Identification is a major problem for these organisations. Frequently information is misspelled (deliberately or otherwise) or transcribed incorrectly. They use fuzzy matching with thresholds. The thresholds are fairly low. The problem is that it sometimes matches the wrong person and this can have bad effects on your credit history or whatever.
The solution is to make companies taking action against you more responsible for correct identification. If they say that you have a bad record and you don't there should be an easy process for correcting it. If they do not take speedy correction action, they should be held liable for damages against your 'name'.
The funny thing is that once you take a Word document away from its Normal.dot and so on, layouts fail poretty miserably. This can happen especially between companies. In-Design and Quark are designed to address that by allowing you to ship everything you need to recreate a document.
Actually, there is the PDF/A format (sort of 1.4 without the actionscript and multimedia) which is a recognised archive format. If you store something in PDF/A, forget about ten years, you would probably still be able to resurrect the document in a century. The format is well documented,and there is at least one open renderer in addition to Adobe's own stuff (actually several).
For formal archival purposes, Word is considered unacceptable not just because of the obscure nature of the documentation (although some exists now), but because documents may contain links to external objects and presentation may depend upon all manner of environmental considerations.
Unfortunately using platforms such as "protecting the children" is something that a number of minor politicians and fading celebrities have done to boost their careers. The lady may be an idiot, but so are a significant number of people, who are concerned about things they don't understand.
However, this is all academic as I have no vote in Lander or Bundes elections.
>The UK agricultural sector has exactly 0 credibility in the world.
Many years ago I worked at the MAFF, a precursor to the FSA. It was a standing joke that the organisation was in the pockets of the largest commercial farming organisations and major food producers. Some of the researchers were quite scathing about it.
As they specifically exclude the food contaminants, such as pesticides, herbicides and fertiliser, doesn't this rather counter the entire point? We know that certain contaminants build up and are ultimately bad. We also know that organophosphates can badly harm those who have to handle them.
The only issue is genetically manipulated food which tends to be distrusted by the people even if Monsanto is trying to persuade the government.
There are some niche producers that you also find in the organic food shops that I saw when I was there - tastes of proper chocolate. Sorry, Cadbury's doesn't!!
I have a Russian family, so we get a lot of Russian chocolate. I would say that Russian chocolate is much better than UK/US mass-produced chocolate but it is certainly not the best, that is more down to taste. However the belgians usually win that one.
This was a spoof post, but hilarious at the time. Yes, the Russians has some VAXes but mostly Robotron copies of PDP-11s and VAXes - but nobody would have dared make such a post.
Loren Graham, the MIT professor who probably understood Soviet science better than any other American, described the "blackboard theory":
Anything you can do with a blackboard and chalk, the Soviets were great at.
But they can't do anything that requires them to actually make something.
I arrived in Russia post Soviet times, in the mid nineties. My Russian colleagues would tell me about the issues with technology. Russians are extremely competent engineers but they are quite conservative. Also their tech was designed for the military. ICBMs may have been America's first market for the microchip, but it was consumer electronics that really drove it.
The point is whether McIntyre is actually just trolling? He is not a climate scientist, he isn't even a statistician and is limited to what he learned in his career working for mineral exploration so one has to ask, whether he is competent in this field? Lindzen is arguably competent but he has one opinion and there are many ranged against him. It doesn't mean to say that he is wrong, but he certainly holds the minority viewpoint.
Some of the others may have the qualifications to work in the field and they will be able to get hold of the data eventually. And as long as there is big money seeking to prove otherwise, yes there will be sceptics.
It seems that two of the largest organisations hating the sharing of WiFi access are the police, who don't like the fact that unofficial open access points don't log and the ISPs who hate to think that they are losing a potential customer.
Some years back in London, a chain of winebars (C&B) offered free access for their customers with no fancy tumbling time code or anything (you, know where they print a code that has a limited validity on the till receipt).. A story appeared in one of the papers about how people were able to 'steal WiFi access' showing the 'security consultant' with a laptop in the city of London demonstrating that there was open WiFi. Yep, because they are standing directly outside that Winebar (out of shot). I have stood there myself, as the bar was too noisy, so I could use Skype over WiFi to contact my SO. This is fairly common practice now, but it disrupts the business models of people like Vodafone or commercial WiFi providers.
One of the interesting points is that whilst the majority of the Manhatten Project people were sequestered away in the middle of nowehere, many of these people were living in their normal towns and villages nearby. Many of those not in uniform would face criticism (if not accusations of cowardice) for not joining up. A difficult situation in which to maintain secrecy.
