There has been a lot of comment about how to pull that off with the limitations of the current GPS.
This new system will in my opinion be designed to have features to support this.
Should haves:
Double blind identification. Your receiver in your car will not be personally identifiable.
Works better in cities with tall buildings
Better accuracy
European control.
Nice to haves:
Downloadable content:
- Congestion alerts
- Emergency Warnings a la radio interupt
A government certified connection signal that must be displayed when they ARE tracking you.
Triangulation compensation with terrestrial mobile masts. If we're gonna have big brother, why not make it accurate?
A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.
- James Lopez [apparently]
I always loved the Haiku that were all the rage a few years back. They did get a little overdone on/., but no more than In Russia and pWn3d. Some more I found on google.
Do you still think this data is already collected?
I did mention telco more than a couple of times.
I do know a thing or two about ISPs though, seeing as you imply I can't =differentiate arse/elbow.
The sky is not falling:
the specific laws will be drawn up with consultation of larger ISPs
The larger switch makers like Cisco should have this level of logging in their product pipeline.
This is not the birth of the internet anymore.
-- ISPs make money now. There may be consolidation into mega-ISPs, but surely the cost of logging cannot be the make or break of this market decision.
-- There are lots of customers to spread this over
-- The UK in particular wouldn't really have much better broadband than BT decided to give if the government hadn't pushed Ofcom so hard to enforce Local Loop Unbundling. So all these extra customers are a reward of sorts.
I know this makes me seem like a cronying fanboi of sorts, but please consider the points I'm making.
Seriously though, how is the law going to deal with the inevitable but accidental data loss of that stuff?
Most of it is anonymised at source via a one way hash. Then the mappings of the hash to the personal data is kept secret.
There's batching and business level stuff you can do to ensure neither are on the same server/in the same safe at the same time.
It is already a criminal offence to look at the data, and the authorities have little way of checking this. They would have to inspect you and catch you out, or have a honeypot.
I'm a little shocked by all the posters thinking that this is a change of what is already happening. all this data is already collected.
Any arguments from telcos who complain about the volumes of data are only using it so that they are not liable if someone arse deletes it.
Under UK privacy laws you have to delete the data identifying the particular person after you're done with the connection and the billing thereof.
Almost all transaction data is anonymised by a one way hash. Say md5sum. All the keys are done this way. Hashing removes the particular identification, and satisfies this. Almost always this hash uses more space than the original data anyways.
telcos use the hashed equivalents to evaluate aggregate data.
The law could ask for a tap and require you to retain those records anyway. These new laws just put into legislation what was already happening, and creating an offence for not doing it properly.
But for other "modes", you are again at the mercy of the existance of the right plugin (or module, or whatever).
You're right. However, there are lots of them that are production quality. Further, dont forget that a lot of the common editing fiddly stuff is taken care of in the default eclipse setup.
Xml, XML Buddy
Perl EPIC
Python PyDev
Ruby RDT
Each page has a home page, community and releases.
Lisp is still best under emacs.
Emacs vs Eclipse: A losing battle
on
The Future of Emacs
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· Score: 5, Insightful
I use emacs everyday. I use Eclipse almost every day with emacs key bindings.
I don't see any line item bugs for "Make Emacs like Eclipse". There should be.
Eclipse kills emacs. Emacs will be relegated to a super niche market if it does not borrow some of the techniques of Eclipse.
Eclipse has many more than the following advantages: Programming domain issues have been thought out. Code gen follows some patterns, and eclipse makes far better use of them that emacs
-- Such advantages as click on a variable to go to its instantiation.
-- Underlining errors
-- sure you CAN spend hours trawling for the modules to do the same for emacs, but that sucks, and yields variable results.
A unified project space is opened up by default. You can see all your files.
-- It takes a while to work out where Speedbar is under emacs and it sucks. Even if it sucks it should be opened by default, like *scratch*
I'm happy to use Emacs everyday. But the reason I use it is:
I finally have a.emacs I'm happy with
You can run it well over ssh
It has emacs keybindings [duh, but important]
These are not enough reasons to bring new emacs users into the project. What do we do if RMS is hit by a bus or the existing emacsers eventually die of old age? Emacs people need to form and take ownership of sub projects around certain problem domains. e.g. Go HERE for Perl Emacs and HERE for XML editing. At the moment all you have is a loose coalition of Perl.com et alia articles.
Not to piss on the parade, but this form of delivery cannot be as good for the environment as a CD delivery.
So try this method out by all means, but sustained delivery like this would be bad. One of the best reasons for delivery over the Internet is that there can be less packaging and production.
