What you have to remember here is that Her Majesty's Gov't especially Theresa May and David (Knob in a Pig) Cameron can't even spell "internet" let alone being able to draft any coherent legislation to control the Internet.
This is more from the UK Gov't's Department of Sound Bites for the Newspapers Agency. It will never happen because they don't understand the scale of the problem or the massive bucket of data they'd need the ISP to hold and we all know that GCHQ are doing this stuff already. They also don't reveal that most ISPs want to remain as carrier only and not collectors of their customer's data (except Talk Talk who already collect it just so they can let the hackers steal it).
That's quite simply because the public school twat is 100% clueless when it comes to any new tech.
His cabinet friends are equally 100% clueless.
And his gov't advisers are too clueless to tell the clueles twats that they're clueless twats.
It would be nice if we get a Gov't on May 7th that isn't formed by a bunch of clueless twats but we won't. They teach them how to be clueless twats when they do their PPE degrees at Oxford and gain entry to the Establishment. It's the first rule of being a member of the UK Parliament and part of the UK Gov't.
It's clearly ok as a username. Although who cares if a user name ends up stored in a cookie? But not for authentication, not even as a two factor option.
What a wuss. Call me when does it with just a normal jumpsuit.
Because above the Armstrong Line (63,000ft) your bodily fluids (sweat, saliva, tears and blood) boil. That makes you die very quickly. You have to use a pressure suit.
The UK Government is proud to present Omnishambles v1.0.
For folks who've not yet met the word "omnishambles", it means it's fuck up what ever way you look at it.
Most amusing was seeing Beardie Branson bleating that the Gov't was corrupt because they'd taken away his toy train set and given him a bank (Northern Wreck aka Virgin Money) to play with instead.
We frequently get this discussion in the UK. It came up during the Olympics when cyclist was killed by a vehicle turning left across his path (he'd forgotten the simple rule of never go up the nearside of a vehicle that could turn across you). The media then got Bradley Wiggins in a press conference and asked him whether there was any way to prevent the death. Bradley (who'd not been briefed by his team or by British Cycling) said "Perhaps we should make helmets compulsory".
That doesn't work for a number of reasons:
Try getting an arsy teenager on his BMX to use a helmet, helmets aren't cool
You may take less care and do reckless and riskier things if you're wearing a helment.
I want to choose whether I use a helmet.
I don't want people dissuaded from getting on a bike because they don't want to use a helmet.
That said, I chose to wear a helmet. I've had too many visits to the hospital. I've cracked a helmet (rather than my head) when I crashed at speed. I've seen the reports of James Cracknell who was taken off the road in America by a truck wing mirror and survived (probably because he was wearing a helmet).
We're all adults we should be able to make our own minds up. We can also encourage our kids to wear a helmet but we don't want to follow our European friends by legislating for it.
Europe has a lot of advantages over the UK. They have bigger wider roads with dedicated cycle paths, they have car drivers who aren't selfish bastards.
Isn't whether they are displayed, isn't wether they exist or not it's whether they add any value, whether they describe why the code has been written in such an obscure way.
There's also nothing worse than a comment that states the bloody obvious. If I'm clearing a register to zero I don't need a comment next to the SR 6,6 or XR 6,6 that is performing that action. I can read the code to see what the bloody code is doing.
The time that code needs a comment is when you're shifting bits or multiplying something by a funky/obscure value for a sensible reason but the reason isn't obvious by simply reading the code.
Also remember you don't get the comments in the post mortem storage dumps when you're trying to fix someone's programming error at 2:30am with a few managers breathing down your neck panicing that it won't be fixed and running by 8:00am.
So the real question is, why pass a law when there's no clear indication on the lawmaker's capability to enforce it?
The UK Gov't is only implementing what the stupid folks in the EU Gov't told them to. The real problem is that the EU Gov't allowed this crap to go through in the first place. We need to get some (members of parlaiment) MPs and (members of the European parliament) MEPs who have a clue about IT, who have a clue about how the Internet works. That's the underlying problem - we've got clueless career politicians with a supporting organisation made from clueless lawyers and MBAs.
If I choose the option to opt out of storing cookies, the website stores a cookie to remember that decision. This law was drafted by silly people who don't understand how a stateless protocol needs to store status information to work.
If you want your web browsing to be a useless and painful experience try running with cookies disabled. I hope you enjoy re-entering your password on every secure page.
The fact that the UK Gov't QUANGO can't afford, can't be bothered and doesn't have the time to enforce this crap law is a good thing, they can spend my taxes on doing something more useful.
I want British Airways to fly me from LHR to wherever in the shortest time at the lowest cost. I don't want them to LIKE me on Facebook as part of the process of doing that.
If they need a nice little pocket sized document with my photo, my date of birth and a unique reference number they can use the nice booklet that cost me £90 from HM Passport Agency.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh shit, this means https://raspberrypi.org/ is going to get Slashdotted. I hope their ISP has got some spare capacity ready for the deluge.
What you have to remember here is that Her Majesty's Gov't especially Theresa May and David (Knob in a Pig) Cameron can't even spell "internet" let alone being able to draft any coherent legislation to control the Internet.
