Some are indeed as you describe, but many are what most folks would recognise as "soldiers" - the gendarmes have several divisons, with very different roles.
The US view of diesel cars is somewhat different to the European one!
These days the (possibly daft) 0-60 mph time of a diesel versus a petol engine is comparable (we're talking "normal" cars) Then look at things like the 50-70 mph time (more meaningful - you want to drag past that truck on the autoroute ASAP...) and see why diesel cars are so often preferred!
Oh, and since no one else has mentioned it yet: 2006 a diesel won the Le Man 24-hour race.
Spot on. I'm about as far from being a gay-rights activist as it's possible to be, but the way Alan Turing was treated and, in effect, hounded to his suicide, is something of which we should be deeply ashamed.
The man was brilliant, patriotic and saved countless lives. Yet because he fancied men he ended up dead. Apart from the personal tragedy for him and his loved ones, the world lost a man who still had years of potentially great work head of him. One can only be thankful that, in many countries today, this would not be repeated.
Unix passwords are, generally, not encrypyted. They are hashed. The distinction is often lost, as here. By definition you cannot "decrypt" a hash. You can merely check that it matches or does not match some other value.
I suppose it all depends on what one understands by "taught". I suppose what *I* mean is "taught, such that the results are actually observable". As you rightly say, teaching depends on many things.
From first-hand experience of the UK education system (rather a lot...) and considerable exposure to the output, I maintain that the items I mention are not taught, at least in so far as the results are not there. Whether that is due to the teachers, parents, or, no doubt, some complex mix of those and other factors, is an interesting and important debate. But I maintain that, at the end of it all, the UK turns out a large number of people with a striking lack of education.
Fantastic idea! Since they gave up teaching children grammar, spelling, written communication skills, good manners, literacy and so on, this at least gives them something to do during all the free time they now have.
I just thank deity that my children are not in the UK...
Indeed take it a step further. Whenever I write a slightly "contentious" email, I park it in Drafts. However damn brilliant I think it is, I force a pause while I go have a coffee/walk/piss/whatever.
Then I come back, read it again, probably tweak it, and *then* send.
Start on clavicle. Remove middle third. Control and divide subsc art and vein. Divide large nerve trunks around these as prox as poses. Then come onto chest wall immed anterior and divide Pec maj origin from remaining clav. Divide pec minor insertion and (very imp) divide origin and get deep to serrates anterior. Your hand sweeps behind scapula. Divide all muscles attached to scapula. Stop muscle bleeding with count suture. Easy! Good luck. Meirion
When newly married other things normally keep you "up", if my fading memory serves me correctly. You sir are a true geek (albeit a married one, which knocks a few points off again, of course)
And since this "attack" is TCP-based, then I call bullshit. The "other devices" (i.e. routers and such-like) do not, in any stateful way, see the TCP at all. So they would be unaffected.
TCP is only seen by the end-points and, to an extent, by e.g. a stateful Firewall, deep-packet mangler, etc. in-between.
You are presume too much. I'd like that feature for myself. As for my children: it will be many years before they access the Internet, supervised or not.
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As per my earlier comment: this just moves it from Spam to Trash. So the stuff is still accessible.
Well, in practice that doesn't work... Yes, the filter moves it to Trash, but it is still just as visible as it was in the spam folder! In the contxt of this discussion (Making email safer for young kids) that means they can still get to view it - it's just in a different place.
What I, and others, want is a feature that says "Gmail: we trust your spam filtering, and are prepared to risk a false positive, so please make anything you think is spam completely inaccessible"
And with Gmail, much as I love it, there's no feasible way to auto-delete spam. I've asked for the very same feature myself, but Gmail confirm that (currently) you cannot auto-delete spam.
Thank you for responding more concisely than I would have. The tragedy here is that people can't see the proverbial wood for the trees.
Gary McKinnon? A twit for whom I have some, but only limited, sympathy. The point is that civil rights across what was once the Developed World are being dropped in the bin. And so many people can't see it. Yet.
You should research a bit more too. The computer analysis and interview were by UK authorities who decided he had done nothing that merited prosecution.
The US then anyway demanded extradition. They (the US) have presented no meaningful evidence. Nor, tragically, does the craven UK government require them to do so.
On this basis if I burn a US flag in the UK, I can thus be extradited to face US justice, despite having committed no crime in the UK?
"But there's more than enough evidence for an extradition..."
How do you know? The US courts have presented none, and the UK government has demanded none. Yet off to the US he will be sent.
One of the cornerstones of justice in developed countries has, until recently, been the concept of evidence being required, and to be presented in open court. However that concept seems to be falling out of fashion, to be replaced with a new idea of: "Fuck you. You're guilty. 'Cos we say so."
Gary McKinnon was foolish. Yet he now faces up to 70 years in jail.
What angers me even more than the absurd penalties threatened by the US courts? The supine, wimpering acquiesence of the UK governmnt who will extradite one of its own citizens without evidence being required, yet demands no such reciprocal agreement with the US.
Mr McKinnon should burn his British passport and go away from the UK to some country which still cares for its citizens.
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Some are indeed as you describe, but many are what most folks would recognise as "soldiers" - the gendarmes have several divisons, with very different roles.
The US view of diesel cars is somewhat different to the European one!
These days the (possibly daft) 0-60 mph time of a diesel versus a petol engine is comparable (we're talking "normal" cars) Then look at things like the 50-70 mph time (more meaningful - you want to drag past that truck on the autoroute ASAP...) and see why diesel cars are so often preferred!
