But that was never the point, the point was that the behaviour of the priests was realistic *and* that it didn't fit in with the teachings of the Catholic Church. Like Father Jake, anyone that does follow the Catholic ideal of a priest's life ends up as a sad, embittered, drink-sodden old lecher.
As for the IT mob, I really hope that it is technically accurate *and* shows how the lusers are looked down upon by those that have the power to obliterate their work at the tap of a few keys.
I'll have to wear my El Reg "Practical Unix Terrorism" O'Really t-shirt while I watch it.
So what this will usher in (sorry!) is the ability of the distributors to decide whether or not a multi-screen cinema can show a film on the screen they wish or whether they will be unable to fit their business model by moving a more popular title into their larger theatres. I'm sure all the projectors will be heavily secured to prevent any kind of local control of content, it will all be imposed from on high by the Cuban cigar smoking types with the large waist lines, paranoia and fat bank balances.
Hope I'm wrong, but history suggests I'm probably not....
In H2G2 he suggested a space ship with controls that were manipulated by movements made above them, but this had the drawback of requiring the operator to almost stop breathing in order to remain tuned to the same radio station....
It may be that someone prefers a particular sound, but since everyone listens on different kit it's better for a recording artiste to assume flat frequency response.
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I think Phil Karn, KA9Q, said it best.
"The internet has subsumed everything that used to be interesting about amateur radio".
I've been licensed for 25 years, and find it hard to see much point in day to day radio usage. Useful for a very small number of things, but not many.
Seeing as George W. has just tried to commit the US to considerable amounts of new hardware I do wonder whether the Saturn V could be used as a basis for a heavy lift rocket to get some Mars-bound hardware into earth orbit for assembly.
I always regretted that I was too young to see a real Saturn V launch, I've never wanted to see the shuttle launches in person, but getting the chance to stand on the rattling ground and have my ears and body cavities shaken by five F1s is something that would get me on a plane without any pushing.
It will be interesting to see what transpires assuming that this new mission plan can be turned into reality.
No, popular support is unnecessary to get things done in the UK.
The government decides what it is going to do, then they do it irrespective of whether or not it was in their manifesto.
If people complain to their MPs and the MPs take notice, they are then whipped into line and effectively forced to support their party.
This is not democracy of course, but then since in many elections the turnouts have been drifting down over the years (especially in local and EU elections where turnouts have been below 20%) I suppose most people are beginning to realise that voting for what you want doesn't work.
Sooner or later the facade will crack and we'll have anarchy because the political parties assumed that they'd have it all their way for ever.
Despite the dreadfulness of revolutions, I suspect that we need one. That's not a happy thought for me.
Oh come on! H2G2 on the TV was made with the usual BBC budgets and wardrobe department. Since Douglas had come up via the Dr Who series as a writer I always thought that added immeasurably to the charm of it.
The bad thing about this is that apparently there is a certain amount of smarting within the scientific community in the UK and Europe over the way that Colin Pillinger was able to get Beagle 2 funded. Essentially some people feel that a necessarily rapid design and build phase has eaten up much money that could have been used in other ways. If the result of the rapidity is two many single points of failure and insufficient modelling of the descent/landing phase then that money has been blown on something with a very poor chance of success.
I'm hoping that Beagle 2 is OK and for some reason is unable to be received on earth because of low signal strength. Maybe Mars Express will do a better job and Mars Odyssey isn't working because it wasn't designed for exactly this job.
But if Beagle 2 is spread out over several square km of Mars, then this is likely to be viewed very badly within the scientific community. Just feel lucky that Beagle 2 separated correctly from Mars Express, if it had not the extra mass would have prevented ME reaching orbit too. Then the bile would really be flowing!
The error correction is there to cope with the multipath fading environment that distorts the radio channel. Without the error correction the encrypted data you decrypt would be garbage and would not decrypt to what it was originally.
You need to look at exactly what parts of your hardware a GPL'd driver source would reveal, and whether there is really any need to avoid a GPL'd driver for this reason.
Only the people who know what the hardware does and why the features in question need to be kept secret can make this decision.
No, no, bombs generally are not filled with shrapnel, that is generated by the explosive bursting the case of the bomb. Thin cased bombs generate large amounts of blast and explode at ground level, thicker cased bombs are designed to penetrate either ground or buildings before exploding. The strength of the case is necessary but cannot usually withstand the force applied by the detonating explosive within, hence the shrapnel. In some cases a bomb will have a fuze- extender to cause the explosion to happen a few feet above the ground precisely to act as an anti-personnel weapon.
