Move to the Scandinavian countries. I was on a holiday last week in an area which is mostly Scandinavian tourist turf. All of them had parts of their ID printed on the back of the card. Including a picture.
Try gg:your keywords go here in konq toolbar. Another usefull one is dict: which directly queries MW dictionary and rfc: which directly calls rfcs from ietf. These for me (and not just for me) are the konqueror killer features. If not for them I would have been using firefox as a primary browser.
1. They are a cable company which means that they do not have a common carrier status in first place as they are an information service provider, not a telecoms provider. Dunno who are their lobbyists, but they are bloody good.
2. They have a solid technical ground to stand on I am afraid. Besides the bandwidth limit the cable networks also have an uplink packet per second limit because of the way DOCSIS works (look for MAP in the DOCSIS) documentation. So they have technical grounds to set restrictions on VOIP as well because they have to finance extra interfaces on the cable modem termination system and use less customers per copper run.
3. On top of that at least some cable networks have serious problems with packet rates on the downlink as well. Funnily enough all of the ones I know are in North America. Quite a few companies there pump up their HFC to unrealistic rates. This is not evident when you run traffic like HTTP but becomes obvious on high packet rate traffic.
So frankly, Vonage has very few chances on winning this one.
Googling a person before hire to learn as much about them as possible is standard practice these days.
Googling is a two edge sword. If you have a personal web site which comes up very high on the list when someone googles for you and have an access to the logs you know if the potential employer has googled or not. If that is not enough, a web bug here or there on pages that relates to you helps a lot. As a result you know when someone is serious and you have enough information to suspect when someone is simply "Taking the Mickey".
Dunno about lawyers, but when it comes to things like working in an ISP, network security or Open Source software your professional life is pretty much open for public consumption. If the potential employer has not bothered checking who you are you should not bother going for an interview. It is a guaranteed waste of time every time because this means that they are not serious about hiring.
Less than 5% of the job providers in the IT industry have a person in HR that can be bothered to even look at CVs, let alone read them. That is the situation in the UK at the moment. If you look on jobserve, jobsite, cwjobs or any of the UK job sites 95%+ of the ads are from agencies. The remaining less than 5% are a mix of ads on behalf of the company through a retained agency (once again the same middleman) and real company ads. The last category is probably under 2% for IT.
As a result the middlemen will call the shots. At least in IT in the UK and there is no drive whatsoever to change it. There were several attempts to introduce alternative approaches and they all failed due to lack of demand from the potential employers.
And it all does not matter anyway. Unless you have done something outrageously stupid, a vulnerability in a Java program is more likely to arise from a bad design choice, not from a coding implementation. No "Snake Oil (TM)" regardless of the "Fortification" level is going to catch this type of vulnerabilities.
You need a human for that. Not a developer by the way. You need someone with a good architectural view that will not get bogged down into the details for that.
Well... I have always wanted job websites to allow you to blacklist known scumbags and filter out their job ads. Unfortunately it is the scumbags which pay the website, not the jobseeker. So, as usually, whoever pays calls the shots. These features are not going to happen.
This has been the part which pisses me off most about InnoDB. You cannot back it up online and the MySQL backup facilities introduced with 4.x are completely b0rken for it. At least in the GPL version. As a result I have had to write backup facilities of my own for the InnoDB databases we use (RT for once requires InnoDB)
Whatever MySQL will use and write it expect that it will not deliberately remove the backup facility to sell it as a special non-GPL addon. While MySQL has been known to withold some features from the GPL versions it has never shipped deliberate crippleware (and database without backup facilities is crippleware).
So as far as InnoDB is concerned - good buy and good riddance.
BerkleyDB is a different matter. It is heavily used as an embedded database. MySQL is only a minor use for it. In fact it has replaced Oracle as the dabatase of choice for telecommunications projects like high-end switches, network equipment, etc. Most of these used to have an Oracle backend 7 years ago. Not any more. Nowdays it is BDB turf. While there are replacements for it very few of them are as fully featured as BDB 3.x and higher.
As a matter of the fact it does.
It clearly states if it has filtered results or not. If it has filtered a result at the end of the page there is a notice that the result has been filtered due to local laws.
As someone who has grown up behind the Iron Curtain I can tell you that this is 100 times more effective than telling the unadulterated truth. There is something that is hidden. There is something that "I am not supposed to know".
Works every bloody time.
So all the clueless idiots sending them letters and giving them flak should go after MSN and Yahoo instead. They deserve the flak.
I have an extra filter after that which if it finds that SpamAssassin flags any of these performs a deliberate breakage of mime boundaries. Can be reversed with vi or 2 lines of perl and at the same time the clients can no longer interpret it as executable (they can still do it out of the "safe" report). The idea is blatantly stolen from mime-defang.
