It's not just 'big content'; the Big Four ISP*s that implement these blocks ( Sky, BT Broadband, TalkTalk and Virgin ) each have their own subscription TV and streaming services targeted at their customers, so making free stuff harder to reach also implicitly benefits them if it encourages up-take.
Noticable is how the smaller ISPs, that just act as an ISP without tryng to sell me media, aren't in scope.
* they're not really ISPs, more like Web-connected entertainment providers.
Most big companies do this. Why not? It is completely legal.
The city-state of San Marino does not have copyright laws. So, if I incorporated a company there I could take the Linux kernel, modify it my needs and distribute it without adhering to the GPL.
Why not? It's completely legal.
Adobe Flash has many 'loopholes' that would permit a nefarious programmer to remotely exploit the user's computer if they convinced the user to run their code.
No, that is not illegal. Just like your colleague giving you a cross-country lift in his car if you split the petrol cost is not illegal.
Or going for a flight in your colleague's aeroplane and paying the landing fees.
However, as soon as it crosses the line to advertised and remunerated 'hire for reward' it becomes a regulated activity. If your colleague regularly flies people in his aeroplane and charges a fare, then he has to start obeying.
So how can you have implied consent when the sender doesn't know that the mail is being sent through Google?
Indeed!
I'm thinking a Thunderbird add-on might be useful, which would scan the MX records of your would-be recipients and alert if any of them pointed to Gmail...
Err, what? Not only did you violate the Gmail terms of service by providing the password to another entity, but if that was also your employer's hosted e-mail service then that is most likely grounds for discipline and / or termination.
Why would you EVER enter your mail password anywhere other than.. your mail provider? WHY?
... in which one faction points out that ads are funding much of the (commercial) Web, and if you suppress them, you won't have all that Free Content.
Free content? I wish.
I pay economist.com more than $200 per year for their excellent news, and they still have the gall to try to bombard me with as many ads as a non-subscriber. Plus a 'subscribe now!' crawl-up from the bottom of the page.
I know it isn't always cool to support Apple, but I have to say that there are a lot of things that were just fads before they came in and did it right.
And as before Apple haven't *done* anything. They just bought the company that already made these scanners ( for phones such as the Atrix ) and stuffed the tech into the iPhone.
Much like the day Tony Fadell walked into their reception and said "I have a demonstration model of a portable music player that Sony declined..."
But it's a reasonable explanation of why/dev/random works the way it does and why it won't be changed.
Really, telling someone learn about cryptography is a reasonable explanation? Why not tell them to go learn about cosmology too, since entropy is a key concept there?
For the two minutes it took for Mr Torvalds to bang-out his tirade on the keyboard he could have explained why folding a possibly-compromised RNG source into the pol doesn't increase risk much. Or provided a link and said 'go and educate yourself here'.
Oh, I disagree! The USG has established 100-mile 'non-Constitution' zones around the national borders. Due process and security of personal information is suspended.
while I do think that publishers take more than their fair share, I also think that they do provide quite a bit of benefit to the industry, since they serve to ferret out the diamonds in the rough
You keep saying this, but I would say about half of the ' properly published' books I have bought over the years have been junk. And this is in the field of factual books ( I don't bother with fiction ). That's no better than my record on buying self-published books.
And it's actually self-published books, or those from tiny speciality publishers, which are considered by the market to be most valuable years after publication.
Mainstream published books? Just rehashes of what someone else wrote and once the marketing-induced fad dies off in a year or so they'll be worth pennies on the second hand market.
'Provide arrival times for the city's buses'. Yes, like the LED displays in bus shelters or the operator's website. Or even the SF Muni's own app! With countdown to arrival feature...
Where's the innovation other than he makes a profit using ads?
Seriously, not everything that is repackaged as an app exhibits entrepreneurial innovation.
I think it has as much, or more, to do with the culture surrounding the Raspberry Pi foundation as it does with the price point.
Perhaps when the Raspberry Pi Foundation has an Education Strategy I'll be more supportive of such awards. Until then, talk of helping youngsters learn to program is twaddle.
