Don't start down the "acceptance" road already - this "hacking into job-applicants' email" malarkey was always unacceptable and should never have happened and should never happen again and any law purporting to support it must be removed, as should any politician who votes for it.
It's not time to fall-back to the "this is okay so long as it's not enforced" argument which justifies stunts like this.
The parent has been modded "flaimbait", and perhaps it is, but it is also not far from the truth. Limmited privacy laws, CCTV everywhere, GB is the "poster child" for government intrusivness.
I'd guess people are reading the news while on their journeys (wifi, newspapers, radio, etc.) so if any bad economic news is announced, then wanting to buy gold sooner rather than later isn't necessarily so weird?
That means javascript can't have that info; otherwise, it can just set an image source to a url that has the data embedded in it.
Wouldn't javascript's "tainted data" model handle that? Data from the output of the rendering engine could be considered tainted, and tainted data can't be used for anything that causes outbound traffic.
IMHO a better fix is to completely disable looking up browser history for link styling. Let it treat all links as unvisited if there is no difference in styling these different classes of links. Make it the default to use the same style (most people don't care). Then re-enable the lookup if the styles are changed and the result of the change is 2 or more different styles (and pop up a warning that JS and CSS and see these style variations and this can expose detection of sites you have visited).
Or disallow transmission to webservers of data derived from browser-rendering?
For the forseeable future, the bulk of desktops and notebooks on this planet are going to be running Windows software.
eh? go to any tech conference and the only people not using Mac laptops are the ones with asus eee (xandros or ubuntu) or thinkpads running linux. Maybe 1 or 2 Windows machines per hundred.
It [Chernobyl] really isn't repeatable. At best, we will get minute leakage somewhere that will most likely be detected soon and contained.
By which you mean a huge leak draining the reactor pool into the sea which would likely have been detected 10 hours later after the fuel rods had caught fire if it not for blind luck in this incident?
if the EULA is a contract (which many legal systems think that it is) then by agreeing to the EULA you agreed to the charges. The magistrate isn't going to care that the contract was too long for your little brain to easily comprehend.
If you don't like it, STOP CLICKING "OK" ON EULAs!
Anybody who is Anti-Symantec is objectively Pro-Virus.
try buying a PC with kubuntu preloaded and having the vendor tell you you're an irresponsible fool for not buying Symantec or Mcaffee with it...
sadly, some government departments institutionalise this ("all PCs must have anti-virus") which led to a spate of pointless "virus scanner" programs for gnu/linux with virus-signatures from the 1980's.
I would say that this reinforces more the uncontrolled "outlaw" stereotype than the "childish" one, right in line with the Rand Corporation propaganda, which links file sharing to organized crime and terrorism.
think about that for a moment... terrorists exploiting a security flaw in government bureaucracy to change someone's name without their permission?!?
hardly sounds like an organised crime/terrorism MO does it now?
According to the article, the "lost income" from a downloaded movie is about £.40 (the rental price of the movie), which seems a bit high - a postal video-rental account at tesco or lovefilm costs about £1.50 per DVD rented (plus they're spending £0.50 of bandwidth to download it, which is money going into the British economy and supporting the government's broadband strategy).
However, these figures (assisted by the assumption that every file downloaded from a "file-sharing site" is a commercial movie that they'd otherwise have rented) imply that downloaders are watching 3,600 movies per year. Ehh? Given the length of each film (and these people have to be at school or work or sleeping most of the time) I wonder if those figures are even physically possible.
Not choosing the ultra-cheap airline that's known for skipping maintainance every now and then, for example.
Most maintenance schedules for aircraft are set by the FAA, not at the airline's whim. The majority of aircraft crashes are due to environmental factors (such as turbulence or other bad weather), or pilot error.
I read somewhere that statistically, airplanes are safer than cars, you're more likely to die in a car accident.
Think of a recent car accident in or near your home town.
Was it on the news? Was it on international news? Was it on international news for more than a week? Were conspiracy theories for its cause on slashdot?
No? Why not? Maybe because tens of thousands of similar car crashes occurred every month, and they haven't bothered reporting any in which a celebrity wasn't involved?
Imagine if that accident near you, and every one like it, had led to the media-attention this plane is getting. And then imagine (if both types of crash were reported equally) how you'd perceive the relative safety of air and ground travel
the crew has no good idea about the true speed and orientation of the plane
(my highlight)
why would they not know the orientation? the gyros don't depend on pitot tubes etc, so wouldn't be affected by icing. The only thing which would kill the attitude-indicator would be a power failure, at which point most aircraft have a standby attitude indicator that's powered by an internal (ish) battery and uses its internal gryo to sense which way up you are.
Slashdot Mirror
How many single player maps does it have?
the old version had quite a few - I just played through about 6 levels (i.e. lots more than nexuiz)
if they wanted more levels, would it be possible to use the ones from tremulous?
It's completely unenforceable
Don't start down the "acceptance" road already - this "hacking into job-applicants' email" malarkey was always unacceptable and should never have happened and should never happen again and any law purporting to support it must be removed, as should any politician who votes for it.
It's not time to fall-back to the "this is okay so long as it's not enforced" argument which justifies stunts like this.
Pizza Hut also used OpenServer.
Now they're a SUSE shop! :)
no, they're still a pizza shop
The parent has been modded "flaimbait", and perhaps it is, but it is also not far from the truth. Limmited privacy laws, CCTV everywhere, GB is the "poster child" for government intrusivness.
arbitrary searches of innocent people
For when you quickly need gold?
