I live in the UK and in any of the major cities you will see 10, 20 and 30 story glass sided and concrete buildings with lighting, etc. some of which are beautifully architected.
Our government buildings on the other hand are usually 50 years old or more situated out of the centre of the town or city. My father and mother were both "lifers" in the employ of the goverment and only once in their 30+ year careers worked in buildings designed to be "permanent". They spend decades working in an emergency hospital built for world war 2 designed to last just ten years (it's still there 60 years later) and from the way it was built (long corridors, wards either side, private rooms converted to private offices etc.) you could tell it was an old hospital. It was expanded by using static caravan-style portacabins and then just pebble-dashing them to make them look permanent. I'm a tall, heavy guy and when I did work experience there it felt like I was about to fall through the floor.
If this is the state of government buildings in the UK, I can well believe the posters accounts of government buildings in Nigeria.
In general, government work is drudgery. Requires being able to read and write and process rules written in big books, it's not rocket science. As such many workers outside of the "senior" levels are temporary workers, or just rather thick, and as such these people don't go demanding wonderful office environments - if they wanted that (and warranted it) they could go work in industry, if they could get past an interview.
DRM - Digital Rights Management DRM - Digital Restrictions Management ODRL - Open Digital Rights Language ODRL - Orwellian Digital Restrictions Language
All these references to Orwell... all this altering of acronyms is very... Orwellian in itself.
I count not less than 4 comments rated 4+ on this thread which are deliberately attempting to mislead the public over the above acronyms in order to alter their perception of that which the acronym denotes. How the hell can we sit here and pretend shady men in suits behind DRM and ODRL are "Orwellian" when we're openly and publicly practicing techniques endorsed in 1984 to our own ends?
The attack is, to some degree, a consequence of the availability of private information on the Web
Only to a very very small degree.
The attack is, to a considerably larger degree, a consequence of the actions of the spammer - by engaging in a highly antisocial activity.
My real address has been on the net for years, and I haven't had a single problem, perhaps that's because I conduct myself with respect towards others?
Why don't they sue the individuals paying the spammers to send the emails?
Well the most obvious reason would be that a company's rivals could pay a scumbag to send out spam just to ruin their reputation and see them taken to court. I'm sure most of the pr0n/scam companies advertised in the spam have a pretty cavalier attitude toward keeping track of their finances, so it'll be difficult to follow an audit trail to prove guilt.
If there's no audit trail to follow, the innocent company will be found not guilty, and the spammer will be put out of business for not following accounting procedures.
If there is an audit trail, it will lead to the company committing the action, I don't see the problem with the above.
However, if you hire a shipping company to haul cargo for you as fast as possible, and they get busted for speeding, are you liable? Should you be? What about if you didn't know they would speed? What about if you did?
Hard Call, IMO but the current lawmaking trend is to prosecute whomsoever is easiest to find in the chain with any possible ties to the guilty party, rather than the perpitrator of the crime so perhaps the idea is a good one, if we take this kind of law enforcement and lawmaking as being beneficial to society.
One of the rare occasions on Slashdot you see someone standing up for "the other side" using tools meant to protect freedom.
It's easy to see from comments on here, just how people like Ashcroft believe they can do anything they like within the law (letter rather than spirit) to achieve what is "right".
It takes a strong character to do what the above poster did.
When you say freedom, you're just referring to your individual freedom - freedom from the control of others - but there are many more freedoms you enjoy, such as freedom from poverty, freedom from shitty living conditions, freedom from pollution, freedom from a repressive government, etc. etc.
While true under the strictest sense of the word, you are bastardising the word someone. To the layman, freedom means not having to do someone elses bidding.
We could sit here all day and say things like "freedom from cancer, freedom from clean air, freedom from cars, freedom from seeing another person ever. All we really do is contaminate the meaning of the word freedom.
I'm not attempting to take a position on your statement or the parent, just being a grammar nazi.
The parent poster mentioned 2 databases - pgSQL and MySQL.
My company uses MySQL, it's adequate, but your statements about its lack of high end relational features are true.
