I don't consider myself stupid, but I consider you gullible. Just because Secret Service agents kill people all the time in the movies doesn't necessarily mean they do it in real life.
Just think of the millions a journalist / newspaper could make from exposing a secret service assassination by a western country's government, it would be top international news (as was the inadvertant killing of a greenpeace photographer by the french secret service, the assasins each got 10 years in jail, the french ministor of defense resigned). Money like that means journalists DO go snooping around checking over every death of someone famous. Funny how not one in recent times has been shown to be the work of a western government's secret service. Either all those tens of thousands of journalists are really, really crap at their jobs or spy's assasinating people really is the stuff of movies.
At the end of the day, Western governments are all democracies and theres probably nothing which will bring down a democratically elected government quicker than it being shown to have murdered its own people.
Ah yes, Mr Prime. He was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and although most people would probably agree he deserved 35 years (or more) in jail for spying I hadn't realised it was all under the Official Secrets Act.
Looking elsewhere, I see a few other spies who were sentanced for spying were done so using just the official secrets act, which definatly means there have been a few long-sentance cases under the act, so thanks for correcting me.
I think my point is still valid however as these people were guilty of quite a bit more than simply "not do[ing] exactly what they say" and I can't find any cases of people receiving anywhere near as long sentances for non-malicious disclosure of secrets.
"you're not entitled to tell anyone it's been read to you and they are fully authorised to kill or imprision for life anyone who does not do exactly what they say, how they say it."
I think you've been reading to many spy books.
Under no circumstances are "they" (the government, MI5 or anyone) allowed to kill you or anyone for not following the official secrets act. Both UK and EU law expresses forbides the killing of anyone for any reason outsite military conflict (which is a whole different thing) and even then they can't kill you for not following the official secrets act. Also, no-one in the past 50 years (i.e. apart from during the world wars) has been sentanced to anywhere near life imprisonment.
There is no part of the act which states you are not allowed to disclose the fact it's been read to you (except possibly in very specific circumstances where such disclosure in itself would endanger national security i.e. in the middle of a war-zone although even for this situation I cannot find a single test-case). There is also an independant commissioner who advises on any convictions under this act to prevent abuse.
Maybe, but as was the emphasis of my post, PDF is hardly the format one would choose for a dynamically generated, animation heavy, document delivery system. Also, "There are java libraries available" does not mean native integration.
This unipage system look far more suited to such a requirement.
Actually the title of the article is "Unipage - A PDF Alternative? ".
The article then states "But Unipages are superior to PDF in their ability to hold functionality (Javascript), Flash animations and practically anything normally possible in a web page. ".
I'm no expert on PDF functionality, but I'm pretty sure PDF's can't handle nearly the same level of JavaScript functionality as web pages running on modern browsers, I am also unaware of the PDF format currently supporting flash animation. Finally if someone can show that the PDF format can integrate natively with dynamic page generation technologies (e.g. asp, jsp & php etc.) to the extent of HTML then I would be absolutely amazed.
Or perhaps it was made a slashdot story because many slashdot readers like to hear about new programs and projects allowing innovative new approaches to computing problems (in this case rich document transfer).
Sorry if I caused offense, it was not my intention. I've just read too many posts trying to put-down large peer-reviewed research projects by very good scientists by trying to find idiotic flaws which most of the time the actual research paper makes note of anyway.
Being British, I don't really care too much about who wins a US presidential/senate election. It is slightly wierd how fundamentalist the Republicans seem to be these days (for such a western country anyway), but I guess its up to you guys how you want to live your lives. We do hear a fair bit in the media about the whole "culture of corruption" in American politics. Personally I don't understand why companies are allowed to fund candidates in the USA at all, that seems to be totally out of keeping with the spirit of democracy to me.
A redneck is like that guy Cleatus of The Simpsons right?
Wait for it, I'm sure the redneck ramblers have some obscure and insignificant point to bring to our attention which completely nullifies this research and shows global warming is not actually occuring. Thats right, it's all just an invention of the Democrats (not that they seem particularly motivated to do anything about it) and they have just bribed 99% of the worlds scientists (the rest work for Exxon).
Apparently he "decided this legislation is needed after "after observing studies that show that the largest groups of P2P users are teens and people in their 20s".
So campaign fund contributions had nothing to do with it and are purely co-incidental?
Wow, they may or may not have get RFID chips built in them, but then by the time they are introduced the same will probably go for your typical loaf of bread. So wheres all the articles about bread then?
Oh well, atleast we will keep on getting decent advert-free TV and freely downloadable TV programs. All BBC2 programs are going to be downloadable later this year apparently. Bargain.
