In a country with...
The highest levels of obesity in the world.
Where the citizens carry lethal weapons and shootings are a daily occurrence.
Has a privatized health care system that many people can not afford to be part of.
Why would anyone be surprised that the average lifespan is decreasing?
So it is all Facebook's fault, nothing to do with decades of politicians ignoring the the people. Telling them what they should be doing instead of listening to what is important to them. Likely few people actually voted for Trump because they thought he was the best that America could offer, but rather in protest for not bing listened to for such a long time. We are living in interesting times.
It seems that the freedoms that America once enjoyed are being increasingly eroded by lobbyists.
I genuinely found the idea that you can't just sell what you want where you want hard to believe. Of course there must be regulation of things like drugs, making sure that they are only dispensed by qualified practitioners etc. But a car, I mean a frikin' car!
Absolutely, the only advantage to having infrastructure projects in the private sector is to remove the risks from the public sector. This deal basically gave the government all the risk and the private sector all the rewards. The government may as well own it if they are taking the risks and therefore avoid the national security risks of having a nuclear facility owned by foreign nations.
Is it any surprise that the UK government are trying to use the fear of terrorism to get their own way?
Government seems to attract the most clueless individuals. This proposed bill means that encryption must have a back door that the government can use to spy on people. So now what happens when the terrorists get hold of those keys and can monitor encrypted traffic used by the government and then use their own proprietary encryption to communicate with each other.
A typical ill thought out law that will make the UK less safe not more.
The British government is filled with luddites. So those of us who have legitimate use for encryption have to put up with insecure tools while terrorists just use some software they get from their terrorist friends. Clueless government.
Would seem sensible for ISPs to require a choice at signup, where you would have to select either yes or no to web filtering. i.e no default. That way lawyers are happy that nobody can claim they didn't know about the option. Users could then easily change their preferences at a later day as they choose.
The UK government have done a good job of convincing the british public that big corporations not paying tax is something the evil killing the economy. Conveniently re-directing the blame from the true causes of the problem the incompetence and inefficiency of the government itself. Who do the british public think is going to pay for all this extra money given to the government?
Corporates are not a free source of extra revenue for governments, the money has got to come from somewhere. The companies work entirely on numbers, if the british public think the fat cats and the institutional investors are going to give up their income so that it can be given to a government they are deluded. The company will find other ways to re-balance things.
Some prices will go up so we the british public just end up giving the government more cash via corporate taxation.
Less investment will be made in things like advertising in the UK as the budget would be better spent in countries where larger returns can be made on those costs.
Staff wages will be under greater scrutiny and so fewer people will be employed and those that remain will be pushed harder.
The end result the british public pay more for things and the government has to use this new tax income to support more unemployed and low income people.
What the british government should be doing is asking how it can make Britain more competitive by reducing complexity in government and therefore reducing the tax burden. If Britain had similar tax rates to the other countries, companies would not have to try moving their income to other countries to maximise their profits.
The only win here is that small businesses who are unable to move money around the world to avoid tax will be on a slightly more even footing with the large corporates if they all have to pay the same tax.
If I could easily apply for an IPv6 allocation that was portable then I would implement it. However I can only use our ISP supplied addresses, so it is not worth the trouble as renumbering would have to happen every time we switch ISPs.
As others have mentioned it is a trademark not patent issue and the problem doesn't just go away on December the 5th as trademarks are renewable.
However trademarks have a requirement to be used otherwise they can be cancelled. If "Leonard Timepieces" have not used the word Apple or an Apple symbol on any products in recent years then Apple can apply to have the trademark cancelled. Apple were probably quietly waiting to see if "Leonard Timepieces" would renew their trademark before going to the trouble of applying for it to be cancelled.
Either Vietnam lets all countries use its facilities as a simple business relationship or deems it a domestic military facility for the exclusive use of their forces. If it does allow other countries to use the facilities then there should be a clause that withdraws the facility should any country be engaging in a war and wish to use the base to re-fuel its combat aircraft.
Variations of English are the most widely used language in the world at the moment and as so many non-English speaking countries teach English as a second language the trend is likely to continue even if it is not the most appropriate language. One of the key features of English is that it absorbs parts of other languages as it evolves. You can see how english from England has adopted French, German and Gallic words for example and how American English has dropped many of these Anglo French influences and replaced them with other influences such as Italian.
Because Mandarin Chinese is difficult for westerners to learn and to be honest we have become quite lazy when it comes to learning languages a large proportion of Chinese people learn English and other languages so they can have more opportunities in business. As greater numbers of Chinese people join in with the English speakers the language will inevitably pick up influences from the Chinese.
Just as today you would hardly recognise Ye Olde English from 500 years ago, in another 500 years nobody will recognise the English we speak today.