If you have ever been to BP's excellent little museum, you will learn why everything was kept very secret. There is a display showing some Warsaw Pact devices from the late sixties and a casual remark shows they are based on the old WW2 Nazi teleprinter (Lorenz) coding devices. The technology embodied in Colossus and the techniques used to break the codes were very much in use for a long time after the end of WW2.
Some years back I had a Series IIa short wheelbase job. Bought secondhand of course and reconditioned. No traction control, just 2-wheel and 4-wheel selection then low and high ration. The original spec was 45 degs tip in any direction with a ton in the back. I took mine on 30% roads and up and down hills off-road. Don't think I made the 45 degrees slopes though.
The downside was this was a true landrover - the main cushioning was your ass and it drank fuel. Eventually, I had to give it up.
Munich might not be Rome but a thousand years old structures are what you grow up with, the same is valid for the continuity of the administration.
You can say that again. I have lived in Munich and was talking to a guy who was working on an authoritative Latin dictionary at one of the universities with full literary attributions. The dictionary project has been running for something like a century and will take some more years before it is finished.
I agree, the subtitle of the blog Watching the city of Munich fail to convert to Linux does rather indicate a balanced viewpoint as long as your name is Steve Balmer.
Funnily enough, I have met some people who worked for GCHQ. They are very competent, they do not talk directly about their work but sometimes you may end up a conversation where they may believe you are in a similar line of business and may drop the odd comment that makes you think they work in the 'doughnut'. It has a problem in that they are limited by UK civil servant salaries and that it is probably the most secretive of UK organisations in that it is heavily compartmentalised. The guys who invented public-key cryptography before Diffie-Hellman and RSA were limited by these walls and didn't realise that it could be commercially interesting.
Funny story for you, HCL bid themselves into a project at a German bank. They didn't realise that it was different to the UK.
The Germans can understand English but not accented Indian English. The Indians could not understand the Germans or there ways of doing things. The Indians did not understand banking and were just generic developers, the Germans thought they were getting an experienced team.
Last I heard was HCL desperately trying to find German/UK people with detailed securities settlement knowledge to help them at about â350/day. The going rate was about â1K/day at the time.
Slashdot Mirror
But in Australia, you are sitting up!
Identification is a major problem for these organisations. Frequently information is misspelled (deliberately or otherwise) or transcribed incorrectly. They use fuzzy matching with thresholds. The thresholds are fairly low. The problem is that it sometimes matches the wrong person and this can have bad effects on your credit history or whatever.
The solution is to make companies taking action against you more responsible for correct identification. If they say that you have a bad record and you don't there should be an easy process for correcting it. If they do not take speedy correction action, they should be held liable for damages against your 'name'.
As a matter of interest, do you share a first name with your father?
The funny thing is that once you take a Word document away from its Normal.dot and so on, layouts fail poretty miserably. This can happen especially between companies. In-Design and Quark are designed to address that by allowing you to ship everything you need to recreate a document.
Actually, there is the PDF/A format (sort of 1.4 without the actionscript and multimedia) which is a recognised archive format. If you store something in PDF/A, forget about ten years, you would probably still be able to resurrect the document in a century. The format is well documented,and there is at least one open renderer in addition to Adobe's own stuff (actually several).
For formal archival purposes, Word is considered unacceptable not just because of the obscure nature of the documentation (although some exists now), but because documents may contain links to external objects and presentation may depend upon all manner of environmental considerations.
Unfortunately using platforms such as "protecting the children" is something that a number of minor politicians and fading celebrities have done to boost their careers. The lady may be an idiot, but so are a significant number of people, who are concerned about things they don't understand. However, this is all academic as I have no vote in Lander or Bundes elections.
>The UK agricultural sector has exactly 0 credibility in the world. Many years ago I worked at the MAFF, a precursor to the FSA. It was a standing joke that the organisation was in the pockets of the largest commercial farming organisations and major food producers. Some of the researchers were quite scathing about it.
As they specifically exclude the food contaminants, such as pesticides, herbicides and fertiliser, doesn't this rather counter the entire point? We know that certain contaminants build up and are ultimately bad. We also know that organophosphates can badly harm those who have to handle them. The only issue is genetically manipulated food which tends to be distrusted by the people even if Monsanto is trying to persuade the government.
There are some niche producers that you also find in the organic food shops that I saw when I was there - tastes of proper chocolate. Sorry, Cadbury's doesn't!!