On the other hand, pgSQL has many of them, and is a real player but sadly doesn't have the support or availability or ease of use and admin on Windows32 platforms that MySQL has.
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The problem was that the tests involved only about 100 subjects, far too small to have any statistical validity whatsoever.
I've never come across this kind of thing in the UK before, is this happening on TV in other countries too?
Yes, this is happening in the US too - but as usual we're along way ahead of the rest of the world. A sample size of 1 is judged sufficient for most tests, and if it's on Fox Cable News a sample size of 0 is acceptable.
Well, it's pretty simple. If someone mentions your company on a VERY popular TV program, and you get thousands upon thousands of people at the door to your small shop trying to see your products, and get in to buy them only to have 90% of them leave before they got the the head of the queue because they were so bored, would the shop have a right to sue the TV program because some customers who might have bought products left before buying?
The economy collapsed and now the business, political elite... Unions want him gone.
If a president attracts the hatred of the top businessmen, political rivals and union (leaders! important distinction) then he must be doing something right for the people.
You see, if you think about it for a minute, it's actually VERY funny. Sadly, someone has -1ed it already, so I guess it will never see the light of day.
It's all in the SEC's EDGAR database.... They spent about 1.5 million on "administrative and general" which I'm sure includes that enormous rent
Interesting, thanks for looking that up. The article claims $200,000 on rent a month with more in New York, which means upwards of $2.5 million a year - probably double the figure in SECs EDGAR database, perhaps someone who knows how should look into this more? There could be legal shenanigans afoot, or the $200k/month quote could be very wrong (which makes about 3/4 of the highly rated comments on this thread redundant).
1] The Pork thing is awful! But fundamental terrorists are likely to be dedicated enough to their religion to go along with it.
True. So they will not indicate a meal preference, and if Pork arrives they will simply feel ill, or not hungry, or say they didn't order a meal. Useless criteria now the public know about it.
With such a definition, its clear that there's some difference between knocking you down and robbing you, and stealing your Ultima password and selling your stuff, but both would be theft.
Not really. The second example is still theft, but it is also theft and aggravated assault.
Simpler setup with very few questions.
Smaller more focused set of default applications
Simpler, centralised, graphical configuration tools
Convenient, standardised help system with excellent searching and troubleshooting options
In built support, from time of consumer device launch, for peripherals and card types (PCMCIA, USB etc. - Linux got late to market here).
Advanced tools are hidden from basic users.
System files are protected from inadvertent change.
System rescue tools provided on disk (while Linux may die less frequently, when it does there's NO WAY for Joe User to recover).
No confusing messages on startup.
Linux has MANY advantages over Windows and is a technological marvel in some ways, but the sooner people realise Windows *is* better in some departments, the sooner Linux will start to catch up in those ways.
I live in the UK and until two weeks ago boycotted DVDs - I didn't own a single one. I broke my boycott for reasons unrelated to this argument.
What is pertinent is that DVDs are labelled in this country - they have logos on the rear of the covers that indicate region protection, macrovision etc. and people still buy them.
I don't know what you guys in the US have on your packaging, but over here ours are labelled already and the consumers don't care.
If, as people on this thread are suggestion, this software exploits a security flaw to install itself without authorisation, how can this not be conisidered a Trojan, and classified as such by anti virus vendors?
After spending a lifetime learning how to make public speaches, converse and articulate, probably costing a not inconsiderable amount of cash for voice and public speaking coaches, one would hope the most powerful man in the world, the one that 300 million americans felt was best to lead them, would at least be able to speak competently, if not brilliantly.
Try listening to or reading speeches by Winston Churchill - that is how a leader should speak.
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I live in the UK and in any of the major cities you will see 10, 20 and 30 story glass sided and concrete buildings with lighting, etc. some of which are beautifully architected.
Our government buildings on the other hand are usually 50 years old or more situated out of the centre of the town or city. My father and mother were both "lifers" in the employ of the goverment and only once in their 30+ year careers worked in buildings designed to be "permanent". They spend decades working in an emergency hospital built for world war 2 designed to last just ten years (it's still there 60 years later) and from the way it was built (long corridors, wards either side, private rooms converted to private offices etc.) you could tell it was an old hospital. It was expanded by using static caravan-style portacabins and then just pebble-dashing them to make them look permanent. I'm a tall, heavy guy and when I did work experience there it felt like I was about to fall through the floor.
