Is source code availability a major issue though in France?
In Germany, I have worked at a financial institution that had client software installed throughout Germany. You know, big time problems and adverse newspaper coverage when we went down.
Typically we had software that was purchased locally and to a degree even supported. However, the help they got from the US end was extremely variable as on the mother corp's radar, we were invisible. In the end, what seemed to be important was getting the source code where we could influence maintenance.
In Germany, forget Linus, it is Suse that matters. They are big enough and successful enough that the government feels that they could do with an extra bit of help. I doubt, for example, that the Bundestag will use RedHat!
Also, slowly, people realise that when you have source, you are not dependent upon that corporation , wherever they are.
Many people are amused by the Finnish link but it doesn't necessarily sell the product as 'european'.
I was at a presentation at Linuxworld in Frankfurt where the politician responsible for this states (I believe he also chqairs the committee for new media) that MS had offered to make the source code of Win2K (not XP) available to representatives of the Bundestag to inspect. Please note that a knowledge of C or C++ is not normally amongst the qualifications needed to be an elected federal representative.
This guy knew enough to say that he hadn't the expertise, but he would like to accept their offer and bring some experts from the from the Bundesamt fuer Sicherheit in Informationstechnik and, of course, the Chaos Computer Club. Microsoft Germany did not respond after that.
To be honest, it could have been a good advertisement for MS if these guys had passed Win2K, but oh well, obviously they had their doubts.
Depends upon the exercise. Activity in cold and at altitude definitely burns stuff off very quickly. Try skiing every other weekend and just watch how fast stuff goes - even if you do the apres.
Of course the heavy stuff is ski-mountaineering but that is too athletic for me. Alterntively, just try Himalayan mountaineering or work in the Arctic/Antarctic. The minimum intake per day is such that you burn a lot off fast.
But you are right, ordinary exercise doesn't really hack it, except, perhaps swimming.
Um, only young beautiful people are allowed to have sex. Us older folk have no sex life at all, at least that is what they think. They get embarrassed and that makes us embarrassed.
No, German tv always likes to show a gratuitous flash of boob for shower gel etc., but it is the telephone sex ads that really do it, especially the voice-overs.
The standard stuff in say "Sex in the City" causes no problems. It is in context and little gets seen.
My own little company is quite tight, but this one definitely hit our ISP very badly and caused all kinds of problems with Email delay. This is a bad thing. This has cost a lot of people a lot of money. Nobody was killed but a lot of people were hurt. This sounds like terrorism to me.
In Israel, they generally shoot terrorists (and one or two innocent people). I don't want the death penalty for these kids but five-years would be about right.
Why just hydrogen? Propane/butane or methane would be much better due to their availability. You can get butane almost everywhere. Propane is well known and there is plenty of tank technology for it and methane is for many people, now on tap, being the main component of natural gas.
I have worked at a large German financial institution and they have one of the web filters who I won't even to promote by naming it. Amongst other things it blocks the fish because it can be used as a proxy. It is a pity because I sometimes need to translate info about the Russian markets into english.
It is also pointless because the meta keyword checking doesn't recognise Russian. If I do a search on say, Google for "devochki", the latinised version of the Russian word for Girls, I can find some very interesting and explicit, which pass effortlessly through the filter.
Another well-known US financial institution filter out yahoo and google amongst others to get around caching. I don't know what their employees do for web searches.
The Pr0n business is a big one in Germany, please remember that some of these companies are listed at the exchange and have an investor relations page. Make a wrong turn near a major railway station and it is hard to avoid red-light areas.
It has already been mentioned in another article about how useless national firewalls are and how easy it is to circumvent, particularly when they only run part-time as is proposed here.
Also, has enyone told these idiots about http tunneling?
Note that telephone sex lines are available 24Hrs the companies that run them split their take with the provider, usually Deutsche Telekom. Maybe those companies have been taking too much of a hit in their profits from unlimited access via the Internet? Ask not where the campaign contributions have come from?