I do not bounce on matching the SPAMassassin signature. I only defang and users know that it is reversible. There has not been a single user requesting a reversal of the defang.
As far as the greylisting is concerned it has no false positives as far as viruses are concerned either.
These do not contradict. The ice getting bigger means more ice being shed. It also in some cases will lead to the glaciers flowing faster. IANAG (I am not a glaciologist), but a heavier ice sheet may lead to more ice melting on the bottom. Overall - too early to say. More data is needed and more work to interpret it. So the jury on the overall long term balance of the ice sheet is still out.
There was a brilliant signature for SpamAssassin to detect dodgy MSFT executables in 2.6x. The mainstream 3.x has removed it but it is still available out there in the bogus virus warning list towards the end of it (http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/bogus-virus-warnings. cf). Beware the owner of the page allows only one GET per IP address per day. You have one chance to download the ruleset.
Combined with greylisting on the external gateway this has caught every single virus outbreak out there for the last 3 months. Not a single virus ladden email has gotten past the combination of this.
Your porn may be my classical literature and vice versa.
Dante, Chaucer, the Decameron, classical Greek tragedy and comedy are all in the obscene pornography category for an ultrataleban (both the Christian and the Muslim variety). They are at the same time classic literature and belong in a library. Without them a library will not be complete.
The price of off-peak flat-rate all-you can eat dialup in the UK has been comparable to ADSL for a long time now. The price of peak-hours flat rate dialup has been higher for more than 2 years. In fact it is so high that nobody uses it nowdays. AFAIK the situation is the same in most EU countries.
Did you notice that nearly all "badnesses" after that are in the ACPI section. I somehow have doubts that this acpi interpreter will be useable. At best it will require a special module to take care of all the quirks. If it will be useable, the table for the throttling states is there so speedstep may in fact work. Dunno. It looks pretty ugly at this point.
It was a matter of very little time in fact. Linux supports the enhanced firmware loader used by MacOS X even now. Winhoze will not support it before Vista.
Still, unless Intel made the mistake of leaving some of their PC handywork around this will not be enough.
In order to run a mobile Pentium you have to aggressively control its frequency. Otherwise it will fry itself.
The support for this in Linux is heavily dependant on ACPI. AFAIK the Intel Macs are supposed to have ACPI completely taken out and replaced by native power management. So the happiness of "we got Linux to run on this" is likely to be short lived until the smoke starts coming out from the melting plastic on top of the overheated processor. Which will not be long.
Yes. Drilling in the middle of a swamp while being eaten alive by gnus' (northernz summer moskitos) is not fun. Building pipelines on top of a swamp is even less funny. In fact the pipelines are likely to be the biggest problem and biggest expense in tapping the still untapped oil in Siberia.
At that point maybe the USA consumer will move away from going to pick up the milk in a 2.5 ton SUV
You clearly have not heard of a Chelsea Tractor. The exorbitant gasoline prices in Europe have not managed to prevent people from buying rebadged builder wagons. If you think about it, around 30% of the moms on the school run out there are on happy pills anyway. The number is not a published one. The published one is that 17% of adult population in UK are on antidepressants. Once you correct for sex and age the number for the schoold run should be somewhere there. Well, you should not expect them to care about the family budget going down the drain because the car is using too much fuel. They will simply go to the doctor and say that they are depressed because they see no way out of their debt hole and the good neighboirhood GP will prescribe them more happy pillz.
Frankly the best place to start with energy efficiency is to outlaw prozac for anyone but certified nutcases. This will make the permanently happy school run moms actually count their budget and realise that "no they cannot buy that new shiny builder wagon" and "no they cannot compensate for their feeling of insecurity by driving a tank". On purely financial grounds. Adding a mandatory contraceptive to all happy pills may also be a good idea. The only problem is that this will kill the current credit debt hole and current consumer overspend in the economy and it clearly depends on it.
The actual state of resources is unclear. Nobody really knows the state of the Russian oil reserves. Even the Russians themselves. They have so far put into a conservation fund every second field they have found since early 70'es.
Granted, mining them will be considerably harder than Saudi especially if the climate warms up and the permafrost becomes one huge mud bog.
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Move to the Scandinavian countries. I was on a holiday last week in an area which is mostly Scandinavian tourist turf. All of them had parts of their ID printed on the back of the card. Including a picture.
Try gg:your keywords go here in konq toolbar.
Another usefull one is dict: which directly queries MW dictionary and rfc: which directly calls rfcs from ietf. These for me (and not just for me) are the konqueror killer features. If not for them I would have been using firefox as a primary browser.
