Agreed. This was reported on Radio 4 earlier this week and described as someone with a "powerful transmitter" probably mobile.
So nothing like a hack just a plain old-fashioned pirate.
It was funny listening to the news item because they went out of their way not to mention what was being played. It was only until I read this slashdot article that I found out.
I remember being totally bewildered by these types of conversation, the sudden mood changes and, what seemed to me to be changes in basic character. I also remember being in awe by how much hormones can affect a person's personality and even being somewhat afraid that her personality would be changed forever from the person I'd married. Thankfully, it wasn't.
I remember when my first wife was pregnant with our first child. At the time I had an Amiga 500 and enjoyed playing games on it. My wife, who absolutely despised computer games suddenly became interested in them about three months into her pregnancy. I remember her getting hooked on New Zealand Story.
Of course, once the child was born all hope of playing computer games was abandoned by both of us.
> The law doesn't change anything.
Yes it does, it requires ISPs to keep "internet connection records" whatever they are. And once they have these records they must keep them for at least a year. Can't see anything wrong with that then!
Signed.
And as I type this the number of signatures is just under 120000 and going up every few seconds. Not that I think it will change anything, at least not while May is in power.
I can see how, when the book was originally published, it would have been perceived as shocking, especially in the USA. These days though reality has cought up and overtaken it. Unless, of course, they decide to "up the stakes" but then it wouldn't only be loosly based on the novel.
> There are probably a lot of programs to entice men into the career
Personally, I've never seen one and that's after supporting my daughter through college and coming into contact with her colleagues, who were, BTW, all female.
Where I see encouragement for female engineers through the programmes we have at work (I work at a large engineering company) I see no increase in uptake in female engineers, however we have plenty women in Purchasing, Finance and HR.
Really, what is stopping girls taking up STEM subjects, it's not for lack of encouragement? Is it the same pressure that stops boys going into nursing or is that something different?
I can't help but think that many people are seeing a problem where none exists.
One of my daughters graduated last year, she graduated in nursing. When I attended the graduation ceremony I counted the graduates as they were handed their degrees:
Total number 307, toal number of male graduates: 11.
Darn developers always changing things. I DON'T LIKE IT! Personally KDE lost me when they got rid of Kandalf, $DEITY I loved that guy, it's never been the same since.
After that I moved to my own desktop environment made from the left over bits of emacs with a touch of vim which will work together provided you interface via a remote proxy.
I also whip myself with nettles every month as it helps me to remember the 386 instruction codes in hexadecimal (I have a system).
"Of course, Edwards’s findings may not stand up to peer review"
This study has not even been through peer review and therefore is not complete. This leaves me to wonder why the results have been published so early, smells fishy to me.
I work for an engineering company that does business in Saudi Arabia, I have been there myself and I have sent female engineers there, with their consent, obviously.
There is no law that requires women to wear a burka. Basically, to be seen in public a woman must:
1. Be escorted by a man
2. Be covered from neck downwards
3. Have their hair covered, some form of light head-scarf is enough
Women are not allowed to drive but exceptions can be made. Actually, driving over there is not for the faint-hearted but that's another story.
It's a country torn between its modernising royal family and its regressive clerics. You can see them trying to do the right thing and then failing; it's a delicate power balance.
... that it may sound like a good idea now but when the company goes through a difficult phase working in a separate IT department is like having a bulls-eye on your back. Not only do you have to justify the department now in order to get it you'll have to keep justifying it especially when it'll be seen as on overhead cost because it won't generate any revenue of itself.
I have a slightly different take on the situation.
I don't know anyone involved, I only know Redhat by name and I only have a superficial view of what's in glibc but, reading between the lines, I think that Mr. Drepper's protestations about money and who pays it have nothing to do about paying for free software but are his way of telling us that he was told to make this change, he didn't like it but had no choice and the bickering on this bug was like everyone else picking at an open sore of his.
He didn't give any reasons for the change because he could do that and keep his job.
Anyway, it's all just wild speculation on my part.
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Thank-you I will. I'm happy to proceed using this distro without the burden of your ideology.
She was his amiga.
So nothing like a hack just a plain old-fashioned pirate.
It was funny listening to the news item because they went out of their way not to mention what was being played. It was only until I read this slashdot article that I found out.
" neutralizing toxins" - what are these "toxins"?
"Good bacteria" - over-simplification.
