Unused IVF embryos collected before a nominal date would be available for medical use in australia, but not those after.
I think the nominal date was about the time they announced the proposed law, with the intention of preventing embryos beiong produced for harvesting, but allowing embryos already produced for IVF, that would ahve to be destroyed anyway, to be used for research.
You're just scratching the surface of the problem here. It goes even deeper than that. An ident daemon needs to be able to read kernel memory. Why? Think about it. You connect from host A port a to host B port b. Host B then connects to host A port 113 and says "What is the name of the user who connected to me from port a?" A normal userspace daemon has no way to answer this question. It needs to go poking around inside kernel memory in order to learn who has bound to port a.
Australian courts have juristriction in Australia. If found guilty under Australian law then they will be punished under australian law, and will have to pay 1) court costs 2) compensation.
Note that in Australian there is no concept of punitive damages, and costs are almost always paid for by the loosing party, so the sums of money are smaller then those in the US.
There is nothing about this being enforced in the US, but if the company wants to have do anything in Australia, they will have problems. The company may be based in the US, but most large companies have operations in many countries. Unless each local entity was its own corperation (and hence a person in the eyes of the law) each local office would be liable for any verdicts against the whole company.
There is a flip side to this arguemnt. If a company is based in one country, but commits a crime in another, which country should the case be heard in? Consider that unlike a person, a company can operate in many countried at the same time. Imagine that microsoft was registered in a small island country. Would that prevent the US anti-trust actions from beign heard in the US? Should Microsoft not be sued in Europ for anti-compeditive actions because it is based in the US?
I once worked for an organisation that had something like 30 seperate domains all pointing at the same server. We had about half a dozen virtual servers that pointed to subsets of the site, but most just pointed an the main website.
In a former position my manager once mentioned working on Tandem systems. I' not sure how long ago, but it would ahve been pre-90s. He described finding failed hardware years after it originaly failed. Didn't seem to matter what broke, it kept on running.
24 hours does have a natural base, it is celestial in origin.
I can't remember exactly how it works, but each day some object appeared to move 1/12th of the sky each day. Something moved on a 24-day cycle, so you could divide the night into 12 sections by using the position of this object in the sky. I can't remember exactly how this worked, but it made sense when I read it.
60 seconds/minute or minutes an hour is closer to being metric. I think it was the Babylonians, but it could have been any of the pre-Egyptian cultures that used base 60 for their number system. The source for this is a book called "Number" or something like that. I can't remember exactly, and I don't have a copy with me. I did find a book called number on amazon, but I don't think it's the correct one. As there are 672 hits for the word number in science books I can't be bothered finding it.
I know of a site that still ahs several PDP-11 (actualy PDP-11 clones) in production. This is in 2002!!!
They control a specific piece of hardware, and since they still use that hardware, the PDP's are still in use. Trouble was, when they had a disk failure, they had to find some one who could rebuild a RSX-11 system.
Again, this is from memory, but isn't acetylene the gas commonly used in whats commonly called and oxy torch? Every acetylene torch I've looked at had two cylenters, and two hoses. One was a black cylender with a white top for the oxygen, and a slightly bigger, red-brown cylender for the acetylene.
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My suggestion is to find a bank with a large ATM network if you are interested in avoiding fees. For better or worse, its the system that is there.
Other options to avoid fees. These are things you can do in Australia, so they might not work in the US or other countries.
Choose an interstate bank. If a bank doesn't have any ATMs in your state they may not charge you for using other banks ATMs.
Have a good look at the banks terms and conditions. I am in the process of re-financing my home loan with a different bank. Now I own a larger share of my house, I can get another bank to lend me money at a lower interest rate. some banks/institutions have special products if you earn over X dollars, or you are a "profesional" (IT ususaly counts).
If I get their "Gold" credit card (Visa), then I won't be charged bank fees. Even if I use the card to access my savings account (press savings rather then credit on the ATM). I get an offset account (I only pay interest on the difference between the home loan and the savings account).
