They're not. They're blocking connections, in their country, to an external site that is not acceptable under their law. All routers and servers can block connections, many do. You've probably got a bunch of blocked connections in your router...you damn well should do anyway. Pakistan's router might be a bit bigger than yours, but they've got every right to block whatever connection they see fit. Legally, anyhow. The semantics and ethics could be argued ad infinitum.
Both myself and my boss are well aware that I'm paid less than I'm worth, and also less than he *wants* to pay me, the constraints of the market don't allow higher wages. Yay capitalism. Which is kind of the point the parent had.
Perhaps because when you feel like you've already got a bargain (infinite value for money on average), you're happy to chuck a few quid in. And can I just say, what a nice, simple, well laid out and advert-realistic that website from TFA is? When we all so often get complete wastes of cycles and eyeballs, that's a really nice website, and we should say so as loudly as we complain about bad ones.
I for one welcome our lawyer overlor......no....hang on, that's not right. Ethical lawyers? Wow....good for them. I feel like my universe has shifted ever so slightly for the better...?
There have been multiple "one handed typing" devices over the years, I remember seeing one in ST/Amiga Format magazine in the early nineties. They use five/six/seven buttons and you use key combinations to represent characters....a five button pad gives you 5!=120 different "keys" (OK, 119). There's an example here: http://www.onehandedkeyboard.com/bat.html
Driving bans for professional drivers anyone? Exclusion from politics or being a company director (and that's just for certain civil offences)? Publicans can lose their licences. It doesn't even have to be the government that does it. Doctors, dentists, lawyers, veterinarians, there are umpteen professions you can get banned from. Why should IT be any different?
I want a free OS that's pretty stable, easy to use and NOT windows. Debian, Ubuntu, I don't really care. I've been on a hell of a learning curve since starting with linux in general (partly a *nix catch-up from where I left off in the late 80s), and to be honest I'm not that bothered which version I use. I'm used to Ubuntu, I'll stick with it until they really mess up (which I doubt....memory leak? big deal....), which is your cue to tell me that Debian and Ubuntu are damn near identical....
Not to mention the mondo big red shift. Why are we so surprised? Matter and radiation densities rise as you head towards the galactic core. In this, very close case, it's enough to prevent star formation, ditto on the edge of the galaxy where the matter density isn't high enough for it to happen. There's bound to be a region in between where life-on-earth-suitable main sequence stars can ignite and evolve towards life friendly systems. It's an interesting piece of astrophysics in its own right, but any suggestion that it's in any way relevant to standard biological life is simply anthropic reasoning with a very big "weak". And I'm a fan of Multiverse theory.
It is kind of funny (I'm in the UK), but I'll tell you what, I could be arrested in this country for the fact that I sympathise with people who carry out suicide bombings. Honestly, I do, I mean how bad must things be if they really feel that blowing themselves up in a busy public place is an appropriate action? They must be absolutely desperate. I'm not saying I agree with their methods, I'm weird because I'm an atheist who for some odd reason also believes in the "no killing" rule. But the point remains that the state here can arrest me for sympathising. I'll leave the argument of whether the state or suicide bombers are a bigger threat to my "freedom" (whatever that is) to the reader. I'm not sure yet.
Most modern printers also have ethernet connections, it's called network printing. Saves us a fortune on printers because we can share them. The barcode scanners we bought a good few years ago are on PS2 ports linked in with the keyboard anyway. All of our equipment is standard legacy stuff used in millions of offices worldwide. Yes, it's a hassle not being able to use flash drives, but that's the entire point. You can easily do without USB, especially if you want to stop some well meaning idiot uploading a virus ridden torrent of last night's episode of Desperate Housewives.
Or tinker with a soldering iron and $20 of components so a big flashing light goes off as soon as a USB device is detected? Or monitor the power supply on the motherboard (software independent)? Or do what my workplace does....if you're that worried, don't have USB ports or fill them with epoxy and/or physically cut the connections.
