The Register has established that the woman served with the first section 49 notice, as part of an animal rights extremism investigation, was not one of those convicted for failing to comply. She was later convicted and jailed on blackmail charges.
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Sir Christopher did not report whether prosecutions failed or are pending against the five charged but not convicted in the period covered by his report.
The Register has established that the woman served with the first section 49 notice, as part of an animal rights extremism investigation, was not one of those convicted for failing to comply. She was later convicted and jailed on blackmail charges.
There is actually a series problem with animal rights extremists in the UK. Some of them are terrorists in every sense of the word.
Except that apparently Azure customers do have to pay attention to where their data is stored?! The article made it sound like there'll be some manual work involved by Microsofts customers for migrating their apps to the San Antonio datacenter. Doesn't sound very cloudlike to me...
Is anyone at all working on something that is not as loosy-goosy and hokey as javascript for client-side computing?
Why yes, yes they are. Note that these technologies are targeted precisely at weaknesses of JavaScript whilst retaining the things people like about the web - the security, the lack of installation/uninstallation, speed of download, the flexible rendering engine etc.
Yeah, her response to her situation is stupid, but then the fact that society pushed her into this situation (and it did) is also stupid.
I know exactly how it is. I was told my whole life leading up to university how vital, how critical, how life-defining it was to get into a good university. How when I was at university I would be studying only the subject I was passionate about under competent teachers. How university was a magical place full of parties and frivolity and fun (and work too but not exclusively so like the later years of high school were).
So, I went, because I believed that many companies would refuse to hire a computer programmer without a CS degree. It was awful. I hated it - worst three years of my life. The staff were incompetent. The material irrelevant. The work pressure insane. The part of life that is actually called "going to work" is one giant doss in comparison to that. And I ended up working for Google, who do not in fact require a CS degree to work in engineering.
Meanwhile, my brother who wanted to become a musician in the composing/producing side decided not to go to university. You'd be amazed at how much pressure the school put him under. Special meetings with the headmaster. Parents summoned to the school. "Compulsory" events for people applying to university that he couldn't go to, so was just left on his own doing nothing for an hour. But it was the right thing - he was entirely self taught, knew studio work backwards and so left school at 18 to pursue a career in music. Now he works on TV shows, national ballet, records for pop stars and Hollywood movies (his work is in the 2012 disaster movie:-). Not bad for a 23 year old! Many of his friends who went to university meanwhile have achieved basically nothing.
This was in the UK but the "university disease" is the same in many places.
Consider the simple example of two equally good programmers:
- One is quiet and reserved: the kind of guy that finds a critical bug, fixes it and checks it in source control without telling anybody
- The other one is loud and outgoing: he'll tell to whomever is willing to listen that he found a critical bug, proceed to fix it and check the fix in source control and then let everybody know that the issue is fixed.
I agree with your points, but this example is not good, because communication is a pretty essential part of working in a team and all good programmers work in teams. Obviously boasting about fixing a bug isn't good, but checking in a fix to a bug without telling anyone? That almost by definition makes these programmers not equally good. Quite apart from the issue Nursie raises about how that programmer expects to get recognised for their work, he/she simultaneously managed to prevent anybody from learning from that bug, they avoided code review (!) of their fix and they ensured that any processes which exist for delivering critical bug fixes to customers didn't work.
Generally, over communication can be annoying and timewasting but under-communication can lead to incredibly huge screwups. Better safe than sorry!
You can already run unsigned binaries on an XBox 360, just go download the XNA dev kit. You can run unsigned binaries on a PS3 too, go install Linux.
There seems to be a mass delusion on Slashdot that there are armies of wannabe home-brew console developers out there, when 99.9% of people who get their console modded want to play pirate games. End of story. And yeah, I think inconveniencing a tiny minority of people from selling (!) modded consoles is alright to encourage better and more numerous games, so sue me. If you want a 100% open platform, buy a PC.
The PIN is the result of a cryptographic function on your account number. You can customize it because the card stores (in the clear) the offset from the cards true "base pin".
So, the crap that has gone on in the name of "freedom from terrorists" is pretty disgusting to everyone I think, American or not. This does not change the fact that America is not and never has been a "military dictatorship", that's absurd. Do you want to know what world domination under a military dictatorship looks like? Read a history of the British Empire.
