Ironically, today the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act came into force in the UK. Among other things, it makes viewing online "terrorist content" - even once - a criminal offence.
The jail time would need to be an option for willful negligence where profit was prioritized over actual data security.
This is the critical point. I've worked on many IT projects and there is a stark difference between things an executive can be held personally responsible for and scenarios where they can hide behind "corporate responsibility". When executives are personally responsible, those items become top priorities for the project. When executives are not personally responsible then items that don't add directly to the bottom line (like data security) will get dropped in a heartbeat if the project is over-running on time or cost.
What would be funny is "around the world" cruises for flat-earthers.
Well the marine navigation systems used by cruise (and other) ships unsurprisingly work on the basis that the earth is round. Makes cruising an ironic choice for a flat-earther get together.
A lot of the flat earthers I've met are really just trolling other people.
Well Flat Earth Conventions and even cruises are a thing, so it's not just trolling. And the folks who attend these things genuinely seem to believe they are doing actual science, while proper peer-reviewed science is considered to be part of some grand conspiracy.
The problem with Youtube, in my experience, is with the recommendation system. I regularly get fringe political, pseudo-science, and conspiracy theory videos showing up as "Recommended for you"; even though they are in no way relevant what I'm watching or searching for.
I'd still want an ad blocker. It's optional anyways. Don't like the performance? Don't install the extension.
Well, given that ads typically increase page load time significantly (for example ~2.5 seconds for Wordpress WordAds), you are probably still coming out ahead by using a blocker.
Tens of millions of people in the U.S. drive automobiles and other vehicles every day. The potential for accidents, even fatal ones, is omnipresent.
Operators must take driver education courses; they must be licensed; they must carry insurance; there are criminal penalties for reckless operation. Plus, there are rules: signs, designated lanes, speed limits, etc. Why should aerial drone operations be any different?
Because airborne vehicles are different to earthbound vehicles. Off the top of my head....
They operate in three dimensions, not two.
We therefore quite rightly set the bar higher for operating airborne vehicles; almost everybody can manage to qualify for a drivers license, only a small minority manage to qualify for a pilots license.
Automobiles and other earthbound vehicles can only go on roads; there's no right of way through (or over) people's houses.
Currently airborne vehicles must stick to tightly restricted flight paths, for valid safety reasons. Drone operators want to go everywhere; e.g. to make residential deliveries.
Drones represent a different category of risk to automobiles etc.
We also gained valuable real-time insight into purchasing habits and trends.
And there we have the real driver behind "cashless"; tie every purchase, no matter how small, to a card and therefore an individual. Retailers can get all the stock management "insight" they need from any decent point-of-sale system. Mandating card-only payments is not required. What's selling, what's not, what's running low, when to reorder, etc.; non of that requires anything more than the anonymized item tracking you get from any POS system.
And don't get me started on shops that want to email or DM me an electronic receipt.
I'm surprised that they delay flights for 6 hours and more because of two drones. I understand that they delay flights, but I'd expect them to take out those drones as soon as possible. If they can't do that, that's rather a big vulnerability.
I know the Dutch police has worked on using trained eagles to take out drones (by far the most bad-ass solution to the problem). I've also heard of using some sort of jammer or directed electromagnetic pulse to disrupt drone. But even a well-aimed bullet should solve the problem.
Also, weren't drones supposed to be limited through software so that they can only fly where they're allowed to?
This article covers why all of those won't work or are too dangerous to try. Even the bird of prey option; yes the Dutch tried it but discontinued it (TL;DR too expensive, complicated and unreliable).
The show doesn't need clever ideas (and I'd argue Moffat trying to be too clever ended up detracting from the show in the past few series) as long as it has a solid story, good characters, and talented actors.
This! Moffatt did the same thing to Sherlock; it started so well but the last series was a shambles.
Does switching jobs make you a worse programmer? No.
It’s true there are things existing team members know but you don’t, at least at first. But you are indeed adding experience and knowledge the other team doesn’t currently possess, regardless of this person’s premise. The author claims “that’s not really happening”, but provides no evidence to support his claim. I, on the other hand, have seen this infusion of new knowledge and ideas occur, first-hand, when we’ve added a new team member.
In my experience, it really depends on the individual. I've seen a lot of contractors over the years who are simply "coders for hire" and seem to have no interest in broadening their skill sets to become well-rounded developers. They are happy to collect a decent daily rate for a few months and move on when (or before) their limitations become apparent.
On the other hand I've known guys who have chosen various different jobs specifically to grow their skills in different areas, and become better professional developers.
