I think you will find that iiNet was excluded from the trial - they put in a proposal but presumably were excluded as they would the whole thing just look silly.
In what must be a first the Aussie government is a step ahead of what is needed. Basically Canberra (the Nations capital & home of more government than you can poke a stick at) has a wonderful fiber network called ICON which happens to consist of dark fiber that is physically patched between agencies. Now that doesn't mean the QKD is a famously good idea since we already have really well thought through key distribution techniques, but it's not the lack of the network that will stop it.
Throwing in your maximum is fine if you are only bidding against one item. As soon as you have more than one item matching your requirements you risk winning both. Thus you are back to the problem of manually entering bids & risking sniping.
I suspect it costs sellers significantly more than buyers. The buyers are just annoyed..
The Liberals tried to do the same thing to get Harridene on side - and it was only lobbying from the ISP industry that managed to get them to step back from the edge and 'mandate' filtering for all ISP's via the incredibly ineffective (and massivly tax-payer funded) filter download program.
I don't think there is much of a difference between any of the parties on this. Can't-you-think-of-the-children (and terror) is an easy sell, massive financial burden on low profit margin ISP's and reduction of network useability takes a little more thinking...
Which is a really nice theory not allowing for the fact that: The Visa Wavier form you sign to get in specifically wavies constitutional protection for at least some matters. The US has just passed laws to apply to 'enemy combatants' that they cannot apply to US citizens as it would be unconstitutional.
These days the US constitution seems more like something patriots cling to in vain hope the administration cares as much as they do.
Then again you can just 'rendition' people you don't like to somewhere your rules don't apply.
Have you tried to call MS & log a 'support' call - more than once we have had to hand over the credit card no before the call will be forwarded on. Of course with the promise that if there was an issue they wouldn't charge it.
Oracle on the other hand request your support contract no (which they will actually look up for you) once you get past that really minor issue you never hear anything about money again. If you are unlucky enough to have a real bug that gets escalated you have the fun experience of hearing from someone from oracle every few hours - the calls seem to come from all over the world (based on accents etc)
More than once I have had a custom patch created for what to oracle must have seemed like a really minor bug.
The root.sh gives you a really simple way of verifying what the installer is doing to your system. Once you start running in higher security environments it becomes more common to seperate bits of the enviroment out to seperate OS users (listeners etc) - having the seperate root scripts lets you make sure the installer isn't doing something to break your carefully setup security plan.
I believe the passport data is digitally signed but not encrypted..
So now you can spot your target with your nice rfid tracking device to your hearts content. But you have a tin foil cover so there is nothing to worry about... I'm sure everyone is just 'safe & happy' being protected by the best tin-foil that money can buy.
As an aside last time I came back throught Australian Immigration everyone with the new 'digital' passports was being dragged aside for a 'document check' as for some reason that week the computers were flagging pretty much every single [digital] passport as faulty - including one of a two-year-old child. The immigration guys were being really good about it - but they were forced to do the painful examanations on loads of them. Of course the ones who wern't having to inspect were laughing about it...
a) The government of the day wiesly grants the abaility to vote to the people that will make the correct decision. It's best to exclude as many people that will make the incorrect choice from the start.
b) a vote takes place
c) the outcome is challanged in the courts because say.. noone actually managed to count the votes properly.
d) after protracted battles through the courts someone you have never heard of decides exactly what you meant to do with your vote in the first place, and correctly appoints some rich guys son.
At times I wonder why no-one bothers to show up to vote in the good 'old USoA
No Deco diving means that at any time you may asscend directly to the surface with (in theory) no ill affects, it dosn't by any means signify you will make it there alive. Under PADI you should be safty stoping on *every* dive, in fact if you miss a safty stop in some Australian states you don't get to dive again that day (a silly rule apparently meant to protect silly tourists or something)
I messed up my numbers (it's been a while since I was just open water qualified) the max depth for a PADI open water is 18m -> again within the margins for someone to make it to the surface with no air left in the tank. If you are advanced open water qualified the max is signifiantly more blury but PADI put's it at 40m.
