I prefer signatures... luckily none of my cards are PIN cards (they can't force you to use them, it's part of the legislation).
It's a hell of a lot easier for a criminal to forge a PIN than a signature - especially given the total lack of security on the card machines.. anyone within about 20 feet could find out your pin every time you use it.
Plus there's the little change in the law that means that if someone forges your PIN you are now 100% liable not the credit card companies (which is the real reason why they changed).
Pretty much everywhere I've worked has done this for ages, especially on the test machines.
Now it's probably going to become policy in a lot of places... if you have 20 test machines to reimage and you have to sit in a queue racking up the phone bill 3 times a week it's just not practical to do anything else (volume licensing is way too expensive for a small company).
I do have a proper activated windows here but probably won't any more - I'll go to corp keys as it's enough of a pain in the arse already activating stuff.
Actually it would be nice if the ipod did come with ilink... It's unhealthy for the battery to charge it when it's not fully discharged - I get around it because I've already got all the music I need so never need to plug into the PC, just plug the power adapter in when the ipod dies, but the uninformed are probably nuking their battery over time.. hence all the trashed ipod/broken non-replacable battery stories that are around.
And as a customer, I will never ever use a DRMed music format.
Why anyone would use something that could become worthless at a moments notice is beyond me. All it takes is for your hard drive to fail or similar and you have to go and buy all your music again.
For a lot of albums it's cheaper to buy the CD - with case, inlay & paying the shop and distribution costs, than the download the limited use DRM copy from iTunes.
For iTunes the distribution overhead is very close to zero. They pay the RIAA.. that's maybe 10% of the cost. The rest is pure profit.
Here we've started handing out jail sentences to the parents of persistent truants. There have been reports of parents tracking their children down and dragging their children to school by their ears (which is probably bad parenting in itself, but at least they're in school not trashing cars).
btw. there's a nice breakdown plus a link to the original document on http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2950276.st m..or you can get a copy of the Daily Mail:)
This is why we should support the Parliaments' attempts to get more say in things.
The problem is too many people don't vote in the EU elections then bitch about how undemocratic it is later (btw. not an attack SysKoll who may well be a regular EU Election voter for all I know)
The new EU constitution will shrink the commission to 2/3 of it's current size and give the parliament the right of veto over legislation (this giving it real teeth) - making the whole things much more democratic (OK not perfect.. the commission can still *try* to push stupid crap through).
Of course this country is likely to throw it out because people prefer to believe the stuff spewed out by the Daily Mail than actually go and find out what it says... then they'll go back to shouting about how undemocratic it is.
It's sometimes better to do it in the code eg. in one bit of code I wrote all the user information and dynamic libraries are preloaded just before privileges are dropped and the chroot happens.. that means any user interaction happens in a 'bare' chroot with no executables or libraries... It needs a/tmp that's all.
And it's a damned good thing they did push the vote that way IMO. Nobody wants or needs this law. Everything is fine just as it is now, but there's a push by large US software companies to try to break our system just like theirs.
It's primarily a trading body, but has pretentions to be more than that.
The EU Commission is appointed by the individual member states, so whilst we can't vote for them directly we can kick out the morons who put them there.
The EU Parliament is directly elected, but has little actual power - there are too many vested interests to ever give it any real power... it makes decisions over minor matters.
The European Court is the bit that keeps the countries in line with their treaty obligations... they actually have the power to force governments to change their laws (the UK is often being slapped down these days because of its draconian 'anti-terrorist' laws like imprisonment without trial... we have out own camp X-Ray called Belmarsh, and the EU Court has basically ordered the government to close it).
There's another one I think (I thought there were 4 parts to the EU... might be wrong).
At the moment the law criminalises addicts (mere possession is illegal). If it was changed so that only dealing was illegal then the addicts could get medical help without risking being thrown in jail. They'd also live longer getting their 'fix' from doctors rather than the crap you buy in the street (heroin is not that bad for you if it's pure... in fact many people have a hidden habit for years and hold down jobs etc.).