Down side, the credit card comes with a limit thats just a bit higher then my current limit (like almost 4x!!!). Both myself and my wife a careful with money, so we should be alright.
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This was recently ruled illegal in Australia. There is now no restriction stoping stores from passing the surcharge onto customers.
This hasn't changed much, but its only been a few months. Most shops will offer you a discount for cash if you are buying anythign large anyway, people are just used to it that way.
Even under the old rules I've been charged extra for using a credit card. Small shop, will give you a good price on something, and when you negotiatte the price they will say "cash only", or "plus 3% for credit card".
I suggest that you contact your ex-boss, for whom you did this favor, and ask her for a letter of recommendation.
I second this. If you've been out of work for some time, and I sorta think you have by the sounds of it, a new job is going to be worth more to you then any amount you can screw out of a former employer.
If you piss off your old boss, guess what they are going to say when a prospective employer calls up. The company might have a policy of not giving references, but most people will answer specific questions over the phone. Your old boss may even know some one from the new company.
In my final year of University I tutored some first and second year CS labs. I little while ago I received and email from some one else who also tutored that year. The company he was now working for was hiring, and one of the applicants studied at our old University and was in the years we tutored. Did I, or any of the our other friends, know and remember this person? No one did, but a bad comment at that stage would have lost him the job?
Sounds unfair? Sure it is, but if your hiring some one, specialy straight out of University, you have very little to go on. You may have 10 (or 100) people with about the same skills sets, about the same skill level, and all willing to take the job at the price you want. If you know there is a slight risk in hiring person #2, of course you'll hire some one else.
The moral of this somewhat OT story? Don't burn bridges. Social networks can help you find jobs, but they can also loose you jobs, and you will never know about it.
On the resource side, I had 12 MB of memory and a 540-MB hard drive to work with.
My first linux install was a 486DX2, witn a 66Mhz chip, 4Mb of ram, and I was installing onto an 80Gb hard drive.
Before this sounds like a "When I was a Boy" story, I could install X and gcc, but not at the same time. When I say I could install X, it would run... If anyone knows the screensaver "flame", I couldn't get it to update faster then once every 5 seconds, no matter what I tried.
Just because something is possible, doesn't mean you want to do it.
Umm, 20 year old tech? Oh yeah, you mean IP. I can't remember the exact RFC number off the top of my head but the reference was always [Postel, 82].
There were a very variations, Reno and Vagas (sp?), and a few otheres, but from memory something that follows the 1982 RFC will still work.
ATM is much more modern, has many many features that IP doesn't, but hasn't taken off. Maybe if we could cut the whole world off IP to ATM overnight ATM might take off, but until then I can't see ATM being much. You throw away most of the advantages of ATM when you use it to tunnel IP, but Ethernet/IP is so much easier to make LANs out of. I don't think I've ever seen an ATM LAN, its always used in the backbone it inter site links.
I know a lot of slashdotters don't read the articles, but the editors?
They are talking about all types of computer monitors, hence the term video display terminal (VDT). They are not differentiating between LCD and CRT monitors, so your excuse to purchase a LCD just went out the window.
I'm not a VMX expert, but UCX is basically TCP/IP for VMS. I don't know if it uncludes the IP stack, but the FTP and TELNET deamons are part of the UCX package.
You might not be able to overwire kernel space, but as the application has access to multiple user accounts, you hardly need to. Why hack the kernel to get what you want, when you can trick ftpd to downloading it for you when some one with the appropriate privs log in.
By the reaction I received, and the moderation totals (up and down again) I would say I phrased the post badly. It wasn't my intention to re-write the network stack, merely to suggest bypassing it in specific cases.
I didn't want to say this was the desirable way of doing this, only that there were many options. From my original post
In short, there are hundreds of things people could do to get around this, but these measures [installing ACLs on border routers in Panama] are going to make things hard for the non-nerd to use his VOIP.
Using a different UDP port has already been discussed. People were already saying that because of the "reliable" nature of TCP it would not be possible to tunnel VOIP through a TCP connection. While their arguments were correct, it should be possible to make it look like TCP traffic to most routers. I never intended to say that this is the best way of doing it, or in fact this is at all a desirable way of doing it, only that the proposed firewall rules could be bypassed in this manner.