The same goes for any commercial service provider (and not just IT ones). But, Google as opposed to most other service providers (e.g. a local water company) have a nature of thinking up new ideas, what if they have (or in the future invent) something far worse than AdSense in their Googleplex vaults?
They were the first to realise that knowing the content of almost every web page in the world helps their search engine. I just wonder what knowing the content of almost every document in the world would facilitate?
What scares me is that Google are a search engine company who revolutionised internet searching by using info obtained via scanning through every word of billions of web pages to establish facts about the web page.
If they were an OS company like Microsoft then it would be better. But who's to say they won't come up with some revolutionary new scheme by searching through every word of peoples files?
If it's an idea which is good for us (kind of like their search engine) then cool, but most likely as they are storing all the info on their serves, it will be to attempt to exploit us (kind of like their AdSense system).
Unions are a firm UK tradition...just like the riots that they often cause. So there are already lots of powerful unions which UK programmers can join.
The BECTU http://www.bectu.org.uk/ are a good one with 25,000 members, mainly media company employees though (which apparently includes Game Development). If they identify more as software engineers than game developers then there are a host of engineering unions who would accept them. Amicus http://www.amicustheunion.org/ are amongst the biggest and already have many thousands (I think) of IT employees as members.
I agree, in my time of helping with tech support for a couple of friends and a few small businesses etc. Norton Anti-Virus has been definatly one of the most annoying programs I've ever come across....in addition, the only computer I have ever seen ruined by a virus actually already had Norton Anti-virus installed! I use & encourage everyone I know to use AVG now also, cheap for businesses, free for home users and keeps out the viruses.
Like most people (who visit/. atleast) I would however prefer to use an Open-Source AV product if a decent quality one exists.
With this annoucement of yet another pricey yet (appearingly) feature lacking Anti-Virus product hitting the market I have to ask whether there are any Open-Source Anti-Virus Products?
That FAQ was probably written back when Duke Nukem Forever was first being hyped. Games had only just started being released on the new 'CD' medium back then.
This IS a real problem. You acknowledge it but then say people just accept it!...Why should they? Its only by the actions of organisations like Liberty that an appropriate solution (which considers the rights of all parties rather than just the employer) will hopefully be found.
Just because your willing to let your employer keep tabs on your location all day everyday doesn't mean everyone is or should be willing to adhere to your consent. For example: as it stands at the moment, if you use a company phone and keep it in your car and dont make a point of turning it off at the end of the workday. Then it is effectivly legal for your employer to track your location before and after work. Something most people would probably not be willing to concede to.
I've never played Star Wars Galaxies but the 3 people I know who use to have all cancelled their accounts over the past month. Two said they hated the new changes and the other cancelled it yesturday saying that there just arn't enough "cool" people on the servers anymore.
I keep getting the feeling that in 3 or so years time this whole event will be features in one of those "top 10 dumbest business moves" articles.
"For security reasons, Brandt declined to say to whom the address is assigned."
It must be great being the US government in this day and age, any question which they do not want to answer they simply cite "For security reasons...I cannot tell you that". I'm just waiting to see George Bush in February state that he cannot tell people the US budget (or deficit to be accurate) "for security reasons".
Its because the majority of commentators and politicians were ranting on about something they have not actually played and know absolutly nothing about (I can really see Hillary Clinton downloading the millions of various add-ons and hacks to popular games).
The whole event reminded me of a TV programme which aired here in the UK about 4 years. The TV programme was a satire on the way the media love to really overdo stories on phedophilia. While not actually condoning it at all, it was immediatly blastered into the ground by various commentators, politicians and "concerned parents" as "disgraceful", "disgusting" and "going way to far" - just like GTA was last year.
It later turned out that the vast majority of the politicians and people commenting on the show had not actually even watched it, but still they felt justified in condemning the show outright.
Its the same for GTA, none of the commentators actually play games and so do not realise that there are sexual orientated add-ons (and Hot-coffee was for all intents and purposes a downloaded add-on) for all games. They hear a brief clip of the situation and thereby feel warranted to give the world their uninformed opinion dressed up as if they actually know what their talking about....kind of like some slashdot posters do.
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I don't consider myself stupid, but I consider you gullible. Just because Secret Service agents kill people all the time in the movies doesn't necessarily mean they do it in real life.
Just think of the millions a journalist / newspaper could make from exposing a secret service assassination by a western country's government, it would be top international news (as was the inadvertant killing of a greenpeace photographer by the french secret service, the assasins each got 10 years in jail, the french ministor of defense resigned). Money like that means journalists DO go snooping around checking over every death of someone famous. Funny how not one in recent times has been shown to be the work of a western government's secret service. Either all those tens of thousands of journalists are really, really crap at their jobs or spy's assasinating people really is the stuff of movies.
