The prevention of a felon from voting seems an odd rule. Surely if you have performed the punishment for a crime or crimes your punishment is done. You should then be able to vote.
Just because person x has lead a shady past their views are just as valid as anyone elses and so should be able to express those views by voting for the candidate they wish too?
Hmm, so mainframe software is better, why exactly? I run a 106 Unix server farm, and the majority of the problems I suffer from are from mainframe issues...
I ran the installer, it was about to clode firefox (11 tabs open) so I said cancel that. It closed firefox anyway, grrr..
Anyway, what's in it for google? I see no adverts, is this a "capture the desktop" move with more google stuff and make it free? I have a funny feeling that soon MS has the PC desktop and Google clutters it with stuff. Is there a Linux version too, could be handy on my Suse machine.
Arrgh, InnocentHobbyAndNotEvilHackers was my password:)
Your right I don't, but then do I sign up to newletter etc. with this password? no.
If my password is used for my bank, well yes I use the stronger password. If it's compromised, well it's the banks problem for not forcing me to change passwords and making me use a hard to guess password.
My original point of forcing a user to change a password every month doesn't work still stands, changing a password from fred123 to fred124 doesn't work, if an account is compromised the first thing I would try if cracking would be to increment the magic numebr at the end by one. Realistically this is what the user does as it's easy to remember!
I would rather use a very hard to remember/crack single password than just rotate through a number of easy passwords, but to be honnest I would prefer to use a password protected key based security model with a random (like secure ID) element included. By then you get into the security/usability arguments though.
If all forms of P2P are illegal, then the Internet is, also.
Not sure on this one, the file I recived this morning from Amazon was transfered with HTTP, they have a server I have a client we are not peers
The same would go for ftp, however bittorrent is a peer to peer network. That said I would rather keep peer to peer network as they distribute the load, I like to be able to download Linux distros as a bittorrent. This example actually helps the small guy as they don't need to buy a big ftp server and bandwidth to host their distro.
Peer to peer should not be illegal as it's a transport method.
I love the change your password every x weeks rule.
I have a good secure password that I use for my own stuff and rarely change it, it's long and not even close to a real word.
At work I suffer from the change your password to a hard to guess/remember version, my password becomes a word with a few numbers at the end as it's easy to increment and change every month.
Another case where too much security actually reduces security!
3) Europe gets very cold (like Canadian winters)4) It's cold there's plenty of ice sat on Europe, albedo rates go up
5) The pesky ice sheets get bigger and the ocean is more saline
6)NADW starts up again
7) it's warmer in europe
8)ice sheets melt etc..
Surely I am missing something here, there's a huge amount of stuff in nature that seems to do this. If the world gets warm due to too much CO2 for example shelled creatures do well as there is more material to make shells with and take CO2 out of the atmosphere amd make limestone. But I hear you cry, how do they get more food, well a nice side effect of warm climates is more rain, which causes more nutrient rich detritus to be washed into the oceans.
Anyway my £0.02 worth, and speaking as an exgeologist it's been a lot warmer and colder before now, it wasn't that long ago that the "hockey stick" temperature graph was seen to be wrong and the climate isn't warming as quickly as we thought.
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Interesting point, but I don't go to work to have fun. I go to work to pay for the fun things I like to do, maybe I sould find a job as a bike riding, diving, rugby playing, book reading, cinema goer.
There's just something nagging in the back of my mind that makes me think that I am not alone.
On the other hand I have an IT job (unix admin) and I used to enjoy my job, but now it's dull and high preasured (if that's possible). Maybe I should have been a lumberjack....
Ah good, Sun has finally got the idea of a good LVM rather than disksuite or go and buy Veritas.
On the other hand, what's this Silent Date Corruption they are on about? Makes me worry about the existing Solaris filesystems.
Hopefully a decent LVM for Linux will happen soon, IBM's AIX LVM is quite simple to use and would have been very nice to have been included in the Linux Kernel, just install the OS, it makes all the filesystems you require, quite small and then just grow as need be. The implementation of LVM at the moment for Linux is poor, partition this bit and then this, and then make an LVM partition and partition that.../P
Don't worry about the cost, we have 4 fairly big catalist switches, they have failed 5 times this year with hardware faults and 3 or 4 times with odd glitches which a reboot fixes.