This is more from the UK Gov't's Department of Sound Bites for the Newspapers Agency. It will never happen because they don't understand the scale of the problem or the massive bucket of data they'd need the ISP to hold and we all know that GCHQ are doing this stuff already. They also don't reveal that most ISPs want to remain as carrier only and not collectors of their customer's data (except Talk Talk who already collect it just so they can let the hackers steal it).
His cabinet friends are equally 100% clueless.
And his gov't advisers are too clueless to tell the clueles twats that they're clueless twats.
It would be nice if we get a Gov't on May 7th that isn't formed by a bunch of clueless twats but we won't. They teach them how to be clueless twats when they do their PPE degrees at Oxford and gain entry to the Establishment. It's the first rule of being a member of the UK Parliament and part of the UK Gov't.
It's clearly ok as a username. Although who cares if a user name ends up stored in a cookie? But not for authentication, not even as a two factor option.
How dangerous is the other end of the transmission? Are cell towers a threat?
Only during a hurricane when a falling tower (unlikely) could cause structural damage or injury.
Why does /. allow that troll to keep posting that shit?
What happened to any form of moderation and control on here?
They're going to have to enhance the aurocorrect dictionary or it will make complete nonsense of Prof. Hawking's very technical speech.
... When some drunk pillock swallows one? How soon does it take before the lawsuit?
The fucking pointless cookie popups are a monster PITA on my phone. Especially when I clear them every time I close thr browser to save space.
An article that could have been astounding is on a site that got Slashdotted. Perhaps they need some experienced web programmers.
I didn't like their privacy system so I cancelled my FB account.
What a wuss. Call me when does it with just a normal jumpsuit.
Because above the Armstrong Line (63,000ft) your bodily fluids (sweat, saliva, tears and blood) boil. That makes you die very quickly. You have to use a pressure suit.
So 1 gallon of gasoline costs 3.78541 times 2.22488 or $8.42
Now stop complaining.
The UK Government is proud to present Omnishambles v1.0 .
For folks who've not yet met the word "omnishambles", it means it's fuck up what ever way you look at it.
Most amusing was seeing Beardie Branson bleating that the Gov't was corrupt because they'd taken away his toy train set and given him a bank (Northern Wreck aka Virgin Money) to play with instead.
There's a good write-up of all the issues surronding bicycle helmets here:
http://chapmancentral.co.uk/wiki/Cycle_helmet_debate
MOD PARENT UP.
That doesn't work for a number of reasons:
That said, I chose to wear a helmet. I've had too many visits to the hospital. I've cracked a helmet (rather than my head) when I crashed at speed. I've seen the reports of James Cracknell who was taken off the road in America by a truck wing mirror and survived (probably because he was wearing a helmet).
We're all adults we should be able to make our own minds up. We can also encourage our kids to wear a helmet but we don't want to follow our European friends by legislating for it.
Europe has a lot of advantages over the UK. They have bigger wider roads with dedicated cycle paths, they have car drivers who aren't selfish bastards.
I'm not pissed off, of course.
Perhaps when they get round to delivering it, I'll be able to try some of this stuff.
There's also nothing worse than a comment that states the bloody obvious. If I'm clearing a register to zero I don't need a comment next to the SR 6,6 or XR 6,6 that is performing that action. I can read the code to see what the bloody code is doing.
The time that code needs a comment is when you're shifting bits or multiplying something by a funky/obscure value for a sensible reason but the reason isn't obvious by simply reading the code.
Also remember you don't get the comments in the post mortem storage dumps when you're trying to fix someone's programming error at 2:30am with a few managers breathing down your neck panicing that it won't be fixed and running by 8:00am.
So the real question is, why pass a law when there's no clear indication on the lawmaker's capability to enforce it?
The UK Gov't is only implementing what the stupid folks in the EU Gov't told them to. The real problem is that the EU Gov't allowed this crap to go through in the first place. We need to get some (members of parlaiment) MPs and (members of the European parliament) MEPs who have a clue about IT, who have a clue about how the Internet works. That's the underlying problem - we've got clueless career politicians with a supporting organisation made from clueless lawyers and MBAs.
If you want your web browsing to be a useless and painful experience try running with cookies disabled. I hope you enjoy re-entering your password on every secure page.
The fact that the UK Gov't QUANGO can't afford, can't be bothered and doesn't have the time to enforce this crap law is a good thing, they can spend my taxes on doing something more useful.
No, no - the Australian term is "budgie smugglers".
We've even started calling them "budgie smugglers" here in Pomgolia.
Unfortuneately too many of the links I can find point to dailyfail.co.uk so I won't post them here.
I want British Airways to fly me from LHR to wherever in the shortest time at the lowest cost. I don't want them to LIKE me on Facebook as part of the process of doing that.
If they need a nice little pocket sized document with my photo, my date of birth and a unique reference number they can use the nice booklet that cost me £90 from HM Passport Agency.
When your gas price gets that high you can shout about it from the top of the Empire State Building, until then STFU.
instead of printing a QR code there?
You get better info density with QR. A QR can hold up to 4K.
If they then download the my javascript experiment and run it at their cost, that's their problem.
When I can trust crawlers to not ignore my robots.txt I'll stop using fail2ban on my apache logs.