At least banks are subject to regulations which limit how badly they can screw the customer. Paypal can and does simply confiscate all of the money in an account with no higher authority for the user to appeal to.
Regulations?! More government interference! What's Slashdot coming to. The free market will solve everything, it always produces something better
First they need to convince you people that there is a terrorist menace in there. Then occupy.
The main requirement for a terrorist threat is the presence of oil, otherwise the US would have invaded Saudi, Lybia, North Korea, Oklahoma, etc.
Not to say that's not a good reason for the U.S. to invade and occupy a country -- the country relies on oil -- just don't get confused about "terrorism".
FWIW Chrome seems to be scrolling properly on spacebar here.
As does firefox. I know there's an issue with old versions of IE that don't support display: fixed, but this is slashdot, noone uses windows, let alone IE, do they?
A friend is in Russia at the moment. They just informed me that, on two major news networks, one is currently showing a dating show and another is showing a game show...
Are these news channels? Did they cancel the scheduled 6PM news to show the game show?
Amendment IV - The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Her staff should have been armed and ready to respond.
This is Arizona, I was under the impression that everyone and his dog in rural America walks around with guns. Bystanders apparently tackled the shooter without using guns. The only gun involved here was the murderer.
One or two big corporations are much easier to control than a lot of small companies (some of which the government might not even be aware of).
Perhaps your government can control facebook. Today. Does the government of Paraguay have any influence?
The U.S. is currently top dog, although I note that Zuckenberg is building bridges with China. I wonder how the government would change it's views if the headquarters and important people of google, microsoft, etc. weren't in the US, or weren't American citizens.
Increasingly more and more communication is becoming centralised. People use Facebook to send messages rather than email, Skype rather than direct voip calls, Twitter to keen people informed. Even email relies on central webservers. Gone is the days that typical emails would travel from your computer to the other persons directly, or at most via their local ISP.
Aside from being exactly what the internet is designed to avoid, it's also handing control to corporations that are 1) Too big for governments to influence 2) Too big to fail
I for one hope for more large scale outages, hopefully it will stem the tide, but like Cnut, we can't stop the inevitable.
Obviously there's some real projects out there using Ruby, is it mainly internal stuff? There's some big contenders for things like PHP (wikipedia probably being the biggest). Does Ruby factor in to any public-facing websites of note? Or is it mainly used in the corporate space in the area where you often find tomcat?
Very close. You can own a TV under those conditions, providing it also isn't capable of recieving a BBC broadcast signal. I don't know how strict the enforcement is, but I imagine applying epoxy to the antenna connector would do it
A common misconception
1) The TV License is nothing to do with the BBC. You still need one if you live in a valley somewhere and can (somehow) only receive ITV or Sky. (Until the communications act 2005 there was an exception if you only received broadcasts not intended for the UK, not sure if that exception still exists) 2) You don't need a license to own equipment. You need one to USE equipment to receive television broadcasts in some way, be that UHF, Cable, Satelite, or internet. You don't need one to view broadcasts after the event, like iplayer, or playing a file from bittorrent on your TV.
If it can't recieve the broadcast then it's considered a monitor, not a television. And no, you can't cheat and use a VCR as a tuner. They thought of that: Anything that can recieve counts as a TV. TV, VCR, TV tuner box for a PC, and so on.
It's nothing to do with the technology. Any internet-enabled device in the UK has the ability to receive broadcasts, as many channels broadcast via ip. Unless you use it for such a purpose (to watch live, or as live, material), you don't need a license.
Right at the beginning they would have asked my operating system and then told me, "We don't support Linux." Really helpful when the actual problem is their lines are down and I just want to know when they will be fixed.
Which is where you state "I have windows", unlikely to even be a lie, unless you live in a nuclear bunker, or your mom's basement...
What in the HELL is the point of a 27-character password if you're going to write it down?
People that haven't been taught to remember a phrase rather than a password.
On complex password I have for example, is 30 characters long -- 3 orders of magnitude stronger than a 128bit phrase, even if you knew it was entirely lowercase.
Then you get stupid password systems which state your password must be "at least 6 letters, including 1 upper case and 1 number", about 38 bits. Or even worse "between 6 and 8 characters".
Yeah like what happened to them is really likely to happen to the average person. Grow up.
