For all the naysayers out there we can not help the fact that if we want to progress we must take risks. The people involved in this project knew the risk and their work will further our understanding of space travel. This person died doing something he knew was dangerous and presumably enjoyed doing. To stop would be the worst thing as his death would have been in vain.
It is about time the world stopped hearing the rubbish spouted by religion but banning it will not make that happen, they will just see themselves as victimised. By far the best thing to do is allow free speech so that such ideas are ridiculed by the world.
This is why I won't be switching to Lightroom, there is no way I am going to rent software from Adobe. The worst thing about this is that although other packages are available it was Aperture that put price pressure on Adobe. With a major low cost competitor out of the frame we can guarantee that Adobe will increase prices and kick back and watch the money come in.
The rapid increase in processor speed is running out of steam but fortunately processors are now fast enough and cheap enough to do most things reasonably well. Now we are seeing many more low cost small computers with more integration.
So what HP are telling me is that they have no confidence in their products so they are not prepared to take the risks of maintaing their products. Instead they are telling us that there are so many defects in their products that they want to shift the burden of maintenance on to their customers, in doing so they no longer have to worry about the poor quality of their products costing them money.
It is great for me as I now know that the next server I buy will not be HP.
Stand behind your products or take a hike is what I say.
It is funny how the media reports it as a sophisticated attack with criminal masterminds as they don't want you to know that it is something that pretty much anybody with a little tech understanding could do. They are only reporting this one because they were such clever criminal masterminds that they got caught doh!
Anyone with the courage to go in to a bank masquerading as in IT contractor could plug such a device into a PC. In fact I'm sure many geeks could come up with a far less obvious solution fitted internally.
The problem is banks; especially in the UK are living in the steam era and think of their buildings and therefore their internal network secure. Surely staff should be required to use some sort of NFC tag or similar so that the computer can only be operated while they are sat at it and locks when they walk away.
If only people would believe the evidence then we wouldn't be lumbered with all the paranormal and supernatural ideas so widespread in our society today. There are clearly enough stupid people around though to make these cons pay.
It is quite simply impossible to preserve something for ever.
What ever format you use to store the information assumes that the people in the future will be able to read it. Lets for example imagine that in the event of a catastrophic event that some civilisation other than America are the ones that service. Perhaps for example it is an obscure eskimo tribe that survives and it takes them two centuries to re-colonise the world to the point where they will discover your data left in America. How will they understand the English that has been written and even if they can translate it, what meaning will it have to them, the world might be a very different place by then. language changes so fast just try reading some Olde English from the 17th Century and see how you get on. We largely have translations of old languages like Ancient Greek and Hebrew used in the Bible as there has been an evolution of the language and so it has been possible to study the way the language has changed and work backwards, but translation is not an exact science hence why there are still disagreements over the exact translation of the bible to this day, hence the essence of you message may be lost.
The best we can hope for is for institutions such as archives and libraries will continue to preserve information for the future and that enough of our civilisation survives to pass the information into the future. Hoping of corse that some religious nutters don't don't destroy it all like the Christians did with the library in Alexandria because the material didn't fit with their ideals.
True, but nevertheless because geeks are predominately male it seems part of the following of Adafruit is just because it is a female geek running it that has some how managed to catch the popular wave.
It hasn't been abandoned see their news release http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/update-directuk
The problem was that in the original proposal they intended to give priority to trademark proprietors but this was campaigned against mainly by domainers who stood to loose out. A majority of useful.co.uk domains are held by domain prospectors and the original proposal would have meant that other people would have had a chance at registering a domain by showing some sort of entitlement to it.
Now however nominet are suggesting that they look at changing the proposal to "A revised phased release mechanism based largely on the prior registrations of domains in existing third levels within.uk" effectively making it a simple domain tax where exiting.co.uk & org.uk domain registrants will feel obliged to take the option to get the.uk version of their domain.
The whole idea is is a farce and nothing more than a money making exercise for nominet. They claim that there was broad support for new 'features' such as addres verification. They have however not demonstrated an valid reason as to why they need to start selling domains in the.uk space rather than simply applying these new 'features' to the existing system.
