The "BBC Tax" aka TV License is an annual charge for the services provided by the BBC, that being radio and television. Each household is expected to have a TV license if they own a TV which is used to view television, as it is not possible to deny access to BBC services on a per-household basis. There are exclusions; Monochrome TVs are exempt, as are households with no TV antenna (which allows you to use your TV as a games console monitor without paying a fee). However, with the advent of streaming TV (iPlayer in the case of the BBC) ownership of a computer has become a factor when considering buying a TV license. You may watch time-shifted BBC shows in the UK without a TV license, but live shows must not be watched. As there is no technical way to prevent each household without a TV license receiving these live streams, just as there isn't a way to stop them receiving live OTA TV signsls, you would be expected to have a TV license if you used iPlayer.
It is a pseudo-tax in that it is not mandatory and not to the government, but I think it's worth it. HTH.
Unique != Secure. If the two are in any way related (Key = base 16 encoded SHA1 of SSID + salt, for example) then the key can be broken trivially.
Basically, I don't trust you (the company) to not be lazy^Wcost-effective in your key generation procedure. There are numerous sites listing tables of default keys for brands of router, ripe for abuse. Those could only have been leaked by an insider (which means you've kept a copy of all of the keys, for some reason) or they weren't truly random, and therefore insecure.
Similar one used by my bank; Card + Pin + Reader = One time pad, presumably based upon a synchronised clock between the reader and the authentication server RSA-token style.
I wish they implemented this for all transactions, not just using the bank website.
This is what I'm going in to. Over a decade in technical IT, and only now am I doing a degree, and it's one with "... and Management" in the title.
I want to check the boxes that say "This guy can handle the freaky social pariahs in IT Tech, because he was one, but he can also put great covers on TPS reports first time around."
I'm all for people dying, as long as it's only those whose idiocy and lack of common sense put themselves in those dangerous situations. With any luck, they can be out of the way before they're put in charge of something where their reckless attitude has the potential to ruin the lives of other people, like working heavy machinery, or making financial investments.
While I agree with your overall objection of this being neither newsworthy or anything more than an advertisement, the stub says that this is a track day app. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't function on normal roads, just like the Nissan GTR disables a speed limiter only when you're on a track (by GPS location).
If it does work on the road, then maybe people should take some responsibility for their own actions and not race on the fucking road.
It's not incompetence in this instance; It is actually malice. BT would much rather hold on to this tech for the next 15 years, squeezing an extra few pounds per month out of you for the next tier of service, right up until you're paying more for your internet connection than you are for your mortgage.
Consider; The identical fibre with this new tech is all of a sudden 2000x times less efficient than it could be. Do you think you'll be charged 1/2000 of the current rate if it's implemented and you elect not to use it?
(I realise there is more to this, like switching overhead, backbone speed, contention etc).
There is a spattering of information on the candidates at http://www.choosemypcc.org.uk/ but nothing sent through the mail. My parents, nor anybody else I know for that matter, knows anything about their local candidates. It's an utter sham.
The biggest misconception that people have about Eve Online is that it is a game. It is not a game; It is a second job.
Once you've made it above Frigate-class ships (Rifter FTW!), you need to spend an exponential amount of time learning skills and making money, and a lot of the skills for serious money-making (industrial skills like mining, research, and production) are not combat-based. Sure, you can make money as a pirate, or hire out your pilot skills as a mercenary or fleet escort, but it's dangerous work. The stress is, IMHO, equivalent to any full time job.
Personally, I like games to be fun. Eve is rewarding, but that's not the same.
My biggest problem with English is that I already know all of these rules, but because when I learned how to speak it I wasn't taught what a gerund is, the names for the various tenses and cases, or many of the other technical terms for the rules of grammar. I can apply the rules fine, but i'm buggered if I have to explain them!
Why do have so many people problems accepting there are non-native English speakers? It's not difficult.