Well yeah, but you can write a game for the xbox360 and get it almost automatically signed by using the community games process. So it's not quite a valid comparison.
Why would the lay person have been rummaging around rumour sites for leaked alpha builds anyway? And don't you think they might have re-evaluated when the final awesome product came out, they play demos, read reviews etc?
When I started working at Apple, a colleague in product marketing explained to me exactly what the secrecy was worth to the company, in dollar terms.
Perhaps I'm being too literal but this argument makes no sense. First you say it was explained to you in dollar terms. Then you say you can't buy the front page of Time, so by definition it doesn't have a price in dollars.
Whilst we're comparing things which can't be priced, what did cost did the secrecy have to Apple? I read that Apple keeps its secrets by not trusting its employees and erecting internal walls everywhere. That must have some cost in lost opportunities, worse internal communication and the effort involved in restricting the flow of information.
It's worth noting that this isn't the only way to keep secrets. I work for Google which is also quite secretive (I wish it wasn't), but internally it's very open and I can go look up and read about pretty much any project we're doing, read what almost any employee is doing with their time and so on. Chrome was in use by thousands of employees for months before it launched and it did not leak. Whilst this isn't quite as good as not having secrets IMHO, it does show that you can get it at relatively low internal cost. It works at Google because the employees are very loyal, and understand the price of abusing the trust placed in them (ie, less openness). I hear that Apple employees are also loyal to Steve, I guess they'd have to be to tolerate his perfectionism. So why wouldn't it work there too?
Actually I believe one of the strongest correlations is with the prevalence of leaded petrol. The fact that heavy metals can cause violence and mental degeneration has been well known for a long time, and the 25 years preceding 1990 were notable primarily for a massive expansion in car travel and trucking based on leaded petrol. Lead exposure in children is highly correlated with violence when they grow up. Levels of violence started to slowly drop once leaded petrol started to be phased out and this has been observed across all developed countries, with Britain one of the last to phase out tetra-ethyl lead and one of the last to enjoy a drop in violent crime.
According to the governments documentation on these schemes (which makes no mention of cameras, by the way) the 24 hour supervision is used when the parents are indeed one step away from having the kids taken away from them. Having the kids taken is the stick used to try and improve their behavior.
Except that Google fixed Android with an over the air update much faster than that. I got my security update a few days ago, was wondering what it was for. I guess now I know. How can Apple be so far behind on this?
Mental association has a lot to do with it. I actually find women between 30 and 40 more attractive than women in their twenties (i'm 25). I think this is because I've learned through experience than (single) older women are more independent and easier to flirt with, so my brain now finds them more physically attractive as well. Presumably at some point this will change.
Maybe so. But seriously, at some point, people have to start following the law.
I mean, campaigning for the law to change is fine. I think nearly all of us would support some kind of copyright reform. Even me, and I am by no means opposed to DRM or the idea of copyright, but reconsidering the duration seems reasonable to me.
But in any civilized society the rule of law must hold. Yes, even when the law is stupid. This is why we have courts that can strike down bad laws. At some point, I have to sympathize with the RIAA - they are in fact just trying to get the current laws enforced. Doesn't seem too unreasonable. They face people like Nesson who blatantly ignore the law (since when is ignorance or "i don't agree" going to let you get away with that?), opponents who lie under oath (jammie thomas), a widespread belief that they don't deserve to get paid for their work, and more. I don't personally understand why these sorts of court actions need to be secret, but I assume there is a reason for it. Nesson is just being an ass if he deliberately ignores court orders.
I'm not sure I would describe the Pirate Party of Canada as "serious". Their website appears to contain no manifesto. It does link to the "International Pirate Party" website though, so I looked there... but the section of that website to do with policies simply points you to a web forum where a bunch of people are arguing about what that should be.
That leaves the original Pirate Party of Sweden. What are their policies? At least they do have some. Unfortunately they are self-contradictory and poorly thought out. For instance they believe that copyright should not apply for "non commercial use", ie, file sharing should be free. But what counts as commercial use then? They appear to think that, for example, a musician who writes music for a video game should get paid (and the law would enforce that) but the creators of the video game themselves probably won't get paid, depending on the whims of their customers. That makes absolutely no sense, because then the musician just wouldn't get hired at all. They also want to abolish pharma patents, and their proposed replacement is "government does all research". Somebody needs to study some basic economics, starting with Adam Smith.
