If I commit a crime and the evidence is in a Hilton hotel room in the UK nobody expects Hilton to hold onto that evidence just because it happened to be in one of their hotels outside the US.
The situation might be closer to the evidence being in a safety deposit box in a Hilton hotel in the UK. Or perhaps in a safety deposit box in a UK subsidiary of a US-owned bank. The hotel room analogy might carry too much implication of accessibility as a run-of-the-mill expectation.
Did they? When? I recall Nick Clegg and David Cameron announcing the coalition without any consultation of the back-benchers. Did I miss a day's news?
The two parties work in rather different ways. Under Liberal Democrat rules, Clegg had to get authorisation from a meeting of the whole parliamentary party, then from the party's national executive, and finally from a special conference held in Birmingham over the second weekend after the election. Under Conservative rules, Cameron made his decision and that was all that was necessary.
In my last job, the IT team of two developers and a sysadmin reported to the IT Director. He was quite clearly a Director insofar as he owned 40% of the company and was legally liable for its actions, regardless of the number of people reporting to him. He was a Director from the day he and his two partners set up a limited liability company, even if at the time he was the sole developer.
It's Wash-up. Parliament is prorogued for the election at the end of today's proceedings. At this point the only things that can get through are those where the opposition agrees to let them through without spending time debating them. The Tories could have stopped this dead simply by insisting on debating any part of it, instead of just letting it through.
This way they get a bill they might have liked, with the side-benefit of being able to blame the other side when anybody objects to it.
I can already do that with a laptop, so that has to be qualified with "and I don't want to put such a strain on my knees". Sorry, not going to spend $500 for that.
I have 40-year-old knees which I hope to use for at least another 40 years. I may be prepared to spend $500 for that.
The "Belgium" wording for the Rory Award citation was added in the bowdlerised US version of the Life, The Universe And Everything book as a replacement for "fuck", but it originated, along with it's explanatory Guide-blurb, in series 2 of the radio version, as uttered by Zaphod as he hangs from the mile-long marble Nutrimatic Cup attached by the power of Art to the enormous statue of Arthur Dent on the planet Brontitall, as the final fling in his pleading to Ford that he just wants to be "swutting well rescued".
While that's strictly accurate, they did buy a tool for building task-specific customised Windows shells by dragging controls from a palette and dropping them onto a form, called at various stages, Tripod then Ruby, from Alan Cooper. they then glued a modified version of QuickBasic into it to create version 1 of VB. Cooper's original Tripod/Ruby could have multiple languages plugged into it, and he anticipated C as the main one. So while they didn't buy the VB language, they did buy the concept and the first version of the IDE.
Presumably by "immediately" you mean "before I had time to either rememeber any history or, alternatively, to click on the helpfully-provided Wikipedia link to check out Lanier's credentials".
Debate his viewpoint, sure, that's why we're all here. But just a smidgin of research first might help you to make a more cogent case instead of blowing your own point out of the water before you've had a chance to start it.
It's a good thought, though covering the countryside with huge concrete blocks and bridges seems a bit like surrender. Then again, a lot of the blocks would probably be a long way back from the villages, since it could easily be ten miles back to the last place it's possible to turn a truck around.
Realistically though, these are probably B roads. The real issue seems to be drivers trusting the GPS to the exclusion of basic road sense, which would suggest sticking to A roads in the first place.
Sounds good, except that in a lot of these villages, the space between one side of the road and the other just isn't big enough - it's too narrow for the bigger vehicles already, and adding sidewalks would make it too narrow for a normal car. In plenty of places around here there are single-track stretches in the villages, and even in a car you have to wait your turn to use them. Sidewalks also wouldn't help in cases where the radius of a corner just can't take a long truck trying to turn. Short of moving all the houses back, it's hard to see how you'd make a (say) six-hundred year old village compatible with today's lorries.
It's crap like this that makes me embarrassed to be a Slashdot reader. Way to go, CmdrTaco.
