Yes there is, in most parts of the world you just use a pay as you go sim (bought anonymously), then purchase internet service on a month by month basis using credits bought in any supermarket for cash. Here in the Netherlands its around 10 euro
not completely sure, but i believe that in Sweden, the court in the end of the case examines legal costs and only accepts "reasonable" costs, of course that opens up for some levy, but I doubt you would get away with 10M costs in a 10k case. Of course its up to you if you would spend that amount on a case, but you wouldn't get it all back even if you win.
Whats wrong with the system we have in sweden - looser pays all legal costs.
That way you dont need to counter sue everytime, and even big corps wont take you to court unless they think they'l win
Of course it would hurt if the small guy sues big corp and looses, but thats not different in the us, so I dont think we are worse of in that perspective.
The only time a strong world government is remotely possible is in light of foreign invaders. And by foreign, I mean extraterrestrial.
You miss an obvious point. If somebody comes here from another world, they have an distinct technological advantage. If anything history has shown that wars are won by the one having that advantage, so basically there wont be any invasions from space that we expel. - sorry to burst your bubble.
You only need to go to Japan, there most people only use their phones for email, many dont even have a pc/laptop since they dont see all that much use for one, their phones do a pretty good job att keeping people connected in the email universe.
Their basic client is free and works for win & os x - You can even control one os from the other.
No firewall / router config whatsoever. Ask the other party to go to the teamviewer download page, install and just tell you their id and password - clearly displayed on the screen - and your in.
Can also be set up in advance so you can connect to your own remote workstation.
Only drawback is that it doesnt support linux - but for linux workstations I would prefer NX (nomachine.com) over vnc any day. Also free.
Thats basically the same logic people refusing to use safety belts are using.
If you think hard enough you can imagine a scenario where you would be worse of if you were stuck in your safety belt after the initial accident, but for each such scenario, the number of cases where safety belts would save you outnumbers that freak accident by propably 1000 to 1. So generally there will always be random odd border cases, but safety and economics are all about statistics, if something is usefull and makes sense 999 times, the 1000th time must be considered unfortunate but worth the prize, even if that isnt any consolation for the victim in that specific case.
My spelling has always been awfull regardless of language;)
I see audiobooks as a compliment to paperbacks, when driving / walking it's hard to read, also when doing garden work and similar audio books comes handy, but I still like to read. I guess I spend about half my reading time using audios.
Whilst not suitable for reference material, audiobooks seems much more suitable for portable usage. No big screen device to carry arround, and you get to keep your eyes for other purposes - driving, cycling, looking where you are walking etc.
At least in Sweden, the audiobook scene have exploded the last couple of years, many books are released as audios at the same time as the first print hardcovers hit the bookstores.
We even have a few online streaming services for listening to audiobooks directly from the phone/computer without the hazzle of first downloading or copying CD discs to the desired listening device.
Not everybody likes to listen to books, and more odd titles propably wont be recorded, but for the titles available it's quite convenient.
Sorry if my post came out as a whine, wasnt my intention. Of course anybody could do it in therory, but I'm not that guy.
My intention wasnt to slam the initiative, just a comment that so far its linux only, since that isnt the platform Im using, it just means that I have to wait a while until I can port my stuff to the Maemo platform.
Also worth to mention is that this implementation is linux only. Isnt on of the main purposes with languages like python/perl/java that they should be platform neutral?
Your comment is rather stereotypical for an US perspective, why on on all earth should a US minimum wage be part of an international trade agreement?
With that logic, should there be extra tariffs when US companies tries to compete on markets where there is a functional union system, that makes salaries in those countries higher? You know in most EU countries there actually is such a thing as workers' rights...
Should the US be enforced to actually _have_ a working healthcare system for everybody in order to be allowed to export to any country that has one?
Why doesn't anybody suggest the obvious first guess, the reporting guy had a local dns problem, either his office or his provider accidentally misconfigured something.
Doesnt have to be this of course but I usually assume that the risk for human errors are larger the lower in the food chain you go, and the redundancies also are fewer, so instead of assuming all of China lost google, why not start by digging and looking around how spread the issue is first?
