Note though that the list is about "deaths officially recorded as suicides", and it is well known that in some countries suicides are often officially recorded as accidents because they're considered shameful to the family. So take the statistics with a grain of salt.
Unfortunately Hardy's long term support ends in October so I'll have no choice but to upgrade to Karmic.
You can run KDE3.5 with Jaunty, see https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Kde3/Jaunty -- I've been doing that for a few months and it works quite well. Whether it'll be possible with Karmic, remains to be seen.
as far as I know you are governed by where you have physical presence.
Not so, in general. For example, Finnish criminal law states that it applies to crimes that have occurred in Finland OR in a Finnish ship or plane OR where the victim is Finland (!) or a Finn OR the perpetrator is a Finn OR the crime takes place in a territory with no laws OR it's an "international crime" OR an extradition request has been denied and some more obscure things and exceptions. Moreover, the place where the crime occurred is defined as both where it was committed and where the consequences occurred.
The situation is more or less similar elsewhere, and can be summarized as "we _can_ prosecute you if we want to, period". Some countries can even send their soldiers to get you if you can't be extradited - remember Eichmann, or Noriega?
In practice most countries rarely prosecute foreigners for crimes committed abroad, but there are some notorious exceptions.Consider the case of Rachel Ehrenfeld vs. Khalid bin Mahmouz, where a Saudi sued an American for a book published in USA in an English court, and won - by default, Ehrenfeld refused to travel to England to be prosecuted for something that had nothing to do with UK. She countersued in NY... the case is still pending (see, e.g., Julie Hilden's column.
Slovenian capitol city Ljubljana already has a grid of free WLAN hotpoints for everyone.
So does the Finnish town Oulu with its PanOulu network (since 2003 if memory serves).
Somewhat unusually it is a joint operation of the university, the city and some private enterprises, who've found participation makes financial sense even though they can't charge users for it or even force advertisement banners on them.
Yeah. I've also used FreeDOS to do firmware/bios upgrades on various things from motherboards to hard disks. I fact I keep a USB stick with FreeDOS around for just the purpose.
Please define exactly how a copyright holder can control their content even for a day once it is released.
They can't. But controlling copying at all is not a necessary condition to making money off it, and maximum control certainly doesn't mean maximum profits. That's what creators should realize and start working on ways to compete in the digital world on its own terms rather than fighting against the inevitable.
This story usually [...] And then, with every retelling, the number of years increases by one....
Heh. But, the machine I was talking about is this (nimbus1.mit.jyu.fi). It's an HP9000/835 that was new in 1990. Be warned, though, it is *slow*. (I'm hoping slashdotting will kill it for good...)
You're right. I'm in Canada and you simply cannot purchase a netbook with Linux on it from the local retail.
I'm in Finland and it's similar here. Almost all Linux models have disappeared from stores, even from Finnish mail order shops. A few models can still be found in small quantities, like original 7" EEE's, but that's it. I was told Acer's can be had with Linux but it requires an order of 10 or more, and nobody's advertising them.
PA-RISC is one of those things that will still be around after the nuclear holocaust destroys nearly all life as we know it. Two things will still be alive: a cockroach and a PA-RISC server looking forlorn alone in a corner somewhere wondering why nobody is talking to it anymore.
LOL:-D
We actually have a PA-RISC 1.0 machine from 1990 still running in a basement, with one application nobody cares enough about to port to anything newer but somebody cares enough to prevent it from being shut down. It's long been under "any problem whatsoever and to the museum it goes" status, but it just keeps going...
you may have
to replace parts of your UPS over the years.
You will have to replace UPS batteries several
times over 15 years. If you manage to find an UPS that'll
have spares available for that long.
Number two: cooling. Cool your
system! Make sure the system shuts itself down when fans stop running,
so the system doesn't fry itself. Replace your fans every 2 years.
Or go for passive cooling. Make sure it's efficient enough,
though: running too hot will also reduce component lifetime
keep the insides free from actual dust.
There are passively cooled cases with no air intake at all.
They can't handle heavy-duty hardware, but I understand it's
not an issue here, something like an Atom would be enough.
Number seven: security. Put the thing behind
a firewall or at least a NAT 'firewall'.
Or don't connect it to Internet at all.
His old machine presumably wasn't, so maybe it isn't
needed. In any case it's the only
way to avoid frequent software updates.
Perhaps get another machine, a netbook, say, for
browsing the net, pointing out that Internet will
change in 15 years so much that any machine used
for it will become obsolete much sooner anyway.
However, the main reason why finns speak pretty decent english is our school system. Studying english is mandatory from grades 3 to 9 in the elementary schoo and any route you continue from there also requires you to study english.
