I'd have to agree that it's a highly unique interpretation of the GPL -- most normal news sources (i.e. biassed and stupid) blindly repeat claims that the GPL is a cancer used by commie terrorists out to kill you.
Hacking tools are more like guns: make them illegal and only the criminals will have them.
No, they're more like screwdrivers. There are valid arguments against allowing ownership of guns (whether we agree or not is a moot point). Nobody in their right mind would try and ban screwdrivers.
Why do these "online apps" always have to be delivered "through a browser"? Why not have it delivered "through a network transparent windowing system optimized for internet connections", like say FreeNX?
Because practically every networked computer in the world has a web browser, and the infrastructure allows communication (including secure communication) through firewalls and proxies with no change. You'd need a hell of a good reason to change that, not even porn would do it.
Having One or two employees for the night is not going to ruin your finance.
I've worked a shift pattern, including weekends and nights, with 7 nights every 6 weeks. I much prefer doing 8/9/10 til 4/5/6, even 7, 5 days a week, and get called outside of hours once a month with something I can almost always fix from home, It means I actually get to see my fiancee!
You have to do something BEFORE it becomes a totalitarian state - because once it becomes a totalitarian state, there is going to be no protesting.
No system of government lasts the test of time. Eventually people rebel, no matter how many KGB or stormtroopers you have, however the time it takes relies mainly on brainwashing of the population. Make the people believe that what they have is good, and they will happilly accept it.
and lets face it terrorism (yes its an overused bogeyman, but if you traveled to work everyday in London via the tube, it would seem important to you)
I do travel to work every day by tube, central line, from Zone 6 in the east, through the centre, to Zone 2 in the west. I spend 2 hours a day on it, half of that is in deep tube (most of the July 7th casualties were on the picadilly line as it's so confined). Terrorism doens't concern me, the lack of police on the streets does, the fact that when they are allowed to get out of the office and capture criminals they often get off lightly. The fact even when they don't get off lightly, and there's a near-100% chance of being caught, it still goes on, it's a cancer in society that more surveilance of the 99% of people that don't cause the problems won't cure. Even when you get a decent CCTV image, how often are perpertrators identified? Of course that's a good excuse for face recognition on CCTV. But how to you find them once you identify them -- how about a nationwide searchable database with everyone's location on it.
People aren't as concerned with drivers causing over 20,000 deaths in the UK this decade, a number that hasn't wavered despite the massive increase in surveilance (and associated decrease in real patrols, and increase in car safety). 50 deaths from terrorism in the same time doesn't even register. People aren't even concerned about the numbers of unregistered, uninsured cars on our streets, especially in London (which the cameras don't catch up on).
The problem isn't when Labour are in power. As bad as our current government is, they aren't ones to go Mugabe on everyone. The danger isn't even if the BNP come to power. It's the present thread of when someone hacks into the centralised database, or buys their way in. Right now people with convictions for pretty nasty crimes can get your name and address and come around and intimidate you into paying them large sums of money without due process. If the information is collected, it will be sold and stolen.
Not this - it only goes up to MySQL 4.0. Is *anyone* still using that?
We still use 3.23 for broadcast data, because it works, and always has done. It has a ~2 year uptime since the last safety test, and it's a fairly light database (500,000 queries per day).
New development projects go on to 5.1 and use it's features where appropiate
One database we have, from an external company, has just moved to 4.1 under pressure from us, although the code that accesses it hasn't been changed. The change was to allow eaier migration path to the next version of their software, and a few nice things like subqueries, this is a more meaty database (220MB of data, 350MB of indexes, 20 million queries per day).
When there is news about the number of police patrols being increased, everyone expresses support, but as soon as cameras start getting put up (effectively, making the process more efficient), people start freaking out and making 1984 comparisons.
When you have a policeman on the beat, you can see your accuser. When you have a faceless camera you can't see who's watching. When the police are out, they have to make an effort to record you, via a notebook, camera, etc, when they suspect you of a crime. You see this happen, it's a face to face communication. When a CCTV is watching it's constantly recorded, in case you have committed a crime, or will commit a crime, or will be talking to someone that will, or are in the wrong time wrong place.
