No, it *is* illegal. As an employee you must be notified if the company stores any personally identifiable data that you do not explicitly supply.
This is why an IT policy is necessary to say things like "we monitor your email, IM etc.". Without the policy it is *illegal* to monitor their communications.
www.dataprotection.gov.uk has much of what you need.
FYI I challenged my company on this - they have a "late list" that is kept by the girls in reception. They note the time of anyone who arrives late for work, and if anyone is repeatedly doing it, they are dealt with. Because the employees were not notified that the list was kept, they had no way to verify its accuracy, and I called out board of directors on it - soon after all employees received a notice informing them of the practice, and how they could check the accuracy.
A database server is a backend server, and should be completely hidden from the Internet by not one but two layers of firewalls.
This would be nice if: 1] Our company would pay for a firewall. 2] Our company would pay for separate database/webserver boxen
As it is, we have no firewall, and our SQL server is open to the net because the web server has to be. Oh, and obviously we don't have a VPN running because that would be too expensive.
Fortunately, we run MySQL as a database server. *phew*.
If you recall, the U.S. did next to nothing (that we know of at least) after the original WTC bombing, its embassy bombings, and the attack on the U.S. Cole. You can turn the cheek all you want, but it doesn't stop anybody from slapping you.
Iraq has been bombed in one way or another almost every single day in the last few years. You call that turning the other cheek?
"if 'we don't find a different way of thinking about and creating software, we will not be writing programs bigger than about 10 million lines of code no matter how fast our processors become."
Fantastic! We'll all get down and program small, specific routines for processing data, each one doing its' own job and doing it well. Those nasty, horrid standard protocols he refers to will allow all these small components to easily talk to each other - across architectures, networks etc.
Oh wait, this is the way it already works. Is this guy then, proposing that we learn a new way to program because our systems aren't monolithic enough? *sigh*
A great sounding drum room with decent sound proofing can easily cost tens of thousands without going over the top. Let's not even mention the acoustics in the control room. On top of all that you need a skilled, experienced engineer who understands how all the above interact - the human, the acoustics and the electronics are all part of a complex synergistic relationship that feed off each other (yeah, it sounds like hippy crap, but it's true - work a few years in a studio and you'll know what I mean).
OK, just taking the drum room - let's say it costs tens of thousands - say one HUNDRED thousand. Conservatively, buildings last 20 years so that's around $5,000 / year. Roughly equal to $100 / week.
So for that all singing all dancing drum room you're talking a cost of around $100 - $200 to record a typical album. Not really alot is it?
I imagine what this means is that you shouldn't use the javascript "window.status" trick to stop your browsers status bar from displaying the link target when you hover over it.
The following web link activities are explicitly prohibited by KPMG and may present trademark and copyright infringement issues:
1- Links that involve unauthorized use of our logo
2- Framing, inline links or metatags
3- Hyperlinks or a form of link that disguises the URL and bypass the homepage
Seems OK to me.
1- You can't use their logo because it is trademarked. Doesn't mean you can't link to them.
2- Framing or online links - this has already been found illegal under "Passing Off" laws in the UK and many other states. No problem here.
3- Note the use of the word *and*. They'd like you to deep link, but only if your link shows the full URL. This doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
I have an Audi A3 (European - it's the hatchback) and it's a joy to drive. My car also has this variable servicing interval.
Initially, my first service was due at 19300 miles - in the first 14 months I drove the car very hard, using the traction control extensively on at least a monthly basis and accelerating hard from stop at every opportunity - I like to drive aggressively.
My service came after 18700 miles - scary - I did wonder how hard one would have to drive the car in order to have a significant reduction in the servicing interval.
Ahhh, Mr Rightman, welcome back from Adequacy. Good to see you again.
Incidentally, if the above post were true, right now I'd be waxing lyrical about how the vast majority of people who were stupid enough to pose for such pics and then regret it, or were manipulated into doing so would very probably be from a religious background, where being manipulated is a daily duty, and regret isn't required, only absolution.
The answer is that light travels at different speeds in different mediums.
The speed of light in a vacuum can be approximated to 3x10^8 m/s - the speed of light in a glass sphere significantly less.
On top of that, what do you mean by "electricity". Do you mean DC, or AC? I'll assume you mean AC - as in "when I switch my light switch, does the light come on instantly, or slightly later?" - well, it depends. The actual electrons in the wire move forwards and backwards 50 times a second in 50Hz equipment, this is a far far more complicated area than you might thinkg (and than I can explain on Slashdot)
When equipped with a wireless network card, or GSM (mobile phone access to TCP/IP on the net) card, what is the fundamental difference between a laptop and a common mobile phone? Keyboard and screen size?
In this way, sending spam email to an owner of a laptop would surely be illegal too?
