It will *not* be Illegal to use a cellphone in a motor vehicle, "it will be illegal to use a mobile phone as a satellite navigation aid while driving".
Your passenger will operate the GPS and navigates which is a far less dangerous practice than trying to navigate, operate a GPS, drive a vehicle *and* avoid bumping into people and other cars.
It doesn't matter if you're talking about aircraft control systems or the desktop (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1264259&cid=28283575&art_pos=5) you don't suddenly become right just because you post the same comment.
It is reprehensible to deliberately place other people at risk of infection with influenza. Your argument of economics places a greater importance on a few days pay than the safety of everyone who would be infected with a virulent form of influenza and lacks any indication you understand self-control or the responsibility of the individual for their actions.
The balance between quarantine and generally infecting everyone is that (at least in New Zealand) your test results are available within 24 hours. A single day off work is no great hardship compared with a week in isolation in hospital (which given that we have a proper health system the cost is borne by the tax paying population that would have been infected by inconsiderate behaviour).
I also read SOA as Start of Authority per "M. Lottor, Et Al, DOMAIN OPERATIONS GUIDE, Page 4, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1033#page-4" so was expecting a management and legal perspective on a technical subject.
It is sad that/. bothers with speculation and rumour.
This is the sort of baseless drivel I expect from main stream media now, listen up you primitive screw heads! Stick to the facts, weâ(TM)re supposed to be geeks not jocks.
8-)
I agree and can only find one single competitive advantage for Xbox 360 over the PS3 now that HD-DVD has failed and it's in the past.
The other problem MS need to face is that their options are limited to either make a little profit when they sell me a Blu-Ray add-on or zero profit when I buy a stand alone Blu-Ray player. Both options mean I pay Sony on an on-going basis whenever I buy a Blu-Ray disc, the only difference is that MS make a little profit on only the first option.
There is no profit using HD content-wise: [1] Xbox Live as Sony has their own on-line market place. [2] Game developers don't (at the moment) produce different content for different platforms (as in GTA IV is multi-platform using the same release date and game).
If I were MS I'd consider two options: [1] Medium-term - install HD-DVD drives (which are in themselves DVD drives) and tell everyone we're just getting rid of old stock then start releasing 6-10GB of content so you need to purchase the HD-DVD add-on drive. The customers reason for paying more money - Halo 4.
The down side is this fails in the long-term at the start of the next format war because your HD 1.0 discs don't have the features of the next generation discs.
[2] Long-term - Sell a Blu-Ray add-on then compete and win based on customer experience/ease of use (like Apple) and superior games.
The problem with U.S. laws is that while they enforce a framework for ICANN to operate in a manner that the Western Democracy's find acceptable those same laws also allow the US Treasury Department to force eNom (U.S. based domain registrar) to cease providing domain name hosting for web sites owned by a UK citizen working in Spain who provides information to European Union citizens.
Regards Karl Stephens A nerd is someone who's life revolves around technology. A geek is someone who's life revolves around technology and they love their life!
I like your point that "the results are always negative if there are events" that require your attention. The negative aspect is because your role is different to most other people, it has a production and a demand aspect.
Most of the suggestions so far have been about the detail role your staff perform, try thinking about this in very general terms.
The production aspect is the quantifiable output of your toil and trouble that can be measured such as making 100 widgets per person per hour with a failure rate of less than 0.1%. This type of measure is the 99.999% percent server uptime and other metrics that other/.ers' have suggested - these are the easy to measure metrics.
IT is different because it also has a demand driven aspect just like a call centre or fire station. In these cases you have no control over the volume of work or when it will occur, firemen can't schedule fires to occur only during office hours. I use the call centre example only because it is also an example of demand forecasting. One more example - Fast Food Restaurant is another demand forecasting example but is different again because you at least have some expectation of when ppl will eat.
I'd suggest finding out how similar demand driven companies measure themselves, try the fire service or a call centre. The trick will be guessing how much of your role (and that of your department) is production driven and how much is demand driven. Maybe apply whatever model you build to a years historical data would give you an empirical method to determine the balance (or guess and see if it's right because it's easier).
Regards Karl Stephens A nerd is someone who's life revolves around technology. A geek is someone who's life revolves around technology and they love their life!
