Actually refusing to answer without a lawyer can be mentioned in court but the jury should be directed that under normal circumstances no inference of intent or guilt should be made. Abnormal circumstances are when the time itself may affect the outcome of the crime or interfere with evidence, such as if there is a bomb set to go off imminently or a critically injured victim at an unknown location.
There was no jury in this case. It was tried in front of Reading Majistrates.
Here's another one to add to my list of clueless cretins in my wonderful gov't.
His name goes on the list with David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Theresa May and others who simply don't have the first faintest idea on how the Internet works and how the 15yr old kids in school are experts at breaching any firewall (they get out of the firewall jail their senior schools impose - they'll do the same for any British firewall).
They have a script which uses sendmail to update your information. That's unacceptable in a desktop setting.
If you think about it, back in those days most distros that I'm aware of included sendmail by default, so it sort of makes sense to use what was there.
These days most systems have Perl, curl, wget and stuff like that.
Security using OAuth is simple. Identification using OpenID is simple.
They could change their machine update script to use https to send the details of my machine. I'd prefer all of that to the current system.
I find the claim that they were able to make people unable to tell the truth much more surprising than the one that they were able to make people unable to lie.
Perhaps the authors of this bullshit research were using their don't tell the truth magnets when they wrote it up.
If we want the world to be free of spam, free of botnets and a nice happy virtual land to live in then the simple answer lies with PayPal and the credit card companies.
If you cut off the payments then the blackhats will have to find something else to make their evil millions.
Of course, the problem is that PayPal, Visa, Mastercard and others like their revenue stream too much, they like their 1% cut of the spammer's ill gotten gains. They won't stop while any cash cow that can still be milked.
The London Underground has looked at enabling mobile phone access, but their tunnels aren't well suited to reception (they're deep, narrow and follow the roads). At the moment it appears that mobile phone access is going to be restricted to the above the surface lines and stations using regular ground based antennae.
The London Underground is often known as the tube.
RTFA and you'll see three names: David Cameron, Teresa May and Keith Vaz.
Between the three of them they don't have a brain cell to rub together about how the Internet works, how folks use the Internet or how services like Twitter, FaceBook, Linked-In, Google+, Flickr, Wordpress (or unpteen other publicly accessable websites) work. They weren't able to effectively block those sites in my son's secondary school (because the kids knew how to find and use an open unblocked proxy).
They are also clueless about how folks use those things from their mobile phones.
Quite simply this won't work unless they get a pair of bolt croppers and physically sever the cables across the Atlantic, English Channel and North Sea (which would take out the POTS with it). They'd also need to shoot down a few satellites while they're trying to disconnect things.
6. Using Command Prompt
Quick Explanation:
In Windows at least, one can simply open up command prompt (explained in tutorial) and simply type in “ping [insert domain name here]” and obtain a server IP address for later use.
The guy is a fucking cretin.
How do he think PING finds the address? It looks it up using the default DNS.
I ran this:
<php
echo "start\n";
$a = (float) "2.2250738585072011e-308";
echo $a,"\n";
echo "end\n";
?>
It got this:
[Thu Jan 06 23:30:49 2011] [error] [client 10.1.1.30] PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in/home/dougie/public_html/test_crud/bug.php on line 3
A British MP shows she is 100% clueless. A British MP shows in public that she doesn't have the first faintest idea how the Internet works.
The only way I can see this working would be with a Great British Firewall, something like the one China has and the one the Australians keep trying to inflict on their poor long suffering citizens.
I can see a rise in the use of firewall breaking proxyies if the UK Gov't are stupid enough to inflict this crap on us.
By getting a tweet through he was assured that all of his followers would see it.
I'd say he may have found the one instance where tweeting is actually a really good idea.
There's an interesting use of the word "assured". It's a good job his followers weren't using Tweetdeck or he'd still be in jail. Tweetdeck has an amazing ability to hide tweets from the user there's no "assured" about Tweetdeck.
If you don't pay the so-called "fee", what happens?
They threaten you with a visit to the magistrates court and a maximum fine of £1000. Some folks will pay their back taxes in that case, others will deny the existence of their broadcast receiving equipment.
That is funded by the BBC Television License Fee, not by taxes.
And how does that differ to a simple property tax?
I don't want the BBC to waste my £142.50 on stuff for fancy technology that the majority of their user base doesn't have, doesn't want and can't afford.
I want my BBC to spend the money I pay them on producing decent television and radio programmes.
I'm always astounded by the complete ineptitude of politicians when it comes to anything with a remote whiff of high tech.
