The same should apply to minutes/email-list/... of the private forum. Being private the initial report and then while a fix/... is devised is reasonable but there must be a guarantee that it will, eventually, be published. How long is much harder to define: well defined bug -> fix -- a few weeks; something deeper & more fundamental -- it could take longer.
referred to in sales literature but never properly defined. Customers buy things expecting them to work for a reasonable number of years to find that the manufacturer has decided to End Of Life it. It is not just Logitech that plays games like this.
The support life should be in BIG letters on the box and the clock should stop ticking the moment that a customer reports a fault.
what the attraction is of watching one man hit another ? People wail when terrorists drive lorries into crowds but then cheer when someone smashes his fist into another man's face. I don't understand ?
I have tried Gnome 3 several times, I also run it on a virtual machine.... but I just find it unusable; way too dumbed down, essential (to me) features removed; Mate (Aka Gnome 2) has them - so I stay there.
then will they release the specs, etc, as Open Source/... and let someone else make the things ? After all: they will not lose anything. But: I doubt that that will happen.
If old Surveillance Orders are not released then voters do not have the information to decide if they are happy with how these have been used by the FBI -- who, I am told, operate on behalf of citizens of the USA, in their best interests and with their complete approval.
So will he also be pushing to protect children from other types of web site that
can have effects on them ? I am thinking of religious sites. The views expressed
on these can cause considerable trauma; think of the effect of seeing the views
expressed about homosexuality on a young gay boy ? Or how about the views
expressed about people of different, or no, faith ?
To be able to code effectively in C you need to have been doing so for at least 3 years and, preferably, spent 6 months or more writing in assembler. I am not saying that without this people cannot write good C, but I believe that this is what is needed to provide you with the level of insight that is necessary to be a competent C programmer. To be a great one, add a few years experience.
C is not a language for every one, it is not a language for all problems. But for some it is a good language. The trouble is that some people use it when the, perhaps, should be using another language and then when they get problems blame the language and not themselves.
Anyway: how can you call a language complete if it does not have a GOTO statement ? I'm not saying that I use it a lot, but it is useful for handling errors & similar. I will doubtless now be flamed by those who have heard Dijkstra's complaint about GOTO and not understood it. I remember programs where one in every three statements was a GOTO - yuck, that is what he was complaining about; not about the single GOTO in every 1,000 to 3,000 lines that I seem to write. Yes: I could eliminate those GOTOs but either by making the program less clear (by introducing extra state variables, or similar) or by making it less efficient. His complaint was about excessive use of GOTO, many who have not read the paper, or do not have enough real programming experience, forget that important qualification.
should be made illegal. How is a user supposed to know what they are signed up to if the other party to the ''agreement'' can change part of, what is often, a long & badly written has been changed? Any change should be clearly flagged up and all users informed by email; this should be long enough before the change takes effect for them to move to an alternate service.
You don't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
But if you have a shark in your fish pond you control the shark otherwise,in the future, the only thing in the pond will be the shark. Then any new minnow that gets dropped into the pond will not be able to have a chance to live long enough to grow and become a fish.
In other words: to keep things competitive you need to ensure that there is enough business left for competitors. Even if Amazon kept good prices and service, would you like it if Amazon was the only retail outlet left ? We have seen many times that monopolies, like dictators, do not lead to good outcomes - no matter how much you welcome them to begin with.
So where do these ISPs hope to get a return on the ''investment'' in lobbying ? Answer: charging their customers more to access certain services; or having some services pay to get fast access to their customers. Either way this will not be to the advantage of those who the ISPs provide a connection to the Internet.
to the point that we can teleport all politicians up there... and then quickly destroy the machine before they figure out what we did and try to get back again.
It seems a pretty specious argument to me. Just like the article says, you don't charge somebody more for a sofa just because they want to put it in a more expensive house.
Interesting comment given that more and more vendors, shops,... are introducing variable prices. Go on-line, look for a hotel/flight/... and the price that you will see is often different from what someone else sees. If you are known to be wealthy you are often charged more.
