I see what you're trying to say, but claiming monitoring doesn't have a cost is blatantly false - gathering the monitoring data takes a non-zero amount of resources. You're right that monitoring can often be a *net benefit* though.
That makes sense when you have enough resources to throw at the problem. But the entire point of this technology is to semi-transparently add multi-server scalability. In that context what you wrote above makes no sense whatsoever - without a scaling mechanism you won't *have* enough resources to throw at the problem. Now, that scaling mechanism, for some problems, is as easy as "divide problem by number of servers and spawn appropriate number of workers to process each sub part", in which case this technology isn't needed. But a large number of interesting problems are *hard* to split up, and may easily have data dependencies that makes naively distributing the input space over multiple servers be slower than not scaling it up at all.
That's being pedantic. The Crown is part of government, and anything "mandated by the Crown" is done so by convention only, under direction of parliament - it's been that way at least since the 18th century when the principle of parliamentary sovereignty was firmly established in British constitutional law.
It's *cache*. It's not meant to be moved, and it doesn't prevent you from moving the hard drive. Nor does it prevent you from using an SSD, it just means the performance reasons for using an SSD may get significantly reduced.
I agree, how can we even have a discussion about some mythical 'right' to healthcare? Hint: It isn't a 'right' if it requires the enslavement of someone else. Doctors and the rest of the healthcare industry are not required to serve you. You do not have a moral claim on their services.
Practically all British GP's run their own businesses. There's nothing preventing them from operating entirely privately, and many do, but most strong to receive NHS payment to take NHS patients because it's well paid and takes all the billing issues out of the equation. A large chunk of British hospital employees also offer private services. Many of them in NHS hospitals, using spare capacity that they can get access to at a low cost, benefitting both them and the public who get some of their hospital costs offset by private providers that way.
Certainly none of them are being forced or coerced, and clearly I must be misguided seeing as I don't know of any countries that force people to become doctors and then force them to work for the public. But I guess that doesn't fit with your fantasy world.
This is the problem with all of the new progressive 'rights' they kee on inventing compared to real human rights. To illustrate, free speech is a fundamental Right possessed by every human being, regardless whether they live in a hellhole that oppresses them.
All rights are human inventions. To pretend otherwise is meaningless.
And all rights are meaningless without at least the possibility of having the means and ability to make use of them. First and foremost that means actually staying alive and in good health. Any society that insists on caring about human rights that doesn't also take steps to ensure that everyone has a recent shot at good health is just plain taking the piss.
This is not a *new* idea - it's an idea that is well over 160 years old, gaining ground starting with the first socialist ideologists, and one that has been penetrating further right in the political landscape ever since (i.e. look at Europe where the vast majority of conservative parties no also staunchly support the concept of a *right* to a level of basic welfare).
Of course since we don't have universal health care you can usually go to an emergency room and get to see someone before you die, unlike the routine horror stories coming out of the British press.
You must be reading different stories from the British press than what they actually publish in Britain. As it stands here, anyone can go to an emergency room and be guaranteed treatment here too, but we don't because the vast majority of us get more than good enough treatment by going to our GP and get referred.
People who are not satisfied are perfectly free to get private health insurance - it's available and *cheap* since they only provide cover above and beyond services where they know they don't stand a chance of competing with the NHS.
They always say that. By default the Tories will always complain it's "too little, too late", "just more of the same failed policies" or something similar, irrespective of whether they ever offered a solution, or whether Labour does exactly what the Tories want (queue frantic moves to change their platform). British politicians are incapable of agreeing on anything in public other than how incompetent their counterparts are.
Actually this is likely the ONLY area in the UK where this is the case. All other parts of the UK are served by BT, who are under obligation to provide equal access to their lines for competing broadband providers.
Whether or not you can *read* the history of a browser is irrelevant if you want to know whether or not a user has visited a specific site. In that case you can simply create a page that will set appropriate CSS rules to make the browser try to load a specific background image for visited URL's for each site you want to check for. Then when the user loads your page, you'll get a barrage of what you call http pings, and all you need to do is collate that information and you know which of the sites you care about that the user has visited recently.
It's less invasive than being able to wholesale dump the browser history (you don't know when the sites were visited, for example), but protecting against it also means disabling functionality (you'd need to prevent an app from being able to tell whether or not a link on it's own page has been clicked via CSS rules or other means, which means either disabling the distinction between visited or not completely or disabling reading back style information and/or preventing setting CSS rules that trigger loading of external resources).
If Stephen Hawking says something about physics, do you require a citation from him? Nielson is recognized as one of the leading experts in his field.
No, but if Stephen Hawking made a claim that flew in the face of established conventions in - say - psychology, I would expect a citation. Nielsen is a usability expert, not a security expert, and GP questioned his claim about the security aspect.
