This was rediscovered by the US (ENIAC) in 1946 , those people at Bletchley Park discovered this and built a computer using the idea of not turning them off in 1943...Wartime Official secrets stopped them telling anyone....
The hardware people who discovered this were the Post Office (Telecoms) who used tubes for switching and knew the pitfalls...
Average temperature goes up,and you cut down all the trees, then deserts expand, less rain falls desert remains
This means that less water is cycling and so less water is available to drink
The total amount of water is the same but more of it is salty and in the oceans, we could run desalination plants, but they take a lot of energy, and that is only likely to make things worse....
To get a passport, up until recently in the UK I could get one with three bits of paper
Birth Certificate (which most people lose) Two bills in your name (which are trivial to steal/fabricate)
Now we have to appear in person as well, well that stops it?... except the person interviewing me does not know me, has never met me and what they know about me is only what is available in public records....
But a passport is as you said assumed to be trusted as a form of ID, even though it has been shown they are easily forged, and easy to get under an assumed name...
Adding biometrics does not make it more secure, it just makes it harder to refute
1969 :
Concorde first flight - Supersonic passenger aircraft : retired
Harrier Jump Jet first flight
Moon Landings : none for the last 38 years
The internet started
The problem with an ID card is how easy is it for me to get one in your name....
I suspect it is very very easy.... and once I have an ID card saying I am you then I have more proof that I am you than you do, Identity theft with no comeback Just change you fingerprints, retina, and DNA....
The real problem is the biometric tests they use are massively flawed and ludicrously easy to fool....fingerprint scanners can be fooled by gummi bears
Schools should teach you how to do things not how to use a product.......the general principals will still work in 5 years time when they apply for a job, but the product they used will most likely be obsolete by then
Try installing a newly bought/downloaded package for Windows it may need Vista to run, If my PC came with an earlier version of Windows then I would have to pay to upgrade and may need to upgrade my PC in order to run Vista....
Now try Enterprise software.... many companies have software running that is unchanged from 10 years ago.... unless it is based on Windows in which case the forced interdependent upgrades mean that changing one component of the system will mean upgrading everything including the hardware to do almost the same job....
I have a *very* old PC that runs a modern version of Linux that can run all the latest OpenSource software I need, all the hardware is supported out of the box and I did not have to pay for any software upgrades....
I can lock down a users PC, so that no user can do what they like and can only do what I want them to do.... In Windows, Linux, OSX etc...
This is not a feature exclusive to Windows, in fact it is a feature that was added relatively late to Windows... that is why the security was always so bad the user always ran as Administrator and so could do anything....
Windows 2000 Support ended 30 July 2005 - Now on essential Security updates only Windows XP Supported ended 14 April 2009 - Now on Extended support only (Security updates and paid support only)
If I bought red-hat Linux in 1994 then I could still be using it and could have it up to date, *because* it is open source this support provided by the community will never end and it is irrelevant if Red Hat ceases to support a product
RHEL (which came out in 2004) can still be actively supported and maintained by Red Hat as a modern up to date product
Slackware has been free and available since 1993 and is still *fully* maintained (not just security fixes) - Will 16 years and counting do...
The same could be said of the road network in any major city....
Upgrading it to a network on which neo-cars can travel at the same speed could be done but the old cars could not use it, everyone would have to upgrade their car to use it, and currently everyone has old cars
What is needed is for IPv6 to "just work" on all new PC's servers and switches, with no extra hassle, security issues etc... but it doesn't, so people avoid it, because IPv4 is "good enough"
Labour are now neo-conservative are they?, they may be in US terms, but even our Conservative party only has a few people we would consider neocons and Labour are still (just) to the left of the majority of Conservatives....
You forget that totalitarian regimes come in both left and right flavours and they both use the same tactics....
We don't have a written Constitution like the US, which can be amended as the government wants if it can get a majority... what we do have is the body of law, which the government can modify as it wants if it can get a majority....... it has also international treaties (including EU treaties) it has signed up to that may invalidate some laws, just like the US...
It's simple the law governs Parlement and Parlement makes the laws (including international treaties) just like in the US....
