I really hope not. Being in IT, I thought I should get the hang of Office 2007 and hated it (especially the ribbons), preferring Office 2003 (and now I've switched to Linux on my main machine, I'm using OpenOffice anyway).
Targeted IQ tests like that are fine - the trouble is on the web your audience is global, so you need to either keep it general, or customise it to the reader's part of the world.
When I was doing online IQ tests back in the late 90's while I was at Uni, I was frequently scoring a figure lower than I would have due to requirements for American specific knowledge that anyone not living in the US, such as myself, was unlikely to have.
Regarding the later part of your comment, it is indeed interesting looking at the test in terms of its designer(s) and their world view, biases, and assumptions...
It's certainly interesting the that the 10th smartest country (UK) is barely above 100 IQ. That's probably for the same reason that it decided that I reside on the West Coast of the US, despite being firmly situated Buckinghamshire, UK...
Or maybe that was just because my score was greater than 100...:-p
Firstly, as a somewhat paranoid former sysadmin, I'd not want it to go outside of the firewall.
If management insist, then encrypt the compressed data file (PGP/GPG/etc), and either copy it to the person's laptop on site, or over a VPN. Given the issues here in the UK with sensitive information getting lost by the courier, I'd avoid that route, even with encryption.
Ideally, insistence on full disk encryption while this data is on her laptop (and tight restrictions on who has access on any server if it's put on one at her end - perhaps only permitting the encrypted copy to be left on there out of hours, or again disk encryption) - as other posters mentioned, people are the main issue here, with the potential for the laptop or media containing this data to be lost or stolen.
She's a "Constitutional Monarch", so even if she did, she would never say it publicly. What she says in her regular meetings with the Prime Minister though... Who knows.
The article says it is being proposed by Home Office "officials", yet the only person from the home office mentioned by name seems to be clearly against the proposal. I think you have misunderstood who the person in this line of the article actually is:
David Davis, the Shadow Home Secretary... In the UK, "Shadow" refers to the member of the Opposition whose role matches that of the equivalent Minister in the Government. The Opposition is generally considered to be the largest non-governing party, so currently is the Conservative Party. So this is the Conservative MP (Member of Parliament) who is covers (and usually opposes) issues which come under the remit of the (Labour) Home Office Minister, Jacqui Smith.
Maybe make it open a directory full of porn - the perp might be distracted for long enough for your script to either delete any sensitive info, and/or run whatever screenshot/trace/lookup tools you wish...
"Love Sex" and "Getting Married" are not mutually exclusive, if both partners love sex, then that may be one of the foundations of their relationship. However "Love Sex [with many different partners]" can cause issue with the "Getting Married" state (or at least remaining in it), unless both partners are fine with that.
We are indeed charged by the litre (UK English, 'liter' in the US) at the pumps in the UK (and have been for many years, although it used to be by the gallon) (and AFAIK the rest of Europe all use litres), but unlike most of Europe, our road distances are in miles. So a better measure for us would probably be "miles per litre", but we still use "miles per gallon" when rating cars fuel efficiency (and as the grandparent of this thread said, UK and US gallons are different). I can't speak for other European countries, where their distances are measured in kilometres.
We also have a confusing mix of metric and imperial measures almost anywhere you look (e.g. ingredients: half a pint of milk, 100 grams of sugar, and 4 cups of flour [note this is off the top of my head, not an actual recipe, but is a realistic example of the bizarre situation]), our own height and weight are in imperial, but bags of flour and sugar are in grams.
We are a confused nation who unfortunately can't decide if we are metric or not, thus I guess we've kept with MPG due to tradition...
Indeed. Up till now, by not interfering with the content they carry (well, apart from traffic shaping), they have been classed as telecom carriers, and so not responsible for the content passing over their network. If they actively check and block content on their networks, they would be considered publishers (odd yes, but that's based on old laws), and liable for their customers content and use.
I'm not quite sure how the BPI has pushed them into the corner, but they are within their rights to kick off anyone who has broken the law using their internet connection (e.g. anything from distributing kiddy porn to illegal copying, although in the case of the former, I'd think they wouldn't have any further use for the internet sitting in a cell), however * alleged * or * suspected * copyright infringement? That goes against the presumption of innocence (then again, so do many recent anti-terror laws), and is potentially a breach of the ISPs contract to provide the customer the service they have paid for, if there is not strong evidence that you did commit an offence.
Exponential incrementing fee, that's a perfect idea! Would Disney still want to extend Mickey Mouse's copyright if it would cost them, say, $1 billion?
At some point the cost of re-registering would exceed the value to the person or company, and then it would become public domain...
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I really hope not. Being in IT, I thought I should get the hang of Office 2007 and hated it (especially the ribbons), preferring Office 2003 (and now I've switched to Linux on my main machine, I'm using OpenOffice anyway).
In Communist China your ticket holds you!
