Let me make it real easy for you. "Hacker" can refer to an evil criminal who codes. It can refer to a brilliant genius who writes beautiful code for the advancement of humanity. It can refer to a complete newbie knocking up some code in their bedroom. The only thing it actually means, therefore, is someone who codes. It doesn't make a value judgement about that person.
The mother taking her kids to school in the car is called a "driver". The winner of the 24 hour Le Mans is called a "driver". The person who parked in both disabled spaces at the supermarket without a disabled permit is called a "driver". And the person who, out of their head on cocaine and vodka, knocked down and killed a six year old boy and drove off without even looking in their rear view mirror is called a "driver".
That's an even greater level of dishonesty than someone checking their bank account on company time.
How is the latter dishonest? Dishonesty is lying, how is checking your bank account lying?
American corporate ethics are weird. Are you even allowed to go to the toilet while you're "on the clock"? Do you have to get special permission to do it? What about if your kid's school principal phones you up to tell you your kid's been misbehaving, is that a "dishonest" abuse of your employer's time?
If you actually know how to change gear, then I don't see how this buys you anything. And if you don't know how to change gear, then (1) you shouldn't be riding anything more powerful than a 125cc, and (2) if you do train yourself to use this system then you've shot yourself in the foot when it comes to operating anything else.
This is more about anticompetitive practices than what they allow you to run on their OS. Microsoft's FUD machine was stoked earlier and hotter than anyone else, and I don't think anyone has seen any signs of that cooling down. It's a part of who they are.
Apple have their own set of issues but FUD is not a major strategy for them.
It seems there is a security exploit here, and it is being performed by Valve. Windows (1) keeps an unencrypted cache of DNS lookups and (2) allows unfettered access to it from any application. This is pretty bad, but clearly it was not the intent when creating the cache to let random applications spy on your browsing history, so Valve's access to the cache has to be considered an exploit, possibly even a crime?
Nonetheless the take home message here is that better operating systems need to be designed that don't allow applications to access each other's memory and log files by default.
This is based on the fact that graduates "might" work out more able to afford it.
Why not cut out the if-clause and actually tax the people who are able to afford it because they are rich? Like, you know, income tax.
Unless you want to turn it into a whole social experiment to work out whether universities themselves are actually a good idea or not. Yeah, let's call that into question. Let's put humanity back a few generations because we're super selfish. We get out of having to pay a few measly dimes in taxes and our grandchildren grow up not knowing what an atom is. Good job.
Agree 100%. A workhorse of the British services for many decades has been the Land Rover Defender, not because it has lots of features or is efficient or even that it is well made - it goes wrong all the time. The reason is that it's a doddle to repair and even improvise pieces for, even by complete numpty squaddies. This means it has a high uptime in comparison to something that rarely goes wrong, but when it does you need to wait for parts from the other side of the world and a specialized mechanic.
This is similar to HP's server strategy in comparison to IBM: HP kit fails all the time but their support staff are great and have a replacement for you quickly and smoothly - IBM kit is great and fails rarely but when it does you're in for a long wait getting your mission back to operational.
That's not the moral of this story. He was given 4 months because he wasted police time - that was because he actually gave them the password in the end.
If he had continued not to give them the password, even if it were actually true that he had forgotten it, they could have imprisoned him for considerably longer, the current maximum is 10 years, which is more than you get for cutting someone's throat with a smashed beerglass in the pub, and considerably more than the slap on the wrist you get for killing an unarmed civilian if you're a police marksman.
This warped and clearly unfair legislation was brought to you courtesy of this total bastard.
In English: shot dead. "Shot to death" implies a long and lingering shooting, with many small bullets that cause you to gradually lose your grasp on life.
There are plenty of ways to make roads considerably safer than geolocating every road user. For instance, increasing vehicle or fuel tax to the point where only businesses can reasonably afford to run vehicles: this means that many more people would switch to mass transit, which is considerably safer per head than private transport. Or banning road vehicles altogether, this would make roads very safe indeed.
Safety is not the only consideration, and certainly when it comes to transport it's not even a primary consideration.
You say you don't break the law, but there's no way of knowing whether you are telling the truth. Yet. A good first step would be for you to post under your real name and address instead of as AC, so that you can be identified and this statement checked. Wait a moment, how about we make it illegal for people to post anonymously? Now you're breaking the law, aren't you?
It's not correct to say that because approximate (serial, digital) computations don't use accurate (serial, digital) computation, and our brains don't use accurate (serial, digital) computation either, then our brains use approximate (serial, digital) computation.
This is just as logical as saying that because green is not blue, and red is not blue, therefore green is red.
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It's working well for Putin.
Let me make it real easy for you. "Hacker" can refer to an evil criminal who codes. It can refer to a brilliant genius who writes beautiful code for the advancement of humanity. It can refer to a complete newbie knocking up some code in their bedroom. The only thing it actually means, therefore, is someone who codes. It doesn't make a value judgement about that person.
Do you understand now?