People send confidential documents via e-mail all the time - I very much doubt Opera's proxies (which in any case are only used if UPnP doesn't work for you and you don't have a direct, NAT-free connection) would bother most of them.
I also don't think Unite will be a big deal, but I don't think people will give a second thought about security.
So why do people care? First time I saw a commercial service that offered that was ca. 10 years ago. Several services like that are still around, but none of them have managed to convince enough people that it matters to actually make it big.
And before you claim London has a "single centre": No it doesn't. My *suburb* of half a million people have a dozen or so small centres. There is a central area of London, but it's only one of many, and only has the distinction of being the densest and the one with most tourists.
I live in London. 7-8 million people, and a few more in the surrounding metropolitan area. I can get anywhere I want with public transport - in fact I don't even have a drivers license (never did).
Cars are only a necessity in the US for most people because most of the US lacks decent public transport system and because cities are planned based on a population that travels everywhere by car. Start building decent transport systems and make planners consider pedestrians and bikes and the number of people who need cars to get around will plummet quickly. With better public transportation, other aspects (such as denser downtown shopping areas instead of megastores spread out over large areas as in some of the more sprawling areas in the US will follow.
Of course the majority of the worlds population now lives in cities, and many of them are huge. In London it's pretty common to have a one hour commute from one part of the city to another.
In Central London you can easily outrun cars most of the time due to traffic... There's a lot of urban environments where typical speeds are low enough that something that's a step up from motorbikes in safety could do quite well.
Anyone that uses EC2 without being set up to handle instance failures are idiots. EC2 instances fail fairly regularly, and Amazon has went out of their way to point out to people that if they do, your instance data is gone so you better design your apps to be resilient against instance failure.
The whole point being that you pay only for the resilience YOU want, not for a bunch of things that may or may not be appropriate depending on your app. Amazon can't know whether bringing an image up is safe or not unless the backup is up to the clock cycle consistent - bringing them up could be disastrous. Different apps require extremely different failover solutions.
The usefulness is that you have the API to do this without pre-provisioning a bunch of servers.
Nitrous doesn't prevent pain in most people to any great degree. It mostly make you care less and react less to it and give a sense of wellbeing.
I've used it while at the dentist (though not any more - it's too expensive to be worth it), and it was nowhere near strong enough to replace a novocaine injection or others for anything but the most trivial stuff that I wouldn't have minded doing without any sedation at all anyway.
It was however a very pleasant addition. When I had nitrous, I was in the chair with headphones listening to relaxing music, some dark glasses and just laid there breathing in the nitrous, mouth wide open, wondering why that silly man kept disturbing me to get me to open wider.
I left the dentist more relaxed than when I came, with the added bonus that it's out of your system in a minute or so.
I *love* Banks, but his ideas are nowhere as revolutionary as PKD's were when he wrote them. I'd love to see them turned into movies, too, and they'd overall be far easier to turn into successful movies - the problem with Banks' stories is that they'd be expensive (the scale), while with PKD's it's that his stories are too complex. I mean, with adaptations of PKD's short stories they've still consistently stripped away layers to simplify.
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That's why they should be force to lease their lines out to other companies at some reasonable (let's face it: regulated) cost.
For the phone system, this is how it is in most of Europe. We still have largely monopolies for cable, though.
I see what you're trying to say, but claiming monitoring doesn't have a cost is blatantly false - gathering the monitoring data takes a non-zero amount of resources. You're right that monitoring can often be a *net benefit* though.
That makes sense when you have enough resources to throw at the problem. But the entire point of this technology is to semi-transparently add multi-server scalability. In that context what you wrote above makes no sense whatsoever - without a scaling mechanism you won't *have* enough resources to throw at the problem. Now, that scaling mechanism, for some problems, is as easy as "divide problem by number of servers and spawn appropriate number of workers to process each sub part", in which case this technology isn't needed. But a large number of interesting problems are *hard* to split up, and may easily have data dependencies that makes naively distributing the input space over multiple servers be slower than not scaling it up at all.
That's being pedantic. The Crown is part of government, and anything "mandated by the Crown" is done so by convention only, under direction of parliament - it's been that way at least since the 18th century when the principle of parliamentary sovereignty was firmly established in British constitutional law.
No. Most government produced data in the UK is under Crown copyright, and the government decides license restrictions. It sucks.
It's *cache*. It's not meant to be moved, and it doesn't prevent you from moving the hard drive. Nor does it prevent you from using an SSD, it just means the performance reasons for using an SSD may get significantly reduced.
Practically all British GP's run their own businesses. There's nothing preventing them from operating entirely privately, and many do, but most strong to receive NHS payment to take NHS patients because it's well paid and takes all the billing issues out of the equation. A large chunk of British hospital employees also offer private services. Many of them in NHS hospitals, using spare capacity that they can get access to at a low cost, benefitting both them and the public who get some of their hospital costs offset by private providers that way.