In 90% of all cases you find the problem in the first or second step if you search bottom up for net issues.
Just a guess, but since they typically dont run an antivirus app in the background, both cpu and disk can idle more.
Not trying to be a macista, but I can only note that I still get around 4h wifi surfing at medium brightness out of my two year old macbook, so apple definitely do give reasonably honest battery estimates.
In sweden all general land areas are per definition public, only exception is the imediate surroundings of a house, farming fields with crops growing and of course military/industrial sites. But the later are not realy a problem, typicaly they are fenced.
Mostly it works quite ok, if you walk through the forest and happen to come upon a house, you just keep more or less out of sight, or at least outside the parts where they have cut the grass short. In the rural areas people quite often doesnt bother with fences, unless they want to keep animals out or in.
Sounds a bit expensive, here in Sweden two of the major carriers have flatrate talk/unlimited data, the other two have flatrate talk/5gb for aprox 45£. I usually download 80-90 GB/month over 3g and have done for a year and have gotten no complaints. Since I move around a lot I never saw the need for any adsl. Please dont ask about what I'm downloading;)/jl
Well for one thing in many countries the carriers dont even bother to support 2.5G since they already have full 3g support.
So for me in Sweden, no 3g would be a deal breaker, true that one of the swedish carriers actually support 2.5 but since they also support 3g it really wouldnt be wise to select a 2.5g phone, since then I would be locked in to that one carrier.
Also regarding ping-times, Im sitting at the Europython conference in Vilnius, I connected my phone and even with international roaming (to Sweden) I still get ping-times of around 220ms.
If I not mistaken, A law (like a demand for ODF) in one EU member country, can be used against other EU members indirectly-
Belgian companiess can start sending ODF docs to other countries, anybody complaining on that format would get slammed with "attempt to hinder free competition" So if Belgium goes this way, all other countries will have to at least accept ODF docs from Belgian companies
Maybe I was unclear, I didnt mention it in the post but I work in Sweden, and here we dont have the same tradition of suing people. Not because we are nice guys, more because the fines here are not very high, so going to court is not normally a way to turn a profit. You would more propably sue somebody if you wanted to taint there records if (you belive) they really are crocked, but only if you have a reasonably good case. Here the loser pays all legal expences, and also a corp losing to the "little guy" is very bad PR in the media.
What I ment was that if I did experience an helpful intruder, I woudlnt go after him per se, but would focus very much on asuming a total penetration and work on making sure nobody else gets in and that I have som dammage control.
If he seems like a reasonable person, and he checks out OK, I might even bring him on the team, but my gut reaction would be to distrust him until proven otherwise./JacobL
While I do agree with you, that a kid reporting an error and perhaps even a sugested solution, would be regarded as helpful and something of a "white-hat" on a private perspective
However one thing that has changed since the early eighties is that now there is usually quite a bit more money involved.
Now accountability is a big concern.
If that kid was into a system I admin, I must realize that even if he propably just is helpful, I still cant be sure, after all he was in there, where he shouldnt have been, who knows what he did and discover but not tell me about.
And thats what its all about, ne one side I have a complete stranger who claims that he has been in one of my systems, found a few bugs, and have a few suggestions, one the other side is that the only way to be sure of system integrity is to asume that the system is completely penetraded, and do a very expensive security checkup, to see how much damage that _could_ have occured.
If I trust the kid, and he happens to be a black-hat - poof - there goes my job
If he turns out to be a white-hat, well in that case he was nice and not much won for either me or my clients (since we have to do an expensive audit anyhow)
So I would asume he was a black-hat, cause if he wasnt, I havent lost much... Maybe synical, but thats how it works./Jacob Lundqvist
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Yes there is,
in most parts of the world you just use a pay as you go sim (bought anonymously), then purchase internet service on a month by month basis using credits bought in any supermarket for cash. Here in the Netherlands its around 10 euro
not completely sure, but i believe that in Sweden, the court in the end of the case examines legal costs and only accepts "reasonable" costs, of course that opens up for some levy, but I doubt you would get away with 10M costs in a 10k case. Of course its up to you if you would spend that amount on a case, but you wouldn't get it all back even if you win.
