These poor people are exploited here precisely because the conditions in their home country are so horrific. My heart goes out to the women H1-Bs I've worked with, because I've seen the haunted look in their eye when they speak of home. I once cornered another H1-B over a hideously unethical stunt he pulled to shift the blame away from his own screwup to another, more junior engineer. He robbed my righteous thunder when he got a desperate look in his eyes and pleaded with me, "Look, if he gets fired he can just get another job. If I get fired, they'd make me go back..."
And this is how it starts... Unrest is coming, it isn't going to be just, and it isn't going to be pretty. Belin circa 35.
Joking aside, why should economic growth not be sustainable long-term? Seriously? It's not like it's constrained by physical goods or anything...
As long as the growth is based on sustainable resources, no problem. Unfortunately, most of econonmic growth is heavily oil-dependent, and dependent on other non-renewable resources. Agriculture (fertilizers, not just energy), Tech (it ain't all silicon), Construction (yeah, we've loads of ore, but not limitless) - they're all non-sustainable, so in the long term, we can't sustain the economic growth based on consumersism that we're used to.
The IWF was created to appease the police who were otherwise going to prosecute ISPs and the ISPs were also due to face government legislation back in the 90s otherwise.
I'm glad somebody else remembers the history. The Observer's (unwarranted, vicious, sensational, IMHO) attack on Demon's Clive Feather was a big shock to the (still fairly small) UK online community at the time, and the IWF was born of that time (with Clive as first Chairman).
Me too. I use http://www.ukfsn.org/ as my entanet reseller. All profits go to UK Free Software projects and I can view my usage at any time and I've never come close to the 30GB peak/300GB off-peak usage. I don't torrent, but I get_iplayer quite a lot and host a few personal sites on my link.
I'm horrified that although this story is pretty old by now, yours is the first post that I've seen that acknowleges Wietse Venema in any way (OK, I'm reading at +3). His contribution to unix security and just his general cluefulness over the years has been exemplary. Anybody kicking his opinion had better have a massive gob of network security history behind them or they're going to look like a draft-dodger critizing a 4-tour vietnam vet.
Of course, Google does not provide such support. In those situations, GTK will be ruled out for business reasons, independent of its technical merits. The net result is that there are numerous sites built on GTK,
In case anybody else is confused - you mean GWT, right?
FAIR or GOOD means you're ok, but POOR (which is the result I got) means you should be worried.
Thanks for that. I've patched our RHEL5 BIND, but I still failed that test. I discovered that our legacy named.conf had carried a 'query-source' directive from ghod-knows-when and that just patching isn't always enough.
In our business environment, we will not upgrade to IE7 because it breaks business applications.
I used to get this all the time. I'd tell vendors that in our enterprise, our standard browser was mozilla - they'd look at me crazy. Now I tell them we're on firefox and about half of them say "no problem, we ensure we work on firefox too". Of the other half, half say they're working to make their applications firefox compatible (and mostly Safari too). The other 25% are mostly dinasaur companies that won't be around in 5 years.
This is the UK, which is about the slowest in the EU for firefox adoption.
LOL. I think that's a reference to 1066 And All That (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_and_All_That) Mod parent up, please! Missing a cultural reference leads to all kinds of false avenues and wasted energy. This example isn't obscure.
The convention among people who might be interested in ivory is that objects more than 50 years old are OK. And you prove that how?
The big problem is that most new ivory is arriving at (legitimate, therefore lucrative) market disguised as old. Without controlling the antique market there's no chance to stop the elephant killing (and please don't think that they're not in danger of extinction).
I'm not totally disinterested. My grandfather was an artist and amongst his materials left behind two elephant tusks. I can understand why getting rid of those was a long bureaucratic experience.
