Did anyone else note the jump in usage of 'global warming' around 1900 on that graph? I wonder what caused this, there doesn't seem to be much mention of it online (admittedly I looked for about 3 minutes before giving up and deciding to post here). It seems to be the first major mention of the phrase and while very small compared to the current usage, it'd be interesting to know what caused it.
>*They turned a blind eye to it when he was working at Bletchley and was regarded as "indispensable" to the war effort.*
Do you have some evidence for this.
Anthony Cave Brown's book, "C": The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill, states:
Menzies had known that Turing was a practicing and aggressive homosexual; this had emerged soon after his employment at Bletchley. But since he caused no offence to his colleagues at Bletchley, and since he was perhaps the only man in Menzies's service who might have been called ‘indispensable,’ his services were retained... Early in 1944 a suspicion arose that he might have been the man responsible for molesting schoolboys at the main public library in Luton, a large industrial town not far from Bletchley. While no proceedings arose, it was decided that the need for good order and discipline required his removal - but not before he had done his finest work
They turned a blind eye to it when he was working at Bletchley and was regarded as "indispensable" to the war effort. As soon as he was no longer required they stopped turning a blind eye and he was convicted. Many would see that as betrayal.
I feel to see how this falls under the topic of "News for Nerds?". A glossy Disney pop-scifi remake of an old cult nerd film is about the only nerdy thing on there. The Social Network was an overhyped fictitious story which had very little of the technological aspect. Toy Story 3 is just a kids film, a very good one at that, but in no way really nerdy.
Technically, it is illegal to discriminate against members of the BNP (or any other political party) in the UK. Not employing someone for the sole reason that they are a BNP member is grounds for a discrimination claim. Though, due to the policies of the BNP, it probably wouldn't be difficult to say the person wasn't employed due to a companies anti-discrimination code (or something similar, most companies have something along those lines).
While I agree mostly with your post (they are a legitimate political party and most legitimate parties should not be discriminated against), I think in entities like the police, it makes sense to discriminate against members of the BNP (and other such parties). I mean, how fair can you expect someone with a background of discrimination against immigrants to be when arresting/investigating an immigrant as part of the police force?
Remember Napster? It was only good for people who listened to mainstream chart toppers with crappy sound quality. It was not an option for people really interested in music.
The Pirate Bay is today's equivalent of Napster for music (discounting things like LimeWire of course, which are only used by the real filesharing noobs to trade terrible quality tracks). Most of the music torrents (at least the ones I have seen) are encoded about about LAME V3 or V4 (or equivalent), which isn't crappy, but nor is it audiophile quality. The Pirate Bay does have a Flac section, but the selection of music there just isn't comprehensive enough yet.
Anyone really interested in music should be on one of the music oriented private sites (such as OiNK was back in the day) where the rules about quality, completeness etc. are much more draconian. Tried finding a really small band on TPB recently? A search for "Tall Firs" on TPB finds nothing, but on a private site, two albums in a multitude of different formats/qualities are returned.
The pirate bay isn't an option for people really interested in music
IIRC, FF3.1B1 uses something called "TraceMonkey" to optimize Javascript, while Chrome uses something called V8. I'm no expert on the subject, but I'm willing to bet they are not the same thing (just as Java and Javascript are not the same thing).
As said above, these are community supported, so if you buy a Canonical support contract and use a PPC box, you won't be getting any support from them, you'll have to go hunt it down on the web.
Another big difference is that canonical maintained ports are *much* more of a priority when it comes to things like packages failing to build. If a package fails to build on i386 or amd64, it is classified as quite an important bug and normally fixed very quickly. If it fails to build on ppc or hppa, it will be shoved to the bottom of the queue, for the community $ARCH development team to pick it up. This happens with most of the obscure-architecture specific bugs, which often leads to them taking a *long* time to fix.
2) Wait for X.org to get their act together, fix *their* bug then the Ubuntu guys either backport it, or release it as an Intrepid update. Infact, the bug in Ubuntu is targetted to the "intrepid-updates" milestone, so as soon as Xorg manage to fix the bug, it will be a top priority to get uploaded to intrepid-updates
I've seen multiple people, in multiple forums jump on the bandwagon complaining that it should hold back the release, not bothering to read the guidelines on what makes a release critical bug (it cant be easily worked around or documented, which this most definately can)
YES! The first thing I thought of when it said "easy way to opt-out" was hanging up. Only the the (UK|US) government (yes I know this is about America, but I could see this spreading across the Atlantic very quickly) could come up with another of these silly little laws that fix a "problem" that can be solved a little of bit common sense.
"""it's not illegal if it hasn't been released in my country (anime, etc). NONSENSE. """
If that is nonsense then how are we supposed to watch something that hasnt been released here? If the company behind it see no value in releasing it in your territory (and therefor making no money from it), there is absolutely no reason to stop you downloading something. It doesnt hurt anyone.
