I fondly remember the original government site, which I think lived in the open.gov.uk domain. You could actually find things on there.
I dread trying to find anything on direct.gov.uk, it's just an awfully designed quagmire of information. Most of which isn't related to what you're trying to find.
For what it's worth, I usually stick up for civil servants when they're being belittled by people. It's a poorly paid and thankless career for most of those within the service. For some reason I still wish I was one of them though.
Google/YouTube does what the DMCA requires them to do: it takes down content when a copyright holder points it out and asks them to do so; that is why the judge has reaffirmed that they have protection under the safe harbour provisions of the DMCA.
Viacom is, I suspect, whining because Google is easy to sue and have lots of money, whereas the people who are actually uploading copyrighted content are hard to find and probably don't. They are more interested in doing what is easy, rather than what is correct.
Considering the newspapers News International publishes, I don't really consider this a loss. The less of "The Sun" and "News Of The World" seen on-line the better, really; only the "The Times" and "Sunday Times" could really be considered any kind of a loss.
Now if only we could get "The Daily Mail" to follow suit.
If anyone with ACM digital libray access wants the DOI link to the original article, rather than the edited version Sun/Oracle's site it's http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/103162.103163.
It is an old article though, so it's a 44 page scanned PDF.
It's also very easy for your ISP to intercept all DNS queries, regardless of where they're being sent, and handle them themselves. I know of an ISP that does this.
It would, of course, be possible to run an encrypted tunnel to a remote machine with a caching DNS server on it, then direct all your queries to that. I suspect this is far beyond the ken of most normal users. Just setting up a caching name server is beyond the ken of normal users. Most of them can handle turning computers on and click icons. Some of them have problems with that.
I believe the police have pointed out to people who suggest they're going to do that, that it would be a criminal offence. I think the offence is still called "Obstructing the Queen's Highway" or it might just be "Causing an Obstruction".
You know, Dell trades in countries besides the US. No matter where they manufacture the damn things they're probably going to be shipping them abroad to a large proportion of their customers anyway.
I suspect it's only the base systems that are manufactured over there anyway, final configuration still takes place at the local level, I believe. At least I can't see Dell building a system to my spec in India or China and then shipping it over to me in the UK.
When I worked in automation, "shutdown" was the standard terminology used to describe a period when production was run down; it's usually when I was working - it's the only time you can get in to make major changes that would be otherwise disruptive or impossible. You usually got one shutdown period in summer and another over the Christmas period.
If you wanted to say something was being dismantled, you'd probably say "decommissioned", since that's the opposite of what we did when we put things in (i.e. commissioned).
When are they actually going to lay fibre to my town then? I realize 60k people is far too few for them bother with - no cable provider has ever rolled out cable to Maldon.
My entirely non-scientific appraisal of Windows 7 thus far is showing it using less memory than Vista was. Right now it's using 32% of the 8GB of physical RAM. Vista would generally be running at around 50%, doing the same thing, which right now isn't much beyond IRC, FF with three tabs, Thunderbird and things like NCSoft's Launcher and Steam sat in the notification area.
I'd expect some difference due to differences in running software, but for the most part I have the same things running on Windows 7 as I did when I had Vista on the system.
I'm also waiting on the QUE. Right now it doesn't look like there are any UK distributors lined up, which is annoying; especially when PlasticLogics is a Cambridge University spin off.
Of course what I really want is something like a QUE, but with a colour screen. I can't see one of those turning up for some time though - although I seem to remember that there are working prototype colour eInk displays.
The problem isn't usually related the general running of the program, it's debugging running processes and similar actions. Although debugging just requires the "Debug Programs" permission, I think.
The company I work for is small though, so as well as being the Senior Developer (which is laughable title), I'm also a Domain Admin, along with my manager, anyway.
You saved me the bother of stating the same thing. All of my friends on Facebook are people I actually know; some I see regularly, others less so. I suspect I still haven't added everyone I used to know and would want to keep up with; I only joined recently.
Isk is also the in-game currency of EVE Online. CCP, the makers of EVE Online, are Icelandic. It would seem they didn't have much imagination when it came to naming their in-game currency.
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Actually that would be "and the previous government bankrupted the country so we need to save money somewhere; this is as good a place as any".
I fondly remember the original government site, which I think lived in the open.gov.uk domain. You could actually find things on there.
I dread trying to find anything on direct.gov.uk, it's just an awfully designed quagmire of information. Most of which isn't related to what you're trying to find.
For what it's worth, I usually stick up for civil servants when they're being belittled by people. It's a poorly paid and thankless career for most of those within the service. For some reason I still wish I was one of them though.
