Yes I agree, they are control freaks. They are also paternalistic and hate criticism. I don't know how one explains to such a person that what they are doing is extremely destructive and their means are destroying most of what they hold dear.
I'm sure those spam messages being sent around contain hidden messages for terrorists. Now there's something worthwhile for our spymaster boffins to do, they could crack the codes in the variable bits of the spam messages and decript the stenography in the misspelled words. Of course they could also stop most of it, maybe they have cracked the main spam bot codes and are spying on the terrorists that way. Spammers, they probably are involved in drugs guns and terrorism. It would explain why so many of them come from Russia or China though they probably originate in Iraq, Iran or North Korea.
Anyway which do you think is more probable if they actually were that good and could cope with a botnet, would they help us by closing it down or would they help spread it so they could spy on us even more or use it to blackmail those they saw as enemies of the state?
I'd have thought the casual market was more cyclical driven by fashion. So yes there are more casual gamers but it isn't straightforward capturing the market at any given time. The PS2 had this market a while ago with eyeToy, Singstar and their exercise games. I haven't the foggiest why Sony didn't try developing it more and lost the market to the Nintendo Wii.
And yes it does go against common sense in that we've seen it all before and it didn't happen.
How about a case in Northern Ireland where a bugging device was put on eBay. The government denied planting it but asked eBay to stop the sale, which they did under their rules about such things.:-)
In the old days(!) binaries were distributed in small chunks and stitched together by whoever wanted to use them, so size problems were relatively easily circumvented. I'd hate to think that people would start sending stuff that way again and use non-binary user groups for it.
It's a big problem trying to get some women into an IT company. Twenty or more years ago there was no problem but nowadays it just doesn't seem to be possible to find enough. They are just not interested and it would make a better environment if there were more in the organization.
I wanted to get a small website working with phones recently and it was hell. Some quite good browsers completely ignore the css for handheld, others insist in reading the css for screen whether or not handheld is specified. Others just do strange things with image or font size or colours that just have to be coded round. There's some sites offering a service to transform your pages to every browser type just to get round the problems. Opera is very good - boy would I like it if every phone ran it but they don't.
I hate this business about admitting to crimes and being repentant. A scumbag or confidence trickster can easily say they are repentant whilst I've seen quite a few cases of innocent people being kept in long after they should have been allowed out. It just shouldn't enter into the picture at all when considering parole.
Quite right, no matter what the problem you can always use man in the middle and pass the problem along to someone wanting to access a pr0n site. Not quite up to the same volumes as a machine but getting there
Having been involved in compiler work I'm very surprised. I've had to code round some processor faults (and very annoying they are to diagnose too) but I would never have expected that what went out could be subject to attacks like this.
The EEC is able to deal with this sort of business under it mandate to stop unfair competition between countries by having a level playing field. Either everyone can generate a load of pollution without paying for cleanup or no-one can - and people prefer the latter course. The US doesn't need anything about environment controls built into its constitution - just something about fair competition between states.
I tend to believe that gestures were more of a precursor to speech than calls and warnings. Judging by the majority of gestures people used nowadays they were mostly used for social purposes rather than anything very informative. As ways of providing information though gestures are very effective, just think how easy it is to express something like that a particular plant tastes nasty.
Actually I believe clocks run slower in gravitational wells. In the case of a black hole time effectively stops so it looks like something entering freezes at the boundary and fades away.
It will probably be possible to use something like this to direct the making of alternative type protein like molecules where the structure can be easily predetermined - i.e. make nanomachines easily.
Without the link scanner AVG is a pain to virus writers. With the link scanner it becomes a possible very valuable virus vector. That's an awful silly thing to do. I really wouldn't depend on that mitigating factor of them being 'people who know how to write secure software' to stop a close analysis of their code showing up a bug. If they had the security gene I don't think they would ever have though of doing this.
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Yes I agree, they are control freaks. They are also paternalistic and hate criticism. I don't know how one explains to such a person that what they are doing is extremely destructive and their means are destroying most of what they hold dear.