If they are rare then Apple will not have to pay for many of them, so the cost will not be huge. They ought to publicise when they have paid a bounty (and fixed the problem). Apple should then pay these bounties out of the marketing department budget, not software development. Their marketing department probably has a larger budget than development.
In the UK the only way of submitting a VAT return (aka quarterly Sales Tax report) is on-line. Access only on-line to other government services is the way that things are going. That makes it a necessity.
Just don't sign up; find real friends in the real world -- rather than a thousand people who you think are friends because they know what you had for breakfast.
Moreover can we please stop confusing legal and illegal with what we know is clearly morally right or wrong.
They are deliberately going against the intention of the law. The legislators who draw up the laws (ie write the words) do so assuming that a public body like the NSA is not going to dodge the intention/spirit by using small loop holes. Whoever in the NSA authorised this should be held personally accountable: sacked and have their NSA pension withheld.
You appear to have misunderstood the reason for the existence of the iPhone. Its purpose is not so that you can speak to your friends, visit web sites, run apps that you think are useful or fun. The purpose of the iPhone is to generate cash for Apple. First they get you to hand over lots of money to get hold of it, then using it means handing over more money: to download apps, get subscriptions, etc — every time Apple get 30% of the money.
Apple does not want you to stem this flow by installing apps that would allow you to make payments that bypass their bank.
he could have made a lot of money. Quietly kept his root access, put in a few logging scripts that would have searched and told him where water usage had dropped in for a couple of days... probably a good sign that people are away on holiday... sold this information on to his friend Burglar Bill who could have paid the properties an uninvited visit; very hard to trace this back to leaked water readings [pardon the pun]. This is why accepting smart meters into your house that allow real time water/electric/... usage is a huge security risk.
The utilities all claim that it is perfectly safe - something that this story shows is a lie -- or at best wildly optimistic. The reason that they want to do this is to increase their profits - but the cost is your household security; but they don't care about that.
who is having evolution removed from school text books because it is too ''controversial''. He wants ''all classes are to be taught in a more religious context'' — translation: ''I want future generations to make decisions on the basis of whatever fantasies that I want to promote; make them incapable of rational evaluation of evidence.''.
This can only result in a more unstable future world. We should eliminate religion from all politics; however I can't see that happening.
of the likes of GCHQ and the NSA to hoard vulnerabilities that they find. The Russians, and likely other ''bad guys'', are probably going to find the same set of vulnerabilities.
If they really wanted to do their job of protecting us they would tell the vendor and we would all be a lot safer.
if you really want to be pedantic, the technical term is Chinese gooseberry
If you wanted to be pedantic you should have used the term Actinidia deliciosa. That is commonly known as the fuzzy kiwifruit, there are a few other species of the genus Actinidia that are also edible with various names.
More or less what I came to say, except that I am worried that Theresa May will use it as partial justification: if a civilised country like Japan can do it, I can also impose it in England.
I used to think that books & films like 'Fahrenheit 451' & 'Neuromancer' were just stuff for entertainment, but now I seem to be seeing this coming at me just over the hill.
As far as the documents go, would it be very difficult for Microsoft to do a Linux version of Office 365 (they could monetize it that way) client, given that they already have a version for Android? I know, Android has that UI that almost totally masks the Linux underpinnings, but Microsoft could do a client for Linux (and BSD) that would run Office 365, and run the OS off Azure. That way, they can have a steady stream of cash, instead of being caught up in trying to forcibly upgrade people's OSs.
If Microsoft were to do that then they would lose one of the things that chains people to their operating system; so it would not be a commercially sensible thing to do. The biggest problem is not the word processor (just specify.ODF - the city is large enough to do that), but integration with Microsoft Exchange - especially group-ware (calendaring).
