What? allowing you to actually see your personal ID? thats so last decade, nowdays they just take your finger and iris scan and keep it all locked up in a database (McDonalds can see it, not you).
Theres no way they can do this transparently - the obvious method people think of, man-in-the-middle could easily be thwarted if the two callers just read eachother a portion of their key/hash at the start of the call, try man-in-the-middling that! This is only barely viable on proper VoIP services. Things like skype and open source programs as well as encrypted email and IM arn't going to be touchable by them.
Linux is all about choice and like it or not most Windows users are stuck in this method and if they are going to switch to linux they'll want it to be just as easy. When i want some sort of program ill want it now, i don't want to waste time reading man pages, finding dependencies, watching builds or copying and pasting errors into google. Sure i could be downloading any kind of trojan program from a random website, it could delete all my data or try and phone home with my passwords but hell, i live on the edge. Production servers are of course a different matter. Personally i love the OSX way of just dragging an icon out of an archive and into your apps directory. The ideal way is to have distros do all the work like you say, but distros will never have every program - theres always something im gonna want to install that doesn't come in the package or binary that i need, one big autopackaging system is idea.
So wait, in US politics its acceptable to raise and waste billions of dollars on stupid, totally biased commercials for parties, and auxiliary organisations that use some tax loop-hole to make even more biased commercials that rarely provide any insight to the arguments, but blogging is not on? The only people who really win in all this are the media companies, and lets not get started about 'campaign contributions', bribery and 'e' voting, the FEC shouldn't even be looking at the internet with all these problems.
TFTs have random contrast/brightness depending where you stand and cheap digital cameras (especially when someone forgot to white balance) don't help either...
Ok just saw it, that explains why they got fired for leaking it - it was just so so bad, Billie Piper is just wrong, totally wrong. was her acting worse than the script? Im not sure..
"I bet the idea also ignites creativity in many who wonder how they could insert the guts of small MP3 players such as the iPod Shuffle into various objects."
I bet that idea will be realised fully in the near future when the only way to transfer mp3's and other files around will be by inserting them into your anus and hoping RIAA customs control doesnt hear when it starts playing Bob Dylan out of your ass..
"At the moment in the UK, sex selection is only permitted if there are strict medical reasons. This could be because there is a serious sex-linked disorder in the family, such as Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy."
Great, a law that makes perfect sense and we're gonna screw it up. The right wing in me says that I don't trust the masses to make that sort of decision especially when some cultures (no names) have particular preferences as to which sex is born the most. The left wing part of me says its none of my business to decide how people procreate, its not likely to affect me. The problem is that we risk ending up with some stupid 'quota' system where people are told "sorry you can only have x many boys or girls".
I think the effect would be scarier if they silently followed someone and then surrounded them and one by one took out their mirror and pointed it at them. It would make a great horror B movie.
Its not going to get any better, flashy gimmicky webdesign is in demand and web-standards are slipping out the window. The only solution I can see is to just increase the screen size and resolution of phones, the screens are a bit too small anyway.
Unfortunately we've already accepted DRM, DVD's have it (and restrict when you can fast forward), Games consoles have it, your iPod has it, even mobile phones have it (network lock-in) all these things are widely accepted and while most (all?) have been cracked and have generated black-market support industries, its only a matter of time before hardware starts coming with hardcore protection - tamper proof chips that break if you try anything, DRM thats actually designed by competent engineers (wtf?) and real restrictions on what you can do.
At the moment the industry is fucking their cake and eating it too - not only do they have DRM but they also have the DMCA to stop you even attempting to break it, they're being greedy at the expense of my liberty and customer satisfaction they only need ONE of those two things, if that. Personally I believe that I have the right to do whatever the hell I want with my property in my home (building nuclear weapons etc not included obviously).
The problem is that most of the time these idiots end up hurting other people - eg their kids (yes yes i know, don't let them procreate) or random passers by. When an idiot crashes their car for example, they are usually protected by their layers of fat and car impact zones, where as the person they hit is killed. When they can't call 911, its usually their kid that ends up dying, when they release toxic chemicals somewhere stupid, its everyone else that ingests them. No, you have to think carefully about each safety label you remove and each law you don't make - will it just help idiots make Darwin awards or will it affect someone else?