In the mean time, facebook and twitter are banned from China (at least the hotel I was in last month), with the only technical means being a forged DNS entry. The BBC is currently banned because of the Peace prize coverage, I assume the same mechanism. DNS is the weakest link in the internet, and you might not even notice it.
So you can take GPL code Yes link it with your own Yes modify it Yes
By this stage, you don't need to do anything else. No need to release the source of anything, keep copyright notices intact, or anything.
distribute it
Yes, you can do this
and you don't have to re-release the source (taking it closed source)?
Anyone you distribute your code too has to have the same rights that you had when you received your GPL code. The GPL ensures that the freedom you get is passed on to others.
It's civilised freedom, c.f. your freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
So the leakers will now have to rely on plain old memorization, or print shit out. The only real way to prevent leaks is by monitoring access and severely punishing people for leaking. This leak only happened because the leaker all but knew he was impossible to catch. In fact, he was only caught because he bragged about it and someone turned him in.
This leak was 250,000 cables. How do you print them out without being caught? Nobody could memorise them, and their credibility would be harmed in any case.
My typical phone data usage is 100mb/month, tops. Plenty of surfing on the go (like now on the train), little bit of ssh over VPN, plenty of email, but wifi at home and office. Aside from downloading tv shows, I never hit 20gb/month at home. What do you do?
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At least banks are subject to regulations which limit how badly they can screw the customer. Paypal can and does simply confiscate all of the money in an account with no higher authority for the user to appeal to.
Regulations?! More government interference! What's Slashdot coming to. The free market will solve everything, it always produces something better
Github Revolution in Jordan
Looks like Yemen might be next. Something about a printing revolution?
First they need to convince you people that there is a terrorist menace in there. Then occupy.
The main requirement for a terrorist threat is the presence of oil, otherwise the US would have invaded Saudi, Lybia, North Korea, Oklahoma, etc.
Not to say that's not a good reason for the U.S. to invade and occupy a country -- the country relies on oil -- just don't get confused about "terrorism".
FWIW Chrome seems to be scrolling properly on spacebar here.
As does firefox. I know there's an issue with old versions of IE that don't support display: fixed, but this is slashdot, noone uses windows, let alone IE, do they?
A friend is in Russia at the moment. They just informed me that, on two major news networks, one is currently showing a dating show and another is showing a game show...
Are these news channels? Did they cancel the scheduled 6PM news to show the game show?
(In the monotone of Deep Space 9's wormhole aliens...yeah, I'm that geeky.)
And old :(
Try buying a video camera that doesn't use either x264 or mpeg2 video codecs.
Something like this cheap one, but you're right that Panasonic is moving to avc, and obviously Sony use xdcam
Amendment IV - The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Score:5, Funny
That's just sad.
Her staff should have been armed and ready to respond.
This is Arizona, I was under the impression that everyone and his dog in rural America walks around with guns. Bystanders apparently tackled the shooter without using guns. The only gun involved here was the murderer.
Now's a great time to Donate to the EFF
Your sig has never been more apt. You need to add "While you still can" though.
One or two big corporations are much easier to control than a lot of small companies (some of which the government might not even be aware of).
Perhaps your government can control facebook. Today. Does the government of Paraguay have any influence?
The U.S. is currently top dog, although I note that Zuckenberg is building bridges with China. I wonder how the government would change it's views if the headquarters and important people of google, microsoft, etc. weren't in the US, or weren't American citizens.
Increasingly more and more communication is becoming centralised. People use Facebook to send messages rather than email, Skype rather than direct voip calls, Twitter to keen people informed. Even email relies on central webservers. Gone is the days that typical emails would travel from your computer to the other persons directly, or at most via their local ISP.
Aside from being exactly what the internet is designed to avoid, it's also handing control to corporations that are
1) Too big for governments to influence
2) Too big to fail
I for one hope for more large scale outages, hopefully it will stem the tide, but like Cnut, we can't stop the inevitable.
Obviously there's some real projects out there using Ruby, is it mainly internal stuff? There's some big contenders for things like PHP (wikipedia probably being the biggest). Does Ruby factor in to any public-facing websites of note? Or is it mainly used in the corporate space in the area where you often find tomcat?