Actually that is not quite correct. You can choose another foreign language instead of English (I did, starting English later - yes, I'm a Finn), and you can even go all the way up to University without studying English (a schoolmate of mine did, studying German, French and Latin instead if I remember correctly).
It is true, however, that the vast majority choose English as their first foreign language and an even larger majority will study it for at least a few years.
I thought I had read/heard somewhere (might have even been the documentary Revolution OS) that Finns & Swedes grow up with English Sesame Street available to them and as a result many of them are bilingual from a young age.
I don't know about Sesame Street, but there are lots of English-language TV programs in Finland as well as in Sweden, and they are not dubbed but subtitled as soon as the intended audience can be assumed to read. And the limit is low enough that it actually motivates children to learn to be able read, in addition to teaching them English. (Same applies to other foreign-language TV programs, but sheer volume of English overwhelms everything else.)
Unless, of course, the way the system works is that the backup server accesses the production server to retrieve the data from it. That doesn't seem the most obvious design to me, but it would at least explain why the backup server could access the database. Maybe that is a good reason not to design the system that way
That is a rather common design in backup systems, and there are good reasons for it: mainly, it allows securing the backup server better, especially in the (common) situation where one backup server handles several production machines.
If the backup servers offer only read-only access to anyone over the net (or not even that if recovery from backup is rare enough to be initiated from backup server console), it can be secured much easier than when if offers write access to clients backing themselves up.
[...] it doesn't answer the first question, which is why the attackers were able to access the backup server.
Isn't the defendant under oath if they take the stand?
No, not here (in Finland) anyway. The defendant can be heard but not under oath. That's considered necessary to ensure nobody has to testify against themselves. And I know that from first-hand experience (I was acquitted, btw).
if you (as a defendant) lie in court, it's perjury and you're in deep shit.
Really? In which country? In places I know of (European only, I'm afraid), the defendant does not (is not even allowed to) swear he's telling the truth nor can be punished for lying to defend himself. Only witnesses can be charged with perjury, not defendants.
Adn how long would it take me to SSH into 40,000 desktops to update Adobe Reader 8 to Adobe Reader 9, because there is some new feature that someone decided we just have to implement?
That left me scratching my head: why would the number of desktops matter? Of course it would impact the wall clock time the loop takes to execute, but not much (presumably you'd background the ssh'd commands so the updates would happen in parallel), and anyway who cares about that - human workload is the same. What am I missing here?
Could someone outside Finland try that? I must admit I'll be surprised if it isn't geographically restricted, although I guess it's possible they've gotten permission for that from the Spanish producers.
I have long found it perplexing that the music and movie industries get to call the shots for the vastly larger software industry when it comes to legislation. I can only assume that the software industry must have some incredibly shitty lobbyists. It's not like it doesn't cost Microsoft money to pay developers to engineer their operating system to RIAA/MPAA specifications.
It is a competitive advantage to M$ if they can claim competition is illegal - like that popular activities like listening to music or watching videos cannot be legally done in Linux.
It is admirable that you want to follow the law, but it is not your decision to make.
Yes it is. It is everybody's decision whether or not to follow the law or make a moral choice - which of course may not be the same thing.
You may decide the law is immoral or otherwise not worth obeying in any particular case, but it will be your decision, and you cannot shift the responsibility to your superiors or anyone else.
If you know your employer or indeed anyone is breaking a law, you share the responsibility - indeed in many jurisdictions you are legally obligated to turn them in.
You may decide the law is immoral or that the consequences of trying to follow it are not worth it, that the legal punishment is too harsh or simply that since your resources are limited, you must choose where and when you use them and when you just turn blind eye or make just a modest effort because you can't do everything or because you realistically assess you cannot win - but it's always your decision, and you should make it knowingly.
I'm sure they wouldn't be treating their employees like criminals if they weren't having a problem with industrial espionage. Like it or not, it is a reality, and security measures need to be taken.
There's a reason allright, but it's not so much industrial espionage, but fear of bad/uncontrolled publicity - in two ways: first, employees communicating with journalists, second, they want to handle leaks hush-hush by themselves, without the publicity legal proceedings would cause, and without having to care about whether or not any laws have actually been broken. In other words, they want their own law, policed by themselves and judged by themselves without any annoying public overview.
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Here's hoping they don't prohibit VoIP to protect national telecom monopolies, as only too many countries have done...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
Looking at this list [...]
Note though that the list is about "deaths officially recorded as suicides", and it is well known that in some countries suicides are often officially recorded as accidents because they're considered shameful to the family. So take the statistics with a grain of salt.
