeview than the OTA offerings in the US, if only they had OTA HD here...
Fuel taxes in the U.S. are a JOKE. It really is a pittance. I also don't think it's the right way to do it, since fuel can be used for purposes other than driving. If we paid fuel taxes the way they do in Europe, then it might be acceptable. Yet here they talk about having a gas tax "holiday"
Roads, bridges, etc. need to be paid for. There is no way around this. I'd much prefer these projects to be financed primarily by the people who use them most. Of course, we all should chip in something, to have them available for emergency services, etc. but the heavy drivers and commuters that are destroying the environment should pay the bulk of the cost for the maintenance of these roads.
Yes, it is very unfortunate that so many Americans do not, prefering to kill the planet by driving everywhere and wasting energy on ridiculous amounts of electronics equipment.