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The same should apply to minutes/email-list/... of the private forum. Being private the initial report and then while a fix/... is devised is reasonable but there must be a guarantee that it will, eventually, be published. How long is much harder to define: well defined bug -> fix -- a few weeks; something deeper & more fundamental -- it could take longer.
referred to in sales literature but never properly defined. Customers buy things expecting them to work for a reasonable number of years to find that the manufacturer has decided to End Of Life it. It is not just Logitech that plays games like this.
The support life should be in BIG letters on the box and the clock should stop ticking the moment that a customer reports a fault.
what the attraction is of watching one man hit another ? People wail when terrorists drive lorries into crowds but then cheer when someone smashes his fist into another man's face. I don't understand ?
I have tried Gnome 3 several times, I also run it on a virtual machine .... but I just find it unusable; way too dumbed down, essential (to me) features removed; Mate (Aka Gnome 2) has them - so I stay there.
Someone wants to give you a job!
then will they release the specs, etc, as Open Source/... and let someone else make the things ? After all: they will not lose anything. But: I doubt that that will happen.
Mod parent up.
If old Surveillance Orders are not released then voters do not have the information to decide if they are happy with how these have been used by the FBI -- who, I am told, operate on behalf of citizens of the USA, in their best interests and with their complete approval.
I note that Will Gardner (Childnet CEO) says: "Protecting children from exposure, including accidental exposure, to adult content is incredibly important, given the effect it can have on young people,".
So will he also be pushing to protect children from other types of web site that can have effects on them ? I am thinking of religious sites. The views expressed on these can cause considerable trauma; think of the effect of seeing the views expressed about homosexuality on a young gay boy ? Or how about the views expressed about people of different, or no, faith ?
To be able to code effectively in C you need to have been doing so for at least 3 years and, preferably, spent 6 months or more writing in assembler. I am not saying that without this people cannot write good C, but I believe that this is what is needed to provide you with the level of insight that is necessary to be a competent C programmer. To be a great one, add a few years experience.
C is not a language for every one, it is not a language for all problems. But for some it is a good language. The trouble is that some people use it when the, perhaps, should be using another language and then when they get problems blame the language and not themselves.
Anyway: how can you call a language complete if it does not have a GOTO statement ? I'm not saying that I use it a lot, but it is useful for handling errors & similar. I will doubtless now be flamed by those who have heard Dijkstra's complaint about GOTO and not understood it. I remember programs where one in every three statements was a GOTO - yuck, that is what he was complaining about; not about the single GOTO in every 1,000 to 3,000 lines that I seem to write. Yes: I could eliminate those GOTOs but either by making the program less clear (by introducing extra state variables, or similar) or by making it less efficient. His complaint was about excessive use of GOTO, many who have not read the paper, or do not have enough real programming experience, forget that important qualification.
should be made illegal. How is a user supposed to know what they are signed up to if the other party to the ''agreement'' can change part of, what is often, a long & badly written has been changed? Any change should be clearly flagged up and all users informed by email; this should be long enough before the change takes effect for them to move to an alternate service.
You don't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
But if you have a shark in your fish pond you control the shark otherwise,in the future, the only thing in the pond will be the shark. Then any new minnow that gets dropped into the pond will not be able to have a chance to live long enough to grow and become a fish.
In other words: to keep things competitive you need to ensure that there is enough business left for competitors. Even if Amazon kept good prices and service, would you like it if Amazon was the only retail outlet left ? We have seen many times that monopolies, like dictators, do not lead to good outcomes - no matter how much you welcome them to begin with.
So where do these ISPs hope to get a return on the ''investment'' in lobbying ? Answer: charging their customers more to access certain services; or having some services pay to get fast access to their customers. Either way this will not be to the advantage of those who the ISPs provide a connection to the Internet.
Oh, and they take action against competition.
to the point that we can teleport all politicians up there ... and then quickly destroy the machine before they figure out what we did and try to get back again.
It seems a pretty specious argument to me. Just like the article says, you don't charge somebody more for a sofa just because they want to put it in a more expensive house.
