The cops who murdered that Brazilian electrician on the tube
A incident back in 2005, if I recall correctly, the call for reduction of arms increased even further in the police forces because of that incident.
There was also that killing during the G20 protests about which little will be done.
I'm not trying to even defend the police with this comment, however I do remember it being more than just a "protest" and a lot of vandalism taking place, including the smashing up of a RBS branch, looting and general violence. Extreme situations can bring out the worst in people and unfortunately no amount of screening will help 100% until it actually happens.
The British police aren't heaven anymore. Seen the news coming from there recently?
Considering how publicized any single missdeed the British police does and how many restrictive controls are in place to prevent abuse. It is my opinion that due to the organisational structure and public participation, that the British police are still one of the best police forces in the world.
And this is in slashdot because they sent their waste to the "wrong" country, this happens all the time in Africans and poor Asian countries, but you just dont hear of it.
It's a whole 99 dollars a year and easily affordable for any indie developer.
This indie developer says otherwise.
When you have to consider the cost of an xbox 360, the xbox gold subscription and then another subscription on top. It's not very cheap in my opinion unless you happen to already own the first two already. This is ignoring the fact that the express development tools aren't really that great to begin with and you'll end up needing a different version of visual studio just so you can get access to a few APIs.
I investigated the costs involved and determined that due to my limited income that this was too expensive to develop for the 360. I strongly disagree with your "easily affordable for any indie developer" comment.
Actually, as much of a PITA as Microsoft is, they've actually made the XNA toolkit available for free to indie developers who want to publish XBox Live games.
You still need a premium XNA Creators Club subscription to even be able to test the game on your console. Rather than require a one time payment, it's a reoccurring yearly fee.
Well, Microsoft needs to limit the amount of crap that gets put out there. I mean look at some of these games (http://www.karnnage.com/info.php for exemple). No gameplay, commodore 64 graphics, cmon....
That actually looks like a game I'd enjoy playing. Graphics aren't everything and I don't really see how you can comment on game play based off what is shown on that website.
Yahoo or any such provider should just cut off service in such countries with a notice of why. Let the disgruntled user base take their country's politicians to task for their foolish laws.
Common user: "Oh, Yahoo is down, I'll use X instead."
But who should fork MySQL? >80% of the development is made my the MySql inc company(now sun, soon oracle) so there is not many developers left to do a fork.
Forks already exist, see MariaDB, Drizzle, Percona, OurDelta etc. Some of these even have the original MySQL developers working on them. I feel that if MySQL falls, one of it's forks will take over instead. Mostly due to the fact it's a easy transition.
*OR* everyone will just wake up to the fact that PostgreSQL is superior in pretty much every way now (including performance and ease of maintenance) and dump MySQL altogether.
It prevents any exploits for the xserver user from being able to effect the rest of the system outside of the confines of the user and whatever it can interface with graphically. Thus preventing it from gaining control to the rest of the system easily. Plus, selinux, apparmor can likely be enhanced to enforce the rules upon the xserver in other ways when it is running as a user process.
Have they fixed the completely backwards and useless clientserver architecture? No? Why the fuck not?
There is no need for an "X Server" to run at all if you can't disconnect a client from one and add it to another, multicast, etc. Basically, anything Screen can do, if X can't do, it's stupid.
I did this long ago, can't remember what the software package was called now that allowed stateless x11 usage. Essentially a client could disconnect, reconnect, have multiple clients to the same xsession etc. Just like screen.
OK, so every business and home user that currently runs Windows applications to do things other than browse the web will drop their applications and flock to this new OS?
I suspect some will, but not all. Not even Microsoft has achieved that.
So does this mean I should upgrade from PHP 3.2? Are there any incompatibilities with my existing code?
Maybe someone can look over my login script and tell me if this will work in PHP5?
$query_login="select * FROM user"; $result_login = mysql_query($query_login) or die("Your passwrod is might be bad I think"); //$login_check = mysql_num_rows($result_login); while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result_login)) { $username=$row["username"]; if ($username==$username1) { echo ""; echo "window.location.href='login_error.php?rec=qq';"; echo ""; exit; } }
I understand the motorways are blanketed with speed cameras
Many of which aren't even active as they are a deterrent. Additionally, the active ones only take pictures when a object exceeds a certain velocity. But no, I was not talking about speed cameras since they aren't exactly video cameras, nor can they infringe on your freedom unless you're violating the speeding laws.
If I was to take a purely logical approach to this statement, I would have to assume you arguing about the privacy to speed on the streets breaking the law - Which seems silly to me.
as are the subways that allowed the UK gov't to trace the comings and goings of the subway bombers a couple years ago.
You may have not noticed, but practically in every nation, all major stations have cameras mounted that the police in the country can get access to. I should know, I've lived in quite a few countries, not to mention also visited quite a few others. The UK may have more sophisticated automated systems for tracking, but it doesn't make it any less of a privacy issue in other countries that may not be as sophisticated. Additionally, these places are not deemed to be 'public', but 'private' facilities, even if they are managed by the government ran organisations so they are often quite able to execute more privacy violating rules (in every country) than in a public space. If you don't like it, you don't have to use the subways, you can use another form of vehicle transportation which is not subject to this kind of monitoring.
In the UK, they do this for safety more than violating your privacy, the privacy advocates in the UK are extremely strong and have created a lot of provisions that prevent abuse of the system.
For the same reason why the natives of most countries say the same thing - It doesn't mean it's necessarily true. People will often point at controversial issues to prove it, but every country has controversy and it's really how they deal with that controversy after that is important.
Having lived in quite a few countries, you will find the freedoms don't really get much better than the UK unless you're in some tiny country like the Isle of Man or Holland. But even in those countries, they can be quite 'off' in certain respects.