At the moment as the law stands at least in the UK, even charities who try to help addicts are taking a legal risk - some have been prosecuted for refusing to tell police the names of the addicts.
Seatbelts will work for low-medium speed collissions but the there's the slight problem of F=MA.
You might get away with whiplash... you might end up dead with a broken neck. You also might end up crushed when the seat rips from its moorings and slams into the dashboard.
Seatbelts are a good thing but they're not a cure-all.
Certainly there's a large body of opinion that believes that, even amongst qualified lawyers.
The problem is getting a judge to rule one way or the other....
It seems fairly clear to me - if you don't distribute GPL code then the GPL has nothing to say as copyright law is not invoked - even if you linked with it (if you used libdl/LoadLibrary even more so, as there isn't even any implied link in the code).
OTOH the traditional view has been that you still create a derived work (although even then some cases would be hard to prove in court - the entire windows operating system really a derived work of my hello world program? Is it really legally impossible to write a GPL Java application?)
The one I saw had nothing like that. You got a fraction of a second of the subspace ether thing then it cut rapidly to something else.
It's possible there's another one other than the one on the amazon site (y'know.. the one that this article is actually about..) but I haven't seen that one.
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I prefer signatures... luckily none of my cards are PIN cards (they can't force you to use them, it's part of the legislation).
It's a hell of a lot easier for a criminal to forge a PIN than a signature - especially given the total lack of security on the card machines.. anyone within about 20 feet could find out your pin every time you use it.
Plus there's the little change in the law that means that if someone forges your PIN you are now 100% liable not the credit card companies (which is the real reason why they changed).
They haven't fixed that yet?
I won't bother upgrading then... The rendering bugs are the only problems I have at the moment.
Pretty much everywhere I've worked has done this for ages, especially on the test machines.
Now it's probably going to become policy in a lot of places... if you have 20 test machines to reimage and you have to sit in a queue racking up the phone bill 3 times a week it's just not practical to do anything else (volume licensing is way too expensive for a small company).
I do have a proper activated windows here but probably won't any more - I'll go to corp keys as it's enough of a pain in the arse already activating stuff.
Actually it would be nice if the ipod did come with ilink... It's unhealthy for the battery to charge it when it's not fully discharged - I get around it because I've already got all the music I need so never need to plug into the PC, just plug the power adapter in when the ipod dies, but the uninformed are probably nuking their battery over time.. hence all the trashed ipod/broken non-replacable battery stories that are around.
Oh and BTW you don't need a special phone either, just a caller display unit which you can buy for £10 (or an Asterisk server...)
Nothing like £25.... Never has been either.
It's currently £1.25 a month. Was £1 a month when I subscribed a year ago.
And as a customer, I will never ever use a DRMed music format.
Why anyone would use something that could become worthless at a moments notice is beyond me. All it takes is for your hard drive to fail or similar and you have to go and buy all your music again.
iTunes is a total ripoff even with the overheads.
For a lot of albums it's cheaper to buy the CD - with case, inlay & paying the shop and distribution costs, than the download the limited use DRM copy from iTunes.
For iTunes the distribution overhead is very close to zero. They pay the RIAA.. that's maybe 10% of the cost. The rest is pure profit.
It wouldn't be a mass scale..
Here we've started handing out jail sentences to the parents of persistent truants. There have been reports of parents tracking their children down and dragging their children to school by their ears (which is probably bad parenting in itself, but at least they're in school not trashing cars).
btw. there's a nice breakdown plus a link to the original document on http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2950276.st m ..or you can get a copy of the Daily Mail :)
This is why we should support the Parliaments' attempts to get more say in things.
The problem is too many people don't vote in the EU elections then bitch about how undemocratic it is later (btw. not an attack SysKoll who may well be a regular EU Election voter for all I know)
The new EU constitution will shrink the commission to 2/3 of it's current size and give the parliament the right of veto over legislation (this giving it real teeth) - making the whole things much more democratic (OK not perfect.. the commission can still *try* to push stupid crap through).