The summary judgement was that SCO did not own the copyright - What this says is that it needs to go to trial to determine this (i.e. it's a "not sure")
IBM does not care, they have already proved they did not infringe no matter who owns it...
It does not affect Linux because again SCO have failed to show that any code was copied..oh and SCO has no money (it's in Chapter 11) and has no assets except potentially any profit from this case... and part of the judgement was that Novell does not owe SCO any money.....
This is nothing to do with EU law overruling UK ones....
We agreed that if we set standards for certain things then we would inform the EU, so other countries could implement the same standards, and we agreed that until we did so we would not implement those standards ourselves... then we implemented a law that set standards and we failed to inform the EU.... so *by our own laws* this law is invalid
It's like Delaware saying that any law affecting it's neighbours it passes is not valid until they tell their neighbours about it, not telling them, then prosecuting people using the new law even though by their own laws it is invalid....
Most not involving guns (Knives, baseball bats, unarmed assaults etc... but not guns)
And the violent crime and murder rate is still a lot less than any comparable US city
Gun control is only draconian if you want to own a gun.... most people in the UK don't
The people who own guns in the UK are a small minority of gun enthusiasts (mostly shotguns), farmers (mostly shotguns), sporting hunters (mostly shotguns), and gun collectors (mostly disabled guns) and a highly regulated police force, and a highly regulated army - What this means is that if you see anyone with a gun on the streets they are either a very visible police or army weapons officer, in full uniform, or a criminal.... and the criminals are usually reported to the police very quickly....
Going from research done in the US, the person most likely to be shot with *your* gun is... you, or a member of your household
Someone who owns a gun is more likely to be involved in violent crime.. not less likely
So Rehat sell software that they mostly did not write, you can download for nothing, and so obviously they make no money and nobody buys their products....!
Actually they sell systems and solutions, what you buy is their expertise and assistance, and you get some software with it...
IBM sell software the same way Apple do... it's to get you to buy the hardware and support. They could give it away and still make money (but they discovered people would pay good money for it....)
This is how to make money selling OpenSource software.... don't sell it, sell stuff to go with it, Hardware, Support, Consultancy etc...
This is the problem with fingerprint evidence as opposed to DNA evidence
DNA Evidence is normally matched on a small number of key points against a database of these points, probability of a mismatch is ~ 1:50million with a world population of 6.5 billion you will get mis-matches, with a US population of 300 million you will get mis-matches CODIS has 5 million entries so far,, mis-matches are less likely but not impossible....
NB if you have two samples then they can be matched exactly with total confidence, excepting identical twins, but this takes longer is more expensive and the required level of detail is not kept in a database...
Fingerprint evidence is subjective and they do not give a confidence probability.. it's either a match or not!
The Haskell code will run slower and might (depending on the compiler) be larger
Correct code will do the correct thing, but it will only be correct in the sense that it will do what it was asked to do, not what you want it to do....
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This was rediscovered by the US (ENIAC) in 1946 , those people at Bletchley Park discovered this and built a computer using the idea of not turning them off in 1943 ...Wartime Official secrets stopped them telling anyone ....
The hardware people who discovered this were the Post Office (Telecoms) who used tubes for switching and knew the pitfalls ...
I have mine ... ...replacement is not acceptable for proof of identity since you do not have to prove your identity to get one!
MiG-29
Rate of climb: initial 330 m/s average 109 m/s 0-6000 m[87]
Service ceiling: 18,013 m (59,100 ft)
English Electric Lightning
Rate of climb: 50,000 ft/min (260 m/s) sustained rate to service ceiling
Service ceiling: 26,600 m (87,300 ft)
The EEL is in the Guiness World records for its rate of climb ....
Average temperature goes up,and you cut down all the trees, then deserts expand, less rain falls desert remains
This means that less water is cycling and so less water is available to drink
The total amount of water is the same but more of it is salty and in the oceans, we could run desalination plants, but they take a lot of energy, and that is only likely to make things worse ....
Write a book, sell the rights to a publisher, let them worry about defending it, they get most of the profit
Write music, sell the rights to a publisher, let them worry about defending it, they get most of the profit
Get an Idea, either sell the rights to a company, or create your own company, or if you work for a company they already own it ....