I particularly liked the statement "If Internet Explorer came with a feature such as Adblock, you would effectively wipe out thousands of websites, maybe more" so..... could the makers of Ad Block earn extra income by writing an IE7 plugin/Addons that would say.... not filter your site if you paid 'em money??.
Oh well I guess I'll have to use IETab and depend on my hosts file and Symantec to block the advertising. Is there anyone with more than 87 IPs in their Hosts file??
Regards Sinesurfer
A nerd is someone who's life revolves around technology
A Geek is someone who's life revolves around technology and they love their life!
My interpretation of the patent was that you hold the device with the display pointing towards your eyes and move your finger on the other side or back of the device. The touch screen will show on the display the relative position of your finger as it moves across the back side of the device.
Different finger tip pressure between movement and selection decisions can be used to identify different user actions.
Novel, innovative and demonstrates someone has found a solution to the finger-prints-on-the-screen problem, you separate the display and input surfaces so that the fingers are no longer on the display surface.
One would assume (and yes, I *do* know what happens when you make an assumption) that if they were legitimate that the facility closure would have been...... well...... foreseen and measures taken to their own advantage.
What a terrible idea.
Who sets the rules on acceptable content?
The Iranians would say that publishing an image of their God is blasphamy or a womans face is obsense. Liberal European countries laugh at the US for it's puritan ways (such as obscuring womans nipples in advertising - MTV, Naked Wild On).
Here's the core of the problem
[1] The Internet connects many networks in different countrys together
[2] Each country has different laws. USA laws do NOT work outside of the US - Really! - no BS there, I really do mean that last remark.
So.....
[1] If you don't like something on a web site, do visit the web site again.
[2] If you want your childern to see something unsuitble then bring them up to understand right from wrong and sit with them when they use the Internet
[3] Just don't try to force your point of view onto other ppl.
Short story is that you TXT the parking meter and park your car. Have had this for about 3 years in NZ so am a bit surprised it isn't widely used elsewhere
I've just received my invitation [ scanned image - 98 KB] to the New ZealandCharity Premiere of Revenge of the Sith for 8:00 PM Monday 16 May 2005 (NZ Time, 0800 GMT or Monday 4 AM Eastern Standard Time). The movie was classified as GA (General Admission - Recommend as suitable for Adults) however there is no minimum age limit.
If you are in a major/capital city paying a premium price (with all proceeds going to charity) is more fun than waiting a month (in hopefully the right) line at a cinema. I don't go to a premiere (due to the cost) unless it's Star Wars
Oh! printing out the invitation won't get you into the Premiere without the obverse side and the ticket for the allocated cinema seat:-(
This show was on the BBC World Service late last year (2000) or earlier this year.
Quite good, on one show they build a record player and found their latitude and longitude. The last one interested me as it's what any castaway would need to find (if all other instruments are lost).
the beeb report that the domain name squatter was fined USD65 million. If he pays (which hasn't happened and isn't likely) then the domain name (7 charactes so 7 bytes) works out at USD9.2 million per byte.
i needed assistance with.AU TLD policy and contacted Robert Elz directly. he replied within a couple of hours during [a New Zealand and Austrialian holiday so i wasn't the only one working that day].
I asked
| Any guidance you can provide to on-line documents for AU TLD policy would be
| much appreciated.
He said in part
There are none (so far anyway).
About the only policy AU has had so far is that if it seems like a good idea and of overall benefit, then it happens. Otherwise not. And I
get to decide.
I would guess that if you don't get a reply then your request is declined.
the major problem with arguing with someone like Robert Elz is that he's right. His decisions are ethically just, logically sound and save everyone having to consult a lawyer.
You know that you're wrong when you're arguing with Robert Elz
the news would be alot thinner without the marketing folks at MS doing their magic
We have XP at the office, it has many collaterative features which will be useful, i'm just a little apprehensive not knowing what bugs will appear (yeah, okay this isn't a unquie experence).
did you any of you people actually bother to read the article before posting? the number of inaccuracies is appalling.
Trade Mark
Lego have stated that they have only applied for trade mark protection for the name 'Bionicle' and not any of the Polynesian names quoted in the cnn.com story.
Arrogance
I don't expect the US./ readers to understand that those cultures with a unique identity have a desire to protect that uniqueness.