Google/YouTube does what the DMCA requires them to do: it takes down content when a copyright holder points it out and asks them to do so; that is why the judge has reaffirmed that they have protection under the safe harbour provisions of the DMCA.
Viacom is, I suspect, whining because Google is easy to sue and have lots of money, whereas the people who are actually uploading copyrighted content are hard to find and probably don't. They are more interested in doing what is easy, rather than what is correct.
33 of the nations in the Commonwealth of Nations are republics and four are monarchies with their own monarchs.
Because it's a commonwealth realm, along with another 15 countries (including the UK).
Considering the newspapers News International publishes, I don't really consider this a loss. The less of "The Sun" and "News Of The World" seen on-line the better, really; only the "The Times" and "Sunday Times" could really be considered any kind of a loss.
Now if only we could get "The Daily Mail" to follow suit.
If anyone with ACM digital libray access wants the DOI link to the original article, rather than the edited version Sun/Oracle's site it's http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/103162.103163.
It is an old article though, so it's a 44 page scanned PDF.
It's also very easy for your ISP to intercept all DNS queries, regardless of where they're being sent, and handle them themselves. I know of an ISP that does this.
It would, of course, be possible to run an encrypted tunnel to a remote machine with a caching DNS server on it, then direct all your queries to that. I suspect this is far beyond the ken of most normal users. Just setting up a caching name server is beyond the ken of normal users. Most of them can handle turning computers on and click icons. Some of them have problems with that.
I believe the police have pointed out to people who suggest they're going to do that, that it would be a criminal offence. I think the offence is still called "Obstructing the Queen's Highway" or it might just be "Causing an Obstruction".
What impresses me most is the two deck-chairs and the umbrella by the side of the road. I wonder how long they were waiting for it.
I suspect VMware ACE is pretty much made for this sort of thing. At least as far I can tell this was the kind of thing it was made for.
You know, Dell trades in countries besides the US. No matter where they manufacture the damn things they're probably going to be shipping them abroad to a large proportion of their customers anyway.
I suspect it's only the base systems that are manufactured over there anyway, final configuration still takes place at the local level, I believe. At least I can't see Dell building a system to my spec in India or China and then shipping it over to me in the UK.
When I worked in automation, "shutdown" was the standard terminology used to describe a period when production was run down; it's usually when I was working - it's the only time you can get in to make major changes that would be otherwise disruptive or impossible. You usually got one shutdown period in summer and another over the Christmas period.
If you wanted to say something was being dismantled, you'd probably say "decommissioned", since that's the opposite of what we did when we put things in (i.e. commissioned).
I think the bit of this that sticks in my memory is actually the EFF's ingenuity.
When are they actually going to lay fibre to my town then? I realize 60k people is far too few for them bother with - no cable provider has ever rolled out cable to Maldon.
My entirely non-scientific appraisal of Windows 7 thus far is showing it using less memory than Vista was. Right now it's using 32% of the 8GB of physical RAM. Vista would generally be running at around 50%, doing the same thing, which right now isn't much beyond IRC, FF with three tabs, Thunderbird and things like NCSoft's Launcher and Steam sat in the notification area.
I'd expect some difference due to differences in running software, but for the most part I have the same things running on Windows 7 as I did when I had Vista on the system.
I'm not. I've never felt the need to use my iPhone as a storage device (beyond what's designed to store).
Because it would either be very long or very short...
I'm also waiting on the QUE. Right now it doesn't look like there are any UK distributors lined up, which is annoying; especially when PlasticLogics is a Cambridge University spin off.
Of course what I really want is something like a QUE, but with a colour screen. I can't see one of those turning up for some time though - although I seem to remember that there are working prototype colour eInk displays.
And I shall thank you now for that URL. Hopefully that works, because I really don't have the time to feck about re-installing Windows 7.
I use "perchance" ...
The problem isn't usually related the general running of the program, it's debugging running processes and similar actions. Although debugging just requires the "Debug Programs" permission, I think.
The company I work for is small though, so as well as being the Senior Developer (which is laughable title), I'm also a Domain Admin, along with my manager, anyway.
You saved me the bother of stating the same thing. All of my friends on Facebook are people I actually know; some I see regularly, others less so. I suspect I still haven't added everyone I used to know and would want to keep up with; I only joined recently.
Isk is also the in-game currency of EVE Online. CCP, the makers of EVE Online, are Icelandic. It would seem they didn't have much imagination when it came to naming their in-game currency.
I believe "one copy" is a reference to the original copy, on which the published book is based.