Sadly although you pretty much guarenteed to make it to the surface with a full lungful of gasses from any depth, if your ascent takes too long there is no guarantee that it will contain enough oxygen to maintain you in any kind of functioning state. With Recomended ascent rates of 10m(33ft)/min if you end up really deep with no air you will have to comprimise something to make it to the surface. Normally that comprimise is ascent time - with you potentially being forced into a boyant (uncontrolled effectivly) ascent with all the joy & embolisims that brings.
It always makes me stop & think when I look up to the surface from ~30m knowing with fins on I can probably swim there in ~10-20 seconds but to do so would probably leave me dying. It's a concept I can intelectually grasp - just not one my brain is keen on accepting as fact.
Actually the most you are likely to be able to ascend from with no air is ~12 meters. Above this your asscent rate will probably be so high that you make it to the surface alive but rappidly die of nasty painful bends rather quickly after.
There is a reason the basic certification limits people to 15 meters.
After that your really relying on your buddy or a pony.
I think you may have missed the point that this is just a silly beatup, nostly by the producers of the show to help the ratings along.
Earlier in the season they had to take 'big brother adults only' off the air - the show where such things would traditionally be shown, apparently people were claiming it was soft porn. Now they seem to be enforcing some of the 'rules' in a slightly less flexible manner.
It's a crap shwo & probably wouldn't last too many more seasons, a nice jump in ratings (which sadly there was) does the producers the world of good.
Most power supplies these days have no big chunky transformers converting down from line voltage. You just just rectify the line voltage to DC & chop it up from there.
You never know it might be keeping out the awful buggy drivers that manafactures have been hacking together under windows for years. There is no real money in writing or supporting drivers, why would you expect a company to do a half decent job? Of course there are exceptions..
I'm sure that 90% of the time the reason companies don't want to open their specs is the fear their buggy hardware will be exposed to the world.
In some areas you find that large boards of unused sliders have already been done away with, certinly in lighting - even some relativly old boards operate in a program with numbers, then play-it-back mode. Once you get desks that control more than just lamp intensity (ie moving fixtures, colour changers etc etc) the slider concept just seems to get in the way.
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Not pillow - think more quilt (although not the fancy patchwork kind)
It would not be the first time the US has decided to just drop an international treaty because it was domestically convieanant at the time. Then again you can just ignore them like say the Geneva convention.
I used to work at a treatment plant that supplied a nice large powerstation that was *definatly* part of the grid - from memory it was in the region of 50-100MW (so not huge but big enough) sadly having our own power station within walking distance didn't guarentee wonderful power as they would occasionally pull the station offline for some reason & managed to loose our feed from/to the grid at least once.
The smell of the old uncovered ponds was a different matter altogether (a cheap diet system though)
That is the point of hot-swap PCI - tell the OS that you want to remove a card - the OS tells the card to go to sleep & probably does interesting things to the bus - then you yank the card & everyone is happy. You don't see this on cheap-o PC systems but it does tuen up in really high end gear (like telco equipment etc)
Reading about IBM's actions during the second world blew me away. Sadly we only seem to find out later just how involved the companies are in ensuring that people can be rounded up, tortured & killed.
I'm sure that at least someone at Microsoft is involved in discussions arranging customisation of their products to perform actions the Chinese government require. While it is a perfectly legitimate to help customise software for local conditions & legal requirements as a company you should be *very* careful performing actions that would be considered not only illegal but morally wrong back at home.
THey are not claiming that the list of formats is the copyrighted material just evidence that copyrighted material (that generates that list) must be present.
If you factor in the upgrade costs to the *current* version of a linux distribution ($0 if you are willing to put in a little effort) or the difference to upgrade to the current MS product (many $$$'s) the costs that *one* distribution charges arn't as over the top as they first seem. Of cource you could choose a distribution that is open & free but some people like their configurators:)
If the HUD has his speedo & tacho it is something that the rider never has to look down for. Which can be quite a challenge on some bikes. Anything that keeps the eyes up & looking for people trying to kill you is useful. I am not arguing that the data is vital - just that if you are going to be looking for the data its better in a HUD rather than down away from the road trying to locate the speedo while inverted:)
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I think you will find that iiNet was excluded from the trial - they put in a proposal but presumably were excluded as they would the whole thing just look silly.
