Bike rider here too. Its april 1 btw. Shame that nobody gets the joke. On my commute I have seen bike riders in the dark with no lights, both hands off the controls and talking on a phone. No kidding. And yeah, plenty more car drivers on the phone. It should be possible to trace phone use after a crash. The network records when you sent an SMS, and when you are on a call. Why not do this for phone accounts owned by the drivers of vehicles?
One thing which worked against alcohol here in Victoria, Australia is that insurance cover for your own vehicle is void if you are found to be above the limit for blood alcohol. I think that thing above all else put the dent in the drink driving problem. So why not do it for phone use too?
In war you don't give away anything. Just most people don't know that Larry Ellison is at war; his weapon, technology; his battleground, the reachable universe; his goal, ruthless conquest and absolute domination.
Maybe he just needs a new boat?
I bet there is a little sticker on that boat which says Ass, grass or cash, nobody rides for free.
although we run Dan's Guardian in a drop-in to protect kids using it, makes us hypocrites...
Doesn't make you hypocrites. I have no problem with the owner of a link to the internet filtering their connection. I do have a problem with Big Brother doing it for me.
I followed your homepage link and I thought there was a lot of interesting stuff there. Previous trials of filtering in Australia have resulted in totally innocuous pages being filtered. The reasons for this always come back to incompetence on the part of the people maintaining the filter.
The open ended filter my government proposes can never be guaranteed to filter only illegal content because there is no adequate peer review. When you propose a filtering system you should think how it could go wrong. Somebody in government could read "Alternative Currency Software" and decide that it is dangerous for people to read your site.
Since he would seek to push ahead despite this he should be sacked. I have no idea if there's a legal provision for it in the Australian constitution (and I doubt there is) but there ought to be.
I don't know if you are an Aussie but it seems to me that the Government is being pushed in this direction by the owners of media companies. This could be because of thoughts like "the internet competes with TV so it should have the same ratings system" or "first we block child porn, then those torrents of Neighbours and Blue Heelers" or "more people would watch A Current Affair if they weren't browsing 4chan one handed".
In any event it is doomed to failure and I am reminded of a science museum years ago which set up a termian (VT220 or similar) for kids to play on. It accumulated a lot of rude words so somebody wrote a black list but there had to be a command to print the black list out and some young geek found the key combination...
I know I'll get a lot of hate for posting this, but there is a category of cultural toxic waste and it does modify behaviour, however much we wish it didn't.
Senator Conroy has conceded that greater transparency is needed in terms of how content ends up on the blacklist, but last night he again refused to make the blacklist itself public, saying it would provide people instant access to the banned material.
Okay Stephen here is how it works: every time an Australian hits the black list they post the URL on a wiki somewhere so if anybody needs some porn or the libaral party website or whatever they just follow the link from there and access it through a russian VPN? Simple? Okay.
Seriously, as a Canadian this disgusts me. The EU, the US... What the hell gives these assholes the right to demand ANYTHING?
Peace naturally leads to people working together. If we don't want our governments to cooperate we must invent reasons for our governments to hate each other.
At the school the bully is likely to be the teachers best friend among the students.
Really? How do you figure? Teachers are aware that students can't learn when they are frightened, and therefore bullying is anathema to getting the teacher's job done. Perhaps if the teacher didn't care whether the students learn or not, they might be okay with bullying; hopefully few teachers are that cynical.
Think like a sociopath. Interaction with people is just a way of getting things done. You use threats and violence where it works. Elsewhere you suck up to people in authority, because that is what works.
...because not being a teacher you had no stake in the school at a whole. Teachers at my school would not act against bullies because they appreciated their role in simplifying the social environment at the school. I had ongoing problems with a student who repeatedly had a go at me at school. It was only when he tried it at the local swimming pool that anything was done and that was by the staff at the pool who told him to GTFO or else. At the pool the staff are free to deal with a simple situation. At the school the bully is likely to be the teachers best friend among the students.
Clearly you haven't read the piece. He would have had to forfeit his fee to get his name off the movie. That's not something a writer can usually afford...