On a side note, using port TCP/80 would be bad, as some ISPs use transparent proxies. They use a Layer 4 switch to intercept all port 80 traffic and re-direct it to their own proxy. This works for HTTP1.0 and above because the full server name is specified in the request. If you want to use non-http on port 80 you are count to receive a HTTP error message back from the proxy.
The receiving OS would throw this packet away and send an ICMP error back
I didn't say it would be easy. You would have to access the raw TCP packet, before the OS has done anything with it. You could technically get the packet after the IP header ahd been processed, but before the OS had looked at the TCP header. To do that would involve re-writing part of the OSs TCP stack, making the task harder then it needs to be.
You'd be better off grabbing the raw Ethernet frame before the OS sees it, and rely on a firewall rule to drop the packet. If you wanted to you could use tcpdump and a shell script to grab the data, but I don't know any shell utilities that would let you send an arbitrary UDP packet with fake source information.
Trust me, I do know what I'm talking about. Something like this would probably be implemented as a gateway, rather then from the end system itself, but it is do-able. Not trivial, but do-able.
It could, but there's a reason why they avoided TCP in the first place. For phone calls, it doesn't matter if the data gets there two seconds after it was sent (ie. the reliable communication offered by TCP.) The data needs to get there now, or not at all. It's okay to have a quarter-second drop in a phone call.
Just because the data has a TCP header doesn't mean that the stack on either end has to handle it as TCP.
UDP Packet [-- IP Header --|-- UDP Header --|-- Data --]
Now I don't have a protocol chart handy, but the IP header would stay the same, and you would have to insert a valid TCP header.
[-- IP Header --|-- Fake TCP Header --|-- UDP Header --|-- Data --]
Of course the servers at either end would have to know to strip out the fake TCP header, but that wouldn't be too hard. You would have to use raw sockets to make sure the OS didn't try and handle the TCP session, but it's do-able.
The other option is to use an ICMP packet, but that would look a little fake. Or pick a diferent protocol (ie not TCP or UDP). I can't remember you large that feild is, but its at least 6 bit (0-63). Most routers don't have ACLs limiting them to ICMP/TCP/UDP.
In short, there are hundreds of things people could do to get around this, but these measures are going to make things hard for the non-nerd to use his VOIP.
A system were voting is weighted by some measure of ability is a meritocracy. I wonder what the US would look like if votes were weigted by, oh, say the cube of IQ. (IQ 126 = two votes, IQ 79 = a half vote) I'm not claiming it would guarentee a better system, but it is interesting to imagine.
I don't really think there is a correlation between intelligence and political beliefs. Same with religion, it's not easy to argue logically about these things. Take (dare I say it) gun control, or harm minimisation for drug users, or a whole lot of other contentious issues.
You can conduct studies, argue statistic, examine trials, but in the end it boiled down to personal beliefs. Some people won't feel safe unless there is a gun in the house that they can defend themselves with. Other people feel safer knowing that the law makes it exceedingly unlikely that the domestic next door will result in a shooting spree.
I'm not saying that there isn't a place for these arguments, but people tend to have a set of beliefs, and they aren't going to change them just because you come up with a cunning argument.
PS. Do not reply about gun control, or drugs, or religion. There are places to discuss these issues, but this is not the place. If you want a flame war, email me.
Coming from a country with compulsorily voting, even 70% is ridiculously low. Of course, the law doesn't say you have to vote a particular way, only that you have to turn up, have you name crossed off the list, collect your paper and drop it in the box. If you really don't like any of the candidates, don't vote for them.
One is, you go to a begger on the street and say "Here's a tin of food, worth 20 cents, that I'll give you, but you need a can opener to be able to use it. I'll sell you a can opener for $1".
The other way is "If you buy $9000 worth of software, we'll throw in another $2000 worth of free stuff. Oh yeah, we get to tell people how nice we are for giving you an 18% discount."