At the end of the day, Western governments are all democracies and theres probably nothing which will bring down a democratically elected government quicker than it being shown to have murdered its own people.
Ah yes, Mr Prime. He was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and although most people would probably agree he deserved 35 years (or more) in jail for spying I hadn't realised it was all under the Official Secrets Act.
Looking elsewhere, I see a few other spies who were sentanced for spying were done so using just the official secrets act, which definatly means there have been a few long-sentance cases under the act, so thanks for correcting me.
I think my point is still valid however as these people were guilty of quite a bit more than simply "not do[ing] exactly what they say" and I can't find any cases of people receiving anywhere near as long sentances for non-malicious disclosure of secrets.
"you're not entitled to tell anyone it's been read to you and they are fully authorised to kill or imprision for life anyone who does not do exactly what they say, how they say it."
0 6_en_1.htm has the official legal wording of the act.
I think you've been reading to many spy books.
Under no circumstances are "they" (the government, MI5 or anyone) allowed to kill you or anyone for not following the official secrets act. Both UK and EU law expresses forbides the killing of anyone for any reason outsite military conflict (which is a whole different thing) and even then they can't kill you for not following the official secrets act. Also, no-one in the past 50 years (i.e. apart from during the world wars) has been sentanced to anywhere near life imprisonment.
There is no part of the act which states you are not allowed to disclose the fact it's been read to you (except possibly in very specific circumstances where such disclosure in itself would endanger national security i.e. in the middle of a war-zone although even for this situation I cannot find a single test-case). There is also an independant commissioner who advises on any convictions under this act to prevent abuse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Secrets_Act has more information.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1989/Ukpga_198900
Maybe, but as was the emphasis of my post, PDF is hardly the format one would choose for a dynamically generated, animation heavy, document delivery system. Also, "There are java libraries available" does not mean native integration. This unipage system look far more suited to such a requirement.
Actually the title of the article is " Unipage - A PDF Alternative? ".
The article then states " But Unipages are superior to PDF in their ability to hold functionality (Javascript), Flash animations and practically anything normally possible in a web page. ".
I'm no expert on PDF functionality, but I'm pretty sure PDF's can't handle nearly the same level of JavaScript functionality as web pages running on modern browsers, I am also unaware of the PDF format currently supporting flash animation. Finally if someone can show that the PDF format can integrate natively with dynamic page generation technologies (e.g. asp, jsp & php etc.) to the extent of HTML then I would be absolutely amazed.
Or perhaps it was made a slashdot story because many slashdot readers like to hear about new programs and projects allowing innovative new approaches to computing problems (in this case rich document transfer).
Sorry if I caused offense, it was not my intention. I've just read too many posts trying to put-down large peer-reviewed research projects by very good scientists by trying to find idiotic flaws which most of the time the actual research paper makes note of anyway.
Being British, I don't really care too much about who wins a US presidential/senate election. It is slightly wierd how fundamentalist the Republicans seem to be these days (for such a western country anyway), but I guess its up to you guys how you want to live your lives. We do hear a fair bit in the media about the whole "culture of corruption" in American politics. Personally I don't understand why companies are allowed to fund candidates in the USA at all, that seems to be totally out of keeping with the spirit of democracy to me.
A redneck is like that guy Cleatus of The Simpsons right?
Wait for it, I'm sure the redneck ramblers have some obscure and insignificant point to bring to our attention which completely nullifies this research and shows global warming is not actually occuring. Thats right, it's all just an invention of the Democrats (not that they seem particularly motivated to do anything about it) and they have just bribed 99% of the worlds scientists (the rest work for Exxon).
"But the US would rather let environmentalist driving SUV's sue the living SH*T out of everybody."
I see, so your saying that in capatalist America, the SUV's drive you?
and the difference bettween a democracy and a republic is exactly?
Apparently he "decided this legislation is needed after "after observing studies that show that the largest groups of P2P users are teens and people in their 20s".
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So campaign fund contributions had nothing to do with it and are purely co-incidental?
Please, this is the same guy who blocked the popular 'financial privacy protection bill' after receiving over $100,000 from the finance industry. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c
I wonder how much it cost the MPAA and RIAA for him to launch this bill?
And there was me thinking the USA had a democracy!
Wow, they may or may not have get RFID chips built in them, but then by the time they are introduced the same will probably go for your typical loaf of bread. So wheres all the articles about bread then?
