IIRC (and the "C" could be faulty), didn't Google recently force the winner of the FCC's recent spectrum auction to abide by an open-access rule that Google (rightly) weaseled into the bidding rules?
As long as the devices use that chunk of spectrum, Verizon may not have had a choice.
For the benefit of those not in the UK, the National Lottery is where you buy a ticket for £1 and choose six numbers. If the numbers you pick come up - then you win a load of cash.
We have two organizations like this in the US:
The first is called Powerball - runs in many (not all states), and does almost the same thing... only costs a buck and a hope. The profits are divided among participating states and put towards public works projects (e.g. roads, schools, parks...)
The other one is called NASDAQ, though Lord only knows where the profits end up.
And, however important the historical significance of the site, it's hardly fair to make a snide remark about not getting funding from a foundation that has MUCH more important issues to deal with.
Indeed... there's no angle here where Bill can trade charity for Windows sales to the government as far as I can tell... little wonder he turned 'em down. Before you think this is 'Bill-bashing', take a look at Mexico as a huge example of how Mssr. Gates does marketshare-pushing in developing countries.
If anything, they should be getting funding from the British government (and obviously THEY don't think it's so important).
Now here, I agree. If it were important to Parliament, they would've obviously done something by now. As it is, Colossus could be moved to the appropriate national museum and given its own place of honor. This would likely give it a wider audience and a more convenient viewing.
I have taken many tests and I have found that getting a perfect score is not so much about knowing the material as about knowing the expectations of the person who wrote the test.
For some odd reason, my experiences with the MCSE tests for Windows 2000 come to mind (e.g. chanting: "The Gospel According to Bill" allowed me to easily pass all of the Win2k ones on the first go - in spite of the massive suspense of disbelief required to do it).
Athiests believe the universe is a complete accident and that everything in the universe is random. This is a much better explanation of atheism:
The natural condition of all humans at birth
Not to provoke, but rather to correct: That condition is usually called "ignorance".
If you belong to a profession that exists because [computer software is] too complicated for normal people to understand, how can you possibly be expected to act in their interests when creating new [computer software]?
That's easy - if the new computer software is too complex? People won't use it, won't buy it, and you'll be stuck with a lot of unused inventory and a bankrupt business - even if you had a monopoly before (see also the current mass defections from Microsoft, to OSX and Linux)
Government is not a free market. It has no competition... so you're stuck with either actually working with the system to change it (en masse) or fomenting revolt.
Well, there is that part about taking up the case in the first place, then doing it repeatedly in subsequent cases...
/P
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...I was under the impression that most, if not all, judges start out as lawyers.
Frighteningly enough, so do most politicians...
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Not so sure in his case... he's answerable to the state legislature, not Congress (which means he can find himself on the docket a lot faster, esp. if he makes any local enemies, which his type I'm sure is prone to collecting).
Also, he was elected for a term, which indicates elections are ahead. While most judges are pretty much re-elected ad-infinitum without so much as a "ho-hum" from the electorate, all it would take is a couple of well-placed commercials and ads touting his prior experiences and current performance (if negative), and he's toast. I don;t think the RIAA would have too much interest in bailing him out, so he'd be pretty much on his own.
Then again, who knows?:)
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That would sort of depend on why he left. If he left due to any acrimony, the RIAA would likely go out of their way to stay well clear of his courtroom (and it would only affect Colorado residents anyway)
Also, he may have left after sniffing the wind and seeing that other judges are starting to find the RIAA's tactics to be questionable at best... and likely wants to be well clear of the RIAA if/when it finally (okay, hopefully) implodes.
Finally, even if he did hear any of these cases, he's have two fears constantly on his mind: Appeals, and the possibility that not recusing himself from an case involving his former employer would likely land him in hotter water than by simply recusing himself in the first place.
Just idle thoughts - standard disclaimers pply, etc.:)
Good Heavens, Man... lighten the hell up already. Sure, the overall population stands to take a hit from many factors, and has taken quite a few since history began (mostly from mundane crap like pandemics, climate shifts, and the occasional asteroid).