Whats wrong with the system we have in sweden - looser pays all legal costs.
That way you dont need to counter sue everytime, and even big corps wont take you to court unless they think they'l win
Of course it would hurt if the small guy sues big corp and looses, but thats not different in the us, so I dont think we are worse of in that perspective.
You miss an obvious point. If somebody comes here from another world, they have an distinct technological advantage. If anything history has shown that wars are won by the one having that advantage, so basically there wont be any invasions from space that we expel. - sorry to burst your bubble.
You only need to go to Japan, there most people only use their phones for email, many dont even have a pc/laptop since they dont see all that much use for one, their phones do a pretty good job att keeping people connected in the email universe.
Their basic client is free and works for win & os x - You can even control one os from the other.
No firewall / router config whatsoever. Ask the other party to go to the teamviewer download page, install and just tell you their id and password - clearly displayed on the screen - and your in.
Can also be set up in advance so you can connect to your own remote workstation.
Only drawback is that it doesnt support linux - but for linux workstations I would prefer NX (nomachine.com) over vnc any day. Also free.
There is already a method for supporting multiple binary formats.
It's called source code
Thats basically the same logic people refusing to use safety belts are using.
If you think hard enough you can imagine a scenario where you would be worse of if you were stuck in your safety belt after the initial accident, but for each such scenario, the number of cases where safety belts would save you outnumbers that freak accident by propably 1000 to 1. So generally there will always be random odd border cases, but safety and economics are all about statistics, if something is usefull and makes sense 999 times, the 1000th time must be considered unfortunate but worth the prize, even if that isnt any consolation for the victim in that specific case.
My spelling has always been awfull regardless of language ;)
I see audiobooks as a compliment to paperbacks, when driving / walking it's hard to read, also when doing garden work and similar audio books comes handy, but I still like to read. I guess I spend about half my reading time using audios.
Whilst not suitable for reference material, audiobooks seems much more suitable for portable usage. No big screen device to carry arround, and you get to keep your eyes for other purposes - driving, cycling, looking where you are walking etc.
At least in Sweden, the audiobook scene have exploded the last couple of years, many books are released as audios at the same time as the first print hardcovers hit the bookstores.
We even have a few online streaming services for listening to audiobooks directly from the phone/computer without the hazzle of first downloading or copying CD discs to the desired listening device.
Not everybody likes to listen to books, and more odd titles propably wont be recorded, but for the titles available it's quite convenient.
Sorry if my post came out as a whine, wasnt my intention.
Of course anybody could do it in therory, but I'm not that guy.
My intention wasnt to slam the initiative, just a comment that so far its linux only, since that isnt the platform Im using, it just means that I have to wait a while until I can port my stuff to the Maemo platform.
Also worth to mention is that this implementation is linux only. Isnt on of the main purposes with languages like python/perl/java that they should be platform neutral?
Reasonable demand, but I think the original question was along the lines of not completely understanding "your" intent...
Your comment is rather stereotypical for an US perspective, why on on all earth should a US minimum wage be part of an international trade agreement?
With that logic, should there be extra tariffs when US companies tries to compete on markets where there is a functional union system, that makes salaries in those countries higher? You know in most EU countries there actually is such a thing as workers' rights...
Should the US be enforced to actually _have_ a working healthcare system for everybody in order to be allowed to export to any country that has one?
Why doesn't anybody suggest the obvious first guess, the reporting guy had a local dns problem, either his office or his provider accidentally misconfigured something.
Doesnt have to be this of course but I usually assume that the risk for human errors are larger the lower in the food chain you go, and the redundancies also are fewer, so instead of assuming all of China lost google, why not start by digging and looking around how spread the issue is first?
In 90% of all cases you find the problem in the first or second step if you search bottom up for net issues.
Just a guess, but since they typically dont run an antivirus app in the background, both cpu and disk can idle more.
Not trying to be a macista, but I can only note that I still get around 4h wifi surfing at medium brightness out of my two year old macbook, so apple definitely do give reasonably honest battery estimates.
