I use almost no gas (natural not petrol) in a year (about £3.00 total) The minimum direct debit payment is £5 per month I get £40 'discount' (£20 every 6 months) per year back for paying by direct debit So I pay in £60 plus the £40 discount They refund me around £97 surplus funds every year (which I got about 3 months before this bill) They 'deduct' VAT from a negative number and give me that as well
1. Take my shoes off 2. Submit to a body scanner 3. Suffer a pat-down 4. Wait more than ten minutes to get through security
Quiet year so far, only 30 flights. 1 - Shoes off at Moscow (DME), Washington (IAD), Manchester 2 - Forced through the probulator Moscow, Manchester, Erez (ok not an airport) 3 - Pat down Dulles, Heathrow 4 - More than 10 minutes - only Tel Aviv, and that was only about 15 minutes (my first trip in 2010 took 90 minutes)
On a scale of 1-10 for rudeness
10: Manchester 6: Washington 4: Erez 1: Everywhere else.
Now, immigration on the other hand, that can take time. 90-120 minutes at Dulles, 45 in Jakarta. Would have been a couple of hours at Heathrow a couple of months ago had I not been Iris registered.
Stop being pedantic. That's very likely what he was referring to. Prosecuting people over pictures of imaginary children is just ridiculous.
Yet many western countries do this. They also prosecute people over picutres of adults that the court decides might look like a child, and they can also prosecute a husband who has a picture of his wife's tits if his wife is, or looks, under 18.
- Bug's already been fixed, only what it did was revealed now. - Bug does not affect binary distributions from mysql.com, Windows included. - Bug only affects some distros.
RIM, to get the business market which MS does OK in. If it bought Nokia, then Nokia would go the way that most MS consumer stuff goes, down the plug-hole.
MS should have bought RIM 2 years ago, while it was still a force in the business world. The average exec wants an iphone and ipad nowadays, Microsoft have already lost.
Since the government in this scenario is smaller, less corrupt, and more accountable, then BigDrink Corp and it's corporate officers and board members along with others involved would be led away in handcuffs and would be facing major multiple Federal criminal charges and prison time that they couldn't buy their way out of.
Why? Will it be illegal to fire someone for their kid setting up a lemonade stand? If so, isn't that just a form of regulation?
Why is a small government not susceptible to bribes?
Carry your passport/docs ON YOU, separate from your wallet, end of story.
Passport, Wallet, Phone. That's enough to get me from anywhere in the world to a friendly country (i.e. visaless), so that's what always stays in my jeans pocket.
I also make sure I have half a dozen phone numbers memorised that I can call 24/7 in an emergency.
That's basic security at home or abroad. You should also carry duplicate info on a flash drive and wear that, and be able to access another copy online.
Certainly. Having scans of your passport(s) and visas available in a secure gmail account, that someone trusted (that isn't travelling with you) also has access too, is a good precaution. I don't bother with the USB stick any more (I have them on my laptop, and anywhere that's likely to have a printer is likely to have internet access nowadays)
Because he only travelled 2 miles a Taxi would be cheaper...
This looks to be a deliberate worst case scenario... drive most of the journey, only use the tube for a very short part, use the most expensive form of payment
Now try Watford (one side of London) to Heathrow (other side of London) cost : £3.70 - £6.40 - depending on payment method and time of travel - try beating that?
Indeed, I used to commute from Epping to Shepherds Bush. 1 hour on the tube, about 10p/mile.
On the other hand, the 200 yards Covent-Garden to Leicester Square cash fare of £4.30 works out 350 times more expensive (about £35/mile -- 20 times more than a flexible first class TATL flight).
The average person that doesn't know how to survive in London will simply buy an offpeak travelcard, £7-£8.50 for unlimited travel on tube, train and bus -- including the tube from Heathrow.
New York has the metrocard, which is £1.50 per ride. For the average person travelling offpeak, or travelling in zone 1 only, London is slightly more expensive at £2 per ride.
If the government doesn't have the power to regulate kids setting up lemonade stands, then BigDrink Corp can't buy influence to have them shut down.
But BigDrinkCorp can regulate. Said kid can not survive without parents, who cannot survive without a job. If that job is with BigDrinkCorp, it's easy for BigrinkCorp to fire the parents unless the kid shuts down the shop.