If I cant live in some hi tech colony of clever and witty people then at least can I live somewhere where they arent all drug addled criminals?
Never before has racism been so wittily expressed. I, too, wish there were "colonies" where people like you and your repugnant ideas could be kept away from the rest of society.
Someone mentioned the cameras in the US? Really? What cameras? The _government_ doesn't have all that many cameras
Neither does the UK government. Check the ownership of the cameras in the UK, majority of them is businesses which happen to be working with the local council's police department.
Considering that the previous poster (despite the trollish nature of the post) was talking about synchronization, which is not the same as a roaming profile at all, one might wonder if you know what you're talking about.;)
Considering the policies on roaming profiles and shfs can be set to do continuously synchronisation, I disagree with your hypothesis that "synchronization, which is not the same as a roaming profile at all" is accurate. It may not have the default settings to do continuous live synchronisations, but it is entirely possible to enable it without drama.
Yes, Linux is way primitive when it comes to synchronization technology
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Another example of how much time you can waste trying to use Linux for serious business use.
Considering shfs has better caching policies and cryptography than Windows roaming profiles do - I really do wonder if you know what you're talking about.
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A incident back in 2005, if I recall correctly, the call for reduction of arms increased even further in the police forces because of that incident.
I'm not trying to even defend the police with this comment, however I do remember it being more than just a "protest" and a lot of vandalism taking place, including the smashing up of a RBS branch, looting and general violence. Extreme situations can bring out the worst in people and unfortunately no amount of screening will help 100% until it actually happens.
Considering how publicized any single missdeed the British police does and how many restrictive controls are in place to prevent abuse. It is my opinion that due to the organisational structure and public participation, that the British police are still one of the best police forces in the world.
[Citation needed]
This indie developer says otherwise.
When you have to consider the cost of an xbox 360, the xbox gold subscription and then another subscription on top. It's not very cheap in my opinion unless you happen to already own the first two already. This is ignoring the fact that the express development tools aren't really that great to begin with and you'll end up needing a different version of visual studio just so you can get access to a few APIs.
I investigated the costs involved and determined that due to my limited income that this was too expensive to develop for the 360. I strongly disagree with your "easily affordable for any indie developer" comment.
You still need a premium XNA Creators Club subscription to even be able to test the game on your console. Rather than require a one time payment, it's a reoccurring yearly fee.
That actually looks like a game I'd enjoy playing. Graphics aren't everything and I don't really see how you can comment on game play based off what is shown on that website.
Common user: "Oh, Yahoo is down, I'll use X instead."
Forks already exist, see MariaDB, Drizzle, Percona, OurDelta etc. Some of these even have the original MySQL developers working on them. I feel that if MySQL falls, one of it's forks will take over instead. Mostly due to the fact it's a easy transition.
Non-sense, a fork of MySQL will take over.
As you wish...
It prevents any exploits for the xserver user from being able to effect the rest of the system outside of the confines of the user and whatever it can interface with graphically. Thus preventing it from gaining control to the rest of the system easily. Plus, selinux, apparmor can likely be enhanced to enforce the rules upon the xserver in other ways when it is running as a user process.
I did this long ago, can't remember what the software package was called now that allowed stateless x11 usage. Essentially a client could disconnect, reconnect, have multiple clients to the same xsession etc. Just like screen.
And it was x11, not VNC.
I suspect some will, but not all. Not even Microsoft has achieved that.
Ask and ye shall receive.
Bing knows evil, so it can find evil.
I don't really see how. At the end of the day, they're just promoting making unauthorized copies of digital media.
I hope that code is a joke...
Many of which aren't even active as they are a deterrent. Additionally, the active ones only take pictures when a object exceeds a certain velocity. But no, I was not talking about speed cameras since they aren't exactly video cameras, nor can they infringe on your freedom unless you're violating the speeding laws.
If I was to take a purely logical approach to this statement, I would have to assume you arguing about the privacy to speed on the streets breaking the law - Which seems silly to me.
You may have not noticed, but practically in every nation, all major stations have cameras mounted that the police in the country can get access to. I should know, I've lived in quite a few countries, not to mention also visited quite a few others. The UK may have more sophisticated automated systems for tracking, but it doesn't make it any less of a privacy issue in other countries that may not be as sophisticated. Additionally, these places are not deemed to be 'public', but 'private' facilities, even if they are managed by the government ran organisations so they are often quite able to execute more privacy violating rules (in every country) than in a public space. If you don't like it, you don't have to use the subways, you can use another form of vehicle transportation which is not subject to this kind of monitoring.
In the UK, they do this for safety more than violating your privacy, the privacy advocates in the UK are extremely strong and have created a lot of provisions that prevent abuse of the system.
For the same reason why the natives of most countries say the same thing - It doesn't mean it's necessarily true. People will often point at controversial issues to prove it, but every country has controversy and it's really how they deal with that controversy after that is important.
Having lived in quite a few countries, you will find the freedoms don't really get much better than the UK unless you're in some tiny country like the Isle of Man or Holland. But even in those countries, they can be quite 'off' in certain respects.
It's called the "Internet".
Neither does the UK government. Check the ownership of the cameras in the UK, majority of them is businesses which happen to be working with the local council's police department.
Considering the policies on roaming profiles and shfs can be set to do continuously synchronisation, I disagree with your hypothesis that "synchronization, which is not the same as a roaming profile at all" is accurate. It may not have the default settings to do continuous live synchronisations, but it is entirely possible to enable it without drama.
You do realize there are rehabilitation centres for criminals, right?
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Considering shfs has better caching policies and cryptography than Windows roaming profiles do - I really do wonder if you know what you're talking about.
I don't see how that search result would directly answer the question for someone who wouldn't know.
I mean, sure, if spent a few hours researching it... But he didn't ask what to research.