So, does switching jobs make you a better (or worse) programmer? Maybe. It depends on your motivation.
This is actually funny and sad. Don't the MS people realize that the only reason for using "sysinternals" is that their OS doesn't come with decent instrumentation by default? This toolset doesn't even come close to what's natively available in Unix or Linux.
smh
On the other hand, one of the selling points of Linux has always been choice; "there's more than one way to do it". The sysinternals tools are a mature set of system utilities and maybe, just maybe, at least some of the Linux ports might offer a useful addition/alternative to the existing Linux tools. Time will tell.
It doesn't help when they put ads on the service. Amazon Prime Video has started randomly putting ads between show which is annoying but they also have copied what older ads used to do which is pump of the volume for ad which is really annoying.
It's not just streaming services. Here in the UK, most sports coverage is now on one of a number of competing subscription-based broadcast channels. Even though you are paying a subscription, they still show ads at every opportunity. Basically, there are just too many channels chasing too few viewers. Hence they monetize the content any way they can.
And the people actually making the decisions are unelected by the people and completely unaccoutable to ANYONE.
Except that's not the case. Every MEP (Member of the European Parliament) is elected by the citizens of their home country; just like the members of any national parliament. MEPs are up for reelection in 2019 so if the people don't like how their MEP voted on this (or any other) issue they can vote him/her out of office and put another candidate in their place; just like any national parliament.
The "How The EU Works" video you linked to (in this and other threads) is just a propaganda piece from UKIP; a group well known for using "alternative facts" to promote their ideological agenda. It's like posting a "How The US Government Works" that links to a clip from Fox News or (perhaps more accurately) Alex Jones InfoWars.
Google beats doctor... but your doctor won't share your data with companies all over the web and start advertising to you based on what condition it discovers and trying to take advantage of you financially based on what ails you. (they will just milk you a bunch for your visit instead).
That concern was touched on in the BBC report. As it stands, this analysis requires the hospital to share patient data with Google. Many people will be understandably unhappy about that.
Surprised to hear no one suing for false advertising. Sell full access to all movies, switch to 3 a month is Bait and Switch, that against the law in the US as far as i know.
On the other hand, I'm surprised that people actually believed that they could see a movie, in a movie theatre, every day for $9.95 per month (~ 33 cents per movie) without the movie theatres (and/or MoviePass) going broke. Businesses must, at a bare minimum, price their goods/services to at least cover their costs. If a price looks too good to be true, then it almost certainly is.
Python is not the most popular, though it's moved up a lot. Languages without static typing are barbaric
As older/.ers will remember, "Real Programmers don't write in PASCAL, or BLISS, or ADA, or any of those pinko computer science languages. Strong typing is for people with weak memories." - Real Programmers Don't Write Specs
The good guys need to be lucky every time. The bad guy only needs to be lucky once.
This is why we all need to make sure that our members of parliament (EU and national) are in no doubt about the opposition to this kind of law. Find out how your MEPs voted, and tell the ones who voted for these measures that they are losing your vote; they are up for reelection in 2019.
And as voting seems to have mainly run along party lines, if your MEP's party supports this then tell their colleagues in your national parliament that it's a vote loser for them too.
The biggest danger is that after Brexit we might be able to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, which among other things guarantees freedom of expression.
Realistically this is one of the things the pro-Brexit lobby want. When they talk about "Brussels red-tape" what they really mean is "stuff that prevents us from doing whatever the hell we want" (remember the UK has no written constitution). Theresa May was openly talking about leaving the EHCR even before the Brexit referendum. And Chris Grayling has openly promoted the idea that the EHCR was necessary in the aftermath of World War II but is not necessary (or relevant) today.
Even though the government already curtails freedom of expression, the ECHR limits how far they can go. Once it's gone they will be unrestrained.
I suggest that they will try to spin it in the same way as Trumps tax reforms; i.e. it's a "big win for freedom and the little guy" when it's really the exact opposite.
I'm 51 and definitely from the generation that always answered the phone.
I notice as my fellow employees get younger there is much less use of voice calls, with instant messaging and emails being preferred instead. The problem is that these communication methods often seem really inefficient and are as easy to ignore or under-respond to as a phone with a ringer on silent.
We've had problems crop up with clients and you'd never know what the nature and magnitude of them is when you get short texts like "Do you know about the issue at MZR?"
Does either response provide any value? I can answer "Yes" without actually knowing because the dumb text made it seem like there was one. I can answer no and what value does that add to the person asking?