Your ancestors ran away from their homeland, your nation has assimilated many old world cultures into what you now delude yourselves to be your unique culture.
The USA was built using slave labour and completely ignored the existence of your own indigenous people so you shouldn't be surprised that some nations adhere to the rule of law.
New Zealand is different, we never had a lawless wild west. The Treaty of Waitangi established between the Crown and Maori tribes in 1840 is the founding document of our nation and granted Maori full citizenship with all of the accompaning the rights and obligations. I don't remember the indigenous indian nations getting citizenship but were abused and almost wiped out by the American settlers (and your government of the day).
Lego are mistaken, they have made (what appears to me to be) an honest error in judging the degree of reaction to their intention.
> ICANN should get rid of.com,.net,.edu,.gov,
>.org, and.mil. They are dinosaurs of a bygone
> era just.arpa.
there is room in the.US TLD to establish com.us, net.us, edu.us, gov.us, org.us and mil.us for US companies and govt agencies.
i disagree with your implication that.com and.net can be removed. there is more benefit in applying the original criteria for.net which was intended for network operators..com could still be used for international companies.
this would allow US companies to demonstrate their American nature as the.com name space becomes more international.
> Only country codes should remain.uk,.au,.jp,
>.us (yes, you blokes have.us so why now use
> it?)
i agree.
at one point i was considering suggesting establishing a treaty whereby the US government delegate the ccTLD to each respective government. this would allow a country to determine [with absolute authority] how their ccTLD is used.
this could be achieved by seperating the profitable registry company from the non-profit TLD administrative roles. while companies control a TLD on a for-profit basis they will put the priorities of their share-holders higher than their clients. the only check to this system is competition which doesn't really exist in the.com name space.
netsolutions can be expected to defend their lucrative registry position in the.com name space. short of changing the law to suit an international treaty is the only way to break their hold on.com. a treaty would allow all of the conflicts in the TLD's to be resolved at one time.
i believe that there are two relevant principles. the first is the duty and standard of care and you get what you pay for.
when you said We were cracked twice within 1 week of going live on the site... and later One would think that when you pay for system administration, that security would be part of the deal.
Your provider has a duty of care. they demonstrate that this duty or obligation [under contract] is accepted by limiting
phyiscal access to the servers
requiring use of passwords and
validating your identity before disclosing personal information
I will assume that these three standards are already met.
the duty of care can be applied to the network and server security in the same manner that you would reasonably expect physical security. when the provider demonstraties that they are concerned about physical security, a standard of care is established.
a breach of the duty of care is a serious issue.
when you said: We were cracked first within 5 days of our site going live. After paying communitech.net $62.50 for reinstalling the OS, it was cracked just 24 hours later.
This established that you did advise the provider of the problem and they do havd a duty to resolve this issue. the second point is that the providers action did not resolve the issue. if you were charged $62.50 and promised that this action would resolve the security issue then demand your money back. any reasonable hosting provider would be pro-active in the installation of OS patches which leads to my second point of you get what you pay for.
Solutions
if you have root access, update the software yourself. you didn't indicate that you have root access.
if you don't have root access then the onus is on the provider to update and not just reinstall the OS and the next issue becomes payment according to your contact.
if a fee is stated for security related matters or for applying software patches then you'll have to pay for installing the patch.
if a fee is not stated then you can negotiate the fee. advise your provider of the standard and duty of care which a purdent Judge would find applies if the provider were to be sued.
if you know/are a law student then standard and duty of care are discussed in Donahuge V Stevenson 1932 All ER Rep1 (HL)]
i do like how you've resolved the jurisdictional conflicts by delegating jurisdication to the legislature of the country assigned the two letter TLD.
i'm assuming that any server situated physically within the countries jurisdiction would be subject to the host countries laws and any foreign domain name would be subject to their own countries domain laws/regulations and not the host country.
you might want to maintain the.com,.net TLD for use by international companies which want to publish non-geographical centric information. another benefit is an easier migration of coke.com to coke.com.us.
i blame the English for this mess.
when they first issued postage stamps, there wasn't a need to include Englands name on English postage stamps because they were the only country issue postage stamps. in order for the English to deliver your letters bearing a foreign postage stamp, your country had to agree to include their own countries name on their own stamps. Every country accepted this condition because the British Empire carried more than 75% of the postage traffic during the late 19th century.
the USA just used the same precedent, there wasn't a need to issue.com.us and.net.us because the 3 letter TLD name space was more about 80% of the domain names during the 80's.