Personally, I'm thinking that, for the first time in history, we can actually do something about this. Sure, it'll sound like fantasy, it'll be pricey as Hell, and it'll likely kill a lot of folks initially... but we can actually get our asses into space and set up shop elsewhere.
Who knows? Maybe we can even get to a point where no one factor has the potential to kill off the whole human race if we did?
Demand a copy of the "forensic evidence" in full, then double-check it with your ISP (and if you can, your own computer). Not 100% sure ab't the UK, but in the US, you do have the right to demand this.
"Couldn't the same be done for Linux by booting up in single-user mode and editing/etc/shadow?"
Sorta, but you can always insert a blank pw hash into the SAM for Administrator's account and get right in, whereas you at least have to cough up an MD-5 hash of a password you actually know before inserting it into/etc/shadow.
'course, it'd be easier to just chroot the HDD's / directory, then just run 'passwd' - two commands and no editing required.:)
now tell us again how absense of mac malware is not because of small market share.
Since nearly 10% of the computers being sold today have an Apple logo on it, your logic would dictate that nearly 10% of the malware out there is Mac-oriented. Yet for some odd reason, the number of in-the-wild malware packages for OSX --as a percentage of the whole-- are (literally) orders of magnitude smaller (as in, almost statistically zero).
Methinks the answer lies somewhere other than where you and the GP were both looking...
XP does that too... my wife's ancient Dell Inspiron 800 laptop warns her of this every time she sticks a USB 2.0 device into the USB 1.1 ports... (and she wonders why I have to suppress a laugh every time she mentions it to me).
It was either a prophesy or a forewarning on society and privacy - you pick. Even now it gives me the shivers thinking about it... and damned few SciFi books (of which I've read way too many) can do that.
Okay Mr. Novick, I have a specific instance for you as an example:
About 20 years back, Josephine County (Grants Pass, et al) got a massive infusion of cash in repayment for gov't-enforced restricted logging rights in their area. During this period of time, IIRC they spent it like drunken Sailors on Leave (e.g., they pretty much poured it into programs which has nothing to do with stimulating industries that didn't involve cutting down trees).
The payments timed out last year, and now the county government is in full-on panic mode. They simply have no cash available to keep feeding all the expansions they poured the dough into all this time, and are even in a crunch as to funding basic services. Some towns in the Northern end of the county are even considering changing their incorporation so that they become members of the county to their north.
So... if (okay, when) they come screaming to you for a return of federal funding to help dig them out of their (IMHO self-created) multi-hundred-million-dollar mess, what will you do? Tough Love, Open the floodgates, what? (and if there is any money going that way, please stipulate some sort of money-management controls for the idiots running the show down that way...?)
/P (who lives in Portland, but have relatives living down that way)
Or they could accept the fact that the world is a nasty place, and sooner or later their children will encounter something unsavory. They should be preparing their children to handle uncouth imagery responsibly, not sheltering them from it.
Agreed - but when and where? A 4-year-old child is not an 8-year old child, and no two children of the same age are equally mature, nor equally intelligent enough to comprehend what they just saw or heard. No two sets of parents would easily agree on when and where kids should be allowed to come across such topics and subjects. Also, what happens when there's more than one kid in the house, and their ages differ greatly?
I already know the argument: "you still control the remote, so..." Sure, a parent can shut off the TV and/or change the channel. But conversely, you can just as easily subscribe to the cable/sat channels where you can get your fill w/o having even more of it to peruse through. IOW, that argument is a wash.
Personally, in such a situation I'd simply have a series of channels that were kid-safe and wide-open, then lock the rest out, slowly unlocking them as the kid(s) got older (and with a differential that opens after the younger kid(s) go to bed).
It's a complex subject, with no easy answers... even one that says 'the world sucks anyway - better prepare your kid for it'.