Then he wasn't prepared, as Harlan Ellison was, with a registered pseudonym that he could insist they use instead of his own name; Ellison would use his 'Cordwainer Bird' pseudonym to both distance himself from work that he felt had been mangled beyond repair by others, as he did for the TV series 'The Starlost'.
But it won't be the wiring. It will be single transistors in LSI chips. Of course for every runaway car there should be millions which stop working for no reason and need to be cold started.
No matter what the cause, I think this is a good indication that we need a real, physical kill switch that will absolutely halt the system if things go awry in these drive-by-wire systems. No software to depend on, because you're breaking a physical connection to do it. It should be easy and noticeable, but not something you're likely to grab by accident.
Yeah I've said it before. My dad built a kill switch into his boat after he got knocked out of it by a big wave. He used a reed switch, a magnet and a short length of rope with a loop to go around the wrist. If thats too hard then a big red switch marked "EMG STOP" should not be.
More to the point they generate secondary showers of ionizing radiation when they transverse metallic shields so we should be careful not to make the problem worse by creating showers of particles with a greater cross section.
Okay but will the UDP packets which cause the problem be well formed enough to be routed into your network from outside? In most cases if you have access to the local network all systems are vulnerable anyway.
iTunes isn't the web. And I would also rather avoid giving Apple a slice of the money I am trying to give to someone else, just as I avoid giving a large slice to PayPal.
Whatever happens I suspect we are going to be giving a slice of the money to someone.
Depends. My wife's dad was 74 and started chemo with 5FE. He hit a rare toxicity issue and died within a month from the treatment. If he had known how dangerous the treatment was going to be for him he would have opted for no treatment.
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Which leads directly into why Linus named the tool Git...
Yeah I always assumed it was Linus's name for Andrew Tridgell, though I'm with Andrew on this one. Larry McVoy caused the split from bk.
Bike rider here too. Its april 1 btw. Shame that nobody gets the joke. On my commute I have seen bike riders in the dark with no lights, both hands off the controls and talking on a phone. No kidding. And yeah, plenty more car drivers on the phone. It should be possible to trace phone use after a crash. The network records when you sent an SMS, and when you are on a call. Why not do this for phone accounts owned by the drivers of vehicles?
One thing which worked against alcohol here in Victoria, Australia is that insurance cover for your own vehicle is void if you are found to be above the limit for blood alcohol. I think that thing above all else put the dent in the drink driving problem. So why not do it for phone use too?
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In war you don't give away anything. Just most people don't know that Larry Ellison is at war; his weapon, technology; his battleground, the reachable universe; his goal, ruthless conquest and absolute domination.
Maybe he just needs a new boat?
I bet there is a little sticker on that boat which says Ass, grass or cash, nobody rides for free.
Not to mention the spreadsheet abuse outlined in the summary. Won't somebody think of the databases?
although we run Dan's Guardian in a drop-in to protect kids using it, makes us hypocrites...
Doesn't make you hypocrites. I have no problem with the owner of a link to the internet filtering their connection. I do have a problem with Big Brother doing it for me.
I followed your homepage link and I thought there was a lot of interesting stuff there. Previous trials of filtering in Australia have resulted in totally innocuous pages being filtered. The reasons for this always come back to incompetence on the part of the people maintaining the filter.
The open ended filter my government proposes can never be guaranteed to filter only illegal content because there is no adequate peer review. When you propose a filtering system you should think how it could go wrong. Somebody in government could read "Alternative Currency Software" and decide that it is dangerous for people to read your site.
Since he would seek to push ahead despite this he should be sacked. I have no idea if there's a legal provision for it in the Australian constitution (and I doubt there is) but there ought to be.
I don't know if you are an Aussie but it seems to me that the Government is being pushed in this direction by the owners of media companies. This could be because of thoughts like "the internet competes with TV so it should have the same ratings system" or "first we block child porn, then those torrents of Neighbours and Blue Heelers" or "more people would watch A Current Affair if they weren't browsing 4chan one handed".