Nobody stands to gain anything from the direct.uk proposal but despite that nominet seems the be determined to try again, what does that tell you ? I would encourage people to send in their complaints to policy@nominet.org.uk
In the future people will look back saying that Apple lost their lead in the market because they refused to open up. Hmm nothing new there then, refusal to license MacOS is why windows became the de facto standard on the PC and Apple nearly disappeared. Seems they are set to repeat the same cycle, take a lead and then blow it all away by being stubborn.
The harm is caused by the way that people take these claims at face value without evidence. You might argue that people who are to stupid to realise that something is a scam deserve to loose their money but that is just not so. We all like to think that we are able to make rational decisions but often these scams target people at their most vulnerable point where it is hard to be rational. If you or a family member has a life threatening disease then anything that offers a glimmer of hope no matter how small can seem attractive. So a person might loose some money trying things that don't work, not much of a harm done really but what about the more extreme cases ? How about the person who appears to get better when one of these crackpot remedies are taken, so they become convinced so much so that they rely on such remedies instead of proven medicine ? Many examples of people like Steve Jobs who's faith in alternative remedies resulted in them holding out on taking proven medicine that could have saved their lives.
What about the people who looking for comfort in the idea that there is a life ofter death for their family dedicate their life to a religion, sometimes cutting themselves off from their loved ones due to their lack of belief, or denying themselves opportunities in life in the name of religion. In some cases going on to cause harm to others?
The OP asks for an Electronics Prototyping Platform and then goes on to list a bunch of microcontrollers. Writing software is not electronics prototyping it is software development, what they really mean is what micro controller and development environment should they use for their embedded applications. Electronics is connecting together components and the easiest way to do that is with a breadboard.
Except the FPGA is proprietary so there is no guarantee that nothing underhand is happening there. It is a question of how deep you want to go, at some point you have to trust someone.
It is the difference between being controlled by a single all persuasive religion where people fear to step out-of-line in Pakistan and a multi-faith community like india where people have the freedom to think for themselves and choose any religion they want.
How can you seriously conduct business on a Cell phone ? The quality is awful, h_lf t__ time you o_ly get half the sent__e and have to either guess what was said or ask people to repeat themselves. Having a clear line is much more comfortable when using the phone all day and gives a much better impression. If I get a call from a company using a poor quality mobile I think to myself are they so cheap that they can't afford a proper phone ?
Also, organized religious communities provide a great many benefits to their members
And there you have it, tax benefits should only be given to organisations that benefit others, so genuine charities like the red cross that help others and don't act a social club for its members are deserving of tax incentives.
...including help for the poor, food kitchens, etc. Go into the inner city and see who is sponsoring many of the charity efforts that help people there - it's not NASA.
There are plenty of non-religious charitable groups helping the community without the obligatory preaching that goes with it.
Churches are out to gain members and what better way to do that than to target vulnerable people with their marketing message in a time of need. It is no different to how any business works in identifying a target group and promoting themselves. This blatant self promotion should not be given tax privileges. This is not to say that the individual people who volunteer to help with these things have anything but a desire to help people in need, the church on the other hand knows full well what they are doing.
How about withdrawing tax benefits given to religious groups and instead tax Churches like any other business and use the money to fund tax breaks for science. As far as I can see science has done many things to make our lives better in recent years where as religion has just stood in the way of the progress of science.
WRONG, A trademark is registered in a classification, other people can register the same term in different categories. So you may register 'codfather' as fish restaurant, but someone else can register that same term as movie character or as fishing vacation organizer.
The security part of this idea is dead before it was even thought of, how do you verify a UK address, oh send a letter in the post. Urrmm, never heard of mail forwarding services ? So lets make it more difficult for genuine people when letters go missing in the mail but make it blindingly easy for someone to abuse the system.
So now the general public will have a false sense of security with sites labeled as secure just because they have been scanned for 'known' malware. And what happens when their scanning technology generates false positives, who is going to take responsibility for lost business and reputation from having your site flagged as a security risk to visitors ? It is not nominets place to police the internet.
It does not matter if you are located in the UK or not, we live in a global economy and many corporations operate in many countries without a physical presence in that country, having a site customised for each region. What is important is protecting the domain system from cybersquatter's and domain hoarders that mess up the domain system for genuine users. The increased price is welcome as it goes some way towards making the domain prospecting business model unsustainable. But it needs to go further making it harder for cybersquatter's to register names that are trademarked.
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Bet it won't let you turn off crap like Games You May Like and other rubbish forced on us by facebook.