Presumably paid for through advertising, i.e. by consumers.
Once the olympics are over, you'll be charged. The contract would state Virgin have to wire up the stations, and provide free wifi for the plympics, but then get 5 years of ripping off passengers
That said, I don't see the market. It's only at the platform, which on the whole is a sub-5 minute wait even at 11pm - at least in the centre where there's no phone signals. By the time you get to the platform, get your phone out, log on to the wifi, type your credit card number in, type in the capcha, accept the terms and condtions, and provide your phone number and email, your train will be there.
...the London Underground, on a per-mile basis, is one of the most expensive transit systems in the world, so to say that the wi-fi is free is totally misleading as the cost is covered within the extortionate ticket prices.
Just to give people outside the UK some idea, two weeks ago the missus and I went to a concert in London. I drove the car to Hammersmith in West London and parked there, we got on the Underground to travel two stops to Shepherd's Bush, no more than two miles up the road.
The total cost for 2 return tickets was just under £14 or around $20.
I think that speaks for itself...
Yes, it says you haven't got a clue how to travel in London. * Firstly, why not park at Westfield? * Secondly, why not take a taxi? That would be about the same price that you paid * Oyster would be £6 return for the two of you, even if you bought 2 new oyster cards in Hammersmith, and loaded each with £3, that would only be £12, and you can always return the cards later
Single cash fares are deliberately expensive because it costs a lot to maintain the infrastructure that less than 1% of journeys are made with.
The tech industry is probably the last major holdout in the understanding that women are not simply sex objects. Women refuse to work in the tech industry because of sexual harassment. Unfortunately, the field becomes dominated by men who don't understand it, which then perpetuates the alienation cycle.
If "booth babes" (I can't say I've noticed any at IBC, BVE, and the occasional linux expo, which are the only conventions I go to) are the worst that the tech industry gets, it pales in comparison to banking
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Meh. Sun had CIFS in the Solaris kernel 5 years ago.
Err, cifs has been around for years in the linux kernel (as a module), and smbfs before that has been around since at least June 96
So, you want management to spring money for a treadmill, or whatever, in *addition* to your desk and chair? Just to add to the noise already, where so many jobsites are going for lower cube walls, because managers are enamored of "bullpens" (and how many of *them* don't have offices with doors)?
No, what comes next is the old Dilbert cartoon: Velcro on our backs, and they'll stick us to the walls for cheaper office space.
mark
You get walls? We get a long bench which you get 3 or 4 people camped on. I've tried to build a wall out of monitors (I have one of the few non-hotdesks), but I'd kill to be in a cube
Most of us are agnostic atheists. Including Dawkins, Hitchens, and the rest. You may have missed that.
Dawkins certainly preaches that view enough to imply he believes he holds "the positive belief that God does not exist"
a-theist means without God. One who does not accept that God exists is an atheist. One does not need to also hold the positive belief that God does not exist.
being an athiest (or better yet, simply rejecting the bullshit that religion tries to force on us)
I think those are the same thing (atheist/rejecting religion). You are strategically excluding Agnosticism, i.e. people who try to remain neutral/skeptical rather than get into the religion war on either side.
Indeed. People like Dawkins act as they are so sure they're right in their beliefs. Same goes for the religious mob. There are so many things we don't understand about the universe. We have no idea if there's life on a random planet in andromeda. We'd be fools to say there is, we'd be fools to say there isn't.
Same goes for religion. It's a logical fact that no more than 1 is right and every other one is wrong. It's almost certain that all are wrong. Doesn't necessarily mean that there's no "afterlife" though. Doesn't mean there is.
I'm not a fan of Football, but I wouldn't begrudge my fellow man his 90 minutes of fun every week.
Religion is a bit like watching (English) football.
Football has little obvious benefit, however it does keep people entertained. Occasionally some followers will have a riot and destroy a town centre, even kill some people. Followers of some teams are better at doing this than others [Millwall for example, compared with Plymouth Argyle], but all can do it. Some teams have enormous followings, enormous budgets, and enormous impact on a nation. During G8, the leaders of the world were busy worshipping football together. Obama maintained a neutral stance, Merkel was rooting for one side, Cameron for another.
Is it harmful? The impact of football on world leaders? The riots in town centres? The drain on the economy as many [mostly poor] people give a substantial portion of their wages to following their favourite team?