Oh well, atleast we will keep on getting decent advert-free TV and freely downloadable TV programs. All BBC2 programs are going to be downloadable later this year apparently. Bargain.
The same goes for any commercial service provider (and not just IT ones). But, Google as opposed to most other service providers (e.g. a local water company) have a nature of thinking up new ideas, what if they have (or in the future invent) something far worse than AdSense in their Googleplex vaults?
They were the first to realise that knowing the content of almost every web page in the world helps their search engine. I just wonder what knowing the content of almost every document in the world would facilitate?
What scares me is that Google are a search engine company who revolutionised internet searching by using info obtained via scanning through every word of billions of web pages to establish facts about the web page.
If they were an OS company like Microsoft then it would be better. But who's to say they won't come up with some revolutionary new scheme by searching through every word of peoples files?
If it's an idea which is good for us (kind of like their search engine) then cool, but most likely as they are storing all the info on their serves, it will be to attempt to exploit us (kind of like their AdSense system).
Unions are a firm UK tradition ...just like the riots that they often cause. So there are already lots of powerful unions which UK programmers can join.
The BECTU http://www.bectu.org.uk/ are a good one with 25,000 members, mainly media company employees though (which apparently includes Game Development). If they identify more as software engineers than game developers then there are a host of engineering unions who would accept them. Amicus http://www.amicustheunion.org/ are amongst the biggest and already have many thousands (I think) of IT employees as members.
The TUC website http://www.tuc.org.uk/ is probably the best online resource though.
I agree, in my time of helping with tech support for a couple of friends and a few small businesses etc. Norton Anti-Virus has been definatly one of the most annoying programs I've ever come across. ...in addition, the only computer I have ever seen ruined by a virus actually already had Norton Anti-virus installed! I use & encourage everyone I know to use AVG now also, cheap for businesses, free for home users and keeps out the viruses.
/. atleast) I would however prefer to use an Open-Source AV product if a decent quality one exists.
Like most people (who visit
With this annoucement of yet another pricey yet (appearingly) feature lacking Anti-Virus product hitting the market I have to ask whether there are any Open-Source Anti-Virus Products?
That FAQ was probably written back when Duke Nukem Forever was first being hyped. Games had only just started being released on the new 'CD' medium back then.
This IS a real problem. You acknowledge it but then say people just accept it! ...Why should they? Its only by the actions of organisations like Liberty that an appropriate solution (which considers the rights of all parties rather than just the employer) will hopefully be found.
Just because your willing to let your employer keep tabs on your location all day everyday doesn't mean everyone is or should be willing to adhere to your consent. For example: as it stands at the moment, if you use a company phone and keep it in your car and dont make a point of turning it off at the end of the workday. Then it is effectivly legal for your employer to track your location before and after work. Something most people would probably not be willing to concede to.
I've never played Star Wars Galaxies but the 3 people I know who use to have all cancelled their accounts over the past month. Two said they hated the new changes and the other cancelled it yesturday saying that there just arn't enough "cool" people on the servers anymore.
I keep getting the feeling that in 3 or so years time this whole event will be features in one of those "top 10 dumbest business moves" articles.
Look at the examples cited.
Um how exactly do you propose we stop volcanos erupting? Or more to the point stop them producing CO2 (which would be even more difficult)?
From the article:
...I cannot tell you that". I'm just waiting to see George Bush in February state that he cannot tell people the US budget (or deficit to be accurate) "for security reasons".
"For security reasons, Brandt declined to say to whom the address is assigned."
It must be great being the US government in this day and age, any question which they do not want to answer they simply cite "For security reasons
Its because the majority of commentators and politicians were ranting on about something they have not actually played and know absolutly nothing about (I can really see Hillary Clinton downloading the millions of various add-ons and hacks to popular games).
...kind of like some slashdot posters do.
The whole event reminded me of a TV programme which aired here in the UK about 4 years. The TV programme was a satire on the way the media love to really overdo stories on phedophilia. While not actually condoning it at all, it was immediatly blastered into the ground by various commentators, politicians and "concerned parents" as "disgraceful", "disgusting" and "going way to far" - just like GTA was last year.
It later turned out that the vast majority of the politicians and people commenting on the show had not actually even watched it, but still they felt justified in condemning the show outright.
Its the same for GTA, none of the commentators actually play games and so do not realise that there are sexual orientated add-ons (and Hot-coffee was for all intents and purposes a downloaded add-on) for all games. They hear a brief clip of the situation and thereby feel warranted to give the world their uninformed opinion dressed up as if they actually know what their talking about.