them not being able to get what they want for free.
as opposed to the upper class who DO get what they want for free. THAT's the problem : a very WIDE gap between the working poor(look up what that means) and the very rich.
I assume that "working poor" means you actually have to be working?
The people I saw that were a) Working b) Poor
Are the ones struggling to make ends meet working, or even owning, small businesses in seedy parts of London, living in crap flats above their businesses, and having their lives destroyed by this scum.
There's a few upper-class toff-twats rioting too, but the same applies. People who are WORKING don't have time to go rioting even if they want to.
Not all protests are peaceful. The triggering incident in this case was the shooting of an unarmed man
Citation? Where did the "converted BBM Bruni self-loading pistol" come from?
and the beating of a teenage girl by the police.
Citation?
These protestors want the police and the government to respect them, and they are showing that by disrespecting the laws they have been forced to live under.
That's why they're burning down government and police buildings, instead of looting local businesses and burning their neighbours cars?
... or if you are feeling adventurous, you can always install your own resolver locally. Unless your ISP would hijack requests going to root servers (which is a whole other level of maliciousness)...
Or indeed any traffic on UDP53.
The solution is to therefore tunnel your DNS requests to a known server, or even just put everything through your own personal VPN, and terminate with a decent company.
A senior Boeing engineer stressed to ZDNet Australia that the levels of EMI required to affect a pilot's screen exceeds the levels produced by the normal operation of normal levels of Wi-Fi use.
"Boeing and Honeywell have concluded that actual EMI levels experienced during a flight where there is normal operation of a Wi-Fi system will not cause any blanking of a Phase 3 display. This is not a safety issue with currently operating 737s and 777s," a Boeing engineer said.
I don't argue that it would be a similar amount, and I wouldn't mind if non-U.S. slashdotters would post a similar comment on stories talking about AT&T. Does BT have a similar presence in the U.S. as AT&T does in the U.K.?
Yes, BT has at least zero presence in the U.S, just as AT&T has zero presence in the UK.
The summary is pretty poor (as usual). The article says 'The revised Penal Code, which was enforced July 14, bans storage of a computer virus for the purpose of infecting other computers.' I doubt Symantec or McAfee store for the purpose of infecting other computers.
Ask yourself this, who has the most to gain from the continued proliferation of malware?
If malware ceased, virus companies would go under. I'm not specifically saying that Symantec et al write malware, but it is in their business interests to do so, or to encourage it's growth.
Can you explain why I can search gmail in milliseconds, but exchange takes an hour?
Exchange is a bit crappy. Microsoft have for a long time been promising to one day replace the backend with a SQL database but so far they haven't managed it. That said, it's a bit unfair to compare Microsoft to Google when it comes to search.
I see, so hotmail is as slow as exchange?
I don't care who makes a product, especially one as simple as a mail server. I care about how it helps me do my job. the way my company has Exchange set up is a hindrance.
You didn't tackle this question either:
Can you also explain why it's unusable over a mid-latency link (say 200-600ms)?
But it didn't take long for his users to force a switch to an exchange hosted environment. The features just weren't there and the support or the tech resources to make corrections were far too time-consuming.
You sound like someone with exchange experience. I have a 700MB exchange account, I have a similar size gmail account.
Can you explain why I can search gmail in milliseconds, but exchange takes an hour? Is it just my organisation that is running some ancient version of exchange on crap hardware, or is it a fundamental problem with Exchange?
Can you also explain why it's unusable over a mid-latency link (say 200-600ms)?
Gatwick Airport already has em in both north and south terminals. They've been installed over the past few months (called Autogates) and still have a lot of bugs in the system. They dont always do what they should. People have successfully talegated others, failed to be recognised and recognised as somebody different (ie family member). Although when they work they are quite cool. Will be interesting to see how they pan out.
Are you thinking of the e-passport gates? Heathrow has had them for a while.
I've attempted to use them 3 times, twice at Heathrow (T5), once in Lisbon. Worked fine in Lisbon (saving a long queue), but both times it's failed to recognise me at Heathrow.
OTOH, the iris scanners at Heathrow work flawlessly for me, every time - I must have used it a dozen times in the last year.
No it doesn't. The UK (like the U.S. and Canada) doesn't have exit controls either, sure the airlines check you have a passport, but the government only checks on the way in.
That's not true in general for international flights into the UK. I've flown into five different UK airports from Spain and every time I've had to show my passport to Border Agency officials.
Those are entry controls, and obviously the UK has them (although I rarely need to my passport out). There are no official passport checks on the way out though. The U.S. is the same. My (british) passports are full of entry stamps to various countries, and exit stamps a few days later. Canada and the U.S are the only exceptions.
After A lands and is through to the UK, B returns landside.
