Obviously the forms will now have to be buried in soft peat for 3 months before being recycled into firelighters before they will lift a finger to do anything about this.
The licence is compulsary for any device capable of receiving broadcast media. That includes Internet, TV and radio.
No it is not. You do not need a TV license to access the internet or to listen to the radio. You technically need one to watch or record live streamed content which is also being simultaneously broadcast on TV, but content which is not on TV or which is not live streamed does not need one and this does not amount to needing a TV licence just because you have internet access which could theoretically be used for this. There is also an effective presumption that if you own a TV then you will use it to receive television but if you do not use it for that then you don't need a licence either.
No need for anything as unusual as piercing the corporate veil (where judgment is found against the subsidiary and then IBM made liable for its subsidiary's debt in its capacity as a shareholder). IBM could simply be sued for inducing a breach of contract by its subsidiary (or even a third-party Company).
I think the more interesting question is - what damages could realistically be claimed to be suffered as a result? If there are no actual damages, then there is likely to be nothing to sue for, even if it is technically a breach of contract.
Ecuador can appoint him as their representative to the United Nations. The UK then doesn't get to choose whether to recognise him as a diplomat - they are required to under the rules of the UN.
This is a variation on the loophole that was used by Robert Mugabe to attend conferences in the EU (where he is subject to a travel ban).
Yes but it was policy laundered to some extent. It was originally effectively a UK policy, but politicians thought they needed the cover of EU rules to be able to sell it to the public.
So you mean none of those things happened before the UN was founded in 1945 and none of them could happen without the UN? I don't think so. Those things happen because people or governments individually decide that they want to cooperate to make them happen. Often they actually don't happen because individual nations decide they can't or don't want to (or don't want to pay the price in blood and/or treasure to do so).
Here's a good example: telephone connectivity between Spain and Gibraltar was severely limited between 1969 and 2006 when the individual governments (UK, Spain and Gibraltar) decided to do something about it themselves. One of the few areas where you would have thought the UN would actually have a genuine advantage, where there is a geopolitical dispute which was impacting on a technical/day to day level, and it proved useless in the face of that small challenge.
If you ask me, the main thing the UN does (outside of the big geopolitical stuff) is to allow the people who work on that long list of things you mentioned not to pay tax when doing so. Which is very nice for them. I don't really see how it benefits anyone else though.
I would agree with that but 5-10GB/day is easily possible, especially if you don't weed out the bad ones before syncing. RAW files can easily hit 30MB each from a modern DSLR. For that volume of data, anything online is unlikely to work well when travelling.
And it would be nice if I could, say, create a category of "XXX class homework 4 submissions" and give some way for my students to submit directly to that category so I don't have to manually assign labels to all 45 submissions, and maybe share all submissions with the other TA's (the only alternative for me being blackboard, and I refuse to rely on that pile of bloated rotting carcasses)...
Add + and a label to your email address before the @ sign. Filter based on this (maybe forward to an email list or some such). I honestly don't understand why more people don't know about this. Or go and create your own mailing list with its own address - again possible with minimal hassle.
CertificatePatrol offers 80 percent of what this extension will do without the requirement for server participation. Given how many SSL sites don't even support the newest SSL/TLS protocol, it would seem to be more valuable. I get that adding offline signing keys which are supposed to be invariant helps but I can't see most sites going to the hassle to be honest.
You may also need to "prove" the PI wasn't actually ever interested in buying the house, which could be tricky.
In a civil case it's only a "more likely than not" (preponderance of evidence) standard of proof in the England and I can't imagine this wouldn't be met in this case. Damages would be the issue... I would guess they would be limited to something like any actual out of pocket expenses specifically incurred - e.g. lawyers costs or searches etc - and I somehow doubt that this went that far.
You could make an argument that this does amount to fraud under English criminal law (since it's not merely wasting time but actually pretending to do one thing in order to get something rather different) but it would probably be hard to get this to stick. I suspect the CPS would decide it wasn't in the public interest to prosecute, and even with a private criminal prosecution (which is expensive) you run the risk that the CPS takes over the prosecution and then discontinues it (which they have a right to do).