You are looking for ICON Perhaps it was the *awful* acronym that beat you :)
In what must be a first the Aussie government is a step ahead of what is needed. Basically Canberra (the Nations capital & home of more government than you can poke a stick at) has a wonderful fiber network called ICON which happens to consist of dark fiber that is physically patched between agencies. Now that doesn't mean the QKD is a famously good idea since we already have really well thought through key distribution techniques, but it's not the lack of the network that will stop it.
I'm glad I am not the only person to have suffered at the hands of Dulles Immigration.
From discussions with various people - you get that if you make the mistake of landing there... (or being diverted there like I was...)
Sadly visiting Canada probably isn't a solution - for some reason flights which transit through the US end up having to go through US Immigration.
Throwing in your maximum is fine if you are only bidding against one item. As soon as you have more than one item matching your requirements you risk winning both. Thus you are back to the problem of manually entering bids & risking sniping.
I suspect it costs sellers significantly more than buyers. The buyers are just annoyed..
The Liberals tried to do the same thing to get Harridene on side - and it was only lobbying from the ISP industry that managed to get them to step back from the edge and 'mandate' filtering for all ISP's via the incredibly ineffective (and massivly tax-payer funded) filter download program.
I don't think there is much of a difference between any of the parties on this. Can't-you-think-of-the-children (and terror) is an easy sell, massive financial burden on low profit margin ISP's and reduction of network useability takes a little more thinking...
Which is a really nice theory not allowing for the fact that:
The Visa Wavier form you sign to get in specifically wavies constitutional protection for at least some matters.
The US has just passed laws to apply to 'enemy combatants' that they cannot apply to US citizens as it would be unconstitutional.
These days the US constitution seems more like something patriots cling to in vain hope the administration cares as much as they do.
Then again you can just 'rendition' people you don't like to somewhere your rules don't apply.
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Have you tried to call MS & log a 'support' call - more than once we have had to hand over the credit card no before the call will be forwarded on. Of course with the promise that if there was an issue they wouldn't charge it.
Oracle on the other hand request your support contract no (which they will actually look up for you) once you get past that really minor issue you never hear anything about money again. If you are unlucky enough to have a real bug that gets escalated you have the fun experience of hearing from someone from oracle every few hours - the calls seem to come from all over the world (based on accents etc)
More than once I have had a custom patch created for what to oracle must have seemed like a really minor bug.
One that takes security seriously.
The root.sh gives you a really simple way of verifying what the installer is doing to your system. Once you start running in higher security environments it becomes more common to seperate bits of the enviroment out to seperate OS users (listeners etc) - having the seperate root scripts lets you make sure the installer isn't doing something to break your carefully setup security plan.
I believe the passport data is digitally signed but not encrypted..
So now you can spot your target with your nice rfid tracking device to your hearts content. But you have a tin foil cover so there is nothing to worry about... I'm sure everyone is just 'safe & happy' being protected by the best tin-foil that money can buy.
As an aside last time I came back throught Australian Immigration everyone with the new 'digital' passports was being dragged aside for a 'document check' as for some reason that week the computers were flagging pretty much every single [digital] passport as faulty - including one of a two-year-old child. The immigration guys were being really good about it - but they were forced to do the painful examanations on loads of them. Of course the ones who wern't having to inspect were laughing about it...
I believe for you it goes something like this:
a) The government of the day wiesly grants the abaility to vote to the people that will make the correct decision. It's best to exclude as many people that will make the incorrect choice from the start.
b) a vote takes place
c) the outcome is challanged in the courts because say.. noone actually managed to count the votes properly.
d) after protracted battles through the courts someone you have never heard of decides exactly what you meant to do with your vote in the first place, and correctly appoints some rich guys son.
At times I wonder why no-one bothers to show up to vote in the good 'old USoA
No Deco diving means that at any time you may asscend directly to the surface with (in theory) no ill affects, it dosn't by any means signify you will make it there alive. Under PADI you should be safty stoping on *every* dive, in fact if you miss a safty stop in some Australian states you don't get to dive again that day (a silly rule apparently meant to protect silly tourists or something)
I messed up my numbers (it's been a while since I was just open water qualified) the max depth for a PADI open water is 18m -> again within the margins for someone to make it to the surface with no air left in the tank. If you are advanced open water qualified the max is signifiantly more blury but PADI put's it at 40m.