To be fair, those aren't CmdrTaco's words. They're not even the submitter, "Miguel De Icaza"'s words, since the summary is a verbatim cut-n-paste steal of all but the first sentence of the first linked item at valleywag.com. Since valleywag.com doesn't do us the courtesy of attributing the article, it's hard to know exactly whose cheapshot it is, but it's not CmdrTaco's.
The dumb windows users has always been taught that getting software to work was putting in the CD and going to start and run and typing in d:\setup.exe.
I wonder if this doesn't still make that assumption that using a command prompt is something the everyday home computer user is familiar with?
I'd say the average Windows user (no call for using the word "dumb" here I think) is used to connecting a USB peripheral, having a "New Hardware Found" message pop up, and the peripheral sorting itself out. If there's software to be installed, the default expectation is: put the CD/DVD into the drive, wait a few seconds for autorun to kick in, and click OK a few times. If autorun's switched off, they might go as far as doubleclcking "My Computer", then doubleclicking the CD drive's icon, and doubleclicking Setup.exe's icon after that.
I'd say anyone going so down and dirty as to actually type arcane commands ("D:\setup.exe") into the "Start/Run" menu item is already a little outside the mainstream. That's the real target for widespread acceptance.
Now, I know nobody likes to be caught Reading The Fine Article, but it's maybe worth pointing out that according to The Fine Article, the exploit was demoed on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. No mention of any other specific OS, though Watson did say "They should apply equally well on other operating systems".
From what I've picked up from people 'in the loop', part of the reason it's taken so long to get a deal is that originally US broadcasters were offered a bundle of new and old series, and none wanted the bundle. The deal went through when the bundling was dropped (and almost certainly the asking price too).
While the Bundle was on the table, the BBC stopped renewing any contracts to show the old stories. Hopefully now the old stories will again become available for broadcast in the US.
Credit where credit's due - the "Dalek" episode was scripted by Rob Shearman. While Russell wrote brief outlines for all the episodes, which the other writers worked from, "Dalek" was in turn basically an adaptation of Rob's "Jubilee" audio play for Big Finish Productions.
For the sake of completeness, Mark Gatiss wrote The Unquiet Dead, Paul Cornell wrote Fathers' Day and Stephen Moffat wrote The EmptyChild / The Doctor Dances (2-parter). Russell scripted the rest of Series 1 (or Season 27 if you're old-fashioned like me).
As I said, IMO the RIP Act is a *terrible* law, but I stand by the argument that its existence strongly devalues the claim that encryption justifies 90-day detention without charge. The Government that brought in RIP is in no position to discount it in this context.
This is where one of the key flaws lies in the Police's assertion that encryption is a reason for the extension from 14 days to 90.
Under the Regulation Of Investigatory Powers Act it is already a criminal offense to withold any keys to encrypted data when requested to do so by a law enforcement officer (which is IMO a terrible law, but it is the law nonetheless). Therefore, the argument that they would have to let free somebody who they sincerely believe to be a danger to the public because they have not yet been able to decrypt evidence is groundless - the witholding of the key is already sufficent to charge the suspect and then it's up to the Magistrate to decide whether to hold the suspect on remand, for the RIP infringement, thus keeping them off the streets without needing to hold them for three full months with no charge brought.
I've also wondered how the Government was planning to deal with people held for the full 90 days, then released without charge, if those people have as a consequence lost their jobs, their homes, their credit ratings and so forth. It seems to me that there would be fairly strong grounds to claim some significant compensation in such circumstances. While the released person would, theoretically and legally, have no stain on their character, in reality people are all too willing to belive that (a) there's no smoke without fire and (b) mud sticks, so any such person would potentially be damaged not only financialy but also socially.
From discussions I've read with the Doctor Who Restoration Team, a major factor in the eventual file size is the quality of the original material being transferred - dirt, film grain and other noise in the original tends to be relatively random, and therefore not especially compressible. With some material where the only sources are of relatively low quality, the eventual file sizes can be as high as they would be for similar-length material in colour where the source is clean and sharp. And since we're discussing low-priced reissues here, it's important to note that while frame-by-frame cleanup can be very effective, it's also far from cheap.
