The whole NCRS project was doomed from the start; they made the assumption that the best way to make clinical records available across the country was by way of a gigantic central database and the proceeded to design it without consulting any of the users, using smartcards that were obsolete before the project started (so they can't be used for anything else like SSO because nobody supports them anymore) and changing the requirements every couple of weeks. Oh, and there's no fine-grained access control so they can't put any Mental or Sexual Health records on it since anyone with access to part of your record has access to all of it.
What they should have done is to define a standard data exchange format, mandated that all local systems supported it and then have a central lookup table for locating where any given record is located, but then they wouldn't have been able to award massive contacts to the usual suspects.
There is a simple solution here. Stop spending money. End all entitlement programs. That will surely piss off the socialists, but I don't care. It will stop theft from those who work to give tot hose who don't. A lot of tax revenue will be freed up to pay the debt, and those who live on welfare, unemployment, and other socialist programs will ahve to find something productive to do with their lives, which will most likely involve paying taxes, instead of looting from those who pay taxes.
That only works if your economy can provide employment to 100% of the people who want it and I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say that it can't and never will.
Well given that they would normally get 0c per play of a CD or iTunes track then I'd imagine so.
Assuming a ~$1 track price on something like iTunes (and this 9p to the artist as per your linked article), the break-even point is about 300 plays, but the assumption (pretty fairly IMO) is that far more people will hear your stuff on Spotify than would buy it on iTunes, so in reality it's probably a pretty decent deal.
Because most people would struggle to name anything other than the most high-profile of News Corp-owned properties and therefore couldn't boycott it if they wanted to (you know, without doing a modicum of research and hey, people are busy).
Every side has extremists (though not necessarily the blow shit up kind) and most of the time people try very hard to pretend that "their" extremists are well-intentioned and harmless, whilst the others sides' are all part of an devious conspiracy to bring down their way of life.
Reality, as always, tends to sit somewhere in the middle.
Because it's not just Celebrities, we're talking about politicians, business people, murder victims, families of murder victims, families of soldiers killed in action, families of those killed in terrorist attacks - even going so far as to delete messages when mailboxes started to fill up so that there was space for more juicy recordings - and they're just the ones that have been explicitly identified so far.
Now I'm not naive enough to think that News International were the only ones pulling these stunts, but they got caught and their actions are utterly reprehensible. So far, everyone up the chain seems to be claiming that there's no way that they could possibly have known what their subordinates were doing for years that were getting them all these lucrative stories and so far, everyone that Murdoch has tried to throw to the wolves has come back with some evidence or other that people above them were well aware of what was going on. The ultimate question is, how far up the chain did the knowledge & approval - explicit or otherwise - of these acts go?
And no, I have no idea what all the Microsoft stuff is about.
In the same way that Youtube has meant that people no longer want to watch feature-length movies any more.
I know this is a crazy statement to make but there is actually room in the market for more than one kind of thing. You can have 5 minute long iPhone games and pointless 1-click "social" games as well as, you know, games that have some depth and character to them.
Personally, I like long games that have time to build a decent plot and develop the characters.
I think that's a little disingenuous; the iPlayer was pretty much single-handedly responsible for bringing streaming of broadcast TV to the UK. Whether the technology was revolutionary or not, it was still pioneering in context and has been massively successful.
If they tried to do anything untoward with the data they collected, without your explicit permission, the ICO would likely hit them with rather substantial fines (I believe the current cap is £500,000 per infringement), so I wouldn't be too concerned about it. Especially when you consider that the same could be said for *any* application that has access to GPS on your phone.
Chiropractors are fine for dealing with back pain, shitty posture and associated issues, what's bullshit are those who claim to be able to fix all kinds of unrelated ailments via chiropracty or those who claim that everything you do every day causes harm to your body that can only be fixed by chiropracty, such as the GP.
Ditto, although at least this time they're promising profile support for Apps accounts "within the next couple of months" rather than the previously nebulous "coming soon".
Interestingly, if you try and sign into the Android + app with an Apps account and then follow the "Learn More" links it points you to an Apps help page on how to enable it, it just happens to be a 404 at the moment.
I heard that Google employees rifle through your stuff while you're sleeping and then post the information they find onto your Google+ profile even if you haven't created one.
As a rule, digital watches tend to look cheap and tacky, I've had analog watches of one sort or another for most of the last 15 years (nothing too fancy, all sub-£100) and they just look better.
We said above that pdf.js renders the Tracemonkey paper "perfectly" if you're running a Firefox nightly on a Windows 7 machine where Firefox can use Direct2D and DirectWrite, if you ignore what appears to be a bug in DirectWrite's font hinting.
pdf.js has now reached the point where a significant portion of its issues are actually browser-rendering-engine bugs, or missing features. Finding these gaps and filling some of them has been one of the biggest returns on our investment in pdf.js so far.
The problem isn't what they've written so much as the browsers not being able to support the latest and greatest HTML5/JS functionality.
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There's already a national private network (N3) so we're halfway there.
The whole NCRS project was doomed from the start; they made the assumption that the best way to make clinical records available across the country was by way of a gigantic central database and the proceeded to design it without consulting any of the users, using smartcards that were obsolete before the project started (so they can't be used for anything else like SSO because nobody supports them anymore) and changing the requirements every couple of weeks. Oh, and there's no fine-grained access control so they can't put any Mental or Sexual Health records on it since anyone with access to part of your record has access to all of it.
