We use a variety of other documents that each provide a small amount of decentralized information. Drivers license, bank statements, utility bills, passport, etc.
All of which we're not required to carry at all times, none of which use fixed identifiers such as biometrics.
They're planning on getting rid of passports for ID cards. It gives them a centralized database, more information on you and as the scope quietly creeps up people will be apathetic until passports are gone and they're squarely in 1984.
...offers a pretty good solution that allows you to use real SQL, kept separate from your Java code and cleanly returns objects for your Java code to deal with. Might be worth a consideration if you haven't looked at it yet.
I'm curious... It sounds like you're using MAC filtering. That's not very secure, but it is a pain in the ass. Why not use WPA(2)?
For me, it's easier to figure out the MAC address across Windows, Linux and OSX and add them to the router than it is to figure out some variant of WPA across all of them. Of course I should take the time, but it's probably secure enough around here and if I don't bother with WPA I doubt my neighbours do.
I have yet to use a consumer router that did not want to restart after you changed router settings, and adding a new MAC address [wikipedia.org] to the access list would require a restart
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* To mitigate my Netgear bashing slightly: I've had nothing but success with wired Netgear products.
FWIW I have a Netgear DG834G Wireless ADSL router. I can add new MAC addresses without a restart and it's been up since I bought it in February (six months?)
Seconded. It's beyond me why this hasn't happened already. Google do it fairly well as an option with gmail and google reader for example but not with their searching?
But then I do work for an IPTV company. Set top boxes plugged into the network, ISP managed QoS to guarantee enough bandwidth for high definition video, all piped through your plasma.
We should be helping Iran build nuclear power plants, not encouraging them to keep burning oil for power when peak oil and global warming are looming in the future.
It's almost as though it could be of benefit to the US when peak oil occurs if they can stop any other countries developing nuclear power because they'll own the majority of the reliable supply.
It's crazy isn't it. What's most infuriating is it means when you go for a Java job half the time you'd get turned down because you haven't got the latest three letter abbreviation in your CV (resume) even though you're perfectly capable of churning out Java code and you'd be familiar with whichever two APIs they use most pretty quickly.
Please, just offer a different site. It's annoying as hell when you then can't browse to the version of the site you want to because of someone else's whim.
Otherwise you're just restricting access to a site someone's specifically navigated to. Offering a second site provides all the benefits you mention of image scaling, etc. without this downside. I'm sick of having to change user agent strings just to view websites.
Yes there are better IDEs (most of them IMHO) but Eclipse is widely used, though not an industry standard as such. It's so painful to use though that you may as well suck it up while you're at uni because having to move from Netbeans/Intellij IDEA to Eclipse in a real job will be even more painful.
Unfortunately in the employment world too people 'above' you make decisions without apparent merit and you're stuck with them.
All the time for me, whether using a stable version or a beta, an official or a build with plugins like JBossIDE, on Windows or Linux. Which effectively renders it useless. Shame, because I quite like the editor although the IDE tools around it aren't as good as Netbeans'.
I tried IntelliJ IDEA though recently and it was really quite nice - definitely made J2EE development significantly easier.
No, I wouldn't be worried about wires sticking out, honestly. If you were going to take a bomb in a briefcase through airport security... would you leave wires sticking out?
It just needs a bit of common sense. Sadly lacking here, yet again.
They're not configured to be sensitive enough for me. It's a preference and as long as you can configure it simply I don't see the problem if it's still useable enough to get to System / Preferences / Mouse.
Whilst reviews are great, it would have been nice if he could've asked a simple question about this on the ubuntu forum - I guess Windows users aren't used to the option of doing that.
Given that the question originated from the UK, wouldn't that be voting with a Euro or a Pound instead of a US Dollar? A Euro is about as likely as a US Dollar in the UK.
I agree. Leave user things like a "date picker" and input macros to JavaScript but leave form processing to the server, you know the one you control & trust. Firefox has a plugin to alter GET and POST vars after the form is submitted & checked by JavaScript. Server does data stuff, browser does monkey see monkey do stuff.
You should do both, so you've got security server side and so that users don't chew up your bandwidth or have their time wasted to find out they've entered invalid details.
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It used to be. I'm really not so sure any more.
We use a variety of other documents that each provide a small amount of decentralized information. Drivers license, bank statements, utility bills, passport, etc. All of which we're not required to carry at all times, none of which use fixed identifiers such as biometrics.
They're planning on getting rid of passports for ID cards. It gives them a centralized database, more information on you and as the scope quietly creeps up people will be apathetic until passports are gone and they're squarely in 1984.