It's not uncommon actually. Switzerland developed in the same way. Eventually these countries start to produce their own IP and protecting it makes sense.
That argument only applies for countries which don't produce any copyrighted works of their own, or do so in trivial quantities relative to external markets. That isn't true for any of the countries where the pirate party is popping up.
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You mean like how Echelon caused people to stop doing business with US companies? Right ...
It's in TFA:
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There is actually a series problem with animal rights extremists in the UK. Some of them are terrorists in every sense of the word.
It's a myth that VMM rootkits cannot be detected.
Except that apparently Azure customers do have to pay attention to where their data is stored?! The article made it sound like there'll be some manual work involved by Microsofts customers for migrating their apps to the San Antonio datacenter. Doesn't sound very cloudlike to me ...
Why yes, yes they are. Note that these technologies are targeted precisely at weaknesses of JavaScript whilst retaining the things people like about the web - the security, the lack of installation/uninstallation, speed of download, the flexible rendering engine etc.
... or even better "not getting a good degree from a good university will kill your chances of a career". Who needs carrots when you have sticks?
Yeah, her response to her situation is stupid, but then the fact that society pushed her into this situation (and it did) is also stupid.
I know exactly how it is. I was told my whole life leading up to university how vital, how critical, how life-defining it was to get into a good university. How when I was at university I would be studying only the subject I was passionate about under competent teachers. How university was a magical place full of parties and frivolity and fun (and work too but not exclusively so like the later years of high school were).
So, I went, because I believed that many companies would refuse to hire a computer programmer without a CS degree. It was awful. I hated it - worst three years of my life. The staff were incompetent. The material irrelevant. The work pressure insane. The part of life that is actually called "going to work" is one giant doss in comparison to that. And I ended up working for Google, who do not in fact require a CS degree to work in engineering.
Meanwhile, my brother who wanted to become a musician in the composing/producing side decided not to go to university. You'd be amazed at how much pressure the school put him under. Special meetings with the headmaster. Parents summoned to the school. "Compulsory" events for people applying to university that he couldn't go to, so was just left on his own doing nothing for an hour. But it was the right thing - he was entirely self taught, knew studio work backwards and so left school at 18 to pursue a career in music. Now he works on TV shows, national ballet, records for pop stars and Hollywood movies (his work is in the 2012 disaster movie :-). Not bad for a 23 year old! Many of his friends who went to university meanwhile have achieved basically nothing.
This was in the UK but the "university disease" is the same in many places.
I agree with your points, but this example is not good, because communication is a pretty essential part of working in a team and all good programmers work in teams. Obviously boasting about fixing a bug isn't good, but checking in a fix to a bug without telling anyone? That almost by definition makes these programmers not equally good. Quite apart from the issue Nursie raises about how that programmer expects to get recognised for their work, he/she simultaneously managed to prevent anybody from learning from that bug, they avoided code review (!) of their fix and they ensured that any processes which exist for delivering critical bug fixes to customers didn't work.
Generally, over communication can be annoying and timewasting but under-communication can lead to incredibly huge screwups. Better safe than sorry!
Trusted computing does not and has never had the ability to stop you running arbitrary software. You are spreading FUD.
You can already run unsigned binaries on an XBox 360, just go download the XNA dev kit. You can run unsigned binaries on a PS3 too, go install Linux.
There seems to be a mass delusion on Slashdot that there are armies of wannabe home-brew console developers out there, when 99.9% of people who get their console modded want to play pirate games. End of story. And yeah, I think inconveniencing a tiny minority of people from selling (!) modded consoles is alright to encourage better and more numerous games, so sue me. If you want a 100% open platform, buy a PC.
The PIN is the result of a cryptographic function on your account number. You can customize it because the card stores (in the clear) the offset from the cards true "base pin".
So, the crap that has gone on in the name of "freedom from terrorists" is pretty disgusting to everyone I think, American or not. This does not change the fact that America is not and never has been a "military dictatorship", that's absurd. Do you want to know what world domination under a military dictatorship looks like? Read a history of the British Empire.
Well yeah, but you can write a game for the xbox360 and get it almost automatically signed by using the community games process. So it's not quite a valid comparison.
Why would the lay person have been rummaging around rumour sites for leaked alpha builds anyway? And don't you think they might have re-evaluated when the final awesome product came out, they play demos, read reviews etc?
