ECHR rulings aren't worth the ink they're printed with. Per Lord Neuberger, ‘The British and Europe’ (Cambridge Freshfields Annual Law Lecture 2014,12 February 2014) and Wall LJ, in Re: H [2010] EWCA Civ 6 (Addendum to Judgement) (Unreported), and pretty much every British national rag on 3 October 2014 who ran the headline that Cameron on the advice of Grayling is to sever ties with the ECtHR by ditching the HRA altogether - which also is not worth the ink it's printed with because it comes with the GLARING omission of Article 13 - the right to effective remedy.
it's not illegal to say that homeopathy is bogus, English law might seek to punish such utterances but it does NOT outlaw saying it.
By the way, contrary to the example you gave, the practice of homeopathy in the UK is, in fact, illegal, in light of the fact that there is no evidence to claims of efficacy and the fact that the Advertising Standards Agency has pulled the industry on its claims of same and basically said that they're falsely advertising (tantamount to fraud). Ergo, it's not defamation to say that homeopathy is bogus since the official word is that it in fact is. http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/...
there is no "right" to not be offended. Anywhere. Sure, there are Statutes that seek to punish anti-semitism and the ilk, but there is not much in the way of $random_person saying what the fuck they like on whatever forum they want, with the exception of House Rules which have no weight in Law particularly when they directly infringe on individual rights of freedom of expression.
ooh, I love an unwritten challenge: how many atoms are in a tonne of water?
Assumptions: we're talking about pure water at 4C. Density of same is 1g/cm^3. OK, the actual problem is seawater, but let's not quibble. The molar volume of water is 18cm^3. That is, for every 18g of water, there are 6.022x10^23 atoms of oxygen and twice that number of hydrogen, giving a total of 1.8066424x10^24 atoms.
1 tonne of water occupies 1m^3. Divide that 1000kg by.018 (molar weight) to give the number of moles per m^3. That gives us 55,555.5mol/m^3.
Now multiply the molar count by the atom count to give the total: 1.004x10^29. Dude, you were out by three orders of magnitude.:)
one was caught in a pad explosion. It was subsequently recovered unscathed, dusted off and sent up in another probe.
Solid state reactors such as RTGs are designed to be maintenance free, necessarily because those that're sent up in deep space probes will never feel a human touch again for the rest of eternity.
thorium might be useful if the satellite were drawing about ten Watts, but so far what we've been kicking up has been in the several tens to hundreds of Watts draw range, so thorium is out. Plutonium has about five thousand times the energy density and the radiation is easier to contain (2.5mm of lead for alpha decay from Pu238, or the equivalent thickness in steel which amounts to, conveniently enough, the thickness of the RTG casing). Since the source only has to last about ten to twenty years (think Voyager), a Pu source is perfect for the job. Thorium might have a half life of 75KY to 14GY but its thermal output is absolutely feeble.
To clarify matters, we're talking about thermal output due to radioactive decay being harnessed by a bimetallic thermocouple, not a chemical battery or what you'd traditionally think of as a nuclear reactor (which would weigh a LOT). As such, something is needed that outputs enough thermal energy to be useful without going critical. Since there is no service station in space, everything has to be solid state (no moving parts or fluid components, including chemical batteries), so the solution is clear: dry thermal source that lasts as long as is needed (Pu decay via alpha cycle) and dry harness (thermopile).
oh, I do agree that there are circumstances (such as specific use cases as you mention) where rapid access to data would be required, but in that case, what about a compromise? Keep the airgap, just extract the data as needed and send it on a closed feed such as eDX (which has end to end encryption using a key the enquirer supplies). The enquirer doesn't even need to access the database. This can be done by an operator with local access. The legal profession uses something a bit less fanciful, DX in this case involves a courier (as in one single person who's basically surgically attached to the pouch to which he has no internal access) travelling nonstop from source to sink. A DX courier could make across the States from LA to NYC in a day.
As for data entry: this has to be done anyway, and depending on the sensitivity, varying clearances have to be met anyway so keeping that in-house shouldn't be a problem if the data is that important.