Slashdot Mirror
It will *not* be Illegal to use a cellphone in a motor vehicle, "it will be illegal to use a mobile phone as a satellite navigation aid while driving".
Your passenger will operate the GPS and navigates which is a far less dangerous practice than trying to navigate, operate a GPS, drive a vehicle *and* avoid bumping into people and other cars.
It doesn't matter if you're talking about aircraft control systems or the desktop (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1264259&cid=28283575&art_pos=5) you don't suddenly become right just because you post the same comment.
It is reprehensible to deliberately place other people at risk of infection with influenza. Your argument of economics places a greater importance on a few days pay than the safety of everyone who would be infected with a virulent form of influenza and lacks any indication you understand self-control or the responsibility of the individual for their actions.
The balance between quarantine and generally infecting everyone is that (at least in New Zealand) your test results are available within 24 hours. A single day off work is no great hardship compared with a week in isolation in hospital (which given that we have a proper health system the cost is borne by the tax paying population that would have been infected by inconsiderate behaviour).
Video Calling would be good (as I've used it on my old Nokia for a few years) but CUT COPY PASTE and MMS would be MORE USEFUL.
I apologise for shouting, in mitigation I can only offer that being ignored is sooo Apple/frustrating.
I also read SOA as Start of Authority per "M. Lottor, Et Al, DOMAIN OPERATIONS GUIDE, Page 4, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1033#page-4" so was expecting a management and legal perspective on a technical subject.
It is sad that /. bothers with speculation and rumour.
This is the sort of baseless drivel I expect from main stream media now, listen up you primitive screw heads! Stick to the facts, weâ(TM)re supposed to be geeks not jocks.
8-)
I agree and can only find one single competitive advantage for Xbox 360 over the PS3 now that HD-DVD has failed and it's in the past.
The other problem MS need to face is that their options are limited to either make a little profit when they sell me a Blu-Ray add-on or zero profit when I buy a stand alone Blu-Ray player. Both options mean I pay Sony on an on-going basis whenever I buy a Blu-Ray disc, the only difference is that MS make a little profit on only the first option.
There is no profit using HD content-wise:
[1] Xbox Live as Sony has their own on-line market place.
[2] Game developers don't (at the moment) produce different content for different platforms (as in GTA IV is multi-platform using the same release date and game).
If I were MS I'd consider two options:
[1] Medium-term - install HD-DVD drives (which are in themselves DVD drives) and tell everyone we're just getting rid of old stock then start releasing 6-10GB of content so you need to purchase the HD-DVD add-on drive. The customers reason for paying more money - Halo 4.
The down side is this fails in the long-term at the start of the next format war because your HD 1.0 discs don't have the features of the next generation discs.
[2] Long-term - Sell a Blu-Ray add-on then compete and win based on customer experience/ease of use (like Apple) and superior games.
The problem with U.S. laws is that while they enforce a framework for ICANN to operate in a manner that the Western Democracy's find acceptable those same laws also allow the US Treasury Department to force eNom (U.S. based domain registrar) to cease providing domain name hosting for web sites owned by a UK citizen working in Spain who provides information to European Union citizens.
"U.S. pulls the plug on Europeans who want to visit Cuba" - International Herald Tribune - http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/04/america/speech.php
Two words, Lara Croft.
Regards Karl Stephens
A nerd is someone who's life revolves around technology.
A geek is someone who's life revolves around technology and they love their life!
I like your point that "the results are always negative if there are events" that require your attention. The negative aspect is because your role is different to most other people, it has a production and a demand aspect.
/.ers' have suggested - these are the easy to measure metrics.
Most of the suggestions so far have been about the detail role your staff perform, try thinking about this in very general terms.
The production aspect is the quantifiable output of your toil and trouble that can be measured such as making 100 widgets per person per hour with a failure rate of less than 0.1%. This type of measure is the 99.999% percent server uptime and other metrics that other
IT is different because it also has a demand driven aspect just like a call centre or fire station. In these cases you have no control over the volume of work or when it will occur, firemen can't schedule fires to occur only during office hours. I use the call centre example only because it is also an example of demand forecasting. One more example - Fast Food Restaurant is another demand forecasting example but is different again because you at least have some expectation of when ppl will eat.
