Whatever else this story will do, it will further undermine any objection to CCTV cameras everywhere, especially if the bomber gets caught as a result of them.
Given that the FCC busted Google for illegally intercepting materials when they were doing their wanderings, does this mean that the FCC will now bust the FBI - or more realistically, state law enforcement agencies? And is this a hint as to why Google got off so lightly when they were busted - only $7m? Or am I just a foolish optimist....
Put in your consulting contract a call out fee of $1000 - i.e. if you pick up the phone your client is on the hook for $1000? When I was working full and went on holiday I told my employer that contacting me whilst on holiday would be at contractor rates. They never did...
Or make your mobile number a premium rate number: $50 a minute might help concentrate their minds, but less blatantly
Whilst tempting, that is mostly cruel to the poor who have no alternative but to work in a call centre. However it may be justified for SOME call centre callers.
There appears to be a reference to his driving at 81mph. Surely that's above the speed limit, so can we look forward to a cop knocking on his door for a fine as well?
There's a West Wing episode called 'Take out the Trash' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_out_the_Trash_Day where it's laid down that Friday is the day to announce things because they get lost over the weekend, and by Monday there are other things to talk about. So this is a good demonstration; watch to see if the story does disappear over the weekend...
Whilst technically not 'renewable', in reality as a source of large amounts of heat to provide domestic heat and probably a lot more, it has a vast untapped potential. Meanwhile those of us who live reasonably close to an ocean have the option of tidal power.
One of the things that the UK does right is to allow 'subject access' to all forms of computer held data, with remarkably few 'national security / crime control' cop outs. The fee for the access is £10 - less than US$18 for EVERYTHING they've got on you. Facebook even succumbs - providing a CD when such a request is submitted. This certainly included your records with the National Health Service. It was passed nearly 30 years ago in 1984
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_protection_act
for the history and later extended to ALL data, not just computer held, when some organisations tried to avoid the issue by NOT computerising the data they were embarrassed to have.
For those of us who have played Illuminati, http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28/illuminati-deluxe-edition what we are seeing here is a further attempt by certain powers to destroy the visible power group 'News Corp'. The attack has been declared; we're now seeing the money being spent before the dice is rolled. We've already seen one successful attack to destroy - the News of the World newspaper in the UK. Will this attack be successful - or it might merely be to neutralise, leaving News Corp in play to be taken over...
Which goes to prove that all young geeks should read Ender's Shadow with its discussion of how to deal with teachers...
"The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them, noticing them was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, you were not learning at all - you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man’s statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. IF I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over the those who believe the teacher"
When pharmaceutical companies close down and noone has the money to do trials of new drugs because the health budgets are already out of control, I'm sure you won't be surprised. If Novartis has no prospect of a profit for its research into malaria, it's not going to do it.
There is a role for IP, it's just that it's got out of hand. And Branding is a good thing - or would be if people weren't so insecure as to make fun of people who don't bother to spend silly amounts of money - because it allows a consistent expectations to be built up; you know what you are getting when you buy a brand - even if it's a 'no brand' discount store line. When it's a good shop, then it's reputation is on the line when it brands something.
A recent visitor of mine reported that at the age of 12 he installed a key logger to get the password that his parents had put on his PC to limit his use of it... He only told his dad recently (he's 19...)
The court is clearly right in refusing to hold the parents responsible. It's HARD!
George Entwistle was being interviewed on their regular breakfast programme -- not a show you would normally associate with hard-nosed journalism and heavy questioning of interviewees
The BBC Radio 4 breakfast show has a reputation for shredding politicians, so I don't know where you get that idea from....
The problem is that state officials fail to see that cyber-security is a fundamental component of doing business over the internet, on a level with paying for the electricity. Our duties as techies is to point this out as frequently as possible in verifiable documents so that when the breaches occur there can be no doubt about who failed to make sure the budget was enough. The story of the UK police force that was fined for a data breach
http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/latest_news/2012/police-force-pays-120000-penalty-for-data-breach-16102012.aspx
has probably frightened a lot of local government people here.
OTOH the observation that this was a 'Deloitte' funded report does remind us that there's money to be made here.
Thanks for an interesting reply. Clearly 1 and 2 are well established observationally, so there's no mileage in challenging them. Turning first to 4 - because I'll only comment on it briefly - the creationists I mix with recognised the validity of 'natural selection' - but argue that this merely encourages one form of the species to prosper rather than the other. This is seen in the classic example of the light / dark moths in a sooty environment; both the dark and light moths existed since forever, but the change in the environment led to one being more successful instead of the other, no new species arising.
