I admire your balls;-) Don't get me wrong, I thought the article was good - just that I wondered how many emails saying "No you idiot, it's like this..." you got? Maybe none, maybe loads...
Look like useful changes, designed to make life easier and code clearer, but did anyone else get a bit put off by the constant "If this is what Larry means..", and "I'm not sure but.." and "I think this is...". Surely only a fool would write an article about something they don't understand fully, and then hang it out to get shot at by the perl community?
Yup, it was trialled a few years back by the ambulance service in the UK and is still used in London, in combination with the normal siren, as it's next to impossible to tell where sirens are coming from.
I belive the theory is that white noise doesn't reflect anywhere near as cleanly as toned sound will, so you don't get put of by the echoes.
Next time you hear an ambulance siren, if you're in the UK, you may hear a loud cacophony between every few siren cycles - this is, in practice, just very loud white noise.
i've just requisitioned 8,000 reams of paper and 5000 number 2 pencils
OBPYTHON: Pencils! Cor bilmey the young today don't know they're born! In my day we had to use burnt sticks! And we didn't have the decimal system! Ooooh no we had to get by with roman numerals! Which we had to invent! etc. etc.
.. just a minute here. I use netscape and tin, both of which have the capability to encode/decode ROT-13 information, am I therefore guilty of using: "a product designed to circumvent copyright protection measures in violation of Title 17, United States Code, Section 1201(b)(1)(A)"?
Tell that to my local council, thay wanted my passport and council tax documents before I could vote in the last election. I have been in that flat for only 3 months.
I move house alot, admittedly, but each time I have registered to vote I have been required to prove my identity in some form or another, why does this not apply to you?
This is utterly wrong. There is no need to prove your identity what-so-ever. I've voted in every local/general/european election in the last 10 years and have moved a number of times. I have never been asked for anything.
So why then, when I asked to be registered to vote at my new address, did I have to send off my council tax details and my passport, was this a joke perhaps? I also have moved many times in the last 8 years and have had to register this way every time (or at least every time I could be bothered). So why is it different for you?
Too bad the Mac's are so expensive, otherwise i would have gotten me one myself.
I wouldn't go that far. It's nice to see the Mac community getting a Linux they deserve, rather that some of the second-hand ports which have been available. Buy a Mac though? No thanks - I'll stick with my Athlon for the moment. If only, as you mention, for the cost, and the (lame) fact that I'm used to having a PC on my desk.
No-one knows who you are, and therein for me lies the problem. When you register to vote in the UK, you are required to prove your identity using a passport/photo-id drivers license[1], and to prove your address by means of utility bills or tax documents.
Although PKI online is a step toward proof of ownership, and although electronic signatures are now considered legal in the UK (and EU??), I can still create a PGP key for an email address that I made up on @yahoo, @aol etc. etc.
I can then get my communist friends to sign my fake key, making it look as if I am really who I say I am. It's a question of trust.
So, what should we do to ensure that PKI is as trustable as Real Life(TM)?
Maybe we should ask the governement to get an encryption key, and we can get them to sign ours, after we have gone through the standard ID check, then votes could be accepted only from those who have signed with a key which is counter-signed by the government?, maybe the electoral roll could include an e-mail address to which the government sends an e-mail, and only accepts resposes from registered addresses (but how easy is it to fake email headers;-).
That's just my immediate thoughts, any ideas?
cmclean
[1] Note to non UKians, photo's on drivers licenses are a new thing over here[2] [2] And they suck IMNSHO
Dear Sir, My Client, God Inc. has instructed us to contact you and demand that unless you cease forthwith use of my client's patented product, namely "Feet(TM)", court proceedings will be lodged against you. Any further use of this technology will be subject to royalty payments by yourself and/or any companies, holdings, relatives, children, etc. connected to it's use
Please contact our office at your earliest conveniece to discuss this matter, and avoid a potentially damaging civil action.
providing no way for a viewer to know whether a site is actually relevant to your query, or just a site that paid the search engine some money
Great! Does this mean that all the 'FR33 Pr0n' links which really redirect to a million pop-ups for pay sites - instead of 'free' as advertised - are going to get taken to the cleaners?
Seriously though, the site which paid to be included/highlighted/moved-to-the-top-of-the-list is more often than not, just as relevant as others in the list. The added bonus being that if it weren't for these sites, you wouldn't have a search engine at all.
I agree that if the advert is not relevant to your search it should contain a warning to that effect, or better still not appear at all, but there is a place for targeted, relevant advertising in the search results.
They simply make sure all their "nice".NET products are available through some MS.NET Browser for opensource platforms, and Woila. Suddenly you're using MS products on an opensource platform. Which one will die ? The product you use or the OS you run in the bottom ?
Or simply write cross-platform apps and utilities, hand them out to the open-source community to get visibility (and free beta-testing:-) then pull support for the whole shebang in a couple of years. Many people will be using MS's open-source products, but suddenly they can't use them on `uname -s` any more.
Solution: Buy Windows XP7.1SP22 instead for mucho dineri.
Having used a voicemail service which relies on voice-recognition for a couple of years now, I've been regularly annoyed at the fact that the slightest background noise (i.e. the sound made by the planet revolving) throws the recognition all to hell. How this new translation system will cope with background noise along the lines of tanks/APCs, choppers, gunfire, screaming locals etc. will a real test of it's useability IMO.
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And the Natwest ATM at Waterloo Station (again London, UK) which BSOD'd on the lady before me in the queue, taking her card with it.
She's probably the only person I know with a personal reason to hate Microsoft. Hehe.
cmclean
P.S. Did you know the term "Cashpoint" is copyright in the UK by LloydsTSB? wtf?
cmclean
I admire your balls ;-)
Don't get me wrong, I thought the article was good - just that I wondered how many emails saying "No you idiot, it's like this..." you got? Maybe none, maybe loads...