Let's not forget that despite the repeated proclamations by world-endians fascinated with global doom by way of superdisease, there hasn't been a flu-based pandemic of any sort since 1918 - and even that pandemic was fairly mild compared to some previous ones. It didn't leave bodies in the streets, or wipe out entire cities, or bring civilization crashing down, or, in fact, impact most people in any way, shape or form.
A couple of points to bear in mind:
There were also Flu pandemics in 1958 and 1968.
The impact of a flu pandemic is not limited to the deaths. While only 2% of those infected with 1918 flu died from the disease, in the UK around 25% of the population was infected, of whom the majority were incapacitated for several weeks, which is the major source of economic disruption in a pandemic. Moreover, if the measures introduced to mitigate a pandemic included movement restrictions, the disruption to, for example, the food supply would be far from insignificant.
And yet people seem to be easily panicked by a "pandemic" which most likely will never come,
That is will come eventually is one of the only things we can be certain of in respect of an outbreak of pandemic flu. What the strain will be, where it will arise, what the mortality and infection rates will be, whether it will arise tomorrow or three hundred years from now, none of these are known. But that it will arise eventually is an absolute certainty.
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Interestingly, without spoilering I hope, tonight's episode partly redefined what the daleks allegorise, making them a more contemporary demon for a 2005 audience rather than a 1963 one.
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It's not so much the timing (The Daleks was certainly, as you say, a long time after Genesis) - the trouble is that when the Thals are explaining the history of Skaro in The Daleks, they give us the "Dals" version of history. While Iwouldn't belive a word the Daleks say, I'm more inclined to believe the Thals, and this version was considered pretty definitive until Genesis aired 12 years later.
That's just the TV series - in the Century 21 comic strips of the 1960's, Terry Nation also provided a third origin where the Dalekswere thr product of a mad scientist, this time a Dal named Yarvelling (rather than a Kaled called Davros as in Genesis).
And fans have fights about Canon? It's a non-starter in my view:)
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What law in Europe prevents a company from copying their own data?
Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data
If I commit a crime and the evidence is in a Hilton hotel room in the UK nobody expects Hilton to hold onto that evidence just because it happened to be in one of their hotels outside the US.
The situation might be closer to the evidence being in a safety deposit box in a Hilton hotel in the UK. Or perhaps in a safety deposit box in a UK subsidiary of a US-owned bank. The hotel room analogy might carry too much implication of accessibility as a run-of-the-mill expectation.
The two parties work in rather different ways. Under Liberal Democrat rules, Clegg had to get authorisation from a meeting of the whole parliamentary party, then from the party's national executive, and finally from a special conference held in Birmingham over the second weekend after the election. Under Conservative rules, Cameron made his decision and that was all that was necessary.
In my last job, the IT team of two developers and a sysadmin reported to the IT Director. He was quite clearly a Director insofar as he owned 40% of the company and was legally liable for its actions, regardless of the number of people reporting to him. He was a Director from the day he and his two partners set up a limited liability company, even if at the time he was the sole developer.
It is not a computer for many reasons, [...] you cannot print from it.
Well that's Colossus buggered then.
It's Wash-up. Parliament is prorogued for the election at the end of today's proceedings. At this point the only things that can get through are those where the opposition agrees to let them through without spending time debating them. The Tories could have stopped this dead simply by insisting on debating any part of it, instead of just letting it through.
This way they get a bill they might have liked, with the side-benefit of being able to blame the other side when anybody objects to it.
I can already do that with a laptop, so that has to be qualified with "and I don't want to put such a strain on my knees". Sorry, not going to spend $500 for that.
I have 40-year-old knees which I hope to use for at least another 40 years. I may be prepared to spend $500 for that.
The "Belgium" wording for the Rory Award citation was added in the bowdlerised US version of the Life, The Universe And Everything book as a replacement for "fuck", but it originated, along with it's explanatory Guide-blurb, in series 2 of the radio version, as uttered by Zaphod as he hangs from the mile-long marble Nutrimatic Cup attached by the power of Art to the enormous statue of Arthur Dent on the planet Brontitall, as the final fling in his pleading to Ford that he just wants to be "swutting well rescued".