Certainly none of them are being forced or coerced, and clearly I must be misguided seeing as I don't know of any countries that force people to become doctors and then force them to work for the public. But I guess that doesn't fit with your fantasy world.
All rights are human inventions. To pretend otherwise is meaningless.
And all rights are meaningless without at least the possibility of having the means and ability to make use of them. First and foremost that means actually staying alive and in good health. Any society that insists on caring about human rights that doesn't also take steps to ensure that everyone has a recent shot at good health is just plain taking the piss.
This is not a *new* idea - it's an idea that is well over 160 years old, gaining ground starting with the first socialist ideologists, and one that has been penetrating further right in the political landscape ever since (i.e. look at Europe where the vast majority of conservative parties no also staunchly support the concept of a *right* to a level of basic welfare).
You must be reading different stories from the British press than what they actually publish in Britain. As it stands here, anyone can go to an emergency room and be guaranteed treatment here too, but we don't because the vast majority of us get more than good enough treatment by going to our GP and get referred.
People who are not satisfied are perfectly free to get private health insurance - it's available and *cheap* since they only provide cover above and beyond services where they know they don't stand a chance of competing with the NHS.
They always say that. By default the Tories will always complain it's "too little, too late", "just more of the same failed policies" or something similar, irrespective of whether they ever offered a solution, or whether Labour does exactly what the Tories want (queue frantic moves to change their platform). British politicians are incapable of agreeing on anything in public other than how incompetent their counterparts are.
Actually this is likely the ONLY area in the UK where this is the case. All other parts of the UK are served by BT, who are under obligation to provide equal access to their lines for competing broadband providers.
In the UK one of the largest banks have started adding RFID to their credit cards for small purchases...
It's less invasive than being able to wholesale dump the browser history (you don't know when the sites were visited, for example), but protecting against it also means disabling functionality (you'd need to prevent an app from being able to tell whether or not a link on it's own page has been clicked via CSS rules or other means, which means either disabling the distinction between visited or not completely or disabling reading back style information and/or preventing setting CSS rules that trigger loading of external resources).
You might have come up with plot for a new Dr Who episode.
According to usenet it works for hamsters, though.
No, but if Stephen Hawking made a claim that flew in the face of established conventions in - say - psychology, I would expect a citation. Nielsen is a usability expert, not a security expert, and GP questioned his claim about the security aspect.
Somebody needs to brush up on their history.
I don't know about you, but the idea of a pack of feral toy poodles chasing me sounds pretty horrifying
I also don't think Unite will be a big deal, but I don't think people will give a second thought about security.
So why do people care? First time I saw a commercial service that offered that was ca. 10 years ago. Several services like that are still around, but none of them have managed to convince enough people that it matters to actually make it big.
And before you claim London has a "single centre": No it doesn't. My *suburb* of half a million people have a dozen or so small centres. There is a central area of London, but it's only one of many, and only has the distinction of being the densest and the one with most tourists.
Cars are only a necessity in the US for most people because most of the US lacks decent public transport system and because cities are planned based on a population that travels everywhere by car. Start building decent transport systems and make planners consider pedestrians and bikes and the number of people who need cars to get around will plummet quickly. With better public transportation, other aspects (such as denser downtown shopping areas instead of megastores spread out over large areas as in some of the more sprawling areas in the US will follow.
Of course the majority of the worlds population now lives in cities, and many of them are huge. In London it's pretty common to have a one hour commute from one part of the city to another.
In Central London you can easily outrun cars most of the time due to traffic... There's a lot of urban environments where typical speeds are low enough that something that's a step up from motorbikes in safety could do quite well.
The whole point being that you pay only for the resilience YOU want, not for a bunch of things that may or may not be appropriate depending on your app. Amazon can't know whether bringing an image up is safe or not unless the backup is up to the clock cycle consistent - bringing them up could be disastrous. Different apps require extremely different failover solutions.
The usefulness is that you have the API to do this without pre-provisioning a bunch of servers.
I've used it while at the dentist (though not any more - it's too expensive to be worth it), and it was nowhere near strong enough to replace a novocaine injection or others for anything but the most trivial stuff that I wouldn't have minded doing without any sedation at all anyway.
It was however a very pleasant addition. When I had nitrous, I was in the chair with headphones listening to relaxing music, some dark glasses and just laid there breathing in the nitrous, mouth wide open, wondering why that silly man kept disturbing me to get me to open wider.
I left the dentist more relaxed than when I came, with the added bonus that it's out of your system in a minute or so.
I *love* Banks, but his ideas are nowhere as revolutionary as PKD's were when he wrote them. I'd love to see them turned into movies, too, and they'd overall be far easier to turn into successful movies - the problem with Banks' stories is that they'd be expensive (the scale), while with PKD's it's that his stories are too complex. I mean, with adaptations of PKD's short stories they've still consistently stripped away layers to simplify.