is another man's "terrorist". It is rare that political items in the news are black and white. This means that it is hard to get agreement amongst reasonable people as to what is "fake news". Add in those who are deliberately trying to influence opinion to follow a story that paints some group in a good light and it becomes even harder. By the time that most of us get to see the news it has been through several lenses, several of which deliberately distort the image.
Thus: beware accepting the prevalent opinion of those around you; they are reading local newspapers and watching regional TV, it is unlikely that they have unfiltered information. However: your life will probably be easier if you agree with those around you -- social pressures tend to result in "herd opinions" where those to disagree can be socially ostracised.
there is a lot of software in use that was written by someone who is now dead and who did not leave any indication as to what should happen. I am thinking of free to use software, sometimes without a clear license. What if I want to fix bugs in it, enhance it and also release my (added) code under, eg GPL?
OK: in truth it is very unlikely that anyone will come after me for so doing, but it would be nice to have some reassurance.
much as I like Christmas & don't want to be a party pooper & all that.... is this really a good idea, is it safe ?
Easter egg code tends to be more buggy than the rest:, it tends to be written more quickly (not much budget for a frivolous project) and it won't be as well tested. Is this really wanted in something on which your life depends ? Also: since it is new it will be more of a distraction to the driver -- when s/he should be keeping his eyes on the road (especially at a time of year when more than usual will have more to drink than is wise).
What next ? A fun little game hidden inside the Air Traffic Control software ? There are times when us programmers should think of the consequences.
you cannot drop a Linux desktop into a corporate environment (this usually means a Microsoft environment) and have it just work. This is the biggest problem. Unlike the readership here most people cannot care less about computers and don't want to work hard to understand them. They have to use a MS Windows machine at work and so will have the same at home - learning something else is just too hard & boring.
Yes you can have *nix on the desktop, I have only run *nix on my desktops for 25+ years, but I am self employed so I run what I want, I do not need to interact with lots of other people within my company. I am also a techie: I have the interest & motivation to do this. But getting millions of individual Linux desktops will not result in 'the year of Linux desktop', for that the corporate environment must be cracked.
A fully open source 100% replacement for the MS server environment would also help a lot. Yes: you can easily replace a lot of it, but the server components are just that, islands that are not joined up. Email to most people includes group-ware (calendering, etc), people do not want to have to separate the 2: they want to just continue the way that they are. The SME (Small and medium-sized enterprises) sector would be most likely to move first if such a FLOSS solution was available and easy to install/maintain.
The SME sector is also able to do its thing without attracting Microsoft's big we-play-dirty marketing guns: think Munich.
However: much software also seen as essential in a corporate environment only runs on MS Windows - eg accounting software. Vendors would only consider porting to Linux if there was a large market - it is much easier from their perspective to just require a MS Windows machine to run their software. Very much chicken and eggs.
Can this be done ? Yes: but it needs the likes of Red Hat to make this happen. Those who work on the individual components (eg Exim/Postfix) have little interest in doing this - they are focussed on making good MTAs (in this example). Work to stitch them together needs to be done by a software integrator - which is exactly what Red Hat is.
Red Hat has the money & technical ability to do this; once done it also has plenty of corporate customers, a few of which might try it as early adopters... and when it works others will follow.
Summary: what is needed is 100% client & server interoperability in the server environment. This is what Red Hat needs to achieve.
A few Romanians arrested, but there will be plenty more to replace them as long as the manufacturers and vendors care little about security. The only way of doing that is to make the local hight street store liable - they will then stop selling you the cheapest that they can buy; so then all that you will have to worry about are state sponsored crackers who deliberately place back doors in these things.
Imagine if the copyright lobby tried to argue that by looking at someone else's newspaper on the bus you've violated their copyright because you weren't licensed to do so.
