My wife mainly uses the email address soubrette@our-domain-name, soubrette being the kind of role she likes to play in opera. Unfortunately, in French-speaking countries, the word now has pornographic connotations and she must use another address when writing to some friends there because mail from that address is silently filtered out.
You forgot the World Service, which is paid for by the Foreign Office. Another source of income is the profit-making BBC Enterprises which publishes magazines, licences merchandising, sells programs abroad, and so on.
RIPA allows many parts of government to demand that you help them to decrypt your encrypted communications that they have intercepted as part of an investigation. Appalling as this is, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with compiling databases.
Er, what coup that took down the Soviet Union? By 1991 Gorbachev's reforms had severely weakened the union and a few reactionaries staged a coup in an attempt to preempt the signing of a new union treaty that would weaken it further. However, the coup leaders failed to arrest Yeltsin and others who could challenge them, and didn't have the stomach to put down the popular resistance that he took leadership of. The coup leaders fled and by the time Gorbachev returned to fill the vacuum Yeltsin had banned the Communist party in Russia and many republics had unilaterally seceded, making the USSR untenable. Some people did use email to tell the outside world what was going on during the coup, but what happened was mostly the result of a power struggle between existing leaders.
Net connected consumer communications devices will become ubiquitous, and they will support new protocols which are designed from the ground up for social networking. They will support encryption and VPN, and will be all but impossible to suppress. Wireless and satellite have the potential to bypass a lot of the censorship going on at the network routing layer.
An oppressive government wouldn't allow people to import or manufacture those. Look at what happened with GSM: the protocol allowed for (not very strong) encryption but made it optional, under control of the network (which is easily regulated by the government). The companies that make these "social networking" devices will probably be happy to weaken or disable encryption to make a buck in authoritarian countries. After all, they're not political, and business is business, right? Of course, if the devices allow ad-hoc networking then it would be possible to smuggle in and use foreign versions - but somewhat risky, as their use will be a crime.
Muhammad was illiterate and dictated the Qu'ran to a scribe, so it wouldn't have been that easy for him to look back and forth in what he had "written". Besides which, he did claim to be seeing visions which generally indicates a state of mind that isn't very coherent or rational (often due to starvation and extremely low glucose levels, I think).
Several times, I went all the way out to a user's place only to find out that something was unplugged (and, yes, I always asked them to check while on the phone).
There's your mistake. Users are embarrassed to admit a simple error like that, so they deny it. Asking them to unplug it and then plug it in again might have worked better.
Some of the windowsupdate.microsoft.com servers were hit by Code Red. One reason why Microsoft would be less vulnerable is that (AFAIK) they make less use of remote access for development, so their development systems can be firewalled off from the outside world. Debian, Gentoo and so on are dependent on distributed development and remote access to various servers from anywhere in the world.
They're OEM versions, for use on new computers. They are just a CD and a licence; no box and possibly no manual. That's what most home Windows users get.
Where do you get the $200 figure from? The OEM version of XP Home sells for 56.27 before tax (roughly equivalent to $100) at Ebuyer in the UK. I imagine it costs rather less than that in bulk.
VNC came out of ORL (originally Olivetti Research Lab and later Olivetti-and-Oracle Research Lab) in Cambridge, England. Some time after this, the two Os wanted to shed the expense of the lab and ORL became AT&T Research UK. Most of the development of VNC was done when it was still ORL.
So the offensive thing was that the smoking player confounded the other player's expectations. This is an amazingly common reason for people to take offence.
Ah, yes, devfs is normally mounted earlier on. If you still had devfsd installed its init script might try to mount/dev. I have no idea about the modules but you could also try the Linux equivalent of a search through the registry: "grep -r 'mystery-string'/etc".
It wouldn't look cool enough. The design that Diebold is using seems to have been driven by marketing to look high-tech. There may also have been a mistaken belief that a solid-state system would be more reliable than one that depending on printing and reading paper (a paper jam could take out a terminal for the day since election workers can't be seen to tamper with them). In practice the Diebold terminals seem to be amazingly unreliable despite only printing totals.
I was under the impression that the Mount Rainier format was going to be called DVD+MRW, but evidently that didn't happen. I should have said DVD+RW with Mount Rainier support. Note that's a new and optional extension to DVD+RW; older drives won't support it. I think the old media will work though.
In this case, no, the problem isn't C. The bugs all involve dereferencing a null pointer, which will kill a Java program just as surely as it will call a C program. (Yes, you can catch NullPointerException in Java; you can also handle SIGSEGV in C. That doesn't mean you can provide a useful recovery path from such an unexpected event.)
I don't think most of us have the time to go round listening to the 90%+ of crap out there. We do need middle-men, though they might not be commercial - they may just be friends who know a music scene better than us. A lot of dot-coms spouted about disintermediation when what they really wanted was to replace the existing middle-men with themselves. Few succeeded. I think the record companies may be worried that it could really happen to them because they do such a poor job as middle-men.