I'm with you on that one, just taken my last 2 days holiday as an ex-employer called me with some interesting work (nice to get the extra cash too).
Been stuck on a project as one of 4 unix admins and seen as the most experienced, which means people don't ask me to do anything trivial or even slightly non-unix. After a 2 week vacation the sum total of my working day I got back was to login and type:
cd/data du -sk *
when asked what was taking all the space in the DB2 data directory... Sadly that's been the highlight for the last three weeks now. Looking forward to the new (not mine) client, new system need install and training.
I am polishing my CV and struggling to get out of bed in the mornings as I really don't se the point.
But being home with a virus this weekend, and having run out of new Anime DVDs to watch,
I have mostly found on a Friday it's not the weekend, I dearly wish for the late afternoon meeting or system problem to to bother me on a Friday, particually before watching DVDs all day and then reading a book and writing the review ready for slashdot.
Reminds me of last christmas, my father has nipped to the bank on the way to pickup the christmas turkey. He was run over on the pavement by a driver with no insurance ot MOT. The police went to get the tape of the event (was outside the bank) and didn't bother until 5-6 weeks later when the tape had been overwritten... great survelence but what's the point??
"And Britain is acknowledged as the world leader of Orwellian surveillance -- perhaps because it has the experience of Irish terrorism, and is on guard for even worse today."
Hmm Irish terrorism was such a breeze, the IRA have proven to be far more effective than the current threats in the UK. Again we have another 9/11 slant on an article. I assume that we in the UK didn't bother building this huge infrastructure until after 9/11, oh, that's right we did.
Hmm, could be worse. In the UK we have a law that can be used to prevent ANY device for circumventing copyright (playstation chips from a couple of days ago caught by this).
It's only a matter of time before my pen is illegal, hang on it already is the police just haven't got to me yet.
But what's the point? Who exactly are the enimies of the Sweedish Navy? Does this signal more Viking hordes invading Western Europe?
Anyway this technology is genrally used against radar and so technologicaly advanced enemies - so how does this help stop the terroroist who can see the ship in port?
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Just because person x has lead a shady past their views are just as valid as anyone elses and so should be able to express those views by voting for the candidate they wish too?
Hmm, so mainframe software is better, why exactly? I run a 106 Unix server farm, and the majority of the problems I suffer from are from mainframe issues...
Anyway, what's in it for google? I see no adverts, is this a "capture the desktop" move with more google stuff and make it free? I have a funny feeling that soon MS has the PC desktop and Google clutters it with stuff. Is there a Linux version too, could be handy on my Suse machine.
Your right I don't, but then do I sign up to newletter etc. with this password? no.
If my password is used for my bank, well yes I use the stronger password. If it's compromised, well it's the banks problem for not forcing me to change passwords and making me use a hard to guess password.
My original point of forcing a user to change a password every month doesn't work still stands, changing a password from fred123 to fred124 doesn't work, if an account is compromised the first thing I would try if cracking would be to increment the magic numebr at the end by one. Realistically this is what the user does as it's easy to remember!
I would rather use a very hard to remember/crack single password than just rotate through a number of easy passwords, but to be honnest I would prefer to use a password protected key based security model with a random (like secure ID) element included. By then you get into the security/usability arguments though.
Not sure on this one, the file I recived this morning from Amazon was transfered with HTTP, they have a server I have a client we are not peers
The same would go for ftp, however bittorrent is a peer to peer network. That said I would rather keep peer to peer network as they distribute the load, I like to be able to download Linux distros as a bittorrent. This example actually helps the small guy as they don't need to buy a big ftp server and bandwidth to host their distro.
Peer to peer should not be illegal as it's a transport method.
I have a good secure password that I use for my own stuff and rarely change it, it's long and not even close to a real word.
At work I suffer from the change your password to a hard to guess/remember version, my password becomes a word with a few numbers at the end as it's easy to increment and change every month.
Another case where too much security actually reduces security!
Sounds to me like he was just trying to keepup with the BMW infront.