In any event it is doomed to failure and I am reminded of a science museum years ago which set up a termian (VT220 or similar) for kids to play on. It accumulated a lot of rude words so somebody wrote a black list but there had to be a command to print the black list out and some young geek found the key combination...
I know I'll get a lot of hate for posting this, but there is a category of cultural toxic waste and it does modify behaviour, however much we wish it didn't.
So what do you propose doing about it?
Today in The Age: Government goes to war with Google over net censorship
Senator Conroy has conceded that greater transparency is needed in terms of how content ends up on the blacklist, but last night he again refused to make the blacklist itself public, saying it would provide people instant access to the banned material.
Okay Stephen here is how it works: every time an Australian hits the black list they post the URL on a wiki somewhere so if anybody needs some porn or the libaral party website or whatever they just follow the link from there and access it through a russian VPN? Simple? Okay.
But there is no word for USAian which makes sense.
Seriously, as a Canadian this disgusts me. The EU, the US... What the hell gives these assholes the right to demand ANYTHING?
Peace naturally leads to people working together. If we don't want our governments to cooperate we must invent reasons for our governments to hate each other.
Its that simple. See google vs China.
At the school the bully is likely to be the teachers best friend among the students.
Really? How do you figure? Teachers are aware that students can't learn when they are frightened, and therefore bullying is anathema to getting the teacher's job done. Perhaps if the teacher didn't care whether the students learn or not, they might be okay with bullying; hopefully few teachers are that cynical.
Think like a sociopath. Interaction with people is just a way of getting things done. You use threats and violence where it works. Elsewhere you suck up to people in authority, because that is what works.
Nah they'l just get them banned from /s/
...because not being a teacher you had no stake in the school at a whole. Teachers at my school would not act against bullies because they appreciated their role in simplifying the social environment at the school. I had ongoing problems with a student who repeatedly had a go at me at school. It was only when he tried it at the local swimming pool that anything was done and that was by the staff at the pool who told him to GTFO or else. At the pool the staff are free to deal with a simple situation. At the school the bully is likely to be the teachers best friend among the students.
Clearly you haven't read the piece. He would have had to forfeit his fee to get his name off the movie. That's not something a writer can usually afford...
Then he wasn't prepared, as Harlan Ellison was, with a registered pseudonym that he could insist they use instead of his own name; Ellison would use his 'Cordwainer Bird' pseudonym to both distance himself from work that he felt had been mangled beyond repair by others, as he did for the TV series 'The Starlost'.
I wonder if the next version of Battlefield Earth was written by school children for a competition.
But it won't be the wiring. It will be single transistors in LSI chips. Of course for every runaway car there should be millions which stop working for no reason and need to be cold started.
No matter what the cause, I think this is a good indication that we need a real, physical kill switch that will absolutely halt the system if things go awry in these drive-by-wire systems. No software to depend on, because you're breaking a physical connection to do it. It should be easy and noticeable, but not something you're likely to grab by accident.
Yeah I've said it before. My dad built a kill switch into his boat after he got knocked out of it by a big wave. He used a reed switch, a magnet and a short length of rope with a loop to go around the wrist. If thats too hard then a big red switch marked "EMG STOP" should not be.
More to the point they generate secondary showers of ionizing radiation when they transverse metallic shields so we should be careful not to make the problem worse by creating showers of particles with a greater cross section.
Okay but will the UDP packets which cause the problem be well formed enough to be routed into your network from outside? In most cases if you have access to the local network all systems are vulnerable anyway.
iTunes isn't the web. And I would also rather avoid giving Apple a slice of the money I am trying to give to someone else, just as I avoid giving a large slice to PayPal.
Whatever happens I suspect we are going to be giving a slice of the money to someone.
figure out a proper micro-payment system
Isn't that what itunes is?
So does virtualisation. But this live CD and to some extent vmware exist to work around limitations in one popular OS.
But if all banking is done on a live CD which is only used for that purpose then attacking it will be quite difficult.
Depends. My wife's dad was 74 and started chemo with 5FE. He hit a rare toxicity issue and died within a month from the treatment. If he had known how dangerous the treatment was going to be for him he would have opted for no treatment.