This assumes that a Windows machine has a meaningful distinction between per-user and system-wide settings, which is sadly not the case, whatever the original good intentions of the Windows designers. This is particularly (and problematically) true for the Default Mail Application in windows. It's set 'per machine' and not per user. So if you've more than one person who logs into the machine (not uncommon in the enterprise) they all get the same default mail application. See MS's KB article here:
It's a safe bet that those paper books will last far longer than any hard drive that you store files on That's probably true. What's also true is that there's a whole discipline working on fixing that.
Those of us working in national copyright libraries are participating in the development of tools, mechanisms and practices to Do This.
Even if we get perfect archival media (at least as good as vellum!) you've still got the problem that the bitstream might not mean jack to future generations.
ps - If anybody out there has an interest in the field, there's a serious lack of programmers/developers and it's a very lucrative niche, which doesn't take a huge effort to learn [google "digital repositories" "Fedora" (not the RH one) "DSpace" OAI-PMH METS...]
Use of LVM or ZFS to backup the on-disc copy is... questionable, as there remains the possibility, ever so slight, of the on-disc image not being completely consistent. Albeit the database journal is supposed to take care of this.
Mod up, if there's anybody still modding this story. Snapshots won't guarantee you a consistent database backup.
The chinese replaced the original glue with another, why? The chinese for some reason seem unable to follow specifications. All the recalls I seen from China are because they changed a part of the design for no good reason.
It's funny; back around the 1900s or so when the US was just getting ramped up with lots of production and exports and world trade, there were all sorts of abominations just like this []
Then manufacturers sprung up who could make a profit off their reputation for quality, and Industry generally cleaned up their act quite a bit.
It wasn't the magic market that fixed those problems, it was regulation, the stuff that business now likes to slander as "red tape" holding them back and making them uncompetitive. Betterment came from radical reform driven by common people shocked by stories exactly like this one. I'm dismayed by the comments to this story full of "chinese corruption" explanations when it's just a natural consequence of unregulated business, a period all developed countries have passed through. This an an effect of a development phase, not a cultural failing.
NO. Architecture is "work for hire." The architect can maintain copyright on the drawings and plans, and they might even have elements in the structure trademarked. They cannot prevent an owner from changing a building, but they can prevent the owner from saying it is a _ building when making changes.
from the summary: Steven Swain from the London Metropolitan Police states 'I don't know of a single incident where CCTV has actually been used to spot, apprehend or detain offenders in the act'."
The first five sentences in your post appears to contradict him. Care to elaborate?
It's a misquote. Every weekend you'll find dozens of incidents in towns all over the UK (probably dozens in London alone) where the police are called in response to CCTV operator callouts. The courts process thousands of cases a year where CCTV evidence is used (not usually presented, but used to get a guilty plea - there's very little point in pleading not guilty when there's a good quality film of you in the act). 95% of the cases are for affray, assault and criminal damage (drunken crimes). He may be referring to the "ring of steel" camera system, but that's not a CCTV surveillance system as such.
It's sad, back when Yahoo! was a search engine + portal, they were probably the most useful web site on the internet
Search engine & portal? You youngsters dunt know yer history! Yahoo originally a directory of all websites (well, all that registered, and that was most all). You could read "today's additions" and keep up with the growth of the web. Sure, exponential (but initially slow) growth meant that within a few months in early '95, you couldn't keep up. Is there an archive of that? I'd like to see which # my (OK, not mine, but I was there) first website was. Couldn't have been much over a thousand.
Reading between the lines, it sounds like you weren't carrying ID. Do you understand why the police detain people who go around without ID?
Hey, this is the UK we're talking about - there is absolutely no requirement to carry ID in the UK (yet). Maybe you don't understand this in the "land of the free".
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I agree 100% with what you said, I just wanted to say
You are a punk kid talking out his rear
was funny coming from Lord Ender.
OK, well it was when I started typing this...
These poor people are exploited here precisely because the conditions in their home country are so horrific. My heart goes out to the women H1-Bs I've worked with, because I've seen the haunted look in their eye when they speak of home. I once cornered another H1-B over a hideously unethical stunt he pulled to shift the blame away from his own screwup to another, more junior engineer. He robbed my righteous thunder when he got a desperate look in his eyes and pleaded with me, "Look, if he gets fired he can just get another job. If I get fired, they'd make me go back..."