It's clear that they've been watching too many movies where the CIA/NSA/FBI/Mossad/MI5/MI6/[insert other security service here] have their massive database at their fingertips and can track everything that's happening on their network. They've seen too many movies where Kevin Costner/Mel Gibson/Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan/Matthew Broderick/[insert other actor here] hacks into the security service/military/[insert other target system here] and foils the plot to blow up the world/starts the end of the world/[insert other disaster here].
The Italians buy this stuff hook line and sinker, they force me (a non-Italian) to change my passwords every 90 days (because I work for a global computer company). They've demostrated with that that they don't understand the Internet and the global nature of the internet. They've failed to notice that the child pornography moves from one IP addr to the next every day (and when we switch to IPv6 the bad folks will switch IP addr every minute if they need to.
The world is full of paedophiles, the world is full of bad people and the internet means that everyone is a child pornographer. Except that's not true only a tiny number of folks subscribe to that stuff and sometimes the authorities get ahead of them, sometime they're ahead of the authorities (just like the spammers and phishermen). Chase the server not the client, when you find the server it's logs will have all the stuff (punter's credit card numbers, ip address, whatever) that you need to find the ponces who peddle and trade this stuff. It'll be located in China or Russia or other Eastern European countires (it always is), In the UK I would get years in prison and registered on the Sex Offenders Register for life just for accidentally finding a child porn image on Google Images and looking at it so it's unlikely to be here.
This is not the way to control the problem. The way to control the problem is not the folks looking at this stuff, it's the folks publishing it and when you catch them castrate them (that's probably too weak a punishment). Sniffing my exceedingly boring internet traffic doesn't work - because I know how to use SSL and I know how to use an internet proxy with a secure VPN and if I were inclined to want to use child pornography then those are the first two requirements.
What this shows is that the British Phonographic Institute (that well know protector of all things copyrighted and the authors of that stuff) has bought the outgoing Labour Gov't in just the same way that the RIAA & MPAA have bought the American Gov't.
They're so scared that their old badly formed business model has broken with the digital age that they've had to enlist the help of a UK Gov't quango to do their dirty work.
The folks abusing copyright will just find an alternative way to do it that falls outside the meaning of any of this nanny state inspired Labour law.
There's two types of volcanoes. Ones that go bang and ones that go fizz.
Mt St. Helens was one that went bang, shot lots of lava into the sky and then started to cool at which point the lava/ash being spewed from it started to solidify into particles that were too large and too cold to be held in the atmosphere.
Eyjafjallajokull had a glacier in the caldera, as the lava arrived that became steam and forced the tiny pumice grains into the atmosphere and continued fizzing for a few days adding the the mass of debris around 30,000 ft. (Since then it has been falling onto my car which was washed the day before the volcano started fizzing.)
Most of the aircraft science is based on the June 1982 event when British Airways 747 flt BA009 flew through a cloud of ash and flamed out all four engines. They then dropped rapidly to 12,000, the ash that had turned to glass on the turbine blades cooled and broke off and they were able to restart three engines and land safely at Jakarta.
There's two problems, 1. not enough research of what happens to jets in clouds and 2. they don't have radar or any other sensors that can see the cloud in the sky (so they can vector away from it before it does any damage).
The UK/EU Gov't response was to take the very cautious approach (they don't like telling relatives that their family members have died in an air accident) and close EU airspace. With the science and data available to them at the time it was the right decision.
But that's the whole point of it. All atheists know there's no god, no flying spagetti monster or whatever deity religious folks choose to worship (or whatever they do in their temple, citadel, chapel or whatever).
Some daft Catholic in the Irish Gov't proposes a law that it's blasphemy to say that.
Another bunch of daft Catholics and the daft Irish President pass that law onto their statutes (remember that before their cessession from Great Britain were the same as the UK laws of the time and the UK used to have a blasphemy law).
So now the Irish Atheists (and presumably anyone else who isn't a God fearing Catholic) can be fined up to €25,000 because they disagree with this daft Catholic legislation.
I can see a case being taken to the European Court of Human Rights as soon as the first person gets charged with this "crime".
The whole nature of the comments in code is to explain why the result that the code creates or the function returns isn't as simple as you'd expect when you first look at the code. If there's nothing strange in the code, don't bother with the comment. If the code uses some funky technique explain in a concise way why you've written it that way and not used a possibly more obvious method.
Too many folks create "write only" code that isn't worth debugging when it goes wrong and the better way to cure the bug is a rewrite. In those cases the comments are essential to avoid the need for the next guy maintaining the code to have to re-analyse the problem and rewrite.
It gets worse when you add complexity. One thing guaranteed to make code unreadable is when folks create SQL statements with hundreds of predicates and tens of joined tables.
1st simple rule is trust the code not the comments.