Had they just fucking called we both would have been able to quickly sort out who knew what and who was going to do anything about it.
Well my solution is that I only answer if I recognise the incoming number (family, friends, co-workers and the office). If I don't recognise the number, I let it go to voicemail; if it's important the caller will leave a message and I'll call them back promptly. This way I talk to the people that are important and filter out the rest.
However usually after an outage. The IT Company will fix that problem so it doesn't happen again. Thus after every outage, the system normally gets more secure. Especially if an outage causes so much revenue loss.
Except you can't guarantee 100% availability of any electronic system. There will always be scenarios that will take down at least part of the system; power outages, network outages, etc. Recently my local coffee shop's card reader terminal was down for a couple of days. Without the ability to accept cash they would have been unable to trade.
Paper money and coins are not reliable as well. If I have a $100.00 bill, not all locations will take that large bill. Heck I remember when I was in college and I had a freaken $5.00 bill that I couldn't get broken up to singles. I even wen't to the campus post office, to buy a stamp, and they didn't have change so they gave me the stamp for free. All I wanted to do is use the vending machine to get a Soda.
The cash in your pocket is about as reliable as it gets. Visa customers are being advised to use their cards to withdraw cash from their issuing bank's ATMs. It's only the retailers that have already gone cashless (and there are some) that will have a problem right now.
Are the billboard top 10 even relevant anymore? It seems like a different metric like "top 100 concert earnings" or something would be more relevant these days.
Or no single metric. Over the last 50 years or so both the number of different genres and the quantity of being being produced have both ballooned so it's not reasonable for a single chart to make sense. What you now really want to know is who thinks what is popular rather than just what is considered popular by the largest number of people.
Another view: the charts made sense when music was sold on physical media. When people had to physically go to a store, buy a vinyl record (or CD), and bring it home to listen to it, that represented a conscious choice (and a level of commitment) on the part of the consumer.
With the rise of easy mass downloads (and now streaming) and portable personal music players, for many people music has now become an "always on" background soundtrack; hence devolving into a sort of "muzak" is not that surprising.
It's pretty much the #1 sport in many Asian countries (like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), it's in the top 3 in countries like the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa (alongside soccer and rugby), and it's widely played in the Caribbean too.
Slashdot Mirror
Ironically, today the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act came into force in the UK. Among other things, it makes viewing online "terrorist content" - even once - a criminal offence.
Had multiple archives which were reporting as corrupt / damaged in 7zip and opened fine in WinRAR, near a decade ago.
I've used 7-Zip for years. Never had a problem, with RAR files (single or multi-part) or any other archive type. YMMV
The jail time would need to be an option for willful negligence where profit was prioritized over actual data security.
This is the critical point. I've worked on many IT projects and there is a stark difference between things an executive can be held personally responsible for and scenarios where they can hide behind "corporate responsibility". When executives are personally responsible, those items become top priorities for the project. When executives are not personally responsible then items that don't add directly to the bottom line (like data security) will get dropped in a heartbeat if the project is over-running on time or cost.
What would be funny is "around the world" cruises for flat-earthers.
Well the marine navigation systems used by cruise (and other) ships unsurprisingly work on the basis that the earth is round. Makes cruising an ironic choice for a flat-earther get together.
A lot of the flat earthers I've met are really just trolling other people.
Well Flat Earth Conventions and even cruises are a thing, so it's not just trolling. And the folks who attend these things genuinely seem to believe they are doing actual science, while proper peer-reviewed science is considered to be part of some grand conspiracy.
The problem with Youtube, in my experience, is with the recommendation system. I regularly get fringe political, pseudo-science, and conspiracy theory videos showing up as "Recommended for you"; even though they are in no way relevant what I'm watching or searching for.
I'd still want an ad blocker. It's optional anyways. Don't like the performance? Don't install the extension.
Well, given that ads typically increase page load time significantly (for example ~2.5 seconds for Wordpress WordAds), you are probably still coming out ahead by using a blocker.
Tens of millions of people in the U.S. drive automobiles and other vehicles every day. The potential for accidents, even fatal ones, is omnipresent. Operators must take driver education courses; they must be licensed; they must carry insurance; there are criminal penalties for reckless operation. Plus, there are rules: signs, designated lanes, speed limits, etc. Why should aerial drone operations be any different?
Because airborne vehicles are different to earthbound vehicles. Off the top of my head....
Drones represent a different category of risk to automobiles etc.
We also gained valuable real-time insight into purchasing habits and trends.