And this is how it starts... Unrest is coming, it isn't going to be just, and it isn't going to be pretty. Belin circa 35.
Joking aside, why should economic growth not be sustainable long-term? Seriously? It's not like it's constrained by physical goods or anything...
As long as the growth is based on sustainable resources, no problem. Unfortunately, most of econonmic growth is heavily oil-dependent, and dependent on other non-renewable resources. Agriculture (fertilizers, not just energy), Tech (it ain't all silicon), Construction (yeah, we've loads of ore, but not limitless) - they're all non-sustainable, so in the long term, we can't sustain the economic growth based on consumersism that we're used to.
Jean-Paul, c'est toi?
The IWF was created to appease the police who were otherwise going to prosecute ISPs and the ISPs were also due to face government legislation back in the 90s otherwise.
I'm glad somebody else remembers the history. The Observer's (unwarranted, vicious, sensational, IMHO) attack on Demon's Clive Feather was a big shock to the (still fairly small) UK online community at the time, and the IWF was born of that time (with Clive as first Chairman).
http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/media/intreguk.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation
Me too. I use http://www.ukfsn.org/ as my entanet reseller. All profits go to UK Free Software projects and I can view my usage at any time and I've never come close to the 30GB peak/300GB off-peak usage. I don't torrent, but I get_iplayer quite a lot and host a few personal sites on my link.
Just a happy customer.
This man is a God-Damned genius:
I'm horrified that although this story is pretty old by now, yours is the first post that I've seen that acknowleges Wietse Venema in any way (OK, I'm reading at +3). His contribution to unix security and just his general cluefulness over the years has been exemplary. Anybody kicking his opinion had better have a massive gob of network security history behind them or they're going to look like a draft-dodger critizing a 4-tour vietnam vet.
Then again, the people scanning everything in will need to learn how to use microfiche. Unless they have fancy scanners that do that for them.
They do. nexscan, merkel etc. make them. Some are *very* automatic, fast (and expensive).
This practice dates back to the Norman invasion, when French was the language spoken by the ruling class in otherwise English speaking, er, England :)
Nice theory, except that both 'null' and 'void' came to english from the (french) normans. Neither is an anglo-saxon word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_French_origin
Of course, Google does not provide such support. In those situations, GTK will be ruled out for business reasons, independent of its technical merits. The net result is that there are numerous sites built on GTK,
In case anybody else is confused - you mean GWT, right?
FAIR or GOOD means you're ok, but POOR (which is the result I got) means you should be worried.
Thanks for that. I've patched our RHEL5 BIND, but I still failed that test. I discovered that our legacy named.conf had carried a 'query-source' directive from ghod-knows-when and that just patching isn't always enough.
I found the issue from:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?form=1&topic_id=15132&forum=37&order=ASC&start=0
In our business environment, we will not upgrade to IE7 because it breaks business applications.
I used to get this all the time. I'd tell vendors that in our enterprise, our standard browser was mozilla - they'd look at me crazy. Now I tell them we're on firefox and about half of them say "no problem, we ensure we work on firefox too". Of the other half, half say they're working to make their applications firefox compatible (and mostly Safari too). The other 25% are mostly dinasaur companies that won't be around in 5 years.
This is the UK, which is about the slowest in the EU for firefox adoption.
The big problem is that most new ivory is arriving at (legitimate, therefore lucrative) market disguised as old. Without controlling the antique market there's no chance to stop the elephant killing (and please don't think that they're not in danger of extinction).
I'm not totally disinterested. My grandfather was an artist and amongst his materials left behind two elephant tusks. I can understand why getting rid of those was a long bureaucratic experience.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;315240
Those of us working in national copyright libraries are participating in the development of tools, mechanisms and practices to Do This.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/
http://www.dpconline.org/
http://www.planets-project.eu/
etc.