Well...yes. I do at least. My desktop runs a ushare media server for the flat with our collection of cult sci-fi. My flatmates have a fairly restricted login so they can watch Doctor Who when I'm not around. They can do far less damage to the maching with that login than they could with, say, a small hammer or a careless cup of tea. If it wasn't theoretically possible to do that then I can understand a single user policy, but it is possible. Car analogy: why do you need an adjustable seat? It's not like you're going to let somebody else drive your car is it?
Social engineering is probably the most common successful way that hackers (right-wind-media definition) do their thing, and there's a reason for that....it's very effective. That should be your first "firewall" when it comes to your kids internet habits. Talk to them, make sure they're aware there's some very iffy stuff out there and that they've got a reasonably sensible attitude towards it. By all means set up a LAN with all sorts of filters, but it should be very much the second line of defence. And remember the kids will almost certainly find a way around it.
Incorrect, in the UK at least. We pay local taxes, a proportion of which goes to the libraries. They then use some of that to buy eBooks and the related lending rights. The author and the publisher get paid, you get to borrow it for "free"....or at least a relatively small proportion of your council tax.
Simple, you go with the Hypocratic oath that all doctors take: "First Do No Harm" sums it up. You do not allow the first child to die unless there's nothing else to be done, regardless of whether or not they're a donor. THEN you think about organ donation. Medical ethics have covered this topic ad nauseum.
Loads of stuff is hidden on purpose...config files, site member info, etc etc. I "accidentally hacked" a law company's MySQL DB once because their phpmyadmin wasn't hidden properly and showed up on a Google search for an obscure error message I searched for. Hidden-From-Google != Nasty-Child-Pornographers......
Presuming that somebody is going to the Moon anyway, the cost of getting a kilo of water there is of the order of tens of thousands of dollars. Digging a kilo up in-situ, if it's handy, costs very little indeed. That's the point. It's like finding a bunch of ready cut diamond rings lying around, as opposed to having to build a strip mine, excavate them and cut them, mine the gold for the ring, smelt it, make a ring, and mount the diamond.
You CAN set up a free WiFi network under this legislation, but you are responsible for what happens on the network. If somebody downloads child porn then you take the rap for it...unless you can prove who they are, that they did it, and that they did it against the T&C they agreed to. The point is that the onus is on the provider not the user, and the provider frequently can't afford even the threat of a lawsuit, let alone actually losing one.
It's the same as much of the "Health and Safety" nonsense you hear about in the UK papers....the HSE (UK H&S govt body) have never suggested that children should wear safety goggles to use blu-tak, but a school decided that they couldn't afford a blu-tak related lawsuit, so they insisted on goggles. It's an attempted defence against lawyers and litigation, not a reaction to government imposed restrictions.
What's needed is legislation opening and more clearly defining a little personal responsibility...the word "reasonably" in legislation is what the lawyers frequently use for cases that are often close to extortion.
Fair enough. I'm in the UK too. However, I would like to say the following: homoeopathy is fraud. I work in the science section of a large bookshop in Edinburgh, I should be easy enough to find and will identify myself if asked.
Bring on the lawyers. I could intentionally produce a fraudulent, counterfeit, fake homoeopathic remedy (ie a small phial of water), but it would be indistinguishable from a "real" one. I would welcome a court's attention to the matter.
So Slashdot posted a second hand story from another site with a (potentially) misleading headline, without checking the facts, because it would drive traffic? And now they've had a letter from a lawyer? Big surprise. I'd be proud to get banned for this post.
Being able to activate the camera remotely (or, as actually happened, set the camera to upload to a remote ftp site) was seen as being a great thing a few years back when a guy caught a laptop thief doing exactly that. The problem here is the user was a legitimate one having their privacy invaded, rather than a criminal.
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They're not. They're blocking connections, in their country, to an external site that is not acceptable under their law. All routers and servers can block connections, many do. You've probably got a bunch of blocked connections in your router...you damn well should do anyway. Pakistan's router might be a bit bigger than yours, but they've got every right to block whatever connection they see fit. Legally, anyhow. The semantics and ethics could be argued ad infinitum.
