Not entirely relevant to Slashdot, but one of the best magazines in the world is Alpinist. It's American, but with global relevance (to climbers and mountaineers anyway), and is easy to get hold of in the UK. I get given a subscription as a gift every year, and it makes me wish that every specialist magazine was as good. Every edition is a work of art.
I haven't seen a tech magazine anywhere near that good. Wired occasionally comes close, but its design is often obtrusive and ugly.
Do you mean their strong editorial line in favour of the established scientific consensus on global warming and vaccines, to name just two "political" subjects?
New Scientist has its faults, but its factual reporting is pretty solid.
My partner is the editor of a UK consumer leisure magazine (I won't say which as it would be easy to identify her). She got the job specifically because of her enthusiasm for and knowledge of the leisure activity in question.
A different UK magazine publisher has (had?) a policy of rotating their editors amongst their titles every couple of years, to keep them "fresh". Some might say it kept them clueless.
I find Linux Format interesting and written by people who actually do know what they are on about. I tend to buy it if there's a specific feature that I'm interested in. I'd say the other linux mags in the UK are pretty good as well. Can't speak for the more general computer magazines, but I do see a few "fix my PC" type titles that seem to have nothing in them but advertorial for antivirus products.
2. The vast majority of British restaurants are not in the list of the Worlds 50 best restaurants.
Well, yes. There are vastly more than 50 restaurants in Britain. It would be hard to have the vast majority of British restaurants in any list that wasn't several thousand entries long and exclusive to Britain.
Perhaps you meant:
2. The majority of a list of the world's 50 best restaurants are not British
But what is that 15-minute drive in distance? In central London, for instance, you can walk twice as far in 15 minutes as you can drive. You can get 5 times further on public transport in that same time.
And if it takes less than 15 minutes to drive out of, can where you live actually be considered a city?
I live in Glasgow, Scotland. The nearest book shop is a 15 minute drive from me, towards the city centre. It is an independent second-hand bookshop. There are two branches of Waterstones in the city centre, about 20 minutes drive, or 12 minutes on the train. As I don't work in the city centre, I combine visits to bookshops with visits to other shops located within walking distance, justifying the expense (time and money) of a trip into town.
I think most literate people would be pleased to have a major book chain within 15 minutes travel time of their home.
The only thing that makes it likely for the other site to be a scam is the fact that nobody gives a fucking shit about the Raspberry-Turd. This is the fucking $99 laptop for poor kids all over again. But nerds get excited every single time this shit comes up. OH LOOK, a little computer I can almost browse the web with. In a week it'll be stuck in a drawer somewhere entangled in a mass of Bucky Balls.
Who pissed on your biscuits? What's wrong with incredibly cheap systems intended for educational use? That "$99 dollar laptop for poor kids" was responsible for creating a whole market sector (netbooks). The Raspberry Pi could have an even greater impact.
I can read books fine. Shakespeare knew exactly what he meant, which is not what you think. Read the last three lines you quoted and reflect on their meaning.
"Wherefore art thou?" is not a query as to the whereabouts of Romeo, but a question that can be paraphrased as "Why do you have to be Romeo Montague instead of some other boy whose family is not conducting a deadly feud with mine."
Why else would she ask him to "deny thy father, and refuse thy name" and then offer to change her name from Capulet? If she's asking where the hell he's got to, all that name changing business is somewhat out of context.
No, it is not profit. It is income. If it were profit, it would be distributed to the shareholders. As they are a non-profit making charity, they have to spend their income on furthering their charitable goals, not making their investors rich.
What company says "we spent our profits on R&D"? They say "we cut R&D costs to make more profit". See the difference? Profit is what you have left over after you have covered all of your business costs.
It's entirely reasonable for the Rasberry Pi foundation to want to cover their manufacturing costs and get some extra income from each unit in order to be able to produce more than one batch of devices without running out of money (which would severely impact on their aims as a charity).
Roughly half the population of Northern ireland would object to being called "British". It is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but not all UK subjects (unfortunately not yet citizens - maybe that will change when Liz finally pops her clogs) are British or live in Britiain.
There are also a lot more islands in our archipelago (the British Isles) than Great Britain and Ireland. Residents of the Isle of Man live on a British Isle but are Manx, not British. Residents of the Isle of Harris (on the same island as the Isle of Lewis) are UK subjects and are British (or Scottish) but don't live in Great Britain.
In a couple of years there will be a referendum on Scottish independence (or perhaps greater devolution). If Scotland becomes independent then Scots will not be British but most will still live in Great Britain, but not the United Kingdom of (a bit of) Great Britain and Northern Ireland. There may be some renaming involved.
Or maybe the programmers from local businesses (who know how to code) will collaborate with the teachers (who know how to teach) to produce and deliver interesting and worthwhile lesson plans? Not much point otherwise.
... Maybe offer programming as an alternative to having to take a foreign language (why is that mandatory anyway?).