I accept that there are many people here who speak English as a second language (E2L). However, for a sample size of one (a mate's Polish wife), I have found that they are more than eager to learn when their pronunciation, grammar, or use of slang is inappropriate or incorrect. I certainly wouldn't call an E2L speaker a "dumbass" for not knowing such things, but I would point out the mistake with an explaination of why it is incorrect, if I am capable.
For instance, your first sentence should be "Why do so many people have problems accepting that there are non-native English speakers?" "problems" are a property of a person, not the other way around, therefore the possessive verb comes before the predicate, not the subject. Hope this helps:)
If Pandora hosts systems there to stream music to me? I could care less.
How much less could you care? Please; I'm interested.
This is at best a tautology, at worst nonsense. "I could care less" tells us nothing about how much you care; You could be overjoyed at the news, in which case in being only slightly less excited you would be "caring less". "I couldn't care less" is unequivocally an expression of your lack of enthusiasm or interest in the subject, and in that sense informative.
Some will call me a pedant, but that's fine; Attacking me as a person doesn't detract from my argument.
No, DRM is bad. It restricts the rights of the general public to use the media they purchase as they see fit; Nothing more, nothing less, that is its only purpose. No value is gained by the use of DRM, no functionality is added by the use of DRM, no customer experience is improved by the use of DRM; It is bad. I suppose philosophically you could say that at the "one's and zero's" level DRM is neutral, but above that it is Not A Good Thing. At all.
They could make the regional redirect for UK visitors push them to the click-through, though. The Judge could also stipulate size, placement, wording, and pretty much any other factor governing it.
Bonus points is he makes Apple put the "I've read this" check box in the exact same script currently used to hide the bottom of the page.
There is no trust; Every app comes with a manifest of permissions required, and you're given the option to install the app, or not install the app. Complaining about data charges when you've installed $SuperCrappyGame when it asked you for mobile network access is just moronic.
A smartphone is meant to be convenient; It's not as good at gaming as a handheld console, not as good at web browsing or work duties as a desktop, not as good at taking pictures as a dedicated camera, the same for GPS navigation, music and video playing, eBooks etc. Not everybody wants to carry devices for all of those uses all of the time, though.
The way things are setup on stock android is a nightmare. The supposed "Walled Garden" doesn't even exist. Android doesn't have malware/viruses because "legit" apps can walk right in and do whatever they want. Want to steal all your users contacts and use them for spam? There's a built-in API for that.
I was trying to download a widget for screen brightness and 99% of the free ones wanted internet access permissions. It was just absolutely atrocious.
The only redeeming feature is how easy it is to root and fix.
What I read: "HURRR Technology is scawy! Everyone should be nice and not try and make money from harvesting my person information! I just HAVE to have $SuperCrappyGame but don't want to give them my contact list; How dare they ask for it?!"
Android was never a "walled garden"; It was "How you want it." If you want to be hand-held through everything, buy an iPhone.
Take some responsibility for yourself and your technology and don't install apps which require excessive permissions. You're told, explicitly, what access the app will have prior to installation; Installing the app is informed consent that you agree to those permissions. It's Hobson's Choice, but at least we're not talking about drinking water or food; You can make do without a screen brightness widget.
Given Android will now... tell you what permissions the app will access, why isn't there the ability to just configure android to refuse to pass those details on to the app at the OS level?
This is a feature of Cyanogenmod. You can revoke permissions in a granular fashion; There's no knowing how it will affect the app's performance, and you do so at your own risk obviously. For all others, there's LBE Privacy Guard which will prevent access to contacts, messages, location, and data services on a per-app basis.
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You mean like Sub7 and Netbus, which were readily available in the late 90s?
Dude. This was news before Slashdot existed.