One might posit that weak politicians (of all parties) who are unable to stand up to civil servants are a bigger part of the problem. Somehow the skills that seem to be required to get elected (and, as importantly, selected by a party to stand for a seat) just don't seem to include this skill set.
Lastly, nobody at Chernobyl had to dive into water to release a valve. That would be the absolute worst possible design a reactor could be, and the Russians were smarter than that. On top of that, even when not in meltdown, the water in a plant is going to be incredibly warm - close to boiling if not actually boiling, so it should not be possible to do anything in that environment. You probably couldn't open your eyes or do anything useful because of the intense pain of being boiled alive. This situation never happened, and you are probably confusing the name of Chernobyl with what happened at Three Mile Island (which was nowhere near as dramatic as diving into a reactor).
Apparently three men dived into an emergency cooling reservoir to fix sluice gates which had malfunctioned. This then allowed the water to be released to mitigate steam explosion risk as the reservoirs were located directly under the core. It was not a suicide mission in the sense of H2O2 oxidising their skin - all 3 returned and one even subsequently spoke to the media. There are reports that they did all subsequently contract radiation sickness and two died.
Actually the original incitement to racial hatred laws were passed under Thatcher. Blair made it worse though because his government indeed did extend it to cover religious opinions.
The real problem is that it's *drivers* who are insured, not cars. Hence checking number plates will always generate issues - this is why it is ridiculous that we are now using ANPR for this purpose. It works for tax because the car is taxed not the driver. A car can legally not appear on any specific insurance policy yet as long as the driver is insured and it is physically road-legal (tire-tread depth etc), it is be legal to drive (and conversely, if you breach the terms of your insurance, even though it is in the database it won't be legal to drive). This is useful - most fully-comprehensive policies give you third party cover driving any car which isn't yours as long as you have the owner's permission.
Years ago, it wasn't that uncommon for thieves to siphon fuel out of someone else's petrol tank in the middle of the night. This led to central-locking fuel caps in cars which were harder to break into. I wonder if this will just incentivise people enough (who, let's face it, are already criminals by definition if they are driving uninsured) to overcome the resistance this created...
... the taking notes just after a lecture idea does seem a really rather good idea.
Unless what matters is the detail and not the "big picture". Like in literally ANY mathematically-based subject. If anything, the fact that this technique would work seems an indictment of the level of academic rigour in many subjects in itself.
2000? Hell, I have my email back to the early 1980s.
The real problem is that back then it was OK to put all messages in one file, and having one message per file is far more useful for searching with grep.
Actually I find this less of an issue. Check out grepmail and mboxgrep. I use these pretty regularly and they're very useful for doing e.g. grepmail 'foo.*bar[a-z]' ~/Mail/mbox.gz >/tmp/messages; mutt -f/tmp/messages
As others have said, the headache you will have if you do want to come back (potentially years later) to that one email you know you had only to find your attachment-stripping program has foobar'd the whole archive up (or that you need the attachment after all) probably isn't worth the hassle for saving 500MB per year this year (even taking into account reasonable growth rates - I'd note that bandwidth per $, which will be the factor limiting your email size, has been growing rather more slowly than storage capacity per $ over the past decade and things are likely to continue that way).
If the problem is that you have significant duplication between emails (e.g. the same attachment being emailed several times), gzip and bzip2 may well miss the opportunity to de-dupe this because the distance between duplicated sections is large. One solution to consider if this is an issue may be to use something which is better at compressing over long distances. I would suggest trying something like lrzip to compress tarballs of the annual sets of mbox files before archiving those.
Of course, if you just have lots of attachments which *aren't* duplicated (which is probably more likely), that won't really help much.
Unless you left the UK more than 15 years ago, you are eligible to vote in UK Parliamentary elections, EU Parliamentary elections and national referendums (source). If you've been abroad for more than 15 years, surely you could have got citizenship where you've settled by now?
Even with ABP and noscript and disabling third-party cookies this behaviour will still bite you. Refcontrol is what you need to stop Google telling the sites you visit what your search terms were.