Likely a simple brand licensing arrangement, where a unknown company (usually a Chinese company not known in the west) wants to sell their products in the western market and needs a familiar name to convince people to buy. What typically happens though is cheap rubbish has a well known brand put on it to make it sell only to eventually destroy the brand.
No shops any more but Tandy is still on-line http://www.tandyonline.co.uk/ although mostly electronic components. Tandy is now separate from Radio Shack but some of those components and part numbers are the same as 30 years ago so.
They were sharing their drives because they knew no better, it is what they did at home. Not only did this mean they were causing security issues they were also risking losing their files as they were not backed up. Providing a central server where there files were kept meant they were on a RAID array so they were always available and were backed up to tape every day. It also meant that when their PC let out the magic smoke or was being replaced with a newer model they could continue to work and access their files by logging in on any unused computer on the network.
The state of corporate IT can be shocking. When I took over the IT at the UK branch of an international technology company I couldn't believe what I saw. Regular office staff had file sharing switched on individual PCs, Software developers had systems operated as root or administrator. People routinely downloaded whatever they wanted and installed it on their computers.
The first thing I did was make sure that no computer had any file sharing or any other services running on it, instead users would have to share files by placing them on a properly managed server and printers had their own dedicated print server box or were replaced with network printers. All the PCs then had local firewalls enabled to effectively make sure that there were no open ports on them even if some errant software got installed.
All users were given regular user accounts, no admin access granted. Some users that were doing things like software testing who had to constantly install software were given admin access to a virtual machine so they could do all their testing on that VM.
It was decided that the offices around the world would be linked up so that direct access to the network could be obtained all over the world. Now every office just plugged their new router into the LAN and gave full access to everything. I however installed a firewall on the new WAN link that restricted remote offices to accessing only 2 servers on our network and only on specific ports to access the services that we wanted to provide access to.
I was so pleased I did all this as one day the WAN link seemed to be going slow, so I broke out the network monitor to see what was going on to find thousands of connection attempts coming from all of our international offices. As it turns out one of the US PCs had got infected with a worm and it was spreading over the whole global network. I could smugly say that apart from the slow WAN performance we were not effected at all. Our offices ran as normal while the rest of the company lost days of productivity trying to clear up the mess. It was at that point that finally the company started to listen to my calls for better security.
Highly Sophisticated; by who's standards, Symantec? What do they know about sophisticated software?
Symantecs marketing department thought they would make it sound exciting by suggesting it was created by a government agency. Pathetic effort to try and boost sales of Symantec software.
Slashdot Mirror
In a country with... The highest levels of obesity in the world. Where the citizens carry lethal weapons and shootings are a daily occurrence. Has a privatized health care system that many people can not afford to be part of. Why would anyone be surprised that the average lifespan is decreasing?
Goes to show all the fuss about fake news stories on Facebook was true after all, Fox News is about as fake as it gets.
So it is all Facebook's fault, nothing to do with decades of politicians ignoring the the people. Telling them what they should be doing instead of listening to what is important to them. Likely few people actually voted for Trump because they thought he was the best that America could offer, but rather in protest for not bing listened to for such a long time. We are living in interesting times.
John McAfee should have been Donald Trumps running mate.
It seems that the freedoms that America once enjoyed are being increasingly eroded by lobbyists. I genuinely found the idea that you can't just sell what you want where you want hard to believe. Of course there must be regulation of things like drugs, making sure that they are only dispensed by qualified practitioners etc. But a car, I mean a frikin' car!
Absolutely, the only advantage to having infrastructure projects in the private sector is to remove the risks from the public sector. This deal basically gave the government all the risk and the private sector all the rewards. The government may as well own it if they are taking the risks and therefore avoid the national security risks of having a nuclear facility owned by foreign nations.
GPS, great way to halve the battery life.
Perhaps if David Cameron had internet porn he would have known that there are better places to put your manhood than a pigs head.
Ha! America doesn't like being told what to do by the EU but thinks the UK should be subjected to rule by the unelected EU overlords.
Is it any surprise that the UK government are trying to use the fear of terrorism to get their own way? Government seems to attract the most clueless individuals. This proposed bill means that encryption must have a back door that the government can use to spy on people. So now what happens when the terrorists get hold of those keys and can monitor encrypted traffic used by the government and then use their own proprietary encryption to communicate with each other. A typical ill thought out law that will make the UK less safe not more.
The British government is filled with luddites. So those of us who have legitimate use for encryption have to put up with insecure tools while terrorists just use some software they get from their terrorist friends. Clueless government.
Just getting their ammunition ready for war with the federation.
So this is just another laser cutter/engraver like the millions that are already out there, put this one in the trash!
Would seem sensible for ISPs to require a choice at signup, where you would have to select either yes or no to web filtering. i.e no default. That way lawyers are happy that nobody can claim they didn't know about the option. Users could then easily change their preferences at a later day as they choose.