Very close. You can own a TV under those conditions, providing it also isn't capable of recieving a BBC broadcast signal. I don't know how strict the enforcement is, but I imagine applying epoxy to the antenna connector would do it
A common misconception
1) The TV License is nothing to do with the BBC. You still need one if you live in a valley somewhere and can (somehow) only receive ITV or Sky. (Until the communications act 2005 there was an exception if you only received broadcasts not intended for the UK, not sure if that exception still exists)
2) You don't need a license to own equipment. You need one to USE equipment to receive television broadcasts in some way, be that UHF, Cable, Satelite, or internet. You don't need one to view broadcasts after the event, like iplayer, or playing a file from bittorrent on your TV.
If it can't recieve the broadcast then it's considered a monitor, not a television. And no, you can't cheat and use a VCR as a tuner. They thought of that: Anything that can recieve counts as a TV. TV, VCR, TV tuner box for a PC, and so on.
It's nothing to do with the technology. Any internet-enabled device in the UK has the ability to receive broadcasts, as many channels broadcast via ip. Unless you use it for such a purpose (to watch live, or as live, material), you don't need a license.
Right at the beginning they would have asked my operating system and then told me, "We don't support Linux." Really helpful when the actual problem is their lines are down and I just want to know when they will be fixed.
Which is where you state "I have windows", unlikely to even be a lie, unless you live in a nuclear bunker, or your mom's basement...
What in the HELL is the point of a 27-character password if you're going to write it down?
People that haven't been taught to remember a phrase rather than a password.
On complex password I have for example, is 30 characters long -- 3 orders of magnitude stronger than a 128bit phrase, even if you knew it was entirely lowercase.
Then you get stupid password systems which state your password must be "at least 6 letters, including 1 upper case and 1 number", about 38 bits. Or even worse "between 6 and 8 characters".
or 5 years has passed (the time it takes to write it off)
You don't sweat assets?
Click "Go on computing"
You get the question
http://www3.wolframalpha.com/Calculate/MSP/MSP110419dbee2916i2669300001475f9963d9ebb46?MSPStoreType=image/gif&s=38&w=468&h=156
and result:
http://www3.wolframalpha.com/Calculate/MSP/MSP110919dbee2916i26693000026ffbg47b13125if?MSPStoreType=image/gif&s=38&w=403&h=37
Which is bloody impressive.
90091/191605......
Which we know from the story maps to
goo.gl/spe....
Yeah like what happened to them is really likely to happen to the average person. Grow up.
In the mean time, facebook and twitter are banned from China (at least the hotel I was in last month), with the only technical means being a forged DNS entry. The BBC is currently banned because of the Peace prize coverage, I assume the same mechanism. DNS is the weakest link in the internet, and you might not even notice it.
Why would it matter if you have the same IP address you've had for several years? Whats wrong with switching to a different one?
Ask wikileaks. We're entering a world where you can't rely on DNS.
So you can take GPL code
Yes
link it with your own
Yes
modify it
Yes
By this stage, you don't need to do anything else. No need to release the source of anything, keep copyright notices intact, or anything.
distribute it
Yes, you can do this
and you don't have to re-release the source (taking it closed source)?
Anyone you distribute your code too has to have the same rights that you had when you received your GPL code. The GPL ensures that the freedom you get is passed on to others.
It's civilised freedom, c.f. your freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
So the leakers will now have to rely on plain old memorization, or print shit out. The only real way to prevent leaks is by monitoring access and severely punishing people for leaking. This leak only happened because the leaker all but knew he was impossible to catch. In fact, he was only caught because he bragged about it and someone turned him in.
This leak was 250,000 cables. How do you print them out without being caught? Nobody could memorise them, and their credibility would be harmed in any case.
. The General Accounting Office says there are over 3 million people with a "secret" level clearance in the US. There's no excuse for that.
The fact that all these people need to know probably means that there's too many "secret" documents.
My typical phone data usage is 100mb/month, tops. Plenty of surfing on the go (like now on the train), little bit of ssh over VPN, plenty of email, but wifi at home and office. Aside from downloading tv shows, I never hit 20gb/month at home. What do you do?
I suspect Verizon is going to charge at least $20 for a gigabyte
$10/meg on uk o2 when I was recently in Pakistan and China. Hotel and office had wifi so not too bad.