...anymore. It stopped being British Rail about 15 years ago when it was privatised and split among Conservative party donors (and they expect people to vote for them again! idiots...).
The article doesn't say, so it's reasonable for someone non-British to assume it's still called that, but it's probably Network Rail (formerly Railtrack) doing this. They are a now part-re-nationalised company that looks purely after the rails, stations and other non-profit making infrastructure. The private rail companies still own and (sometimes) run the trains and are doing very nicely thank you very much Mr Major (A stunning example of how privatisation actually works: Public funding, Private profit).
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Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban.
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which almost certainly show the Americans as the "good guys" and the communist North as the "bad guys"
Actually, BFV is pretty even-handed in how it deals with this (the developers are Swedish not American). At no point is either side referred to as good or bad, (except in-game, from an enemy viewpoint) and China is not mentioned anywhere (though perhaps that's the problem. The version of events differs from the Official Chinese version).
Possibly though EA's US-based marketing machine may have been handling it differently.
I believe one of your more famous citizens, one Benjamin Franklin, was, although not a journalist as such, well known for publishing his own views as fact and printing gossip as truth (though not in a direct fashion; psuedonyms were du rigeur), both leading to a very powerful social position for him and his friends, and doing down those he disagreed with.
You have a good point, but you are misguided in thinking that journalists exist to serve the public good. They only do that when it suits them and their employers.
Is this not common knowledge in the US? (the suing over seeds bit) If not, perhaps the European reaction to GM crops is more understandable to some americans now.
It wasn't just about having modified crops, it was about the whole way it worked: They're not modifiying crops to make them better, they're modifiying them so they sell more of their pesticide.
and how many non-stupid people out there still have this access?
After all, they only caught him after he tried to sell the stuff, not through any security monitoring.
The smart money would have been on selling the demi moore etc pics; what secret service agent is going to investigate where some paparazzi pics came from?
I run a small postfix server using the following RBLs: opm.blitzed.org, list.dsbl.org, bl.spamcop.net, sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, bl.technovision.dk plus some basic reject rules: reject_non_fqdn_sender, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unauth_destination, reject_unauth_pipelining, reject_invalid_hostname
I get between 500 and 600 rejected mails a week and around 150 delivered mails.
Assuming all the rejected mail is spam (and I really wouldn't know if it's not:), that's 75-80% connections rejected. Measuring the % of actual spam stopped is hard. I personally only get 1-2 a day, but I've a low volume account and I can't tell how much of that rejected mail is destined for me (not without some fancy pants scripting anyway).
Yeah, I have 20+ folders though; I'm not going to do that every time I want to check my mail. I'm not saying it doesn't work, just that it doesn't work properly.
The attachment thing could well be the imap implementation. I use courier (not exchange) cos that was the easiest to set-up at the time. I was, and remain, a reluctant user however: the developers are a bunch of uber-g33ks, with their heads very far up their own arses. Anyone know if there's a better server around now?
Yeah, that's a very good example of why it's not ready yet.
I consider this pretty serious bug. Would it have killed them to wait a month to put this and all the similar fixes in the UI?
If you were using server-side filters you would know. It can't pick up new messages from any folders except the inbox.
Amongst other minor problems, you also can't read a mail without having to download any attachments first.
I agree with the grandparent post, TB is a fine app, but the recent release schedule has been forced, to say the least, it needs more time to mature, and some of the bugs the grandparent mentioned desperately need to be fixed, preferably BEFORE new features are added.
No... but the homosexuals aren't a powerful political faction trying to force everyone else to be homosexual. Nor are they advocating obliterating everyone who doesn't agree with homosexuality.
BTW, surely political correctness means not disparaging anyone? How is disparaging religion PC?
Sorry, what IS the difference between a Computer Programmer, an Application Software Engineer and a System Software Engineer? I've probably been around too long and not paid enough attention, but don't they all program computers? Are App Software Eng and Sys Software Eng different degrees?
This seems to be part of the whole problem; breaking programming into tiny, tiny little niches. "Oh, you're a system engineer... we need an application engineer. You can't do this".
I would be interested in numbers comparing programmers to managers or outsource rates to executive salaries however...