Sources: been there, done that, never had a breach. Disclosure: I (still) handle thousands of pages worth of legal documentation having previously represented in courts across England. I've come across solicitors firms who send documents via email(!) and even Facebook(!!). I've also dealt with some of the worst offenders one of whom sent me an entire case file on the WRONG CLIENT, by REGULAR MAIL.
In case you're confused, what is now known as News UK was incorporated in 1981 in London as News International plc. The current name was adopted end of last year.
The Times is published and printed in England, by a company incorporated in England. Ergo, as a commercial entity it is wholly governed by not the US commercial code but by the Companies Act 1985. THE DMCA DOES NOT APPLY HERE.
"(14) The protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data is solely governed by Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data(19) and Directive 97/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 1997 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the telecommunications sector(20) which are fully applicable to information society services; these Directives already establish a Community legal framework in the field of personal data and therefore it is not necessary to cover this issue in this Directive in order to ensure the smooth functioning of the internal market, in particular the free movement of personal data between Member States; the implementation and application of this Directive should be made in full compliance with the principles relating to the protection of personal data, in particular as regards unsolicited commercial communication and the liability of intermediaries; this Directive cannot prevent the anonymous use of open networks such as the Internet."
There is no set process to order the removal of copyrighted material in English Law, beyond the copyright HOLDER (NOT an agent, agents have NO STANDING in English Civil Law) making a civil complaint and obtaining a court order. Aside from that, I could publish every single front page of the Times ever published on a blog and there won't be fuck all NC could say about it if I commented on every one of them. If they can't prove commercial profit motive on my part (like say blatantly offering reprints on placemats), they don't even have a case.
I'm pretty sure that reproducing a low resolution image of a front page headline for the purposes of commentary illustration counts as fair use? Am I wrong?
Also, the DMCA does not I repeat NOT apply outside the borders of the United States of America territory. Ergo, a British newspaper owned by an AUSTRALIAN has no claim under the DMCA. Or am I wrong about that as well?
no, the first step is to airgap sensitive information. NEVER let it onto any sort of network. EVER. Then start worrying about what operating system you're using. *BSD has had security problems in the past and more will be discovered in the future. If you do not believe this to be the case, then you're living in a fantasy world. Even with the default settings on a vanilla install (which basically don't let you do ANYTHING productive) there are vulnerabilities ranging from minor annoyances on the window manager to showstoppers in the TCP stack. Let's not even go into the simple fact that the second you start services, or install and run software from the ports repository, you are introducing vulnerabilities to your setup, hence *BSD is NOWHERE NEAR as secure as you're apparently making out. It becomes every bit as vulnerable to hackers/worms/whatever as OSX, Linux, any other UNIX, or Microsoft Windows.
While true, many governments are coming together to say outlaw encryption.
It's a familiar line. When guns are outlawed, only criminals will have guns and the State will have monopoly on violent coercion.
Or:
When encryption is outlawed, only criminals will have encryption and the State will have the monopoly on secrets....Which brings the whole secrecy vs transparency thing to the foreground as well, but that's as equally a vast debate as this one and the twain should never meet.
interesting that you missed out the part where Putin demanded the presence of international observers to the cutoff and to the negotiating table to mediate between the two parties. Was that a politically motivated decision?
Aren't ULA building engines to the RD-180 design in Alabama? The only real issue is the prohibition by the Russians of the US using their RD-180s for military payloads. They're looking for local contractors, Boeing just aren't interested at the moment.
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bullets are expensive, yanno?
ECHR rulings aren't worth the ink they're printed with. Per Lord Neuberger, ‘The British and Europe’ (Cambridge Freshfields Annual Law Lecture 2014,12 February 2014) and Wall LJ, in Re: H [2010] EWCA Civ 6 (Addendum to Judgement) (Unreported), and pretty much every British national rag on 3 October 2014 who ran the headline that Cameron on the advice of Grayling is to sever ties with the ECtHR by ditching the HRA altogether - which also is not worth the ink it's printed with because it comes with the GLARING omission of Article 13 - the right to effective remedy.
it's not illegal to say that homeopathy is bogus, English law might seek to punish such utterances but it does NOT outlaw saying it.