For all the naysayers out there we can not help the fact that if we want to progress we must take risks. The people involved in this project knew the risk and their work will further our understanding of space travel. This person died doing something he knew was dangerous and presumably enjoyed doing. To stop would be the worst thing as his death would have been in vain.
It is about time the world stopped hearing the rubbish spouted by religion but banning it will not make that happen, they will just see themselves as victimised. By far the best thing to do is allow free speech so that such ideas are ridiculed by the world.
This is why I won't be switching to Lightroom, there is no way I am going to rent software from Adobe. The worst thing about this is that although other packages are available it was Aperture that put price pressure on Adobe. With a major low cost competitor out of the frame we can guarantee that Adobe will increase prices and kick back and watch the money come in.
The rapid increase in processor speed is running out of steam but fortunately processors are now fast enough and cheap enough to do most things reasonably well. Now we are seeing many more low cost small computers with more integration.
Simple, RPi is a project created by Broadcom Employees.
So what HP are telling me is that they have no confidence in their products so they are not prepared to take the risks of maintaing their products. Instead they are telling us that there are so many defects in their products that they want to shift the burden of maintenance on to their customers, in doing so they no longer have to worry about the poor quality of their products costing them money. It is great for me as I now know that the next server I buy will not be HP. Stand behind your products or take a hike is what I say.
It is funny how the media reports it as a sophisticated attack with criminal masterminds as they don't want you to know that it is something that pretty much anybody with a little tech understanding could do. They are only reporting this one because they were such clever criminal masterminds that they got caught doh! Anyone with the courage to go in to a bank masquerading as in IT contractor could plug such a device into a PC. In fact I'm sure many geeks could come up with a far less obvious solution fitted internally. The problem is banks; especially in the UK are living in the steam era and think of their buildings and therefore their internal network secure. Surely staff should be required to use some sort of NFC tag or similar so that the computer can only be operated while they are sat at it and locks when they walk away.
If only people would believe the evidence then we wouldn't be lumbered with all the paranormal and supernatural ideas so widespread in our society today. There are clearly enough stupid people around though to make these cons pay.
It is quite simply impossible to preserve something for ever. What ever format you use to store the information assumes that the people in the future will be able to read it. Lets for example imagine that in the event of a catastrophic event that some civilisation other than America are the ones that service. Perhaps for example it is an obscure eskimo tribe that survives and it takes them two centuries to re-colonise the world to the point where they will discover your data left in America. How will they understand the English that has been written and even if they can translate it, what meaning will it have to them, the world might be a very different place by then. language changes so fast just try reading some Olde English from the 17th Century and see how you get on. We largely have translations of old languages like Ancient Greek and Hebrew used in the Bible as there has been an evolution of the language and so it has been possible to study the way the language has changed and work backwards, but translation is not an exact science hence why there are still disagreements over the exact translation of the bible to this day, hence the essence of you message may be lost. The best we can hope for is for institutions such as archives and libraries will continue to preserve information for the future and that enough of our civilisation survives to pass the information into the future. Hoping of corse that some religious nutters don't don't destroy it all like the Christians did with the library in Alexandria because the material didn't fit with their ideals.
I'm afraid I have no sympathy for religious folks, it is their choice to follow their rules but other religions play by different rules.
True, but nevertheless because geeks are predominately male it seems part of the following of Adafruit is just because it is a female geek running it that has some how managed to catch the popular wave.
for the very same reason .com and .org are used to make it possible for business and charities to both have a useful domain name.
It hasn't been abandoned see their news release http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/update-directuk The problem was that in the original proposal they intended to give priority to trademark proprietors but this was campaigned against mainly by domainers who stood to loose out. A majority of useful .co.uk domains are held by domain prospectors and the original proposal would have meant that other people would have had a chance at registering a domain by showing some sort of entitlement to it.
Now however nominet are suggesting that they look at changing the proposal to "A revised phased release mechanism based largely on the prior registrations of domains in existing third levels within .uk" effectively making it a simple domain tax where exiting .co.uk & org.uk domain registrants will feel obliged to take the option to get the .uk version of their domain.
The whole idea is is a farce and nothing more than a money making exercise for nominet. They claim that there was broad support for new 'features' such as addres verification. They have however not demonstrated an valid reason as to why they need to start selling domains in the .uk space rather than simply applying these new 'features' to the existing system.