I'd guess people are reading the news while on their journeys (wifi, newspapers, radio, etc.) so if any bad economic news is announced, then wanting to buy gold sooner rather than later isn't necessarily so weird?
That means javascript can't have that info; otherwise, it can just set an image source to a url that has the data embedded in it.
Wouldn't javascript's "tainted data" model handle that? Data from the output of the rendering engine could be considered tainted, and tainted data can't be used for anything that causes outbound traffic.
[Microsoft] have pretty much guaranteed my return to PC gaming once they release their next system and stop supporting the 360.
yeah that'll show them...
And so far, only two nuclear bombs have ever been detonated.
Ehh?
Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, nuclear weapons have been detonated on over two thousand occasions for testing purposes and demonstration purposes
IMHO a better fix is to completely disable looking up browser history for link styling. Let it treat all links as unvisited if there is no difference in styling these different classes of links. Make it the default to use the same style (most people don't care). Then re-enable the lookup if the styles are changed and the result of the change is 2 or more different styles (and pop up a warning that JS and CSS and see these style variations and this can expose detection of sites you have visited).
Or disallow transmission to webservers of data derived from browser-rendering?
no, not Apple or related conferences
would "unncessary power use" include loud audible alarms?
And threatening to fail a student for reasons other than poor performance in the course is somehow not an "ethical violation"?
For the forseeable future, the bulk of desktops and notebooks on this planet are going to be running Windows software.
eh? go to any tech conference and the only people not using Mac laptops are the ones with asus eee (xandros or ubuntu) or thinkpads running linux. Maybe 1 or 2 Windows machines per hundred.
It [Chernobyl] really isn't repeatable. At best, we will get minute leakage somewhere that will most likely be detected soon and contained.
By which you mean a huge leak draining the reactor pool into the sea which would likely have been detected 10 hours later after the fuel rods had caught fire if it not for blind luck in this incident?
If mail is going through your Linux box...
and how is that relevant to a Linux desktop machine?
By that logic, all Windows desktop PCs would have to be secured to the level of an SBS server
if the EULA is a contract (which many legal systems think that it is) then by agreeing to the EULA you agreed to the charges. The magistrate isn't going to care that the contract was too long for your little brain to easily comprehend.
If you don't like it, STOP CLICKING "OK" ON EULAs!
Anybody who is Anti-Symantec is objectively Pro-Virus.
try buying a PC with kubuntu preloaded and having the vendor tell you you're an irresponsible fool for not buying Symantec or Mcaffee with it...
sadly, some government departments institutionalise this ("all PCs must have anti-virus") which led to a spate of pointless "virus scanner" programs for gnu/linux with virus-signatures from the 1980's.
I would say that this reinforces more the uncontrolled "outlaw" stereotype than the "childish" one, right in line with the Rand Corporation propaganda, which links file sharing to organized crime and terrorism.
think about that for a moment... terrorists exploiting a security flaw in government bureaucracy to change someone's name without their permission?!?
hardly sounds like an organised crime/terrorism MO does it now?
"According to the article, the "lost income" from a downloaded movie is about £.40" - should have said £2.40
According to the article, the "lost income" from a downloaded movie is about £.40 (the rental price of the movie), which seems a bit high - a postal video-rental account at tesco or lovefilm costs about £1.50 per DVD rented (plus they're spending £0.50 of bandwidth to download it, which is money going into the British economy and supporting the government's broadband strategy).
However, these figures (assisted by the assumption that every file downloaded from a "file-sharing site" is a commercial movie that they'd otherwise have rented) imply that downloaders are watching 3,600 movies per year. Ehh? Given the length of each film (and these people have to be at school or work or sleeping most of the time) I wonder if those figures are even physically possible.
Not choosing the ultra-cheap airline that's known for skipping maintainance every now and then, for example.
Most maintenance schedules for aircraft are set by the FAA, not at the airline's whim. The majority of aircraft crashes are due to environmental factors (such as turbulence or other bad weather), or pilot error.
Keep telling yourself that, just like the FAA does.
and good luck when you fly on a budget airline whose pilot and crew have slept the legal minimum number of hours for the last few days...
I read somewhere that statistically, airplanes are safer than cars, you're more likely to die in a car accident.
Think of a recent car accident in or near your home town.
Was it on the news? Was it on international news? Was it on international news for more than a week? Were conspiracy theories for its cause on slashdot?
No? Why not? Maybe because tens of thousands of similar car crashes occurred every month, and they haven't bothered reporting any in which a celebrity wasn't involved?
Imagine if that accident near you, and every one like it, had led to the media-attention this plane is getting. And then imagine (if both types of crash were reported equally) how you'd perceive the relative safety of air and ground travel
the crew has no good idea about the true speed and orientation of the plane
(my highlight)
why would they not know the orientation? the gyros don't depend on pitot tubes etc, so wouldn't be affected by icing. The only thing which would kill the attitude-indicator would be a power failure, at which point most aircraft have a standby attitude indicator that's powered by an internal (ish) battery and uses its internal gryo to sense which way up you are.
I registered fuckthenavy.net because .com and .org were taken.
You think the navy might be interested?
so what happens when a site known for its great features and well-designed user-interface gets bought by a company with a phobia of both things?