Yes, there is a lot of bonking going on during straight (as in non-sattelite, non-encrypted) late night TV, however, it is usally easy to find a channel that you can watch with your 16-year old daughter without blushing (The kids can stay up late at weekends).
Then come the commercials that get me. They are ubiquitous and leave absolutely nothing to the imagination for what you get calling the 0190 (extra-toll) and 00 (international) telephone numbers. Btw, I know what the original poster means about "perverted", it seems that the qualification to appear as a model on one of these ads is to be anything but normal looking!!!
I don't object to porn on the net because it doesn't interrupt 'normal viewing' you have to click the URL and it is usually clear what you are getting (apart from Goatsex, don't click this one). Well maybe if VA Software get desperate and start some pop-ups in slashdot for extra funding - then we could be worried.
The last point is why restrict the time slots, many kids over the age of 14 have a computer in their room and I don't want to give them another reason to break curfew and stay up late. It is bad enough with them playing computer games until all hours!!!
Moderators Please Note: The above goatsex link is actually on topic for once!!!!
Being non-profit is easy, just spend your earnings on salaries, etc. There is nothing to stop a normal for-profit company having a not-for-profit spin-off. For example, an information services division (i.e., a library).
Under these regs, the library has the access under WIPO to all that copy-protected stuff. Even if you are obliged to be a public library, you can have some very interesting opening hours!
Please do follow up and make that trace sometime. It would be very interesting for a lot of people to see why their systems are trying to call home.
What happens if there is no outbound link, will Win or Office XP keep retrying until the link can be established?
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It is expensive and legally problematic to put cables anywhere over public property.
Perhaps another approach is to look at large building projects (i.e., multiple buildings such as major office complexes and housing developments) and ensuring that they have dark fibre already installed. Once the last few hundred yards are covered to a suitable trunk then the attachment cost is minimised.
Existing buildings are another issue, but just think if at least newer projects were 'prewired'. Note that this isn't much different to the current organisation of utilities, we just say that combined cable/phone/high-speed data is just another bit of plumbing.
This is where we should be starting, if the new building projects are prewired then that reduces the problem size.
With existing buildings, there are problems that depend upon the population density and thus the number of possible subscribers. Having robots crawl around sewers or air-blowing fibre down pipes isn't a major issue. Getting the connection to the buildings is.
There are a lot of benefits to having to deal with a single company for access, but I'm still not clear how the costs can be bundled or competition effectively managed. Would the access companied share infrastructure, for example?
Btw, the full article noted that other possible levels up to 115Gev were tried. It was originally predicted at 80GeV, but nothing was seen there. If the Higgs doesn't exist, or looks somewhat different (i.e., much higher mass) than the prediction then a lot of people have some serious rethinking to do.
New Scientist isn't Nature, it is just a scientific newspaper rather than a journal. It is also cheaper and has a much wider circulation. You may want to wait for the full paper in Nature, but as a non-particle physicist, I'm quite happy with New Scientist's summary for the moment.
There is a rumour about a guy in Russia reported a while back in The St Petersburg Times, who made a smaller zapper for mosquitoes (which are a major headache during the summer in northern Russia). It used two lasers, one for tracking and a pulsed beam for frying. The guy was working at the Lenningrad Optical Institute which was where some of the Russian laser research is done.
Someone heard about of this device and nixed on the grounds that it used the Soviet Starwars technology, which is restricted and secondly, you don't really want to be in the way when it fires.
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Another person has commented that most real shells use HE, black-powder may be used for practise rounds but otherwise it went out a very long time ago.
The point is that the shell must be detonated to explode. The shell is also spinning very quickly (much faster than a rocket), so heat is dissipated. The shell is thick so the thermal mass is high.
The other point is that as you and your toe noted, shells are heavy. There is some serious inertia there, so knocking it to one side isn't easy.
So if you can't blow it up in flight or knock it seriously to one side, then its a no-no. You may be able to seriously screw up proximity-fuse though. However, most of the bits are well inside the shell.
