We need to start lobbying against this now, with friends, family and our MPs; We need to set the agenda with news and media, we need to demonstrate that Gowers, the News and Media as copyright holder are obviously biased and demand a fair hearing. We need to point out that; Gowers as a copyright holder should disqualify himself, for his obvious bias. We need to get this meme into the public consciousness. We need to use organisations like the PPC to ensure that people opposing this gets a fair hearing. We need to unashamedly use the obvious bias of these people against them.
We need to engage with this governments working class support. With the Question. "Why should you and I as UK tax payers be paying to enforce the unfair copyright restrictions of huge American and Japanese corporations ?" Draw people and medias attention to incidents where pensioners are mugged and women raped whilst the Police are raiding car boot sales for copyright pirates.
Bio-fuels have the potential to be carbon positive and improve food production in some instances. There are Bio-fuel crops that can be grown on desert margins that are to arid to produce food crops and the parts of the planet that produce no oil can be used for land reclaimation through soil improvement capturing carbon in new soil creation.
But the Guilford Four are member of the IRa and where terrorists, this has subsequently been proven beyond any reasonable doubt. They were released because they didn't get a fair trial not because they where innocent.
The EU proposal is a compromise, the US and the UN are at loggerheads over this. There are a number of third & developing world governments including Russia, China & India threaterning to form a break away internets with national DNS infrastructures because the are unhappy with the abuses of the US government with regard to ICANN favouring the US political hedgomony. The EU proposal's is a _compromise_ to make the DNS infrastucture trans-national, to keep it as an inter-net and avoid it breaking up into dozens of national-nets.
I suggest you and the moderators who made this +5 insightfull do some more background reading.
Any rootkit would be clear violation of sections 2 and 3 of the Computer Missuse Act. This Act comes from EU treaty obligations so substantially similar legislation exists throughout Europe. The territorial scope of this Act only requires one of the parties to the offense to be in the UK. So buying this from Amazon UK should cover you even if you dont live in the UK.
It's simple Supply-Demand (Keynesian economic theory), when workers with a particular skill set are not in demand or supply excedes demand, there's not much rationale to give workers higher pay. Of course some increase is a sign of goodwill and encourages workers, but tell the beancounters.
True but this ignores many human factors which result in the reality being a much more chaotic distribution about the mean.
1) There may be an over supply of competent IT workers. 2) There is probably an under supply of skilled IT workers. 3) There is certainly an under supply of skilled Managers.
The result is that the Companies cannot easily differentiate between the skilled and unskilled workers, the unskilled managers rely on a simplistic understanding of mechanisms like Supply & Demand Economics to make the selection for them by pricing themselves into the unskilled IT workers market. The consciously competent can rightly demand a better deal.
2,865,700 people would be eligible for incentive to go green
The whole idea that people should received an additional incentive or reward for doing something is a big part of the problem.
The biological objective of greed in natural selection to asure resources to procreate. However, if the world suffers a slow energy death or fast bio-sphere collapese what future do your ofspring have ?
Simple survival should be the only insentive people should need.
"Whether a standard will succeed and be widely adopted is ambiguous... why would they put all their eggs in a standards basket when that basket might not exist tomorrow?"
The reward of first mover advantage is worth the risk.
It wasn't _banned_ so much as starved to death. During the early post-WWII/coldwar year the UK developed it's independent Blue Arrow/Strike, a dual technology programme for ICBM and Satellite launchers.
The Government sponsored programme civil programm was starved to death before being cancelled to save cash, or more accurately to divert to government social programmes like the NHS.
In the UK, 'Chapter 11' is closer to Administration, temporary protection from creditors. The Administrator's (third party specialist Accountant) job is to seek best value for the creditors. Going concerns generally raise more value than broken up assets, so he will try to do that. If he cannot settle the debts the company is wound-up through a liquidation by an Insolvency practitioner. Brankrupty is a different process for Individuals who cannot pay their depts.
I worked at (and designed the software for) Kingston Interactive Television where we developed an iDTV, VOD and Internet system in less than 2 years. The whole project cost less than 30m and that includes the MAN & DSLAM's for 30k installations and the actual installation in 10,000 home. We where the first to launch this anywhere in the world, it actually worked and not a MS-box in sight. It was all bases on ARM STB's, Sun Application Servers, NCube Video servers, Linux for Internet and Tanberg MPEG Transcoders.