If this is the state of government buildings in the UK, I can well believe the posters accounts of government buildings in Nigeria.
In general, government work is drudgery. Requires being able to read and write and process rules written in big books, it's not rocket science. As such many workers outside of the "senior" levels are temporary workers, or just rather thick, and as such these people don't go demanding wonderful office environments - if they wanted that (and warranted it) they could go work in industry, if they could get past an interview.
DRM - Digital Rights Management
DRM - Digital Restrictions Management
ODRL - Open Digital Rights Language
ODRL - Orwellian Digital Restrictions Language
All these references to Orwell... all this altering of acronyms is very... Orwellian in itself.
I count not less than 4 comments rated 4+ on this thread which are deliberately attempting to mislead the public over the above acronyms in order to alter their perception of that which the acronym denotes. How the hell can we sit here and pretend shady men in suits behind DRM and ODRL are "Orwellian" when we're openly and publicly practicing techniques endorsed in 1984 to our own ends?
The attack is, to a considerably larger degree, a consequence of the actions of the spammer - by engaging in a highly antisocial activity.
My real address has been on the net for years, and I haven't had a single problem, perhaps that's because I conduct myself with respect towards others?
Well the most obvious reason would be that a company's rivals could pay a scumbag to send out spam just to ruin their reputation and see them taken to court. I'm sure most of the pr0n/scam companies advertised in the spam have a pretty cavalier attitude toward keeping track of their finances, so it'll be difficult to follow an audit trail to prove guilt.
If there's no audit trail to follow, the innocent company will be found not guilty, and the spammer will be put out of business for not following accounting procedures.
If there is an audit trail, it will lead to the company committing the action, I don't see the problem with the above.
However, if you hire a shipping company to haul cargo for you as fast as possible, and they get busted for speeding, are you liable? Should you be? What about if you didn't know they would speed? What about if you did?
Hard Call, IMO but the current lawmaking trend is to prosecute whomsoever is easiest to find in the chain with any possible ties to the guilty party, rather than the perpitrator of the crime so perhaps the idea is a good one, if we take this kind of law enforcement and lawmaking as being beneficial to society.
Believing SMB is also known as "Samba" is a very common misconception, I know of at least a dozen IT persons to believe it true.
Someone mod parent up.
One of the rare occasions on Slashdot you see someone standing up for "the other side" using tools meant to protect freedom.
It's easy to see from comments on here, just how people like Ashcroft believe they can do anything they like within the law (letter rather than spirit) to achieve what is "right".
It takes a strong character to do what the above poster did.
When you say freedom, you're just referring to your individual freedom - freedom from the control of others - but there are many more freedoms you enjoy, such as freedom from poverty, freedom from shitty living conditions, freedom from pollution, freedom from a repressive government, etc. etc.
While true under the strictest sense of the word, you are bastardising the word someone. To the layman, freedom means not having to do someone elses bidding.
We could sit here all day and say things like "freedom from cancer, freedom from clean air, freedom from cars, freedom from seeing another person ever. All we really do is contaminate the meaning of the word freedom.
I'm not attempting to take a position on your statement or the parent, just being a grammar nazi.
The parent poster mentioned 2 databases - pgSQL and MySQL.
My company uses MySQL, it's adequate, but your statements about its lack of high end relational features are true.
On the other hand, pgSQL has many of them, and is a real player but sadly doesn't have the support or availability or ease of use and admin on Windows32 platforms that MySQL has.
If I had mod points, they would be yours.
OK, so don't slow down...
The problem was that the tests involved only about 100 subjects, far too small to have any statistical validity whatsoever.
I've never come across this kind of thing in the UK before, is this happening on TV in other countries too?
Yes, this is happening in the US too - but as usual we're along way ahead of the rest of the world. A sample size of 1 is judged sufficient for most tests, and if it's on Fox Cable News a sample size of 0 is acceptable.