Because there are 3 non-English languages in the United Kingdom which are used in the various legislative bodies of the constituent nations (Welsh, Scots Gaeilic, Scots including Ulster Scots) and many more European languages spoken right next door. France is only 26 miles across the Channel, Belgium only slightly further, The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Norway are only an hour or so's flight away. The UK is a European nation, despite what certain Tory backbenchers and the Daily Mail and Daily Express might wish for.
1. Malicious exit nodes can correlate your BT streams to your Tor web browsing, and learn your real IP.
How exactly can they do this? Why would your web browsing have any correlation to your BT streams?
Sorry, should have been more clear. Because Tor conserves circuits for reasons of efficiency, it is possible for an exit node to build a profile of the activity of a circuit by inspecting the data leaving that circuit. If you are browsing via Tor while running a BT session, the data from the two sessions can be sent over the same circuit. The exit node can learn your IP from the BT stream (BT client tells tracker what unique random port it's listening on, exit node sees connection to tracker at unique port number, faulty BT client sends IP to tracker) and correlate that to the web traffic on the same circuit. They now know what you're browsing, and what your IP is. Anonymity broken. It's explained in the post I linked to.
Like you say, if your BT client doesn't know its real IP (NAT etc), then you're OK. It's a question of all the lemons lining up.
Assuming you don't want to actually download anything. What is actually available on I2P? How does its library compare with any of the trackers on the internet at large? The reason people use tor isn't because it is more secure, but because it lets you browse the internet that you already use.
Chicken and egg problem. If more people used I2P for their filesharing, then there would be more files available over I2P. A few benevolent individuals are seeding more and more. But yes, I understand that people prefer to proxy their normal things over Tor rather than switch entirely to new networks. It's just a shame that in doing so they hurt the Tor network.
There was a suggestion a while ago that someone ought to make a bitTORrent client which ran a Tor relay on every BT peer. This would solve the bandwidth problem. Don't know if any work was ever done on it.
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Not entirely relevant to Slashdot, but one of the best magazines in the world is Alpinist. It's American, but with global relevance (to climbers and mountaineers anyway), and is easy to get hold of in the UK. I get given a subscription as a gift every year, and it makes me wish that every specialist magazine was as good. Every edition is a work of art.
I haven't seen a tech magazine anywhere near that good. Wired occasionally comes close, but its design is often obtrusive and ugly.
Do you mean their strong editorial line in favour of the established scientific consensus on global warming and vaccines, to name just two "political" subjects?
New Scientist has its faults, but its factual reporting is pretty solid.
My partner is the editor of a UK consumer leisure magazine (I won't say which as it would be easy to identify her). She got the job specifically because of her enthusiasm for and knowledge of the leisure activity in question.
A different UK magazine publisher has (had?) a policy of rotating their editors amongst their titles every couple of years, to keep them "fresh". Some might say it kept them clueless.
I find Linux Format interesting and written by people who actually do know what they are on about. I tend to buy it if there's a specific feature that I'm interested in. I'd say the other linux mags in the UK are pretty good as well. Can't speak for the more general computer magazines, but I do see a few "fix my PC" type titles that seem to have nothing in them but advertorial for antivirus products.
... I think it's the British version of Haggis...
As opposed to the haggis that comes from Scotland, a constituent part of Britain?
British =/= English.
I've never heard of Pot Pie, and I've lived in Britain all my life. Please explain to me what it is?
2. The vast majority of British restaurants are not in the list of the Worlds 50 best restaurants.
Well, yes. There are vastly more than 50 restaurants in Britain. It would be hard to have the vast majority of British restaurants in any list that wasn't several thousand entries long and exclusive to Britain.
Perhaps you meant:
2. The majority of a list of the world's 50 best restaurants are not British
Why? Is putting the plug into the sink and mixing the water there too difficult for you?
But what is that 15-minute drive in distance? In central London, for instance, you can walk twice as far in 15 minutes as you can drive. You can get 5 times further on public transport in that same time.
And if it takes less than 15 minutes to drive out of, can where you live actually be considered a city?
I live in Glasgow, Scotland. The nearest book shop is a 15 minute drive from me, towards the city centre. It is an independent second-hand bookshop. There are two branches of Waterstones in the city centre, about 20 minutes drive, or 12 minutes on the train. As I don't work in the city centre, I combine visits to bookshops with visits to other shops located within walking distance, justifying the expense (time and money) of a trip into town.
I think most literate people would be pleased to have a major book chain within 15 minutes travel time of their home.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! This is funny because people in other countries speak differently from me!!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
Also: +4 Informative? Some poor modding going on here.
When you buy a Pixel Qi screen and connect it to your Raspberry Pi. :)
Please log in next time, AC. Your comment is informative and insightful, yet you are likely to be filtered out by most people, who browse at +1.
Given that they are a charitable foundation, on what do you think they will spend this hypothetical money made from overcharging?
Isn't collusion between governement and big business wonderful?
Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
They have released the gerbers for the beta board. I'd link to it, but their site is blacked out today as part of the SOPA protest.