And there we have the real driver behind "cashless"; tie every purchase, no matter how small, to a card and therefore an individual. Retailers can get all the stock management "insight" they need from any decent point-of-sale system. Mandating card-only payments is not required. What's selling, what's not, what's running low, when to reorder, etc.; non of that requires anything more than the anonymized item tracking you get from any POS system.
And don't get me started on shops that want to email or DM me an electronic receipt.
I'm surprised that they delay flights for 6 hours and more because of two drones. I understand that they delay flights, but I'd expect them to take out those drones as soon as possible. If they can't do that, that's rather a big vulnerability.
I know the Dutch police has worked on using trained eagles to take out drones (by far the most bad-ass solution to the problem). I've also heard of using some sort of jammer or directed electromagnetic pulse to disrupt drone. But even a well-aimed bullet should solve the problem.
Also, weren't drones supposed to be limited through software so that they can only fly where they're allowed to?
This article covers why all of those won't work or are too dangerous to try. Even the bird of prey option; yes the Dutch tried it but discontinued it (TL;DR too expensive, complicated and unreliable).
The show doesn't need clever ideas (and I'd argue Moffat trying to be too clever ended up detracting from the show in the past few series) as long as it has a solid story, good characters, and talented actors.
This! Moffatt did the same thing to Sherlock; it started so well but the last series was a shambles.
Plus the Fax network wasn't affected when the NHS computer systems were taken off the air by the WannaCry malware.
Yes, a "better opportunity" may exist, but "good enough" also has its advantages.
Or maybe people are just happy with the location choices they have already made, and for more than simply work-related reasons; see The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart. Explains a lot about the polarized state of the nation.
Does switching jobs make you a worse programmer? No.
It’s true there are things existing team members know but you don’t, at least at first. But you are indeed adding experience and knowledge the other team doesn’t currently possess, regardless of this person’s premise. The author claims “that’s not really happening”, but provides no evidence to support his claim. I, on the other hand, have seen this infusion of new knowledge and ideas occur, first-hand, when we’ve added a new team member.
In my experience, it really depends on the individual. I've seen a lot of contractors over the years who are simply "coders for hire" and seem to have no interest in broadening their skill sets to become well-rounded developers. They are happy to collect a decent daily rate for a few months and move on when (or before) their limitations become apparent.
On the other hand I've known guys who have chosen various different jobs specifically to grow their skills in different areas, and become better professional developers.
So, does switching jobs make you a better (or worse) programmer? Maybe. It depends on your motivation.
This is actually funny and sad. Don't the MS people realize that the only reason for using "sysinternals" is that their OS doesn't come with decent instrumentation by default? This toolset doesn't even come close to what's natively available in Unix or Linux.
smh
On the other hand, one of the selling points of Linux has always been choice; "there's more than one way to do it". The sysinternals tools are a mature set of system utilities and maybe, just maybe, at least some of the Linux ports might offer a useful addition/alternative to the existing Linux tools. Time will tell.
It doesn't help when they put ads on the service. Amazon Prime Video has started randomly putting ads between show which is annoying but they also have copied what older ads used to do which is pump of the volume for ad which is really annoying.
It's not just streaming services. Here in the UK, most sports coverage is now on one of a number of competing subscription-based broadcast channels. Even though you are paying a subscription, they still show ads at every opportunity. Basically, there are just too many channels chasing too few viewers. Hence they monetize the content any way they can.
Snip
And the people actually making the decisions are unelected by the people and completely unaccoutable to ANYONE.
Except that's not the case. Every MEP (Member of the European Parliament) is elected by the citizens of their home country; just like the members of any national parliament. MEPs are up for reelection in 2019 so if the people don't like how their MEP voted on this (or any other) issue they can vote him/her out of office and put another candidate in their place; just like any national parliament.
The "How The EU Works" video you linked to (in this and other threads) is just a propaganda piece from UKIP; a group well known for using "alternative facts" to promote their ideological agenda. It's like posting a "How The US Government Works" that links to a clip from Fox News or (perhaps more accurately) Alex Jones InfoWars.
Google beats doctor... but your doctor won't share your data with companies all over the web and start advertising to you based on what condition it discovers and trying to take advantage of you financially based on what ails you. (they will just milk you a bunch for your visit instead).
That concern was touched on in the BBC report. As it stands, this analysis requires the hospital to share patient data with Google. Many people will be understandably unhappy about that.
Surprised to hear no one suing for false advertising. Sell full access to all movies, switch to 3 a month is Bait and Switch, that against the law in the US as far as i know.
