Kinda like you should brush your teeth before going to bed. You dont see articles written about that! Well, it's because you don't brush your teeth ON A COMPUTER!!!! Move along nothing to see here (That slashdot crowd dont already know!).
It's worse than that. If (say) buying something from Ebay, you need to share your name and address, else how are the third party going to get the physical goods to you?
What they don't share (and which I always considered the important reason for https) are your payment details.
Actually, as I often send stuff either to my work address or to friends and family, I like having the destination address recorded in an email so I can confirm it is being sent to where I want it to be sent to!
(Interesting point, if I get Amazon Shipping Confirmation with a family member's name and address in it as the destination address, is their privacy being violated?)
I'm using LMDE XFCE on my main desktop PC, and it is the infrequent updates (and no security updates) that is the most infuriating thing about it. At one time it was a "rolling" release but now it is "semi-rolling". Really an LMDE "Update Pack" release is like a new in-place upgrade of Ubuntu, in that a big-bang approach is taken (and things may break). They also seem to happen around every six months!
On my laptop I'm using the last Xubuntu LTS, and this does get updated regularly with security patches etc. Next time I switch distributions on the desktop it will be either to a proper rolling release distribution (Arch perhaps) or back to Xubuntu (latest rather than LTS) with regular updates and in-place upgrades.
The reinstallation recommended every time there is a new version is the reason I'll avoid Mint Main. If I'm going to reinstall, I might as well install a different distribution.
To be honest, if I wanted the latest Apache HTTP Server (on whatever distribution) I would download the latest source from the Apache website and build it locally. Same with any updated version. If I wanted to use the version that came with the distribution, then at least with Debian you know it is going to be stable.
Being in the UK and working in IT, I actually for once RTFA and visited the site. To start with I must admit I was flabbergasted. However, looking at it more closely, it is clear that what we are looking at here is a web-site that was created when the latest OSes and web browsers just didn't exist. Clearly someone has thought to insert the statement that you may have problems with these later OSes and web-browsers, so the site content can be tweaked, but the actual site itself (and the underlying architecture) was probably written years ago and left unchanged.
One give-away is that the site uses ASP (rather than ASP.NET). I doubt any new site has been written using ASP for over ten years! (ASP.NET came out in 2002).
So there we have it, an antique, a living fossil. Enjoy it while it is still up.
I think the issue isn't that they're seeking "Java developers' as in someone who knows basic Java, but more in that they're seeking someone who knows basic Java plus all the frameworks and related stuff (EJBs, JSPs, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Ant, JUnit, GWT, etc.). It will take more than a few months to get fluent in all of these.
I don't have kids, and I don't have an iPad either. However I do have friends who are, to be blunt, technically naive. It might surprise the Slashdot crowd, but one friend actually went on a work course where they were taught such things as the difference between files and folders! (To be fair the same friend is trying to get more computer literate - she has bought herself "Windows for Dummies" and is studiously working through it. I think she's actually thought of as something of a geek at where she works; she's a qualified midwife and works in a hospital unit for premature babies, so she's not in anyway 'stupid', just not computer literate).
Anyway, the point is that many would not understand the technology or technological trends in a way that we would on Slashdot. To many a game is a game, whether physical (a board game or card game or some such) or virtual (Solitaire anyone?) Games in the past do not allow you to 'buy extras' mid game, so this behaviour is unexpected. From past experience allowing your child (or mother) to play a game on a computer or iPad would be considered safe - the possibility of actual money being spent would not be considered and therefore not dealt with. To be honest, not being an iPad owner nor a computer game player, I would not be aware of this 'feature' in games - after all I've never seen it in Solitaire!
So let's not blame the parents. Let's instead blame those taking advantage of the possibilities of new technology and of the naivete of actual users. It is this that's behind the investigated by the OFT.
The problem is that the 'All Mail' folder can legitimately be used as an archive folder, i.e. for those emails we want to keep, but not in the 'In Box'. I for one use it like that. Any idea that items in the 'All Mail' folder and only in the 'All Mail' folder may get moved to Trash would worry me intensely.
I think the only solution would be to let the end user decide (which seems to be the solution they've hit upon). The problem of "deleted" emails reappearing should not be too worrying, as it lets the end user know that they weren't really deleted in the first place!