Of course this country is likely to throw it out because people prefer to believe the stuff spewed out by the Daily Mail than actually go and find out what it says... then they'll go back to shouting about how undemocratic it is.
It's sometimes better to do it in the code eg. in one bit of code I wrote all the user information and dynamic libraries are preloaded just before privileges are dropped and the chroot happens.. that means any user interaction happens in a 'bare' chroot with no executables or libraries... It needs a /tmp that's all.
Poland is not insignificant.
And it's a damned good thing they did push the vote that way IMO. Nobody wants or needs this law. Everything is fine just as it is now, but there's a push by large US software companies to try to break our system just like theirs.
In diplomatic language they're the same thing.
If you "request" that someone does something, you can bet there is going to be trouble if they don't.
The EU is not a government.
It's primarily a trading body, but has pretentions to be more than that.
The EU Commission is appointed by the individual member states, so whilst we can't vote for them directly we can kick out the morons who put them there.
The EU Parliament is directly elected, but has little actual power - there are too many vested interests to ever give it any real power... it makes decisions over minor matters.
The European Court is the bit that keeps the countries in line with their treaty obligations... they actually have the power to force governments to change their laws (the UK is often being slapped down these days because of its draconian 'anti-terrorist' laws like imprisonment without trial... we have out own camp X-Ray called Belmarsh, and the EU Court has basically ordered the government to close it).
There's another one I think (I thought there were 4 parts to the EU... might be wrong).
At the moment the law criminalises addicts (mere possession is illegal). If it was changed so that only dealing was illegal then the addicts could get medical help without risking being thrown in jail. They'd also live longer getting their 'fix' from doctors rather than the crap you buy in the street (heroin is not that bad for you if it's pure... in fact many people have a hidden habit for years and hold down jobs etc.).
At the moment as the law stands at least in the UK, even charities who try to help addicts are taking a legal risk - some have been prosecuted for refusing to tell police the names of the addicts.
Not necessarily.
Seatbelts will work for low-medium speed collissions but the there's the slight problem of F=MA.
You might get away with whiplash... you might end up dead with a broken neck. You also might end up crushed when the seat rips from its moorings and slams into the dashboard.
Seatbelts are a good thing but they're not a cure-all.
There's also the small matter of the written confession on Slashdot...
Certainly there's a large body of opinion that believes that, even amongst qualified lawyers.
The problem is getting a judge to rule one way or the other....
It seems fairly clear to me - if you don't distribute GPL code then the GPL has nothing to say as copyright law is not invoked - even if you linked with it (if you used libdl/LoadLibrary even more so, as there isn't even any implied link in the code).
OTOH the traditional view has been that you still create a derived work (although even then some cases would be hard to prove in court - the entire windows operating system really a derived work of my hello world program? Is it really legally impossible to write a GPL Java application?)
Oh FFS. 90% of child molesters are known by the children. Heck, a sizeable majority are their own parents.
Badges to *nothing* to combat this.
Have you seen what he's wearing? He's projecting the whole 'I'm cool' image & being really clever and switched on. That is *not* ford prefect.
They've taken the arthur too far the other way. Slapstick? WTF????
The one I saw had nothing like that. You got a fraction of a second of the subspace ether thing then it cut rapidly to something else.
It's possible there's another one other than the one on the amazon site (y'know.. the one that this article is actually about..) but I haven't seen that one.
No but the book does describe ford as a misfit.. he never quite understood the earth - even his earth name shows some of that misunderstanding.
A streetwise rapper just doesn't fit.
It's lots of explosiions and 'saving the universe' crap they've grafted in.
That trailer alone has put me off... I'll wait until the proper reviews are in & go and see if if it's any good.
Works fine in firefox for me. Probably is your adblock filter.