In sweden all general land areas are per definition public, only exception is the imediate surroundings of a house, farming fields with crops growing and of course military/industrial sites. But the later are not realy a problem, typicaly they are fenced.
Mostly it works quite ok, if you walk through the forest and happen to come upon a house, you just keep more or less out of sight, or at least outside the parts where they have cut the grass short. In the rural areas people quite often doesnt bother with fences, unless they want to keep animals out or in.
So its a nice country for trecking!
Sounds a bit expensive, here in Sweden two of the major carriers have flatrate talk/unlimited data, the other two have flatrate talk/5gb for aprox 45£. ;) /jl
I usually download 80-90 GB/month over 3g and have done for a year and have gotten no complaints.
Since I move around a lot I never saw the need for any adsl.
Please dont ask about what I'm downloading
Why would anybody want to invade an uninhabitable USA?
If there isnt anything/anybody there it wouldnt be of any use whatsoever...
I also use TOR every now and then, but I dont think it is a silver-bullet for DRM stuff.
If usage would increase to much of TOR, ISPs would either on their own account block it, or be forced to by authorities.
Even if it is "impossible" to see what goes on in the TOR cloud, it can be blocked.
On the frontpage of 365 Main, the top item in "In the news" is:
RedEnvelope Reports Two Years of Continuous Uptime at 365 Main's San Francisco Data Center. Online Retailer Also Cuts Energy Costs by 33 Percent.
Well for one thing in many countries the carriers dont even bother to support 2.5G since they already have full 3g support.
/JacobL
So for me in Sweden, no 3g would be a deal breaker, true that one of the swedish carriers actually support 2.5 but since they also support 3g it really wouldnt be wise to select a 2.5g phone, since then I would be locked in to that one carrier.
Also regarding ping-times, Im sitting at the Europython conference in Vilnius, I connected my phone and even with international roaming (to Sweden) I still get ping-times of around 220ms.
regards
If I not mistaken, A law (like a demand for ODF) in one EU member country, can be used against other EU members indirectly-
Belgian companiess can start sending ODF docs to other countries, anybody complaining on that format would get slammed with "attempt to hinder free competition" So if Belgium goes this way, all other countries will have to at least accept ODF docs from Belgian companies
Maybe I was unclear, I didnt mention it in the post but I work in Sweden, and here we dont have the same tradition of suing people. Not because we are nice guys, more because the fines here are not very high, so going to court is not normally a way to turn a profit. You would more propably sue somebody if you wanted to taint there records if (you belive) they really are crocked, but only if you have a reasonably good case. Here the loser pays all legal expences, and also a corp losing to the "little guy" is very bad PR in the media.
/JacobL
What I ment was that if I did experience an helpful intruder, I woudlnt go after him per se, but would focus very much on asuming a total penetration and work on making sure nobody else gets in and that I have som dammage control.
If he seems like a reasonable person, and he checks out OK, I might even bring him on the team, but my gut reaction would be to distrust him until proven otherwise.
One problem is accountabilitty,
/Jacob Lundqvist
While I do agree with you, that a kid reporting an error and perhaps even a sugested solution, would be regarded as helpful and something of a "white-hat" on a private perspective
However one thing that has changed since the early eighties is that now there is usually quite a bit more money involved.
Now accountability is a big concern.
If that kid was into a system I admin, I must realize that even if he propably just is helpful, I still cant be sure, after all he was in there, where he shouldnt have been, who knows what he did and discover but not tell me about.
And thats what its all about, ne one side I have a complete stranger who claims that he has been in one of my systems, found a few bugs, and have a few suggestions, one the other side is that the only way to be sure of system integrity is to asume that the system is completely penetraded, and do a very expensive security checkup, to see how much damage that _could_ have occured.
If I trust the kid, and he happens to be a black-hat - poof - there goes my job
If he turns out to be a white-hat, well in that case he was nice and not much won for either me or my clients (since we have to do an expensive audit anyhow)
So I would asume he was a black-hat, cause if he wasnt, I havent lost much... Maybe synical, but thats how it works.