Quite likely. And they ought to get some for that. It is earned money people. Nothing wrong here. Move along.
Seconded.
By the way if KDE does not they goofs.
After all they invented the gg: url and google search is considerably more prominent in Konqueror compared to Mozilla.
Fair point.
Minor problems:
1. They are a cable company which means that they do not have a common carrier status in first place as they are an information service provider, not a telecoms provider. Dunno who are their lobbyists, but they are bloody good.
2. They have a solid technical ground to stand on I am afraid. Besides the bandwidth limit the cable networks also have an uplink packet per second limit because of the way DOCSIS works (look for MAP in the DOCSIS) documentation. So they have technical grounds to set restrictions on VOIP as well because they have to finance extra interfaces on the cable modem termination system and use less customers per copper run.
3. On top of that at least some cable networks have serious problems with packet rates on the downlink as well. Funnily enough all of the ones I know are in North America. Quite a few companies there pump up their HFC to unrealistic rates. This is not evident when you run traffic like HTTP but becomes obvious on high packet rate traffic.
So frankly, Vonage has very few chances on winning this one.
Googling is a two edge sword. If you have a personal web site which comes up very high on the list when someone googles for you and have an access to the logs you know if the potential employer has googled or not. If that is not enough, a web bug here or there on pages that relates to you helps a lot. As a result you know when someone is serious and you have enough information to suspect when someone is simply "Taking the Mickey".
Dunno about lawyers, but when it comes to things like working in an ISP, network security or Open Source software your professional life is pretty much open for public consumption. If the potential employer has not bothered checking who you are you should not bother going for an interview. It is a guaranteed waste of time every time because this means that they are not serious about hiring.
Less than 5% of the job providers in the IT industry have a person in HR that can be bothered to even look at CVs, let alone read them. That is the situation in the UK at the moment. If you look on jobserve, jobsite, cwjobs or any of the UK job sites 95%+ of the ads are from agencies. The remaining less than 5% are a mix of ads on behalf of the company through a retained agency (once again the same middleman) and real company ads. The last category is probably under 2% for IT.
As a result the middlemen will call the shots. At least in IT in the UK and there is no drive whatsoever to change it. There were several attempts to introduce alternative approaches and they all failed due to lack of demand from the potential employers.
And it all does not matter anyway. Unless you have done something outrageously stupid, a vulnerability in a Java program is more likely to arise from a bad design choice, not from a coding implementation. No "Snake Oil (TM)" regardless of the "Fortification" level is going to catch this type of vulnerabilities.
You need a human for that. Not a developer by the way. You need someone with a good architectural view that will not get bogged down into the details for that.
Well... I have always wanted job websites to allow you to blacklist known scumbags and filter out their job ads. Unfortunately it is the scumbags which pay the website, not the jobseeker. So, as usually, whoever pays calls the shots. These features are not going to happen.
Exactly.
This has been the part which pisses me off most about InnoDB. You cannot back it up online and the MySQL backup facilities introduced with 4.x are completely b0rken for it. At least in the GPL version. As a result I have had to write backup facilities of my own for the InnoDB databases we use (RT for once requires InnoDB)
Whatever MySQL will use and write it expect that it will not deliberately remove the backup facility to sell it as a special non-GPL addon. While MySQL has been known to withold some features from the GPL versions it has never shipped deliberate crippleware (and database without backup facilities is crippleware).
So as far as InnoDB is concerned - good buy and good riddance.
BerkleyDB is a different matter. It is heavily used as an embedded database. MySQL is only a minor use for it. In fact it has replaced Oracle as the dabatase of choice for telecommunications projects like high-end switches, network equipment, etc. Most of these used to have an Oracle backend 7 years ago. Not any more. Nowdays it is BDB turf. While there are replacements for it very few of them are as fully featured as BDB 3.x and higher.
As a matter of the fact it does. It clearly states if it has filtered results or not. If it has filtered a result at the end of the page there is a notice that the result has been filtered due to local laws. As someone who has grown up behind the Iron Curtain I can tell you that this is 100 times more effective than telling the unadulterated truth. There is something that is hidden. There is something that "I am not supposed to know". Works every bloody time. So all the clueless idiots sending them letters and giving them flak should go after MSN and Yahoo instead. They deserve the flak.
I have an extra filter after that which if it finds that SpamAssassin flags any of these performs a deliberate breakage of mime boundaries. Can be reversed with vi or 2 lines of perl and at the same time the clients can no longer interpret it as executable (they can still do it out of the "safe" report). The idea is blatantly stolen from mime-defang.
rawbody VIRUS_WARNING_EXE1 /^TV[nopqr][A-Z]...[AB]..A.A....{1,99}AAAA...{1,99 }AAAA/
/^M35[GHIJK].`..`..{1,99}````/i
describe VIRUS_WARNING_EXE1 Message appears to contain a Windows executable
score VIRUS_WARNING_EXE1 2.0
rawbody VIRUS_WARNING_EXE2
describe VIRUS_WARNING_EXE2 Message contains a UUencoded Windows executable
score VIRUS_WARNING_EXE2 2.0
None that I know of.