In the UK, we have a minimum 12 month warranty on any electrical goods sold of any description, from new, to the consumer. This is shortly to be extended to 24 months under EU regulations.
Last year, in a population of around 60 million, the UK had approximately 168 firearms killings. In the USA with a population of around 300 million there were 11,168 killings.
In the UK, regular citizens cannot own guns. In the USA, they can.
UK - 2.8 deaths per million USA - 37.2 deaths per million
The average American Citizen is more than 13 times more likely to be killed by a gun than the average Citizen of the UK.
So we have most of Slashdot whinging about how Disney rips off old stories, and now most of Slashdot raves about a story ripped off from the Wizard of Oz.
The British Expeditionary force, stationed in France and fighting both there and in Belgium was not a "great fighting force".
They had little armour (only 100 infantry tanks - and 200 "light" tanks which were far inferior to the German tanks) or anti tank capabilities, the support of only a portion of the British Royal Air Force, and were comprised of only around 240,000 fighting men.
All of the big French artillery guns were literally buried into position facing in the direction that the Germans were supposed to come.
Anyone else think of the National Missile Defence project when they hear of the Maginot line?
IMO it's a direct comparison - looks good, sounds good, and against an enemy with an ounce of sense is absolutely useless. Anyone also imagine that the Maginot line was completed in a project which resulted in a *lot* of money making it into private industry, and profits for big gun and emplacement and construction firms?
"Do you have P3P policies for your website? If not, what stops you from creating one?"
Return on investment.
Creating a P3P policy would take alot of my time - I would have to research and learn the format and possiblities of the language, then write the policy, reconcile it with various departments within the company, then finally integrate into the site, and potentially have to deal with questions from confused visitors.
Implementing P3P on my site would cost me no money, but a great deal of time.
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No, it *is* illegal. As an employee you must be notified if the company stores any personally identifiable data that you do not explicitly supply.
This is why an IT policy is necessary to say things like "we monitor your email, IM etc.". Without the policy it is *illegal* to monitor their communications.
www.dataprotection.gov.uk has much of what you need.
FYI I challenged my company on this - they have a "late list" that is kept by the girls in reception. They note the time of anyone who arrives late for work, and if anyone is repeatedly doing it, they are dealt with. Because the employees were not notified that the list was kept, they had no way to verify its accuracy, and I called out board of directors on it - soon after all employees received a notice informing them of the practice, and how they could check the accuracy.
A database server is a backend server, and should be completely hidden from the Internet by not one but two layers of firewalls.
This would be nice if:
1] Our company would pay for a firewall.
2] Our company would pay for separate database/webserver boxen
As it is, we have no firewall, and our SQL server is open to the net because the web server has to be. Oh, and obviously we don't have a VPN running because that would be too expensive.
Fortunately, we run MySQL as a database server. *phew*.
If you recall, the U.S. did next to nothing (that we know of at least) after the original WTC bombing, its embassy bombings, and the attack on the U.S. Cole. You can turn the cheek all you want, but it doesn't stop anybody from slapping you.
Iraq has been bombed in one way or another almost every single day in the last few years. You call that turning the other cheek?
"if 'we don't find a different way of thinking about and creating software, we will not be writing programs bigger than about 10 million lines of code no matter how fast our processors become."
Fantastic! We'll all get down and program small, specific routines for processing data, each one doing its' own job and doing it well. Those nasty, horrid standard protocols he refers to will allow all these small components to easily talk to each other - across architectures, networks etc.
Oh wait, this is the way it already works. Is this guy then, proposing that we learn a new way to program because our systems aren't monolithic enough? *sigh*
Making one computer appear as multiple computers is quite easy.
You put your computer in a network facility that has a very very large number of providers in it, and drop a network connection in from each of them.
It would be quite trivial for one rack with 40 servers in it to look like 240 servers or more.
A great sounding drum room with decent sound proofing can easily cost tens of thousands without going over the top. Let's not even mention the acoustics in the control room. On top of all that you need a skilled, experienced engineer who understands how all the above interact - the human, the acoustics and the electronics are all part of a complex synergistic relationship that feed off each other (yeah, it sounds like hippy crap, but it's true - work a few years in a studio and you'll know what I mean).
OK, just taking the drum room - let's say it costs tens of thousands - say one HUNDRED thousand. Conservatively, buildings last 20 years so that's around $5,000 / year. Roughly equal to $100 / week.
So for that all singing all dancing drum room you're talking a cost of around $100 - $200 to record a typical album. Not really alot is it?
In the United Kingdom, this is illegal under the Data Protection act.
Our government, at least sometimes, respects and protects our privacy.
I imagine what this means is that you shouldn't use the javascript "window.status" trick to stop your browsers status bar from displaying the link target when you hover over it.