Dunno ab't Africa, but in Asia, China has a one-child policy that's been around since the late 1960's, and Japan is actually shrinking in population as their mean age shifts upward.
Seriously... by this point, Apache can't do much more to stop someone from taking advantage of crap script and the underlying (and very likely unpatched) PHP running it.
When the cure (more often than not these days) involves not having to disturb Apache at all (save for possibly changing something in httpd.conf), but instead fixing/dumping the bad script that let the baddies in, or patching PHP to plug the hole in it, then odds are good that it ain't Apache's fault, no?
To be fair, it would also be like blaming IIS for crap XML or ASP script, and MSFT would certainly waste no time in saying so.
If someone were to post a website that lets anonymous folks rate you on your job, exposing personal information and possibly endangering you at the same time? I'm sure you'd be demanding much the same thing.
I have no problems with oversight, and in fact think it to be vital. My only problem with it is the fact that they could unwittingly endanger someone (or more than one...)
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As long as the devices use that chunk of spectrum, Verizon may not have had a choice.
We have two organizations like this in the US:
The first is called Powerball - runs in many (not all states), and does almost the same thing... only costs a buck and a hope. The profits are divided among participating states and put towards public works projects (e.g. roads, schools, parks...)
The other one is called NASDAQ, though Lord only knows where the profits end up.
Indeed... there's no angle here where Bill can trade charity for Windows sales to the government as far as I can tell... little wonder he turned 'em down. Before you think this is 'Bill-bashing', take a look at Mexico as a huge example of how Mssr. Gates does marketshare-pushing in developing countries.
If anything, they should be getting funding from the British government (and obviously THEY don't think it's so important).Now here, I agree. If it were important to Parliament, they would've obviously done something by now. As it is, Colossus could be moved to the appropriate national museum and given its own place of honor. This would likely give it a wider audience and a more convenient viewing.
For some odd reason, my experiences with the MCSE tests for Windows 2000 come to mind (e.g. chanting: "The Gospel According to Bill" allowed me to easily pass all of the Win2k ones on the first go - in spite of the massive suspense of disbelief required to do it).
The natural condition of all humans at birth
Not to provoke, but rather to correct: That condition is usually called "ignorance".
That's easy - if the new computer software is too complex? People won't use it, won't buy it, and you'll be stuck with a lot of unused inventory and a bankrupt business - even if you had a monopoly before (see also the current mass defections from Microsoft, to OSX and Linux)
Government is not a free market. It has no competition... so you're stuck with either actually working with the system to change it (en masse) or fomenting revolt.
...I was under the impression that most, if not all, judges start out as lawyers.Frighteningly enough, so do most politicians...
Also, he was elected for a term, which indicates elections are ahead. While most judges are pretty much re-elected ad-infinitum without so much as a "ho-hum" from the electorate, all it would take is a couple of well-placed commercials and ads touting his prior experiences and current performance (if negative), and he's toast. I don;t think the RIAA would have too much interest in bailing him out, so he'd be pretty much on his own.
Then again, who knows? :)
Also, he may have left after sniffing the wind and seeing that other judges are starting to find the RIAA's tactics to be questionable at best... and likely wants to be well clear of the RIAA if/when it finally (okay, hopefully) implodes.
Finally, even if he did hear any of these cases, he's have two fears constantly on his mind: Appeals, and the possibility that not recusing himself from an case involving his former employer would likely land him in hotter water than by simply recusing himself in the first place.
Just idle thoughts - standard disclaimers pply, etc. :)
Good Heavens, Man... lighten the hell up already. Sure, the overall population stands to take a hit from many factors, and has taken quite a few since history began (mostly from mundane crap like pandemics, climate shifts, and the occasional asteroid).
Personally, I'm thinking that, for the first time in history, we can actually do something about this. Sure, it'll sound like fantasy, it'll be pricey as Hell, and it'll likely kill a lot of folks initially... but we can actually get our asses into space and set up shop elsewhere.