I know Microsoft invents quite a bit. I'm privy to many things that Microsoft has invented with respect to IPTV,
The idea Microsoft invented IPTV or have even made any significant contribution is absurd. They are at least 6 years behind.
Steve Maine and Matt Child are the real visionaries behind IPTV, through Kingston Interactive Television they launched the world first commercially IPTV service to consumers in November 1999. Kingston lead the world by delivering Video over copper/POTS with the BBCi Yes and HomeChoice both starting out on Kingstons Platform.
If things are so bad that THEY cannot tell you what it is, you dont need it!
What you really need would be usefull reference texts, Grays Anatomy, How things work, 101 uses for a dead cat, 1001 chemical reactions from household waste. All hardcopy; and when I say hardcopy I don't mean paper, or even clay tablets I mean really hard copies like granite slabs, preferable formed into a shelter deep underground.
saw a whale surface with a giant squid engulfing it's head. The whale breached a couple of times with the giant squid unrelentingly attached, attacking and maybe feeding.
It is more likely that the whale was eating the Squid not the other way around. Squid is a primary food source of many Whales including Sperm and Killer Whales. Though it's quite possible that it had bitten off more than it could chew.
While at the moment they are used via remote control for combat (perhaps for political reasons) a single pilot/operator can use several at the same time because they have an autonomous flight capability. How long do you think it would be in a war of survival before pilots controlled many multiples of drones. And how little time before those drones took on more and more automation ? There have been fire and forget missiles around for decades. It's simply degrees of autonomy and disposability.
they are allowed to sell them with a certain amount of dead pixels by law
No they are not! That is not what the law says. Shops may claim otherwise, but that is all they are claim. They have absolutely no right remove consumers statutory rights.
Wherever goods are bought they must "conform to contract". This means they must be as described, fit for purpose and f satisfactory quality (i.e. not inherently faulty at the time of sale).
Goods are of satisfactory quality if they reach the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory, taking into account the price and any description.
Aspects of quality include fitness for purpose, freedom from minor defects, appearance and finish, durability and safety.
It is the seller, not the manufacturer, who is responsible if goods do not conform to contract.
If goods do not conform to contract at the time of sale, purchasers can request their money back "within a reasonable time". (This is not defined and will depend on circumstances)
For up to six years after purchase (five years from discovery in Scotland) purchasers can demand damages (which a court would equate to the cost of a repair or replacement).
A purchaser who is a consumer, i.e. is not buying in the course of a business, can alternatively request a repair or replacement.
If repair and replacement are not possible or too costly, then the consumer can seek a partial refund, if they have had some benefit from the good, or a full refund if the fault/s have meant they have enjoyed no benefit
In general, the onus is on all purchasers to prove the goods did not conform to contract (e.g. was inherently faulty) and should have reasonably lasted until this point in time (i.e. perishable goods do not last for six years).
If a consumer chooses to request a repair or replacement, then for the first six months after purchase it will be for the retailer to prove the goods did conform to contract (e.g. were not inherently faulty)
After six months and until the end of the six years, it is for the consumer to prove the lack of conformity.
They have 'statutory rights' which are legal rights and despite what many shops claim they cannot vary those rights.
They should tell the shop that unless the shop fullfils its statutory obligation they will Inform the local trading standards dept and local newspaper.
Everybody should also pay for expensive goods with a credit card because the credit card company is 'jointly and seperatly responsible' under the law. If the shop refuses to exchange the goods you leave the goods in the store and charge it back on the credit card.
That New Orleans will go down in history as the first city lost to global climate change.
The irony that America should be the first victim of global climate change is only overshadowed by the irony of Bush personally profiting by millions of dollars because of rising petroleum prices.
Apparently nothing NEW here, all they've described is a straight forward Abstract syntax tree. These where taught in undergrade CS courses 15years ago.
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We need to start lobbying against this now, with friends, family and our MPs; We need to set the agenda with news and media, we need to demonstrate that Gowers, the News and Media as copyright holder are obviously biased and demand a fair hearing. We need to point out that; Gowers as a copyright holder should disqualify himself, for his obvious bias. We need to get this meme into the public consciousness. We need to use organisations like the PPC to ensure that people opposing this gets a fair hearing. We need to unashamedly use the obvious bias of these people against them.
We need to engage with this governments working class support. With the Question. "Why should you and I as UK tax payers be paying to enforce the unfair copyright restrictions of huge American and Japanese corporations ?" Draw people and medias attention to incidents where pensioners are mugged and women raped whilst the Police are raiding car boot sales for copyright pirates.