It depends on what you then do with what you read in the newspaper. There are several things that you could do:
* If you tell someone else what you learned using your own words - fair enough
* If you read the words on the page out to a group of people - fair enough
* If you made your own newspaper using what you learned using your own words - hmmm, maybe legal but is it moral to reuse someone else's work for your profit (without their agreement & possible payment
* If you made your own newspaper using the exact same words - I think that this would be breach of copyright, it would not fall under copyright's fair use
Just because I put something on my web site does not mean that all use of what I put there is free for every use. I might put up some pictures; I would be happy for everyone to view them; I would not be happy for another web site to display them or a newspaper to print them (without some other agreement, possibly involving payment).
You just wait until systemd provides the ability to edit files. Maybe this was the point all along; Poettering has said that systemd is aiming to unify "pointless differences between distributions".
we learned earlier today that you can spoof login to become root on macOS -- this android feature makes it much, much more secure than macOS - you cannot login as root (or anything else):-).
who filibustered and so helped cause the death of 5 million odd who died since the 2006 ruling. Let the personally pay compensation to their relatives.
This will not, of course, happen — which is a pity because if they were sued, lost their houses, etc, then it might make other executives think twice before acting irresponsibly — in the hope of making a quick buck.
OK: I do realise that many of those who died since 2006 did so because of damage sustained before then, but there are plenty who's health has been harmed since 2006.
If that is what they are worried about, why have they not banned religious web sites; IMHO those are far more damaging than porn: they claim to present truth (without much evidence), then say that a bunch of people are bad: those of other religions (or none), gays, divorcees,...; discourage free or rational thought, condemn evolution and generally denounce any sex out side marriage,...
Many kids have their minds screwed up by religion.
or, at least, that is what we are supposed to believe. If the FBI could break into these devices a good strategy would be to shout about how they cannot get in and so convince crooks/paedoes/political-dissidents/... to buy them.
The FBI have taken a case where they know who did the crime, they have a pretty good idea of the nature of the man and why he did it - but they are using it as a poster case to tell everyone that they cannot break into the 'phone.
that user settings should be preserved across an update. It can be frustrating when user choices are reset to default and allow the vendor access to things that you had closed off (Microsoft - I am looking at you).
they can forbid Google to take data gathered in Canada out of the country; maybe unless it has explicit consent of everyone who is referred to in the data. That sort of thing would cause Google (or any similar organisation) a lot of problems.
even with similar life rewards (good health, nice home, good spouse & kids,...) those living the slow, rural life will tend to be happier than a frenetic, fast living city dweller.
People have every reason for extreme caution when low quality investigative agents, basically incompetents get on them and start fabricating reasons for legal attacks, fo what ever egoistic reasons those agents choose.....
Not just a problem in the USA. The McCops in Scotland took a man's AKA paintball pictures removing context to paint him as a criminal. What did it cost the man to defend himself in court, what was the cost to the government to bring a stupid case ? If a cop decides that he doesn't like you then you have to pay the price!
if your laptop/phone can connect into your home VPN, then what you carry with you, maybe in another country, could be inspected by border-police/... and they would have access to your home network from their country. Do you want that ? Making things easy for you will also make things easier for people who you might not like.
judges who are willing to get to understand and appreciate what their case is all about. How would you feel if you were being tried for murder and the judge did not really understand the concepts of life & death ?
It doesn't matter who owns the server, since even if it is MS Ireland, they're almost certainly a wholly owned subsidiary of MS US, meaning that MS US owns that data regardless.
The EU might not agree that that is the case.
Can anyone tell me where I can buy popcorn in bulk ?
Pizza Hut was one of the (increasingly rare) US businesses that refused to upgrade their terminals
Does this mean that Pizza Hut may be sued by people as it failed to take reasonable, and readily available, measures to protect credit card information ?
