Actually what killed Concord was that we have to be at the airport two hours before the flight and that it takes three hours to get to a transcontinental hub. The terrorists killed rapid transport, they won and we live in a terrified world ruled by health and safety lawyers. Enjoy your cotton wool.
Speak for your own little country. I leave home at 05:45, get to the car park at 06:00, security at 06:05, on board at 06:15, wheels up 06:30. And I don't live near a hub either - touch down at LHR at 07:30, time for a shower and breakfast, then on the 08:50 departure to TLV.
That's 2h50 until wheels up at a major airport. A modern concorde with increased range could do LHR-SIN in 4 hours, and immigration's always a breeze. Even with my connecting flight, that's 7h30 from leaving my house to arriving at hotel in Singapore.
The trip today takes twice that. If I lived near Heathrow like most of my colleagues, I could knock 1h30 off that time.
As for price, a ticket on Concorde to JFK was £4k in 2003. Today a ticket in First class on a much slower 747 is £6k.
Concorde stopped because there was no competition -- people will pay £6k to get London to New York, and if F in the 747 is the best way (although the SNN hop may be arguably better), why bother putting on a special plane?
They should have been charging £20k each way in Concorder, revamp the interior to offer 32 seats ("suites"), thrown decent wifi etc, and sold it as what it was, a fast comfortable way to New York.
Google is a company, not a government entity. They can refuse to do business with anyone they want. Nobody has any kind of right to use their services.
It'll end up like in Minority Report where the advertisements scanned people's eyes to identify and tailor ads to them. Only instead of eyes, faces will be scanned. Which is probably scarier, since scanning a face requires no special biometric equipment. It just needs an old fashioned camera and an internet connection, so that the face image can be sent to a server and processed.
I'm registered for IRIS entry into the UK, it's brilliant and saves me hours every month. It takes a while to read my iris pattern (look into the mirror, stand a little closer)
When I fly domestically, they have recently started using face recognition at Heathrow, rather than an old fashioned camera. Out of 4 trips in the last 2 weeks, this has failed 3 times, despite standing at the exact spot, looking in the exact place, and waiting for 20 seconds while the lights stay red.
It's important to clarify (as I had to RTFA to realise this), that he claims he was assaulted by 3 employees of McDonalds
This wasn't a random assault by other customers at some shady McDonalds at 3AM, nor was it an assault by a typical skinhead -- from the photos the alleged perpetrators were McDonalds Management.
I wonder when Branson will announce the intent to start a passanger service?
Ever since the Concorde was grounded there hasn't been anyway for the uber-rich to get from here to there faster then us proles. I'm pretty sure there are folks who'd pay more then a few dollars to get from New York to Paris and back with time left over to flog their yacht crew for letting the boat get wet.
Concorde tickets were remarkably cheap - not much more than a first class fare on a real (non-american) airline -- SQ, BA, EK etc. Think about a situation where your factory, costing $100k/hour, is broken, and you need an expert person, or a part, to get there ASAP. A 3 hours flight saves $500k rather than choosing an 8 hour flight, so a $100k ticket would be well worth it.
Sadly the lack of reasonable length journeys were blocked politically (unable to offer supersonic JFK to LAX in 2 hours gate-gate for example), and technologically (range quite low -- can't do none stop Europe to Far East), so the number airborne never materialised to keep maintenance costs down.
It wouldn't surprise me if supersonic private jets come along at some point in the next 50 years, and thus smaller, targetted, scheduled routes (like the LCY-JFK run)
Why were these 'critical' systems not set to automatically roam to another network if their 'home' network becomes unavailable?
I was away in Belgium for the day, my phone worked in the morning, but died just after lunch. Tried the 3 or 4 networks in Brussels that were available, none worked, as if the account had been turned off.
UK governments don't give a stuff about you and me - they only care about the money they can make from selling spectrum to big business. If that means the new use of the spectrum will cause interference to our TV viewing... weeeell, thats just collateral damage.
Also worth noting that Sky won't be affected. We've just had an inquiry that shows how in bed the political class is with Murdoch, and the BBC is always under attack.
Before Freeview (DTT), we had an over-the-air subscription based service (ondigital, later itvdigital). People thought "digital tv == subscription"
Greg Dyke (DG of the BBC at the time, hounded out for being in charge of a reporter than said the evidence to invade Iraq was "sexed up" -- later proven completely true) made a bold play to push through Freeview when ITVDigital went bust, which got DTT receiving equipment without CAMs, which meant the Murdoch lot couldn't later argue for the BBC to move to a subscription basis.