Bio-fuels have the potential to be carbon positive and improve food production in some instances. There are Bio-fuel crops that can be grown on desert margins that are to arid to produce food crops and the parts of the planet that produce no oil can be used for land reclaimation through soil improvement capturing carbon in new soil creation.
Jatropha trees grow on land too poor and arid to support food crops
The proof comes from intelligence that our security services don't want to reveal in court.
But the Guilford Four are member of the IRa and where terrorists, this has subsequently been proven beyond any reasonable doubt. They were released because they didn't get a fair trial not because they where innocent.
The EU proposal is a compromise, the US and the UN are at loggerheads over this. There are a number of third & developing world governments including Russia, China & India threaterning to form a break away internets with national DNS infrastructures because the are unhappy with the abuses of the US government with regard to ICANN favouring the US political hedgomony. The EU proposal's is a _compromise_ to make the DNS infrastucture trans-national, to keep it as an inter-net and avoid it breaking up into dozens of national-nets.
I suggest you and the moderators who made this +5 insightfull do some more background reading.
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF
There is no warning on the Amazon UK site for this CD.
Any rootkit would be clear violation of sections 2 and 3 of the Computer Missuse Act. This Act comes from EU treaty obligations so substantially similar legislation exists throughout Europe. The territorial scope of this Act only requires one of the parties to the offense to be in the UK. So buying this from Amazon UK should cover you even if you dont live in the UK.
It's simple Supply-Demand (Keynesian economic theory), when workers with a particular skill set are not in demand or supply excedes demand, there's not much rationale to give workers higher pay. Of course some increase is a sign of goodwill and encourages workers, but tell the beancounters.
True but this ignores many human factors which result in the reality being a much more chaotic distribution about the mean.
1) There may be an over supply of competent IT workers.
2) There is probably an under supply of skilled IT workers.
3) There is certainly an under supply of skilled Managers.
The result is that the Companies cannot easily differentiate between the skilled and unskilled workers, the unskilled managers rely on a simplistic understanding of mechanisms like Supply & Demand Economics to make the selection for them by pricing themselves into the unskilled IT workers market. The consciously competent can rightly demand a better deal.
2,865,700 people would be eligible for incentive to go green
The whole idea that people should received an additional incentive or reward for doing something is a big part of the problem.
The biological objective of greed in natural selection to asure resources to procreate. However, if the world suffers a slow energy death or fast bio-sphere collapese what future do your ofspring have ?
Simple survival should be the only insentive people should need.
"Whether a standard will succeed and be widely adopted is ambiguous ... why would they put all their eggs in a standards basket when that basket might not exist tomorrow?"
The reward of first mover advantage is worth the risk.
Why was it banned in the first place?
It wasn't _banned_ so much as starved to death. During the early post-WWII/coldwar year the UK developed it's independent Blue Arrow/Strike, a dual technology programme for ICBM and Satellite launchers.
The Government sponsored programme civil programm was starved to death before being cancelled to save cash, or more accurately to divert to government social programmes like the NHS.
In the UK, 'Chapter 11' is closer to Administration, temporary protection from creditors. The Administrator's (third party specialist Accountant) job is to seek best value for the creditors. Going concerns generally raise more value than broken up assets, so he will try to do that. If he cannot settle the debts the company is wound-up through a liquidation by an Insolvency practitioner. Brankrupty is a different process for Individuals who cannot pay their depts.
http://www.insolvency.gov.uk/
10 Billion dollars and 12years ?
And they still dont have a workable product.
I worked at (and designed the software for) Kingston Interactive Television where we developed an iDTV, VOD and Internet system in less than 2 years. The whole project cost less than 30m and that includes the MAN & DSLAM's for 30k installations and the actual installation in 10,000 home. We where the first to launch this anywhere in the world, it actually worked and not a MS-box in sight. It was all bases on ARM STB's, Sun Application Servers, NCube Video servers, Linux for Internet and Tanberg MPEG Transcoders.
I know Microsoft invents quite a bit. I'm privy to many things that Microsoft has invented with respect to IPTV,
The idea Microsoft invented IPTV or have even made any significant contribution is absurd. They are at least 6 years behind.
Steve Maine and Matt Child are the real visionaries behind IPTV, through Kingston Interactive Television they launched the world first commercially IPTV service to consumers in November 1999. Kingston lead the world by delivering Video over copper/POTS with the BBCi Yes and HomeChoice both starting out on Kingstons Platform.