For all the people on this post saying "The UN" or "The World" wants this, that is not true.
Much of the rest of the world objects to that but the loudest opponents are countries with a history of censorship and repression, such as China and Iran.
I'm an Australian, living in London. I find the idea of the UN running this very scary. An indepedent american body is far preferable.
The UN have a very chequered history. Seldom do they stand up for the Big Issues. Take as an example the decision to withdraw UN troops from Sinai in 1967 on the wishes of Assad. Take whatever view of the subsequent war you want, but the UN caved in to the demand to remove peacekeepers.
You still need to use CREATE TABLE, INSERTs and the like.
You need to connect to the thing in your code, with the same attendent problems as other connection strings. sqlite has a poor jdbc element, if java's your gig.
There are a couple of versions of sqlite. Be aware of this. There is sqlite and sqlite3. Note the jump there from 1 straight to 3. You'll need different DBD drivers there in Perl.
Also, there is no multiple write capability, so you have to synchrinise on this yourself. Who do you trust to write code for ACID commits? Yourself or say, the Postgres team?.
Where sqlite rocks is where the data is entirely read only, which eats out Mysqls lunch.
Also remember that sqlite and Postgres are not mutually exclusive.
In my sqlite setup, I deploy a sqlite database as a file for the fast read only webservers. Where is this data drawn from? My Postgres database with perl to generate the file. So you can get the UPDATE integrity of Postgres with the blazing speed and compactness of sqlite. This works where your application has discreet state where everything is consistent and you can batch update your sqlite.
You could put this in an unapproved pending queue for Wikipedia, comments on Joel Spolsky's blog or wherever.
But overall 'WHY?' must be the question? Al Quaeda or The Real IRA? They still have their old working communication channels. Also who needs space like this? Space of this amount could be made redundant and available by using GoogleMail, Yahoo and Hotmail in synchrony. If none of those are available, presumably you'd have it on USB key as well.
Unixshell graphs caught my eye
on
Tier One ISPs Dying
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· Score: 2, Informative
I don't work there, or own any shares in unixshell.
I was looking for a Linux Virtual Host, blah, blah.
Curious, I thought, what happened to Level(3) ? I though for a second because perhaps unixshell had a peering with those people that Level(3) were in dispute with.
Nope, just one of those regular outages that make the 99.999% promises sound a little over done.
Prosecutors in Britain today dropped extradition proceedings against Neil Alden Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin for 'Willful Human Space Flight'. The accused expressed their relief.
1. built in webserver. Apache/Apache2 is in flux at the moment, and you're caught in shifting sands of documentation, libraries and online-help. A built in webserver means you can prototype fastest.
2. Eclipse. With EPIC you can code and debug your perl in Eclipse.
These days instruments can be run through a compressor. This confusing term has nothing to do with the size of the output file. Instead, it 'compresses' more volume into the existing frequency bandwidth.
A lot of even old music released on digital format has been remastered and run through a compressor. Listening to 'compressed' and uncompressed output, the compressed has more 'punch' to the ear.
I think music these days packs more punch to your ear.
The US Air Force is on record as charging pilots for not using the drug Speed on long missions [link].
Truckers in outback Australia take speed to help them stay awake and make up for all the time they spent with mates/at brothel/corporate deadline.
In the case of the Air Force, they have determined a safety regime to make the drug measured and safe to protect their multi million $$$ investment [the pilot]
In the case of Truckers, they self diagnose, self dose and often overdo it or underdo it. Several High Grossing Vehicles have killed innocent people because of the practice.
If you have ever had an ecstacy tablet, it most likely had speed in it. I hate speed myself. The worst thing about speed, having tried it, is that it makes you aggressive, short of temper and makes your teeth loose.
I wonder what side effects these awake drugs will have.
It could be that the Russian Scientists make more £££,$$$ or ¥¥¥ by being paid by the Oil/Status Quo Lobby to have this bet.
1. They're scientists who have this opinion
2. They're Russian scientists who have this opinion
After so many years of Cold War where Russians were depicted as being able to conquer space with slide rules, pencils and inherent Russian scienceness it seems to be a filip to have one of these Uber scientists on board.
Free as in Speech, as long as you don't use our Trademark.
But a lot of open source licenses have exactly this restriction, like the Apache License
6. Trademarks. This License does not grant permission to use the trade
names, trademarks, service marks, or product names of the Licensor,
except as required for reasonable and customary use in describing the
origin of the Work and reproducing the content of the NOTICE file.
And lots of others too, mainly extending from the time when Open Source was driven from universities Berkely, MIT who didn't want their 'Trademark' abused.