Mortar rounds are somewhat lighter (the mortar is a man-portable weapon, so it can't fire very big rounds). At the top of their trajectory, they may be easier to deflect, but this may only work if the mortar and target are relatively close so there is comparatively little forward motion (at the top of the arc, the vertical motion is 0).
I suppose we can imagine the situation when Peter Rabbit is accused of lettuce theft. Ok, maybe he doesn't end up in rabbit pie (like his father) but is he guilty because he walks past the field and some lettuces happen to be missing?
This idea is bad, bad, bad. What criteria will be used to enter kids in this register? They certainly haven't been through due process. Yes, there are some right little beggars out there, but perhaps someone could take a long-hard look at the parents.
Children are children. I can imagine a local education authority passing on comments that "little Johnnie is a trouble maker" between schools, but that is nothing to do with the police. Some of those trouble-makers grow up to be extremely useful people.
Interesting point. Bruce is an author, they like IP because they get paid, he seems to find the current way of doing things flawed.
In Britain, we have our Official Secrets Act, which you usually have to sign before you work for the Government (in almost any capacity). However, the greatest weapon of all is Crown Copyright. All documents produced by the government are subject to copyright. If you give them to a paper, they are not bound by the Official Secrets Act, but to publish is a breach of copyright.
As a general rule, if you work for the government but prefer to be anonymous with no job that you can tell other people about then you are a spook.
There are exceptions to this, the head of the CIA (I mean the real one, the Deputy not the politician at the top), for example has a job that is well known. He may even have a listed telephone number. As a manager of spooks though he/she (remember Stella Rimmington) is definitely a spook.
The main point about spooks is their anonymity. I like uniformed police officer because whenever they think about breaking the law, they have to remember that their identity is known (think about that even the cars are identified on their roofs).
Spooks are ghosts, there is no identity and no accountability.
NT is stable, fast, and very decently priced these days. If I'm an office manager, what's my incentive for trying to go to Linux?
I was forced to Win2K because of hardware support issues. It works well on a small setup with my MSDN Universal Subscription. OTOH, put up Win2K Server with Back Office and watch those pennies go. If the writer is happy with NT4.0 and SP6.x, fine but that is it, why move. However, once you start paying for new versions of the OS and the application (upgrades are not cheap, unless you are in MSDN), then you pay, and pay. With the OS upgrade, remember the memory, then howabout some more speed for the processor?
Win 2K plus Office 2K works well on a single computer and is even affordable if you can shop around and get the s/w bundled (or do the classic, buy MS Works and the upgrade to Office for less than the price of Office). Once you start getting to server based networking, this is where the prices keep getting higher.
Exchange Server is expensive. Not only do you need NT Server licences (minimum 2), but you need the client licence packs because however legal your Outlook is, you still need a per client licence on the server.
When you get to an Enterprise, this means lots of servers, again lots of money. Exchange Server is full of some very nice features, but they are very expensive.
Note that use of a connector product isn't much help unless you can offload the data store and directory service too. Each client is another licence, no matter whether or not they are running Outlook or even a Microsoft OS.
Please no. I thought at first that I was the only one but it is clear that others agree. Lotus however tends to work and it is admittedly popular. Rather Lotus under Linux than MS Exchange.
However, what should be remembered is that Notes is a database and workflow application. It is not an Emailer or even a PIM.
After watching Galaxy Quest, I realised how much ST films sucked. I am sorry, but the acting/direction isn't really there. GQ was just a satire on the whole ST idea.
Sorry I am spoiled, I want to have better action and more fun with this sort of movie and ST lacked in both departments. We all have got a little blase about SFX, they are good for spectacle but don't exactly help the movie develop. Some of the ST story lines were just plane lame, some showed promise, but were not well developed.
You don't normally need the latest and greatest to run CNC machine tools. I could quite understand a PDP-8 being used. Also remeber that it was rebuilt as a microprocessor later on because of the software legacy.
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And another thing: a buddy of mine is a technical director on LOTR, and it's supposed to be a simultaneous worldwide release on December 19th. How is it then, that in Austalia, it's being released on December 26th? Was he wrong, or is the Australian Motion Picture League of Bastards screwing us again??