I like the way sites like UKNova or TheBox do it. If a show is going to come out on DVD, it cant go up on these sites. Im pretty sure there is also a time restriction rule, so shows can only be up for a month or two. Basically its like BBC iPlayer, except it works on all platforms (without flash, which is non-free and a no go for the hardcore freedom lovers), its a much higher quality and completely DRM free. Sites like this let Americans (or anyone else for that matter) catch up on shows they watch in the UK, without hurting anyone (if its not going to come out on DVD, no money will be "lost").
(Fortunately) Carphone Warehouse arent actually all that big, they just tie people into hilariously bad broadband deals when they buy phones from them.
I think calling these ISPs the 'Big Six' in the UK is a bit of an overstatement. I know a lot more people that use Be There than people who use TalkTalk, Orange or Carphone Warehouse
Stupidity like this from ISPs and the BPI is going to push filesharing more and more underground, and in doing so make it much harder to root out the hardcore guys. We saw this with OiNK. It got shut down and everyone scattered, onto three or four lower profile websites, with a smaller userbase that should be harder for the police to attack.
I've stopped downloading music now, as I cant be bothered with the bullshit Virgin Media give me. Connections that 'randomly' drop out when I am uploading anything for over an hour (ftp, http, bit-torrent, they dont care) which, on Virgin Medias speeds, is very very often. But, I have also stopped buying music. I stopped buying CDs ages ago (anyone else feel ripped of when you leave a record shop with a little piece of plastic you just payed £17 for?) and refuse to use DRM riddled, legal download services.
The way the industry can save themselves (that will never happen):
An online music store selling MP3s, Oggs and Flacs of songs. A lossy encoded song costs 50p and a lossless 75p. A lossy album £5, a lossless one £7.50. Without DRM, where the artists get at least 50%. Until then i'll keep going to the gigs, where the record labels barely get a penny of my cash, buying the T-Shirts and going to the festivals.
The RIAA are famous for stealing/misusing software. Both Forestblog and Ubuntu, well Ubuntu wasnt stealing but it was worse than they sue many people for.
The worrying thing here is not that you are being completely retarded (Last time i checked 1 exabyte arrays were a little bigger than an iPod) but you actually want to buy an iPod.
....is it not in the news today that hardly anyone is using (or at least buying) Vista, so it makes absolutely no difference whether there is lots of malware that can get around its security system?
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Did anyone else note the jump in usage of 'global warming' around 1900 on that graph? I wonder what caused this, there doesn't seem to be much mention of it online (admittedly I looked for about 3 minutes before giving up and deciding to post here). It seems to be the first major mention of the phrase and while very small compared to the current usage, it'd be interesting to know what caused it.
They can introduce all the warrantless tapping statutes they like but there's no obligation or wish on my part to hand over my decryption keys
Incorrect. The UK has the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which lets them demand encryption keys/passwords. If you do not comply, you can face jail time
"You have loaded an HTTPS site. Your internet connection will be suspended to the end of the month". It would never work.
>*They turned a blind eye to it when he was working at Bletchley and was regarded as "indispensable" to the war effort.*
Do you have some evidence for this.
Anthony Cave Brown's book, "C": The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill, states: Menzies had known that Turing was a practicing and aggressive homosexual; this had emerged soon after his employment at Bletchley. But since he caused no offence to his colleagues at Bletchley, and since he was perhaps the only man in Menzies's service who might have been called ‘indispensable,’ his services were retained... Early in 1944 a suspicion arose that he might have been the man responsible for molesting schoolboys at the main public library in Luton, a large industrial town not far from Bletchley. While no proceedings arose, it was decided that the need for good order and discipline required his removal - but not before he had done his finest work
They turned a blind eye to it when he was working at Bletchley and was regarded as "indispensable" to the war effort. As soon as he was no longer required they stopped turning a blind eye and he was convicted. Many would see that as betrayal.
I feel to see how this falls under the topic of "News for Nerds?". A glossy Disney pop-scifi remake of an old cult nerd film is about the only nerdy thing on there. The Social Network was an overhyped fictitious story which had very little of the technological aspect. Toy Story 3 is just a kids film, a very good one at that, but in no way really nerdy.
While I agree mostly with your post (they are a legitimate political party and most legitimate parties should not be discriminated against), I think in entities like the police, it makes sense to discriminate against members of the BNP (and other such parties). I mean, how fair can you expect someone with a background of discrimination against immigrants to be when arresting/investigating an immigrant as part of the police force?
Remember Napster? It was only good for people who listened to mainstream chart toppers with crappy sound quality. It was not an option for people really interested in music.
The Pirate Bay is today's equivalent of Napster for music (discounting things like LimeWire of course, which are only used by the real filesharing noobs to trade terrible quality tracks). Most of the music torrents (at least the ones I have seen) are encoded about about LAME V3 or V4 (or equivalent), which isn't crappy, but nor is it audiophile quality. The Pirate Bay does have a Flac section, but the selection of music there just isn't comprehensive enough yet.
Anyone really interested in music should be on one of the music oriented private sites (such as OiNK was back in the day) where the rules about quality, completeness etc. are much more draconian. Tried finding a really small band on TPB recently? A search for "Tall Firs" on TPB finds nothing, but on a private site, two albums in a multitude of different formats/qualities are returned.