Say that a plod arrests you for taking a picture of the Houses of Parliament. They then take your DNA and fingerprints to be held permamently. They look at a recording of a speech you gave at Speakers Corner saying how bad extended CCTV is, they then note that you've recently diverted from your normal route of Highgate -> Canary Wharf between 8 and 9AM weekdays, and are spending tuesday afternoons at Westminster. They put two and two together and then you're banged up for terrorism.
It's all part of the extended surveilence network. As facial recognition progresses, soon your face (combined with your mobile, oyster, number plate) will be able to be automatically tracked across the country. People would complain if the police were stalking them when they are innocent.
The only ways mysql gets into corporate machine are 1) Grass roots simply installing it 2) Snr Mgmt being dazzled by golf and wine weekends
I can get my techliterate boss to point to a costly Mysql enterprise support package in those high up meetings where nothing really gets decided, but decisions float down from, and we are fine to dump Oracle for the latest 2000 queries/day intranet site.
In reality the support will be mostly Usenet, but it keeps the suits happy knowing that it must be good because it has a corporation selling it.
I can then arrange a junket to a mysql training course in some exotic country to teach something that could easily be learnt from online docs, but is ammo to go into bat with with suppliers that sold us a painful system to work with (load data from master on a database with 500MB of indexes and several updates per second is not a great way to ensure uptime, but they won't even entertain the idea of a mysql cluster at the moment. This "system" caused me 2 hours of grief this morning (fortunatly experience suggested that we'd need extended downtime).
I'm willing to bet (after having done no research at all) that fewer manufacturers support this than you think.
The network cards in both my laptops and my desktop support it. I'd hope that if the hardware supports it, the driver would. If the hardware doesn't support it, you're stuck as far as paranoia goes.
You change your MAC on the 12th minute of every hour?
Why not? Of course the truly paranoid will want to change more often, but they're simply nuts. If you're going to run a job regularly, never run it at the top or bottom of the hour, as that's when other people will schedule their jobs in.
Actually, no. If you really wanted digital video on a TV screen you'd be using HD-SDI (with embedded AES audio). You can get some nice cards from Bluefish.
To be fair, 1080p over HD-SDI needs 2 coaxes.
Dirac Pro looked very interesting at IBC in September though (on sale at NAB2007), compression of 1080p over a single HDSDI link, but the compressed picture was still viewable on a HD monitor -- the 2MSBs were kept, which meant you could monitor the signal path easilly.
I'm eagerly waiting for 1080i/720p over SDI, which would be an outstanding way to cheaply upgrade our infrastructure to HD before the major refresh in 5 years.
Someone working on Torchwood has (had? Has it been cancelled?) a serious obsession with homo-erotic scenes... It wouldn't have been such a bad thing if it hadn't meant that half of the plot was geared towards being conducive to nonsensical same sex encounters at the cost of, well, being actually good...
Torchwood returns next January, I agree it wasn't the greatest, too much "We are Welsh" for my liking. Makes a change from "London is the only place in the universe" of Dr Who though.
Dr Who returns in a couple of weeks.
Of course if they canned Torchwood only to replace it with Primeval then someone down at the BBC needs to be shot...
Probably the lawyers for allowing the BBC to broadcast an ITV program
I get paid a basic salary, plus London weighting, about 5-6% of that is deducted for pension, which they then match. I get paid 10% extra pre-pension for unpredictable hours, then 3/70 of my pre-pension weekly wage for every hour of overtime I work. Any hours between midnight as 4 attract about $15 an hour bonus, and between 4 and 6 attracts an extra $30 an hour. I then have Income tax deducted (post pension), the first $10K tax free, the next $4K at 10%, the next $70K at 22%, and the rest at 40%. On top of that I have 11% of another part of my monthly salary for national insurance (pre-pension) on every pound of my salary >$800/month, and 1% of my monthly salary over $5000 a month. However that reduces somewheat (I have no idea how much) because of my pension. I then finally have money deducted (pre-tax, post-pension) for my student loan (10% > $30K) perks like taxi journeys home > 40 miles when public transport isn't working (40 miles is free, but I used to live 55 miles away), membership of the work club. The occasional work-paid do has tax deducted (although not all). Fortunatly there's no tax on company mobiles any more, and as I work in Central London there's no need or desire for a company car, which save more tax.