I'd suggest finding out how similar demand driven companies measure themselves, try the fire service or a call centre. The trick will be guessing how much of your role (and that of your department) is production driven and how much is demand driven. Maybe apply whatever model you build to a years historical data would give you an empirical method to determine the balance (or guess and see if it's right because it's easier).
Regards Karl Stephens
A nerd is someone who's life revolves around technology.
A geek is someone who's life revolves around technology and they love their life!
I particularly liked the statement "If Internet Explorer came with a feature such as Adblock, you would effectively wipe out thousands of websites, maybe more" so..... could the makers of Ad Block earn extra income by writing an IE7 plugin/Addons that would say.... not filter your site if you paid 'em money??.
Oh well I guess I'll have to use IETab and depend on my hosts file and Symantec to block the advertising. Is there anyone with more than 87 IPs in their Hosts file??
Regards Sinesurfer
A nerd is someone who's life revolves around technology
A Geek is someone who's life revolves around technology and they love their life!
My interpretation of the patent was that you hold the device with the display pointing towards your eyes and move your finger on the other side or back of the device. The touch screen will show on the display the relative position of your finger as it moves across the back side of the device.
Different finger tip pressure between movement and selection decisions can be used to identify different user actions.
Novel, innovative and demonstrates someone has found a solution to the finger-prints-on-the-screen problem, you separate the display and input surfaces so that the fingers are no longer on the display surface.
One would assume (and yes, I *do* know what happens when you make an assumption) that if they were legitimate that the facility closure would have been...... well...... foreseen and measures taken to their own advantage.
Who sets the rules on acceptable content?
The Iranians would say that publishing an image of their God is blasphamy or a womans face is obsense. Liberal European countries laugh at the US for it's puritan ways (such as obscuring womans nipples in advertising - MTV, Naked Wild On).
Here's the core of the problem
[1] The Internet connects many networks in different countrys together
[2] Each country has different laws. USA laws do NOT work outside of the US - Really! - no BS there, I really do mean that last remark.
So..... [1] If you don't like something on a web site, do visit the web site again.
[2] If you want your childern to see something unsuitble then bring them up to understand right from wrong and sit with them when they use the Internet
[3] Just don't try to force your point of view onto other ppl.
yeah, they will 'cos it provides a more reliable income source.
_ park.jsp?item=txt_a_park
Visit http://www.vodafone.co.nz/promos/txt-a-park/txt_a
Short story is that you TXT the parking meter and park your car. Have had this for about 3 years in NZ so am a bit surprised it isn't widely used elsewhere
Oh bother. The good guys just went to the dark side. I can't understand why you'd want to use a small screen (such as the treo) as a PDA anyway.
I've just received my invitation [ scanned image - 98 KB] to the New Zealand Charity Premiere of Revenge of the Sith for 8:00 PM Monday 16 May 2005 (NZ Time, 0800 GMT or Monday 4 AM Eastern Standard Time). The movie was classified as GA (General Admission - Recommend as suitable for Adults) however there is no minimum age limit.
If you are in a major/capital city paying a premium price (with all proceeds going to charity) is more fun than waiting a month (in hopefully the right) line at a cinema. I don't go to a premiere (due to the cost) unless it's Star Wars
Oh! printing out the invitation won't get you into the Premiere without the obverse side and the ticket for the allocated cinema seat :-(
Quite good, on one show they build a record player and found their latitude and longitude. The last one interested me as it's what any castaway would need to find (if all other instruments are lost).
the beeb report that the domain name squatter was fined USD65 million. If he pays (which hasn't happened and isn't likely) then the domain name (7 charactes so 7 bytes) works out at USD9.2 million per byte.
I asked
He said in part
I would guess that if you don't get a reply then your request is declined.
the major problem with arguing with someone like Robert Elz is that he's right. His decisions are ethically just, logically sound and save everyone having to consult a lawyer.
You know that you're wrong when you're arguing with Robert Elz
We have XP at the office, it has many collaterative features which will be useful, i'm just a little apprehensive not knowing what bugs will appear (yeah, okay this isn't a unquie experence).