Hey don't worry there was a lot of people in the UK that were, and still are anti-war. The gov just ignored them and went to war anyway.
1) Earth gets hot
2) Ice sheets melt
3) Europe gets very cold (like Canadian winters)4) It's cold there's plenty of ice sat on Europe, albedo rates go up
5) The pesky ice sheets get bigger and the ocean is more saline
6)NADW starts up again
7) it's warmer in europe
8)ice sheets melt etc..
Surely I am missing something here, there's a huge amount of stuff in nature that seems to do this. If the world gets warm due to too much CO2 for example shelled creatures do well as there is more material to make shells with and take CO2 out of the atmosphere amd make limestone. But I hear you cry, how do they get more food, well a nice side effect of warm climates is more rain, which causes more nutrient rich detritus to be washed into the oceans.
Anyway my £0.02 worth, and speaking as an exgeologist it's been a lot warmer and colder before now, it wasn't that long ago that the "hockey stick" temperature graph was seen to be wrong and the climate isn't warming as quickly as we thought.
There's just something nagging in the back of my mind that makes me think that I am not alone.
On the other hand I have an IT job (unix admin) and I used to enjoy my job, but now it's dull and high preasured (if that's possible). Maybe I should have been a lumberjack....
Ah good, Sun has finally got the idea of a good LVM rather than disksuite or go and buy Veritas.
On the other hand, what's this Silent Date Corruption they are on about? Makes me worry about the existing Solaris filesystems.
Hopefully a decent LVM for Linux will happen soon, IBM's AIX LVM is quite simple to use and would have been very nice to have been included in the Linux Kernel, just install the OS, it makes all the filesystems you require, quite small and then just grow as need be. The implementation of LVM at the moment for Linux is poor, partition this bit and then this, and then make an LVM partition and partition that... /P
Don't worry about the cost, we have 4 fairly big catalist switches, they have failed 5 times this year with hardware faults and 3 or 4 times with odd glitches which a reboot fixes.
I'm with you on that one, just taken my last 2 days holiday as an ex-employer called me with some interesting work (nice to get the extra cash too).
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Been stuck on a project as one of 4 unix admins and seen as the most experienced, which means people don't ask me to do anything trivial or even slightly non-unix. After a 2 week vacation the sum total of my working day I got back was to login and type:
cd
du -sk *
when asked what was taking all the space in the DB2 data directory... Sadly that's been the highlight for the last three weeks now. Looking forward to the new (not mine) client, new system need install and training.
I am polishing my CV and struggling to get out of bed in the mornings as I really don't se the point.
Hmm did something for me, the quote:
But being home with a virus this weekend, and having run out of new Anime DVDs to watch,
I have mostly found on a Friday it's not the weekend, I dearly wish for the late afternoon meeting or system problem to to bother me on a Friday, particually before watching DVDs all day and then reading a book and writing the review ready for slashdot.
I assume that you didn't read the article, I was simple quoting the original.
Reminds me of last christmas, my father has nipped to the bank on the way to pickup the christmas turkey. He was run over on the pavement by a driver with no insurance ot MOT. The police went to get the tape of the event (was outside the bank) and didn't bother until 5-6 weeks later when the tape had been overwritten... great survelence but what's the point??
"And Britain is acknowledged as the world leader of Orwellian surveillance -- perhaps because it has the experience of Irish terrorism, and is on guard for even worse today." Hmm Irish terrorism was such a breeze, the IRA have proven to be far more effective than the current threats in the UK. Again we have another 9/11 slant on an article. I assume that we in the UK didn't bother building this huge infrastructure until after 9/11, oh, that's right we did.
Hmm, could be worse. In the UK we have a law that can be used to prevent ANY device for circumventing copyright (playstation chips from a couple of days ago caught by this). It's only a matter of time before my pen is illegal, hang on it already is the police just haven't got to me yet.
But what's the point? Who exactly are the enimies of the Sweedish Navy? Does this signal more Viking hordes invading Western Europe? Anyway this technology is genrally used against radar and so technologicaly advanced enemies - so how does this help stop the terroroist who can see the ship in port?