The third point is more complex: what is observed is a vast number of instances where immense complexity is seen in operation of cells / creatures / ecosystems that it require an amazing set of coincidences to happen for them to reach their present operation. The creationist says: 'I believe the only way to explain this is a creator'. The evolutionist says: 'I believe it came about by chance'. Neither side can actually prove their point, 'scientifically', as far as I can see; both offer untestable hypotheses; the fact that Dawkins can offer, without batting an eyelid, an alternative explanation to account for the radically different conclusions about the importance of the 'dead' DNA highlights the degree to which BOTH are offering explanations to explain the facts, not offering testable hypotheses.
As this link shows:
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/09/in_debate_brita_1064521.html
like a good theologian, you can adjust your story to fit new facts with superb aplomb. However such success must cast doubt on whether evolution actually offers testable hypotheses. Could you please make some specific claims whose being disproved would show that evolution is untrue?
The training which a programmer brings to such a situation is to do a decent amount of testing before letting a system go live. What appears to have happened here is that the spreadsheet was used before it was fit for purpose, and my purpose in highlighting it to the/. community is to enable us to encourage organisations to be more cautious about massively complex spreadsheets. I'm not suggesting we don't make mistakes - but we're far more cautious about the systems that we create.
She isn't the Duchess of Windsor - that title is extinct. Her father in law is Duke of Cornwall, but William himself doesn't formally have a title. Fact checking?!
Having done a normal university course, a couple of decades ago, and now having experienced normal distance learning, where there is no interaction with other students, some with limited interaction, and some with a lot, I am totally convinced of the value of student contact with other students as a necessary element for really effective learning. Similarly the opportunity to challenge a lecturer over an issue is totally lacking in the Khan model; whilst that works to some extent for purely technical subjects, even there robust seminars are a useful adjunct to pure lectures. And it's this area where Khan will fall down; it's good as a means of transmitting knowledge from the lecturer to the notebook of the student - but education should be more than that. And it's that second element that costs the money to provide.
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Whatever else this story will do, it will further undermine any objection to CCTV cameras everywhere, especially if the bomber gets caught as a result of them.
Given that the FCC busted Google for illegally intercepting materials when they were doing their wanderings, does this mean that the FCC will now bust the FBI - or more realistically, state law enforcement agencies? And is this a hint as to why Google got off so lightly when they were busted - only $7m? Or am I just a foolish optimist....
Put in your consulting contract a call out fee of $1000 - i.e. if you pick up the phone your client is on the hook for $1000? When I was working full and went on holiday I told my employer that contacting me whilst on holiday would be at contractor rates. They never did... Or make your mobile number a premium rate number: $50 a minute might help concentrate their minds, but less blatantly
Whilst tempting, that is mostly cruel to the poor who have no alternative but to work in a call centre. However it may be justified for SOME call centre callers.
Absolutely - but I suspect this is in the 8%. And their cheese isn't bad either.
According to OSC's Enderverse....
There appears to be a reference to his driving at 81mph. Surely that's above the speed limit, so can we look forward to a cop knocking on his door for a fine as well?
However some were not. Be fair; the headline's not
Now that's scary... they really think so? They have NO idea, do they?
There's a West Wing episode called 'Take out the Trash' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_out_the_Trash_Day where it's laid down that Friday is the day to announce things because they get lost over the weekend, and by Monday there are other things to talk about. So this is a good demonstration; watch to see if the story does disappear over the weekend...
Whilst technically not 'renewable', in reality as a source of large amounts of heat to provide domestic heat and probably a lot more, it has a vast untapped potential. Meanwhile those of us who live reasonably close to an ocean have the option of tidal power.
One of the things that the UK does right is to allow 'subject access' to all forms of computer held data, with remarkably few 'national security / crime control' cop outs. The fee for the access is £10 - less than US$18 for EVERYTHING they've got on you. Facebook even succumbs - providing a CD when such a request is submitted. This certainly included your records with the National Health Service. It was passed nearly 30 years ago in 1984 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_protection_act for the history and later extended to ALL data, not just computer held, when some organisations tried to avoid the issue by NOT computerising the data they were embarrassed to have.
For those of us who have played Illuminati, http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28/illuminati-deluxe-edition what we are seeing here is a further attempt by certain powers to destroy the visible power group 'News Corp'. The attack has been declared; we're now seeing the money being spent before the dice is rolled. We've already seen one successful attack to destroy - the News of the World newspaper in the UK. Will this attack be successful - or it might merely be to neutralise, leaving News Corp in play to be taken over...
