Yes - not as bad as the name of the project suggests! I thought at first they might be advocating ignoring the ToS...
But it's still indicative of a general decline in personal responsibility.
Such as a new contract with a vendor in work; everyone assumes its fine because Bob was involved at the negotiation stage, but actually Bob was out most of that week. And no-one bothers to read the terms before the cheque is signed.
That's what I fear from this project; people will see "Class B" for $VENDOR and sign-up, not paying heed to individual conditions like "you agree to indemnify us at your cost."
You don't want to make a rule that says you can't cancel an "order".
Why not? if I initiate a funds transfer from a bank account, I cannot cancel it. It is done, from my perspective, even if the receiving bank has only added it to its inbound queue.
I can ask the receiver nicely to pay it back, but if I made an error then that's my burden.
The more work private companies to do on this problem -- that is, the putting people in space and on planets problem -- the better we get at it
Hang on - don't forget that private companies put men on the Moon!
NASA provided program management and Uncle Sam provided dollars, but it was private industry ( Boeing, North American, Douglas, Grumman, IBM and thousands of smaller companies... ) that designed the hardware and made it work.
The only exception I can think of in the Apollo program was the Saturn V's Instrument Control Unit, which was designed by the staff at the Marshall Spaceflight Center but implemented by IBM.
A "rail franchise" in the UK is a Government-granted monopoly to run services over a particular rail route for a set period of time. The monopoly is awarded to the Train Operating Company ( TOC ) that basically bids the highest fee.
Rolling stock is provided by the Government, too, in conjunction with the TOC.
Notionally it is possible for Open Access Operators to also operate services over parts of the same route, but this flies in the face of the cushy relationship between Government and TOCs and so generally isn't granted.
This is the state of rail "privatisation" in the UK today.
Sometimes "science" has to be done on basic, everyday things as a basis for future work.
For example, someone studying fuel ullage might be able to use the "coffee slopping" paper as a starting point for their work in future.
I suppose we could restrict scentists to only studying Serious Science, but then they'd have to do all this research as part of the Big Project anyway.
Some of you may have used usenet back in the day when there was a lot of work involving downloading a ton of RARs, PARs, and then going through the process of PARing, and unRARing.
Excuse me: some of us actually used USENET back in the day before binary groups were invented!
Actually I still follow a handful of text-only groups and the quarily of discussion is improving again as web fora draw-away the trolls and twits.
It's impossible to avoid using BT where I am. Even if I pick a different ISP, I'd still be using their infrastructure.
Protocol throttling such as you mention is imposed by BT Retail, not Wholesale. So if you moved to another ISP you would be subject to that ISP's policy, not BT Retail's.
Wholesale just provide connectivity; they do nothing but deliver the stream to the ISP through L2TP.
I suggest you try ID Net; they provide BT Wholesale-based ADSL with no throttling or blocking. I used them a few years ago on a BT-only exchange and they were fine.
But then again, let's face it, most people are leechers.
I have a reasonably fast business ADSL connection which is genuinely unmetered with no "fair-usage", no throttling, no DPI. It is literally a packet-shifting Internet connection through my ISP which is fairly rare in the UK these days!
I'd love to open it up to the benefit of society, but I just can't accept the risks of running something like a Tor node. Even running a secondary channel with open wifi makes me nervous.
I suppose this makes me cowardly.... and means they are winning.
LastPass discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when LastPass believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of LastPass, third parties or the public at large
The highlighted clause is totally out of order. There is only ever one reason they should release data; when instructed by a lawful legal order.
Cracking apps is unnecessary. You can block almost all ads with a properly updated hosts file.
Easier solution: don't use apps which show ads.
It's an elegant solution, which illustrates the difference between an open platform and a closed one.
Err, hang on.. one has to root an Android device before being able to update the hosts file. That's not a trivial matter* and it is also directly contrary to the principles of an open platform.
An open platform would come with a check-box on the setting page labelled "Super-user access".
* For example my phone proved resilient to all the "one-click root" tools out there and eventually I had to install a custom ROM.
Not entirely correct; in particular the supergeek demographic which runs Cyanogenmod or other custom ROMs seldom have a Google account on their Android phones.
And it's not even necessary for mainstream ROMs.
There is also a rapidly increasing proportion of users for the Amazon Fire which doesn't have the Google Footprint.
When email come in to your mailbox, the BES grabs a copy,... encrypts it with AES, then forwards it to RIM. RIM forwards it to the wireless carrier. The wireless carrier sends it to the blackberry, and the blackberry decrypts it.