From KPMGs dislcimaer:
The following web link activities are explicitly prohibited by KPMG and may present trademark and copyright infringement issues:
1- Links that involve unauthorized use of our logo
2- Framing, inline links or metatags
3- Hyperlinks or a form of link that disguises the URL and bypass the homepage
Seems OK to me.
1- You can't use their logo because it is trademarked. Doesn't mean you can't link to them.
2- Framing or online links - this has already been found illegal under "Passing Off" laws in the UK and many other states. No problem here.
3- Note the use of the word *and*. They'd like you to deep link, but only if your link shows the full URL. This doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
Why exactly, is linking to KPMG taboo?
You might go here : (link will get mangled with a space)
3 05 053987/qid=1041934789/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-489171 0-6027849?v=glance&s=dvd
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6
They have an even greater selection on VHS which a search shows up.
I have an Audi A3 (European - it's the hatchback) and it's a joy to drive. My car also has this variable servicing interval.
Initially, my first service was due at 19300 miles - in the first 14 months I drove the car very hard, using the traction control extensively on at least a monthly basis and accelerating hard from stop at every opportunity - I like to drive aggressively.
My service came after 18700 miles - scary - I did wonder how hard one would have to drive the car in order to have a significant reduction in the servicing interval.
Ahhh, Mr Rightman, welcome back from Adequacy. Good to see you again.
Incidentally, if the above post were true, right now I'd be waxing lyrical about how the vast majority of people who were stupid enough to pose for such pics and then regret it, or were manipulated into doing so would very probably be from a religious background, where being manipulated is a daily duty, and regret isn't required, only absolution.
The answer is that light travels at different speeds in different mediums.
The speed of light in a vacuum can be approximated to 3x10^8 m/s - the speed of light in a glass sphere significantly less.
On top of that, what do you mean by "electricity". Do you mean DC, or AC? I'll assume you mean AC - as in "when I switch my light switch, does the light come on instantly, or slightly later?" - well, it depends. The actual electrons in the wire move forwards and backwards 50 times a second in 50Hz equipment, this is a far far more complicated area than you might thinkg (and than I can explain on Slashdot)
Surely a laptop is also a mobile device?
When equipped with a wireless network card, or GSM (mobile phone access to TCP/IP on the net) card, what is the fundamental difference between a laptop and a common mobile phone? Keyboard and screen size?
In this way, sending spam email to an owner of a laptop would surely be illegal too?
Time to live in the EU.
In the UK, we have a minimum 12 month warranty on any electrical goods sold of any description, from new, to the consumer. This is shortly to be extended to 24 months under EU regulations.
However, a deaf-blind user *requires* a braille reader.
Last year, in a population of around 60 million, the UK had approximately 168 firearms killings. In the USA with a population of around 300 million there were 11,168 killings.
In the UK, regular citizens cannot own guns. In the USA, they can.
UK - 2.8 deaths per million
USA - 37.2 deaths per million
The average American Citizen is more than 13 times more likely to be killed by a gun than the average Citizen of the UK.
What?!?!?!?!?
Darth Vader is Lukes Father?
You bastard!
I suggest you visit Cuba. Not just a tourist hotspot but the more rural areas.
"Abject Poverty" might be a good description at first glance, but take a look at the underlying quality of life, and how happy people are.
So we have most of Slashdot whinging about how Disney rips off old stories, and now most of Slashdot raves about a story ripped off from the Wizard of Oz.
hmmm...
The British Expeditionary force, stationed in France and fighting both there and in Belgium was not a "great fighting force".
They had little armour (only 100 infantry tanks - and 200 "light" tanks which were far inferior to the German tanks) or anti tank capabilities, the support of only a portion of the British Royal Air Force, and were comprised of only around 240,000 fighting men.
All of the big French artillery guns were literally buried into position facing in the direction that the Germans were supposed to come.
Anyone else think of the National Missile Defence project when they hear of the Maginot line?
IMO it's a direct comparison - looks good, sounds good, and against an enemy with an ounce of sense is absolutely useless. Anyone also imagine that the Maginot line was completed in a project which resulted in a *lot* of money making it into private industry, and profits for big gun and emplacement and construction firms?
We keep making the same mistakes.
"Do you have P3P policies for your website? If not, what stops you from creating one?"
Return on investment.
Creating a P3P policy would take alot of my time - I would have to research and learn the format and possiblities of the language, then write the policy, reconcile it with various departments within the company, then finally integrate into the site, and potentially have to deal with questions from confused visitors.
Implementing P3P on my site would cost me no money, but a great deal of time.
TIME IS MONEY
I'm afraid I don't have a reference to hand, but I believe the UK defence industry spend is somewhere around 4% of the total budget.
This is considerably less than 17%
Freedom of speech also implies freedom of anonymous [speech]
It does? I thought it implied being responsible for your speech. If you *have* true freedom of speech there is no requirement for anonymous speech.