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My wife mainly uses the email address soubrette@our-domain-name, soubrette being the kind of role she likes to play in opera. Unfortunately, in French-speaking countries, the word now has pornographic connotations and she must use another address when writing to some friends there because mail from that address is silently filtered out.
3-6 months?! Is that what de Beers tells people? I thought the guideline was 1 month.
Groups already includes many mailing lists, e.g. the LKML is in there as linux.kernel.
You forgot the World Service, which is paid for by the Foreign Office. Another source of income is the profit-making BBC Enterprises which publishes magazines, licences merchandising, sells programs abroad, and so on.
RIPA allows many parts of government to demand that you help them to decrypt your encrypted communications that they have intercepted as part of an investigation. Appalling as this is, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with compiling databases.
Er, what coup that took down the Soviet Union? By 1991 Gorbachev's reforms had severely weakened the union and a few reactionaries staged a coup in an attempt to preempt the signing of a new union treaty that would weaken it further. However, the coup leaders failed to arrest Yeltsin and others who could challenge them, and didn't have the stomach to put down the popular resistance that he took leadership of. The coup leaders fled and by the time Gorbachev returned to fill the vacuum Yeltsin had banned the Communist party in Russia and many republics had unilaterally seceded, making the USSR untenable. Some people did use email to tell the outside world what was going on during the coup, but what happened was mostly the result of a power struggle between existing leaders.
An oppressive government wouldn't allow people to import or manufacture those. Look at what happened with GSM: the protocol allowed for (not very strong) encryption but made it optional, under control of the network (which is easily regulated by the government). The companies that make these "social networking" devices will probably be happy to weaken or disable encryption to make a buck in authoritarian countries. After all, they're not political, and business is business, right? Of course, if the devices allow ad-hoc networking then it would be possible to smuggle in and use foreign versions - but somewhat risky, as their use will be a crime.
Muhammad was illiterate and dictated the Qu'ran to a scribe, so it wouldn't have been that easy for him to look back and forth in what he had "written". Besides which, he did claim to be seeing visions which generally indicates a state of mind that isn't very coherent or rational (often due to starvation and extremely low glucose levels, I think).
There's your mistake. Users are embarrassed to admit a simple error like that, so they deny it. Asking them to unplug it and then plug it in again might have worked better.
Some of the windowsupdate.microsoft.com servers were hit by Code Red. One reason why Microsoft would be less vulnerable is that (AFAIK) they make less use of remote access for development, so their development systems can be firewalled off from the outside world. Debian, Gentoo and so on are dependent on distributed development and remote access to various servers from anywhere in the world.
RFC 3675 has some good reasons not to do this.
They're OEM versions, for use on new computers. They are just a CD and a licence; no box and possibly no manual. That's what most home Windows users get.
Where do you get the $200 figure from? The OEM version of XP Home sells for 56.27 before tax (roughly equivalent to $100) at Ebuyer in the UK. I imagine it costs rather less than that in bulk.
VNC came out of ORL (originally Olivetti Research Lab and later Olivetti-and-Oracle Research Lab) in Cambridge, England. Some time after this, the two Os wanted to shed the expense of the lab and ORL became AT&T Research UK. Most of the development of VNC was done when it was still ORL.
Don't forget the major terrorist attack in Spain. Of course, there weren't any Americans involved, so it's not really important.
Nice try. Then the filtering service becomes your middleman.
So the offensive thing was that the smoking player confounded the other player's expectations. This is an amazingly common reason for people to take offence.
It looks at the access times on each package's files (but it ignores files whose names don't match /\.*bin/|/sbin/|^/usr/games/|\.[ah]$).
Ah, yes, devfs is normally mounted earlier on. If you still had devfsd installed its init script might try to mount /dev. I have no idea about the modules but you could also try the Linux equivalent of a search through the registry: "grep -r ' mystery-string ' /etc".
It wouldn't look cool enough. The design that Diebold is using seems to have been driven by marketing to look high-tech. There may also have been a mistaken belief that a solid-state system would be more reliable than one that depending on printing and reading paper (a paper jam could take out a terminal for the day since election workers can't be seen to tamper with them). In practice the Diebold terminals seem to be amazingly unreliable despite only printing totals.
I was under the impression that the Mount Rainier format was going to be called DVD+MRW, but evidently that didn't happen. I should have said DVD+RW with Mount Rainier support. Note that's a new and optional extension to DVD+RW; older drives won't support it. I think the old media will work though.
In this case, no, the problem isn't C. The bugs all involve dereferencing a null pointer, which will kill a Java program just as surely as it will call a C program. (Yes, you can catch NullPointerException in Java; you can also handle SIGSEGV in C. That doesn't mean you can provide a useful recovery path from such an unexpected event.)
I don't think most of us have the time to go round listening to the 90%+ of crap out there. We do need middle-men, though they might not be commercial - they may just be friends who know a music scene better than us. A lot of dot-coms spouted about disintermediation when what they really wanted was to replace the existing middle-men with themselves. Few succeeded. I think the record companies may be worried that it could really happen to them because they do such a poor job as middle-men.
Yeah but the modal age-group would be 18-24.
Only the new DVD+MRW format (note the M) has defect management.