...please please please tell me that we can turn this back on.
I've managed to make a career by avoiding having to use Windows, but I'm sure one day there will be some pain-in-the-arse employer who enforces it. If that day comes, I really hope that I'll be able to make my desktop work exactly the way Windows 2000 did...
Not retaining logs might be illegal, but is it illegal to not make the logs in the first place?
If it is, does that mean that it's illegal to code software that doesn't do logging at all? (eg, specifically removing the code from squid that does this, or writing one's own proxy and never actually get around to the point of writing the logging part).
As I understand it, diaspora had two selling points: one it was not under the control of a large corporation who could abuse you, and two you were able to choose who you shared what with. Google+ scooped that second feature already, and it probably won't be long before facebook does too if they haven't already
Facebook has had that for a while - at least a year, anyway, using Lists. You can choose to post updates/photos/whatever to people who are members of a list, and only those people will see it. It's worked well for quite a while - until this week, as they have changed it so that people on those lists can now see who else is on the list, which is quite a step backwards. Unfortunately, it mirrors Google+ behaviour in this regard.
This article on writing letters to government ministers was written with Australia in mind, but it contains some interesting tactics that might well be worthwhile for getting a decent response from US politicians, too.
That's pretty simple, the majority of computer users don't benefit from the traditional environment. For typical sales guys which live in Outlook they'll actually be more effective as the things they use readily will be easily accessible.
Actually, they'll just bitch that it doesn't look the way it used to, and ask to go back to an interface that they're familiar with.
No, it's the (conservative) Liberal party's term for webmail. They're a bunch of technophobic, clueless fuckwits, and Turnbull is the only one among them with any brain cells whatsoever.
...that the South African police are arresting real criminals instead of the murderers and rapists that are normally oppressed by law-enforcement over there.
As far as I know, it's being removed from new distribution releases. I don't think it's in the latest Fedora, and it won't be in Ubuntu oneiric (11.10). Hopefully the Debian people will decide that Gnome 3 is more trouble than it's worth and leave it out.
Even if governments managed to legislate this, what are they going to do about the thousands of open proxies around the world, which are there courtesy of clueless small to medium business who don't know the first thing about IT security?
I don't understand what the big deal over gmail is. The interface is nasty. Labels are ridiculous; give me proper folders any day.
Webmail might be useful when you're not near your own computer, but I'd prefer a fully-fledged MUA over any of the available webmail interfaces any day.
...an absolute shitload of money to get me to do shift work. Hell, I refuse to even do on-call anymore.
A few years ago, $BIGCORP tried to get my team to do shift work for an indeterminate period. They wouldn't tell us how long it was for, and also wouldn't tell us what sort of overtime pay we'd get for it. They even had the gall to say they would be "disappointed" if no-one took them up on the offer. Funnily enough, no-one did.
Even if they still were Australian-owned, our goods and services tax is 10%, which doesn't even come close to accounting for the price difference (especially given that the UK's VAT is what... 19% now? I could be wrong there, but I think it's upwards of 17%).
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...please please please tell me that we can turn this back on.
I've managed to make a career by avoiding having to use Windows, but I'm sure one day there will be some pain-in-the-arse employer who enforces it. If that day comes, I really hope that I'll be able to make my desktop work exactly the way Windows 2000 did...
...you've just got to love the US-centric journalist or sub-editor who doesn't know what the UK's currency is.
Maybe it's time to employ some people who have a little more worldly experience than the dolts they have there right now?
Most of the moral teachings are bullshit, too. I'l
Not retaining logs might be illegal, but is it illegal to not make the logs in the first place?
If it is, does that mean that it's illegal to code software that doesn't do logging at all? (eg, specifically removing the code from squid that does this, or writing one's own proxy and never actually get around to the point of writing the logging part).
As I understand it, diaspora had two selling points: one it was not under the control of a large corporation who could abuse you, and two you were able to choose who you shared what with. Google+ scooped that second feature already, and it probably won't be long before facebook does too if they haven't already
Facebook has had that for a while - at least a year, anyway, using Lists. You can choose to post updates/photos/whatever to people who are members of a list, and only those people will see it. It's worked well for quite a while - until this week, as they have changed it so that people on those lists can now see who else is on the list, which is quite a step backwards. Unfortunately, it mirrors Google+ behaviour in this regard.
This article on writing letters to government ministers was written with Australia in mind, but it contains some interesting tactics that might well be worthwhile for getting a decent response from US politicians, too.
That's pretty simple, the majority of computer users don't benefit from the traditional environment. For typical sales guys which live in Outlook they'll actually be more effective as the things they use readily will be easily accessible.
Actually, they'll just bitch that it doesn't look the way it used to, and ask to go back to an interface that they're familiar with.
You can get less jail time than that for manslaughter.
Why would you waste your money on that? You're not going to learn anything more about the show by watching it again in HD.
Find something that you haven't watched before, and watch that instead.
...shining a light on them?
No, it's the (conservative) Liberal party's term for webmail. They're a bunch of technophobic, clueless fuckwits, and Turnbull is the only one among them with any brain cells whatsoever.
So, where was the line where I was blaming Amazon?
(Clarification, by "they", I mean "EC2 instances")
I don't know a lot about EC2, but I believe they lose all data when they're powered down, unless special provisions are taken, don't they?
This could result in another series of fuckups like this, where a bitcoin exchange lost its wallet.dat due to a misconfigured EC2 instance.
...that the South African police are arresting real criminals instead of the murderers and rapists that are normally oppressed by law-enforcement over there.
Then why didn't he just stay with GNOME 2?
As far as I know, it's being removed from new distribution releases. I don't think it's in the latest Fedora, and it won't be in Ubuntu oneiric (11.10). Hopefully the Debian people will decide that Gnome 3 is more trouble than it's worth and leave it out.
cygwin is your friend.
..."It's Not Going To Happen".
Even if governments managed to legislate this, what are they going to do about the thousands of open proxies around the world, which are there courtesy of clueless small to medium business who don't know the first thing about IT security?
I don't understand what the big deal over gmail is. The interface is nasty. Labels are ridiculous; give me proper folders any day.
Webmail might be useful when you're not near your own computer, but I'd prefer a fully-fledged MUA over any of the available webmail interfaces any day.
...an absolute shitload of money to get me to do shift work. Hell, I refuse to even do on-call anymore.
A few years ago, $BIGCORP tried to get my team to do shift work for an indeterminate period. They wouldn't tell us how long it was for, and also wouldn't tell us what sort of overtime pay we'd get for it. They even had the gall to say they would be "disappointed" if no-one took them up on the offer. Funnily enough, no-one did.
Even if they still were Australian-owned, our goods and services tax is 10%, which doesn't even come close to accounting for the price difference (especially given that the UK's VAT is what ... 19% now? I could be wrong there, but I think it's upwards of 17%).
Check out the prices of Lonely Planet electronic books, Australia vs US & UK. Utterly disgusting.
...use this thing on a train in the middle of nowhere where there's no wireless access?
Frankly, my netbook was much cheaper, has a real operating system (Debian) and I can use it offline.
Good luck with that, guys.
I expect your requests to overseas ISPs will cause much hysterical laughter.
Well, I won't be using their services either.