He paid the price for this defiance, and they're slowly trying to get rid of freeview
Also: DON'T USE mysql_escape_string, USE PREPARED STATEMENTS AND YOU ARE IMMUNE FROM INJECTION ATTACS!
+5, far too many php zombies around the place.
That said, "select * from log where id IN (?)" doesn't tend to work with a prepared statement. At least in Java or Perl. You have to be careful, and if you're running perl obviously you're using -t.
SQL injection AGAIN? There's just no damned excuse for it.
Several people have made similar comments. What worries me is that they are not also slamming them for storing passwords in plaintext AGAIN. User passwords should not be stored anywhere on the system. You store a salt and hash of the password - this is fine for login, but fairly useless for hackers should they get it.
I used to think that, (and also assume no site on earth stored plaintext passwords) until I looked it up after the linked-in decable.
A modern $200 GPU can calculate every hash for a 9 character (A-Za-z0-9) password in just over a month *
I now use a basic 12 character password, and prepend it with a site specific part which I store in a file on my laptop. This gives me a password length of 15-18 characters.
There's a few stupid sites (password must be 8-12 characters etc -- agean airlines want a numeric password, and my bank only let me have 4 friggin numbers!), but on the whole it works well. Even if you got hold of my local password, you'd still need to crack the 12-char suffix.
Unfortunately it broke down with my UK Labour Party conference applicaiton -- they emailed my password back to me in plain text! Morons that haven't got a clue, no wonder they didn't get in.
There will be no future archaeologists. How can they assume a huge cultural discontinuity that would require archaeology? The only reason we have any archaeology is because people didn't write anything down.
I can find out precisely when a building was built, sold, and how many times it was repaired, just by visiting the online city hall archives.
Good for you, you live in a new country from the sounds of it.
. Everything that ever happened here since God knows when. Like 1850 or so?
I'd give you +1 Funny.
1850 isn't that long ago. Hell the house I live in is nothing special and is from the 1700s. Haven't been able to find out precisely when it was built though.
Information that's not used tends to decay. There's some data on the king of England in 1200 [but what's true and what's false?], but not much data on anyone else in the country back then, even your local lord, let alone Bob the village idiot.
Consider stone tablets. I head they are cheap, easy to come by, and last a long time.
Some do, most don't. If you wrote on 100,000 stone tablets today, you can guarantee some will be there in 10,000 years time, but you can also guarantee most won't.
Sounds very reasonable to me; better than having it go to the profit of some private business.
You mean the private business that safeguarded it for all that time?
You know banks arent charities, right? That they arent safeguarding your money and providing interest for the general good?
Seems perfectly fair if I agree to hold people's money and take liability for it for many years, and you disappear with no will or anything else, that I should keep the money (assuming no heirs or next of kin) rather than the government-- after all, the government already gets a big piece of the pie, but THIS piece they didnt earn.
You want the bank to be paid twice? They're already being paid from the deposit (by gambling with the money in the account, and/or by charging a yearly fee).
If I were to witness such an event, I would make a citizens arrest on the police officer even though it would mean spending the rest of my life in jail.
Are there not enough terrorists in this world? Why do they feel the need to create more?
The problem is, people are beginning to realise that there isn't the terrorist/communist/boogieman around every corner, and that more people in the U.S. died in traffic accidents in 2001 than through terrorism, and the biggest killer in September 2001 was heart disease.
How are the people in charge going to siphon to take taxpayers money on pointless things like wars and the tsa without a real threat?
When one vendor provides a lot of niceties to make your job a heck of a lot simpler and easier and the competition doesn't, it's no surprise why IE still rules in corporate enterprise. Certainly helps that the OS and the browser are made by the same group of people.
I don't work for an IT company. I work for a broadcaster. We use tools which help us get stuff on air, that could be anything from FCP to putty to chrome to gmail.
"Corporate IT" used to get in the way, until we took things back to the business. IT decisions are now led by the business, to make the business's job "a heck of a lot simpler and easier".
Slashdot Mirror
911 killed the Concord.
Really? They broke up in 2000
Actually what killed Concord was that we have to be at the airport two hours before the flight and that it takes three hours to get to a transcontinental hub. The terrorists killed rapid transport, they won and we live in a terrified world ruled by health and safety lawyers. Enjoy your cotton wool.
Speak for your own little country. I leave home at 05:45, get to the car park at 06:00, security at 06:05, on board at 06:15, wheels up 06:30. And I don't live near a hub either - touch down at LHR at 07:30, time for a shower and breakfast, then on the 08:50 departure to TLV.
That's 2h50 until wheels up at a major airport. A modern concorde with increased range could do LHR-SIN in 4 hours, and immigration's always a breeze. Even with my connecting flight, that's 7h30 from leaving my house to arriving at hotel in Singapore.