Perhaps this is to allow time for translation and dubbing!!!!
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In Germany, I have worked at a financial institution that had client software installed throughout Germany. You know, big time problems and adverse newspaper coverage when we went down.
Typically we had software that was purchased locally and to a degree even supported. However, the help they got from the US end was extremely variable as on the mother corp's radar, we were invisible. In the end, what seemed to be important was getting the source code where we could influence maintenance.
Also, slowly, people realise that when you have source, you are not dependent upon that corporation , wherever they are.
Many people are amused by the Finnish link but it doesn't necessarily sell the product as 'european'.
This guy knew enough to say that he hadn't the expertise, but he would like to accept their offer and bring some experts from the from the Bundesamt fuer Sicherheit in Informationstechnik and, of course, the Chaos Computer Club. Microsoft Germany did not respond after that.
To be honest, it could have been a good advertisement for MS if these guys had passed Win2K, but oh well, obviously they had their doubts.
Of course the heavy stuff is ski-mountaineering but that is too athletic for me. Alterntively, just try Himalayan mountaineering or work in the Arctic/Antarctic. The minimum intake per day is such that you burn a lot off fast.
But you are right, ordinary exercise doesn't really hack it, except, perhaps swimming.
No, German tv always likes to show a gratuitous flash of boob for shower gel etc., but it is the telephone sex ads that really do it, especially the voice-overs.
The standard stuff in say "Sex in the City" causes no problems. It is in context and little gets seen.
In Israel, they generally shoot terrorists (and one or two innocent people). I don't want the death penalty for these kids but five-years would be about right.
Why just hydrogen? Propane/butane or methane would be much better due to their availability. You can get butane almost everywhere. Propane is well known and there is plenty of tank technology for it and methane is for many people, now on tap, being the main component of natural gas.
It is also pointless because the meta keyword checking doesn't recognise Russian. If I do a search on say, Google for "devochki", the latinised version of the Russian word for Girls, I can find some very interesting and explicit, which pass effortlessly through the filter.
Another well-known US financial institution filter out yahoo and google amongst others to get around caching. I don't know what their employees do for web searches.
The Pr0n business is a big one in Germany, please remember that some of these companies are listed at the exchange and have an investor relations page. Make a wrong turn near a major railway station and it is hard to avoid red-light areas.
It has already been mentioned in another article about how useless national firewalls are and how easy it is to circumvent, particularly when they only run part-time as is proposed here.
Also, has enyone told these idiots about http tunneling?
Note that telephone sex lines are available 24Hrs the companies that run them split their take with the provider, usually Deutsche Telekom. Maybe those companies have been taking too much of a hit in their profits from unlimited access via the Internet? Ask not where the campaign contributions have come from?
Then come the commercials that get me. They are ubiquitous and leave absolutely nothing to the imagination for what you get calling the 0190 (extra-toll) and 00 (international) telephone numbers. Btw, I know what the original poster means about "perverted", it seems that the qualification to appear as a model on one of these ads is to be anything but normal looking!!!
I don't object to porn on the net because it doesn't interrupt 'normal viewing' you have to click the URL and it is usually clear what you are getting (apart from Goatsex, don't click this one). Well maybe if VA Software get desperate and start some pop-ups in slashdot for extra funding - then we could be worried.
The last point is why restrict the time slots, many kids over the age of 14 have a computer in their room and I don't want to give them another reason to break curfew and stay up late. It is bad enough with them playing computer games until all hours!!!
Moderators Please Note: The above goatsex link is actually on topic for once!!!!
Under these regs, the library has the access under WIPO to all that copy-protected stuff. Even if you are obliged to be a public library, you can have some very interesting opening hours!
What happens if there is no outbound link, will Win or Office XP keep retrying until the link can be established?
Perhaps another approach is to look at large building projects (i.e., multiple buildings such as major office complexes and housing developments) and ensuring that they have dark fibre already installed. Once the last few hundred yards are covered to a suitable trunk then the attachment cost is minimised.