Whoah, they took the HD from a server in the UK and handed it over to the FBI!?! With no court orders?!
If TV has taught me nothing (and it hasn't), this shit happens all the time in the US; but to get a company in the UK to bend over for a US agency is something, even if it does have an american parent.
I guess the moral of the story is if you're worried about this thing happening to your servers make sure you host with a non-US company, even outside the US.
What I want to know is, when is someone going to patent the process of patenting processes?
That will really screw the USPO over. Unless they can prove prior art. Which they almost certainly can. (Although the way they issue patents these days they probably won't notice until it's too late).
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The article doesn't say, so it's reasonable for someone non-British to assume it's still called that, but it's probably Network Rail (formerly Railtrack) doing this. They are a now part-re-nationalised company that looks purely after the rails, stations and other non-profit making infrastructure. The private rail companies still own and (sometimes) run the trains and are doing very nicely thank you very much Mr Major (A stunning example of how privatisation actually works: Public funding, Private profit).
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ah, but I am a carpenter
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You have a good point, but you are misguided in thinking that journalists exist to serve the public good. They only do that when it suits them and their employers.
good book
Is this not common knowledge in the US? (the suing over seeds bit) If not, perhaps the European reaction to GM crops is more understandable to some americans now.
It wasn't just about having modified crops, it was about the whole way it worked: They're not modifiying crops to make them better, they're modifiying them so they sell more of their pesticide.
At least that was the issue for me anyway...
well thanks for confirming everyone's opinion of you
How did this get modded insightful? This guy has obviously barely RTFA nevermind watched the show...
After all, they only caught him after he tried to sell the stuff, not through any security monitoring.
The smart money would have been on selling the demi moore etc pics; what secret service agent is going to investigate where some paparazzi pics came from?
That's the Heart of Gold??!
It's a little smaller than I imagined it...
By RBLs I obviously meant DNS BLs.... doh...
I get between 500 and 600 rejected mails a week and around 150 delivered mails. Assuming all the rejected mail is spam (and I really wouldn't know if it's not :), that's 75-80% connections rejected.
Measuring the % of actual spam stopped is hard. I personally only get 1-2 a day, but I've a low volume account and I can't tell how much of that rejected mail is destined for me (not without some fancy pants scripting anyway).
How often does google update though? I get 50% 404s
I'm not saying it doesn't work, just that it doesn't work properly.
The attachment thing could well be the imap implementation. I use courier (not exchange) cos that was the easiest to set-up at the time. I was, and remain, a reluctant user however: the developers are a bunch of uber-g33ks, with their heads very far up their own arses. Anyone know if there's a better server around now?
Yeah, that's a very good example of why it's not ready yet. I consider this pretty serious bug. Would it have killed them to wait a month to put this and all the similar fixes in the UI?
I agree with the grandparent post, TB is a fine app, but the recent release schedule has been forced, to say the least, it needs more time to mature, and some of the bugs the grandparent mentioned desperately need to be fixed, preferably BEFORE new features are added.
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Most people are entrenched in their own particular viewpoint and can't be swayed by simple argument.
Those that aren't are the idiots who use political TV ads to decide which way to vote and they probably don't engage in discussions at all.
Copyright IS in the public interest. Cartels are not. The RIAA is a cartel. A "real" democracy would not allow it to exist.
BTW, surely political correctness means not disparaging anyone? How is disparaging religion PC?
This seems to be part of the whole problem; breaking programming into tiny, tiny little niches. "Oh, you're a system engineer... we need an application engineer. You can't do this".
I would be interested in numbers comparing programmers to managers or outsource rates to executive salaries however...
If TV has taught me nothing (and it hasn't), this shit happens all the time in the US; but to get a company in the UK to bend over for a US agency is something, even if it does have an american parent.
I guess the moral of the story is if you're worried about this thing happening to your servers make sure you host with a non-US company, even outside the US.
What I want to know is, when is someone going to patent the process of patenting processes?
That will really screw the USPO over. Unless they can prove prior art. Which they almost certainly can.
(Although the way they issue patents these days they probably won't notice until it's too late).
Market forces! Hurrah!