The GPL is not a reaction to copyright. What it is is a reaction against closed-source software. Even without copyright there would be closed-source software - you cannot force someone to distribute the source code with a distributed binary. The GPL is there to ensure that GPLd software remains open source (i.e remains "free"), and to do this it uses copyright. Indeed the aims of the GPL require copyright.
A question - what are your views on the GPL?The GPL relies on the laws of copyright for enforcement. Should a corporation (say) be able to use GPLd code in a proprietary product because copyright is an " illogical paradigm" that "has to go and it will go, because most people don't want it anymore"?
This doesn't quite compare to votes in either the House of Lords or the Senate. I believe that the votes in neither establishment are secret. Both you (as a citizen) and they (as a Lord / Senator) can check the way they voted.
The Cardinals' vote for Pope is different, in that I think it is meant to be secret.
For it to happen once is a tragedy. For it to continue happening without some response is worse than tragedy.
That there can be other causes of death is a red herring. I think both the US and the UK have strong laws against terrorism, and enforce them rigorously.
Would you also like periodic, systematic door-to-door, room-to-room searches with backscatter X-ray machines? Because that's what it'll take to get all the guns out of the cities if you don't take them out of the country.
Strange. I live in the UK, and despite the fact that we have very strict gun control laws, I've never experienced a "systematic door-to-door, room-to-room search with a backscatter X-ray machine".
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Different parts of the country. The badger cull is in the South West (Gloucestershire and Somerset). North Yorkshire is in the North East.
Kinda like you should brush your teeth before going to bed. You dont see articles written about that! Well, it's because you don't brush your teeth ON A COMPUTER!!!! Move along nothing to see here (That slashdot crowd dont already know!).
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/dentalhealth/Pages/Teethcleaningguide.aspx
It's worse than that. If (say) buying something from Ebay, you need to share your name and address, else how are the third party going to get the physical goods to you?
What they don't share (and which I always considered the important reason for https) are your payment details.
Actually, as I often send stuff either to my work address or to friends and family, I like having the destination address recorded in an email so I can confirm it is being sent to where I want it to be sent to!
(Interesting point, if I get Amazon Shipping Confirmation with a family member's name and address in it as the destination address, is their privacy being violated?)
There is a difference in having your name and address returned to you in a plain text email, and having it publishing it on a site like Slashdot.
To be honest, I always thought the secure information was the credit/debit card number. Now it that was sent in a plain text email I'd be annoyed.
I'm using LMDE XFCE on my main desktop PC, and it is the infrequent updates (and no security updates) that is the most infuriating thing about it. At one time it was a "rolling" release but now it is "semi-rolling". Really an LMDE "Update Pack" release is like a new in-place upgrade of Ubuntu, in that a big-bang approach is taken (and things may break). They also seem to happen around every six months!
On my laptop I'm using the last Xubuntu LTS, and this does get updated regularly with security patches etc. Next time I switch distributions on the desktop it will be either to a proper rolling release distribution (Arch perhaps) or back to Xubuntu (latest rather than LTS) with regular updates and in-place upgrades.
The reinstallation recommended every time there is a new version is the reason I'll avoid Mint Main. If I'm going to reinstall, I might as well install a different distribution.
To be honest, if I wanted the latest Apache HTTP Server (on whatever distribution) I would download the latest source from the Apache website and build it locally. Same with any updated version. If I wanted to use the version that came with the distribution, then at least with Debian you know it is going to be stable.
Being in the UK and working in IT, I actually for once RTFA and visited the site. To start with I must admit I was flabbergasted. However, looking at it more closely, it is clear that what we are looking at here is a web-site that was created when the latest OSes and web browsers just didn't exist. Clearly someone has thought to insert the statement that you may have problems with these later OSes and web-browsers, so the site content can be tweaked, but the actual site itself (and the underlying architecture) was probably written years ago and left unchanged.
One give-away is that the site uses ASP (rather than ASP.NET). I doubt any new site has been written using ASP for over ten years! (ASP.NET came out in 2002).
So there we have it, an antique, a living fossil. Enjoy it while it is still up.
Science doesn't work like that.
Presumably you have evidence to back this up, or is it something you know intuitively?
I think the issue isn't that they're seeking "Java developers' as in someone who knows basic Java, but more in that they're seeking someone who knows basic Java plus all the frameworks and related stuff (EJBs, JSPs, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Ant, JUnit, GWT, etc.). It will take more than a few months to get fluent in all of these.