The "BBC Tax" aka TV License is an annual charge for the services provided by the BBC, that being radio and television. Each household is expected to have a TV license if they own a TV which is used to view television, as it is not possible to deny access to BBC services on a per-household basis. There are exclusions; Monochrome TVs are exempt, as are households with no TV antenna (which allows you to use your TV as a games console monitor without paying a fee). However, with the advent of streaming TV (iPlayer in the case of the BBC) ownership of a computer has become a factor when considering buying a TV license. You may watch time-shifted BBC shows in the UK without a TV license, but live shows must not be watched. As there is no technical way to prevent each household without a TV license receiving these live streams, just as there isn't a way to stop them receiving live OTA TV signsls, you would be expected to have a TV license if you used iPlayer.
It is a pseudo-tax in that it is not mandatory and not to the government, but I think it's worth it. HTH.
Unique != Secure. If the two are in any way related (Key = base 16 encoded SHA1 of SSID + salt, for example) then the key can be broken trivially.
Basically, I don't trust you (the company) to not be lazy^Wcost-effective in your key generation procedure. There are numerous sites listing tables of default keys for brands of router, ripe for abuse. Those could only have been leaked by an insider (which means you've kept a copy of all of the keys, for some reason) or they weren't truly random, and therefore insecure.
Similar one used by my bank; Card + Pin + Reader = One time pad, presumably based upon a synchronised clock between the reader and the authentication server RSA-token style.
I wish they implemented this for all transactions, not just using the bank website.
This is what I'm going in to. Over a decade in technical IT, and only now am I doing a degree, and it's one with "... and Management" in the title.
I want to check the boxes that say "This guy can handle the freaky social pariahs in IT Tech, because he was one, but he can also put great covers on TPS reports first time around."
I can tell you I don't have money.
LOL http://www.forbes.com/profile/larry-ellison/
A spanking! A spanking!
Sorry, wrong scene.
We don't know what government does and a lot of it we'd rather not know.
Speak for yourself.
I'm all for people dying, as long as it's only those whose idiocy and lack of common sense put themselves in those dangerous situations. With any luck, they can be out of the way before they're put in charge of something where their reckless attitude has the potential to ruin the lives of other people, like working heavy machinery, or making financial investments.
While I agree with your overall objection of this being neither newsworthy or anything more than an advertisement, the stub says that this is a track day app. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't function on normal roads, just like the Nissan GTR disables a speed limiter only when you're on a track (by GPS location).
If it does work on the road, then maybe people should take some responsibility for their own actions and not race on the fucking road.
Apparently the 19 year old is on the left in the photo.
I don't care about Barack Obama; I want to see that guy's birth certificate!
But dude, how will your mom vacuum behind there?!
I jest. Mom wouldn't dare come in the Command Centre.
Sure they both have selfish motivations for some of the things they do but, seriously, who the hell wouldn't in that position???.
A true patriot.
It's not incompetence in this instance; It is actually malice. BT would much rather hold on to this tech for the next 15 years, squeezing an extra few pounds per month out of you for the next tier of service, right up until you're paying more for your internet connection than you are for your mortgage.
Consider; The identical fibre with this new tech is all of a sudden 2000x times less efficient than it could be. Do you think you'll be charged 1/2000 of the current rate if it's implemented and you elect not to use it?
(I realise there is more to this, like switching overhead, backbone speed, contention etc).
There is a spattering of information on the candidates at http://www.choosemypcc.org.uk/ but nothing sent through the mail. My parents, nor anybody else I know for that matter, knows anything about their local candidates. It's an utter sham.
The biggest misconception that people have about Eve Online is that it is a game. It is not a game; It is a second job.
Once you've made it above Frigate-class ships (Rifter FTW!), you need to spend an exponential amount of time learning skills and making money, and a lot of the skills for serious money-making (industrial skills like mining, research, and production) are not combat-based. Sure, you can make money as a pirate, or hire out your pilot skills as a mercenary or fleet escort, but it's dangerous work. The stress is, IMHO, equivalent to any full time job.
Personally, I like games to be fun. Eve is rewarding, but that's not the same.