This is the tricky bit. I've been at the gate in Stansted when the airline announced that there was no co-pilot, and we had to return to landside. They opened some doors which are normally kept locked, and sent us through passport control. The best bet for person B would probably be to claim to have missed their flight, but I would be surprised if they pulled it off - especially if they've had to mill around in the departure lounge for the best part of an hour to give person A time.
Depends if you've got an airside pass, which many low-paid temp workers get without much of a blink. Or you claim you fell asleep in the lounge and your bag had been nicked.
That's assuming you cant do the -4 shuffle back from T5B (dunno about other terminals)
Of course, they've fixed this for years, by taking a picture of the person at ground-side pre-security. I have no idea why they need more technology (aside from kickbacks)
No you can't. You have to clear passport control first.
Obviously, this has nothing to do with immigration and more to do with those photo tags you enabled on picasa...
Person A (No right of entry to the UK) gets a flight from Kenya -> Heathrow -> Canada Person B (UK citizen) gets a flight Heathrow -> Manchester
A lands at T5, goes through flight connections, has paperwork for onwards flight checked, but DOES NOT PASS THROUGH PASSPORT CONTROL. Enters departure lounge. B arrives at T5, checks in for the flight to Manchester, enters departure lounge. B gives A boarding pass, A heads up to Manchester.
After A lands and is through to the UK, B returns landside.
people flying in and then transferring directly in the transfers area to an internal flight to another part of the UK
Every other airport I've seen keeps international travelers separate from domestic flights (you have to go through customs to reach the domestic terminal). Does Heathrow not have this arrangement?
No it doesn't. The UK (like the U.S. and Canada) doesn't have exit controls either, sure the airlines check you have a passport, but the government only checks on the way in.
"Commuter trains in the UK tend to go upto 110mph, but average nearer 50-60. Eurostar from London to Paris peaks at 186mph (186.1 according to the iphone gps), but only averages 136mph."
Eurostar is a french Alstom train;);) , its average speed between London and UK is 175 kmph.
Not any more, that might have been the speed when it went into Waterloo.
1) London is in the UK 2) Paris to London takes 2h15. The journey is 307 miles. That's 136mph, or 219kph. 3) Brussels to London, 232 miles, takes 1h55. That's 121mph, or 195kph.
The average speed includes the slow 31 miles in the tunnel at about 90mph.
"D" trains are the first generation of bullet trains in China, with an average speed of just short of 100mph (160km/h).
Feh. Amtrak, and even some commuter trains in the Northeast, routinely exceed 110-125mph.
Commuter trains in the UK tend to go upto 110mph, but average nearer 50-60. Eurostar from London to Paris peaks at 186mph (186.1 according to the iphone gps), but only averages 136mph.
The Acela Express might peak at 150, but it averages 70mph.
At least 11 people have died and 89 people injured
You would think this important information would be in the summary to give perspective on the disaster.
The number of deaths isn't what makes it interesting to Slashdot -- the Oslo shooting + bombing (rightly) didn't get reported here. This derailment leads to a discussion of safety standards of high-tech systems, especially in emerging countries, and how technology could have prevented or caused the crash, hence it's newsworthiness.
No the more oppressive the regime the MORE resistance needs to be in the open. Oppressive regimes work by making people afraid, especially by making dissidents feel they are alone and isolated. When oppressive regimes fall from internal causes it is nearly always due to people making public stands. The current "Arab spring" is the perfect example of this. Those regimes are only falling because people are marching in the streets and willing to die to see the end of the current regimes.
Hows that working out for the people of Libya and Syria? How did it work out in 1991 with people in Iraq? Howabout 2008 in Iran?
So if someone's sitting on your front step and refuses to leave, you can't ask a cop to remove him? What do you do, sue him and wait a few months until the court date to see if you get to start charging him rent?
Pretty much, however chances are he'll be arrested on some unrelated charge (aggravated trespass, breach of the peace).
If someone's sitting in your garden the police are more likely to interfere then if their sitting in a field you own (perhaps arresting you on suspicion of being a vagrant, then letting you go after they remove you from the site and find out you aren't).
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them not being able to get what they want for free .
as opposed to the upper class who DO get what they want for free. THAT's the problem : a very WIDE gap between the working poor(look up what that means) and the very rich.
I assume that "working poor" means you actually have to be working?
The people I saw that were
a) Working
b) Poor
Are the ones struggling to make ends meet working, or even owning, small businesses in seedy parts of London, living in crap flats above their businesses, and having their lives destroyed by this scum.
There's a few upper-class toff-twats rioting too, but the same applies. People who are WORKING don't have time to go rioting even if they want to.
Not all protests are peaceful. The triggering incident in this case was the shooting of an unarmed man
Citation? Where did the "converted BBM Bruni self-loading pistol" come from?
and the beating of a teenage girl by the police.
Citation?
These protestors want the police and the government to respect them, and they are showing that by disrespecting the laws they have been forced to live under.