The pirate bay isn't an option for people really interested in music
IIRC, FF3.1B1 uses something called "TraceMonkey" to optimize Javascript, while Chrome uses something called V8. I'm no expert on the subject, but I'm willing to bet they are not the same thing (just as Java and Javascript are not the same thing).
As a top quality news source, TFA doesn't link to the actual Canonical announcement.
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/arm-linux
As said above, these are community supported, so if you buy a Canonical support contract and use a PPC box, you won't be getting any support from them, you'll have to go hunt it down on the web.
Another big difference is that canonical maintained ports are *much* more of a priority when it comes to things like packages failing to build. If a package fails to build on i386 or amd64, it is classified as quite an important bug and normally fixed very quickly. If it fails to build on ppc or hppa, it will be shoved to the bottom of the queue, for the community $ARCH development team to pick it up. This happens with most of the obscure-architecture specific bugs, which often leads to them taking a *long* time to fix.
No, 8.10 will support joysticks if you either:
1) Work around it by editing xorg.conf: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6023212&postcount=5
2) Wait for X.org to get their act together, fix *their* bug then the Ubuntu guys either backport it, or release it as an Intrepid update. Infact, the bug in Ubuntu is targetted to the "intrepid-updates" milestone, so as soon as Xorg manage to fix the bug, it will be a top priority to get uploaded to intrepid-updates
I've seen multiple people, in multiple forums jump on the bandwagon complaining that it should hold back the release, not bothering to read the guidelines on what makes a release critical bug (it cant be easily worked around or documented, which this most definately can)
YES! The first thing I thought of when it said "easy way to opt-out" was hanging up. Only the the (UK|US) government (yes I know this is about America, but I could see this spreading across the Atlantic very quickly) could come up with another of these silly little laws that fix a "problem" that can be solved a little of bit common sense.
"""it's not illegal if it hasn't been released in my country (anime, etc). NONSENSE. """
If that is nonsense then how are we supposed to watch something that hasnt been released here? If the company behind it see no value in releasing it in your territory (and therefor making no money from it), there is absolutely no reason to stop you downloading something. It doesnt hurt anyone.
I like the way sites like UKNova or TheBox do it. If a show is going to come out on DVD, it cant go up on these sites. Im pretty sure there is also a time restriction rule, so shows can only be up for a month or two. Basically its like BBC iPlayer, except it works on all platforms (without flash, which is non-free and a no go for the hardcore freedom lovers), its a much higher quality and completely DRM free. Sites like this let Americans (or anyone else for that matter) catch up on shows they watch in the UK, without hurting anyone (if its not going to come out on DVD, no money will be "lost").
This is exactly the reason music piracy is so rampant at the moment. Companies need to learn: DRM doesnt stop Pirates, it encourages them.
When was the last time you downloaded something from bit-torrent and six months later you couldnt play it because of the company going down?
(Fortunately) Carphone Warehouse arent actually all that big, they just tie people into hilariously bad broadband deals when they buy phones from them. I think calling these ISPs the 'Big Six' in the UK is a bit of an overstatement. I know a lot more people that use Be There than people who use TalkTalk, Orange or Carphone Warehouse
Stupidity like this from ISPs and the BPI is going to push filesharing more and more underground, and in doing so make it much harder to root out the hardcore guys. We saw this with OiNK. It got shut down and everyone scattered, onto three or four lower profile websites, with a smaller userbase that should be harder for the police to attack.
I've stopped downloading music now, as I cant be bothered with the bullshit Virgin Media give me. Connections that 'randomly' drop out when I am uploading anything for over an hour (ftp, http, bit-torrent, they dont care) which, on Virgin Medias speeds, is very very often. But, I have also stopped buying music. I stopped buying CDs ages ago (anyone else feel ripped of when you leave a record shop with a little piece of plastic you just payed £17 for?) and refuse to use DRM riddled, legal download services.
The way the industry can save themselves (that will never happen):
An online music store selling MP3s, Oggs and Flacs of songs. A lossy encoded song costs 50p and a lossless 75p. A lossy album £5, a lossless one £7.50. Without DRM, where the artists get at least 50%. Until then i'll keep going to the gigs, where the record labels barely get a penny of my cash, buying the T-Shirts and going to the festivals.
The RIAA are famous for stealing/misusing software. Both Forestblog and Ubuntu, well Ubuntu wasnt stealing but it was worse than they sue many people for.
The worrying thing here is not that you are being completely retarded (Last time i checked 1 exabyte arrays were a little bigger than an iPod) but you actually want to buy an iPod.
It was up about 20 minutes ago but was down as of 3:56pm GMT
DE : Openbox FTP: "ftp" Download Manager: wget IRC: irssi MediaPlayer: uPlayer Backup OS: tty Linux (4mb)
....is it not in the news today that hardly anyone is using (or at least buying) Vista, so it makes absolutely no difference whether there is lots of malware that can get around its security system?