Nobody stands to gain anything from the direct.uk proposal but despite that nominet seems the be determined to try again, what does that tell you ? I would encourage people to send in their complaints to policy@nominet.org.uk
In the future people will look back saying that Apple lost their lead in the market because they refused to open up. Hmm nothing new there then, refusal to license MacOS is why windows became the de facto standard on the PC and Apple nearly disappeared. Seems they are set to repeat the same cycle, take a lead and then blow it all away by being stubborn.
The harm is caused by the way that people take these claims at face value without evidence. You might argue that people who are to stupid to realise that something is a scam deserve to loose their money but that is just not so. We all like to think that we are able to make rational decisions but often these scams target people at their most vulnerable point where it is hard to be rational. If you or a family member has a life threatening disease then anything that offers a glimmer of hope no matter how small can seem attractive. So a person might loose some money trying things that don't work, not much of a harm done really but what about the more extreme cases ? How about the person who appears to get better when one of these crackpot remedies are taken, so they become convinced so much so that they rely on such remedies instead of proven medicine ? Many examples of people like Steve Jobs who's faith in alternative remedies resulted in them holding out on taking proven medicine that could have saved their lives. What about the people who looking for comfort in the idea that there is a life ofter death for their family dedicate their life to a religion, sometimes cutting themselves off from their loved ones due to their lack of belief, or denying themselves opportunities in life in the name of religion. In some cases going on to cause harm to others?
The OP asks for an Electronics Prototyping Platform and then goes on to list a bunch of microcontrollers. Writing software is not electronics prototyping it is software development, what they really mean is what micro controller and development environment should they use for their embedded applications. Electronics is connecting together components and the easiest way to do that is with a breadboard.
Except the FPGA is proprietary so there is no guarantee that nothing underhand is happening there. It is a question of how deep you want to go, at some point you have to trust someone.
It is the difference between being controlled by a single all persuasive religion where people fear to step out-of-line in Pakistan and a multi-faith community like india where people have the freedom to think for themselves and choose any religion they want.
How can you seriously conduct business on a Cell phone ? The quality is awful, h_lf t__ time you o_ly get half the sent__e and have to either guess what was said or ask people to repeat themselves. Having a clear line is much more comfortable when using the phone all day and gives a much better impression. If I get a call from a company using a poor quality mobile I think to myself are they so cheap that they can't afford a proper phone ?
This is kind of missing the point that Chocolate is supposed to melt at body temperature, it is this feature of Chocolate that makes it unique.
Also, organized religious communities provide a great many benefits to their members
And there you have it, tax benefits should only be given to organisations that benefit others, so genuine charities like the red cross that help others and don't act a social club for its members are deserving of tax incentives.
...including help for the poor, food kitchens, etc. Go into the inner city and see who is sponsoring many of the charity efforts that help people there - it's not NASA.
There are plenty of non-religious charitable groups helping the community without the obligatory preaching that goes with it. Churches are out to gain members and what better way to do that than to target vulnerable people with their marketing message in a time of need. It is no different to how any business works in identifying a target group and promoting themselves. This blatant self promotion should not be given tax privileges. This is not to say that the individual people who volunteer to help with these things have anything but a desire to help people in need, the church on the other hand knows full well what they are doing.
How about withdrawing tax benefits given to religious groups and instead tax Churches like any other business and use the money to fund tax breaks for science. As far as I can see science has done many things to make our lives better in recent years where as religion has just stood in the way of the progress of science.
WRONG, A trademark is registered in a classification, other people can register the same term in different categories. So you may register 'codfather' as fish restaurant, but someone else can register that same term as movie character or as fishing vacation organizer.
So now the general public will have a false sense of security with sites labeled as secure just because they have been scanned for 'known' malware. And what happens when their scanning technology generates false positives, who is going to take responsibility for lost business and reputation from having your site flagged as a security risk to visitors ? It is not nominets place to police the internet.
It does not matter if you are located in the UK or not, we live in a global economy and many corporations operate in many countries without a physical presence in that country, having a site customised for each region. What is important is protecting the domain system from cybersquatter's and domain hoarders that mess up the domain system for genuine users. The increased price is welcome as it goes some way towards making the domain prospecting business model unsustainable. But it needs to go further making it harder for cybersquatter's to register names that are trademarked.