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Actually refusing to answer without a lawyer can be mentioned in court but the jury should be directed that under normal circumstances no inference of intent or guilt should be made. Abnormal circumstances are when the time itself may affect the outcome of the crime or interfere with evidence, such as if there is a bomb set to go off imminently or a critically injured victim at an unknown location.
There was no jury in this case. It was tried in front of Reading Majistrates.
His name goes on the list with David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Theresa May and others who simply don't have the first faintest idea on how the Internet works and how the 15yr old kids in school are experts at breaching any firewall (they get out of the firewall jail their senior schools impose - they'll do the same for any British firewall).
They have a script which uses sendmail to update your information. That's unacceptable in a desktop setting.
If you think about it, back in those days most distros that I'm aware of included sendmail by default, so it sort of makes sense to use what was there.
These days most systems have Perl, curl, wget and stuff like that. Security using OAuth is simple. Identification using OpenID is simple. They could change their machine update script to use https to send the details of my machine. I'd prefer all of that to the current system.
I find the claim that they were able to make people unable to tell the truth much more surprising than the one that they were able to make people unable to lie.
Perhaps the authors of this bullshit research were using their don't tell the truth magnets when they wrote it up.
If you cut off the payments then the blackhats will have to find something else to make their evil millions.
Of course, the problem is that PayPal, Visa, Mastercard and others like their revenue stream too much, they like their 1% cut of the spammer's ill gotten gains. They won't stop while any cash cow that can still be milked.
It's worse. http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2011/08/cnn-interview-reveals-more-from-eric.html had the perfect first post.
Google is building the Microsoft Passport. I DON'T WANT THAT SHIT.
Does anyone else see the irony.
Google owns Blogspot/Blogger.
Yeah seriously - Stephen Hawking a rower in college. How does that fit into your view of the world?
He wasn't a rower, he was the coxswain in the Oxford boat.
The London Underground is often known as the tube.
Between the three of them they don't have a brain cell to rub together about how the Internet works, how folks use the Internet or how services like Twitter, FaceBook, Linked-In, Google+, Flickr, Wordpress (or unpteen other publicly accessable websites) work. They weren't able to effectively block those sites in my son's secondary school (because the kids knew how to find and use an open unblocked proxy).
They are also clueless about how folks use those things from their mobile phones.
Quite simply this won't work unless they get a pair of bolt croppers and physically sever the cables across the Atlantic, English Channel and North Sea (which would take out the POTS with it). They'd also need to shoot down a few satellites while they're trying to disconnect things.
6. Using Command Prompt Quick Explanation: In Windows at least, one can simply open up command prompt (explained in tutorial) and simply type in “ping [insert domain name here]” and obtain a server IP address for later use.
The guy is a fucking cretin.
How do he think PING finds the address? It looks it up using the default DNS.
the real article
Here's a better link directly to the PDF document without the crappy HTML frames. http://www.journalofvision.org/content/11/8/11.full.pdf
The authors would be millionaires if they charged for this. I see this software used many many places, so thanks.
I use PuTTY every day. So thanks as well.
Thanks for posting that URL http://www.mye28.com/viewtopic.php?t=64381&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25 I now know more about Airbus FBW systems than ever. The comments on the thread by the Airbus pilot are extremely informative and based on a sound knowledge of the aircraft and its systems.
<php echo "start\n"; $a = (float) "2.2250738585072011e-308"; echo $a,"\n"; echo "end\n"; ?>
It got this: /home/dougie/public_html/test_crud/bug.php on line 3
[Thu Jan 06 23:30:49 2011] [error] [client 10.1.1.30] PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in
A British MP shows she is 100% clueless. A British MP shows in public that she doesn't have the first faintest idea how the Internet works.
The only way I can see this working would be with a Great British Firewall, something like the one China has and the one the Australians keep trying to inflict on their poor long suffering citizens.
I can see a rise in the use of firewall breaking proxyies if the UK Gov't are stupid enough to inflict this crap on us.
By getting a tweet through he was assured that all of his followers would see it.
I'd say he may have found the one instance where tweeting is actually a really good idea.
There's an interesting use of the word "assured". It's a good job his followers weren't using Tweetdeck or he'd still be in jail. Tweetdeck has an amazing ability to hide tweets from the user there's no "assured" about Tweetdeck.
If you don't pay the so-called "fee", what happens?
They threaten you with a visit to the magistrates court and a maximum fine of £1000. Some folks will pay their back taxes in that case, others will deny the existence of their broadcast receiving equipment.
That is funded by the BBC Television License Fee, not by taxes.
And how does that differ to a simple property tax?