The trip today takes twice that. If I lived near Heathrow like most of my colleagues, I could knock 1h30 off that time.
As for price, a ticket on Concorde to JFK was £4k in 2003. Today a ticket in First class on a much slower 747 is £6k.
Concorde stopped because there was no competition -- people will pay £6k to get London to New York, and if F in the 747 is the best way (although the SNN hop may be arguably better), why bother putting on a special plane?
They should have been charging £20k each way in Concorder, revamp the interior to offer 32 seats ("suites"), thrown decent wifi etc, and sold it as what it was, a fast comfortable way to New York.
So the guy named "Tastecicles" is defending sexual harassment. Classy.
To be fair, Poplars was already taken
And while we first question it, will it fix the shortcomings USB keyboards has to PS/2 keyboards?
Which shortcomings are those?
Google is a company, not a government entity. They can refuse to do business with anyone they want. Nobody has any kind of right to use their services.
No blacks no Irish no Gays
NSFW
Depends where you work surely?
It'll end up like in Minority Report where the advertisements scanned people's eyes to identify and tailor ads to them. Only instead of eyes, faces will be scanned. Which is probably scarier, since scanning a face requires no special biometric equipment. It just needs an old fashioned camera and an internet connection, so that the face image can be sent to a server and processed.
I'm registered for IRIS entry into the UK, it's brilliant and saves me hours every month. It takes a while to read my iris pattern (look into the mirror, stand a little closer)
When I fly domestically, they have recently started using face recognition at Heathrow, rather than an old fashioned camera. Out of 4 trips in the last 2 weeks, this has failed 3 times, despite standing at the exact spot, looking in the exact place, and waiting for 20 seconds while the lights stay red.
Still a valid question about why a summary posted to Slashdot links to Slashdot.
Someone wanted to slashdot slashdot?
It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.
Only if you've augmented your vision
It's important to clarify (as I had to RTFA to realise this), that he claims he was assaulted by 3 employees of McDonalds
This wasn't a random assault by other customers at some shady McDonalds at 3AM, nor was it an assault by a typical skinhead -- from the photos the alleged perpetrators were McDonalds Management.
He's not the first person to claim McDonalds staff in France assault their customers.
I think the biggest downside here is that those people like to use their birthdate for a measure of respect they should be receiving.
Now get off my lawn!
Agreed - slashdot uid is a much better measure
Branson wanted to buy the Concorde fleet when BA and Air France decided to stop flying them.
Bullshit, Branson claimed to want to buy them as a PR stunt. He claimed to want to buy BMI too, but never put his money where his mouth was.
Actually I think the real reason in many cases was that the US was trying (and failing) to develop its own supersonic passenger aircraft.
Agreed, protectionism economics (of course Concorde was developed by EU governments so was hardly "clean")
I wonder when Branson will announce the intent to start a passanger service?
Ever since the Concorde was grounded there hasn't been anyway for the uber-rich to get from here to there faster then us proles. I'm pretty sure there are folks who'd pay more then a few dollars to get from New York to Paris and back with time left over to flog their yacht crew for letting the boat get wet.
Concorde tickets were remarkably cheap - not much more than a first class fare on a real (non-american) airline -- SQ, BA, EK etc. Think about a situation where your factory, costing $100k/hour, is broken, and you need an expert person, or a part, to get there ASAP. A 3 hours flight saves $500k rather than choosing an 8 hour flight, so a $100k ticket would be well worth it.
Sadly the lack of reasonable length journeys were blocked politically (unable to offer supersonic JFK to LAX in 2 hours gate-gate for example), and technologically (range quite low -- can't do none stop Europe to Far East), so the number airborne never materialised to keep maintenance costs down.
It wouldn't surprise me if supersonic private jets come along at some point in the next 50 years, and thus smaller, targetted, scheduled routes (like the LCY-JFK run)
Why were these 'critical' systems not set to automatically roam to another network if their 'home' network becomes unavailable?
I was away in Belgium for the day, my phone worked in the morning, but died just after lunch. Tried the 3 or 4 networks in Brussels that were available, none worked, as if the account had been turned off.
digg is still bigger than slashdot.. about 5x bigger
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/slashdot.org
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/digg.com
OR on the whole digg users have alexa spyware installed, but slashdot users don't?
UK governments don't give a stuff about you and me - they only care about the money they can make from selling spectrum to big business. If that means the new use of the spectrum will cause interference to our TV viewing ... weeeell, thats just collateral damage.
Also worth noting that Sky won't be affected. We've just had an inquiry that shows how in bed the political class is with Murdoch, and the BBC is always under attack.