Even if we get perfect archival media (at least as good as vellum!) you've still got the problem that the bitstream might not mean jack to future generations.
ps - If anybody out there has an interest in the field, there's a serious lack of programmers/developers and it's a very lucrative niche, which doesn't take a huge effort to learn [google "digital repositories" "Fedora" (not the RH one) "DSpace" OAI-PMH METS...]
Use of LVM or ZFS to backup the on-disc copy is... questionable, as there remains the possibility, ever so slight, of the on-disc image not being completely consistent. Albeit the database journal is supposed to take care of this.
Mod up, if there's anybody still modding this story. Snapshots won't guarantee you a consistent database backup.
The movie itself was based mostly on Clark's short story, The Sentinel. Furrfu!
I have mod points, but you're already +5, so I will just post instead.
Using furrfu +5 points
(OK, I'm old)
Your forgetting the legitimately interesting bands like NIN, Smashing pumpkins, Nirvana, Food Fighters,
I missed them. I like a good bunfight, I might check them out.
[Paging Dr Freud... I'm guessing you're 20 stone and had a Hershey bar in your mouth typing that...]
The chinese replaced the original glue with another, why? The chinese for some reason seem unable to follow specifications. All the recalls I seen from China are because they changed a part of the design for no good reason.
It's funny; back around the 1900s or so when the US was just getting ramped up with lots of production and exports and world trade, there were all sorts of abominations just like this []
Then manufacturers sprung up who could make a profit off their reputation for quality, and Industry generally cleaned up their act quite a bit.
It wasn't the magic market that fixed those problems, it was regulation, the stuff that business now likes to slander as "red tape" holding them back and making them uncompetitive. Betterment came from radical reform driven by common people shocked by stories exactly like this one. I'm dismayed by the comments to this story full of "chinese corruption" explanations when it's just a natural consequence of unregulated business, a period all developed countries have passed through. This an an effect of a development phase, not a cultural failing.
Funny, and you are the one with children, and I have none.
No! really? I would never have guessed.
NO. Architecture is "work for hire." The architect can maintain copyright on the drawings and plans, and they might even have elements in the structure trademarked. They cannot prevent an owner from changing a building, but they can prevent the owner from saying it is a _ building when making changes.
You'd think so wouldn't you?
[Architect Calatrava suing city of Bilbao for allowing another architect to build a walkway off the bridge he designed]
from the summary: Steven Swain from the London Metropolitan Police states 'I don't know of a single incident where CCTV has actually been used to spot, apprehend or detain offenders in the act'."
The first five sentences in your post appears to contradict him. Care to elaborate?
It's a misquote. Every weekend you'll find dozens of incidents in towns all over the UK (probably dozens in London alone) where the police are called in response to CCTV operator callouts. The courts process thousands of cases a year where CCTV evidence is used (not usually presented, but used to get a guilty plea - there's very little point in pleading not guilty when there's a good quality film of you in the act). 95% of the cases are for affray, assault and criminal damage (drunken crimes). He may be referring to the "ring of steel" camera system, but that's not a CCTV surveillance system as such.
It's sad, back when Yahoo! was a search engine + portal, they were probably the most useful web site on the internet
Search engine & portal? You youngsters dunt know yer history! Yahoo originally a directory of all websites (well, all that registered, and that was most all). You could read "today's additions" and keep up with the growth of the web. Sure, exponential (but initially slow) growth meant that within a few months in early '95, you couldn't keep up. Is there an archive of that? I'd like to see which # my (OK, not mine, but I was there) first website was. Couldn't have been much over a thousand.
Reading between the lines, it sounds like you weren't carrying ID. Do you understand why the police detain people who go around without ID?
Hey, this is the UK we're talking about - there is absolutely no requirement to carry ID in the UK (yet). Maybe you don't understand this in the "land of the free".