My biggest problem with English is that I already know all of these rules, but because when I learned how to speak it I wasn't taught what a gerund is, the names for the various tenses and cases, or many of the other technical terms for the rules of grammar. I can apply the rules fine, but i'm buggered if I have to explain them!
Then you draw an irrelevant conclusion, at your own expense.
Why do have so many people problems accepting there are non-native English speakers? It's not difficult.
I accept that there are many people here who speak English as a second language (E2L). However, for a sample size of one (a mate's Polish wife), I have found that they are more than eager to learn when their pronunciation, grammar, or use of slang is inappropriate or incorrect. I certainly wouldn't call an E2L speaker a "dumbass" for not knowing such things, but I would point out the mistake with an explaination of why it is incorrect, if I am capable.
:)
For instance, your first sentence should be "Why do so many people have problems accepting that there are non-native English speakers?" "problems" are a property of a person, not the other way around, therefore the possessive verb comes before the predicate, not the subject. Hope this helps
If Pandora hosts systems there to stream music to me? I could care less.
How much less could you care? Please; I'm interested.
This is at best a tautology, at worst nonsense. "I could care less" tells us nothing about how much you care; You could be overjoyed at the news, in which case in being only slightly less excited you would be "caring less". "I couldn't care less" is unequivocally an expression of your lack of enthusiasm or interest in the subject, and in that sense informative.
Some will call me a pedant, but that's fine; Attacking me as a person doesn't detract from my argument.
No, DRM is bad. It restricts the rights of the general public to use the media they purchase as they see fit; Nothing more, nothing less, that is its only purpose. No value is gained by the use of DRM, no functionality is added by the use of DRM, no customer experience is improved by the use of DRM; It is bad. I suppose philosophically you could say that at the "one's and zero's" level DRM is neutral, but above that it is Not A Good Thing. At all.
They could make the regional redirect for UK visitors push them to the click-through, though. The Judge could also stipulate size, placement, wording, and pretty much any other factor governing it.
Bonus points is he makes Apple put the "I've read this" check box in the exact same script currently used to hide the bottom of the page.
There is no trust; Every app comes with a manifest of permissions required, and you're given the option to install the app, or not install the app. Complaining about data charges when you've installed $SuperCrappyGame when it asked you for mobile network access is just moronic.
A smartphone is meant to be convenient; It's not as good at gaming as a handheld console, not as good at web browsing or work duties as a desktop, not as good at taking pictures as a dedicated camera, the same for GPS navigation, music and video playing, eBooks etc. Not everybody wants to carry devices for all of those uses all of the time, though.
The way things are setup on stock android is a nightmare. The supposed "Walled Garden" doesn't even exist. Android doesn't have malware/viruses because "legit" apps can walk right in and do whatever they want. Want to steal all your users contacts and use them for spam? There's a built-in API for that.
I was trying to download a widget for screen brightness and 99% of the free ones wanted internet access permissions. It was just absolutely atrocious.
The only redeeming feature is how easy it is to root and fix.
What I read: "HURRR Technology is scawy! Everyone should be nice and not try and make money from harvesting my person information! I just HAVE to have $SuperCrappyGame but don't want to give them my contact list; How dare they ask for it?!"
Android was never a "walled garden"; It was "How you want it." If you want to be hand-held through everything, buy an iPhone.
Take some responsibility for yourself and your technology and don't install apps which require excessive permissions. You're told, explicitly, what access the app will have prior to installation; Installing the app is informed consent that you agree to those permissions. It's Hobson's Choice, but at least we're not talking about drinking water or food; You can make do without a screen brightness widget.
Given Android will now ... tell you what permissions the app will access, why isn't there the ability to just configure android to refuse to pass those details on to the app at the OS level?
This is a feature of Cyanogenmod. You can revoke permissions in a granular fashion; There's no knowing how it will affect the app's performance, and you do so at your own risk obviously. For all others, there's LBE Privacy Guard which will prevent access to contacts, messages, location, and data services on a per-app basis.