That seems like a lot of steps ( and failure points ) when the phone could just establish a VPN back to the company and query the mail server itself. What's the advantage of the BES approach?
Email is simple enough that in my experience there really isn't a lot that a native app can do that a good webmail interface can't.
Message encryption is tricky in a webmail interface, unless you write the message in vi, encrypt that and then paste it into the UI. Vice versa for receiving. Not exactly seamless.
do you actually need a Gmail account to setup an Android phone?
A basic Google Account can be used to configure the phone but will fail if the user then tries to use the Android Market functionality; the Market requires a Gmail account.
There is a long, long thread on Google's "support" forum about this dating back to somewhere in 2009, but still no fix!
On a basic level the phone will work fine without any form of Google account, you just won't be able to use features such as sync or the Market. I do find the latter to be quite limiting, particularly when some vendors ( such as Amazon ) don't even provide a download of their own app from their own site but insist on directing the user to the Market. I had to ask a friend to send me a copy of the Kindle APK!
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Why would any company turn down such as easy way to make money that requires virtually no effort on their part.
"we provide Internet access without monitoring and filtering as is our protected right under EU law."
And that's just one ISP of many that have such a policy.
Perhaps you should write to them and ask them which they feel morality usurps profits?
Root your device, and you have anything you want on your Nexus 7.
Why should I have to?
All this talk of Android being "open" and giving the user "freedom" and then you admit in the next sentence that rooting is a risk to the device.
No-one has ever clearly stated why these devices are so locked-down out of the factory. Why is it? Why?
The algorithm is typically public. The most widely used ones (like AES) are quite public.
Perhaps he was harking back to the days of DES, with it's obscure NSA-recommended S-boxes that no-one really understood.
They worked very well... somehow. We think.
DSD pay way below market rates... as such they fail to attract the best of the best
If your only criterion for working somewhere is top money then... you will be very unhappy all through your working life.
Yes - not as bad as the name of the project suggests! I thought at first they might be advocating ignoring the ToS...
But it's still indicative of a general decline in personal responsibility.
Such as a new contract with a vendor in work; everyone assumes its fine because Bob was involved at the negotiation stage, but actually Bob was out most of that week. And no-one bothers to read the terms before the cheque is signed.
That's what I fear from this project; people will see "Class B" for $VENDOR and sign-up, not paying heed to individual conditions like "you agree to indemnify us at your cost."
The mainstream press is liberal almost to a (wo)man
Liberal - it doesn't mean what you think.
Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
Please find another word as your political term-of-abuse.
You don't want to make a rule that says you can't cancel an "order".
Why not? if I initiate a funds transfer from a bank account, I cannot cancel it. It is done, from my perspective, even if the receiving bank has only added it to its inbound queue.
I can ask the receiver nicely to pay it back, but if I made an error then that's my burden.
That simply wasn't even possible in the Apollo days.
What piffle! The fourth launch of the ( unsuccessful ) Soviet N-1 launcher in 1972 relayed telemetry at 9.6 GB / second on 320,000 channels.
Yes, GIGA BYTES per second and that was FORTY years ago.
"Dozens of cameras" are pretty but also pretty much irrelevant for telemetric purposes.
Tell me, what was the telemetry data rate for this launch?
Kittinger jumped from a height of 31km and reached a top speed of 275m/s
I'm looking at the "Guinness Book of Aircraft Facts & Feats" ( published 1984 ) and it says Kittinger hit 714 mph. That's 320 m / s.
Has that claim been adjusted or invalidated since then?
Genuinely curious.
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First man to exceed local speed of sound without a vehicle: Joe Kittinger, 16 August 1960.
The more work private companies to do on this problem -- that is, the putting people in space and on planets problem -- the better we get at it
Hang on - don't forget that private companies put men on the Moon!
NASA provided program management and Uncle Sam provided dollars, but it was private industry ( Boeing, North American, Douglas, Grumman, IBM and thousands of smaller companies... ) that designed the hardware and made it work.
The only exception I can think of in the Apollo program was the Saturn V's Instrument Control Unit, which was designed by the staff at the Marshall Spaceflight Center but implemented by IBM.
A "rail franchise" in the UK is a Government-granted monopoly to run services over a particular rail route for a set period of time. The monopoly is awarded to the Train Operating Company ( TOC ) that basically bids the highest fee.
Rolling stock is provided by the Government, too, in conjunction with the TOC.
Notionally it is possible for Open Access Operators to also operate services over parts of the same route, but this flies in the face of the cushy relationship between Government and TOCs and so generally isn't granted.