Unfortunately Hardy's long term support ends in October so I'll have no choice but to upgrade to Karmic.
You can run KDE3.5 with Jaunty, see https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Kde3/Jaunty -- I've been doing that for a few months and it works quite well. Whether it'll be possible with Karmic, remains to be seen.
as far as I know you are governed by where you have physical presence.
Not so, in general. For example, Finnish criminal law states that it applies to crimes that have occurred in Finland OR in a Finnish ship or plane OR where the victim is Finland (!) or a Finn OR the perpetrator is a Finn OR the crime takes place in a territory with no laws OR it's an "international crime" OR an extradition request has been denied and some more obscure things and exceptions. Moreover, the place where the crime occurred is defined as both where it was committed and where the consequences occurred.
The situation is more or less similar elsewhere, and can be summarized as "we _can_ prosecute you if we want to, period". Some countries can even send their soldiers to get you if you can't be extradited - remember Eichmann, or Noriega?
In practice most countries rarely prosecute foreigners for crimes committed abroad, but there are some notorious exceptions.Consider the case of Rachel Ehrenfeld vs. Khalid bin Mahmouz, where a Saudi sued an American for a book published in USA in an English court, and won - by default, Ehrenfeld refused to travel to England to be prosecuted for something that had nothing to do with UK. She countersued in NY... the case is still pending (see, e.g., Julie Hilden's column.
Slovenian capitol city Ljubljana already has a grid of free WLAN hotpoints for everyone.
So does the Finnish town Oulu with its PanOulu network (since 2003 if memory serves). Somewhat unusually it is a joint operation of the university, the city and some private enterprises, who've found participation makes financial sense even though they can't charge users for it or even force advertisement banners on them.
Yeah. I've also used FreeDOS to do firmware/bios upgrades on various things from motherboards to hard disks. I fact I keep a USB stick with FreeDOS around for just the purpose.
Please define exactly how a copyright holder can control their content even for a day once it is released.
They can't. But controlling copying at all is not a necessary condition to making money off it, and maximum control certainly doesn't mean maximum profits. That's what creators should realize and start working on ways to compete in the digital world on its own terms rather than fighting against the inevitable.
This story usually [...] And then, with every retelling, the number of years increases by one....
Heh. But, the machine I was talking about is this (nimbus1.mit.jyu.fi). It's an HP9000/835 that was new in 1990. Be warned, though, it is *slow*. (I'm hoping slashdotting will kill it for good...)
You're right. I'm in Canada and you simply cannot purchase a netbook with Linux on it from the local retail.
I'm in Finland and it's similar here. Almost all Linux models have disappeared from stores, even from Finnish mail order shops. A few models can still be found in small quantities, like original 7" EEE's, but that's it. I was told Acer's can be had with Linux but it requires an order of 10 or more, and nobody's advertising them.
PA-RISC is one of those things that will still be around after the nuclear holocaust destroys nearly all life as we know it. Two things will still be alive: a cockroach and a PA-RISC server looking forlorn alone in a corner somewhere wondering why nobody is talking to it anymore.
LOL :-D
We actually have a PA-RISC 1.0 machine from 1990 still running in a basement, with one application nobody cares enough about to port to anything newer but somebody cares enough to prevent it from being shut down. It's long been under "any problem whatsoever and to the museum it goes" status, but it just keeps going...
you may have to replace parts of your UPS over the years.
You will have to replace UPS batteries several times over 15 years. If you manage to find an UPS that'll have spares available for that long.
Number two: cooling. Cool your system! Make sure the system shuts itself down when fans stop running, so the system doesn't fry itself. Replace your fans every 2 years.
Or go for passive cooling. Make sure it's efficient enough, though: running too hot will also reduce component lifetime
keep the insides free from actual dust.
There are passively cooled cases with no air intake at all. They can't handle heavy-duty hardware, but I understand it's not an issue here, something like an Atom would be enough.
Number seven: security. Put the thing behind a firewall or at least a NAT 'firewall'.
Or don't connect it to Internet at all. His old machine presumably wasn't, so maybe it isn't needed. In any case it's the only way to avoid frequent software updates. Perhaps get another machine, a netbook, say, for browsing the net, pointing out that Internet will change in 15 years so much that any machine used for it will become obsolete much sooner anyway.
However, the main reason why finns speak pretty decent english is our school system. Studying english is mandatory from grades 3 to 9 in the elementary schoo and any route you continue from there also requires you to study english.
Actually that is not quite correct. You can choose another foreign language instead of English (I did, starting English later - yes, I'm a Finn), and you can even go all the way up to University without studying English (a schoolmate of mine did, studying German, French and Latin instead if I remember correctly).