If I were in business I might jump at at the 18% off, but when you have very little money to begin with, well, would you rather get the MS software, or use linux and gice computers to a few more villages?
THe other thing people have said that sounds fair to me is priorities. With the problems in most of africa, what good is Net access? I partly agree, but I think that giving Web and email to schools is a good thing. A poor subsistance farmer isn't going to improve his life if he can access the latest stock prices, suft slashdot, or download porn. If he can access long range weather forcasts, find out where he can sell his produce, and teach his children.....
``My concern when the Sierra Club is going to become vigilantes with these photographs is that there be some fairness to people,'' he said. ``People should not have to prove they are not criminals.''
If I have photos proving you did something illegal, then the burden of proof is still on me as the accuser. Its just I already have proof.
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Wasn't the law something like this.
Unused IVF embryos collected before a nominal date would be available for medical use in australia, but not those after.
I think the nominal date was about the time they announced the proposed law, with the intention of preventing embryos beiong produced for harvesting, but allowing embryos already produced for IVF, that would ahve to be destroyed anyway, to be used for research.
Or use netstat (-p under linux?) or lsof.
Disclamer: I am Australian, and IANAL
Australian courts have juristriction in Australia. If found guilty under Australian law then they will be punished under australian law, and will have to pay 1) court costs 2) compensation.
Note that in Australian there is no concept of punitive damages, and costs are almost always paid for by the loosing party, so the sums of money are smaller then those in the US.
There is nothing about this being enforced in the US, but if the company wants to have do anything in Australia, they will have problems. The company may be based in the US, but most large companies have operations in many countries. Unless each local entity was its own corperation (and hence a person in the eyes of the law) each local office would be liable for any verdicts against the whole company.
There is a flip side to this arguemnt. If a company is based in one country, but commits a crime in another, which country should the case be heard in? Consider that unlike a person, a company can operate in many countried at the same time. Imagine that microsoft was registered in a small island country. Would that prevent the US anti-trust actions from beign heard in the US? Should Microsoft not be sued in Europ for anti-compeditive actions because it is based in the US?
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I once worked for an organisation that had something like 30 seperate domains all pointing at the same server. We had about half a dozen virtual servers that pointed to subsets of the site, but most just pointed an the main website.
In a former position my manager once mentioned working on Tandem systems. I' not sure how long ago, but it would ahve been pre-90s. He described finding failed hardware years after it originaly failed. Didn't seem to matter what broke, it kept on running.
24 hours does have a natural base, it is celestial in origin.
I can't remember exactly how it works, but each day some object appeared to move 1/12th of the sky each day. Something moved on a 24-day cycle, so you could divide the night into 12 sections by using the position of this object in the sky. I can't remember exactly how this worked, but it made sense when I read it.
60 seconds/minute or minutes an hour is closer to being metric. I think it was the Babylonians, but it could have been any of the pre-Egyptian cultures that used base 60 for their number system.
The source for this is a book called "Number" or something like that. I can't remember exactly, and I don't have a copy with me. I did find a book called number on amazon, but I don't think it's the correct one. As there are 672 hits for the word number in science books I can't be bothered finding it.
I know of a site that still ahs several PDP-11 (actualy PDP-11 clones) in production. This is in 2002!!!
They control a specific piece of hardware, and since they still use that hardware, the PDP's are still in use. Trouble was, when they had a disk failure, they had to find some one who could rebuild a RSX-11 system.
Again, this is from memory, but isn't acetylene the gas commonly used in whats commonly called and oxy torch? Every acetylene torch I've looked at had two cylenters, and two hoses. One was a black cylender with a white top for the oxygen, and a slightly bigger, red-brown cylender for the acetylene.
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Other options to avoid fees. These are things you can do in Australia, so they might not work in the US or other countries.
Choose an interstate bank. If a bank doesn't have any ATMs in your state they may not charge you for using other banks ATMs.
Have a good look at the banks terms and conditions. I am in the process of re-financing my home loan with a different bank. Now I own a larger share of my house, I can get another bank to lend me money at a lower interest rate. some banks/institutions have special products if you earn over X dollars, or you are a "profesional" (IT ususaly counts).