I had the good fortune to be the Senior Software Enginner who designed and took the technical lead for Kingstons own inhouse iDTV, VOD and content management solutions.
Forget all that official Bureaucracy stuff.
If things are so bad that THEY cannot tell you what it is, you dont need it!
What you really need would be usefull reference texts, Grays Anatomy, How things work, 101 uses for a dead cat, 1001 chemical reactions from household waste. All hardcopy; and when I say hardcopy I don't mean paper, or even clay tablets I mean really hard copies like granite slabs, preferable formed into a shelter deep underground.
(And you'd think there'd be a law against fabricating "debt" against people, especially where the situation is disputed).
There are laws against fraudulent misrepresentation in most countries.
There are handfull of very sensible alternatives for practical greener vehicles with Bio-Fuels. Ethonol made from sugar cane as an alternative to petrol (gas). Bio-Diesel made from a range of vegatable oils.
A biggest advantage are that they are Carbon Neutral, so you can retain two often considered contradictory positions, being green and a petrol-head.
It's the old joke: How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
That's a hardware problem.
And how many hardware engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
We'll fix it in software.
Or, How many project engineers does it take to change a light bulb ?
Why are you asking me ? I'm a Project Manager.
saw a whale surface with a giant squid engulfing it's head. The whale breached a couple of times with the giant squid unrelentingly attached, attacking and maybe feeding.
It is more likely that the whale was eating the Squid not the other way around. Squid is a primary food source of many Whales including Sperm and Killer Whales. Though it's quite possible that it had bitten off more than it could chew.
We're constantly hearing about combat robots, but are any in use?
The RQ-1 Predator is being actively used in a combat role.
While at the moment they are used via remote control for combat (perhaps for political reasons) a single pilot/operator can use several at the same time because they have an autonomous flight capability. How long do you think it would be in a war of survival before pilots controlled many multiples of drones. And how little time before those drones took on more and more automation ? There have been fire and forget missiles around for decades. It's simply degrees of autonomy and disposability.
Has this been verified ?
F-Secure incorrectly report a MASSER infection in the latest release of Sun One application server.
they are allowed to sell them with a certain amount of dead pixels by law
No they are not! That is not what the law says. Shops may claim otherwise, but that is all they are claim. They have absolutely no right remove consumers statutory rights.
Departments of Trade and Industry Guide lines on Sale of Goods Act
Wherever goods are bought they must "conform to contract". This means they must be as described, fit for purpose and f satisfactory quality (i.e. not inherently faulty at the time of sale).
Goods are of satisfactory quality if they reach the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory, taking into account the price and any description.
Aspects of quality include fitness for purpose, freedom from minor defects, appearance and finish, durability and safety.
It is the seller, not the manufacturer, who is responsible if goods do not conform to contract.
If goods do not conform to contract at the time of sale, purchasers can request their money back "within a reasonable time". (This is not defined and will depend on circumstances)
For up to six years after purchase (five years from discovery in Scotland) purchasers can demand damages (which a court would equate to the cost of a repair or replacement).
A purchaser who is a consumer, i.e. is not buying in the course of a business, can alternatively request a repair or replacement.
If repair and replacement are not possible or too costly, then the consumer can seek a partial refund, if they have had some benefit from the good, or a full refund if the fault/s have meant they have enjoyed no benefit
In general, the onus is on all purchasers to prove the goods did not conform to contract (e.g. was inherently faulty) and should have reasonably lasted until this point in time (i.e. perishable goods do not last for six years).
If a consumer chooses to request a repair or replacement, then for the first six months after purchase it will be for the retailer to prove the goods did conform to contract (e.g. were not inherently faulty)
After six months and until the end of the six years, it is for the consumer to prove the lack of conformity.
They have 'statutory rights' which are legal rights and despite what many shops claim they cannot vary those rights.
They should tell the shop that unless the shop fullfils its statutory obligation they will Inform the local trading standards dept and local newspaper.
Everybody should also pay for expensive goods with a credit card because the credit card company is 'jointly and seperatly responsible' under the law. If the shop refuses to exchange the goods you leave the goods in the store and charge it back on the credit card.
That New Orleans will go down in history as the first city lost to global climate change.
The irony that America should be the first victim of global climate change is only overshadowed by the irony of Bush personally profiting by millions of dollars because of rising petroleum prices.
Apparently nothing NEW here, all they've described is a straight forward Abstract syntax tree. These where taught in undergrade CS courses 15years ago.