The HK government are planning to force all ISPs to be completely responsible for all traffic that flows through their systems. They have to filter anything the government tells them to, etc, etc.
The punchline is that the ISPs have to do this "...whether or not it is technically feasible to do so..".
The features you mention are quite useful but IMO the main problem with MSVC, which causes me to tear out my hair on a regular basis, is build management. I have wasted ridiculous amounts of time because of some inconsistency in the dependencies in a complex project. In the end the solution is frequently to do a total rebuild, wasting another 4 hours...
Aside from this i agree - it's not a bad development environment and it has some useful features, but then i've never had a chance to do any real development work under *nix. I suspect this would be a much less frustrating experience.
"If Mr. Garbus asks you a question about something, and you only know the answer because the lawyers told you the answer earlier, you should go ahead and answer the question, but don't say how you know the answer."
Actually, i thought he was saying that he should answer the question only if he can do so without revealing any information his lawyers told him.
Isn't that what "...you should not provide the substance of those communications..." means?
OTOH i could be wrong. IANAL, and lawyers seem to interpret the english language a little differently to the rest of us.
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"Registered users only can post ACs. Their AC post starts out at 1 degree lower than a regular post would (my normal is +1, so my ACs would be 1. Many users would have 0 AC posts) A user could not post AC posts until they have been a user for at least a week and/or they have a karma 5 points above the default karma given to new users. ... This is restrictive, but I haven't seen any good AC posts which couldn't have been made using the above system."
Exactly how many of the "Hellmouth" comments do you think came from regular slashdot readers? I was under the impression that a whole load of these were first time readers of slashdot. If they had had to wait a week or actually have obtained a certain amount of karma, a significant proportion of these people would have been denied a chance to speak.
I agree that the trolling from AC accounts can be a problem, but i think it is an acceptable price to pay.
Another issue would be the number of throw-away accounts that would be created. How much of a hit would the servers take, dealing with all the junk accounts created on a daily basis? How long before an account expires? Or would they all have to be cancelled 'by hand'? At least with AC accounts this is avoided.
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The HK government are planning to force all ISPs to be completely responsible for all traffic that flows through their systems. They have to filter anything the government tells them to, etc, etc.
The punchline is that the ISPs have to do this "...whether or not it is technically feasible to do so..".
Do you laugh or cry?
Yeah, and encryption is so tightly regulated there that nobody can keep a secret. So, they seem to want to at least be able to listen in.
According to the recent report by EPIC, France is now far more well-disposed towards crypto than they used to be.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice
http://zig.ini.unizh.ch - The Zurich Institute of Neuroinformatics homepage.
Well, from my experience, i can see why... MSVC is fine for small to medium Windows projects but 70% of the problems we get are build issues. Not fun.
The features you mention are quite useful but IMO the main problem with MSVC, which causes me to tear out my hair on a regular basis, is build management. I have wasted ridiculous amounts of time because of some inconsistency in the dependencies in a complex project. In the end the solution is frequently to do a total rebuild, wasting another 4 hours...
Aside from this i agree - it's not a bad development environment and it has some useful features, but then i've never had a chance to do any real development work under *nix. I suspect this would be a much less frustrating experience.
"If Mr. Garbus asks you a question about something, and you only know the answer because the lawyers told you the answer earlier, you should go ahead and answer the question, but don't say how you know the answer."
Actually, i thought he was saying that he should answer the question only if he can do so without revealing any information his lawyers told him.
Isn't that what "...you should not provide the substance of those communications..." means?
OTOH i could be wrong. IANAL, and lawyers seem to interpret the english language a little differently to the rest of us.
"Registered users only can post ACs. Their AC post starts out at 1 degree lower than a regular post would (my normal is +1, so my ACs would be 1. Many users would have 0 AC posts) A user could not post AC posts until they have been a user for at least a week and/or they have a karma 5 points above the default karma given to new users.
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This is restrictive, but I haven't seen any good AC posts which couldn't have been made using the above system."
Exactly how many of the "Hellmouth" comments do you think came from regular slashdot readers? I was under the impression that a whole load of these were first time readers of slashdot. If they had had to wait a week or actually have obtained a certain amount of karma, a significant proportion of these people would have been denied a chance to speak.
I agree that the trolling from AC accounts can be a problem, but i think it is an acceptable price to pay.
Another issue would be the number of throw-away accounts that would be created. How much of a hit would the servers take, dealing with all the junk accounts created on a daily basis? How long before an account expires? Or would they all have to be cancelled 'by hand'? At least with AC accounts this is avoided.
-Jon