Heh yes! I remember converstations which went:
Me: "What's wrong?"
Her: "Nothing."
Me: "Then why are you crying?"
Her: "I DON'T KNOW"
I remember being totally bewildered by these types of conversation, the sudden mood changes and, what seemed to me to be changes in basic character. I also remember being in awe by how much hormones can affect a person's personality and even being somewhat afraid that her personality would be changed forever from the person I'd married. Thankfully, it wasn't.
I remember when my first wife was pregnant with our first child. At the time I had an Amiga 500 and enjoyed playing games on it. My wife, who absolutely despised computer games suddenly became interested in them about three months into her pregnancy. I remember her getting hooked on New Zealand Story.
Of course, once the child was born all hope of playing computer games was abandoned by both of us.
this is France were talking about, it isn't thoughtcrime it's fashioncrime.
The bit that forces the ISPs to do it. FYI my ISP does not at present and is currently looking at ways to avoid doing so in future.
> The law doesn't change anything. Yes it does, it requires ISPs to keep "internet connection records" whatever they are. And once they have these records they must keep them for at least a year. Can't see anything wrong with that then!
Ha, the government may well know my mass, but they'll never, NEVER, know my momentum.
Signed. And as I type this the number of signatures is just under 120000 and going up every few seconds. Not that I think it will change anything, at least not while May is in power.
The IP Bill isn't law yet and ISPs are not yet recording this information (at least, they're not admitting it). It's coming though :(
He does but didn't use it because he thought it would have been an indiscretion.
I can see how, when the book was originally published, it would have been perceived as shocking, especially in the USA. These days though reality has cought up and overtaken it. Unless, of course, they decide to "up the stakes" but then it wouldn't only be loosly based on the novel.
Heh! DARL = Dubious Actions Regarding Legalities
> There are probably a lot of programs to entice men into the career
Personally, I've never seen one and that's after supporting my daughter through college and coming into contact with her colleagues, who were, BTW, all female.
Where I see encouragement for female engineers through the programmes we have at work (I work at a large engineering company) I see no increase in uptake in female engineers, however we have plenty women in Purchasing, Finance and HR.
Really, what is stopping girls taking up STEM subjects, it's not for lack of encouragement? Is it the same pressure that stops boys going into nursing or is that something different?
I can't help but think that many people are seeing a problem where none exists.
One of my daughters graduated last year, she graduated in nursing. When I attended the graduation ceremony I counted the graduates as they were handed their degrees: Total number 307, toal number of male graduates: 11.
... Amused to Death
Darn developers always changing things. I DON'T LIKE IT! Personally KDE lost me when they got rid of Kandalf, $DEITY I loved that guy, it's never been the same since. After that I moved to my own desktop environment made from the left over bits of emacs with a touch of vim which will work together provided you interface via a remote proxy. I also whip myself with nettles every month as it helps me to remember the 386 instruction codes in hexadecimal (I have a system).
"Of course, Edwards’s findings may not stand up to peer review" This study has not even been through peer review and therefore is not complete. This leaves me to wonder why the results have been published so early, smells fishy to me.
... we've just gone eccentric. Damn, I've been reading to much Banks recently.
There is no law that requires women to wear a burka. Basically, to be seen in public a woman must:
1. Be escorted by a man
2. Be covered from neck downwards
3. Have their hair covered, some form of light head-scarf is enough
Women are not allowed to drive but exceptions can be made. Actually, driving over there is not for the faint-hearted but that's another story. It's a country torn between its modernising royal family and its regressive clerics. You can see them trying to do the right thing and then failing; it's a delicate power balance.
... that it may sound like a good idea now but when the company goes through a difficult phase working in a separate IT department is like having a bulls-eye on your back. Not only do you have to justify the department now in order to get it you'll have to keep justifying it especially when it'll be seen as on overhead cost because it won't generate any revenue of itself.
... they're not allowed at Hogwarts.
I have a slightly different take on the situation.
I don't know anyone involved, I only know Redhat by name and I only have a superficial view of what's in glibc but, reading between the lines, I think that Mr. Drepper's protestations about money and who pays it have nothing to do about paying for free software but are his way of telling us that he was told to make this change, he didn't like it but had no choice and the bickering on this bug was like everyone else picking at an open sore of his.
He didn't give any reasons for the change because he could do that and keep his job.
Anyway, it's all just wild speculation on my part.