Theres an extra level of complexity added when people move - there was a case where a mother called 911 when her kid stopped breathing and she transferred through about 3 call centers before her kid died because there was some confusion about her address in the databases. There was some legislation to mandate GPS in cell phones if i remember right?
I think it would be useful if there was some number (say 922) that people could call that would let them know that their phone would go to the correct call center in an emergency and that the call center would know their address, the problem is that people are lazy and 8/10 homes will never check, sometimes socialism is needed to stop idiots hurting themselves lol.
This really is the stupid way to do things, young kids (say up to 8 or 10) only need a small selection of websites they do not need to traverse the wide sea of knowledge on the internet until they are old enough to deal with whatever they find there. Websites that are suitable for kids should apply for a rating that proves they are suitable, then a list of good sites can be compiled and if you want you can set your ISP to only allow good sites. The advantage of this is as follows:
-'Bad' sites may try and get themselves off a black list by constantly adding alias addresses.
-There is NO way to get all the 'bad' sites on a list, it only takes 1 site to 'ruin' a childs life.
I was given full net access, to my room, no restrictions, when I was about 13. I'd say if you can't handle being able to see what you want to see at 13, you can't handle life.
Welcome to the UK, you'll find everything here 3 times more expensive, don't forget to stop by our capital city, the second most expensive city in the world, great.
Very true, its perhaps one of the most right-wing things on TV, the whole hour is basically police propaganda - ie the cops absolutely always win, the suspect never even manages to kill themselves and no matter how petty the crime its always blown out of proportions eg the guy takes of and smashes his car at 90mph will 5 cops chase him down over a tiny bag of weed, break out the fire arms and kick him down to the ground, awful police work and mind-sets but GREAT TV!
Slashdot Mirror
What exactly is so secret that it requires a whole 40GB?
Shhhhhhhhhh!
jeez why don't you just hold a sign up for them?
What? allowing you to actually see your personal ID? thats so last decade, nowdays they just take your finger and iris scan and keep it all locked up in a database (McDonalds can see it, not you).
Theres no way they can do this transparently - the obvious method people think of, man-in-the-middle could easily be thwarted if the two callers just read eachother a portion of their key/hash at the start of the call, try man-in-the-middling that! This is only barely viable on proper VoIP services. Things like skype and open source programs as well as encrypted email and IM arn't going to be touchable by them.
Linux is all about choice and like it or not most Windows users are stuck in this method and if they are going to switch to linux they'll want it to be just as easy. When i want some sort of program ill want it now, i don't want to waste time reading man pages, finding dependencies, watching builds or copying and pasting errors into google. Sure i could be downloading any kind of trojan program from a random website, it could delete all my data or try and phone home with my passwords but hell, i live on the edge. Production servers are of course a different matter. Personally i love the OSX way of just dragging an icon out of an archive and into your apps directory. The ideal way is to have distros do all the work like you say, but distros will never have every program - theres always something im gonna want to install that doesn't come in the package or binary that i need, one big autopackaging system is idea.
So wait, in US politics its acceptable to raise and waste billions of dollars on stupid, totally biased commercials for parties, and auxiliary organisations that use some tax loop-hole to make even more biased commercials that rarely provide any insight to the arguments, but blogging is not on? The only people who really win in all this are the media companies, and lets not get started about 'campaign contributions', bribery and 'e' voting, the FEC shouldn't even be looking at the internet with all these problems.
TFTs have random contrast/brightness depending where you stand and cheap digital cameras (especially when someone forgot to white balance) don't help either...
Battary life = teh sUx0r
Ok just saw it, that explains why they got fired for leaking it - it was just so so bad, Billie Piper is just wrong, totally wrong. was her acting worse than the script? Im not sure..
"I bet the idea also ignites creativity in many who wonder how they could insert the guts of small MP3 players such as the iPod Shuffle into various objects."
I bet that idea will be realised fully in the near future when the only way to transfer mp3's and other files around will be by inserting them into your anus and hoping RIAA customs control doesnt hear when it starts playing Bob Dylan out of your ass..
My mail goes right through the letter box in my front door.. problem solved?