What kind of Facebook programmer can't build their own STM? http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/03/0239230
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Both myself and my boss are well aware that I'm paid less than I'm worth, and also less than he *wants* to pay me, the constraints of the market don't allow higher wages. Yay capitalism. Which is kind of the point the parent had.
Perhaps because when you feel like you've already got a bargain (infinite value for money on average), you're happy to chuck a few quid in. And can I just say, what a nice, simple, well laid out and advert-realistic that website from TFA is? When we all so often get complete wastes of cycles and eyeballs, that's a really nice website, and we should say so as loudly as we complain about bad ones.
I for one welcome our lawyer overlor......no....hang on, that's not right. Ethical lawyers? Wow....good for them. I feel like my universe has shifted ever so slightly for the better...?
There have been multiple "one handed typing" devices over the years, I remember seeing one in ST/Amiga Format magazine in the early nineties. They use five/six/seven buttons and you use key combinations to represent characters....a five button pad gives you 5!=120 different "keys" (OK, 119). There's an example here: http://www.onehandedkeyboard.com/bat.html
Driving bans for professional drivers anyone? Exclusion from politics or being a company director (and that's just for certain civil offences)? Publicans can lose their licences. It doesn't even have to be the government that does it. Doctors, dentists, lawyers, veterinarians, there are umpteen professions you can get banned from. Why should IT be any different?
I want a free OS that's pretty stable, easy to use and NOT windows. Debian, Ubuntu, I don't really care. I've been on a hell of a learning curve since starting with linux in general (partly a *nix catch-up from where I left off in the late 80s), and to be honest I'm not that bothered which version I use. I'm used to Ubuntu, I'll stick with it until they really mess up (which I doubt....memory leak? big deal....), which is your cue to tell me that Debian and Ubuntu are damn near identical....
Given that you usually have to pay for a paper and pencil, even if it's a nominal amount, I don't quite get you?
Not to mention the mondo big red shift. Why are we so surprised? Matter and radiation densities rise as you head towards the galactic core. In this, very close case, it's enough to prevent star formation, ditto on the edge of the galaxy where the matter density isn't high enough for it to happen. There's bound to be a region in between where life-on-earth-suitable main sequence stars can ignite and evolve towards life friendly systems. It's an interesting piece of astrophysics in its own right, but any suggestion that it's in any way relevant to standard biological life is simply anthropic reasoning with a very big "weak". And I'm a fan of Multiverse theory.
It is kind of funny (I'm in the UK), but I'll tell you what, I could be arrested in this country for the fact that I sympathise with people who carry out suicide bombings. Honestly, I do, I mean how bad must things be if they really feel that blowing themselves up in a busy public place is an appropriate action? They must be absolutely desperate. I'm not saying I agree with their methods, I'm weird because I'm an atheist who for some odd reason also believes in the "no killing" rule. But the point remains that the state here can arrest me for sympathising. I'll leave the argument of whether the state or suicide bombers are a bigger threat to my "freedom" (whatever that is) to the reader. I'm not sure yet.
Point 3 is a good one - it's already been suggested that any signal that has perfect compression would be indistinguishable from black body radiation.
Most modern printers also have ethernet connections, it's called network printing. Saves us a fortune on printers because we can share them. The barcode scanners we bought a good few years ago are on PS2 ports linked in with the keyboard anyway. All of our equipment is standard legacy stuff used in millions of offices worldwide. Yes, it's a hassle not being able to use flash drives, but that's the entire point. You can easily do without USB, especially if you want to stop some well meaning idiot uploading a virus ridden torrent of last night's episode of Desperate Housewives.
Or tinker with a soldering iron and $20 of components so a big flashing light goes off as soon as a USB device is detected? Or monitor the power supply on the motherboard (software independent)? Or do what my workplace does....if you're that worried, don't have USB ports or fill them with epoxy and/or physically cut the connections.