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The G.B. National Grid Status provides an overview of where the electricity is coming from.
is another man's "terrorist". It is rare that political items in the news are black and white. This means that it is hard to get agreement amongst reasonable people as to what is "fake news". Add in those who are deliberately trying to influence opinion to follow a story that paints some group in a good light and it becomes even harder. By the time that most of us get to see the news it has been through several lenses, several of which deliberately distort the image.
Thus: beware accepting the prevalent opinion of those around you; they are reading local newspapers and watching regional TV, it is unlikely that they have unfiltered information. However: your life will probably be easier if you agree with those around you -- social pressures tend to result in "herd opinions" where those to disagree can be socially ostracised.
there is a lot of software in use that was written by someone who is now dead and who did not leave any indication as to what should happen. I am thinking of free to use software, sometimes without a clear license. What if I want to fix bugs in it, enhance it and also release my (added) code under, eg GPL?
OK: in truth it is very unlikely that anyone will come after me for so doing, but it would be nice to have some reassurance.
much as I like Christmas & don't want to be a party pooper & all that .... is this really a good idea, is it safe ?
Easter egg code tends to be more buggy than the rest:, it tends to be written more quickly (not much budget for a frivolous project) and it won't be as well tested. Is this really wanted in something on which your life depends ? Also: since it is new it will be more of a distraction to the driver -- when s/he should be keeping his eyes on the road (especially at a time of year when more than usual will have more to drink than is wise).
What next ? A fun little game hidden inside the Air Traffic Control software ? There are times when us programmers should think of the consequences.
you cannot drop a Linux desktop into a corporate environment (this usually means a Microsoft environment) and have it just work. This is the biggest problem. Unlike the readership here most people cannot care less about computers and don't want to work hard to understand them. They have to use a MS Windows machine at work and so will have the same at home - learning something else is just too hard & boring.
Yes you can have *nix on the desktop, I have only run *nix on my desktops for 25+ years, but I am self employed so I run what I want, I do not need to interact with lots of other people within my company. I am also a techie: I have the interest & motivation to do this. But getting millions of individual Linux desktops will not result in 'the year of Linux desktop', for that the corporate environment must be cracked.
A fully open source 100% replacement for the MS server environment would also help a lot. Yes: you can easily replace a lot of it, but the server components are just that, islands that are not joined up. Email to most people includes group-ware (calendering, etc), people do not want to have to separate the 2: they want to just continue the way that they are. The SME (Small and medium-sized enterprises) sector would be most likely to move first if such a FLOSS solution was available and easy to install/maintain.
The SME sector is also able to do its thing without attracting Microsoft's big we-play-dirty marketing guns: think Munich.
However: much software also seen as essential in a corporate environment only runs on MS Windows - eg accounting software. Vendors would only consider porting to Linux if there was a large market - it is much easier from their perspective to just require a MS Windows machine to run their software. Very much chicken and eggs.
Can this be done ? Yes: but it needs the likes of Red Hat to make this happen. Those who work on the individual components (eg Exim/Postfix) have little interest in doing this - they are focussed on making good MTAs (in this example). Work to stitch them together needs to be done by a software integrator - which is exactly what Red Hat is.
Red Hat has the money & technical ability to do this; once done it also has plenty of corporate customers, a few of which might try it as early adopters ... and when it works others will follow.
Summary: what is needed is 100% client & server interoperability in the server environment. This is what Red Hat needs to achieve.
A few Romanians arrested, but there will be plenty more to replace them as long as the manufacturers and vendors care little about security. The only way of doing that is to make the local hight street store liable - they will then stop selling you the cheapest that they can buy; so then all that you will have to worry about are state sponsored crackers who deliberately place back doors in these things.
Imagine if the copyright lobby tried to argue that by looking at someone else's newspaper on the bus you've violated their copyright because you weren't licensed to do so.
It depends on what you then do with what you read in the newspaper. There are several things that you could do:
Just because I put something on my web site does not mean that all use of what I put there is free for every use. I might put up some pictures; I would be happy for everyone to view them; I would not be happy for another web site to display them or a newspaper to print them (without some other agreement, possibly involving payment).