Who knows? Maybe we can even get to a point where no one factor has the potential to kill off the whole human race if we did?
Sorta, but you can always insert a blank pw hash into the SAM for Administrator's account and get right in, whereas you at least have to cough up an MD-5 hash of a password you actually know before inserting it into /etc/shadow.
'course, it'd be easier to just chroot the HDD's / directory, then just run 'passwd' - two commands and no editing required. :)
Since nearly 10% of the computers being sold today have an Apple logo on it, your logic would dictate that nearly 10% of the malware out there is Mac-oriented. Yet for some odd reason, the number of in-the-wild malware packages for OSX --as a percentage of the whole-- are (literally) orders of magnitude smaller (as in, almost statistically zero).
Methinks the answer lies somewhere other than where you and the GP were both looking...
Now replace the same word with "Catholicism". Then "Buddhism". Then "Liberalism". Then Conservatism"...
Censorship over mere ideals? Sucks no matter what angle you view it from.
It was either a prophesy or a forewarning on society and privacy - you pick. Even now it gives me the shivers thinking about it... and damned few SciFi books (of which I've read way too many) can do that.
About 20 years back, Josephine County (Grants Pass, et al) got a massive infusion of cash in repayment for gov't-enforced restricted logging rights in their area. During this period of time, IIRC they spent it like drunken Sailors on Leave (e.g., they pretty much poured it into programs which has nothing to do with stimulating industries that didn't involve cutting down trees).
The payments timed out last year, and now the county government is in full-on panic mode. They simply have no cash available to keep feeding all the expansions they poured the dough into all this time, and are even in a crunch as to funding basic services. Some towns in the Northern end of the county are even considering changing their incorporation so that they become members of the county to their north.
So... if (okay, when) they come screaming to you for a return of federal funding to help dig them out of their (IMHO self-created) multi-hundred-million-dollar mess, what will you do? Tough Love, Open the floodgates, what? (and if there is any money going that way, please stipulate some sort of money-management controls for the idiots running the show down that way...?)
Consider that for awhile.
Agreed - but when and where? A 4-year-old child is not an 8-year old child, and no two children of the same age are equally mature, nor equally intelligent enough to comprehend what they just saw or heard. No two sets of parents would easily agree on when and where kids should be allowed to come across such topics and subjects. Also, what happens when there's more than one kid in the house, and their ages differ greatly?
I already know the argument: "you still control the remote, so..." Sure, a parent can shut off the TV and/or change the channel. But conversely, you can just as easily subscribe to the cable/sat channels where you can get your fill w/o having even more of it to peruse through. IOW, that argument is a wash.
Personally, in such a situation I'd simply have a series of channels that were kid-safe and wide-open, then lock the rest out, slowly unlocking them as the kid(s) got older (and with a differential that opens after the younger kid(s) go to bed).
It's a complex subject, with no easy answers... even one that says 'the world sucks anyway - better prepare your kid for it'.
Dunno ab't Africa, but in Asia, China has a one-child policy that's been around since the late 1960's, and Japan is actually shrinking in population as their mean age shifts upward.
When the cure (more often than not these days) involves not having to disturb Apache at all (save for possibly changing something in httpd.conf), but instead fixing/dumping the bad script that let the baddies in, or patching PHP to plug the hole in it, then odds are good that it ain't Apache's fault, no?
To be fair, it would also be like blaming IIS for crap XML or ASP script, and MSFT would certainly waste no time in saying so.
Free Speech does have limits - see also the US Constitution and a shedload of USSC cases.
You cannot legally slander, libel, raise false warnings (e.g. shout "fire" in a theater), etc...
IOW, Free Speech doesn't trump everything.
If someone were to post a website that lets anonymous folks rate you on your job, exposing personal information and possibly endangering you at the same time? I'm sure you'd be demanding much the same thing.
I have no problems with oversight, and in fact think it to be vital. My only problem with it is the fact that they could unwittingly endanger someone (or more than one...)