The current ICT GCSE has been lambasted for boring kids to death with lessons on using Word and Excel, rather than teaching computer programming.
More kids will be using Word and Excel later in life than will be coding--by orders of magnitude. Excel is only as boring as you make it (something most teachers don't understand).
When we start making curriculums that are driven by niche interests and by what is considered "fun" or not, society suffers.
But the same argument applies to most of what is taught at school beyond the age of about 7 or 8 - for example, algebra, latin, literature, history, chemistry, and so on. This is not (or at least, shouldn't be) the point of education.
To me this seems like a hugely positive step - IF schools can manage to recruit and retain decent teachers, which is probably the bigger problem. Even if the only thing children take from school IT lessons is a recognition of the types of problems for which other tools might be more suited than Excel they will benefit hugely. The number of times I've seen people do things in Excel that really would have worked 100 times better if done in a database or using a little bit of macro programming is amazing.
And if you have large files which change often, it's worth considering rdiff-backup rather than rsnapshot since that will store deltas instead of a new copy of the file each time it changes.
I have to disagree there. The (very large) organisation I work for moved from Lotus Notes to Outlook recently which is arguably a much worse transition for users and involves significant backend work - probably not more than moving to something OSS would have done. Plenty of large organisations use OSS in the back-office extensively.
The real issue is that OSS is just not good enough in many instances to replace the proprietary stuff. In particular, Excel and Outlook are very far ahead of the OSS alternatives.
For other apps, it's much closer (and particularly where organisations have now moved to fully web-based solutions for e.g. expenses submission etc it should be easy if there are no lingering IE6 dependencies). But the issue with Word and Powerpoint is that format compatibility is not quite 100% so all your old documents won't print properly any more. The functionality is just as good but if you can't open something produced in Powerpoint and have it look *exactly* the same then that's enough to stop people bothering to put the effort in to port their custom macro packages for their own branding etc.
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Obviously the forms will now have to be buried in soft peat for 3 months before being recycled into firelighters before they will lift a finger to do anything about this.
The licence is compulsary for any device capable of receiving broadcast media. That includes Internet, TV and radio.
No it is not. You do not need a TV license to access the internet or to listen to the radio. You technically need one to watch or record live streamed content which is also being simultaneously broadcast on TV, but content which is not on TV or which is not live streamed does not need one and this does not amount to needing a TV licence just because you have internet access which could theoretically be used for this. There is also an effective presumption that if you own a TV then you will use it to receive television but if you do not use it for that then you don't need a licence either.
No need for anything as unusual as piercing the corporate veil (where judgment is found against the subsidiary and then IBM made liable for its subsidiary's debt in its capacity as a shareholder). IBM could simply be sued for inducing a breach of contract by its subsidiary (or even a third-party Company).
I think the more interesting question is - what damages could realistically be claimed to be suffered as a result? If there are no actual damages, then there is likely to be nothing to sue for, even if it is technically a breach of contract.
Ecuador can appoint him as their representative to the United Nations. The UK then doesn't get to choose whether to recognise him as a diplomat - they are required to under the rules of the UN. This is a variation on the loophole that was used by Robert Mugabe to attend conferences in the EU (where he is subject to a travel ban).
Yes but it was policy laundered to some extent. It was originally effectively a UK policy, but politicians thought they needed the cover of EU rules to be able to sell it to the public.
So you mean none of those things happened before the UN was founded in 1945 and none of them could happen without the UN? I don't think so. Those things happen because people or governments individually decide that they want to cooperate to make them happen. Often they actually don't happen because individual nations decide they can't or don't want to (or don't want to pay the price in blood and/or treasure to do so).
Here's a good example: telephone connectivity between Spain and Gibraltar was severely limited between 1969 and 2006 when the individual governments (UK, Spain and Gibraltar) decided to do something about it themselves. One of the few areas where you would have thought the UN would actually have a genuine advantage, where there is a geopolitical dispute which was impacting on a technical/day to day level, and it proved useless in the face of that small challenge.