The only thing that makes it likely for the other site to be a scam is the fact that nobody gives a fucking shit about the Raspberry-Turd. This is the fucking $99 laptop for poor kids all over again. But nerds get excited every single time this shit comes up. OH LOOK, a little computer I can almost browse the web with. In a week it'll be stuck in a drawer somewhere entangled in a mass of Bucky Balls.
Who pissed on your biscuits? What's wrong with incredibly cheap systems intended for educational use? That "$99 dollar laptop for poor kids" was responsible for creating a whole market sector (netbooks). The Raspberry Pi could have an even greater impact.
What does EU membership have to do with being able to speak the languages of our neighbours and trading partners? The two issues are orthogonal.
I can read books fine. Shakespeare knew exactly what he meant, which is not what you think. Read the last three lines you quoted and reflect on their meaning.
"Wherefore art thou?" is not a query as to the whereabouts of Romeo, but a question that can be paraphrased as "Why do you have to be Romeo Montague instead of some other boy whose family is not conducting a deadly feud with mine."
Why else would she ask him to "deny thy father, and refuse thy name" and then offer to change her name from Capulet? If she's asking where the hell he's got to, all that name changing business is somewhat out of context.
Wherefore is not olde worlde speake for where. Wherefore is to therefore as where is to there.
No, it is not profit. It is income. If it were profit, it would be distributed to the shareholders. As they are a non-profit making charity, they have to spend their income on furthering their charitable goals, not making their investors rich.
What company says "we spent our profits on R&D"? They say "we cut R&D costs to make more profit". See the difference? Profit is what you have left over after you have covered all of your business costs.
It's entirely reasonable for the Rasberry Pi foundation to want to cover their manufacturing costs and get some extra income from each unit in order to be able to produce more than one batch of devices without running out of money (which would severely impact on their aims as a charity).
Roughly half the population of Northern ireland would object to being called "British". It is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but not all UK subjects (unfortunately not yet citizens - maybe that will change when Liz finally pops her clogs) are British or live in Britiain.
There are also a lot more islands in our archipelago (the British Isles) than Great Britain and Ireland. Residents of the Isle of Man live on a British Isle but are Manx, not British. Residents of the Isle of Harris (on the same island as the Isle of Lewis) are UK subjects and are British (or Scottish) but don't live in Great Britain.
In a couple of years there will be a referendum on Scottish independence (or perhaps greater devolution). If Scotland becomes independent then Scots will not be British but most will still live in Great Britain, but not the United Kingdom of (a bit of) Great Britain and Northern Ireland. There may be some renaming involved.
I hope that's clarified things for you.
I learned about analogue sound synthesis from BBC BASIC's ENVELOPE and SOUND commands when I was 9 or 10.
Or maybe the programmers from local businesses (who know how to code) will collaborate with the teachers (who know how to teach) to produce and deliver interesting and worthwhile lesson plans? Not much point otherwise.
I wish now that i had taken auto shop, because i can't change my own oil.
You know, it's never too late to learn how.
... Maybe offer programming as an alternative to having to take a foreign language (why is that mandatory anyway?).
Because there are 3 non-English languages in the United Kingdom which are used in the various legislative bodies of the constituent nations (Welsh, Scots Gaeilic, Scots including Ulster Scots) and many more European languages spoken right next door. France is only 26 miles across the Channel, Belgium only slightly further, The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Norway are only an hour or so's flight away. The UK is a European nation, despite what certain Tory backbenchers and the Daily Mail and Daily Express might wish for.
Steady on, that sounds suspiciously like common sense. If you start applying that to narcotics control, who knows what might happen?
http://www.tdpf.org.uk/blueprint%20download.htm
1. Malicious exit nodes can correlate your BT streams to your Tor web browsing, and learn your real IP.
How exactly can they do this? Why would your web browsing have any correlation to your BT streams?
Sorry, should have been more clear. Because Tor conserves circuits for reasons of efficiency, it is possible for an exit node to build a profile of the activity of a circuit by inspecting the data leaving that circuit. If you are browsing via Tor while running a BT session, the data from the two sessions can be sent over the same circuit. The exit node can learn your IP from the BT stream (BT client tells tracker what unique random port it's listening on, exit node sees connection to tracker at unique port number, faulty BT client sends IP to tracker) and correlate that to the web traffic on the same circuit. They now know what you're browsing, and what your IP is. Anonymity broken. It's explained in the post I linked to.
Like you say, if your BT client doesn't know its real IP (NAT etc), then you're OK. It's a question of all the lemons lining up.
Assuming you don't want to actually download anything. What is actually available on I2P? How does its library compare with any of the trackers on the internet at large? The reason people use tor isn't because it is more secure, but because it lets you browse the internet that you already use.
Chicken and egg problem. If more people used I2P for their filesharing, then there would be more files available over I2P. A few benevolent individuals are seeding more and more. But yes, I understand that people prefer to proxy their normal things over Tor rather than switch entirely to new networks. It's just a shame that in doing so they hurt the Tor network.
There was a suggestion a while ago that someone ought to make a bitTORrent client which ran a Tor relay on every BT peer. This would solve the bandwidth problem. Don't know if any work was ever done on it.