While that's strictly accurate, they did buy a tool for building task-specific customised Windows shells by dragging controls from a palette and dropping them onto a form, called at various stages, Tripod then Ruby, from Alan Cooper. they then glued a modified version of QuickBasic into it to create version 1 of VB. Cooper's original Tripod/Ruby could have multiple languages plugged into it, and he anticipated C as the main one. So while they didn't buy the VB language, they did buy the concept and the first version of the IDE.
Here's how Cooper tells the story
Presumably by "immediately" you mean "before I had time to either rememeber any history or, alternatively, to click on the helpfully-provided Wikipedia link to check out Lanier's credentials".
Debate his viewpoint, sure, that's why we're all here. But just a smidgin of research first might help you to make a more cogent case instead of blowing your own point out of the water before you've had a chance to start it.
Strictly speaking, couldn't either of the cited examples of "bloatware" in a browser: ...
... be considered to be no more than a couple of examples of the desired behaviour, viz:
...to the extent that standards exist for these particular types of data retrieved from a URI?
It's a good thought, though covering the countryside with huge concrete blocks and bridges seems a bit like surrender. Then again, a lot of the blocks would probably be a long way back from the villages, since it could easily be ten miles back to the last place it's possible to turn a truck around.
Realistically though, these are probably B roads. The real issue seems to be drivers trusting the GPS to the exclusion of basic road sense, which would suggest sticking to A roads in the first place.
Build sidewalks. Seriously.
Sounds good, except that in a lot of these villages, the space between one side of the road and the other just isn't big enough - it's too narrow for the bigger vehicles already, and adding sidewalks would make it too narrow for a normal car. In plenty of places around here there are single-track stretches in the villages, and even in a car you have to wait your turn to use them. Sidewalks also wouldn't help in cases where the radius of a corner just can't take a long truck trying to turn. Short of moving all the houses back, it's hard to see how you'd make a (say) six-hundred year old village compatible with today's lorries.
It's crap like this that makes me embarrassed to be a Slashdot reader. Way to go, CmdrTaco.
To be fair, those aren't CmdrTaco's words. They're not even the submitter, "Miguel De Icaza"'s words, since the summary is a verbatim cut-n-paste steal of all but the first sentence of the first linked item at valleywag.com. Since valleywag.com doesn't do us the courtesy of attributing the article, it's hard to know exactly whose cheapshot it is, but it's not CmdrTaco's.
You read the instructions first? ;-)
I wonder if this doesn't still make that assumption that using a command prompt is something the everyday home computer user is familiar with?
I'd say the average Windows user (no call for using the word "dumb" here I think) is used to connecting a USB peripheral, having a "New Hardware Found" message pop up, and the peripheral sorting itself out. If there's software to be installed, the default expectation is: put the CD/DVD into the drive, wait a few seconds for autorun to kick in, and click OK a few times. If autorun's switched off, they might go as far as doubleclcking "My Computer", then doubleclicking the CD drive's icon, and doubleclicking Setup.exe's icon after that.
I'd say anyone going so down and dirty as to actually type arcane commands ("D:\setup.exe") into the "Start/Run" menu item is already a little outside the mainstream. That's the real target for widespread acceptance.
Now, I know nobody likes to be caught Reading The Fine Article, but it's maybe worth pointing out that according to The Fine Article, the exploit was demoed on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. No mention of any other specific OS, though Watson did say "They should apply equally well on other operating systems".
From what I've picked up from people 'in the loop', part of the reason it's taken so long to get a deal is that originally US broadcasters were offered a bundle of new and old series, and none wanted the bundle. The deal went through when the bundling was dropped (and almost certainly the asking price too).
While the Bundle was on the table, the BBC stopped renewing any contracts to show the old stories. Hopefully now the old stories will again become available for broadcast in the US.
Credit where credit's due - the "Dalek" episode was scripted by Rob Shearman. While Russell wrote brief outlines for all the episodes, which the other writers worked from, "Dalek" was in turn basically an adaptation of Rob's "Jubilee" audio play for Big Finish Productions.