If you ask me, the main thing the UN does (outside of the big geopolitical stuff) is to allow the people who work on that long list of things you mentioned not to pay tax when doing so. Which is very nice for them. I don't really see how it benefits anyone else though.
I would agree with that but 5-10GB/day is easily possible, especially if you don't weed out the bad ones before syncing. RAW files can easily hit 30MB each from a modern DSLR. For that volume of data, anything online is unlikely to work well when travelling.
And it would be nice if I could, say, create a category of "XXX class homework 4 submissions" and give some way for my students to submit directly to that category so I don't have to manually assign labels to all 45 submissions, and maybe share all submissions with the other TA's (the only alternative for me being blackboard, and I refuse to rely on that pile of bloated rotting carcasses)...
Add + and a label to your email address before the @ sign. Filter based on this (maybe forward to an email list or some such). I honestly don't understand why more people don't know about this. Or go and create your own mailing list with its own address - again possible with minimal hassle.
CertificatePatrol offers 80 percent of what this extension will do without the requirement for server participation. Given how many SSL sites don't even support the newest SSL/TLS protocol, it would seem to be more valuable. I get that adding offline signing keys which are supposed to be invariant helps but I can't see most sites going to the hassle to be honest.
You may also need to "prove" the PI wasn't actually ever interested in buying the house, which could be tricky.
In a civil case it's only a "more likely than not" (preponderance of evidence) standard of proof in the England and I can't imagine this wouldn't be met in this case. Damages would be the issue... I would guess they would be limited to something like any actual out of pocket expenses specifically incurred - e.g. lawyers costs or searches etc - and I somehow doubt that this went that far.
You could make an argument that this does amount to fraud under English criminal law (since it's not merely wasting time but actually pretending to do one thing in order to get something rather different) but it would probably be hard to get this to stick. I suspect the CPS would decide it wasn't in the public interest to prosecute, and even with a private criminal prosecution (which is expensive) you run the risk that the CPS takes over the prosecution and then discontinues it (which they have a right to do).
One might posit that weak politicians (of all parties) who are unable to stand up to civil servants are a bigger part of the problem. Somehow the skills that seem to be required to get elected (and, as importantly, selected by a party to stand for a seat) just don't seem to include this skill set.
Lastly, nobody at Chernobyl had to dive into water to release a valve. That would be the absolute worst possible design a reactor could be, and the Russians were smarter than that. On top of that, even when not in meltdown, the water in a plant is going to be incredibly warm - close to boiling if not actually boiling, so it should not be possible to do anything in that environment. You probably couldn't open your eyes or do anything useful because of the intense pain of being boiled alive. This situation never happened, and you are probably confusing the name of Chernobyl with what happened at Three Mile Island (which was nowhere near as dramatic as diving into a reactor).
Apparently three men dived into an emergency cooling reservoir to fix sluice gates which had malfunctioned. This then allowed the water to be released to mitigate steam explosion risk as the reservoirs were located directly under the core. It was not a suicide mission in the sense of H2O2 oxidising their skin - all 3 returned and one even subsequently spoke to the media. There are reports that they did all subsequently contract radiation sickness and two died.
Actually the original incitement to racial hatred laws were passed under Thatcher. Blair made it worse though because his government indeed did extend it to cover religious opinions.
The real problem is that it's *drivers* who are insured, not cars. Hence checking number plates will always generate issues - this is why it is ridiculous that we are now using ANPR for this purpose. It works for tax because the car is taxed not the driver. A car can legally not appear on any specific insurance policy yet as long as the driver is insured and it is physically road-legal (tire-tread depth etc), it is be legal to drive (and conversely, if you breach the terms of your insurance, even though it is in the database it won't be legal to drive). This is useful - most fully-comprehensive policies give you third party cover driving any car which isn't yours as long as you have the owner's permission.
Years ago, it wasn't that uncommon for thieves to siphon fuel out of someone else's petrol tank in the middle of the night. This led to central-locking fuel caps in cars which were harder to break into. I wonder if this will just incentivise people enough (who, let's face it, are already criminals by definition if they are driving uninsured) to overcome the resistance this created...