Oh, and since no one else has mentioned it yet: 2006 a diesel won the Le Man 24-hour race.
No mod points. So here to say to you "Spot on". Totally and completely correct.
I have no mod points today, so I say "Well said!"
Spot on. I'm about as far from being a gay-rights activist as it's possible to be, but the way Alan Turing was treated and, in effect, hounded to his suicide, is something of which we should be deeply ashamed.
The man was brilliant, patriotic and saved countless lives. Yet because he fancied men he ended up dead. Apart from the personal tragedy for him and his loved ones, the world lost a man who still had years of potentially great work head of him. One can only be thankful that, in many countries today, this would not be repeated.
Unix passwords are, generally, not encrypyted. They are hashed. The distinction is often lost, as here. By definition you cannot "decrypt" a hash. You can merely check that it matches or does not match some other value.
I was going to ask what your point was, but after re-reading I think you actually make it quite well.
I suppose it all depends on what one understands by "taught". I suppose what *I* mean is "taught, such that the results are actually observable". As you rightly say, teaching depends on many things.
From first-hand experience of the UK education system (rather a lot...) and considerable exposure to the output, I maintain that the items I mention are not taught, at least in so far as the results are not there. Whether that is due to the teachers, parents, or, no doubt, some complex mix of those and other factors, is an interesting and important debate. But I maintain that, at the end of it all, the UK turns out a large number of people with a striking lack of education.
Fantastic idea! Since they gave up teaching children grammar, spelling, written communication skills, good manners, literacy and so on, this at least gives them something to do during all the free time they now have.
I just thank deity that my children are not in the UK...
Indeed take it a step further. Whenever I write a slightly "contentious" email, I park it in Drafts. However damn brilliant I think it is, I force a pause while I go have a coffee/walk/piss/whatever.
Then I come back, read it again, probably tweak it, and *then* send.
The Telegraph has an interesting article on this, plus the actual text message itself. Story is at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/3565928/British-surgeon-tells-of-how-he-carried-out-amputation-via-text-message.html
Text message was:
Start on clavicle. Remove middle third. Control and divide subsc art and vein. Divide large nerve trunks around these as prox as poses. Then come onto chest wall immed anterior and divide Pec maj origin from remaining clav. Divide pec minor insertion and (very imp) divide origin and get deep to serrates anterior. Your hand sweeps behind scapula. Divide all muscles attached to scapula. Stop muscle bleeding with count suture. Easy! Good luck. Meirion
When newly married other things normally keep you "up", if my fading memory serves me correctly. You sir are a true geek (albeit a married one, which knocks a few points off again, of course)
How many geeks have heard such phrases: " "That's quick" was the phrase my girlfriend after..."
Alas.
Wouldn't that then be "upforce"? Inquiring minds want to know.
And since this "attack" is TCP-based, then I call bullshit. The "other devices" (i.e. routers and such-like) do not, in any stateful way, see the TCP at all. So they would be unaffected.
TCP is only seen by the end-points and, to an extent, by e.g. a stateful Firewall, deep-packet mangler, etc. in-between.
You are presume too much. I'd like that feature for myself. As for my children: it will be many years before they access the Internet, supervised or not.
As per my earlier comment: this just moves it from Spam to Trash. So the stuff is still accessible.
Well, in practice that doesn't work... Yes, the filter moves it to Trash, but it is still just as visible as it was in the spam folder! In the contxt of this discussion (Making email safer for young kids) that means they can still get to view it - it's just in a different place.
What I, and others, want is a feature that says "Gmail: we trust your spam filtering, and are prepared to risk a false positive, so please make anything you think is spam completely inaccessible"
And with Gmail, much as I love it, there's no feasible way to auto-delete spam. I've asked for the very same feature myself, but Gmail confirm that (currently) you cannot auto-delete spam.
The cops were just taking the piss.
I think you'll find that most readers have enough intellect to understand the clear implication of my statement.
On behalf of the small number of readers who are so mentally challeneged that it was not clear, I thank you greatly.
Thank you for responding more concisely than I would have. The tragedy here is that people can't see the proverbial wood for the trees.
Gary McKinnon? A twit for whom I have some, but only limited, sympathy. The point is that civil rights across what was once the Developed World are being dropped in the bin. And so many people can't see it. Yet.
You should research a bit more too. The computer analysis and interview were by UK authorities who decided he had done nothing that merited prosecution.
The US then anyway demanded extradition. They (the US) have presented no meaningful evidence. Nor, tragically, does the craven UK government require them to do so.
On this basis if I burn a US flag in the UK, I can thus be extradited to face US justice, despite having committed no crime in the UK?
England? That's from where Mr McKinnon is about to be deported. Great choice.
"But there's more than enough evidence for an extradition..."
How do you know? The US courts have presented none, and the UK government has demanded none. Yet off to the US he will be sent.
One of the cornerstones of justice in developed countries has, until recently, been the concept of evidence being required, and to be presented in open court. However that concept seems to be falling out of fashion, to be replaced with a new idea of: "Fuck you. You're guilty. 'Cos we say so."
Gary McKinnon was foolish. Yet he now faces up to 70 years in jail.
What angers me even more than the absurd penalties threatened by the US courts? The supine, wimpering acquiesence of the UK governmnt who will extradite one of its own citizens without evidence being required, yet demands no such reciprocal agreement with the US.
Mr McKinnon should burn his British passport and go away from the UK to some country which still cares for its citizens.