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There has been a lot of comment about how to pull that off with the limitations of the current GPS.
This new system will in my opinion be designed to have features to support this.
Should haves:
Double blind identification. Your receiver in your car will not be personally identifiable.
Works better in cities with tall buildings
Better accuracy
European control.
Nice to haves:
Downloadable content:
- Congestion alerts
- Emergency Warnings a la radio interupt
A government certified connection signal that must be displayed when they ARE tracking you.
Triangulation compensation with terrestrial mobile masts. If we're gonna have big brother, why not make it accurate?
My 2p.
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.
- James Lopez [apparently]
I always loved the Haiku that were all the rage a few years back. /., but no more than In Russia and pWn3d. Some more I found on google.
They did get a little overdone on
I did mention telco more than a couple of times.
I do know a thing or two about ISPs though, seeing as you imply I can't =differentiate arse/elbow.
The sky is not falling:
the specific laws will be drawn up with consultation of larger ISPs
The larger switch makers like Cisco should have this level of logging in their product pipeline.
This is not the birth of the internet anymore.
-- ISPs make money now. There may be consolidation into mega-ISPs, but surely the cost of logging cannot be the make or break of this market decision.
-- There are lots of customers to spread this over
-- The UK in particular wouldn't really have much better broadband than BT decided to give if the government hadn't pushed Ofcom so hard to enforce Local Loop Unbundling. So all these extra customers are a reward of sorts.
I know this makes me seem like a cronying fanboi of sorts, but please consider the points I'm making.
Most of it is anonymised at source via a one way hash. Then the mappings of the hash to the personal data is kept secret.
There's batching and business level stuff you can do to ensure neither are on the same server/in the same safe at the same time.
It is already a criminal offence to look at the data, and the authorities have little way of checking this. They would have to inspect you and catch you out, or have a honeypot.
Any arguments from telcos who complain about the volumes of data are only using it so that they are not liable if someone arse deletes it.
Under UK privacy laws you have to delete the data identifying the particular person after you're done with the connection and the billing thereof.
Almost all transaction data is anonymised by a one way hash. Say md5sum. All the keys are done this way. Hashing removes the particular identification, and satisfies this. Almost always this hash uses more space than the original data anyways.
telcos use the hashed equivalents to evaluate aggregate data.
The law could ask for a tap and require you to retain those records anyway. These new laws just put into legislation what was already happening, and creating an offence for not doing it properly.
What I AM saying, is that Emacs needs to evolve closer to the Eclipse Ease of Use.
This means taking the best bits and transplanting it into Emacs as much as is possible
It also means evangelising Emacs and having project repositories in a similar format to that of Eclipse.
Just trying to make some suggestions to the future directions.
You're right. However, there are lots of them that are production quality. Further, dont forget that a lot of the common editing fiddly stuff is taken care of in the default eclipse setup.
Xml, XML Buddy
Perl EPIC
Python PyDev
Ruby RDT
Each page has a home page, community and releases.
Lisp is still best under emacs.
I don't see any line item bugs for "Make Emacs like Eclipse". There should be.
Eclipse kills emacs. Emacs will be relegated to a super niche market if it does not borrow some of the techniques of Eclipse.
Eclipse has many more than the following advantages:
Programming domain issues have been thought out. Code gen follows some patterns, and eclipse makes far better use of them that emacs
-- Such advantages as click on a variable to go to its instantiation.
-- Underlining errors
-- sure you CAN spend hours trawling for the modules to do the same for emacs, but that sucks, and yields variable results.
A unified project space is opened up by default. You can see all your files.
-- It takes a while to work out where Speedbar is under emacs and it sucks. Even if it sucks it should be opened by default, like *scratch*
I'm happy to use Emacs everyday. But the reason I use it is:
I finally have a .emacs I'm happy with
You can run it well over ssh
It has emacs keybindings [duh, but important]
These are not enough reasons to bring new emacs users into the project. What do we do if RMS is hit by a bus or the existing emacsers eventually die of old age? Emacs people need to form and take ownership of sub projects around certain problem domains. e.g. Go HERE for Perl Emacs and HERE for XML editing. At the moment all you have is a loose coalition of Perl.com et alia articles.
Never feel stoopud over the Dinner conversation. Solve Sudoku puzz in seconds.
Most best source on the Net.
100 Tablets £100
200 Tablets £125
300 Tablets £150
It had a terrible name Weee Man. Quite wanky. Details about the project
Not to piss on the parade, but this form of delivery cannot be as good for the environment as a CD delivery.