The new school term is about to start and still no 'Education Packs' available, or even planned. They're happy enough to sit back and take the dollars from people running HTPCs instead.
Let's see what the last update was. April 2012:
The Foundation is currently scrambling to gets its education pack ready by the time units are ready for the classroom.
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It's not just 'big content'; the Big Four ISP*s that implement these blocks ( Sky, BT Broadband, TalkTalk and Virgin ) each have their own subscription TV and streaming services targeted at their customers, so making free stuff harder to reach also implicitly benefits them if it encourages up-take.
Noticable is how the smaller ISPs, that just act as an ISP without tryng to sell me media, aren't in scope.
* they're not really ISPs, more like Web-connected entertainment providers.
Sorry, corporate policy does not permit booking Premium Economy.
Lowest fare wins, as determined by the travel secretary.
I did once ask at the airport about upgrading to business class ( Continental, UK to Newark ). It would have been $700 each way out of my own pocket.
Now I just don't travel.
Most big companies do this. Why not? It is completely legal.
The city-state of San Marino does not have copyright laws. So, if I incorporated a company there I could take the Linux kernel, modify it my needs and distribute it without adhering to the GPL.
Why not? It's completely legal.
Adobe Flash has many 'loopholes' that would permit a nefarious programmer to remotely exploit the user's computer if they convinced the user to run their code.
Why not? It's completely legal.
No, that is not illegal. Just like your colleague giving you a cross-country lift in his car if you split the petrol cost is not illegal.
Or going for a flight in your colleague's aeroplane and paying the landing fees.
However, as soon as it crosses the line to advertised and remunerated 'hire for reward' it becomes a regulated activity. If your colleague regularly flies people in his aeroplane and charges a fare, then he has to start obeying.
First world problems.
And yet here you are commenting on them. Shouldn't you be digging a well in Tanzania?
So how can you have implied consent when the sender doesn't know that the mail is being sent through Google?
Indeed!
I'm thinking a Thunderbird add-on might be useful, which would scan the MX records of your would-be recipients and alert if any of them pointed to Gmail...
Using 127.0.0.1 will waste time at the application protocol layer trying to connect to a web server on your localhost.
Try 0.0.0.0 or :: instead, both are null routes and will fail immediately in the transport layer.
Another one that Certificate Patrol has flagged inthe past week is *.twimg.com, which appears to be a mess of certs from different CAs.
One subdomain ( s0 ) has switched from a DigiCert EV wildcard cert to a Verisign per-subdomain cert.
Another has gone from Verisign to Comodo.
Annoyingly twimg.com seems to be embedded across the Web...
I've been rejecting them all, given that Twitter provide no information on their site as to whether this was a planned change.
provide Gmail username/password.
Err, what? Not only did you violate the Gmail terms of service by providing the password to another entity, but if that was also your employer's hosted e-mail service then that is most likely grounds for discipline and / or termination.
Why would you EVER enter your mail password anywhere other than.. your mail provider? WHY?
Privoxy can remove a lot more than just ads served from a given domain/server.
It can for HTTP, but increasingly tracking and ad services are shifting over to HTTPS ( Google Analytics is 100% SSL now ).
Privoxy can't help there, as browsers use SSL Tunnelling when configured to use it as an HTTPS proxy. So it just blindly relays the ads through.
Free content? I wish.
I pay economist.com more than $200 per year for their excellent news, and they still have the gall to try to bombard me with as many ads as a non-subscriber. Plus a 'subscribe now!' crawl-up from the bottom of the page.
Ads can go to hell.
I know it isn't always cool to support Apple, but I have to say that there are a lot of things that were just fads before they came in and did it right.
And as before Apple haven't *done* anything. They just bought the company that already made these scanners ( for phones such as the Atrix ) and stuffed the tech into the iPhone.
Much like the day Tony Fadell walked into their reception and said "I have a demonstration model of a portable music player that Sony declined..."
Can you imagine what things would be like if Linux had never happened?