This is the state of rail "privatisation" in the UK today.
Fairy nuff - thanks to you and the other posters for that link. I stand corrected.
Now can we inform the World's media thereof?
Yes, let's all mock basic scientific research.
Sometimes "science" has to be done on basic, everyday things as a basis for future work.
For example, someone studying fuel ullage might be able to use the "coffee slopping" paper as a starting point for their work in future.
I suppose we could restrict scentists to only studying Serious Science, but then they'd have to do all this research as part of the Big Project anyway.
Some of you may have used usenet back in the day when there was a lot of work involving downloading a ton of RARs, PARs, and then going through the process of PARing, and unRARing.
Excuse me: some of us actually used USENET back in the day before binary groups were invented!
Actually I still follow a handful of text-only groups and the quarily of discussion is improving again as web fora draw-away the trolls and twits.
It's impossible to avoid using BT where I am. Even if I pick a different ISP, I'd still be using their infrastructure.
Protocol throttling such as you mention is imposed by BT Retail, not Wholesale. So if you moved to another ISP you would be subject to that ISP's policy, not BT Retail's.
Wholesale just provide connectivity; they do nothing but deliver the stream to the ISP through L2TP.
I suggest you try ID Net; they provide BT Wholesale-based ADSL with no throttling or blocking. I used them a few years ago on a BT-only exchange and they were fine.
But then again, let's face it, most people are leechers.
I have a reasonably fast business ADSL connection which is genuinely unmetered with no "fair-usage", no throttling, no DPI. It is literally a packet-shifting Internet connection through my ISP which is fairly rare in the UK these days!
I'd love to open it up to the benefit of society, but I just can't accept the risks of running something like a Tor node. Even running a secondary channel with open wifi makes me nervous.
I suppose this makes me cowardly.... and means they are winning.
If Virgin Media don't have a network, then who the hell's fiber is that coming in to my house
It belongs to NTL Telecom Services Ltd.
"Virgin Media" is just a brand-name licensed from the Virgin Group to front the combined operation of NTL and Virgin Mobile Group.
Do a quick search for Media House Bartley Wood Business Park and be amazed at the variety of companies registered therein!
LastPass discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when LastPass believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of LastPass, third parties or the public at large
The highlighted clause is totally out of order. There is only ever one reason they should release data; when instructed by a lawful legal order.
Cracking apps is unnecessary. You can block almost all ads with a properly updated hosts file.
Easier solution: don't use apps which show ads.
It's an elegant solution, which illustrates the difference between an open platform and a closed one.
Err, hang on.. one has to root an Android device before being able to update the hosts file. That's not a trivial matter* and it is also directly contrary to the principles of an open platform.
An open platform would come with a check-box on the setting page labelled "Super-user access".
* For example my phone proved resilient to all the "one-click root" tools out there and eventually I had to install a custom ROM.
Everyone on android has gmail
Not entirely correct; in particular the supergeek demographic which runs Cyanogenmod or other custom ROMs seldom have a Google account on their Android phones.
And it's not even necessary for mainstream ROMs.
There is also a rapidly increasing proportion of users for the Amazon Fire which doesn't have the Google Footprint.
When email come in to your mailbox, the BES grabs a copy, ... encrypts it with AES, then forwards it to RIM. RIM forwards it to the wireless carrier. The wireless carrier sends it to the blackberry, and the blackberry decrypts it.
That seems like a lot of steps ( and failure points ) when the phone could just establish a VPN back to the company and query the mail server itself. What's the advantage of the BES approach?
Even my Nokia E61 from 2005 supported VPN.
Email is simple enough that in my experience there really isn't a lot that a native app can do that a good webmail interface can't.
Message encryption is tricky in a webmail interface, unless you write the message in vi, encrypt that and then paste it into the UI. Vice versa for receiving. Not exactly seamless.
do you actually need a Gmail account to setup an Android phone?
A basic Google Account can be used to configure the phone but will fail if the user then tries to use the Android Market functionality; the Market requires a Gmail account.
There is a long, long thread on Google's "support" forum about this dating back to somewhere in 2009, but still no fix!
On a basic level the phone will work fine without any form of Google account, you just won't be able to use features such as sync or the Market. I do find the latter to be quite limiting, particularly when some vendors ( such as Amazon ) don't even provide a download of their own app from their own site but insist on directing the user to the Market. I had to ask a friend to send me a copy of the Kindle APK!
From TFM:
We currently do not support IPv6. However, Google is a big supporter of IPv6 and it is an important future direction.
So much for keeping the Internet growing, Google. Usual half-baked beta.