... the taking notes just after a lecture idea does seem a really rather good idea.
Unless what matters is the detail and not the "big picture". Like in literally ANY mathematically-based subject. If anything, the fact that this technique would work seems an indictment of the level of academic rigour in many subjects in itself.
2000? Hell, I have my email back to the early 1980s.
The real problem is that back then it was OK to put all messages in one file, and having one message per file is far more useful for searching with grep.
Actually I find this less of an issue. Check out grepmail and mboxgrep. I use these pretty regularly and they're very useful for doing e.g. grepmail 'foo.*bar[a-z]' ~/Mail/mbox.gz >/tmp/messages; mutt -f /tmp/messages
As others have said, the headache you will have if you do want to come back (potentially years later) to that one email you know you had only to find your attachment-stripping program has foobar'd the whole archive up (or that you need the attachment after all) probably isn't worth the hassle for saving 500MB per year this year (even taking into account reasonable growth rates - I'd note that bandwidth per $, which will be the factor limiting your email size, has been growing rather more slowly than storage capacity per $ over the past decade and things are likely to continue that way).
If the problem is that you have significant duplication between emails (e.g. the same attachment being emailed several times), gzip and bzip2 may well miss the opportunity to de-dupe this because the distance between duplicated sections is large. One solution to consider if this is an issue may be to use something which is better at compressing over long distances. I would suggest trying something like lrzip to compress tarballs of the annual sets of mbox files before archiving those.
Of course, if you just have lots of attachments which *aren't* duplicated (which is probably more likely), that won't really help much.
Unless you left the UK more than 15 years ago, you are eligible to vote in UK Parliamentary elections, EU Parliamentary elections and national referendums (source). If you've been abroad for more than 15 years, surely you could have got citizenship where you've settled by now?
Even with ABP and noscript and disabling third-party cookies this behaviour will still bite you. Refcontrol is what you need to stop Google telling the sites you visit what your search terms were.
BTW, is there a chrome and FF extension that basically prevents EVERYTHING on a webpage that is not from the same domain than said webpage?
Request:Policy for Firefox. Don't know if there's something similar for Chrome.
Yes. You probably distrusted the Comodo CA a while ago, which signs the EFF's certificate.
The current ICT GCSE has been lambasted for boring kids to death with lessons on using Word and Excel, rather than teaching computer programming.
More kids will be using Word and Excel later in life than will be coding--by orders of magnitude. Excel is only as boring as you make it (something most teachers don't understand).
When we start making curriculums that are driven by niche interests and by what is considered "fun" or not, society suffers.
But the same argument applies to most of what is taught at school beyond the age of about 7 or 8 - for example, algebra, latin, literature, history, chemistry, and so on. This is not (or at least, shouldn't be) the point of education.
To me this seems like a hugely positive step - IF schools can manage to recruit and retain decent teachers, which is probably the bigger problem. Even if the only thing children take from school IT lessons is a recognition of the types of problems for which other tools might be more suited than Excel they will benefit hugely. The number of times I've seen people do things in Excel that really would have worked 100 times better if done in a database or using a little bit of macro programming is amazing.
And if you have large files which change often, it's worth considering rdiff-backup rather than rsnapshot since that will store deltas instead of a new copy of the file each time it changes.
I have to disagree there. The (very large) organisation I work for moved from Lotus Notes to Outlook recently which is arguably a much worse transition for users and involves significant backend work - probably not more than moving to something OSS would have done. Plenty of large organisations use OSS in the back-office extensively.
The real issue is that OSS is just not good enough in many instances to replace the proprietary stuff. In particular, Excel and Outlook are very far ahead of the OSS alternatives.
For other apps, it's much closer (and particularly where organisations have now moved to fully web-based solutions for e.g. expenses submission etc it should be easy if there are no lingering IE6 dependencies). But the issue with Word and Powerpoint is that format compatibility is not quite 100% so all your old documents won't print properly any more. The functionality is just as good but if you can't open something produced in Powerpoint and have it look *exactly* the same then that's enough to stop people bothering to put the effort in to port their custom macro packages for their own branding etc.