Targeted IQ tests like that are fine - the trouble is on the web your audience is global, so you need to either keep it general, or customise it to the reader's part of the world.
When I was doing online IQ tests back in the late 90's while I was at Uni, I was frequently scoring a figure lower than I would have due to requirements for American specific knowledge that anyone not living in the US, such as myself, was unlikely to have.
Regarding the later part of your comment, it is indeed interesting looking at the test in terms of its designer(s) and their world view, biases, and assumptions...
Or maybe that was just because my score was greater than 100...
Firstly, as a somewhat paranoid former sysadmin, I'd not want it to go outside of the firewall.
If management insist, then encrypt the compressed data file (PGP/GPG/etc), and either copy it to the person's laptop on site, or over a VPN. Given the issues here in the UK with sensitive information getting lost by the courier, I'd avoid that route, even with encryption.
Ideally, insistence on full disk encryption while this data is on her laptop (and tight restrictions on who has access on any server if it's put on one at her end - perhaps only permitting the encrypted copy to be left on there out of hours, or again disk encryption) - as other posters mentioned, people are the main issue here, with the potential for the laptop or media containing this data to be lost or stolen.
Dammit, I'd really like to get my hands on that spam filtering technology... :-p
She's a "Constitutional Monarch", so even if she did, she would never say it publicly. What she says in her regular meetings with the Prime Minister though... Who knows.
I suspect they wouldn't want to use anything lossy, as they may wish to analyse the background noises in the call...
This may help (from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3">Wikipedia's ext3 entry</a>):
"Block size Max file size Max filesystem size
1KiB 16GiB 2TiB
2KiB 256GiB 8TiB
4KiB 2TiB 16TiB
8KiB 2TiB 32TiB
It should be noted that the 8 KiB block size is only available on architectures which allow 8 KiB pages (such as Alpha)."
Better would be a demotion to "Public Toilet Cleanup Technician"...
Incompetence is not a crime.
...unfortunately...
Maybe make it open a directory full of porn - the perp might be distracted for long enough for your script to either delete any sensitive info, and/or run whatever screenshot/trace/lookup tools you wish...
Could do...
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/15/1941236
It was partly tongue in cheek - thus the "[/blatent plug]" at the end...
Unless you work at an ISP, I would disagree.
It is not Goatse.
Yeap, opt out by using my web hosting [/blatant plug]
$5? Well I guess it's only worth £2.50 to us Brits, and it's not like he could spend a five dollar note in the UK...
"Love Sex" and "Getting Married" are not mutually exclusive, if both partners love sex, then that may be one of the foundations of their relationship. However "Love Sex [with many different partners]" can cause issue with the "Getting Married" state (or at least remaining in it), unless both partners are fine with that.
Then can I host a server under your domain called "this"? :-p
this.isfrom.mars
We are indeed charged by the litre (UK English, 'liter' in the US) at the pumps in the UK (and have been for many years, although it used to be by the gallon) (and AFAIK the rest of Europe all use litres), but unlike most of Europe, our road distances are in miles. So a better measure for us would probably be "miles per litre", but we still use "miles per gallon" when rating cars fuel efficiency (and as the grandparent of this thread said, UK and US gallons are different). I can't speak for other European countries, where their distances are measured in kilometres.
We also have a confusing mix of metric and imperial measures almost anywhere you look (e.g. ingredients: half a pint of milk, 100 grams of sugar, and 4 cups of flour [note this is off the top of my head, not an actual recipe, but is a realistic example of the bizarre situation]), our own height and weight are in imperial, but bags of flour and sugar are in grams.
We are a confused nation who unfortunately can't decide if we are metric or not, thus I guess we've kept with MPG due to tradition...
How did we manage to procreate before the internet? :-p
The site is Slashdotted, so see the cached version:
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Frfc.net%2Frfc3514.html
Indeed. Up till now, by not interfering with the content they carry (well, apart from traffic shaping), they have been classed as telecom carriers, and so not responsible for the content passing over their network. If they actively check and block content on their networks, they would be considered publishers (odd yes, but that's based on old laws), and liable for their customers content and use.
I'm not quite sure how the BPI has pushed them into the corner, but they are within their rights to kick off anyone who has broken the law using their internet connection (e.g. anything from distributing kiddy porn to illegal copying, although in the case of the former, I'd think they wouldn't have any further use for the internet sitting in a cell), however * alleged * or * suspected * copyright infringement? That goes against the presumption of innocence (then again, so do many recent anti-terror laws), and is potentially a breach of the ISPs contract to provide the customer the service they have paid for, if there is not strong evidence that you did commit an offence.
Exponential incrementing fee, that's a perfect idea! Would Disney still want to extend Mickey Mouse's copyright if it would cost them, say, $1 billion?
At some point the cost of re-registering would exceed the value to the person or company, and then it would become public domain...