Interesting comment given that more and more vendors, shops, ... are introducing variable prices. Go on-line, look for a hotel/flight/... and the price that you will see is often different from what someone else sees. If you are known to be wealthy you are often charged more.
If they are rare then Apple will not have to pay for many of them, so the cost will not be huge. They ought to publicise when they have paid a bounty (and fixed the problem). Apple should then pay these bounties out of the marketing department budget, not software development. Their marketing department probably has a larger budget than development.
In the UK the only way of submitting a VAT return (aka quarterly Sales Tax report) is on-line. Access only on-line to other government services is the way that things are going. That makes it a necessity.
Just don't sign up; find real friends in the real world -- rather than a thousand people who you think are friends because they know what you had for breakfast.
Moreover can we please stop confusing legal and illegal with what we know is clearly morally right or wrong.
They are deliberately going against the intention of the law. The legislators who draw up the laws (ie write the words) do so assuming that a public body like the NSA is not going to dodge the intention/spirit by using small loop holes. Whoever in the NSA authorised this should be held personally accountable: sacked and have their NSA pension withheld.
You appear to have misunderstood the reason for the existence of the iPhone. Its purpose is not so that you can speak to your friends, visit web sites, run apps that you think are useful or fun. The purpose of the iPhone is to generate cash for Apple. First they get you to hand over lots of money to get hold of it, then using it means handing over more money: to download apps, get subscriptions, etc — every time Apple get 30% of the money.
Apple does not want you to stem this flow by installing apps that would allow you to make payments that bypass their bank.
he could have made a lot of money. Quietly kept his root access, put in a few logging scripts that would have searched and told him where water usage had dropped in for a couple of days ... probably a good sign that people are away on holiday ... sold this information on to his friend Burglar Bill who could have paid the properties an uninvited visit; very hard to trace this back to leaked water readings [pardon the pun]. This is why accepting smart meters into your house that allow real time water/electric/... usage is a huge security risk.
The utilities all claim that it is perfectly safe - something that this story shows is a lie -- or at best wildly optimistic. The reason that they want to do this is to increase their profits - but the cost is your household security; but they don't care about that.
who is having evolution removed from school text books because it is too ''controversial''. He wants ''all classes are to be taught in a more religious context'' — translation: ''I want future generations to make decisions on the basis of whatever fantasies that I want to promote; make them incapable of rational evaluation of evidence.''.
This can only result in a more unstable future world. We should eliminate religion from all politics; however I can't see that happening.
of the likes of GCHQ and the NSA to hoard vulnerabilities that they find. The Russians, and likely other ''bad guys'', are probably going to find the same set of vulnerabilities.
If they really wanted to do their job of protecting us they would tell the vendor and we would all be a lot safer.
if you really want to be pedantic, the technical term is Chinese gooseberry
If you wanted to be pedantic you should have used the term Actinidia deliciosa. That is commonly known as the fuzzy kiwifruit, there are a few other species of the genus Actinidia that are also edible with various names.
More or less what I came to say, except that I am worried that Theresa May will use it as partial justification: if a civilised country like Japan can do it, I can also impose it in England.
I used to think that books & films like 'Fahrenheit 451' & 'Neuromancer' were just stuff for entertainment, but now I seem to be seeing this coming at me just over the hill.
As far as the documents go, would it be very difficult for Microsoft to do a Linux version of Office 365 (they could monetize it that way) client, given that they already have a version for Android? I know, Android has that UI that almost totally masks the Linux underpinnings, but Microsoft could do a client for Linux (and BSD) that would run Office 365, and run the OS off Azure. That way, they can have a steady stream of cash, instead of being caught up in trying to forcibly upgrade people's OSs.
If Microsoft were to do that then they would lose one of the things that chains people to their operating system; so it would not be a commercially sensible thing to do. The biggest problem is not the word processor (just specify .ODF - the city is large enough to do that), but integration with Microsoft Exchange - especially group-ware (calendaring).