The editor in charge of this became David Cameron's press secretary until this came back and he became toxic. Not just the government, these guys messed with the royal family. Maybe the Queen can send them to the tower.
I also have no problem with paying the creators. I just doubt that's where the money goes. The 'industry' seems to be trying to suck money from both ends of the process.
They don't sell any goods. They collect royalties and distribute them 'fairly' to the artists / rights holders. Other than threat letters, they probably don't ship anything.
Two different groups actually. The radio is being chased by individual record companies trying to grab a bigger slice of finite air-time. This is a collection group with a hunting license from the whole industry. These are the people who charge restaurants for playing the radio that the first group are using to push their product.
Why aren't they targeting taxis? The whole thing is stupidity in motion. The end result will be that the companies pull the radios out of the trucks and the drivers supply their own, either portable or clipped into the dash.
Did you every have any problems with pointers? The assembler courses are designed to make pointers understandable. I guess if you're working in modern languages that abstract away a lot of the memory management and so forth, you wouldn't need to know this. Then again, I still see buffer overrun holes announced in modern software built with all of the OO goodness money can buy.
I don't have to mention how much of nothing this solves.
The real issue is non-IT people making IT decisions.
Like the decision to conduct official business using insecure web services that don't comply with the laws of the land and public sector guidelines. Seen it. Like paying ten times as much for services that could have been hosted internally for no extra cost. Seen that. Like clear violations of record keeping and FOI laws. If I see that, I have to report it.
In that case, the worker knows they're crossing the line and will most likely keep things quiet. The main reason for this is that we get people wanting to use webmail for official business because it bypasses silly things like filters, mandatory archiving and the like.
The main reason we're given is record keeping acts. How do you archive work documents being sent through gmail, hotmail and so on? We're now getting requests to distribute official documents through Dropbox. Once we peeled the records manager off the ceiling, we said no.
That's assuming a browser, a connection and sensitive information on the same machine. If so, you've already lost. This idea is probably to stop the leaks of things that aren't secret but are embarrassing.
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True and hopefully I don't have to maintain one either. Go talk to the people who did Y2K cleanup.
Let me introduce you to Netcat. It's just as useful for file uploads.
You're suggesting that the correct term escaped him?
The editor in charge of this became David Cameron's press secretary until this came back and he became toxic. Not just the government, these guys messed with the royal family. Maybe the Queen can send them to the tower.
Um, what?
I also have no problem with paying the creators. I just doubt that's where the money goes. The 'industry' seems to be trying to suck money from both ends of the process.
Actually, a tax on overly large sound systems could be a bonus.
Then see how fast big content gets on board with net neutrality.
They don't sell any goods. They collect royalties and distribute them 'fairly' to the artists / rights holders. Other than threat letters, they probably don't ship anything.
Two different groups actually. The radio is being chased by individual record companies trying to grab a bigger slice of finite air-time. This is a collection group with a hunting license from the whole industry. These are the people who charge restaurants for playing the radio that the first group are using to push their product.
Why aren't they targeting taxis? The whole thing is stupidity in motion. The end result will be that the companies pull the radios out of the trucks and the drivers supply their own, either portable or clipped into the dash.
That's really only for Debian developers. It should help get a job at Canonical.
Did you every have any problems with pointers? The assembler courses are designed to make pointers understandable. I guess if you're working in modern languages that abstract away a lot of the memory management and so forth, you wouldn't need to know this. Then again, I still see buffer overrun holes announced in modern software built with all of the OO goodness money can buy.
It was when I went through. Now, if Java is the new COBOL, how can it also be the new Pascal?
Copy, paste, compile, run, shudder.
Twenty years ago I could have said the same thing for procedural programming.
I know, I died three times last week.
I'd be watching for the lizards.
Yank prez? I thought he was Chief Septic.
I don't have to mention how much of nothing this solves.
The real issue is non-IT people making IT decisions.
Like the decision to conduct official business using insecure web services that don't comply with the laws of the land and public sector guidelines. Seen it. Like paying ten times as much for services that could have been hosted internally for no extra cost. Seen that. Like clear violations of record keeping and FOI laws. If I see that, I have to report it.
In that case, the worker knows they're crossing the line and will most likely keep things quiet. The main reason for this is that we get people wanting to use webmail for official business because it bypasses silly things like filters, mandatory archiving and the like.
A real world example.
The main reason we're given is record keeping acts. How do you archive work documents being sent through gmail, hotmail and so on? We're now getting requests to distribute official documents through Dropbox. Once we peeled the records manager off the ceiling, we said no.
That's assuming a browser, a connection and sensitive information on the same machine. If so, you've already lost. This idea is probably to stop the leaks of things that aren't secret but are embarrassing.
Easier to just implement the evil bit.