Perhaps I'm being too literal but this argument makes no sense. First you say it was explained to you in dollar terms. Then you say you can't buy the front page of Time, so by definition it doesn't have a price in dollars.
Whilst we're comparing things which can't be priced, what did cost did the secrecy have to Apple? I read that Apple keeps its secrets by not trusting its employees and erecting internal walls everywhere. That must have some cost in lost opportunities, worse internal communication and the effort involved in restricting the flow of information.
It's worth noting that this isn't the only way to keep secrets. I work for Google which is also quite secretive (I wish it wasn't), but internally it's very open and I can go look up and read about pretty much any project we're doing, read what almost any employee is doing with their time and so on. Chrome was in use by thousands of employees for months before it launched and it did not leak. Whilst this isn't quite as good as not having secrets IMHO, it does show that you can get it at relatively low internal cost. It works at Google because the employees are very loyal, and understand the price of abusing the trust placed in them (ie, less openness). I hear that Apple employees are also loyal to Steve, I guess they'd have to be to tolerate his perfectionism. So why wouldn't it work there too?
Actually I believe one of the strongest correlations is with the prevalence of leaded petrol. The fact that heavy metals can cause violence and mental degeneration has been well known for a long time, and the 25 years preceding 1990 were notable primarily for a massive expansion in car travel and trucking based on leaded petrol. Lead exposure in children is highly correlated with violence when they grow up. Levels of violence started to slowly drop once leaded petrol started to be phased out and this has been observed across all developed countries, with Britain one of the last to phase out tetra-ethyl lead and one of the last to enjoy a drop in violent crime.
According to the governments documentation on these schemes (which makes no mention of cameras, by the way) the 24 hour supervision is used when the parents are indeed one step away from having the kids taken away from them. Having the kids taken is the stick used to try and improve their behavior.
Indeed, you can read about these schemes here. No mention of CCTV anywhere. It's almost certainly just made up.
Except that Google fixed Android with an over the air update much faster than that. I got my security update a few days ago, was wondering what it was for. I guess now I know. How can Apple be so far behind on this?
Mental association has a lot to do with it. I actually find women between 30 and 40 more attractive than women in their twenties (i'm 25). I think this is because I've learned through experience than (single) older women are more independent and easier to flirt with, so my brain now finds them more physically attractive as well. Presumably at some point this will change.
Maybe so. But seriously, at some point, people have to start following the law.
I mean, campaigning for the law to change is fine. I think nearly all of us would support some kind of copyright reform. Even me, and I am by no means opposed to DRM or the idea of copyright, but reconsidering the duration seems reasonable to me.
But in any civilized society the rule of law must hold. Yes, even when the law is stupid. This is why we have courts that can strike down bad laws. At some point, I have to sympathize with the RIAA - they are in fact just trying to get the current laws enforced. Doesn't seem too unreasonable. They face people like Nesson who blatantly ignore the law (since when is ignorance or "i don't agree" going to let you get away with that?), opponents who lie under oath (jammie thomas), a widespread belief that they don't deserve to get paid for their work, and more. I don't personally understand why these sorts of court actions need to be secret, but I assume there is a reason for it. Nesson is just being an ass if he deliberately ignores court orders.
I'm not sure I would describe the Pirate Party of Canada as "serious". Their website appears to contain no manifesto. It does link to the "International Pirate Party" website though, so I looked there ... but the section of that website to do with policies simply points you to a web forum where a bunch of people are arguing about what that should be.
That leaves the original Pirate Party of Sweden. What are their policies? At least they do have some. Unfortunately they are self-contradictory and poorly thought out. For instance they believe that copyright should not apply for "non commercial use", ie, file sharing should be free. But what counts as commercial use then? They appear to think that, for example, a musician who writes music for a video game should get paid (and the law would enforce that) but the creators of the video game themselves probably won't get paid, depending on the whims of their customers. That makes absolutely no sense, because then the musician just wouldn't get hired at all. They also want to abolish pharma patents, and their proposed replacement is "government does all research". Somebody needs to study some basic economics, starting with Adam Smith.
It's not uncommon actually. Switzerland developed in the same way. Eventually these countries start to produce their own IP and protecting it makes sense.
That argument only applies for countries which don't produce any copyrighted works of their own, or do so in trivial quantities relative to external markets. That isn't true for any of the countries where the pirate party is popping up.