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, ReactOS, BeOS, Kontiki, ErOS. And that's just a few off my head while I eat breakfast.
But it's a reasonable explanation of why /dev/random works the way it does and why it won't be changed.
Really, telling someone learn about cryptography is a reasonable explanation? Why not tell them to go learn about cosmology too, since entropy is a key concept there?
For the two minutes it took for Mr Torvalds to bang-out his tirade on the keyboard he could have explained why folding a possibly-compromised RNG source into the pol doesn't increase risk much. Or provided a link and said 'go and educate yourself here'.
For instance spying kept the Cuban Missile Crisis from getting out of hand.
Just a minor issue, but can we please start to call that event the Turkish Missile Crisis?
After all, it was the USA that started the escalation by emplacing IRBMs in Italy and Turkey.
This isn't exactly shocking news.
Oh, I disagree! The USG has established 100-mile 'non-Constitution' zones around the national borders. Due process and security of personal information is suspended.
How is that not shocking?
to the extent that the remaining text is pointless.
1. Determine font face, size and kerning
2. For each redacted blank, determine which English word relevant to context would fit the space
How about a Gutenberg-style distributed proofreading endeavour?
while I do think that publishers take more than their fair share, I also think that they do provide quite a bit of benefit to the industry, since they serve to ferret out the diamonds in the rough
You keep saying this, but I would say about half of the ' properly published' books I have bought over the years have been junk. And this is in the field of factual books ( I don't bother with fiction ). That's no better than my record on buying self-published books.
And it's actually self-published books, or those from tiny speciality publishers, which are considered by the market to be most valuable years after publication.
Mainstream published books? Just rehashes of what someone else wrote and once the marketing-induced fad dies off in a year or so they'll be worth pennies on the second hand market.
Meanwhile Linked-In is a repository of highly accurate data
Well other than all the made-up skills that people can assign to you without your involvement.
'King of France', 'Maximum Awesome', 'Knife Skills'...
Why am I being endorsed for skills and expertise I do not claim on my profile?
Sorry, not feeling a lot of sympathy here.
'Provide arrival times for the city's buses'. Yes, like the LED displays in bus shelters or the operator's website. Or even the SF Muni's own app! With countdown to arrival feature...
Where's the innovation other than he makes a profit using ads?
Seriously, not everything that is repackaged as an app exhibits entrepreneurial innovation.
I can't remember the last time I entered a URL manually. What is this, 1994?
Err, how about the first time you visit your bank's Online Banking subsite?
You know the way they tell you in the introductory letter to enter the URL manually and as written in the letter? There is a reason for that.
Just a shame they don't print the signature of their SSL cert in the letter, too.
The only people who lose are the ones who were technicians working directly on the dialup infrastructure.
BT Openreach will still maintain the dial-up modems in the non-ADSL exchanges, of which there are 80+ in Scotland. So no real technical savings there.
I think it has as much, or more, to do with the culture surrounding the Raspberry Pi foundation as it does with the price point.
Perhaps when the Raspberry Pi Foundation has an Education Strategy I'll be more supportive of such awards. Until then, talk of helping youngsters learn to program is twaddle.
The new school term is about to start and still no 'Education Packs' available, or even planned. They're happy enough to sit back and take the dollars from people running HTPCs instead.
Let's see what the last update was. April 2012:
The Foundation is currently scrambling to gets its education pack ready by the time units are ready for the classroom.
Uh-huh.
I don't agree with the misuse of anti-terrorism laws in this case, but this is ridiculous:
a piece of paper with the password to part of the encrypted files was discovered along with the hard drive
Why? Why would you do that? What possible rationalisation could there be for writing the password down and keeping it with the encrypted data?
It's a pity there is no law against negligent custodianship of encrypted data, it might teach people to be more sensible.
Why did you place the order in the first place when this was never an intended feature?
Wheelies and bunnyhops were not an intended original feature of BMX bicycles, yet people bought them for that capability.
My washing machine is quite capable of washing my running shoes. That's not an intended feature either.