It is true, however, that the vast majority choose English as their first foreign language and an even larger majority will study it for at least a few years.
I thought I had read/heard somewhere (might have even been the documentary Revolution OS) that Finns & Swedes grow up with English Sesame Street available to them and as a result many of them are bilingual from a young age.
I don't know about Sesame Street, but there are lots of English-language TV programs in Finland as well as in Sweden, and they are not dubbed but subtitled as soon as the intended audience can be assumed to read. And the limit is low enough that it actually motivates children to learn to be able read, in addition to teaching them English. (Same applies to other foreign-language TV programs, but sheer volume of English overwhelms everything else.)
Unless, of course, the way the system works is that the backup server accesses the production server to retrieve the data from it. That doesn't seem the most obvious design to me, but it would at least explain why the backup server could access the database. Maybe that is a good reason not to design the system that way
That is a rather common design in backup systems, and there are good reasons for it: mainly, it allows securing the backup server better, especially in the (common) situation where one backup server handles several production machines.
If the backup servers offer only read-only access to anyone over the net (or not even that if recovery from backup is rare enough to be initiated from backup server console), it can be secured much easier than when if offers write access to clients backing themselves up.
[...] it doesn't answer the first question, which is why the attackers were able to access the backup server.
You are right there, though.
Isn't the defendant under oath if they take the stand?
No, not here (in Finland) anyway. The defendant can be heard but not under oath. That's considered necessary to ensure nobody has to testify against themselves. And I know that from first-hand experience (I was acquitted, btw).
if you (as a defendant) lie in court, it's perjury and you're in deep shit.
Really? In which country? In places I know of (European only, I'm afraid), the defendant does not (is not even allowed to) swear he's telling the truth nor can be punished for lying to defend himself. Only witnesses can be charged with perjury, not defendants.
Adn how long would it take me to SSH into 40,000 desktops to update Adobe Reader 8 to Adobe Reader 9, because there is some new feature that someone decided we just have to implement?
That left me scratching my head: why would the number of desktops matter? Of course it would impact the wall clock time the loop takes to execute, but not much (presumably you'd background the ssh'd commands so the updates would happen in parallel), and anyway who cares about that - human workload is the same. What am I missing here?
Not only their own productions. I regularly watch the spanish drama Los Serrano there: http://areena.yle.fi/hae?pid=810385
Could someone outside Finland try that? I must admit I'll be surprised if it isn't geographically restricted, although I guess it's possible they've gotten permission for that from the Spanish producers.
All the shows shown on YLE will be online (for free, no DRM and no country restrictions) the day after they are shown on TV.
Not quite everything shown: only their own productions, not foreign stuff they have to buy rights for.
doctors that are nice, and doctors that are skilled, are weakly correlated.
Are you Gregory House?
Finnish a human language? Next thing you'll be saying we're humans...
I have long found it perplexing that the music and movie industries get to call the shots for the vastly larger software industry when it comes to legislation. I can only assume that the software industry must have some incredibly shitty lobbyists. It's not like it doesn't cost Microsoft money to pay developers to engineer their operating system to RIAA/MPAA specifications.
It is a competitive advantage to M$ if they can claim competition is illegal - like that popular activities like listening to music or watching videos cannot be legally done in Linux.
It is admirable that you want to follow the law, but it is not your decision to make.
Yes it is. It is everybody's decision whether or not to follow the law or make a moral choice - which of course may not be the same thing.
You may decide the law is immoral or otherwise not worth obeying in any particular case, but it will be your decision, and you cannot shift the responsibility to your superiors or anyone else.
If you know your employer or indeed anyone is breaking a law, you share the responsibility - indeed in many jurisdictions you are legally obligated to turn them in.
You may decide the law is immoral or that the consequences of trying to follow it are not worth it, that the legal punishment is too harsh or simply that since your resources are limited, you must choose where and when you use them and when you just turn blind eye or make just a modest effort because you can't do everything or because you realistically assess you cannot win - but it's always your decision, and you should make it knowingly.
I'm sure they wouldn't be treating their employees like criminals if they weren't having a problem with industrial espionage. Like it or not, it is a reality, and security measures need to be taken.
There's a reason allright, but it's not so much industrial espionage, but fear of bad/uncontrolled publicity - in two ways: first, employees communicating with journalists, second, they want to handle leaks hush-hush by themselves, without the publicity legal proceedings would cause, and without having to care about whether or not any laws have actually been broken. In other words, they want their own law, policed by themselves and judged by themselves without any annoying public overview.
Is it really that hard to register a Gmail account?
The proposed law would allow snooping that, too, if you access it from company network. It would also allow tracking Skype calls &c.