By the way, contrary to the example you gave, the practice of homeopathy in the UK is, in fact, illegal, in light of the fact that there is no evidence to claims of efficacy and the fact that the Advertising Standards Agency has pulled the industry on its claims of same and basically said that they're falsely advertising (tantamount to fraud). Ergo, it's not defamation to say that homeopathy is bogus since the official word is that it in fact is. http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/...
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there is no "right" to not be offended. Anywhere. Sure, there are Statutes that seek to punish anti-semitism and the ilk, but there is not much in the way of $random_person saying what the fuck they like on whatever forum they want, with the exception of House Rules which have no weight in Law particularly when they directly infringe on individual rights of freedom of expression.
ooh, I love an unwritten challenge: how many atoms are in a tonne of water?
Assumptions:
we're talking about pure water at 4C. Density of same is 1g/cm^3. OK, the actual problem is seawater, but let's not quibble.
The molar volume of water is 18cm^3. That is, for every 18g of water, there are 6.022x10^23 atoms of oxygen and twice that number of hydrogen, giving a total of 1.8066424x10^24 atoms.
1 tonne of water occupies 1m^3. Divide that 1000kg by .018 (molar weight) to give the number of moles per m^3. That gives us 55,555.5mol/m^3.
Now multiply the molar count by the atom count to give the total: 1.004x10^29. Dude, you were out by three orders of magnitude. :)
one was caught in a pad explosion. It was subsequently recovered unscathed, dusted off and sent up in another probe.
Solid state reactors such as RTGs are designed to be maintenance free, necessarily because those that're sent up in deep space probes will never feel a human touch again for the rest of eternity.
thorium might be useful if the satellite were drawing about ten Watts, but so far what we've been kicking up has been in the several tens to hundreds of Watts draw range, so thorium is out. Plutonium has about five thousand times the energy density and the radiation is easier to contain (2.5mm of lead for alpha decay from Pu238, or the equivalent thickness in steel which amounts to, conveniently enough, the thickness of the RTG casing). Since the source only has to last about ten to twenty years (think Voyager), a Pu source is perfect for the job. Thorium might have a half life of 75KY to 14GY but its thermal output is absolutely feeble.
To clarify matters, we're talking about thermal output due to radioactive decay being harnessed by a bimetallic thermocouple, not a chemical battery or what you'd traditionally think of as a nuclear reactor (which would weigh a LOT). As such, something is needed that outputs enough thermal energy to be useful without going critical. Since there is no service station in space, everything has to be solid state (no moving parts or fluid components, including chemical batteries), so the solution is clear: dry thermal source that lasts as long as is needed (Pu decay via alpha cycle) and dry harness (thermopile).
step out from behind your AC sock and say that, bitch.
what, me personally? By not using it.
oh, I do agree that there are circumstances (such as specific use cases as you mention) where rapid access to data would be required, but in that case, what about a compromise? Keep the airgap, just extract the data as needed and send it on a closed feed such as eDX (which has end to end encryption using a key the enquirer supplies). The enquirer doesn't even need to access the database. This can be done by an operator with local access. The legal profession uses something a bit less fanciful, DX in this case involves a courier (as in one single person who's basically surgically attached to the pouch to which he has no internal access) travelling nonstop from source to sink. A DX courier could make across the States from LA to NYC in a day.
As for data entry: this has to be done anyway, and depending on the sensitivity, varying clearances have to be met anyway so keeping that in-house shouldn't be a problem if the data is that important.
Sources: been there, done that, never had a breach. Disclosure: I (still) handle thousands of pages worth of legal documentation having previously represented in courts across England. I've come across solicitors firms who send documents via email(!) and even Facebook(!!). I've also dealt with some of the worst offenders one of whom sent me an entire case file on the WRONG CLIENT, by REGULAR MAIL.