Well...yes. I do at least. My desktop runs a ushare media server for the flat with our collection of cult sci-fi. My flatmates have a fairly restricted login so they can watch Doctor Who when I'm not around. They can do far less damage to the maching with that login than they could with, say, a small hammer or a careless cup of tea. If it wasn't theoretically possible to do that then I can understand a single user policy, but it is possible. Car analogy: why do you need an adjustable seat? It's not like you're going to let somebody else drive your car is it?
Social engineering is probably the most common successful way that hackers (right-wind-media definition) do their thing, and there's a reason for that....it's very effective. That should be your first "firewall" when it comes to your kids internet habits. Talk to them, make sure they're aware there's some very iffy stuff out there and that they've got a reasonably sensible attitude towards it. By all means set up a LAN with all sorts of filters, but it should be very much the second line of defence. And remember the kids will almost certainly find a way around it.
Incorrect, in the UK at least. We pay local taxes, a proportion of which goes to the libraries. They then use some of that to buy eBooks and the related lending rights. The author and the publisher get paid, you get to borrow it for "free"....or at least a relatively small proportion of your council tax.
Simple, you go with the Hypocratic oath that all doctors take: "First Do No Harm" sums it up. You do not allow the first child to die unless there's nothing else to be done, regardless of whether or not they're a donor. THEN you think about organ donation. Medical ethics have covered this topic ad nauseum.
Loads of stuff is hidden on purpose...config files, site member info, etc etc. I "accidentally hacked" a law company's MySQL DB once because their phpmyadmin wasn't hidden properly and showed up on a Google search for an obscure error message I searched for. Hidden-From-Google != Nasty-Child-Pornographers......
My money is on Modified Newtonian Dynamics...
Presuming that somebody is going to the Moon anyway, the cost of getting a kilo of water there is of the order of tens of thousands of dollars. Digging a kilo up in-situ, if it's handy, costs very little indeed. That's the point. It's like finding a bunch of ready cut diamond rings lying around, as opposed to having to build a strip mine, excavate them and cut them, mine the gold for the ring, smelt it, make a ring, and mount the diamond.
Lawyers and money, as with so many other things.
You CAN set up a free WiFi network under this legislation, but you are responsible for what happens on the network. If somebody downloads child porn then you take the rap for it...unless you can prove who they are, that they did it, and that they did it against the T&C they agreed to. The point is that the onus is on the provider not the user, and the provider frequently can't afford even the threat of a lawsuit, let alone actually losing one.
It's the same as much of the "Health and Safety" nonsense you hear about in the UK papers....the HSE (UK H&S govt body) have never suggested that children should wear safety goggles to use blu-tak, but a school decided that they couldn't afford a blu-tak related lawsuit, so they insisted on goggles. It's an attempted defence against lawyers and litigation, not a reaction to government imposed restrictions.
What's needed is legislation opening and more clearly defining a little personal responsibility...the word "reasonably" in legislation is what the lawyers frequently use for cases that are often close to extortion.
Fair enough. I'm in the UK too. However, I would like to say the following: homoeopathy is fraud. I work in the science section of a large bookshop in Edinburgh, I should be easy enough to find and will identify myself if asked.
Bring on the lawyers. I could intentionally produce a fraudulent, counterfeit, fake homoeopathic remedy (ie a small phial of water), but it would be indistinguishable from a "real" one. I would welcome a court's attention to the matter.
So Slashdot posted a second hand story from another site with a (potentially) misleading headline, without checking the facts, because it would drive traffic? And now they've had a letter from a lawyer? Big surprise. I'd be proud to get banned for this post.
Being able to activate the camera remotely (or, as actually happened, set the camera to upload to a remote ftp site) was seen as being a great thing a few years back when a guy caught a laptop thief doing exactly that. The problem here is the user was a legitimate one having their privacy invaded, rather than a criminal.