I do support most of what you say but I think that it is us that should do the censoring with our feet. Free speech, including stupid rants, are the cornerstone of real democracy and as such should be faught for. I think that the ranters should be made accountable for what they say rather than some self appointed power deciding what is in the public good. In this case, I think that there should be some legal redress rather than blocking because I do not see what gives google the right to decide what will offend me. Some things I like might offend the average Muslim, for example the Danish cartoons. I thought the one with god saying "no more, we have run out of virgins" was great but a lot of Muslims want that sort of joke to be illegal. Will google censor that sort of thing next if they get support over this?
Although in general, I agree with you, I think that an IDE that allows the student to step through a programme and see where a mistake has been made, and follow values to see how they are changed, is an invaluable training aid.
It really depends entirely on the course. When I taught at college I used an IDE but when I was teaching post-grads I did not as I was teaching concepts rather than training them to programme. The post-grads were big enough to go and use whatever they wanted when they walked away and got on with their projects.
My understanding is that the first virus ever in the wild was for apple computers.
That may be true but what percentage of the virii in the past 10 years have been for Apple computers? Look at the last 3 years and tell me if you can find a non-MS virus to hit the street... OK, I will accept that there have been some for mobile phones etc. but for PCs???
I would get pretty pissed off if someone deleted my porn:(( there is nothing illegal about porn unless you are underage, the girl is underage or it is extreme. I can imagine that next time my wife says let's watch a video first and I say 'O my god, the virus ate it!!!' I will not be happy:((
I do not use a computer client as to me that seems to defeat the object. With an ATA you just plug regular phones into it and use them just like a regular phone even when the computer is turned off. You can get WiFi versions etc. as well so you can easily be OS independent if you use VOIP.
With a true SIP provider you can call any other SIP phone regardless of physical location on the planet. The SIP protocol allows you to simply dial a SIP address and talk to that person. The quality of service is down to your provider and just like AOL, Skype do tend to provide a reasonable service. The problem is that with Skype you can only talk to other Skype phones, it is not open, just like AOL was not open. If you go to a good SIP povider you can have a good clear call and have a better breakout deal and talk to anyone on any other SIP service for free. VOIP should not be hamstrung by some startup trying to claim the territory as their own.
Slashdot is a global community and Skype is a product that has been released globally so in this case it should be made clear. If it was talking about some new Taco Bell sauce then no one outside the US would even stop to read it and it would not matter.
Too bad this does no good for the 330 million people in North America.
How do you work that one out? It works for anyone that has a credit card wherever they are on the planet. As I said, I am currently in Northern Thailand.
For my UK incoming number I use www.sipgate.com For my US incoming number I use www.sipphone.com
For outgoing calls I use www.voipbuster.com (they also offer an incoming number but I already had one) www.voipcheap.com or www.voipcheap.co.uk (same stuff really).
I have a Sipura ATA so I do not even need to have my computer turned on to make or recieve calls. You can get other ATAs and I do not think the Sipura is the best but I bought it 3 years ago when it was.
BTW I live in northern Thailand and with this I can call and chat to my friends as much as I like.
Skype is the AOL of VOIP and they are desperate to get everyone into their camp before people realise that they can have the world if they stay outside of that camp. True VOIP offers you the same freedom that the real internet offers those that are/were not AOL subscribers. I have a dial in line for free on VOIP and I can dial out for free already. I can call many countries for free. I do not need a restricted cobbled service just because it has a good marketing department.
I also thought that the headline meant a memory leak and an following the comments to guage what percentage of/. reader thought the same:) add 50% for those that do not want to admit their mistake:)
I used to work with certain security personel and they found it easy to get guns on planes. I am talking post 9/11. I was involved in voice recording and if our guys were going into a sensitive area they did not want to be met by security at the airport who could issue them with weapons as they may get made by the bad guys. They would secrete a couple of guns in the recording equipemnet and they never got caught. OK, it is easier to stay calm and distract the guys doing the scanning when you know you will not get arrested but it does drive a coach and horses through the security.
Why not take it further and have 5 locations using VPN and set the physically seperate location up like RAID 5 so no location actually has the data. If any hard drive gets stolen it has a maximum of every 4th chunk of data (4 chunks and a check chunk = 5 locations). A thief would need to break into all locations at the same time to get the data. If one location is broken into the data can still be recovered using the check chunks but the thief cannot recover any data. Encryption can easily be broken but a thief cannot see what he does not have.
EFS is very poor and offers no protection in a case like that mentioned in the story. They have the hard disk and can log in to the files as the user and see them without any restrictions.
I always liked SuSE and found it is easy to use yet good and solid and easy to get into when you want to do something yourself. I just got Mandriva 2006 though so I will not rush out and buy it. With all these releases it is a bit like Windows, lots of hype but not really that much changes.
Me thinks you need to introduce your kids to getting out a bit more often...