Some prices will go up so we the british public just end up giving the government more cash via corporate taxation. Less investment will be made in things like advertising in the UK as the budget would be better spent in countries where larger returns can be made on those costs. Staff wages will be under greater scrutiny and so fewer people will be employed and those that remain will be pushed harder.
The end result the british public pay more for things and the government has to use this new tax income to support more unemployed and low income people.
What the british government should be doing is asking how it can make Britain more competitive by reducing complexity in government and therefore reducing the tax burden. If Britain had similar tax rates to the other countries, companies would not have to try moving their income to other countries to maximise their profits.
The only win here is that small businesses who are unable to move money around the world to avoid tax will be on a slightly more even footing with the large corporates if they all have to pay the same tax.
If I could easily apply for an IPv6 allocation that was portable then I would implement it. However I can only use our ISP supplied addresses, so it is not worth the trouble as renumbering would have to happen every time we switch ISPs.
As others have mentioned it is a trademark not patent issue and the problem doesn't just go away on December the 5th as trademarks are renewable.
However trademarks have a requirement to be used otherwise they can be cancelled. If "Leonard Timepieces" have not used the word Apple or an Apple symbol on any products in recent years then Apple can apply to have the trademark cancelled. Apple were probably quietly waiting to see if "Leonard Timepieces" would renew their trademark before going to the trouble of applying for it to be cancelled.
Either Vietnam lets all countries use its facilities as a simple business relationship or deems it a domestic military facility for the exclusive use of their forces. If it does allow other countries to use the facilities then there should be a clause that withdraws the facility should any country be engaging in a war and wish to use the base to re-fuel its combat aircraft.
French doesn't it has strict language control.
Variations of English are the most widely used language in the world at the moment and as so many non-English speaking countries teach English as a second language the trend is likely to continue even if it is not the most appropriate language. One of the key features of English is that it absorbs parts of other languages as it evolves. You can see how english from England has adopted French, German and Gallic words for example and how American English has dropped many of these Anglo French influences and replaced them with other influences such as Italian. Because Mandarin Chinese is difficult for westerners to learn and to be honest we have become quite lazy when it comes to learning languages a large proportion of Chinese people learn English and other languages so they can have more opportunities in business. As greater numbers of Chinese people join in with the English speakers the language will inevitably pick up influences from the Chinese. Just as today you would hardly recognise Ye Olde English from 500 years ago, in another 500 years nobody will recognise the English we speak today.
Likely a simple brand licensing arrangement, where a unknown company (usually a Chinese company not known in the west) wants to sell their products in the western market and needs a familiar name to convince people to buy. What typically happens though is cheap rubbish has a well known brand put on it to make it sell only to eventually destroy the brand.
No shops any more but Tandy is still on-line http://www.tandyonline.co.uk/ although mostly electronic components. Tandy is now separate from Radio Shack but some of those components and part numbers are the same as 30 years ago so.
They were sharing their drives because they knew no better, it is what they did at home. Not only did this mean they were causing security issues they were also risking losing their files as they were not backed up. Providing a central server where there files were kept meant they were on a RAID array so they were always available and were backed up to tape every day. It also meant that when their PC let out the magic smoke or was being replaced with a newer model they could continue to work and access their files by logging in on any unused computer on the network.
The first thing I did was make sure that no computer had any file sharing or any other services running on it, instead users would have to share files by placing them on a properly managed server and printers had their own dedicated print server box or were replaced with network printers. All the PCs then had local firewalls enabled to effectively make sure that there were no open ports on them even if some errant software got installed.
All users were given regular user accounts, no admin access granted. Some users that were doing things like software testing who had to constantly install software were given admin access to a virtual machine so they could do all their testing on that VM.
It was decided that the offices around the world would be linked up so that direct access to the network could be obtained all over the world. Now every office just plugged their new router into the LAN and gave full access to everything. I however installed a firewall on the new WAN link that restricted remote offices to accessing only 2 servers on our network and only on specific ports to access the services that we wanted to provide access to.
I was so pleased I did all this as one day the WAN link seemed to be going slow, so I broke out the network monitor to see what was going on to find thousands of connection attempts coming from all of our international offices. As it turns out one of the US PCs had got infected with a worm and it was spreading over the whole global network. I could smugly say that apart from the slow WAN performance we were not effected at all. Our offices ran as normal while the rest of the company lost days of productivity trying to clear up the mess. It was at that point that finally the company started to listen to my calls for better security.
Highly Sophisticated; by who's standards, Symantec? What do they know about sophisticated software? Symantecs marketing department thought they would make it sound exciting by suggesting it was created by a government agency. Pathetic effort to try and boost sales of Symantec software.