I'm sure those spam messages being sent around contain hidden messages for terrorists. Now there's something worthwhile for our spymaster boffins to do, they could crack the codes in the variable bits of the spam messages and decript the stenography in the misspelled words. Of course they could also stop most of it, maybe they have cracked the main spam bot codes and are spying on the terrorists that way. Spammers, they probably are involved in drugs guns and terrorism. It would explain why so many of them come from Russia or China though they probably originate in Iraq, Iran or North Korea.
Anyway which do you think is more probable if they actually were that good and could cope with a botnet, would they help us by closing it down or would they help spread it so they could spy on us even more or use it to blackmail those they saw as enemies of the state?
I'd have thought the casual market was more cyclical driven by fashion. So yes there are more casual gamers but it isn't straightforward capturing the market at any given time. The PS2 had this market a while ago with eyeToy, Singstar and their exercise games. I haven't the foggiest why Sony didn't try developing it more and lost the market to the Nintendo Wii. And yes it does go against common sense in that we've seen it all before and it didn't happen.
Sorry an 'l' went missing at the end of that reference http://www.atsf.co.uk/dottext/domesday.html
The BBC Domesday project in 1986, see http://www.atsf.co.uk/dottext/domesday.htm used doors as a paradigm to move between the different applications.
How about a case in Northern Ireland where a bugging device was put on eBay. The government denied planting it but asked eBay to stop the sale, which they did under their rules about such things. :-)
In the old days(!) binaries were distributed in small chunks and stitched together by whoever wanted to use them, so size problems were relatively easily circumvented. I'd hate to think that people would start sending stuff that way again and use non-binary user groups for it.
It's a big problem trying to get some women into an IT company. Twenty or more years ago there was no problem but nowadays it just doesn't seem to be possible to find enough. They are just not interested and it would make a better environment if there were more in the organization.
I wanted to get a small website working with phones recently and it was hell. Some quite good browsers completely ignore the css for handheld, others insist in reading the css for screen whether or not handheld is specified. Others just do strange things with image or font size or colours that just have to be coded round. There's some sites offering a service to transform your pages to every browser type just to get round the problems. Opera is very good - boy would I like it if every phone ran it but they don't.
I hate this business about admitting to crimes and being repentant. A scumbag or confidence trickster can easily say they are repentant whilst I've seen quite a few cases of innocent people being kept in long after they should have been allowed out. It just shouldn't enter into the picture at all when considering parole.
Quite right, no matter what the problem you can always use man in the middle and pass the problem along to someone wanting to access a pr0n site. Not quite up to the same volumes as a machine but getting there
Having been involved in compiler work I'm very surprised. I've had to code round some processor faults (and very annoying they are to diagnose too) but I would never have expected that what went out could be subject to attacks like this.
The EEC is able to deal with this sort of business under it mandate to stop unfair competition between countries by having a level playing field. Either everyone can generate a load of pollution without paying for cleanup or no-one can - and people prefer the latter course. The US doesn't need anything about environment controls built into its constitution - just something about fair competition between states.
I tend to believe that gestures were more of a precursor to speech than calls and warnings. Judging by the majority of gestures people used nowadays they were mostly used for social purposes rather than anything very informative. As ways of providing information though gestures are very effective, just think how easy it is to express something like that a particular plant tastes nasty.
Actually I believe clocks run slower in gravitational wells. In the case of a black hole time effectively stops so it looks like something entering freezes at the boundary and fades away.
It will probably be possible to use something like this to direct the making of alternative type protein like molecules where the structure can be easily predetermined - i.e. make nanomachines easily.
Without the link scanner AVG is a pain to virus writers. With the link scanner it becomes a possible very valuable virus vector. That's an awful silly thing to do. I really wouldn't depend on that mitigating factor of them being 'people who know how to write secure software' to stop a close analysis of their code showing up a bug. If they had the security gene I don't think they would ever have though of doing this.