I don't want the BBC to waste my £142.50 on stuff for fancy technology that the majority of their user base doesn't have, doesn't want and can't afford.
I want my BBC to spend the money I pay them on producing decent television and radio programmes.
It's clear that they've been watching too many movies where the CIA/NSA/FBI/Mossad/MI5/MI6/[insert other security service here] have their massive database at their fingertips and can track everything that's happening on their network. They've seen too many movies where Kevin Costner/Mel Gibson/Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan/Matthew Broderick/[insert other actor here] hacks into the security service/military/[insert other target system here] and foils the plot to blow up the world/starts the end of the world/[insert other disaster here].
The Italians buy this stuff hook line and sinker, they force me (a non-Italian) to change my passwords every 90 days (because I work for a global computer company). They've demostrated with that that they don't understand the Internet and the global nature of the internet. They've failed to notice that the child pornography moves from one IP addr to the next every day (and when we switch to IPv6 the bad folks will switch IP addr every minute if they need to.
The world is full of paedophiles, the world is full of bad people and the internet means that everyone is a child pornographer. Except that's not true only a tiny number of folks subscribe to that stuff and sometimes the authorities get ahead of them, sometime they're ahead of the authorities (just like the spammers and phishermen). Chase the server not the client, when you find the server it's logs will have all the stuff (punter's credit card numbers, ip address, whatever) that you need to find the ponces who peddle and trade this stuff. It'll be located in China or Russia or other Eastern European countires (it always is), In the UK I would get years in prison and registered on the Sex Offenders Register for life just for accidentally finding a child porn image on Google Images and looking at it so it's unlikely to be here.
This is not the way to control the problem. The way to control the problem is not the folks looking at this stuff, it's the folks publishing it and when you catch them castrate them (that's probably too weak a punishment). Sniffing my exceedingly boring internet traffic doesn't work - because I know how to use SSL and I know how to use an internet proxy with a secure VPN and if I were inclined to want to use child pornography then those are the first two requirements.
What's a MEP?
Member of the European Parliament. You'd have found that at MEP if you'd bothered to use Google.
They're so scared that their old badly formed business model has broken with the digital age that they've had to enlist the help of a UK Gov't quango to do their dirty work.
The folks abusing copyright will just find an alternative way to do it that falls outside the meaning of any of this nanny state inspired Labour law.
Mt St. Helens was one that went bang, shot lots of lava into the sky and then started to cool at which point the lava/ash being spewed from it started to solidify into particles that were too large and too cold to be held in the atmosphere.
Eyjafjallajokull had a glacier in the caldera, as the lava arrived that became steam and forced the tiny pumice grains into the atmosphere and continued fizzing for a few days adding the the mass of debris around 30,000 ft. (Since then it has been falling onto my car which was washed the day before the volcano started fizzing.)
Most of the aircraft science is based on the June 1982 event when British Airways 747 flt BA009 flew through a cloud of ash and flamed out all four engines. They then dropped rapidly to 12,000, the ash that had turned to glass on the turbine blades cooled and broke off and they were able to restart three engines and land safely at Jakarta.
There's two problems, 1. not enough research of what happens to jets in clouds and 2. they don't have radar or any other sensors that can see the cloud in the sky (so they can vector away from it before it does any damage).
The UK/EU Gov't response was to take the very cautious approach (they don't like telling relatives that their family members have died in an air accident) and close EU airspace. With the science and data available to them at the time it was the right decision.
There's no Islamic takeover happening in the UK or Ireland anytime soon.
Impossible law, since there is no God.
But that's the whole point of it. All atheists know there's no god, no flying spagetti monster or whatever deity religious folks choose to worship (or whatever they do in their temple, citadel, chapel or whatever).
Some daft Catholic in the Irish Gov't proposes a law that it's blasphemy to say that.
Another bunch of daft Catholics and the daft Irish President pass that law onto their statutes (remember that before their cessession from Great Britain were the same as the UK laws of the time and the UK used to have a blasphemy law).
So now the Irish Atheists (and presumably anyone else who isn't a God fearing Catholic) can be fined up to €25,000 because they disagree with this daft Catholic legislation.
I can see a case being taken to the European Court of Human Rights as soon as the first person gets charged with this "crime".
Too many folks create "write only" code that isn't worth debugging when it goes wrong and the better way to cure the bug is a rewrite. In those cases the comments are essential to avoid the need for the next guy maintaining the code to have to re-analyse the problem and rewrite.
It gets worse when you add complexity. One thing guaranteed to make code unreadable is when folks create SQL statements with hundreds of predicates and tens of joined tables.
1st simple rule is trust the code not the comments.
2nd simple rule is don't comment the obvious.