Still shaking my head over that one.
In case you're confused, what is now known as News UK was incorporated in 1981 in London as News International plc. The current name was adopted end of last year.
The Times is published and printed in England, by a company incorporated in England. Ergo, as a commercial entity it is wholly governed by not the US commercial code but by the Companies Act 1985. THE DMCA DOES NOT APPLY HERE.
well, they did get owned over the whole Hackgate thing. Leveson can chew my fat one.
there is the EUCD, but that doesn't apply in England either - it's a European directive.
What we have is loosely based on the EU E-Commerce Directive, Article XIV: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal...
"(14) The protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data is solely governed by Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data(19) and Directive 97/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 1997 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the telecommunications sector(20) which are fully applicable to information society services; these Directives already establish a Community legal framework in the field of personal data and therefore it is not necessary to cover this issue in this Directive in order to ensure the smooth functioning of the internal market, in particular the free movement of personal data between Member States; the implementation and application of this Directive should be made in full compliance with the principles relating to the protection of personal data, in particular as regards unsolicited commercial communication and the liability of intermediaries; this Directive cannot prevent the anonymous use of open networks such as the Internet."
There is no set process to order the removal of copyrighted material in English Law, beyond the copyright HOLDER (NOT an agent, agents have NO STANDING in English Civil Law) making a civil complaint and obtaining a court order. Aside from that, I could publish every single front page of the Times ever published on a blog and there won't be fuck all NC could say about it if I commented on every one of them. If they can't prove commercial profit motive on my part (like say blatantly offering reprints on placemats), they don't even have a case.
I'm pretty sure that reproducing a low resolution image of a front page headline for the purposes of commentary illustration counts as fair use? Am I wrong?
Also, the DMCA does not I repeat NOT apply outside the borders of the United States of America territory. Ergo, a British newspaper owned by an AUSTRALIAN has no claim under the DMCA. Or am I wrong about that as well?
no, the first step is to airgap sensitive information. NEVER let it onto any sort of network. EVER. Then start worrying about what operating system you're using. *BSD has had security problems in the past and more will be discovered in the future. If you do not believe this to be the case, then you're living in a fantasy world.
Even with the default settings on a vanilla install (which basically don't let you do ANYTHING productive) there are vulnerabilities ranging from minor annoyances on the window manager to showstoppers in the TCP stack. Let's not even go into the simple fact that the second you start services, or install and run software from the ports repository, you are introducing vulnerabilities to your setup, hence *BSD is NOWHERE NEAR as secure as you're apparently making out. It becomes every bit as vulnerable to hackers/worms/whatever as OSX, Linux, any other UNIX, or Microsoft Windows.
So much this:
While true, many governments are coming together to say outlaw encryption.
It's a familiar line. When guns are outlawed, only criminals will have guns and the State will have monopoly on violent coercion.
Or:
When encryption is outlawed, only criminals will have encryption and the State will have the monopoly on secrets. ...Which brings the whole secrecy vs transparency thing to the foreground as well, but that's as equally a vast debate as this one and the twain should never meet.
it's a long list, apparently... the whitelist is shorter. I'd go with the Apple one. They seem to have their QA department high and tight.
interesting that you missed out the part where Putin demanded the presence of international observers to the cutoff and to the negotiating table to mediate between the two parties. Was that a politically motivated decision?
Aren't ULA building engines to the RD-180 design in Alabama? The only real issue is the prohibition by the Russians of the US using their RD-180s for military payloads. They're looking for local contractors, Boeing just aren't interested at the moment.
uh... a movie quote presented as fact??
This is about as believable as the rest of the movie.
well, yes, considering TI/NS supply most of the space hardened electronics for the entire planet...
Texas Instruments fabrications are done in China?
Who knew?
(actually they do have one plant under construction in Chengdu. but most of their fabs are done in Maine, Texas, and Japan).
you kidding? We've had a hosepipe ban in place since 1983.