Perhaps. On one hand there's obvious bad impact on a Saturday evening with drunken fans, but on the other hand it keeps millions of people entertained. Although there's no law saying you should support a football team, but during big events like the World Cup expect to be frozen out of most conversations unless you maintain a passing interest.
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(English) football is a bit like religion.
Religion has little obvious benefit, however it does keep people entertained. Occasionally some followers will have a riot and destroy a building or two, even kill some people. Followers of some religions are better at doing this than others [Islam for example, compared with Buddhism], but all can do it. Some religions have enormous followings, enormous budgets, and enormous impact on a nation. During G8, the leaders of the world DIDN'T worship together, at least publicly.
Is it harmful? The impact of religion on world leaders? The abortion clinic bombings? The drain on the economy as many [mostly poor] people give a substantial portion of their wages to following their favourite religion?
Perhaps. On one hand there's obvious bad impact on very deranged fans blowing up buildings, but on the other hand it keeps millions of people entertained. Although there's no law saying you should follow a given religion, during big events like Christmas expect to be frozen out of most conversations unless you maintain a passing interest.
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I hope you are not doing this in the UK....
Looks like he might be, from his past post:
I use almost no gas (natural not petrol) in a year (about £3.00 total)
The minimum direct debit payment is £5 per month
I get £40 'discount' (£20 every 6 months) per year back for paying by direct debit
So I pay in £60 plus the £40 discount
They refund me around £97 surplus funds every year (which I got about 3 months before this bill)
They 'deduct' VAT from a negative number and give me that as well
Also they only allow ONE bag through security. Not one carryon and one personal item. But ONE bag.
Not in T3 or T5, never had a problem with two large bags. Obviously still laptops out and stuff.
Despite all that, I managed to take a leatherman with a 4" blade in hand luggage to the states earlier this year.
Israel has exactly ONE International airport and is the size of New Jersey.
IT DOESN'T SCALE.
Sure it does, if you have the money and the attitude, Israelis have to go through metal detectors to go to the supermarket!
I never have to:
1. Take my shoes off
2. Submit to a body scanner
3. Suffer a pat-down
4. Wait more than ten minutes to get through security
Quiet year so far, only 30 flights.
1 - Shoes off at Moscow (DME), Washington (IAD), Manchester
2 - Forced through the probulator Moscow, Manchester, Erez (ok not an airport)
3 - Pat down Dulles, Heathrow
4 - More than 10 minutes - only Tel Aviv, and that was only about 15 minutes (my first trip in 2010 took 90 minutes)
On a scale of 1-10 for rudeness
10: Manchester
6: Washington
4: Erez
1: Everywhere else.
Now, immigration on the other hand, that can take time. 90-120 minutes at Dulles, 45 in Jakarta. Would have been a couple of hours at Heathrow a couple of months ago had I not been Iris registered.
Why?
It's like a step backwards to an old 80s OS where everything consisted of solid bars with no shading or variation.
Or vagina
Jeez, since when did NAMBLA have such a big following on slashdot?
I'm a big fan of Marlon Brando
Stop being pedantic. That's very likely what he was referring to. Prosecuting people over pictures of imaginary children is just ridiculous.
Yet many western countries do this. They also prosecute people over picutres of adults that the court decides might look like a child, and they can also prosecute a husband who has a picture of his wife's tits if his wife is, or looks, under 18.
Summary is making it look a LOT worse than it is.
- Bug's already been fixed, only what it did was revealed now.
- Bug does not affect binary distributions from mysql.com, Windows included.
- Bug only affects some distros.
Full description here: https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2012/06/11/cve-2012-2122-a-tragically-comedic-security-flaw-in-mysql
They claim ubuntu 10.04 64 bit is vulnerable. That's my laptop distro, and after 5,000 attempts I can't break in.
The linked memcmp program at http://pastie.org/4064638 indeed says I'm vulnerable, so why can't I break in?
RIM, to get the business market which MS does OK in. If it bought Nokia, then Nokia would go the way that most MS consumer stuff goes, down the plug-hole.
MS should have bought RIM 2 years ago, while it was still a force in the business world. The average exec wants an iphone and ipad nowadays, Microsoft have already lost.
