Technically, until recently it was totally illegal to drive a car around without a valid tax disc, even if you had paid for it. However, about five years ago, I received my new tax disc in the post and put it on the side ready to put it in my car the next time I used it. Then, about four years ago, I received my new tax disc in the post and put it on the side...
...and there was the previous year's tax disc still waiting for me to put it in the car. I managed to drive around for a whole year with an out of date tax disc without getting into any trouble. I can only assume that, if any police officer did look at it, they radioed my car registration back to base, found that the tax actually was paid and decided to do nothing about it.
Lower fees? This is the system used for collecting a tax. The tax disc was there to prove to any passing police officers that you have paid the necessary tax to drive your car on UK public roads legally.
When I'm driving in France, I switch my sat-nav to metric and I'm done. I have no problem switching between the two measurement systems at all. If you think you'd have a problem, I guarantee you are wrong. At the worst case, it'll take you a few weeks.
My French teacher (who was English) reckoned that everybody should use a comma (like the French) for the decimal separator because it was actually the only important piece of punctuation in numbers and therefore should be more obvious than just a dot.
Well Kitkat is apparently making good inroads as it went from 13.6% in June to 24.5% [android.com] in early September
iOS 8 was at 46 percent after four days. Obviously, since Apple control all the hardware, it's much easier for them to get people to upgrade, but it's still a big problem for the Android ecosystem. Presumably, app developers are having to support fairly ancient versions of the operating system in order to reach a sizeable proportion of the market, whereas an iOS developer can reach 95% of the installed base with an iOS7+ app.
It's actually the second article in a series. The first article looks like it had some Swift in it.
No doubt there will be a new Slashdot story for each subsequent article. Because Swift.
Development novices who were hoping that Apple had created a way to build complex apps with a limited amount of actual coding might have to spend a bit more time learning the basics before embarking on the big project of their dreams.
Is anybody at all surprised except, maybe, said novices?
You're probably not running a bash that isn't vulnerable. Neither of the first two patches completely fixed the issue. Personally, I don't think it'll be completely fixed until somebody patches bash to not interpret any of its environment variables as functions.
Which it should never have done in the first place.
In later models, i.e. well after the 6502 was obsolete for general purpose computers, there was an 8 register that you could set to change which page was regarded as zero page. If that had been available from the start, it would have saved me a lot of time looking for locations that didn't zap the MS Basic interpreter on our Commodore PET. I seem to remember that the floating point accumulators were considered the best bet.
The 6502 had special addressing modes for accessing the bottom 256 bytes of memory. Addresses in both the 6502 and Z80 were 16 bit, thus taking two read cycles to get a whole address into the CPU so that you could then get the content at the address. However, with the 6502, "zero page" addresses could be read in one read cycle. Not only that, but pairs of zero page locations could be used for indirect addressing. They could be treated as a set of (slow) address registers.
When I first came actress the Z80 after having programmed the 6502 for a while (as a hobbyist), I was quite shocked at how all over the place its design appeared to be and I actually found it a little harder to program at first because there was more to learn in order to use the CPU effectively.
Exactly. This whole feature is ill conceived madness. For one thing it means that if I want an exported legitimate environment variable that starts with parentheses, I can't then use it in a forked bash session.
Suppose you are a guest at my house and you want to ssh into your own computer at your house. I say no problem and I create you a user account on my computer which you then use to ssh to your computer.
Still don't think it's a problem?
Of course I could also have a key logger installed.
The argument is that, if pid 1 dies, everything dies. Also a big pid 1 presents a big attack surface for nasty people.
Of course the exact same argument applies to a kernel: if something goes wrong in the kernel, everything dies and a big kernel presents a big attack surface to nasty people. However, I observe Linux is not a microkernel but it has a reputation for both reliability and being relatively secure. On the other hand, the quality of the people developing the kernel seems to be higher than those developing systemd, or at least that is the perception I get from reading all the hate on the Internet.
Most of the land that Scotland controls is mountains and other wilderness which isn't economically productive. Sure, it would get a lot of the oil, but that is a finite resource and when that's gone, what's left? I suppose they can turn themselves into a giant Highland Theme Park.
No it isn't. The UK is part of the EU. If Scotland leaves the UK, it leaves the EU. Yes, it will cause some practical difficulties but these would be only a few of the many practical difficulties that need to be resolved in the transition period.
Also an English guy, I don't think you understand that you've not exactly treated Scotland very well and that's one of the reasons it wants to leave.
Can you give some examples in which England has treated Scotland badly in the last twenty years? Or two hundred years?
Another reason is that much of oil England is harvesting is Scottish
Actually, it is the UK that is harvesting British oil. Except it's not the UK, it's oil companies who then pay taxes to the UK. The taxes then get used all over the UK according to need. This is the way most Western countries operate.
The UK's nuclear submarines are based in Scotland.
All of the jobs at the naval base in Faslane will be gone along with the nuclear weapons. A future Scottish government might, therefore, decide to allow the UK to continue to keep its submarines there.
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No. They really have introduced a new system, that is allegedly still in beta
https://www.gov.uk/tax-disc
Err no. They really have got a new system brought to you by the Government Digital Service
https://www.gov.uk/tax-disc
Notice how it has the little beta tag.
In summary, they have both changed the rules and introduced a new online application system at the same time.