What they should have done is to define a standard data exchange format, mandated that all local systems supported it and then have a central lookup table for locating where any given record is located, but then they wouldn't have been able to award massive contacts to the usual suspects.
Virgin Media isn't actually part of the Virgin group, they just acquired the rights to the name after NTL and Telewest merged a few years ago.
prior art for "slide to unlock" - go to your local hardware store and get a "door chain" type locking device.
I think you'll find that this is *on a computer*, which makes it entirely different...
There is a simple solution here. Stop spending money. End all entitlement programs. That will surely piss off the socialists, but I don't care. It will stop theft from those who work to give tot hose who don't. A lot of tax revenue will be freed up to pay the debt, and those who live on welfare, unemployment, and other socialist programs will ahve to find something productive to do with their lives, which will most likely involve paying taxes, instead of looting from those who pay taxes.
That only works if your economy can provide employment to 100% of the people who want it and I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say that it can't and never will.
Well given that they would normally get 0c per play of a CD or iTunes track then I'd imagine so.
Assuming a ~$1 track price on something like iTunes (and this 9p to the artist as per your linked article), the break-even point is about 300 plays, but the assumption (pretty fairly IMO) is that far more people will hear your stuff on Spotify than would buy it on iTunes, so in reality it's probably a pretty decent deal.
These days, honestly, if there is then you're doing it wrong.
Because most people would struggle to name anything other than the most high-profile of News Corp-owned properties and therefore couldn't boycott it if they wanted to (you know, without doing a modicum of research and hey, people are busy).
Every side has extremists (though not necessarily the blow shit up kind) and most of the time people try very hard to pretend that "their" extremists are well-intentioned and harmless, whilst the others sides' are all part of an devious conspiracy to bring down their way of life.
Reality, as always, tends to sit somewhere in the middle.
The phrase that leaps to mind is "like herding cats".
Because it's not just Celebrities, we're talking about politicians, business people, murder victims, families of murder victims, families of soldiers killed in action, families of those killed in terrorist attacks - even going so far as to delete messages when mailboxes started to fill up so that there was space for more juicy recordings - and they're just the ones that have been explicitly identified so far.
Now I'm not naive enough to think that News International were the only ones pulling these stunts, but they got caught and their actions are utterly reprehensible. So far, everyone up the chain seems to be claiming that there's no way that they could possibly have known what their subordinates were doing for years that were getting them all these lucrative stories and so far, everyone that Murdoch has tried to throw to the wolves has come back with some evidence or other that people above them were well aware of what was going on. The ultimate question is, how far up the chain did the knowledge & approval - explicit or otherwise - of these acts go?
And no, I have no idea what all the Microsoft stuff is about.
In the same way that Youtube has meant that people no longer want to watch feature-length movies any more.
I know this is a crazy statement to make but there is actually room in the market for more than one kind of thing. You can have 5 minute long iPhone games and pointless 1-click "social" games as well as, you know, games that have some depth and character to them.
Personally, I like long games that have time to build a decent plot and develop the characters.
I think that's a little disingenuous; the iPlayer was pretty much single-handedly responsible for bringing streaming of broadcast TV to the UK. Whether the technology was revolutionary or not, it was still pioneering in context and has been massively successful.
If they tried to do anything untoward with the data they collected, without your explicit permission, the ICO would likely hit them with rather substantial fines (I believe the current cap is £500,000 per infringement), so I wouldn't be too concerned about it. Especially when you consider that the same could be said for *any* application that has access to GPS on your phone.
Chiropractors are fine for dealing with back pain, shitty posture and associated issues, what's bullshit are those who claim to be able to fix all kinds of unrelated ailments via chiropracty or those who claim that everything you do every day causes harm to your body that can only be fixed by chiropracty, such as the GP.
This.
Even 2 years ago he should have been able to crack a WEP password in matter of minutes.
Ditto, although at least this time they're promising profile support for Apps accounts "within the next couple of months" rather than the previously nebulous "coming soon".
Interestingly, if you try and sign into the Android + app with an Apps account and then follow the "Learn More" links it points you to an Apps help page on how to enable it, it just happens to be a 404 at the moment.
Just like how my house is only 3 years old, because that's when I moved into it. I mean sure, it was built in the 60s, but that hardly counts.
Which version?
The ironing is delicious.
There never will be an SP3 for XP 64-bit; it's based on the Server 2003 64-bit kernel and co-opts its service packs and updates.
My understanding is that its support ends on 08/04/2014 (UK date format, so April 2014).
I heard that Google employees rifle through your stuff while you're sleeping and then post the information they find onto your Google+ profile even if you haven't created one.
As a rule, digital watches tend to look cheap and tacky, I've had analog watches of one sort or another for most of the last 15 years (nothing too fancy, all sub-£100) and they just look better.
I *think* it's supposed to be:
We said above that pdf.js renders the Tracemonkey paper "perfectly" if you're running a Firefox nightly on a Windows 7 machine where Firefox can use Direct2D and DirectWrite, if you ignore what appears to be a bug in DirectWrite's font hinting.
If you read the article (I know, I know)...
pdf.js has now reached the point where a significant portion of its issues are actually browser-rendering-engine bugs, or missing features. Finding these gaps and filling some of them has been one of the biggest returns on our investment in pdf.js so far.
The problem isn't what they've written so much as the browsers not being able to support the latest and greatest HTML5/JS functionality.