Just dumb. As any fule kno, it is accelerator on the right, brake in the middle and clutch on the left - just like in the US!
I don't have kids, and I don't have an iPad either. However I do have friends who are, to be blunt, technically naive. It might surprise the Slashdot crowd, but one friend actually went on a work course where they were taught such things as the difference between files and folders! (To be fair the same friend is trying to get more computer literate - she has bought herself "Windows for Dummies" and is studiously working through it. I think she's actually thought of as something of a geek at where she works; she's a qualified midwife and works in a hospital unit for premature babies, so she's not in anyway 'stupid', just not computer literate).
Anyway, the point is that many would not understand the technology or technological trends in a way that we would on Slashdot. To many a game is a game, whether physical (a board game or card game or some such) or virtual (Solitaire anyone?) Games in the past do not allow you to 'buy extras' mid game, so this behaviour is unexpected. From past experience allowing your child (or mother) to play a game on a computer or iPad would be considered safe - the possibility of actual money being spent would not be considered and therefore not dealt with. To be honest, not being an iPad owner nor a computer game player, I would not be aware of this 'feature' in games - after all I've never seen it in Solitaire!
So let's not blame the parents. Let's instead blame those taking advantage of the possibilities of new technology and of the naivete of actual users. It is this that's behind the investigated by the OFT.
The problem is that the 'All Mail' folder can legitimately be used as an archive folder, i.e. for those emails we want to keep, but not in the 'In Box'. I for one use it like that. Any idea that items in the 'All Mail' folder and only in the 'All Mail' folder may get moved to Trash would worry me intensely.
I think the only solution would be to let the end user decide (which seems to be the solution they've hit upon). The problem of "deleted" emails reappearing should not be too worrying, as it lets the end user know that they weren't really deleted in the first place!
He's a he, not a she (Lauren, not Laura). It seems he's well enough known to warrant a Wikipedia entry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Weinstein_(technologist).
I use one all the time. It's called the command line. I have no problems with it!
What are these problems with Debian?
My opinions (which may be wrong):
Compare this with Ubuntu - based on Debian unstable - which is both up-to-date and stable
The GPL is not a reaction to copyright. What it is is a reaction against closed-source software. Even without copyright there would be closed-source software - you cannot force someone to distribute the source code with a distributed binary. The GPL is there to ensure that GPLd software remains open source (i.e remains "free"), and to do this it uses copyright. Indeed the aims of the GPL require copyright.
A question - what are your views on the GPL?The GPL relies on the laws of copyright for enforcement. Should a corporation (say) be able to use GPLd code in a proprietary product because copyright is an " illogical paradigm" that "has to go and it will go, because most people don't want it anymore"?
There is a very easy way to avoid being arrested for file-sharing ... don't do it.
Currently this is modded Score:0, offtopic. How on earth is it offtopic?
This doesn't quite compare to votes in either the House of Lords or the Senate. I believe that the votes in neither establishment are secret. Both you (as a citizen) and they (as a Lord / Senator) can check the way they voted.
The Cardinals' vote for Pope is different, in that I think it is meant to be secret.
This is the first time any robot has drilled into a rock to collect a sample on Mars.
Given the millions of robots we have sent to Mars over the past millennia, this is the first to drill into a rock? I find that hard to believe!
This should be rated "Funny" as the Comedy is Divine!
And in the UK there have been 16 fatalities in school shootings in the last 20 years. All of them in the Dunblane massacre of 1996. In response the government introduced the Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997.
For it to happen once is a tragedy. For it to continue happening without some response is worse than tragedy.
That there can be other causes of death is a red herring. I think both the US and the UK have strong laws against terrorism, and enforce them rigorously.
Would you also like periodic, systematic door-to-door, room-to-room searches with backscatter X-ray machines? Because that's what it'll take to get all the guns out of the cities if you don't take them out of the country.
Strange. I live in the UK, and despite the fact that we have very strict gun control laws, I've never experienced a "systematic door-to-door, room-to-room search with a backscatter X-ray machine".
Yes, and has been pointed out above, none of those 22 died.
The culture in the US is that guns are awesome and shooting people is awesome.
Then change the culture! I'm sorry, but the death of 20 children is NOT "awesome".
And being from the UK, I think the UK is a fine example. Yes, people still get shot, but at a fraction of the level than in the US.