Technically, until recently it was totally illegal to drive a car around without a valid tax disc, even if you had paid for it. However, about five years ago, I received my new tax disc in the post and put it on the side ready to put it in my car the next time I used it. Then, about four years ago, I received my new tax disc in the post and put it on the side...
Lower fees? This is the system used for collecting a tax. The tax disc was there to prove to any passing police officers that you have paid the necessary tax to drive your car on UK public roads legally.
This is a Government Digital Service initiative. It will have been built using open source products almost exclusively.
When I'm driving in France, I switch my sat-nav to metric and I'm done. I have no problem switching between the two measurement systems at all. If you think you'd have a problem, I guarantee you are wrong. At the worst case, it'll take you a few weeks.
British cars have the speedometer marked in mph and km/h. It would be a few weeks and then everything would be back to normal.
My French teacher (who was English) reckoned that everybody should use a comma (like the French) for the decimal separator because it was actually the only important piece of punctuation in numbers and therefore should be more obvious than just a dot.
Well Kitkat is apparently making good inroads as it went from 13.6% in June to 24.5% [android.com] in early September
iOS 8 was at 46 percent after four days. Obviously, since Apple control all the hardware, it's much easier for them to get people to upgrade, but it's still a big problem for the Android ecosystem. Presumably, app developers are having to support fairly ancient versions of the operating system in order to reach a sizeable proportion of the market, whereas an iOS developer can reach 95% of the installed base with an iOS7+ app.
This is Swift. You just need a file called main.swift with this in it:
CreateGameThatIsSortOfLikeAngryBirdsAndMakeMeMillionsOfDollarsOvernight()
See... Swift is so good it's reduced your code size by 80% (including the missing line to return 0).
It's actually the second article in a series. The first article looks like it had some Swift in it.
No doubt there will be a new Slashdot story for each subsequent article. Because Swift.
Development novices who were hoping that Apple had created a way to build complex apps with a limited amount of actual coding might have to spend a bit more time learning the basics before embarking on the big project of their dreams.
Is anybody at all surprised except, maybe, said novices?
OS X comes with csh, bash, ksh and zsh. If you delete the link from sh to bash and replace it with a hard link to zsh, it probably secures your Mac.
You're probably not running a bash that isn't vulnerable. Neither of the first two patches completely fixed the issue. Personally, I don't think it'll be completely fixed until somebody patches bash to not interpret any of its environment variables as functions.
Which it should never have done in the first place.
So, my normal speaking voice then.
In later models, i.e. well after the 6502 was obsolete for general purpose computers, there was an 8 register that you could set to change which page was regarded as zero page. If that had been available from the start, it would have saved me a lot of time looking for locations that didn't zap the MS Basic interpreter on our Commodore PET. I seem to remember that the floating point accumulators were considered the best bet.
The 6502 had special addressing modes for accessing the bottom 256 bytes of memory. Addresses in both the 6502 and Z80 were 16 bit, thus taking two read cycles to get a whole address into the CPU so that you could then get the content at the address. However, with the 6502, "zero page" addresses could be read in one read cycle. Not only that, but pairs of zero page locations could be used for indirect addressing. They could be treated as a set of (slow) address registers.
When I first came actress the Z80 after having programmed the 6502 for a while (as a hobbyist), I was quite shocked at how all over the place its design appeared to be and I actually found it a little harder to program at first because there was more to learn in order to use the CPU effectively.
Exactly. This whole feature is ill conceived madness. For one thing it means that if I want an exported legitimate environment variable that starts with parentheses, I can't then use it in a forked bash session.
What were they thinking of?
Suppose you are a guest at my house and you want to ssh into your own computer at your house. I say no problem and I create you a user account on my computer which you then use to ssh to your computer.
Still don't think it's a problem?
Of course I could also have a key logger installed.
Wouldn't it also display
grep mysekritpassword /usr/dict/words
in a ps -ef listing?
The argument is that, if pid 1 dies, everything dies. Also a big pid 1 presents a big attack surface for nasty people.
Of course the exact same argument applies to a kernel: if something goes wrong in the kernel, everything dies and a big kernel presents a big attack surface to nasty people. However, I observe Linux is not a microkernel but it has a reputation for both reliability and being relatively secure. On the other hand, the quality of the people developing the kernel seems to be higher than those developing systemd, or at least that is the perception I get from reading all the hate on the Internet.
Most of the land that Scotland controls is mountains and other wilderness which isn't economically productive. Sure, it would get a lot of the oil, but that is a finite resource and when that's gone, what's left? I suppose they can turn themselves into a giant Highland Theme Park.
No it isn't. The UK is part of the EU. If Scotland leaves the UK, it leaves the EU. Yes, it will cause some practical difficulties but these would be only a few of the many practical difficulties that need to be resolved in the transition period.
Also an English guy, I don't think you understand that you've not exactly treated Scotland very well and that's one of the reasons it wants to leave.
Can you give some examples in which England has treated Scotland badly in the last twenty years? Or two hundred years?
Another reason is that much of oil England is harvesting is Scottish
Actually, it is the UK that is harvesting British oil. Except it's not the UK, it's oil companies who then pay taxes to the UK. The taxes then get used all over the UK according to need. This is the way most Western countries operate.
The UK's nuclear submarines are based in Scotland.
All of the jobs at the naval base in Faslane will be gone along with the nuclear weapons. A future Scottish government might, therefore, decide to allow the UK to continue to keep its submarines there.
It's a decade to an order of magnitude.