I do not bounce on matching the SPAMassassin signature. I only defang and users know that it is reversible. There has not been a single user requesting a reversal of the defang.
As far as the greylisting is concerned it has no false positives as far as viruses are concerned either.
These do not contradict. The ice getting bigger means more ice being shed. It also in some cases will lead to the glaciers flowing faster. IANAG (I am not a glaciologist), but a heavier ice sheet may lead to more ice melting on the bottom. Overall - too early to say. More data is needed and more work to interpret it. So the jury on the overall long term balance of the ice sheet is still out.
There was a brilliant signature for SpamAssassin to detect dodgy MSFT executables in 2.6x. The mainstream 3.x has removed it but it is still available out there in the bogus virus warning list towards the end of it (http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/bogus-virus-warnings. cf). Beware the owner of the page allows only one GET per IP address per day. You have one chance to download the ruleset.
Combined with greylisting on the external gateway this has caught every single virus outbreak out there for the last 3 months. Not a single virus ladden email has gotten past the combination of this.
Your porn may be my classical literature and vice versa.
Dante, Chaucer, the Decameron, classical Greek tragedy and comedy are all in the obscene pornography category for an ultrataleban (both the Christian and the Muslim variety). They are at the same time classic literature and belong in a library. Without them a library will not be complete.
The night watch is a division of the ministry of peace. Brown shirts are not mandatory. Armbands are.
The price of off-peak flat-rate all-you can eat dialup in the UK has been comparable to ADSL for a long time now. The price of peak-hours flat rate dialup has been higher for more than 2 years. In fact it is so high that nobody uses it nowdays. AFAIK the situation is the same in most EU countries.
Did you notice that nearly all "badnesses" after that are in the ACPI section. I somehow have doubts that this acpi interpreter will be useable. At best it will require a special module to take care of all the quirks. If it will be useable, the table for the throttling states is there so speedstep may in fact work. Dunno. It looks pretty ugly at this point.
It was a matter of very little time in fact. Linux supports the enhanced firmware loader used by MacOS X even now. Winhoze will not support it before Vista.
Still, unless Intel made the mistake of leaving some of their PC handywork around this will not be enough.
In order to run a mobile Pentium you have to aggressively control its frequency. Otherwise it will fry itself.
The support for this in Linux is heavily dependant on ACPI. AFAIK the Intel Macs are supposed to have ACPI completely taken out and replaced by native power management. So the happiness of "we got Linux to run on this" is likely to be short lived until the smoke starts coming out from the melting plastic on top of the overheated processor. Which will not be long.
Yes. Drilling in the middle of a swamp while being eaten alive by gnus' (northernz summer moskitos) is not fun. Building pipelines on top of a swamp is even less funny. In fact the pipelines are likely to be the biggest problem and biggest expense in tapping the still untapped oil in Siberia.
You clearly have not heard of a Chelsea Tractor. The exorbitant gasoline prices in Europe have not managed to prevent people from buying rebadged builder wagons. If you think about it, around 30% of the moms on the school run out there are on happy pills anyway. The number is not a published one. The published one is that 17% of adult population in UK are on antidepressants. Once you correct for sex and age the number for the schoold run should be somewhere there. Well, you should not expect them to care about the family budget going down the drain because the car is using too much fuel. They will simply go to the doctor and say that they are depressed because they see no way out of their debt hole and the good neighboirhood GP will prescribe them more happy pillz.
Frankly the best place to start with energy efficiency is to outlaw prozac for anyone but certified nutcases. This will make the permanently happy school run moms actually count their budget and realise that "no they cannot buy that new shiny builder wagon" and "no they cannot compensate for their feeling of insecurity by driving a tank". On purely financial grounds. Adding a mandatory contraceptive to all happy pills may also be a good idea. The only problem is that this will kill the current credit debt hole and current consumer overspend in the economy and it clearly depends on it.
Grgghhhhhh... back to work...
The actual state of resources is unclear. Nobody really knows the state of the Russian oil reserves. Even the Russians themselves. They have so far put into a conservation fund every second field they have found since early 70'es.
Granted, mining them will be considerably harder than Saudi especially if the climate warms up and the permafrost becomes one huge mud bog.
It may be very "cutting edge" indeed. From a pilot whale perspective. This is slightly shallower than their usual hunting depth, but still...