Why? Will it be illegal to fire someone for their kid setting up a lemonade stand? If so, isn't that just a form of regulation?
Why is a small government not susceptible to bribes?
Carry your passport/docs ON YOU, separate from your wallet, end of story.
Passport, Wallet, Phone. That's enough to get me from anywhere in the world to a friendly country (i.e. visaless), so that's what always stays in my jeans pocket.
I also make sure I have half a dozen phone numbers memorised that I can call 24/7 in an emergency.
That's basic security at home or abroad. You should also carry duplicate info on a flash drive and wear that, and be able to access another copy online.
Certainly. Having scans of your passport(s) and visas available in a secure gmail account, that someone trusted (that isn't travelling with you) also has access too, is a good precaution. I don't bother with the USB stick any more (I have them on my laptop, and anywhere that's likely to have a printer is likely to have internet access nowadays)
Because he only travelled 2 miles a Taxi would be cheaper ...
This looks to be a deliberate worst case scenario ... drive most of the journey, only use the tube for a very short part, use the most expensive form of payment
Now try Watford (one side of London) to Heathrow (other side of London) cost : £3.70 - £6.40 - depending on payment method and time of travel - try beating that?
Indeed, I used to commute from Epping to Shepherds Bush. 1 hour on the tube, about 10p/mile.
On the other hand, the 200 yards Covent-Garden to Leicester Square cash fare of £4.30 works out 350 times more expensive (about £35/mile -- 20 times more than a flexible first class TATL flight).
The average person that doesn't know how to survive in London will simply buy an offpeak travelcard, £7-£8.50 for unlimited travel on tube, train and bus -- including the tube from Heathrow.
New York has the metrocard, which is £1.50 per ride. For the average person travelling offpeak, or travelling in zone 1 only, London is slightly more expensive at £2 per ride.
If the government doesn't have the power to regulate kids setting up lemonade stands, then BigDrink Corp can't buy influence to have them shut down.
But BigDrinkCorp can regulate. Said kid can not survive without parents, who cannot survive without a job. If that job is with BigDrinkCorp, it's easy for BigrinkCorp to fire the parents unless the kid shuts down the shop.
Presumably paid for through advertising, i.e. by consumers.
Once the olympics are over, you'll be charged. The contract would state Virgin have to wire up the stations, and provide free wifi for the plympics, but then get 5 years of ripping off passengers
That said, I don't see the market. It's only at the platform, which on the whole is a sub-5 minute wait even at 11pm - at least in the centre where there's no phone signals. By the time you get to the platform, get your phone out, log on to the wifi, type your credit card number in, type in the capcha, accept the terms and condtions, and provide your phone number and email, your train will be there.
...the London Underground, on a per-mile basis, is one of the most expensive transit systems in the world, so to say that the wi-fi is free is totally misleading as the cost is covered within the extortionate ticket prices.
Just to give people outside the UK some idea, two weeks ago the missus and I went to a concert in London. I drove the car to Hammersmith in West London and parked there, we got on the Underground to travel two stops to Shepherd's Bush, no more than two miles up the road.
The total cost for 2 return tickets was just under £14 or around $20.
I think that speaks for itself...
Yes, it says you haven't got a clue how to travel in London.
* Firstly, why not park at Westfield?
* Secondly, why not take a taxi? That would be about the same price that you paid
* Oyster would be £6 return for the two of you, even if you bought 2 new oyster cards in Hammersmith, and loaded each with £3, that would only be £12, and you can always return the cards later
Single cash fares are deliberately expensive because it costs a lot to maintain the infrastructure that less than 1% of journeys are made with.
Please tell me where a 40 yr old male or 50 yr old female can apply for the job as booth babe?
Feel free to apply, I imagine you won't get far.
The same can be said about sports, you don't get many 50 year old footballers.
The tech industry is probably the last major holdout in the understanding that women are not simply sex objects. Women refuse to work in the tech industry because of sexual harassment. Unfortunately, the field becomes dominated by men who don't understand it, which then perpetuates the alienation cycle.
If "booth babes" (I can't say I've noticed any at IBC, BVE, and the occasional linux expo, which are the only conventions I go to) are the worst that the tech industry gets, it pales in comparison to banking
Meh. Sun had CIFS in the Solaris kernel 5 years ago.