That's why they're burning down government and police buildings, instead of looting local businesses and burning their neighbours cars?
Back in the day we didnt care about DNS anyways... we used IRC and IP addresses.
Guess what... it still works.
IPv6 makes it a lot harder to remember ip addresses.
... or if you are feeling adventurous, you can always install your own resolver locally. Unless your ISP would hijack requests going to root servers (which is a whole other level of maliciousness)...
Or indeed any traffic on UDP53.
The solution is to therefore tunnel your DNS requests to a known server, or even just put everything through your own personal VPN, and terminate with a decent company.
Its not a matter of feeling or not. Wi-fi has been proven to interfere with emergancy landing equipment. Don't believe me? Read for yourself. http://www.zdnet.com.au/wi-fi-proven-to-interfere-with-aircraft-339311113.htm
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/03/10/354179/wi-fi-interference-with-honeywell-avionics-prompts-boeing.html
From your article:
A senior Boeing engineer stressed to ZDNet Australia that the levels of EMI required to affect a pilot's screen exceeds the levels produced by the normal operation of normal levels of Wi-Fi use.
"Boeing and Honeywell have concluded that actual EMI levels experienced during a flight where there is normal operation of a Wi-Fi system will not cause any blanking of a Phase 3 display. This is not a safety issue with currently operating 737s and 777s," a Boeing engineer said.
McDonalds doesn't serve you complimentary alcoholic beverages while paying you $8/hour.
Those beverages make it unlikely you'll play a perfect game
They have the internet there?
Our office in Islamabad gets a speedtest result of 100mbit from a local server, and gets between 20 to 32mbit to a server in the UK.
So, they're locking the barn door after the horse has bolted...
dozens of hard disk drives were stolen from a leased facility in Chattanooga, potentially exposing the personal data of more than 1 million customers
The data is gone... and now they're encrypting.
They've locked the barn dor after 1 horse bolted. There's hundreds more left in the barn.
The latest pet idea I had, after seeing Harry Potter get a successful 8-movie run, was Alistair Reynold's "Pushing Ice".
One minor problem. Noone's heard of Alistair Reynold or "Pushing Ice".
I don't argue that it would be a similar amount, and I wouldn't mind if non-U.S. slashdotters would post a similar comment on stories talking about AT&T. Does BT have a similar presence in the U.S. as AT&T does in the U.K.?
Yes, BT has at least zero presence in the U.S, just as AT&T has zero presence in the UK.
The summary is pretty poor (as usual). The article says 'The revised Penal Code, which was enforced July 14, bans storage of a computer virus for the purpose of infecting other computers.' I doubt Symantec or McAfee store for the purpose of infecting other computers.
Ask yourself this, who has the most to gain from the continued proliferation of malware?
If malware ceased, virus companies would go under. I'm not specifically saying that Symantec et al write malware, but it is in their business interests to do so, or to encourage it's growth.
Can you explain why I can search gmail in milliseconds, but exchange takes an hour?
Exchange is a bit crappy. Microsoft have for a long time been promising to one day replace the backend with a SQL database but so far they haven't managed it. That said, it's a bit unfair to compare Microsoft to Google when it comes to search.
I see, so hotmail is as slow as exchange?
I don't care who makes a product, especially one as simple as a mail server. I care about how it helps me do my job. the way my company has Exchange set up is a hindrance.
You didn't tackle this question either:
Can you also explain why it's unusable over a mid-latency link (say 200-600ms)?
But it didn't take long for his users to force a switch to an exchange hosted environment. The features just weren't there and the support or the tech resources to make corrections were far too time-consuming.
You sound like someone with exchange experience. I have a 700MB exchange account, I have a similar size gmail account.
Can you explain why I can search gmail in milliseconds, but exchange takes an hour? Is it just my organisation that is running some ancient version of exchange on crap hardware, or is it a fundamental problem with Exchange?
Can you also explain why it's unusable over a mid-latency link (say 200-600ms)?
Ah, sorry: I misunderstood you to be talking about exiting airside to landside rather than exiting the country.
The only passport check on a person leaving the UK from Heathrow is the one at the gate, by airline staff.
Gatwick Airport already has em in both north and south terminals. They've been installed over the past few months (called Autogates) and still have a lot of bugs in the system. They dont always do what they should. People have successfully talegated others, failed to be recognised and recognised as somebody different (ie family member). Although when they work they are quite cool. Will be interesting to see how they pan out.
Are you thinking of the e-passport gates? Heathrow has had them for a while.
I've attempted to use them 3 times, twice at Heathrow (T5), once in Lisbon. Worked fine in Lisbon (saving a long queue), but both times it's failed to recognise me at Heathrow.
OTOH, the iris scanners at Heathrow work flawlessly for me, every time - I must have used it a dozen times in the last year.