Any kind of manufactured image depicting children in a sexual situation is illegal in the UK, even if it can be shown that the image has been manipulated and no actual child abuse occurred.
No one in government can possibly be mentally stable, benevolent and fit for positions of power. Power corrupts, remember?
Fact is, the only thing that stays the same between UK governments is the Civil Service. Tie them together with the spooks from SIS and GCHQ, and you have a very powerful group that can persuade a minister to do what they want.
"If you don't go along with this minister, we'll let the cat out of the bag about that little boy/little girl/ you were with last week".
We already have access to it, and there is no restriction on the export of intangibles from the UK (yet).
Granted the UK government is attempting to pass some laws with draconian clauses concerning encryption keys, but they have not done so yet and there is a lot of opposition!
This issue has been discussed on the UK Crypto mailing list since the article appeared in the Sunday Times last weekend. The hwole meat of the article is unsubstantiated and is simply not true. The same spiel has been going the rounds for several years now, apparently hyped up by the spooks at GCHQ who are trolling for business reviewing commercial software system security.
Now I wonder why GCHQ want to know how banks and institutions secure themselves?
It's all a matter of degree. If the patch is fairly small, and only applies to a subset of the source, then it can't be argued that the code being sent comprises a cryptographic product.
I think you would need to be making some very large patches to be at risk.
In the extreme, simply print the patches in an OCR-friendly font and use snail mail....
Well, as a current OS/2 (and Linux) user, the WPS and SOM are still ahead of Gnome/KDE etc in my book.
And as for stability of OS/2 apps relative to Win 3.1 apps running under Win-OS/2, well, I've never found one that does anything other than throw an exception and terminate when it breaks. OS/2 apps are generally stable, I don't know where you got yours from, although I'll grant that it took until v2.1 was released for many system and WPS bugs to be worked out.
Now, if SOM and the WPS could be on Linux, and my OS/2 apps ported, then I'd be ready to move for good!
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But that was never the point, the point was that the behaviour of the priests was realistic *and* that it didn't fit in with the teachings of the Catholic Church. Like Father Jake, anyone that does follow the Catholic ideal of a priest's life ends up as a sad, embittered, drink-sodden old lecher.
As for the IT mob, I really hope that it is technically accurate *and* shows how the lusers are looked down upon by those that have the power to obliterate their work at the tap of a few keys.
I'll have to wear my El Reg "Practical Unix Terrorism" O'Really t-shirt while I watch it.
Bwaaahahahaha!
So what this will usher in (sorry!) is the ability of the distributors to decide whether or not a multi-screen cinema can show a film on the screen they wish or whether they will be unable to fit their business model by moving a more popular title into their larger theatres. I'm sure all the projectors will be heavily secured to prevent any kind of local control of content, it will all be imposed from on high by the Cuban cigar smoking types with the large waist lines, paranoia and fat bank balances.
Hope I'm wrong, but history suggests I'm probably not....
In H2G2 he suggested a space ship with controls that were manipulated by movements made above them, but this had the drawback of requiring the operator to almost stop breathing in order to remain tuned to the same radio station....
IIRC THD needs to be above 3% for the average human ear/brain to be able to perceive it.
Warm = distorted!
It may be that someone prefers a particular sound, but since everyone listens on different kit it's better for a recording artiste to assume flat frequency response.
I think Phil Karn, KA9Q, said it best.
"The internet has subsumed everything that used to be interesting about amateur radio".
I've been licensed for 25 years, and find it hard to see much point in day to day radio usage. Useful for a very small number of things, but not many.
Have a look at the Rules Emporium at:
I use the rules there, and even minor spam gets obliterated with no problems of catching real mail.
I recommend it!
I remember that too.
Let's hope IBM sticks with Linux and doesn't follow their OS/2 path.
Seeing as George W. has just tried to commit the US to considerable amounts of new hardware I do wonder whether the Saturn V could be used as a basis for a heavy lift rocket to get some Mars-bound hardware into earth orbit for assembly.
I always regretted that I was too young to see a real Saturn V launch, I've never wanted to see the shuttle launches in person, but getting the chance to stand on the rattling ground and have my ears and body cavities shaken by five F1s is something that would get me on a plane without any pushing.
It will be interesting to see what transpires assuming that this new mission plan can be turned into reality.
No, popular support is unnecessary to get things done in the UK.
The government decides what it is going to do, then they do it irrespective of whether or not it was in their manifesto.