The Emacs of the 2010s.
You just wait until systemd provides the ability to edit files. Maybe this was the point all along; Poettering has said that systemd is aiming to unify "pointless differences between distributions".
we learned earlier today that you can spoof login to become root on macOS -- this android feature makes it much, much more secure than macOS - you cannot login as root (or anything else) :-).
who filibustered and so helped cause the death of 5 million odd who died since the 2006 ruling. Let the personally pay compensation to their relatives.
This will not, of course, happen — which is a pity because if they were sued, lost their houses, etc, then it might make other executives think twice before acting irresponsibly — in the hope of making a quick buck.
OK: I do realise that many of those who died since 2006 did so because of damage sustained before then, but there are plenty who's health has been harmed since 2006.
If that is what they are worried about, why have they not banned religious web sites; IMHO those are far more damaging than porn: they claim to present truth (without much evidence), then say that a bunch of people are bad: those of other religions (or none), gays, divorcees, ...; discourage free or rational thought, condemn evolution and generally denounce any sex out side marriage, ...
Many kids have their minds screwed up by religion.
distract from the heinous fact that Uber hid that they had been cracked from their customers AND in contravention of all sorts of laws.
I would not be surprised if the apology was a stunt by the railway PR department: a way of saying ''look how punctual we normally are''.
or, at least, that is what we are supposed to believe. If the FBI could break into these devices a good strategy would be to shout about how they cannot get in and so convince crooks/paedoes/political-dissidents/... to buy them.
The FBI have taken a case where they know who did the crime, they have a pretty good idea of the nature of the man and why he did it - but they are using it as a poster case to tell everyone that they cannot break into the 'phone.
And pay $PPLE a shit ton of money, or risk getting sued?
No risk if you do the reverse engineering of the protocol in the EU - which specifically allowed you to do that. See the UK Act: The Copyright (Computer Programs) Regulations 1992, read 50B (2)(a)
that user settings should be preserved across an update. It can be frustrating when user choices are reset to default and allow the vendor access to things that you had closed off (Microsoft - I am looking at you).
they can forbid Google to take data gathered in Canada out of the country; maybe unless it has explicit consent of everyone who is referred to in the data. That sort of thing would cause Google (or any similar organisation) a lot of problems.
I believe that it is them who we currently blame for all things like this.
even with similar life rewards (good health, nice home, good spouse & kids, ...) those living the slow, rural life will tend to be happier than a frenetic, fast living city dweller.
People have every reason for extreme caution when low quality investigative agents, basically incompetents get on them and start fabricating reasons for legal attacks, fo what ever egoistic reasons those agents choose .....
Not just a problem in the USA. The McCops in Scotland took a man's AKA paintball pictures removing context to paint him as a criminal. What did it cost the man to defend himself in court, what was the cost to the government to bring a stupid case ? If a cop decides that he doesn't like you then you have to pay the price!
if your laptop/phone can connect into your home VPN, then what you carry with you, maybe in another country, could be inspected by border-police/... and they would have access to your home network from their country. Do you want that ? Making things easy for you will also make things easier for people who you might not like.
judges who are willing to get to understand and appreciate what their case is all about. How would you feel if you were being tried for murder and the judge did not really understand the concepts of life & death ?
It doesn't matter who owns the server, since even if it is MS Ireland, they're almost certainly a wholly owned subsidiary of MS US, meaning that MS US owns that data regardless.
The EU might not agree that that is the case.
Can anyone tell me where I can buy popcorn in bulk ?
Even simpler case: an Irish company is ordered by an Irish court to obtain data from its subsidiary in the USA. Which court wins ?
Pizza Hut was one of the (increasingly rare) US businesses that refused to upgrade their terminals
Does this mean that Pizza Hut may be sued by people as it failed to take reasonable, and readily available, measures to protect credit card information ?