Trade Mark
Lego have stated that they have only applied for trade mark protection for the name 'Bionicle' and not any of the Polynesian names quoted in the cnn.com story.
Arrogance ./ readers to understand that those cultures with a unique identity have a desire to protect that uniqueness.
I don't expect the US
Your ancestors ran away from their homeland, your nation has assimilated many old world cultures into what you now delude yourselves to be your unique culture.
The USA was built using slave labour and completely ignored the existence of your own indigenous people so you shouldn't be surprised that some nations adhere to the rule of law.
New Zealand is different, we never had a lawless wild west. The Treaty of Waitangi established between the Crown and Maori tribes in 1840 is the founding document of our nation and granted Maori full citizenship with all of the accompaning the rights and obligations. I don't remember the indigenous indian nations getting citizenship but were abused and almost wiped out by the American settlers (and your government of the day).
Lego are mistaken, they have made (what appears to me to be) an honest error in judging the degree of reaction to their intention.
i agreed with most of your points when you said
.com, .net, .edu, .gov,
.org, and .mil. They are dinosaurs of a bygone
.arpa.
.US TLD to establish com.us, net.us, edu.us, gov.us, org.us and mil.us for US companies and govt agencies.
.com and .net can be removed. there is more benefit in applying the original criteria for .net which was intended for network operators. .com could still be used for international companies.
.com name space becomes more international.
.uk, .au, .jp,
.us (yes, you blokes have .us so why now use
.com name space.
.com name space. short of changing the law to suit an international treaty is the only way to break their hold on .com. a treaty would allow all of the conflicts in the TLD's to be resolved at one time.
> ICANN should get rid of
>
> era just
there is room in the
i disagree with your implication that
this would allow US companies to demonstrate their American nature as the
> Only country codes should remain
>
> it?)
i agree.
at one point i was considering suggesting establishing a treaty whereby the US government delegate the ccTLD to each respective government. this would allow a country to determine [with absolute authority] how their ccTLD is used.
this could be achieved by seperating the profitable registry company from the non-profit TLD administrative roles. while companies control a TLD on a for-profit basis they will put the priorities of their share-holders higher than their clients. the only check to this system is competition which doesn't really exist in the
netsolutions can be expected to defend their lucrative registry position in the
when you said
We were cracked twice within 1 week of going live on the site... and later One would think that when you pay for system administration, that security would be part of the deal.
Your provider has a duty of care. they demonstrate that this duty or obligation [under contract] is accepted by limiting
- phyiscal access to the servers
- requiring use of passwords and
- validating your identity before disclosing personal information
I will assume that these three standards are already met.the duty of care can be applied to the network and server security in the same manner that you would reasonably expect physical security. when the provider demonstraties that they are concerned about physical security, a standard of care is established.
a breach of the duty of care is a serious issue.
when you said:
We were cracked first within 5 days of our site going live. After paying communitech.net $62.50 for reinstalling the OS, it was cracked just 24 hours later.
This established that you did advise the provider of the problem and they do havd a duty to resolve this issue. the second point is that the providers action did not resolve the issue. if you were charged $62.50 and promised that this action would resolve the security issue then demand your money back. any reasonable hosting provider would be pro-active in the installation of OS patches which leads to my second point of you get what you pay for.
Solutions
if you know/are a law student then standard and duty of care are discussed in Donahuge V Stevenson 1932 All ER Rep1 (HL)]
i'm assuming that any server situated physically within the countries jurisdiction would be subject to the host countries laws and any foreign domain name would be subject to their own countries domain laws/regulations and not the host country.
you might want to maintain the .com, .net TLD for use by international companies which want to publish non-geographical centric information. another benefit is an easier migration of coke.com to coke.com.us.
i blame the English for this mess.
when they first issued postage stamps, there wasn't a need to include Englands name on English postage stamps because they were the only country issue postage stamps. in order for the English to deliver your letters bearing a foreign postage stamp, your country had to agree to include their own countries name on their own stamps. Every country accepted this condition because the British Empire carried more than 75% of the postage traffic during the late 19th century.
the USA just used the same precedent, there wasn't a need to issue .com.us and .net.us because the 3 letter TLD name space was more about 80% of the domain names during the 80's.