Curiously enough, in the UK the Conservative politicians were very strongly against this proposal - it may have been expedience or principle, who can tell.
What the rank and file members thought is more difficult to tell.
The UK Government has announced today - to the Daily Telegraph initially - that it will completely remove the offending clause from the Coroners and Justice Bill.
In the report, Jack Straw's minions seem to underplay the impact of the Slashdot article and mass Facebook/NO2ID campaign. Is this because they are worried that this sort of campaign could be launched at any time to keep them honest?
I'm inclined to compare roads to shared medium Ethernet. As the traffic builds up you get more 'collisions' and both systems have collision detection built-in.
With Ethernet, as the 'traffic' builds to about 40% of the theoretical capacity, collisions become the norm and the re-tries start to overwhealm the system and it locks. With roadways, as the traffic builds to a certain limit, then awareness of potential collisions magnifies in the drivers, so reactions to situations increases and the road stalls. This is why variable speed limits work, because the road and drivers can cope with more vehicles if there is a lower maximum speed.
As most word processors include an RTF parser as standard you have a couple of choices. You can either send an RTF file or you can send an RTF file renamed with a dot doc extension. This doesn't seem to work with HTML which is interesting.
I keep my Cd's in a large loose leaf folder. I keep my vinyl on top of the cupboard. I buy Cassette Tapes at the cheapest price I can. My partner records tapes of what ever we want for travelling. My books are semi-randomly arranged on shelves.
The web is my storage for text files and I use spreadsheets or programming languages to solve problems.
It's interesting to think in this way - and may give some useful insights. It seems to me that there are two central dimensions to this discussion...
dictatorship v. democracy
and
ideas are free v. ideas can be patented
I'd be more inclined to worry about government agencies than a percieved terrorist organisation. Never forget that the west has a habit of getting into conflict with peoples who just last year it armed for some 'legitimate' reason.
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Curiously enough, in the UK the Conservative politicians were very strongly against this proposal - it may have been expedience or principle, who can tell.
What the rank and file members thought is more difficult to tell.
The UK Government has announced today - to the Daily Telegraph initially - that it will completely remove the offending clause from the Coroners and Justice Bill.
In the report, Jack Straw's minions seem to underplay the impact of the Slashdot article and mass Facebook/NO2ID campaign. Is this because they are worried that this sort of campaign could be launched at any time to keep them honest?
Why not visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml and tell them that you use Linux. It might even be worth asking them to pass your message to Ashley Highfield :-)
With Ethernet, as the 'traffic' builds to about 40% of the theoretical capacity, collisions become the norm and the re-tries start to overwhealm the system and it locks. With roadways, as the traffic builds to a certain limit, then awareness of potential collisions magnifies in the drivers, so reactions to situations increases and the road stalls. This is why variable speed limits work, because the road and drivers can cope with more vehicles if there is a lower maximum speed.
At 31, I'm too old to be interested in any new music. The CD collection I have now will probably last me the rest of my life.
I love listening to new music and I'm 50% older than you - does that make my opinion 50% better?
As most word processors include an RTF parser as standard you have a couple of choices. You can either send an RTF file or you can send an RTF file renamed with a dot doc extension. This doesn't seem to work with HTML which is interesting.
Well my preferred file system is this...
I keep my Cd's in a large loose leaf folder. I keep my vinyl on top of the cupboard. I buy Cassette Tapes at the cheapest price I can. My partner records tapes of what ever we want for travelling. My books are semi-randomly arranged on shelves.
The web is my storage for text files and I use spreadsheets or programming languages to solve problems.
Well just because I read your article on /. doesn't mean I should send you any money - what do you plan to do with all those $5 worth of opinion?
It's interesting to think in this way - and may give some useful insights. It seems to me that there are two central dimensions to this discussion...
dictatorship v. democracy
and
ideas are free v. ideas can be patented
I'd be more inclined to worry about government agencies than a percieved terrorist organisation. Never forget that the west has a habit of getting into conflict with peoples who just last year it armed for some 'legitimate' reason.