Seriously, how much academic stuff did you learn vs. life stuff?
Which is one of the many reasons why student halls suck donkey balls.
"At the moment in the UK, sex selection is only permitted if there are strict medical reasons. This could be because there is a serious sex-linked disorder in the family, such as Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy."
Great, a law that makes perfect sense and we're gonna screw it up. The right wing in me says that I don't trust the masses to make that sort of decision especially when some cultures (no names) have particular preferences as to which sex is born the most. The left wing part of me says its none of my business to decide how people procreate, its not likely to affect me. The problem is that we risk ending up with some stupid 'quota' system where people are told "sorry you can only have x many boys or girls".
The BBC are currently firing about 2000 people (job cuts) so they could easily take their pick from there...
I think the effect would be scarier if they silently followed someone and then surrounded them and one by one took out their mirror and pointed it at them. It would make a great horror B movie.
I don't believe that stat, i bet they included email from companies you've previously done business with - eg amazon special offers etc.
Its not going to get any better, flashy gimmicky webdesign is in demand and web-standards are slipping out the window. The only solution I can see is to just increase the screen size and resolution of phones, the screens are a bit too small anyway.
Unfortunately we've already accepted DRM, DVD's have it (and restrict when you can fast forward), Games consoles have it, your iPod has it, even mobile phones have it (network lock-in) all these things are widely accepted and while most (all?) have been cracked and have generated black-market support industries, its only a matter of time before hardware starts coming with hardcore protection - tamper proof chips that break if you try anything, DRM thats actually designed by competent engineers (wtf?) and real restrictions on what you can do.
At the moment the industry is fucking their cake and eating it too - not only do they have DRM but they also have the DMCA to stop you even attempting to break it, they're being greedy at the expense of my liberty and customer satisfaction they only need ONE of those two things, if that. Personally I believe that I have the right to do whatever the hell I want with my property in my home (building nuclear weapons etc not included obviously).
The problem is that most of the time these idiots end up hurting other people - eg their kids (yes yes i know, don't let them procreate) or random passers by. When an idiot crashes their car for example, they are usually protected by their layers of fat and car impact zones, where as the person they hit is killed. When they can't call 911, its usually their kid that ends up dying, when they release toxic chemicals somewhere stupid, its everyone else that ingests them. No, you have to think carefully about each safety label you remove and each law you don't make - will it just help idiots make Darwin awards or will it affect someone else?
Theres an extra level of complexity added when people move - there was a case where a mother called 911 when her kid stopped breathing and she transferred through about 3 call centers before her kid died because there was some confusion about her address in the databases. There was some legislation to mandate GPS in cell phones if i remember right?
I think it would be useful if there was some number (say 922) that people could call that would let them know that their phone would go to the correct call center in an emergency and that the call center would know their address, the problem is that people are lazy and 8/10 homes will never check, sometimes socialism is needed to stop idiots hurting themselves lol.
This really is the stupid way to do things, young kids (say up to 8 or 10) only need a small selection of websites they do not need to traverse the wide sea of knowledge on the internet until they are old enough to deal with whatever they find there. Websites that are suitable for kids should apply for a rating that proves they are suitable, then a list of good sites can be compiled and if you want you can set your ISP to only allow good sites. The advantage of this is as follows:
-'Bad' sites may try and get themselves off a black list by constantly adding alias addresses.
-There is NO way to get all the 'bad' sites on a list, it only takes 1 site to 'ruin' a childs life.
I was given full net access, to my room, no restrictions, when I was about 13. I'd say if you can't handle being able to see what you want to see at 13, you can't handle life.
Sounds like Iraq then?
Flame and denial that US sold Iraq WMDs in 3..2..1..
Welcome to the UK, you'll find everything here 3 times more expensive, don't forget to stop by our capital city, the second most expensive city in the world, great.
Very true, its perhaps one of the most right-wing things on TV, the whole hour is basically police propaganda - ie the cops absolutely always win, the suspect never even manages to kill themselves and no matter how petty the crime its always blown out of proportions eg the guy takes of and smashes his car at 90mph will 5 cops chase him down over a tiny bag of weed, break out the fire arms and kick him down to the ground, awful police work and mind-sets but GREAT TV!