Easy as pie. My next salary negotiation will involve me coming off one set of terms (with the hourly overtime) and onto a set of terms that will pay me a fixed rate for working an extra day, but no hourly extras, however my basic pay (and therefore company pension contribution) will increase accordingly.
My role has increased in responsibility over the last 6 months too (hence the renegotiation rather than the standard 2.5% yearly increase). I've taken over someone on a much higher basic salary, but with more experience, and on non-overtime conditions.
So working out my next required wage and conditions is a walk in the park.
I'll happily pay 10 times the cost of the BBC (it's actually around 3.5 times), considering that Sky has infinity times
Infinity times? Do you have any idea how stupid you sound?
All the best things are on Sky, the films are all on there first
They're on DVD before Sky, and the DVD's are cheaper to rent, and more convienient -- as Sky is proprietry, and Sky Plus is crap (can you program it and view from the web yet?), you need to rely on things like IR blasters for recordings.
all the top American programmes
On the internet way before sky:) I will conceed that terrestial treatment of scifi is crap, probably based arround the fact that BBC/ITV/C4 are general channels, sport often gets in the way, and our TV seasons are numerous and short, unlike US seasons.
Slashdot Mirror
Format shifting is almost certainly illegal in the UK.
Certainly used to, but I think there was a change in the law in the last couple of years
I'd have to agree that it's a highly unique interpretation of the GPL -- most normal news sources (i.e. biassed and stupid) blindly repeat claims that the GPL is a cancer used by commie terrorists out to kill you.
As for the various regions of things, you can always buy the media in the other nation. I can buy discs from Amazon.co.uk. Why can't you?
Tried that, unfortunatly I live in the UK, and I'm not allowed to buy stuff that has been imported
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6700639.
Hacking tools are more like guns: make them illegal and only the criminals will have them.
No, they're more like screwdrivers. There are valid arguments against allowing ownership of guns (whether we agree or not is a moot point). Nobody in their right mind would try and ban screwdrivers.
Why do these "online apps" always have to be delivered "through a browser"? Why not have it delivered "through a network transparent windowing system optimized for internet connections", like say FreeNX?
Because practically every networked computer in the world has a web browser, and the infrastructure allows communication (including secure communication) through firewalls and proxies with no change. You'd need a hell of a good reason to change that, not even porn would do it.
Having One or two employees for the night is not going to ruin your finance.
I've worked a shift pattern, including weekends and nights, with 7 nights every 6 weeks. I much prefer doing 8/9/10 til 4/5/6, even 7, 5 days a week, and get called outside of hours once a month with something I can almost always fix from home, It means I actually get to see my fiancee!
purely by the #'s there is a better chance of them finding some time to be online during the day then the males of the population.
Yet here's me, sitting in my office, responding to an irellevent slashdot post, at 10:41 on a Monday morning.
You have to do something BEFORE it becomes a totalitarian state - because once it becomes a totalitarian state, there is going to be no protesting.
No system of government lasts the test of time. Eventually people rebel, no matter how many KGB or stormtroopers you have, however the time it takes relies mainly on brainwashing of the population. Make the people believe that what they have is good, and they will happilly accept it.
and lets face it terrorism (yes its an overused bogeyman, but if you traveled to work everyday in London via the tube, it would seem important to you)
I do travel to work every day by tube, central line, from Zone 6 in the east, through the centre, to Zone 2 in the west. I spend 2 hours a day on it, half of that is in deep tube (most of the July 7th casualties were on the picadilly line as it's so confined). Terrorism doens't concern me, the lack of police on the streets does, the fact that when they are allowed to get out of the office and capture criminals they often get off lightly. The fact even when they don't get off lightly, and there's a near-100% chance of being caught, it still goes on, it's a cancer in society that more surveilance of the 99% of people that don't cause the problems won't cure. Even when you get a decent CCTV image, how often are perpertrators identified? Of course that's a good excuse for face recognition on CCTV. But how to you find them once you identify them -- how about a nationwide searchable database with everyone's location on it.