Where did you get the idea that parents could influence 15 and 17 year old boys? They take as much notice of me as I did of my parents when I was their age. Karma:)
but the only way Microsoft could get me to buy an xbox would be to give me a free Wii with it. I do not think that would stop my sons from demanding that I buy a PS3 though. One has stacks of Gamecube games (I think he has them all as there were not many) and they both have PS2s with more games than I could count. Would they change now???? NO
I am one of those evil English teachers in Asia that my grandparent talks of:) I prefer to buy the legit disks as the cheap copies are unwatchable. A legal copy of a film will cost 5 pounds which is a lot cheaper than back home and a copy will cost a fifth of that but as I will not enjoy watching it there is no real saving. As for the grandparents comment about arrest, if I send a legal copy to someone they get arrested??? Who would you like to get rid of next?
America has just executed 10,000 Iraqi civilians which overshadows the Chinese total. At least in China they get a trial even if you do not like it. In the Cuba there are almost 500 people that were rounded up by the US from various countries and disapeared. Do you really think that Chinese labout camps are somehow worse than Gauntanamo? At least the Chinese are getting rid of theirs and are moving in the opposite direction to the US.
Bikering causes things to be said that take on the wrong light. I love my time in China and love the Chinese people. They are warm and friendly and enjoy their freedom to say what they like when they like. I learnt many things about China which were at odds with what I had been told in advance. i.e. I met many people that had up to seven brothers and sisters etc. It is all propaganda. I also love America and the American people despite the many arguements I get into here and on other sites. I hate both governments and think that they are both as bad as each other. You may say that the American government is somehow better because it mainly kills and abuses non Americans while the Chinese government kills and abuses Chinese but I do not see this as justification. To me it is wrong to kill regardless.
If you read newspapers in other countries you will read stories like those you read at home about China but the stories in other countries are often about the things that America does. Some stories are true and some are not, just as is the case with what you read about China.
Yes they use the organs taken from the people that get executed, why not? As far as they are concerned someone whose life is forfeit has lost all rights so permission is not required. I do not see that as a big issue. I think that we should all donate our organs anyway so I agree with the policy.
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I do support most of what you say but I think that it is us that should do the censoring with our feet. Free speech, including stupid rants, are the cornerstone of real democracy and as such should be faught for. I think that the ranters should be made accountable for what they say rather than some self appointed power deciding what is in the public good. In this case, I think that there should be some legal redress rather than blocking because I do not see what gives google the right to decide what will offend me. Some things I like might offend the average Muslim, for example the Danish cartoons. I thought the one with god saying "no more, we have run out of virgins" was great but a lot of Muslims want that sort of joke to be illegal. Will google censor that sort of thing next if they get support over this?
Although in general, I agree with you, I think that an IDE that allows the student to step through a programme and see where a mistake has been made, and follow values to see how they are changed, is an invaluable training aid.
It really depends entirely on the course. When I taught at college I used an IDE but when I was teaching post-grads I did not as I was teaching concepts rather than training them to programme. The post-grads were big enough to go and use whatever they wanted when they walked away and got on with their projects.
My understanding is that the first virus ever in the wild was for apple computers.
That may be true but what percentage of the virii in the past 10 years have been for Apple computers? Look at the last 3 years and tell me if you can find a non-MS virus to hit the street... OK, I will accept that there have been some for mobile phones etc. but for PCs???
I would get pretty pissed off if someone deleted my porn :(( there is nothing illegal about porn unless you are underage, the girl is underage or it is extreme. I can imagine that next time my wife says let's watch a video first and I say 'O my god, the virus ate it!!!' I will not be happy :((
I do not use a computer client as to me that seems to defeat the object. With an ATA you just plug regular phones into it and use them just like a regular phone even when the computer is turned off. You can get WiFi versions etc. as well so you can easily be OS independent if you use VOIP.
Forget BND, the British BNP (fascist party) has far better things to hide given their hatred of all things different :)
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Appologies for wandering off topic
I live in Northern Thailand and I managed to work this one out, if you want me to do it for you a small charge is all I would want in return :p
With a true SIP provider you can call any other SIP phone regardless of physical location on the planet. The SIP protocol allows you to simply dial a SIP address and talk to that person. The quality of service is down to your provider and just like AOL, Skype do tend to provide a reasonable service. The problem is that with Skype you can only talk to other Skype phones, it is not open, just like AOL was not open. If you go to a good SIP povider you can have a good clear call and have a better breakout deal and talk to anyone on any other SIP service for free. VOIP should not be hamstrung by some startup trying to claim the territory as their own.
Slashdot is a global community and Skype is a product that has been released globally so in this case it should be made clear. If it was talking about some new Taco Bell sauce then no one outside the US would even stop to read it and it would not matter.
Too bad this does no good for the 330 million people in North America.
How do you work that one out? It works for anyone that has a credit card wherever they are on the planet. As I said, I am currently in Northern Thailand.
