It's just wrong. It's like saying the Texas Rangers have investigated crimes ranging from murder to political corruption, acted as riot police and as detectives, protected the Governors, tracked down fugitives, and functioned as a paramilitary force at various places in the United States of America.
"English Heritage, the organization that runs and manages various historical sites in the UK, such as Stonehenge"
No, English Heritage only manages sites within England (clue is in the name). Other bodies cover the other countries on the UK; for example Historic Scotland (Scotland), Cadw (Wales) and Environment and Heritage Service (Northern Ireland).
If you create conditions where someone makes an app for smartphones (open government data), and it only gets used by people with smartphones, this is a net gain for the society
Nonsense. The folk with smartphones are typically those who'd already interact with government. You are doing absolutely nothing to interact with those who are totally disenfranchised. You know - the ones who cannot afford the net, cannot afford a fancy phone?
4: They end up in the dust. There are a lot of unemployed journalists, it it wouldn't take much impetus for a startup news site to start up that is lean enough to run on ad revenue, perhaps having additional revenue streams for back article searches. No, this startup news site may not have enough money to pay for an AP wire, but those stories can always be come by other ways.
FFS... "In the UK, a Victory For Free Speech" - what sort of bastardised subject is that? Perhaps stick the important bit up front, with the qualifier at the end?
You'd be surprised. It is trivial for spammers to get a gmail account. Anyone who genuinely wants to contribute to a forum will have another email address, if not they will be able to explicitly email...
Last week, I saw that the Google Toolbar had self updated, and one of the new features was the ability to opt in for participation in the Folding@Home project through the use of the Google Toolbar.
And that got disabled sharpish here! When running IE inside VMWare the Google Toolbar idles away using 'spare' resources. But they're not - it causes VMWare to hog things on the Linux side...
Man, I wish I lived there! Their speed comparisions [hydro.co.uk] implies the download speed is 2Mbps (about 4x a 512Kbps line)! And the pricing [hydro.co.uk] is great - either 15 or 25 pounds/month! That's about 25 or 40 USD/month! Sweet.
Actually with it being the Campbeltown area the USAF/NASA/insert-latest-conspiracy will be loving their highspeed links! (i.e. the runway at Machrihanish and the stationing of US personnel there).
Besides, there is this 1998 [slashdot.org] UK gov document [cabinet-office.gov.uk] addressing the problem of "neighborhood renewal". Note especially item number ten in the list. And yes, They actually use the term neighborhood.
Go and boil yer heid!
If you're going to be a smart arse and quote, then do it right...
On the related note Next Generation POSIX Threads (NGPT) made it into the official kernel (2.4.19-pre3). Kudos to the team.
This must really piss off the folk who have worked hard on LinuxThreads (the thread support in glibc) over the years! A number of LinuxThreads shortcomings are due to kernel support not being forth coming...
You can get it in John Menzies in Waverley station
I'll keep an eye out for it then... Although I can't see it getting tried. Why would anyone buy this slosh when there are (real) coffee places a minute away? Even the stuff on the trains must be better!
However a good idea would be to fill teh cans with Cow Tea (AKA Bovril) and put it to the folks at half time during a football match. That stuff would be improved by this!
There's no need for any legal request for the email - employees will dig them out to protect their own backs and to break the backs of others!
Doesn't matter where the server is, or how many you have there's always going to be masses of duplication - local folders holding copies and such like. How do you handle this? Putting your server on a piss-forsaken rock isn't going to help!
The most common random-noise collection method in use is measuring the time between keystrokes. It doesn't require any additional hardware (except a keyboard;-) and is fairly random.
PGP/GnuPG use this method, and if I'm not mistaken, so does the Linux kernel (to feed/dev/(u)random).
I have a hard time believing this... You're seriously implying that Linux servers (no keyboard) have an inferior/dev/urandom?
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What a load of bollocks. An hour in the pub watching how a round of drinks works could have saved a lot of time and effort.
Kwikfit: http://www.kwik-fit.com/
(but in doing so, and giving four levels of cookie control it's way too complicated)
It's just wrong. It's like saying the Texas Rangers have investigated crimes ranging from murder to political corruption, acted as riot police and as detectives, protected the Governors, tracked down fugitives, and functioned as a paramilitary force at various places in the United States of America.
"English Heritage, the organization that runs and manages various historical sites in the UK, such as Stonehenge"
No, English Heritage only manages sites within England (clue is in the name). Other bodies cover the other countries on the UK; for example Historic Scotland (Scotland), Cadw (Wales) and Environment and Heritage Service (Northern Ireland).
No it's not. They can take care of themselves - it's a waste of money.
Nonsense. The folk with smartphones are typically those who'd already interact with government. You are doing absolutely nothing to interact with those who are totally disenfranchised. You know - the ones who cannot afford the net, cannot afford a fancy phone?
As an example take a look at the Caledonian Mercury: http://caledonianmercury.com/
FFS... "In the UK, a Victory For Free Speech" - what sort of bastardised subject is that? Perhaps stick the important bit up front, with the qualifier at the end?
Victory for Free Speech in the UK
You'd be surprised. It is trivial for spammers to get a gmail account. Anyone who genuinely wants to contribute to a forum will have another email address, if not they will be able to explicitly email...
On phpbb boards I run the most productive things are:
1. Do not allow external links in profile of newly registered / non validated users
2. Do not allow registrations with gmail.com email addresses
3. Ensure "valid" timezone and country settings are selected by users.
L/
Are are aware that other solutions exist for this problem? I use Foxmarks: http://www.foxmarks.com/
Perl script for you:
#!/usr/bin/perl -p
y/A-Za-z/N-ZA-Mn-za-m/;
Do a search for it on Google and you'll see that is is unlikely to remain as it is for long. Either houses or waste processing!
"Opening Night", huh? It's been playing around here (Edinburgh) since last Thursday/Friday... Must be hard for you Yanks to lag behind!
Actually with it being the Campbeltown area the USAF/NASA/insert-latest-conspiracy will be loving their highspeed links! (i.e. the runway at Machrihanish and the stationing of US personnel there).
A couple of +1's for sure...
Was quite suprised that site didn't even have a venue in Edinburgh...
Anyway i'm sure turnouts (if anyone had) would have been a subset of SLUG/EDLUG...
en.tldp.org, fr.tldp.org, br.tldp.org, ... Hmm, may as well make the first one 'us' and be done with language origins!
I always thought Brasileiros stoke (Brazilian)Portuguese!
Go and boil yer heid!
If you're going to be a smart arse and quote, then do it right...
neighborhood != neighbourhood
This must really piss off the folk who have worked hard on LinuxThreads (the thread support in glibc) over the years! A number of LinuxThreads shortcomings are due to kernel support not being forth coming...
Interesting times ahead...
I'll keep an eye out for it then... Although I can't see it getting tried. Why would anyone buy this slosh when there are (real) coffee places a minute away? Even the stuff on the trains must be better!
However a good idea would be to fill teh cans with Cow Tea (AKA Bovril) and put it to the folks at half time during a football match. That stuff would be improved by this!
Really? Is this just a London/SE thing? I've not seen it around up in Edinburgh...
yada, yada, yada... totally missing the point!
There's no need for any legal request for the email - employees will dig them out to protect their own backs and to break the backs of others!
Doesn't matter where the server is, or how many you have there's always going to be masses of duplication - local folders holding copies and such like. How do you handle this? Putting your server on a piss-forsaken rock isn't going to help!
I have a hard time believing this... You're seriously implying that Linux servers (no keyboard) have an inferior /dev/urandom?