I have another car analogy for you.
The mother taking her kids to school in the car is called a "driver". The winner of the 24 hour Le Mans is called a "driver". The person who parked in both disabled spaces at the supermarket without a disabled permit is called a "driver". And the person who, out of their head on cocaine and vodka, knocked down and killed a six year old boy and drove off without even looking in their rear view mirror is called a "driver".
Why pay for the drugs with money? You could pay for them with additional jail time ;)
I have to say, good luck with that.
How is the latter dishonest? Dishonesty is lying, how is checking your bank account lying?
American corporate ethics are weird. Are you even allowed to go to the toilet while you're "on the clock"? Do you have to get special permission to do it? What about if your kid's school principal phones you up to tell you your kid's been misbehaving, is that a "dishonest" abuse of your employer's time?
Lessons still not learned.
If you actually know how to change gear, then I don't see how this buys you anything. And if you don't know how to change gear, then (1) you shouldn't be riding anything more powerful than a 125cc, and (2) if you do train yourself to use this system then you've shot yourself in the foot when it comes to operating anything else.
This is more about anticompetitive practices than what they allow you to run on their OS. Microsoft's FUD machine was stoked earlier and hotter than anyone else, and I don't think anyone has seen any signs of that cooling down. It's a part of who they are.
Apple have their own set of issues but FUD is not a major strategy for them.
It seems there is a security exploit here, and it is being performed by Valve. Windows (1) keeps an unencrypted cache of DNS lookups and (2) allows unfettered access to it from any application. This is pretty bad, but clearly it was not the intent when creating the cache to let random applications spy on your browsing history, so Valve's access to the cache has to be considered an exploit, possibly even a crime?
Nonetheless the take home message here is that better operating systems need to be designed that don't allow applications to access each other's memory and log files by default.
This is based on the fact that graduates "might" work out more able to afford it.
Why not cut out the if-clause and actually tax the people who are able to afford it because they are rich? Like, you know, income tax.
Unless you want to turn it into a whole social experiment to work out whether universities themselves are actually a good idea or not. Yeah, let's call that into question. Let's put humanity back a few generations because we're super selfish. We get out of having to pay a few measly dimes in taxes and our grandchildren grow up not knowing what an atom is. Good job.
I realize this is hard for you to understand but fraud does happen in the rest of the world, and the banks have systems set up to deal with it.
Also, feet and inches are clearly superior to metres since they are related to measurements of humans rather than the Earth. Or some human, probably.
And gallons are clearly superior to litres because I know how many gallons I get to a mile, and I have no idea how many litres to the metre. QED.
This is a bit like saying that income tax is not a tax because if you don't have an income then you don't have to pay it.
In the UK we already pay for the BBC through taxes. So we might as well use it.
Or, indeed, government grants. You know, like they had last century. When British universities were among the most respected in the world.
Chobham is a good 12 miles away from Cobham.
This is similar to HP's server strategy in comparison to IBM: HP kit fails all the time but their support staff are great and have a replacement for you quickly and smoothly - IBM kit is great and fails rarely but when it does you're in for a long wait getting your mission back to operational.
In my heaven:
the cooks are Italian
the policemen are Dutch
the mechanics are Japanese
the lovers are Indian
and
the bankers are in hell.
Ah, you're right! Thanks. I think the 10 years was what Paul Beresford was originally pushing for.
That's not the moral of this story. He was given 4 months because he wasted police time - that was because he actually gave them the password in the end.
If he had continued not to give them the password, even if it were actually true that he had forgotten it, they could have imprisoned him for considerably longer, the current maximum is 10 years, which is more than you get for cutting someone's throat with a smashed beerglass in the pub, and considerably more than the slap on the wrist you get for killing an unarmed civilian if you're a police marksman.
This warped and clearly unfair legislation was brought to you courtesy of this total bastard.
In English: shot dead. "Shot to death" implies a long and lingering shooting, with many small bullets that cause you to gradually lose your grasp on life.
There are plenty of ways to make roads considerably safer than geolocating every road user. For instance, increasing vehicle or fuel tax to the point where only businesses can reasonably afford to run vehicles: this means that many more people would switch to mass transit, which is considerably safer per head than private transport. Or banning road vehicles altogether, this would make roads very safe indeed.
Safety is not the only consideration, and certainly when it comes to transport it's not even a primary consideration.
You say you don't break the law, but there's no way of knowing whether you are telling the truth. Yet. A good first step would be for you to post under your real name and address instead of as AC, so that you can be identified and this statement checked. Wait a moment, how about we make it illegal for people to post anonymously? Now you're breaking the law, aren't you?
It's not correct to say that because approximate (serial, digital) computations don't use accurate (serial, digital) computation, and our brains don't use accurate (serial, digital) computation either, then our brains use approximate (serial, digital) computation.
This is just as logical as saying that because green is not blue, and red is not blue, therefore green is red.
Copyright infridgement is where the copyright has a cooling off period, amirite?