Existing buildings are another issue, but just think if at least newer projects were 'prewired'. Note that this isn't much different to the current organisation of utilities, we just say that combined cable/phone/high-speed data is just another bit of plumbing.
This is where we should be starting, if the new building projects are prewired then that reduces the problem size.
With existing buildings, there are problems that depend upon the population density and thus the number of possible subscribers. Having robots crawl around sewers or air-blowing fibre down pipes isn't a major issue. Getting the connection to the buildings is.
There are a lot of benefits to having to deal with a single company for access, but I'm still not clear how the costs can be bundled or competition effectively managed. Would the access companied share infrastructure, for example?
New Scientist isn't Nature, it is just a scientific newspaper rather than a journal. It is also cheaper and has a much wider circulation. You may want to wait for the full paper in Nature, but as a non-particle physicist, I'm quite happy with New Scientist's summary for the moment.
Someone heard about of this device and nixed on the grounds that it used the Soviet Starwars technology, which is restricted and secondly, you don't really want to be in the way when it fires.
The point is that the shell must be detonated to explode. The shell is also spinning very quickly (much faster than a rocket), so heat is dissipated. The shell is thick so the thermal mass is high.
The other point is that as you and your toe noted, shells are heavy. There is some serious inertia there, so knocking it to one side isn't easy.
So if you can't blow it up in flight or knock it seriously to one side, then its a no-no. You may be able to seriously screw up proximity-fuse though. However, most of the bits are well inside the shell.
Mortar rounds are somewhat lighter (the mortar is a man-portable weapon, so it can't fire very big rounds). At the top of their trajectory, they may be easier to deflect, but this may only work if the mortar and target are relatively close so there is comparatively little forward motion (at the top of the arc, the vertical motion is 0).
This idea is bad, bad, bad. What criteria will be used to enter kids in this register? They certainly haven't been through due process. Yes, there are some right little beggars out there, but perhaps someone could take a long-hard look at the parents.
Children are children. I can imagine a local education authority passing on comments that "little Johnnie is a trouble maker" between schools, but that is nothing to do with the police. Some of those trouble-makers grow up to be extremely useful people.
In Britain, we have our Official Secrets Act, which you usually have to sign before you work for the Government (in almost any capacity). However, the greatest weapon of all is Crown Copyright. All documents produced by the government are subject to copyright. If you give them to a paper, they are not bound by the Official Secrets Act, but to publish is a breach of copyright.
There are exceptions to this, the head of the CIA (I mean the real one, the Deputy not the politician at the top), for example has a job that is well known. He may even have a listed telephone number. As a manager of spooks though he/she (remember Stella Rimmington) is definitely a spook.
The main point about spooks is their anonymity. I like uniformed police officer because whenever they think about breaking the law, they have to remember that their identity is known (think about that even the cars are identified on their roofs).
Spooks are ghosts, there is no identity and no accountability.
Whoops sorry, hit submit instead of preview. I shouldn't shout, it is impolite!
Win 2K plus Office 2K works well on a single computer and is even affordable if you can shop around and get the s/w bundled (or do the classic, buy MS Works and the upgrade to Office for less than the price of Office). Once you start getting to server based networking, this is where the prices keep getting higher.
When you get to an Enterprise, this means lots of servers, again lots of money. Exchange Server is full of some very nice features, but they are very expensive.
Note that use of a connector product isn't much help unless you can offload the data store and directory service too. Each client is another licence, no matter whether or not they are running Outlook or even a Microsoft OS.
However, what should be remembered is that Notes is a database and workflow application. It is not an Emailer or even a PIM.
Sorry I am spoiled, I want to have better action and more fun with this sort of movie and ST lacked in both departments. We all have got a little blase about SFX, they are good for spectacle but don't exactly help the movie develop. Some of the ST story lines were just plane lame, some showed promise, but were not well developed.
You don't normally need the latest and greatest to run CNC machine tools. I could quite understand a PDP-8 being used. Also remeber that it was rebuilt as a microprocessor later on because of the software legacy.
Sorry, I couldn't resist that one.