People aren't as concerned with drivers causing over 20,000 deaths in the UK this decade, a number that hasn't wavered despite the massive increase in surveilance (and associated decrease in real patrols, and increase in car safety). 50 deaths from terrorism in the same time doesn't even register. People aren't even concerned about the numbers of unregistered, uninsured cars on our streets, especially in London (which the cameras don't catch up on).
The problem isn't when Labour are in power. As bad as our current government is, they aren't ones to go Mugabe on everyone. The danger isn't even if the BNP come to power. It's the present thread of when someone hacks into the centralised database, or buys their way in. Right now people with convictions for pretty nasty crimes can get your name and address and come around and intimidate you into paying them large sums of money without due process. If the information is collected, it will be sold and stolen.
Not this - it only goes up to MySQL 4.0. Is *anyone* still using that?
We still use 3.23 for broadcast data, because it works, and always has done. It has a ~2 year uptime since the last safety test, and it's a fairly light database (500,000 queries per day).
New development projects go on to 5.1 and use it's features where appropiate
One database we have, from an external company, has just moved to 4.1 under pressure from us, although the code that accesses it hasn't been changed. The change was to allow eaier migration path to the next version of their software, and a few nice things like subqueries, this is a more meaty database (220MB of data, 350MB of indexes, 20 million queries per day).
When there is news about the number of police patrols being increased, everyone expresses support, but as soon as cameras start getting put up (effectively, making the process more efficient), people start freaking out and making 1984 comparisons.
When you have a policeman on the beat, you can see your accuser. When you have a faceless camera you can't see who's watching. When the police are out, they have to make an effort to record you, via a notebook, camera, etc, when they suspect you of a crime. You see this happen, it's a face to face communication. When a CCTV is watching it's constantly recorded, in case you have committed a crime, or will commit a crime, or will be talking to someone that will, or are in the wrong time wrong place.
Say that a plod arrests you for taking a picture of the Houses of Parliament. They then take your DNA and fingerprints to be held permamently. They look at a recording of a speech you gave at Speakers Corner saying how bad extended CCTV is, they then note that you've recently diverted from your normal route of Highgate -> Canary Wharf between 8 and 9AM weekdays, and are spending tuesday afternoons at Westminster. They put two and two together and then you're banged up for terrorism.
It's all part of the extended surveilence network. As facial recognition progresses, soon your face (combined with your mobile, oyster, number plate) will be able to be automatically tracked across the country. People would complain if the police were stalking them when they are innocent.
The only ways mysql gets into corporate machine are
1) Grass roots simply installing it
2) Snr Mgmt being dazzled by golf and wine weekends
I can get my techliterate boss to point to a costly Mysql enterprise support package in those high up meetings where nothing really gets decided, but decisions float down from, and we are fine to dump Oracle for the latest 2000 queries/day intranet site.
In reality the support will be mostly Usenet, but it keeps the suits happy knowing that it must be good because it has a corporation selling it.
I can then arrange a junket to a mysql training course in some exotic country to teach something that could easily be learnt from online docs, but is ammo to go into bat with with suppliers that sold us a painful system to work with (load data from master on a database with 500MB of indexes and several updates per second is not a great way to ensure uptime, but they won't even entertain the idea of a mysql cluster at the moment. This "system" caused me 2 hours of grief this morning (fortunatly experience suggested that we'd need extended downtime).
store all that kittie po...
kittie poo?
The other problem is that because the system is write-only
/dev/null, it's blazingly fast, it's as if my hard drive's read speed is the weak link.
I have a similar backup location --
Surely you mean WORM?
Dunno, but my boiler's on the fritz and I'm thinking about overclocking my PC to keep me warm, this mory can only help!
But for everyone, it means "When I want to do _______, it better work on the first try."
Which is exactly why I use linux
What about Pluto, Charon, Hydra, and Nix? Couldn't they be such a family?
Yes, they probably are the kids of some aging rock star
ensure that the working class (working poor) does not get cut off from their TV, is a win-win.