For the sake of completeness, Mark Gatiss wrote The Unquiet Dead, Paul Cornell wrote Fathers' Day and Stephen Moffat wrote The EmptyChild / The Doctor Dances (2-parter). Russell scripted the rest of Series 1 (or Season 27 if you're old-fashioned like me).
As I said, IMO the RIP Act is a *terrible* law, but I stand by the argument that its existence strongly devalues the claim that encryption justifies 90-day detention without charge. The Government that brought in RIP is in no position to discount it in this context.
This is where one of the key flaws lies in the Police's assertion that encryption is a reason for the extension from 14 days to 90.
Under the Regulation Of Investigatory Powers Act it is already a criminal offense to withold any keys to encrypted data when requested to do so by a law enforcement officer (which is IMO a terrible law, but it is the law nonetheless). Therefore, the argument that they would have to let free somebody who they sincerely believe to be a danger to the public because they have not yet been able to decrypt evidence is groundless - the witholding of the key is already sufficent to charge the suspect and then it's up to the Magistrate to decide whether to hold the suspect on remand, for the RIP infringement, thus keeping them off the streets without needing to hold them for three full months with no charge brought.
I've also wondered how the Government was planning to deal with people held for the full 90 days, then released without charge, if those people have as a consequence lost their jobs, their homes, their credit ratings and so forth. It seems to me that there would be fairly strong grounds to claim some significant compensation in such circumstances. While the released person would, theoretically and legally, have no stain on their character, in reality people are all too willing to belive that (a) there's no smoke without fire and (b) mud sticks, so any such person would potentially be damaged not only financialy but also socially.
From discussions I've read with the Doctor Who Restoration Team, a major factor in the eventual file size is the quality of the original material being transferred - dirt, film grain and other noise in the original tends to be relatively random, and therefore not especially compressible. With some material where the only sources are of relatively low quality, the eventual file sizes can be as high as they would be for similar-length material in colour where the source is clean and sharp. And since we're discussing low-priced reissues here, it's important to note that while frame-by-frame cleanup can be very effective, it's also far from cheap.
Let's not forget that despite the repeated proclamations by world-endians fascinated with global doom by way of superdisease, there hasn't been a flu-based pandemic of any sort since 1918 - and even that pandemic was fairly mild compared to some previous ones. It didn't leave bodies in the streets, or wipe out entire cities, or bring civilization crashing down, or, in fact, impact most people in any way, shape or form.
A couple of points to bear in mind: There were also Flu pandemics in 1958 and 1968. The impact of a flu pandemic is not limited to the deaths. While only 2% of those infected with 1918 flu died from the disease, in the UK around 25% of the population was infected, of whom the majority were incapacitated for several weeks, which is the major source of economic disruption in a pandemic. Moreover, if the measures introduced to mitigate a pandemic included movement restrictions, the disruption to, for example, the food supply would be far from insignificant.
And yet people seem to be easily panicked by a "pandemic" which most likely will never come,
That is will come eventually is one of the only things we can be certain of in respect of an outbreak of pandemic flu. What the strain will be, where it will arise, what the mortality and infection rates will be, whether it will arise tomorrow or three hundred years from now, none of these are known. But that it will arise eventually is an absolute certainty.
Interestingly, without spoilering I hope, tonight's episode partly redefined what the daleks allegorise, making them a more contemporary demon for a 2005 audience rather than a 1963 one.
It's not so much the timing (The Daleks was certainly, as you say, a long time after Genesis) - the trouble is that when the Thals are explaining the history of Skaro in The Daleks, they give us the "Dals" version of history. While Iwouldn't belive a word the Daleks say, I'm more inclined to believe the Thals, and this version was considered pretty definitive until Genesis aired 12 years later.
:)
That's just the TV series - in the Century 21 comic strips of the 1960's, Terry Nation also provided a third origin where the Dalekswere thr product of a mad scientist, this time a Dal named Yarvelling (rather than a Kaled called Davros as in Genesis).
And fans have fights about Canon? It's a non-starter in my view