In all cases a company owns a large portion of the rights not the individual that came up with the idea
Patents were done to allow companies to reveal their trade secrets without worrying about losing money, they are now used to stop competition
To get a passport, up until recently in the UK I could get one with three bits of paper
Birth Certificate (which most people lose)
Two bills in your name (which are trivial to steal/fabricate)
Now we have to appear in person as well, well that stops it? ... except the person interviewing me does not know me, has never met me and what they know about me is only what is available in public records ....
But a passport is as you said assumed to be trusted as a form of ID, even though it has been shown they are easily forged, and easy to get under an assumed name ...
Adding biometrics does not make it more secure, it just makes it harder to refute
1969 :
Concorde first flight - Supersonic passenger aircraft : retired
Harrier Jump Jet first flight
Moon Landings : none for the last 38 years
The internet started
Worlds fastest production Aircraft : Retired
Worlds fastest commercial airliner : Retired
Worlds fastest climbing aircraft : Retired
Moon rocket : Retired
Slowing down , I think going backwards would be nearer the mark ....
The problem with an ID card is how easy is it for me to get one in your name ....
I suspect it is very very easy .... and once I have an ID card saying I am you then I have more proof that I am you than you do, Identity theft with no comeback ....
Just change you fingerprints, retina, and DNA
The real problem is the biometric tests they use are massively flawed and ludicrously easy to fool ....fingerprint scanners can be fooled by gummi bears
We don't have a President!
Each constituancy elects an MP, and the Party with the most MP's get to run the country
The party with the most MP's elects their own leader and they become the Prime Minister
The Prime Minister elects a Cabinet to assist running the country ....
Unlike a president the PM has less power, in that they cannot do most things without the support of the majority of MP's
We didn't vote for Gordon Brown as the PM but we did vote for his Party when Tony Blair was known to be soon retiring ....
Schools should teach you how to do things not how to use a product .... ...the general principals will still work in 5 years time when they apply for a job, but the product they used will most likely be obsolete by then
Try installing a newly bought/downloaded package for Windows it may need Vista to run, If my PC came with an earlier version of Windows then I would have to ....
pay to upgrade and may need to upgrade my PC in order to run Vista
Now try Enterprise software .... many companies have software running that is unchanged from 10 years ago .... unless it is based on Windows in which case the forced interdependent upgrades mean that changing one component of the system will mean upgrading everything including the hardware to do almost the same job ....
I have a *very* old PC that runs a modern version of Linux that can run all the latest OpenSource software I need, all the hardware is supported out of the box and I did not have to pay for any software upgrades ....
I can lock down a users PC, so that no user can do what they like and can only do what I want them to do .... In Windows, Linux, OSX etc ...
This is not a feature exclusive to Windows, in fact it is a feature that was added relatively late to Windows... that is why the security was always so bad the user always ran as Administrator and so could do anything ....
Windows 2000 Support ended 30 July 2005 - Now on essential Security updates only
Windows XP Supported ended 14 April 2009 - Now on Extended support only (Security updates and paid support only)
If I bought red-hat Linux in 1994 then I could still be using it and could have it up to date, *because* it is open source this support provided by the community will never end and it is irrelevant if Red Hat ceases to support a product
RHEL (which came out in 2004) can still be actively supported and maintained by Red Hat as a modern up to date product
Slackware has been free and available since 1993 and is still *fully* maintained (not just security fixes) - Will 16 years and counting do ...
The same could be said of the road network in any major city ....
Upgrading it to a network on which neo-cars can travel at the same speed could be done but the old cars could not use it, everyone would have to upgrade their car to use it, and currently everyone has old cars
What is needed is for IPv6 to "just work" on all new PC's servers and switches, with no extra hassle, security issues etc ... but it doesn't, so people avoid it, because IPv4 is "good enough"
Labour are now neo-conservative are they?, they may be in US terms, but even our Conservative party only has a few people we would consider neocons and Labour are still (just) to the left of the majority of Conservatives ....
You forget that totalitarian regimes come in both left and right flavours and they both use the same tactics ....