If you take away their TV they might riot, or even worse, they might vote!
I'm willing to bet (after having done no research at all) that fewer manufacturers support this than you think.
The network cards in both my laptops and my desktop support it. I'd hope that if the hardware supports it, the driver would. If the hardware doesn't support it, you're stuck as far as paranoia goes.
You change your MAC on the 12th minute of every hour?
Why not? Of course the truly paranoid will want to change more often, but they're simply nuts. If you're going to run a job regularly, never run it at the top or bottom of the hour, as that's when other people will schedule their jobs in.
Actually, no. If you really wanted digital video on a TV screen you'd be using HD-SDI (with embedded AES audio). You can get some nice cards from Bluefish.
To be fair, 1080p over HD-SDI needs 2 coaxes.
Dirac Pro looked very interesting at IBC in September though (on sale at NAB2007), compression of 1080p over a single HDSDI link, but the compressed picture was still viewable on a HD monitor -- the 2MSBs were kept, which meant you could monitor the signal path easilly.
I'm eagerly waiting for 1080i/720p over SDI, which would be an outstanding way to cheaply upgrade our infrastructure to HD before the major refresh in 5 years.
Someone working on Torchwood has (had? Has it been cancelled?) a serious obsession with homo-erotic scenes... It wouldn't have been such a bad thing if it hadn't meant that half of the plot was geared towards being conducive to nonsensical same sex encounters at the cost of, well, being actually good...
Torchwood returns next January, I agree it wasn't the greatest, too much "We are Welsh" for my liking. Makes a change from "London is the only place in the universe" of Dr Who though.
Dr Who returns in a couple of weeks.
Of course if they canned Torchwood only to replace it with Primeval then someone down at the BBC needs to be shot...
Probably the lawyers for allowing the BBC to broadcast an ITV program
There's nothing mystical about my salary.
I get paid a basic salary, plus London weighting, about 5-6% of that is deducted for pension, which they then match. I get paid 10% extra pre-pension for unpredictable hours, then 3/70 of my pre-pension weekly wage for every hour of overtime I work. Any hours between midnight as 4 attract about $15 an hour bonus, and between 4 and 6 attracts an extra $30 an hour. I then have Income tax deducted (post pension), the first $10K tax free, the next $4K at 10%, the next $70K at 22%, and the rest at 40%. On top of that I have 11% of another part of my monthly salary for national insurance (pre-pension) on every pound of my salary >$800/month, and 1% of my monthly salary over $5000 a month. However that reduces somewheat (I have no idea how much) because of my pension. I then finally have money deducted (pre-tax, post-pension) for my student loan (10% > $30K) perks like taxi journeys home > 40 miles when public transport isn't working (40 miles is free, but I used to live 55 miles away), membership of the work club. The occasional work-paid do has tax deducted (although not all). Fortunatly there's no tax on company mobiles any more, and as I work in Central London there's no need or desire for a company car, which save more tax.
Easy as pie. My next salary negotiation will involve me coming off one set of terms (with the hourly overtime) and onto a set of terms that will pay me a fixed rate for working an extra day, but no hourly extras, however my basic pay (and therefore company pension contribution) will increase accordingly.
My role has increased in responsibility over the last 6 months too (hence the renegotiation rather than the standard 2.5% yearly increase). I've taken over someone on a much higher basic salary, but with more experience, and on non-overtime conditions.
So working out my next required wage and conditions is a walk in the park.
I'll happily pay 10 times the cost of the BBC (it's actually around 3.5 times), considering that Sky has infinity times
:) I will conceed that terrestial treatment of scifi is crap, probably based arround the fact that BBC/ITV/C4 are general channels, sport often gets in the way, and our TV seasons are numerous and short, unlike US seasons.
Infinity times? Do you have any idea how stupid you sound?
All the best things are on Sky, the films are all on there first
They're on DVD before Sky, and the DVD's are cheaper to rent, and more convienient -- as Sky is proprietry, and Sky Plus is crap (can you program it and view from the web yet?), you need to rely on things like IR blasters for recordings.
all the top American programmes
On the internet way before sky
Sport
This is slashdot.