I have a Russian family, so we get a lot of Russian chocolate. I would say that Russian chocolate is much better than UK/US mass-produced chocolate but it is certainly not the best, that is more down to taste. However the belgians usually win that one.
Aren't the antennae segmented though as with 2G technology?
This was a spoof post, but hilarious at the time. Yes, the Russians has some VAXes but mostly Robotron copies of PDP-11s and VAXes - but nobody would have dared make such a post.
I arrived in Russia post Soviet times, in the mid nineties. My Russian colleagues would tell me about the issues with technology. Russians are extremely competent engineers but they are quite conservative. Also their tech was designed for the military. ICBMs may have been America's first market for the microchip, but it was consumer electronics that really drove it.
The point is whether McIntyre is actually just trolling? He is not a climate scientist, he isn't even a statistician and is limited to what he learned in his career working for mineral exploration so one has to ask, whether he is competent in this field? Lindzen is arguably competent but he has one opinion and there are many ranged against him. It doesn't mean to say that he is wrong, but he certainly holds the minority viewpoint.
Some of the others may have the qualifications to work in the field and they will be able to get hold of the data eventually. And as long as there is big money seeking to prove otherwise, yes there will be sceptics.
Not just that, how on earth will they be able to do the important skiing manoeuvres like the apres ski - you need a drinking arm for that!
It seems that two of the largest organisations hating the sharing of WiFi access are the police, who don't like the fact that unofficial open access points don't log and the ISPs who hate to think that they are losing a potential customer.
Some years back in London, a chain of winebars (C&B) offered free access for their customers with no fancy tumbling time code or anything (you, know where they print a code that has a limited validity on the till receipt).. A story appeared in one of the papers about how people were able to 'steal WiFi access' showing the 'security consultant' with a laptop in the city of London demonstrating that there was open WiFi. Yep, because they are standing directly outside that Winebar (out of shot). I have stood there myself, as the bar was too noisy, so I could use Skype over WiFi to contact my SO. This is fairly common practice now, but it disrupts the business models of people like Vodafone or commercial WiFi providers.
One of the interesting points is that whilst the majority of the Manhatten Project people were sequestered away in the middle of nowehere, many of these people were living in their normal towns and villages nearby. Many of those not in uniform would face criticism (if not accusations of cowardice) for not joining up. A difficult situation in which to maintain secrecy.
If you have ever been to BP's excellent little museum, you will learn why everything was kept very secret. There is a display showing some Warsaw Pact devices from the late sixties and a casual remark shows they are based on the old WW2 Nazi teleprinter (Lorenz) coding devices. The technology embodied in Colossus and the techniques used to break the codes were very much in use for a long time after the end of WW2.
Isn't H2O2 on Homeland inSecurity's shit list above a certain percentage? I believe it is used in the manufacture of TATP, hence the concern.
Some years back I had a Series IIa short wheelbase job. Bought secondhand of course and reconditioned. No traction control, just 2-wheel and 4-wheel selection then low and high ration. The original spec was 45 degs tip in any direction with a ton in the back. I took mine on 30% roads and up and down hills off-road. Don't think I made the 45 degrees slopes though.
The downside was this was a true landrover - the main cushioning was your ass and it drank fuel. Eventually, I had to give it up.
You can say that again. I have lived in Munich and was talking to a guy who was working on an authoritative Latin dictionary at one of the universities with full literary attributions. The dictionary project has been running for something like a century and will take some more years before it is finished.
I agree, the subtitle of the blog Watching the city of Munich fail to convert to Linux does rather indicate a balanced viewpoint as long as your name is Steve Balmer.
The problem is that it is very difficult for anyone whio has been a naughty boy to work for such an agency.
Funnily enough, I have met some people who worked for GCHQ. They are very competent, they do not talk directly about their work but sometimes you may end up a conversation where they may believe you are in a similar line of business and may drop the odd comment that makes you think they work in the 'doughnut'. It has a problem in that they are limited by UK civil servant salaries and that it is probably the most secretive of UK organisations in that it is heavily compartmentalised. The guys who invented public-key cryptography before Diffie-Hellman and RSA were limited by these walls and didn't realise that it could be commercially interesting.
Funny story for you, HCL bid themselves into a project at a German bank. They didn't realise that it was different to the UK.
The Germans can understand English but not accented Indian English. The Indians could not understand the Germans or there ways of doing things. The Indians did not understand banking and were just generic developers, the Germans thought they were getting an experienced team.
Last I heard was HCL desperately trying to find German/UK people with detailed securities settlement knowledge to help them at about â350/day. The going rate was about â1K/day at the time.