We don't have a written Constitution like the US, which can be amended as the government wants if it can get a majority ... what we do have is the body of law, which the government can modify as it wants if it can get a majority .... ... it has also international treaties (including EU treaties) it has signed up to that may invalidate some laws, just like the US ...
It's simple the law governs Parlement and Parlement makes the laws (including international treaties) just like in the US ....
Is climate change happening : Yes
What will the court decide : Who Knows. ...?
Is evolution reality : Yes
Scopes trial said : No
The courts are not the place to decide scientific truth ....
The summary judgement was that SCO did not own the copyright - What this says is that it needs to go to trial to determine this (i.e. it's a "not sure")
IBM does not care, they have already proved they did not infringe no matter who owns it ...
It does not affect Linux because again SCO have failed to show that any code was copied ..oh and SCO has no money (it's in Chapter 11) and has no assets except potentially any profit from this case ... and part of the judgement was that Novell does not owe SCO any money .....
It's the old
Public domain - do anything
BSD do almost anything, including stealing my code, but that's ok
GPL do almost anything, but don't steal the code
Which you choose depends on which you want to do ...
This is nothing to do with EU law overruling UK ones ....
We agreed that if we set standards for certain things then we would inform the EU, so other countries could implement the same standards, and we agreed that until we did so we would not implement those standards ourselves ... then we implemented a law that set standards and we failed to inform the EU .... so *by our own laws* this law is invalid
It's like Delaware saying that any law affecting it's neighbours it passes is not valid until they tell their neighbours about it, not telling them, then prosecuting people using the new law even though by their own laws it is invalid ....
They passed a law saying they had to notify the EU in order for a certain new laws to be valid, then failed to do so with another law ...
So in the US if one law conflicts with another both are valid .... strange system you have ?
...a "massive increase in violent crime" ?
Not massive (by even the most outrageous claims)
Most not involving guns (Knives, baseball bats, unarmed assaults etc ... but not guns)
And the violent crime and murder rate is still a lot less than any comparable US city
Gun control is only draconian if you want to own a gun .... most people in the UK don't
The people who own guns in the UK are a small minority of gun enthusiasts (mostly shotguns), farmers (mostly shotguns), sporting hunters (mostly shotguns), and gun collectors (mostly disabled guns) and a highly regulated police force, and a highly regulated army - What this means is that if you see anyone with a gun on the streets they are either a very visible police or army weapons officer, in full uniform, or a criminal .... and the criminals are usually reported to the police very quickly ....
Going from research done in the US, the person most likely to be shot with *your* gun is ... you, or a member of your household
Someone who owns a gun is more likely to be involved in violent crime .. not less likely
So Rehat sell software that they mostly did not write, you can download for nothing, and so obviously they make no money and nobody buys their products ....!
Actually they sell systems and solutions, what you buy is their expertise and assistance, and you get some software with it ...
IBM sell software the same way Apple do ... it's to get you to buy the hardware and support. They could give it away and still make money (but they discovered people would pay good money for it ....)
This is how to make money selling OpenSource software.... don't sell it, sell stuff to go with it, Hardware, Support, Consultancy etc ...
This is southern Ireland (Eire) the IRA became the Irish National Army in 1922, and don't have anything to do with the IRA in Northern Ireland ....
And yes ISP's have the same common carrier protection they have in the USA .... i.e. none whatsoever ....
This is the problem with fingerprint evidence as opposed to DNA evidence
DNA Evidence is normally matched on a small number of key points against a database of these points, probability of a mismatch is ~ 1:50million with a world population of 6.5 billion you will get mis-matches, with a US population of 300 million you will get mis-matches CODIS has 5 million entries so far ,, mis-matches are less likely but not impossible ....
NB if you have two samples then they can be matched exactly with total confidence, excepting identical twins, but this takes longer is more expensive and the required level of detail is not kept in a database ...
Fingerprint evidence is subjective and they do not give a confidence probability .. it's either a match or not!
The Haskell code will run slower and might (depending on the compiler) be larger
Correct code will do the correct thing, but it will only be correct in the sense that it will do what it was asked to do, not what you want it to do....