On the other hand, I'm surprised that people actually believed that they could see a movie, in a movie theatre, every day for $9.95 per month (~ 33 cents per movie) without the movie theatres (and/or MoviePass) going broke. Businesses must, at a bare minimum, price their goods/services to at least cover their costs. If a price looks too good to be true, then it almost certainly is.
Python is not the most popular, though it's moved up a lot. Languages without static typing are barbaric
As older /.ers will remember, "Real Programmers don't write in PASCAL, or BLISS, or ADA, or any of those pinko computer science languages. Strong typing is for people with weak memories." - Real Programmers Don't Write Specs
The good guys need to be lucky every time. The bad guy only needs to be lucky once.
This is why we all need to make sure that our members of parliament (EU and national) are in no doubt about the opposition to this kind of law. Find out how your MEPs voted, and tell the ones who voted for these measures that they are losing your vote; they are up for reelection in 2019.
And as voting seems to have mainly run along party lines, if your MEP's party supports this then tell their colleagues in your national parliament that it's a vote loser for them too.
The biggest danger is that after Brexit we might be able to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, which among other things guarantees freedom of expression.
Realistically this is one of the things the pro-Brexit lobby want. When they talk about "Brussels red-tape" what they really mean is "stuff that prevents us from doing whatever the hell we want" (remember the UK has no written constitution). Theresa May was openly talking about leaving the EHCR even before the Brexit referendum. And Chris Grayling has openly promoted the idea that the EHCR was necessary in the aftermath of World War II but is not necessary (or relevant) today.
Even though the government already curtails freedom of expression, the ECHR limits how far they can go. Once it's gone they will be unrestrained.
I suggest that they will try to spin it in the same way as Trumps tax reforms; i.e. it's a "big win for freedom and the little guy" when it's really the exact opposite.
I'm 51 and definitely from the generation that always answered the phone.
I notice as my fellow employees get younger there is much less use of voice calls, with instant messaging and emails being preferred instead. The problem is that these communication methods often seem really inefficient and are as easy to ignore or under-respond to as a phone with a ringer on silent.
We've had problems crop up with clients and you'd never know what the nature and magnitude of them is when you get short texts like "Do you know about the issue at MZR?"
Does either response provide any value? I can answer "Yes" without actually knowing because the dumb text made it seem like there was one. I can answer no and what value does that add to the person asking?
Had they just fucking called we both would have been able to quickly sort out who knew what and who was going to do anything about it.
Well my solution is that I only answer if I recognise the incoming number (family, friends, co-workers and the office). If I don't recognise the number, I let it go to voicemail; if it's important the caller will leave a message and I'll call them back promptly. This way I talk to the people that are important and filter out the rest.
However usually after an outage. The IT Company will fix that problem so it doesn't happen again. Thus after every outage, the system normally gets more secure. Especially if an outage causes so much revenue loss.
Except you can't guarantee 100% availability of any electronic system. There will always be scenarios that will take down at least part of the system; power outages, network outages, etc. Recently my local coffee shop's card reader terminal was down for a couple of days. Without the ability to accept cash they would have been unable to trade.
Paper money and coins are not reliable as well. If I have a $100.00 bill, not all locations will take that large bill. Heck I remember when I was in college and I had a freaken $5.00 bill that I couldn't get broken up to singles. I even wen't to the campus post office, to buy a stamp, and they didn't have change so they gave me the stamp for free. All I wanted to do is use the vending machine to get a Soda.
The cash in your pocket is about as reliable as it gets. Visa customers are being advised to use their cards to withdraw cash from their issuing bank's ATMs. It's only the retailers that have already gone cashless (and there are some) that will have a problem right now.
Are the billboard top 10 even relevant anymore? It seems like a different metric like "top 100 concert earnings" or something would be more relevant these days.
Or no single metric. Over the last 50 years or so both the number of different genres and the quantity of being being produced have both ballooned so it's not reasonable for a single chart to make sense. What you now really want to know is who thinks what is popular rather than just what is considered popular by the largest number of people.
Another view: the charts made sense when music was sold on physical media. When people had to physically go to a store, buy a vinyl record (or CD), and bring it home to listen to it, that represented a conscious choice (and a level of commitment) on the part of the consumer.
With the rise of easy mass downloads (and now streaming) and portable personal music players, for many people music has now become an "always on" background soundtrack; hence devolving into a sort of "muzak" is not that surprising.
Why?
Because they enjoy it.
It's pretty much the #1 sport in many Asian countries (like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), it's in the top 3 in countries like the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa (alongside soccer and rugby), and it's widely played in the Caribbean too.