Sadly although you pretty much guarenteed to make it to the surface with a full lungful of gasses from any depth, if your ascent takes too long there is no guarantee that it will contain enough oxygen to maintain you in any kind of functioning state. With Recomended ascent rates of 10m(33ft)/min if you end up really deep with no air you will have to comprimise something to make it to the surface. Normally that comprimise is ascent time - with you potentially being forced into a boyant (uncontrolled effectivly) ascent with all the joy & embolisims that brings.
It always makes me stop & think when I look up to the surface from ~30m knowing with fins on I can probably swim there in ~10-20 seconds but to do so would probably leave me dying. It's a concept I can intelectually grasp - just not one my brain is keen on accepting as fact.
Actually the most you are likely to be able to ascend from with no air is ~12 meters. Above this your asscent rate will probably be so high that you make it to the surface alive but rappidly die of nasty painful bends rather quickly after.
There is a reason the basic certification limits people to 15 meters.
After that your really relying on your buddy or a pony.
Ahh,
I think you may have missed the point that this is just a silly beatup, nostly by the producers of the show to help the ratings along.
Earlier in the season they had to take 'big brother adults only' off the air - the show where such things would traditionally be shown, apparently people were claiming it was soft porn. Now they seem to be enforcing some of the 'rules' in a slightly less flexible manner.
It's a crap shwo & probably wouldn't last too many more seasons, a nice jump in ratings (which sadly there was) does the producers the world of good.
Most power supplies these days have no big chunky transformers converting down from line voltage. You just just rectify the line voltage to DC & chop it up from there.
You never know it might be keeping out the awful buggy drivers that manafactures have been hacking together under windows for years. There is no real money in writing or supporting drivers, why would you expect a company to do a half decent job? Of course there are exceptions..
I'm sure that 90% of the time the reason companies don't want to open their specs is the fear their buggy hardware will be exposed to the world.
In some areas you find that large boards of unused sliders have already been done away with, certinly in lighting - even some relativly old boards operate in a program with numbers, then play-it-back mode. Once you get desks that control more than just lamp intensity (ie moving fixtures, colour changers etc etc) the slider concept just seems to get in the way.
Not pillow - think more quilt (although not the fancy patchwork kind)
It would not be the first time the US has decided to just drop an international treaty because it was domestically convieanant at the time. Then again you can just ignore them like say the Geneva convention.
I used to work at a treatment plant that supplied a nice large powerstation that was *definatly* part of the grid - from memory it was in the region of 50-100MW (so not huge but big enough) sadly having our own power station within walking distance didn't guarentee wonderful power as they would occasionally pull the station offline for some reason & managed to loose our feed from/to the grid at least once.
The smell of the old uncovered ponds was a different matter altogether (a cheap diet system though)
That is the point of hot-swap PCI - tell the OS that you want to remove a card - the OS tells the card to go to sleep & probably does interesting things to the bus - then you yank the card & everyone is happy. You don't see this on cheap-o PC systems but it does tuen up in really high end gear (like telco equipment etc)
Reading about IBM's actions during the second world blew me away. Sadly we only seem to find out later just how involved the companies are in ensuring that people can be rounded up, tortured & killed.
I'm sure that at least someone at Microsoft is involved in discussions arranging customisation of their products to perform actions the Chinese government require. While it is a perfectly legitimate to help customise software for local conditions & legal requirements as a company you should be *very* careful performing actions that would be considered not only illegal but morally wrong back at home.
THey are not claiming that the list of formats is the copyrighted material just evidence that copyrighted material (that generates that list) must be present.
If you factor in the upgrade costs to the *current* version of a linux distribution ($0 if you are willing to put in a little effort) or the difference to upgrade to the current MS product (many $$$'s) the costs that *one* distribution charges arn't as over the top as they first seem. Of cource you could choose a distribution that is open & free but some people like their configurators :)
If the HUD has his speedo & tacho it is something that the rider never has to look down for. Which can be quite a challenge on some bikes. Anything that keeps the eyes up & looking for people trying to kill you is useful. I am not arguing that the data is vital - just that if you are going to be looking for the data its better in a HUD rather than down away from the road trying to locate the speedo while inverted :)