Well, it's pretty simple. If someone mentions your company on a VERY popular TV program, and you get thousands upon thousands of people at the door to your small shop trying to see your products, and get in to buy them only to have 90% of them leave before they got the the head of the queue because they were so bored, would the shop have a right to sue the TV program because some customers who might have bought products left before buying?
Quite simply, no.
So was Tetris a 10 hour game, a 30 hour game, or a 70-100 hour game?
You're taking about triumphing in the challenge, not *playing the game* which can go on as long as you like it to. Just start again.
The economy collapsed and now the business, political elite ... Unions want him gone.
If a president attracts the hatred of the top businessmen, political rivals and union (leaders! important distinction) then he must be doing something right for the people.
You see, if you think about it for a minute, it's actually VERY funny. Sadly, someone has -1ed it already, so I guess it will never see the light of day.
It's all in the SEC's EDGAR database. ... They spent about 1.5 million on "administrative and general" which I'm sure includes that enormous rent
Interesting, thanks for looking that up. The article claims $200,000 on rent a month with more in New York, which means upwards of $2.5 million a year - probably double the figure in SECs EDGAR database, perhaps someone who knows how should look into this more? There could be legal shenanigans afoot, or the $200k/month quote could be very wrong (which makes about 3/4 of the highly rated comments on this thread redundant).
The complaint here is that each packet is charged twice -- once to the ingress network, and once to the egress network.
OK, so let's assume regulation is brought in to say you can charge only one way.
This means the larger ISPs will only charge the smaller ISPs for each packet received, but will charge them twice as much as they currently do.
1] The Pork thing is awful! But fundamental terrorists are likely to be dedicated enough to their religion to go along with it.
True. So they will not indicate a meal preference, and if Pork arrives they will simply feel ill, or not hungry, or say they didn't order a meal. Useless criteria now the public know about it.
2] The US is invading my privacy!
Don't fly to the US. It's real simple.
With such a definition, its clear that there's some difference between knocking you down and robbing you, and stealing your Ultima password and selling your stuff, but both would be theft.
Not really. The second example is still theft, but it is also theft and aggravated assault.
I'm an American currently working in Germany...Anyone who claims that Europe is a better place to work isn't telling the whole story.
Newsflash, Germany isn't Europe, and Germany is right now undergoing some serious fiscal problems. Try the scandinavian countries, or the UK.
What advantages has Windows over Linux?
Simpler setup with very few questions.
Smaller more focused set of default applications
Simpler, centralised, graphical configuration tools
Convenient, standardised help system with excellent searching and troubleshooting options
In built support, from time of consumer device launch, for peripherals and card types (PCMCIA, USB etc. - Linux got late to market here).
Advanced tools are hidden from basic users.
System files are protected from inadvertent change.
System rescue tools provided on disk (while Linux may die less frequently, when it does there's NO WAY for Joe User to recover).
No confusing messages on startup.
Linux has MANY advantages over Windows and is a technological marvel in some ways, but the sooner people realise Windows *is* better in some departments, the sooner Linux will start to catch up in those ways.
I live in the UK and until two weeks ago boycotted DVDs - I didn't own a single one. I broke my boycott for reasons unrelated to this argument.
What is pertinent is that DVDs are labelled in this country - they have logos on the rear of the covers that indicate region protection, macrovision etc. and people still buy them.
I don't know what you guys in the US have on your packaging, but over here ours are labelled already and the consumers don't care.
The only thing copyright prevents is their making copies.
Or derivative works, or performance in a public place.
If, as people on this thread are suggestion, this software exploits a security flaw to install itself without authorisation, how can this not be conisidered a Trojan, and classified as such by anti virus vendors?
After spending a lifetime learning how to make public speaches, converse and articulate, probably costing a not inconsiderable amount of cash for voice and public speaking coaches, one would hope the most powerful man in the world, the one that 300 million americans felt was best to lead them, would at least be able to speak competently, if not brilliantly.
Try listening to or reading speeches by Winston Churchill - that is how a leader should speak.