If people complain to their MPs and the MPs take notice, they are then whipped into line and effectively forced to support their party.
This is not democracy of course, but then since in many elections the turnouts have been drifting down over the years (especially in local and EU elections where turnouts have been below 20%) I suppose most people are beginning to realise that voting for what you want doesn't work.
Sooner or later the facade will crack and we'll have anarchy because the political parties assumed that they'd have it all their way for ever.
Despite the dreadfulness of revolutions, I suspect that we need one. That's not a happy thought for me.
Oh come on! H2G2 on the TV was made with the usual BBC budgets and wardrobe department. Since Douglas had come up via the Dr Who series as a writer I always thought that added immeasurably to the charm of it.
The bad thing about this is that apparently there is a certain amount of smarting within the scientific community in the UK and Europe over the way that Colin Pillinger was able to get Beagle 2 funded. Essentially some people feel that a necessarily rapid design and build phase has eaten up much money that could have been used in other ways. If the result of the rapidity is two many single points of failure and insufficient modelling of the descent/landing phase then that money has been blown on something with a very poor chance of success.
I'm hoping that Beagle 2 is OK and for some reason is unable to be received on earth because of low signal strength. Maybe Mars Express will do a better job and Mars Odyssey isn't working because it wasn't designed for exactly this job.
But if Beagle 2 is spread out over several square km of Mars, then this is likely to be viewed very badly within the scientific community. Just feel lucky that Beagle 2 separated correctly from Mars Express, if it had not the extra mass would have prevented ME reaching orbit too. Then the bile would really be flowing!
But you can't.
The error correction is there to cope with the multipath fading environment that distorts the radio channel. Without the error correction the encrypted data you decrypt would be garbage and would not decrypt to what it was originally.
John Harrison was British, therefore there was no chance his name would have been chosen. This is Europe we're talking about.....
You need to look at exactly what parts of your hardware a GPL'd driver source would reveal, and whether there is really any need to avoid a GPL'd driver for this reason.
Only the people who know what the hardware does and why the features in question need to be kept secret can make this decision.
No, no, bombs generally are not filled with shrapnel, that is generated by the explosive bursting the case of the bomb. Thin cased bombs generate large amounts of blast and explode at ground level, thicker cased bombs are designed to penetrate either ground or buildings before exploding. The strength of the case is necessary but cannot usually withstand the force applied by the detonating explosive within, hence the shrapnel. In some cases a bomb will have a fuze- extender to cause the explosion to happen a few feet above the ground precisely to act as an anti-personnel weapon.
It's licence where the word is used as a noun, license it used when it is a verb.
Any kind of manufactured image depicting children in a sexual situation is illegal in the UK, even if it can be shown that the image has been manipulated and no actual child abuse occurred.
No one in government can possibly be mentally stable, benevolent and fit for positions of power. Power corrupts, remember?
Fact is, the only thing that stays the same between UK governments is the Civil Service. Tie them together with the spooks from SIS and GCHQ, and you have a very powerful group that can persuade a minister to do what they want.
"If you don't go along with this minister, we'll let the cat out of the bag about that little boy/little girl/ you were with last week".
Er... what?
We already have access to it, and there is no restriction on the export of intangibles from the UK (yet).
Granted the UK government is attempting to pass some laws with draconian clauses concerning encryption keys, but they have not done so yet and there is a lot of opposition!
This issue has been discussed on the UK Crypto mailing list since the article appeared in the Sunday Times last weekend. The hwole meat of the article is unsubstantiated and is simply not true. The same spiel has been going the rounds for several years now, apparently hyped up by the spooks at GCHQ who are trolling for business reviewing commercial software system security.
Now I wonder why GCHQ want to know how banks and institutions secure themselves?
It's all a matter of degree. If the patch is fairly small, and only applies to a subset of the source, then it can't be argued that the code being sent comprises a cryptographic product.
I think you would need to be making some very large patches to be at risk.
In the extreme, simply print the patches in an OCR-friendly font and use snail mail....
Well, as a current OS/2 (and Linux) user, the WPS and SOM are still ahead of Gnome/KDE etc in my book.
And as for stability of OS/2 apps relative to Win 3.1 apps running under Win-OS/2, well, I've never found one that does anything other than throw an exception and terminate when it breaks. OS/2 apps are generally stable, I don't know where you got yours from, although I'll grant that it took until v2.1 was released for many system and WPS bugs to be worked out.
Now, if SOM and the WPS could be on Linux, and my OS/2 apps ported, then I'd be ready to move for good!