The principles of demolitions are pretty similar - you destroy the supports of the building causing it to collapse down on top of itself. The WTC towers suffered a similar failure only the primary cause was a combination of damage, stress and weight of material from above that caused the supports to fail, rather than controlled explosions.
I've been involved over the last couple of months with implementing fixed disk, removable media & email encryption at an NHS trust in the UK and the amount of complaints and stupid problems we've had from users is astounding.
Most of them go straight to one of the directors to complain, before kindly informing IT that they've done it, so we'd better hurry up and fix the issue. Then staff go out of their way to find ways around the encryption, exerting far more effort than it would have taken just to use it in the first place.
Thankfully we've got a CEO & IT director who don't want to be the ones going on TV to explain how they lost X thousand unencrypted patient records and so are making sure the policy is enforced, but I can easily see how "weaker" management would allow lapses to keep staff happy and risk this kind of data leakage.
Previously if you wanted to maintain SSL for the whole session you had to login via https://mail.google.com/ otherwise it dropped back to http after login. Now you can set it to always use SSL regardless of the URL you visit it from.
It's not so much that you don't pay the license fee but that the various 3rd parties who produce programming for the BBC don't want their foreign market profits affected by allowing people outside the UK to view their shows on the BBC website, rather than on their 'local' TV stations.
My programming skills are poor, I can write enough to get by in a few languages, mostly scripting, but that's about it.
However, I use a great deal of FOSS apps day to day and will sometimes suggest improvements to the authors. I don't expect them to implement them, but it would be nice if they took them on board and *considered* them for their next release rather than dismissing them and suggesting that I do it myself.
Just because I don't have the skills to make the changes myself doesn't mean that my suggestions to improve the program are any less valid. RDTabs is a good example of a program (Free but not Open) where the author takes account of suggestions from its users in order to improve it - I highly recommend it to anyone who administers Windows servers.
Does anyone really download Cam copies of movies these days? Especially for dark, special effect-filled, high motion movies like Dark Knight where most Cams are basically unwatchable.
I'd be surprised if Cam copies had *any* actual impact on movie ticket revenues; I know if I was so desperate to see a movie that I couldn't wait for the DVD release (Or DVD rip), I'd pay the £6 to watch it in the cinema in decent quality on a big screen.
I know that last time I put a new install of XP SP2 straight onto the internet without firewall or antivirus (A tiny oversight - plugged in the wrong cable) it was owned in under 5 minutes without any interaction on my part.
I prefer to think of it as our fine tradition of having legislation sanity checked by a bunch of people who aren't primarily motivated by re-election and "making their place in history".
I find I'm much more productive when I'm out of the office and therefore not being interrupted every 30 seconds by someone who wants me to do something for them.
My reaction was the same first time through, but after watching it a second time and listening to the commentary, I really warmed to it.
There's an awful lot going on and the plot is pretty complex; I really don't think you can get a full appreciation for it on a single run through - not that is necessarily a good thing.
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The principles of demolitions are pretty similar - you destroy the supports of the building causing it to collapse down on top of itself. The WTC towers suffered a similar failure only the primary cause was a combination of damage, stress and weight of material from above that caused the supports to fail, rather than controlled explosions.
To be fair, 15 pages is nothing to most lawyers.
User resistance.
I've been involved over the last couple of months with implementing fixed disk, removable media & email encryption at an NHS trust in the UK and the amount of complaints and stupid problems we've had from users is astounding.
Most of them go straight to one of the directors to complain, before kindly informing IT that they've done it, so we'd better hurry up and fix the issue. Then staff go out of their way to find ways around the encryption, exerting far more effort than it would have taken just to use it in the first place.
Thankfully we've got a CEO & IT director who don't want to be the ones going on TV to explain how they lost X thousand unencrypted patient records and so are making sure the policy is enforced, but I can easily see how "weaker" management would allow lapses to keep staff happy and risk this kind of data leakage.
I could care less about your grammar Nazism.
Gmail always uses SSL for logins.
Previously if you wanted to maintain SSL for the whole session you had to login via https://mail.google.com/ otherwise it dropped back to http after login. Now you can set it to always use SSL regardless of the URL you visit it from.
It's not so much that you don't pay the license fee but that the various 3rd parties who produce programming for the BBC don't want their foreign market profits affected by allowing people outside the UK to view their shows on the BBC website, rather than on their 'local' TV stations.
The BBC is *not* government run. They are publically funded, but the government has no direct control over their output.
a built in Wacom digitizer just to the right of the trackpad
Ideal unless you're left handed and therefore cursed to spend all your time catching the trackpad while trying to write/draw anything.
My programming skills are poor, I can write enough to get by in a few languages, mostly scripting, but that's about it.
However, I use a great deal of FOSS apps day to day and will sometimes suggest improvements to the authors. I don't expect them to implement them, but it would be nice if they took them on board and *considered* them for their next release rather than dismissing them and suggesting that I do it myself.
Just because I don't have the skills to make the changes myself doesn't mean that my suggestions to improve the program are any less valid. RDTabs is a good example of a program (Free but not Open) where the author takes account of suggestions from its users in order to improve it - I highly recommend it to anyone who administers Windows servers.
Does anyone really download Cam copies of movies these days? Especially for dark, special effect-filled, high motion movies like Dark Knight where most Cams are basically unwatchable.
I'd be surprised if Cam copies had *any* actual impact on movie ticket revenues; I know if I was so desperate to see a movie that I couldn't wait for the DVD release (Or DVD rip), I'd pay the £6 to watch it in the cinema in decent quality on a big screen.
So he's going to change all your passwords *and* run off with your wife?
No, but if you then show off said artwork claiming it to be your own then it does make you a bit of a dick.
Presumably the patch has been nuked for Stolen.Crack?
Or to put it another way:
"I may be a fucking moron, but at least I'm consistantly a fucking moron".
I know that last time I put a new install of XP SP2 straight onto the internet without firewall or antivirus (A tiny oversight - plugged in the wrong cable) it was owned in under 5 minutes without any interaction on my part.
You obviously don't have any fluorescent tubes where you work.
Because it's there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Codemasters_games
The Dizzy Series
Colin McRae series
Micro Machines
Operation Flashpoint
Overlord
The TOCA series
It's a good back-catalogue, though I was always more a fan of Bullfrog before EA ate them.
I prefer to think of it as our fine tradition of having legislation sanity checked by a bunch of people who aren't primarily motivated by re-election and "making their place in history".
I find I'm much more productive when I'm out of the office and therefore not being interrupted every 30 seconds by someone who wants me to do something for them.
Penny.Arcade.Adventures.on.the.Rain.-.Slick.Precipice.of.Darkness.Episode.1.v1.0-TE
:)
Doesn't work too well, does it
Lucky guess?
The Java installer just needs a "Previous versions of the JVM were found on your PC, please select any that you wish to keep" option.
My reaction was the same first time through, but after watching it a second time and listening to the commentary, I really warmed to it.
There's an awful lot going on and the plot is pretty complex; I really don't think you can get a full appreciation for it on a single run through - not that is necessarily a good thing.