Err, cifs has been around for years in the linux kernel (as a module), and smbfs before that has been around since at least June 96
Have I gone insane or did I actually hear the reviewer host guy say, "You'll be literally blown away"?
Egad.
I think he means the game is Da Bomb
So, you want management to spring money for a treadmill, or whatever, in *addition* to your desk and chair? Just to add to the noise already, where so many jobsites are going for lower cube walls, because managers are enamored of "bullpens" (and how many of *them* don't have offices with doors)?
No, what comes next is the old Dilbert cartoon: Velcro on our backs, and they'll stick us to the walls for cheaper office space.
mark
You get walls? We get a long bench which you get 3 or 4 people camped on. I've tried to build a wall out of monitors (I have one of the few non-hotdesks), but I'd kill to be in a cube
Were you expecting the saucer crashdown from Star Trek: Generations?
C'mon! I mean, Marina Sirtis wasn't even driving...
The fact she was driving when the E* crashed in Generations was bad luck. Besides, the Enterprise-E crashed into a ship in Nemesis too
[Scotty]: What, she didna' have her shields up?
[Cartwright] They're heading for the bridge!
Andomeda will be on collision corse with the Milky Way throughout the whole history of mankind. It's just a blink of an eye for the universe.
Well the universe is about 13 billion years old, so 4 billion years is fairly impressive.
Of course, by the time stars stop being made in 100,000 billion years, then yes 4 billion is a blink in the eye.
Most of us are agnostic atheists. Including Dawkins, Hitchens, and the rest. You may have missed that.
Dawkins certainly preaches that view enough to imply he believes he holds "the positive belief that God does not exist"
a-theist means without God. One who does not accept that God exists is an atheist. One does not need to also hold the positive belief that God does not exist.
I thought a theist believed in some form of god :D
being an athiest (or better yet, simply rejecting the bullshit that religion tries to force on us)
I think those are the same thing (atheist/rejecting religion). You are strategically excluding Agnosticism, i.e. people who try to remain neutral/skeptical rather than get into the religion war on either side.
Indeed. People like Dawkins act as they are so sure they're right in their beliefs. Same goes for the religious mob. There are so many things we don't understand about the universe. We have no idea if there's life on a random planet in andromeda. We'd be fools to say there is, we'd be fools to say there isn't.
Same goes for religion. It's a logical fact that no more than 1 is right and every other one is wrong. It's almost certain that all are wrong. Doesn't necessarily mean that there's no "afterlife" though. Doesn't mean there is.
I'm not a fan of Football, but I wouldn't begrudge my fellow man his 90 minutes of fun every week.
Religion is a bit like watching (English) football.
Football has little obvious benefit, however it does keep people entertained. Occasionally some followers will have a riot and destroy a town centre, even kill some people. Followers of some teams are better at doing this than others [Millwall for example, compared with Plymouth Argyle], but all can do it. Some teams have enormous followings, enormous budgets, and enormous impact on a nation. During G8, the leaders of the world were busy worshipping football together. Obama maintained a neutral stance, Merkel was rooting for one side, Cameron for another.
Is it harmful? The impact of football on world leaders? The riots in town centres? The drain on the economy as many [mostly poor] people give a substantial portion of their wages to following their favourite team?
Perhaps. On one hand there's obvious bad impact on a Saturday evening with drunken fans, but on the other hand it keeps millions of people entertained. Although there's no law saying you should support a football team, but during big events like the World Cup expect to be frozen out of most conversations unless you maintain a passing interest.
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(English) football is a bit like religion.
Religion has little obvious benefit, however it does keep people entertained. Occasionally some followers will have a riot and destroy a building or two, even kill some people. Followers of some religions are better at doing this than others [Islam for example, compared with Buddhism], but all can do it. Some religions have enormous followings, enormous budgets, and enormous impact on a nation. During G8, the leaders of the world DIDN'T worship together, at least publicly.
Is it harmful? The impact of religion on world leaders? The abortion clinic bombings? The drain on the economy as many [mostly poor] people give a substantial portion of their wages to following their favourite religion?
Perhaps. On one hand there's obvious bad impact on very deranged fans blowing up buildings, but on the other hand it keeps millions of people entertained. Although there's no law saying you should follow a given religion, during big events like Christmas expect to be frozen out of most conversations unless you maintain a passing interest.