If I get their "Gold" credit card (Visa), then I won't be charged bank fees. Even if I use the card to access my savings account (press savings rather then credit on the ATM). I get an offset account (I only pay interest on the difference between the home loan and the savings account).
Down side, the credit card comes with a limit thats just a bit higher then my current limit (like almost 4x!!!). Both myself and my wife a careful with money, so we should be alright.
This was recently ruled illegal in Australia. There is now no restriction stoping stores from passing the surcharge onto customers.
This hasn't changed much, but its only been a few months. Most shops will offer you a discount for cash if you are buying anythign large anyway, people are just used to it that way.
Even under the old rules I've been charged extra for using a credit card. Small shop, will give you a good price on something, and when you negotiatte the price they will say "cash only", or "plus 3% for credit card".
I second this. If you've been out of work for some time, and I sorta think you have by the sounds of it, a new job is going to be worth more to you then any amount you can screw out of a former employer.
If you piss off your old boss, guess what they are going to say when a prospective employer calls up. The company might have a policy of not giving references, but most people will answer specific questions over the phone. Your old boss may even know some one from the new company.
In my final year of University I tutored some first and second year CS labs. I little while ago I received and email from some one else who also tutored that year. The company he was now working for was hiring, and one of the applicants studied at our old University and was in the years we tutored. Did I, or any of the our other friends, know and remember this person? No one did, but a bad comment at that stage would have lost him the job?
Sounds unfair? Sure it is, but if your hiring some one, specialy straight out of University, you have very little to go on. You may have 10 (or 100) people with about the same skills sets, about the same skill level, and all willing to take the job at the price you want. If you know there is a slight risk in hiring person #2, of course you'll hire some one else.
The moral of this somewhat OT story? Don't burn bridges. Social networks can help you find jobs, but they can also loose you jobs, and you will never know about it.
I'll have a look at that. Does it work in ed? (don't laugh, I have to use that sometimes)
Opps.
0,$s/GB/MB/g
Mind you, it handled the 4GB disk quite well, once linux booted. Of course, it had a bit more ram then.
My first linux install was a 486DX2, witn a 66Mhz chip, 4Mb of ram, and I was installing onto an 80Gb hard drive.
Before this sounds like a "When I was a Boy" story, I could install X and gcc, but not at the same time. When I say I could install X, it would run
Just because something is possible, doesn't mean you want to do it.
Umm, 20 year old tech? Oh yeah, you mean IP. I can't remember the exact RFC number off the top of my head but the reference was always [Postel, 82].
There were a very variations, Reno and Vagas (sp?), and a few otheres, but from memory something that follows the 1982 RFC will still work.
ATM is much more modern, has many many features that IP doesn't, but hasn't taken off. Maybe if we could cut the whole world off IP to ATM overnight ATM might take off, but until then I can't see ATM being much. You throw away most of the advantages of ATM when you use it to tunnel IP, but Ethernet/IP is so much easier to make LANs out of. I don't think I've ever seen an ATM LAN, its always used in the backbone it inter site links.
I know a lot of slashdotters don't read the articles, but the editors?
They are talking about all types of computer monitors, hence the term video display terminal (VDT). They are not differentiating between LCD and CRT monitors, so your excuse to purchase a LCD just went out the window.
I'm not a VMX expert, but UCX is basically TCP/IP for VMS. I don't know if it uncludes the IP stack, but the FTP and TELNET deamons are part of the UCX package.
You might not be able to overwire kernel space, but as the application has access to multiple user accounts, you hardly need to. Why hack the kernel to get what you want, when you can trick ftpd to downloading it for you when some one with the appropriate privs log in.
I didn't want to say this was the desirable way of doing this, only that there were many options. From my original post
Using a different UDP port has already been discussed. People were already saying that because of the "reliable" nature of TCP it would not be possible to tunnel VOIP through a TCP connection. While their arguments were correct, it should be possible to make it look like TCP traffic to most routers. I never intended to say that this is the best way of doing it, or in fact this is at all a desirable way of doing it, only that the proposed firewall rules could be bypassed in this manner.