No it doesn't. The UK (like the U.S. and Canada) doesn't have exit controls either, sure the airlines check you have a passport, but the government only checks on the way in.
That's not true in general for international flights into the UK. I've flown into five different UK airports from Spain and every time I've had to show my passport to Border Agency officials.
Those are entry controls, and obviously the UK has them (although I rarely need to my passport out). There are no official passport checks on the way out though. The U.S. is the same. My (british) passports are full of entry stamps to various countries, and exit stamps a few days later. Canada and the U.S are the only exceptions.
After A lands and is through to the UK, B returns landside.
This is the tricky bit. I've been at the gate in Stansted when the airline announced that there was no co-pilot, and we had to return to landside. They opened some doors which are normally kept locked, and sent us through passport control. The best bet for person B would probably be to claim to have missed their flight, but I would be surprised if they pulled it off - especially if they've had to mill around in the departure lounge for the best part of an hour to give person A time.
Depends if you've got an airside pass, which many low-paid temp workers get without much of a blink. Or you claim you fell asleep in the lounge and your bag had been nicked.
That's assuming you cant do the -4 shuffle back from T5B (dunno about other terminals)
Of course, they've fixed this for years, by taking a picture of the person at ground-side pre-security. I have no idea why they need more technology (aside from kickbacks)
No you can't. You have to clear passport control first.
Obviously, this has nothing to do with immigration and more to do with those photo tags you enabled on picasa...
Person A (No right of entry to the UK) gets a flight from Kenya -> Heathrow -> Canada
Person B (UK citizen) gets a flight Heathrow -> Manchester
A lands at T5, goes through flight connections, has paperwork for onwards flight checked, but DOES NOT PASS THROUGH PASSPORT CONTROL. Enters departure lounge.
B arrives at T5, checks in for the flight to Manchester, enters departure lounge.
B gives A boarding pass, A heads up to Manchester.
After A lands and is through to the UK, B returns landside.
people flying in and then transferring directly in the transfers area to an internal flight to another part of the UK
Every other airport I've seen keeps international travelers separate from domestic flights (you have to go through customs to reach the domestic terminal).
Does Heathrow not have this arrangement?
No it doesn't. The UK (like the U.S. and Canada) doesn't have exit controls either, sure the airlines check you have a passport, but the government only checks on the way in.
"Commuter trains in the UK tend to go upto 110mph, but average nearer 50-60. Eurostar from London to Paris peaks at 186mph (186.1 according to the iphone gps), but only averages 136mph."
Eurostar is a french Alstom train ;);) , its average speed between London and UK is 175 kmph.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Eurostar---Catching-Train-to-Paris&id=6357394
Not any more, that might have been the speed when it went into Waterloo.
1) London is in the UK
2) Paris to London takes 2h15. The journey is 307 miles. That's 136mph, or 219kph.
3) Brussels to London, 232 miles, takes 1h55. That's 121mph, or 195kph.
The average speed includes the slow 31 miles in the tunnel at about 90mph.
http://www.seat61.com/London-to-Paris-by-train.htm
From TFA:
Feh. Amtrak, and even some commuter trains in the Northeast, routinely exceed 110-125mph.
Commuter trains in the UK tend to go upto 110mph, but average nearer 50-60. Eurostar from London to Paris peaks at 186mph (186.1 according to the iphone gps), but only averages 136mph.
The Acela Express might peak at 150, but it averages 70mph.
At least 11 people have died and 89 people injured
You would think this important information would be in the summary to give perspective on the disaster.
The number of deaths isn't what makes it interesting to Slashdot -- the Oslo shooting + bombing (rightly) didn't get reported here. This derailment leads to a discussion of safety standards of high-tech systems, especially in emerging countries, and how technology could have prevented or caused the crash, hence it's newsworthiness.
No the more oppressive the regime the MORE resistance needs to be in the open. Oppressive regimes work by making people afraid, especially by making dissidents feel they are alone and isolated. When oppressive regimes fall from internal causes it is nearly always due to people making public stands. The current "Arab spring" is the perfect example of this. Those regimes are only falling because people are marching in the streets and willing to die to see the end of the current regimes.
Hows that working out for the people of Libya and Syria? How did it work out in 1991 with people in Iraq? Howabout 2008 in Iran?
Did anyone else read that as "10 byte files?" that seemed mighty slow lol
Nope, I read 267
So if someone's sitting on your front step and refuses to leave, you can't ask a cop to remove him? What do you do, sue him and wait a few months until the court date to see if you get to start charging him rent?
Pretty much, however chances are he'll be arrested on some unrelated charge (aggravated trespass, breach of the peace).
If someone's sitting in your garden the police are more likely to interfere then if their sitting in a field you own (perhaps arresting you on suspicion of being a vagrant, then letting you go after they remove you from the site and find out you aren't).
Neither act is illegal on its own though.