For my UK incoming number I use www.sipgate.com
For my US incoming number I use www.sipphone.com
For outgoing calls I use www.voipbuster.com (they also offer an incoming number but I already had one)
www.voipcheap.com or www.voipcheap.co.uk (same stuff really).
I have a Sipura ATA so I do not even need to have my computer turned on to make or recieve calls. You can get other ATAs and I do not think the Sipura is the best but I bought it 3 years ago when it was.
BTW I live in northern Thailand and with this I can call and chat to my friends as much as I like.
Skype is the AOL of VOIP and they are desperate to get everyone into their camp before people realise that they can have the world if they stay outside of that camp. True VOIP offers you the same freedom that the real internet offers those that are/were not AOL subscribers. I have a dial in line for free on VOIP and I can dial out for free already. I can call many countries for free. I do not need a restricted cobbled service just because it has a good marketing department.
I also thought that the headline meant a memory leak and an following the comments to guage what percentage of /. reader thought the same :) add 50% for those that do not want to admit their mistake :)
or helium zepplin with solar powered engines. Free travel to wherever you like but a tad slow.
I used to work with certain security personel and they found it easy to get guns on planes. I am talking post 9/11. I was involved in voice recording and if our guys were going into a sensitive area they did not want to be met by security at the airport who could issue them with weapons as they may get made by the bad guys. They would secrete a couple of guns in the recording equipemnet and they never got caught. OK, it is easier to stay calm and distract the guys doing the scanning when you know you will not get arrested but it does drive a coach and horses through the security.
Why not take it further and have 5 locations using VPN and set the physically seperate location up like RAID 5 so no location actually has the data. If any hard drive gets stolen it has a maximum of every 4th chunk of data (4 chunks and a check chunk = 5 locations). A thief would need to break into all locations at the same time to get the data. If one location is broken into the data can still be recovered using the check chunks but the thief cannot recover any data. Encryption can easily be broken but a thief cannot see what he does not have.
EFS is very poor and offers no protection in a case like that mentioned in the story. They have the hard disk and can log in to the files as the user and see them without any restrictions.
If you log in to the encryption system after the OS is running you leave a copy of your password in the swap file.
I always liked SuSE and found it is easy to use yet good and solid and easy to get into when you want to do something yourself. I just got Mandriva 2006 though so I will not rush out and buy it. With all these releases it is a bit like Windows, lots of hype but not really that much changes.
So it will be exactly like having a modem when everyone else has ADSL...
Me thinks you need to introduce your kids to getting out a bit more often...
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Where did you get the idea that parents could influence 15 and 17 year old boys? They take as much notice of me as I did of my parents when I was their age. Karma
but the only way Microsoft could get me to buy an xbox would be to give me a free Wii with it. I do not think that would stop my sons from demanding that I buy a PS3 though. One has stacks of Gamecube games (I think he has them all as there were not many) and they both have PS2s with more games than I could count. Would they change now???? NO
Hey, didn't I see you down at Walmart rubbing blank DVDs all over the stock of jiffy bags?
I am one of those evil English teachers in Asia that my grandparent talks of :) I prefer to buy the legit disks as the cheap copies are unwatchable. A legal copy of a film will cost 5 pounds which is a lot cheaper than back home and a copy will cost a fifth of that but as I will not enjoy watching it there is no real saving. As for the grandparents comment about arrest, if I send a legal copy to someone they get arrested??? Who would you like to get rid of next?
America has just executed 10,000 Iraqi civilians which overshadows the Chinese total. At least in China they get a trial even if you do not like it. In the Cuba there are almost 500 people that were rounded up by the US from various countries and disapeared. Do you really think that Chinese labout camps are somehow worse than Gauntanamo? At least the Chinese are getting rid of theirs and are moving in the opposite direction to the US.
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Bikering causes things to be said that take on the wrong light. I love my time in China and love the Chinese people. They are warm and friendly and enjoy their freedom to say what they like when they like. I learnt many things about China which were at odds with what I had been told in advance. i.e. I met many people that had up to seven brothers and sisters etc. It is all propaganda. I also love America and the American people despite the many arguements I get into here and on other sites. I hate both governments and think that they are both as bad as each other. You may say that the American government is somehow better because it mainly kills and abuses non Americans while the Chinese government kills and abuses Chinese but I do not see this as justification. To me it is wrong to kill regardless.
If you read newspapers in other countries you will read stories like those you read at home about China but the stories in other countries are often about the things that America does. Some stories are true and some are not, just as is the case with what you read about China.
Yes they use the organs taken from the people that get executed, why not? As far as they are concerned someone whose life is forfeit has lost all rights so permission is not required. I do not see that as a big issue. I think that we should all donate our organs anyway so I agree with the policy.
Re-education through work? is that so different - http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR510912
Get out of the glass house before you start to throw stones.