So try this method out by all means, but sustained delivery like this would be bad. One of the best reasons for delivery over the Internet is that there can be less packaging and production.
grep -v means everything BUT that. i.e. delete everything from the HDD but Sigur Ros [haxors with taste]
I'm only doing this to fund my College, so don't make me shoot
That's not Napalm, that's MK77
We have an Embedded Reporter, we will be handing out Sweets and having a laugh
I don't know when your government or mine is going to pull me out of here either.
find / | grep -vi "Sigur Rós" | xargs rm -f
For all the people on this post saying "The UN" or "The World" wants this, that is not true.
I'm an Australian, living in London. I find the idea of the UN running this very scary. An indepedent american body is far preferable.
The UN have a very chequered history. Seldom do they stand up for the Big Issues. Take as an example the decision to withdraw UN troops from Sinai in 1967 on the wishes of Assad. Take whatever view of the subsequent war you want, but the UN caved in to the demand to remove peacekeepers.
sqlite is good. But it does require setup.
You still need to use CREATE TABLE, INSERTs and the like.
You need to connect to the thing in your code, with the same attendent problems as other connection strings. sqlite has a poor jdbc element, if java's your gig.
There are a couple of versions of sqlite. Be aware of this. There is sqlite and sqlite3. Note the jump there from 1 straight to 3. You'll need different DBD drivers there in Perl.
Also, there is no multiple write capability, so you have to synchrinise on this yourself. Who do you trust to write code for ACID commits? Yourself or say, the Postgres team?.
Where sqlite rocks is where the data is entirely read only, which eats out Mysqls lunch.
Also remember that sqlite and Postgres are not mutually exclusive.
In my sqlite setup, I deploy a sqlite database as a file for the fast read only webservers. Where is this data drawn from? My Postgres database with perl to generate the file. So you can get the UPDATE integrity of Postgres with the blazing speed and compactness of sqlite. This works where your application has discreet state where everything is consistent and you can batch update your sqlite.
To Albert Einstein,
Gr0w ur p3n1s with ...
Was not replied to.
But overall 'WHY?' must be the question? Al Quaeda or The Real IRA? They still have their old working communication channels. Also who needs space like this? Space of this amount could be made redundant and available by using GoogleMail, Yahoo and Hotmail in synchrony. If none of those are available, presumably you'd have it on USB key as well.
I was looking for a Linux Virtual Host, blah, blah.
Stumbed apon these pretty pictures (near bottom of page) .
Curious, I thought, what happened to Level(3) ? I though for a second because perhaps unixshell had a peering with those people that Level(3) were in dispute with.
Nope, just one of those regular outages that make the 99.999% promises sound a little over done.
Prosecutors in Britain today dropped extradition proceedings against Neil Alden Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin for 'Willful Human Space Flight'. The accused expressed their relief.
The best bits about catalyst are:
1. built in webserver. Apache/Apache2 is in flux at the moment, and you're caught in shifting sands of documentation, libraries and online-help. A built in webserver means you can prototype fastest.
2. Eclipse. With EPIC you can code and debug your perl in Eclipse.
A lot of even old music released on digital format has been remastered and run through a compressor. Listening to 'compressed' and uncompressed output, the compressed has more 'punch' to the ear.
I think music these days packs more punch to your ear.
Truckers in outback Australia take speed to help them stay awake and make up for all the time they spent with mates/at brothel/corporate deadline.
In the case of the Air Force, they have determined a safety regime to make the drug measured and safe to protect their multi million $$$ investment [the pilot]
In the case of Truckers, they self diagnose, self dose and often overdo it or underdo it. Several High Grossing Vehicles have killed innocent people because of the practice.
If you have ever had an ecstacy tablet, it most likely had speed in it. I hate speed myself. The worst thing about speed, having tried it, is that it makes you aggressive, short of temper and makes your teeth loose.
I wonder what side effects these awake drugs will have.
1. They're scientists who have this opinion
2. They're Russian scientists who have this opinion
After so many years of Cold War where Russians were depicted as being able to conquer space with slide rules, pencils and inherent Russian scienceness it seems to be a filip to have one of these Uber scientists on board.
Free as in Speech, as long as you don't use our Trademark.
But a lot of open source licenses have exactly this restriction, like the Apache License
And lots of others too, mainly extending from the time when Open Source was driven from universities Berkely, MIT who didn't want their 'Trademark' abused.
Amazon.co.uk already does DVD rentals, and I'm a subscriber.
Must be a Market Acceptance tester. Similar to how some movies are released in Australia first to see whether they will float or not.