Thanks for taking the time to respond in person.
cmclean
Surely only a fool would write an article about something they don't understand fully, and then hang it out to get shot at by the perl community?
cmclean
What?!? AC's have their own kernel tree now?
Sheesh...
cmclean
vaio_laptop.img
notebook_paper.img
Now, the above examples could be forseen by the industries as bad bad bad. Imagine MacDonalds with a lawsuit against burger pirates.
No problem, just get hold of microsoft_legal_team.img ;-)
cmclean
This is the advantage of solar energy. Your average petrol car would have had to stop for fuel after a couple of hours...
cmclean
Yup, it was trialled a few years back by the ambulance service in the UK and is still used in London, in combination with the normal siren, as it's next to impossible to tell where sirens are coming from.
I belive the theory is that white noise doesn't reflect anywhere near as cleanly as toned sound will, so you don't get put of by the echoes.
Next time you hear an ambulance siren, if you're in the UK, you may hear a loud cacophony between every few siren cycles - this is, in practice, just very loud white noise.
cmclean
OBPYTHON:
Pencils! Cor bilmey the young today don't know they're born! In my day we had to use burnt sticks! And we didn't have the decimal system! Ooooh no we had to get by with roman numerals! Which we had to invent! etc. etc.
cmclean
- am I therefore guilty of using: "a product designed to circumvent copyright protection measures
Hrm... perhaps that information should be made available to the lawyers on both sides, the judge, and the jury...Sweet Christ no! I don't wanna go to jail!
cmclean.
P.S Quoting what you are replying to is good
Oops, looks like we're all off to jail ;-)
cmclean
Tell that to my local council, thay wanted my passport and council tax documents before I could vote in the last election. I have been in that flat for only 3 months.
I move house alot, admittedly, but each time I have registered to vote I have been required to prove my identity in some form or another, why does this not apply to you?
cmclean
So why then, when I asked to be registered to vote at my new address, did I have to send off my council tax details and my passport, was this a joke perhaps?
I also have moved many times in the last 8 years and have had to register this way every time (or at least every time I could be bothered). So why is it different for you?
cmclean
I wouldn't go that far. It's nice to see the Mac community getting a Linux they deserve, rather that some of the second-hand ports which have been available. Buy a Mac though? No thanks - I'll stick with my Athlon for the moment. If only, as you mention, for the cost, and the (lame) fact that I'm used to having a PC on my desk.
cmclean
Pencils?? I hope not!
Now, I'll just get my eraser...
cmclean
When you register to vote in the UK, you are required to prove your identity using a passport/photo-id drivers license[1], and to prove your address by means of utility bills or tax documents.
Although PKI online is a step toward proof of ownership, and although electronic signatures are now considered legal in the UK (and EU??), I can still create a PGP key for an email address that I made up on @yahoo, @aol etc. etc.
I can then get my communist friends to sign my fake key, making it look as if I am really who I say I am. It's a question of trust.
So, what should we do to ensure that PKI is as trustable as Real Life(TM)?
Maybe we should ask the governement to get an encryption key, and we can get them to sign ours, after we have gone through the standard ID check, then votes could be accepted only from those who have signed with a key which is counter-signed by the government?, maybe the electoral roll could include an e-mail address to which the government sends an e-mail, and only accepts resposes from registered addresses (but how easy is it to fake email headers ;-).
That's just my immediate thoughts, any ideas?
cmclean
[1] Note to non UKians, photo's on drivers licenses are a new thing over here[2]
[2] And they suck IMNSHO
cmclean
Dear Sir,
My Client, God Inc. has instructed us to contact you and demand that unless you cease forthwith use of my client's patented product, namely "Feet(TM)", court proceedings will be lodged against you.
Any further use of this technology will be subject to royalty payments by yourself and/or any companies, holdings, relatives, children, etc. connected to it's use
Please contact our office at your earliest conveniece to discuss this matter, and avoid a potentially damaging civil action.
Yours,
Legal Dept.
Microsoft Corp.
Great! Does this mean that all the 'FR33 Pr0n' links which really redirect to a million pop-ups for pay sites - instead of 'free' as advertised - are going to get taken to the cleaners?
Seriously though, the site which paid to be included/highlighted/moved-to-the-top-of-the-list is more often than not, just as relevant as others in the list. The added bonus being that if it weren't for these sites, you wouldn't have a search engine at all.
I agree that if the advert is not relevant to your search it should contain a warning to that effect, or better still not appear at all, but there is a place for targeted, relevant advertising in the search results.
cmclean
A screen like that might even make VirtuaGirl watchable :-)
cmclean
Or simply write cross-platform apps and utilities, hand them out to the open-source community to get visibility (and free beta-testing :-) then pull support for the whole shebang in a couple of years.
Many people will be using MS's open-source products, but suddenly they can't use them on `uname -s` any more.
Solution: Buy Windows XP7.1SP22 instead for mucho dineri.
Or I could just be being cynical?
cmclean
Worms yes, Worms Armageddon however...
cmclean
Oh, Brave new world...
cmclean
Having used a voicemail service which relies on voice-recognition for a couple of years now, I've been regularly annoyed at the fact that the slightest background noise (i.e. the sound made by the planet revolving) throws the recognition all to hell. How this new translation system will cope with background noise along the lines of tanks/APCs, choppers, gunfire, screaming locals etc. will a real test of it's useability IMO.
You might be able to get the info you want from one of the linux-kernel mailing list archives, as good a place as any to start.
Regards,
cmclean