On a side note, using port TCP/80 would be bad, as some ISPs use transparent proxies. They use a Layer 4 switch to intercept all port 80 traffic and re-direct it to their own proxy. This works for HTTP1.0 and above because the full server name is specified in the request. If you want to use non-http on port 80 you are count to receive a HTTP error message back from the proxy.
I didn't say it would be easy. You would have to access the raw TCP packet, before the OS has done anything with it. You could technically get the packet after the IP header ahd been processed, but before the OS had looked at the TCP header. To do that would involve re-writing part of the OSs TCP stack, making the task harder then it needs to be.
You'd be better off grabbing the raw Ethernet frame before the OS sees it, and rely on a firewall rule to drop the packet. If you wanted to you could use tcpdump and a shell script to grab the data, but I don't know any shell utilities that would let you send an arbitrary UDP packet with fake source information.
Trust me, I do know what I'm talking about. Something like this would probably be implemented as a gateway, rather then from the end system itself, but it is do-able. Not trivial, but do-able.
Just because the data has a TCP header doesn't mean that the stack on either end has to handle it as TCP.
UDP Packet
[-- IP Header --|-- UDP Header --|-- Data --]
Now I don't have a protocol chart handy, but the IP header would stay the same, and you would have to insert a valid TCP header.
[-- IP Header --|-- Fake TCP Header --|-- UDP Header --|-- Data --]
Of course the servers at either end would have to know to strip out the fake TCP header, but that wouldn't be too hard. You would have to use raw sockets to make sure the OS didn't try and handle the TCP session, but it's do-able.
The other option is to use an ICMP packet, but that would look a little fake. Or pick a diferent protocol (ie not TCP or UDP). I can't remember you large that feild is, but its at least 6 bit (0-63). Most routers don't have ACLs limiting them to ICMP/TCP/UDP.
In short, there are hundreds of things people could do to get around this, but these measures are going to make things hard for the non-nerd to use his VOIP.
I don't really think there is a correlation between intelligence and political beliefs. Same with religion, it's not easy to argue logically about these things. Take (dare I say it) gun control, or harm minimisation for drug users, or a whole lot of other contentious issues.
You can conduct studies, argue statistic, examine trials, but in the end it boiled down to personal beliefs. Some people won't feel safe unless there is a gun in the house that they can defend themselves with. Other people feel safer knowing that the law makes it exceedingly unlikely that the domestic next door will result in a shooting spree.
I'm not saying that there isn't a place for these arguments, but people tend to have a set of beliefs, and they aren't going to change them just because you come up with a cunning argument.
PS. Do not reply about gun control, or drugs, or religion. There are places to discuss these issues, but this is not the place. If you want a flame war, email me.
Coming from a country with compulsorily voting, even 70% is ridiculously low. Of course, the law doesn't say you have to vote a particular way, only that you have to turn up, have you name crossed off the list, collect your paper and drop it in the box. If you really don't like any of the candidates, don't vote for them.
Umm, There are two ways of looking at this.
One is, you go to a begger on the street and say "Here's a tin of food, worth 20 cents, that I'll give you, but you need a can opener to be able to use it. I'll sell you a can opener for $1".
The other way is "If you buy $9000 worth of software, we'll throw in another $2000 worth of free stuff. Oh yeah, we get to tell people how nice we are for giving you an 18% discount."
If I were in business I might jump at at the 18% off, but when you have very little money to begin with, well, would you rather get the MS software, or use linux and gice computers to a few more villages?
THe other thing people have said that sounds fair to me is priorities. With the problems in most of africa, what good is Net access? I partly agree, but I think that giving Web and email to schools is a good thing. A poor subsistance farmer isn't going to improve his life if he can access the latest stock prices, suft slashdot, or download porn. If he can access long range weather forcasts, find out where he can sell his produce, and teach his children.....
If I have photos proving you did something illegal, then the burden of proof is still on me as the accuser. Its just I already have proof.