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=292706 though their policy is only to try and stop the ones on their way to populated areas, perhaps because it costs $100,000 to stop one
Which goes to prove that all young geeks should read Ender's Shadow with its discussion of how to deal with teachers... "The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them, noticing them was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, you were not learning at all - you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man’s statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. IF I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over the those who believe the teacher"
When pharmaceutical companies close down and noone has the money to do trials of new drugs because the health budgets are already out of control, I'm sure you won't be surprised. If Novartis has no prospect of a profit for its research into malaria, it's not going to do it. There is a role for IP, it's just that it's got out of hand. And Branding is a good thing - or would be if people weren't so insecure as to make fun of people who don't bother to spend silly amounts of money - because it allows a consistent expectations to be built up; you know what you are getting when you buy a brand - even if it's a 'no brand' discount store line. When it's a good shop, then it's reputation is on the line when it brands something.
A recent visitor of mine reported that at the age of 12 he installed a key logger to get the password that his parents had put on his PC to limit his use of it... He only told his dad recently (he's 19...) The court is clearly right in refusing to hold the parents responsible. It's HARD!
What's keeping it at 400C? Or is it almost a brown dwarf - though Jupiter doesn't get to that sort of temperature on my understanding.
George Entwistle was being interviewed on their regular breakfast programme -- not a show you would normally associate with hard-nosed journalism and heavy questioning of interviewees
The BBC Radio 4 breakfast show has a reputation for shredding politicians, so I don't know where you get that idea from....
The problem is that state officials fail to see that cyber-security is a fundamental component of doing business over the internet, on a level with paying for the electricity. Our duties as techies is to point this out as frequently as possible in verifiable documents so that when the breaches occur there can be no doubt about who failed to make sure the budget was enough. The story of the UK police force that was fined for a data breach http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/latest_news/2012/police-force-pays-120000-penalty-for-data-breach-16102012.aspx has probably frightened a lot of local government people here. OTOH the observation that this was a 'Deloitte' funded report does remind us that there's money to be made here.
Thanks for an interesting reply. Clearly 1 and 2 are well established observationally, so there's no mileage in challenging them. Turning first to 4 - because I'll only comment on it briefly - the creationists I mix with recognised the validity of 'natural selection' - but argue that this merely encourages one form of the species to prosper rather than the other. This is seen in the classic example of the light / dark moths in a sooty environment; both the dark and light moths existed since forever, but the change in the environment led to one being more successful instead of the other, no new species arising. The third point is more complex: what is observed is a vast number of instances where immense complexity is seen in operation of cells / creatures / ecosystems that it require an amazing set of coincidences to happen for them to reach their present operation. The creationist says: 'I believe the only way to explain this is a creator'. The evolutionist says: 'I believe it came about by chance'. Neither side can actually prove their point, 'scientifically', as far as I can see; both offer untestable hypotheses; the fact that Dawkins can offer, without batting an eyelid, an alternative explanation to account for the radically different conclusions about the importance of the 'dead' DNA highlights the degree to which BOTH are offering explanations to explain the facts, not offering testable hypotheses.
As this link shows: http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/09/in_debate_brita_1064521.html like a good theologian, you can adjust your story to fit new facts with superb aplomb. However such success must cast doubt on whether evolution actually offers testable hypotheses. Could you please make some specific claims whose being disproved would show that evolution is untrue?
The training which a programmer brings to such a situation is to do a decent amount of testing before letting a system go live. What appears to have happened here is that the spreadsheet was used before it was fit for purpose, and my purpose in highlighting it to the /. community is to enable us to encourage organisations to be more cautious about massively complex spreadsheets. I'm not suggesting we don't make mistakes - but we're far more cautious about the systems that we create.
She isn't the Duchess of Windsor - that title is extinct. Her father in law is Duke of Cornwall, but William himself doesn't formally have a title. Fact checking?!
Having done a normal university course, a couple of decades ago, and now having experienced normal distance learning, where there is no interaction with other students, some with limited interaction, and some with a lot, I am totally convinced of the value of student contact with other students as a necessary element for really effective learning. Similarly the opportunity to challenge a lecturer over an issue is totally lacking in the Khan model; whilst that works to some extent for purely technical subjects, even there robust seminars are a useful adjunct to pure lectures. And it's this area where Khan will fall down; it's good as a means of transmitting knowledge from the lecturer to the notebook of the student - but education should be more than that. And it's that second element that costs the money to provide.