It isn't a big thing. It's an ID card that holds a fingerprint record. How is it bad to tie a card to a person?
The UK government has shown countless times that it's unable to keep its citzens' data secure.
If someone gets hold of my credit card and CCV number and creates a forgery I ring up and get a new one.
If someone gets hold of my finger prints, what do I do then?
...offers a pretty good solution that allows you to use real SQL, kept separate from your Java code and cleanly returns objects for your Java code to deal with. Might be worth a consideration if you haven't looked at it yet.
I'm curious... It sounds like you're using MAC filtering. That's not very secure, but it is a pain in the ass. Why not use WPA(2)?
For me, it's easier to figure out the MAC address across Windows, Linux and OSX and add them to the router than it is to figure out some variant of WPA across all of them. Of course I should take the time, but it's probably secure enough around here and if I don't bother with WPA I doubt my neighbours do.
I have yet to use a consumer router that did not want to restart after you changed router settings, and adding a new MAC address [wikipedia.org] to the access list would require a restart
...
* To mitigate my Netgear bashing slightly: I've had nothing but success with wired Netgear products.
FWIW I have a Netgear DG834G Wireless ADSL router. I can add new MAC addresses without a restart and it's been up since I bought it in February (six months?)
Not without GPS for me thanks.
Seconded. It's beyond me why this hasn't happened already. Google do it fairly well as an option with gmail and google reader for example but not with their searching?
and board member at EFF apparently.
I'd never heard of him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig
and now it seems clear that with the possible exception of Solaris that all UNIX-alikes except Linux are in their death throes
Even with the BSD lot aside, the OSX nuts are going to pull your hair out for that one.
Is the removal of restrictions from our media really that big a deal?
Yes. It just won't send the world spinning in the direction they claim.
I concur.
But then I do work for an IPTV company. Set top boxes plugged into the network, ISP managed QoS to guarantee enough bandwidth for high definition video, all piped through your plasma.
We should be helping Iran build nuclear power plants, not encouraging them to keep burning oil for power when peak oil and global warming are looming in the future.
It's almost as though it could be of benefit to the US when peak oil occurs if they can stop any other countries developing nuclear power because they'll own the majority of the reliable supply.
Because not all 676 possible TLAs are actually Java products.
...JSP, JCA, JCE, JAI...
It's crazy isn't it. What's most infuriating is it means when you go for a Java job half the time you'd get turned down because you haven't got the latest three letter abbreviation in your CV (resume) even though you're perfectly capable of churning out Java code and you'd be familiar with whichever two APIs they use most pretty quickly.
What went wrong with the USofA?
Bush?
Nah, the downfall started before him - otherwise how did he manage to get elected in the first place?
Bush?
Please, just offer a different site. It's annoying as hell when you then can't browse to the version of the site you want to because of someone else's whim.
Otherwise you're just restricting access to a site someone's specifically navigated to. Offering a second site provides all the benefits you mention of image scaling, etc. without this downside. I'm sick of having to change user agent strings just to view websites.
Yes there are better IDEs (most of them IMHO) but Eclipse is widely used, though not an industry standard as such. It's so painful to use though that you may as well suck it up while you're at uni because having to move from Netbeans/Intellij IDEA to Eclipse in a real job will be even more painful.
Unfortunately in the employment world too people 'above' you make decisions without apparent merit and you're stuck with them.
All the time for me, whether using a stable version or a beta, an official or a build with plugins like JBossIDE, on Windows or Linux. Which effectively renders it useless. Shame, because I quite like the editor although the IDE tools around it aren't as good as Netbeans'.
I tried IntelliJ IDEA though recently and it was really quite nice - definitely made J2EE development significantly easier.
No, I wouldn't be worried about wires sticking out, honestly. If you were going to take a bomb in a briefcase through airport security... would you leave wires sticking out?
It just needs a bit of common sense. Sadly lacking here, yet again.
They're not configured to be sensitive enough for me. It's a preference and as long as you can configure it simply I don't see the problem if it's still useable enough to get to System / Preferences / Mouse.
Whilst reviews are great, it would have been nice if he could've asked a simple question about this on the ubuntu forum - I guess Windows users aren't used to the option of doing that.
System / Preferences / Mouse
There's no helping people who can't figure that out.
I agree. Leave user things like a "date picker" and input macros to JavaScript but leave form processing to the server, you know the one you control & trust. Firefox has a plugin to alter GET and POST vars after the form is submitted & checked by JavaScript. Server does data stuff, browser does monkey see monkey do stuff.
You should do both, so you've got security server side and so that users don't chew up your bandwidth or have their time wasted to find out they've entered invalid details.