Before Freeview (DTT), we had an over-the-air subscription based service (ondigital, later itvdigital). People thought "digital tv == subscription"
Greg Dyke (DG of the BBC at the time, hounded out for being in charge of a reporter than said the evidence to invade Iraq was "sexed up" -- later proven completely true) made a bold play to push through Freeview when ITVDigital went bust, which got DTT receiving equipment without CAMs, which meant the Murdoch lot couldn't later argue for the BBC to move to a subscription basis.
He paid the price for this defiance, and they're slowly trying to get rid of freeview
Also: DON'T USE mysql_escape_string, USE PREPARED STATEMENTS AND YOU ARE IMMUNE FROM INJECTION ATTACS!
+5, far too many php zombies around the place.
That said, "select * from log where id IN (?)" doesn't tend to work with a prepared statement. At least in Java or Perl. You have to be careful, and if you're running perl obviously you're using -t.
Several people have made similar comments. What worries me is that they are not also slamming them for storing passwords in plaintext AGAIN. User passwords should not be stored anywhere on the system. You store a salt and hash of the password - this is fine for login, but fairly useless for hackers should they get it.
I used to think that, (and also assume no site on earth stored plaintext passwords) until I looked it up after the linked-in decable.
A modern $200 GPU can calculate every hash for a 9 character (A-Za-z0-9) password in just over a month *
I now use a basic 12 character password, and prepend it with a site specific part which I store in a file on my laptop. This gives me a password length of 15-18 characters.
There's a few stupid sites (password must be 8-12 characters etc -- agean airlines want a numeric password, and my bank only let me have 4 friggin numbers!), but on the whole it works well. Even if you got hold of my local password, you'd still need to crack the 12-char suffix.
Unfortunately it broke down with my UK Labour Party conference applicaiton -- they emailed my password back to me in plain text! Morons that haven't got a clue, no wonder they didn't get in.
* http://mytechencounters.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/gpu-password-cracking-crack-a-windows-password-using-a-graphic-card/ et al
There will be no future archaeologists. How can they assume a huge cultural discontinuity that would require archaeology?
The only reason we have any archaeology is because people didn't write anything down.
I can find out precisely when a building was built, sold, and how many times it was repaired, just by visiting the online city hall archives.
Good for you, you live in a new country from the sounds of it.
. Everything that ever happened here since God knows when. Like 1850 or so?
I'd give you +1 Funny.
1850 isn't that long ago. Hell the house I live in is nothing special and is from the 1700s. Haven't been able to find out precisely when it was built though.
Information that's not used tends to decay. There's some data on the king of England in 1200 [but what's true and what's false?], but not much data on anyone else in the country back then, even your local lord, let alone Bob the village idiot.
Consider stone tablets. I head they are cheap, easy to come by, and last a long time.
Some do, most don't. If you wrote on 100,000 stone tablets today, you can guarantee some will be there in 10,000 years time, but you can also guarantee most won't.
Sounds very reasonable to me; better than having it go to the profit of some private business.
You mean the private business that safeguarded it for all that time?
You know banks arent charities, right? That they arent safeguarding your money and providing interest for the general good?
Seems perfectly fair if I agree to hold people's money and take liability for it for many years, and you disappear with no will or anything else, that I should keep the money (assuming no heirs or next of kin) rather than the government-- after all, the government already gets a big piece of the pie, but THIS piece they didnt earn.
You want the bank to be paid twice? They're already being paid from the deposit (by gambling with the money in the account, and/or by charging a yearly fee).
If I were to witness such an event, I would make a citizens arrest on the police officer even though it would mean spending the rest of my life in jail.
Bullshit.
Are there not enough terrorists in this world? Why do they feel the need to create more?
The problem is, people are beginning to realise that there isn't the terrorist/communist/boogieman around every corner, and that more people in the U.S. died in traffic accidents in 2001 than through terrorism, and the biggest killer in September 2001 was heart disease.
How are the people in charge going to siphon to take taxpayers money on pointless things like wars and the tsa without a real threat?
When one vendor provides a lot of niceties to make your job a heck of a lot simpler and easier and the competition doesn't, it's no surprise why IE still rules in corporate enterprise. Certainly helps that the OS and the browser are made by the same group of people.
I don't work for an IT company. I work for a broadcaster. We use tools which help us get stuff on air, that could be anything from FCP to putty to chrome to gmail.
"Corporate IT" used to get in the way, until we took things back to the business. IT decisions are now led by the business, to make the business's job "a heck of a lot simpler and easier".
For everyone else: DON'T PUT YOUR FUCKING PHONE IN THE MICROWAVE.
a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr6tMinjE2M">Or your hamster
(Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.)