Sounds like the devices used on the electrified railways here. Padlocks with as many as fifteen keys - all are needed to unlock it. Let's a lot of men work on a large section of rail safely as everyone working has a key with them so it cannot be unlocked.
Here in the UK diesel and petrol are pushing about $6.60 a gallon (US). We cope by having more fuel efficient cars - 55mpg from my diesel at motorway speeds is the norm. Use less fuel - best way of saving money!
Falling into a vat of molten bronze is also pretty bad. Not only do you not go much deeper than your knees, but you flail about for a long time before you finally sink into it.
Not only that but you also screw the batch up as you leave excess carbon and calcium behind. At least you have some satisfaction of revenge....
I'm aware of how the DNS system works. What happens say when the controlling organisation, be that the US or whoever else, decideds to award control of a ccTLD to someone else more amenable to their views. That's the sort of change that is now possible without the incumbent ccTLD owner agreeing to the change if the article is to be beleived.
before people get so annoyed with a country exerting excess control that they set up an alternate DNS root. Maybe one that mirrors the original by and large - but has some differences of opinion. You get to choose which one to use in case of a dispute, or just take one or other as it comes.
Could it happen? Will it happen?
You cannot charge anything for your time - the judge would just toss that out. If you get an outside party in to do it for you then the charges have to be reasonable - £200/hr isn't and the court just wouldn't award it.
You can if you have been forced to spend *work* time on it. However for Harry Homeowner sifting through the mountains of spam one evening there is nothing he can claim for as no damages have been suffered.
Now if the spammer mailbombed his account and OE crashed and he had to call Colin Cleverclogs from the local PC shop who charged for this service - that charge would be recoverable.
You can only sue in the small claim court for actual damages suffered. They generally hold that wasting your time is not claimable as damages - actions such as this will only succeed if you can show that you have lost time in the course of a buisness and then suffered a financial cost.
Also you generally cannot set a precedent in the small claims court, even if you do win.
For those interested further the website for the court is www.moneyclaim.gov.uk
Indeed. There was an article on the BBC news today about having used stem cells to isolate and express the gene(s) for cystic fibrosis. Several US researchers would have liked to have gotten samples, and the UK would be delighted to oblige but the US universities blocked to researchers from doing so.
Religious reasons or is the White House just stopping all stem cell research? Either way the train is steaming past and the US are still trying to buy a ticket - let alone run along the platform after it.....
Actually I find it quite worrying. Especially in the UK where so many people are not vaccinating children because there are fears of autism (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4311613.stm) a sudden outbreak of measles would be quite a big deal.
I was one of the very last children not to get the routine vaccs, and as such got measles immunity the hard way. It's not a disease I'd wish on anyone. It's kind of ironic seeing that Gates funds measles programs to a large extent. More to the point though I'd be interested in knowing what procedures Microsoft or other large companies have for protecting their workforce and advising them, as our company AFAIK has jack-s*** in the way of such policies.
The software or plain old fashioned human error - there's noting as effective as a really determined idiot after all. I was just pointing out that hardware is never totally failsafe and it's a bad idea to introduce blind spots into the mix by thinking like that.
Don't be too fast to jump on the failsafe hardware and extol it's virtues. At a local coal mine to me fourteen failsafes all went skywards and conspired to drop a lift cage to pit bottom full of men killing well over a dozen.
Modifying anything to circumvent a copy protection system is illegal in the UK ever since the European Copyrights and Patents directive was adopted. It's like a more draconian version of the DCMA if there were possible...
Rubbish. Insurance companies are prevented from law from disclaiming third party libilites like this and unless your contract states otherwise they won't be able to disclaim their liability to you either. Have no idea what it's like in other countries but that's the position in the UK.
A friend of mine once managed to completely trash a database and accounts server by entering rm -rf * from the root folder, without entered the requisite cd to the correct folder. Yes he was logged on as root and couldn't stop the inevitable until he pulled the power cable. His company was smart and went after the fool who gave him the procedures and let someone who basically knew fsck all about UNIX loose on the root account.
Sounds like this company needs to do the same and write some proper procedures and find some way of checking input. Humans being fallible and all, firing someone making an honest mistake, especailly when they don't know the system does seem a little excessive.
Instead of going for that connection which won't hoover up everybody just tax the PC at point of sale. That way you can get even more for those freeloading households that have more that one PC per net connection.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/03/pc_tax/ (The register) - like the TV licence wasn't foolish enough we can try the same for the PC....
I don't agree with copyright infringment, but here in the UK it's a little draconian on what is and isn't an "infringing copy".
If I go out and buy some work, such as a DVD or music CD etc then I should have every right to do what I like with that creative work. I should be able to rip the CD to my iRiver player, copy the CD to a tape for the car, backup the DVD so the original doesn't get scratched, or jump past the PUP's that tell me in six different languages, two of which I cannot understand, that Piracy is Theft. I've bought the content but not the delivery method. I'm sure the studio would like to sell me the same content three different times on three different delivery systems, but that's just plain fscking greedy.
All these things are illegal in the UK. As long as I have bought the content once, *and* I am the only person who is going to view it then I fail to see morally how you can accuse me of doing anything wrong regardless of which delivery system I'm choosing to use.
Is it a good idea keeping a record of catch sizes as these - or will people hunting for the biggest fish just waste and deplete a valuable food source for local people?
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Sounds like the devices used on the electrified railways here. Padlocks with as many as fifteen keys - all are needed to unlock it. Let's a lot of men work on a large section of rail safely as everyone working has a key with them so it cannot be unlocked.
Here in the UK diesel and petrol are pushing about $6.60 a gallon (US). We cope by having more fuel efficient cars - 55mpg from my diesel at motorway speeds is the norm. Use less fuel - best way of saving money!
Falling into a vat of molten bronze is also pretty bad. Not only do you not go much deeper than your knees, but you flail about for a long time before you finally sink into it. Not only that but you also screw the batch up as you leave excess carbon and calcium behind. At least you have some satisfaction of revenge....
I'm aware of how the DNS system works. What happens say when the controlling organisation, be that the US or whoever else, decideds to award control of a ccTLD to someone else more amenable to their views. That's the sort of change that is now possible without the incumbent ccTLD owner agreeing to the change if the article is to be beleived.
before people get so annoyed with a country exerting excess control that they set up an alternate DNS root. Maybe one that mirrors the original by and large - but has some differences of opinion. You get to choose which one to use in case of a dispute, or just take one or other as it comes. Could it happen? Will it happen?
The article mentioned a £30 court fee, so it was a small claims track. They don't set precedent, and you cannot appeal against them normally.
You cannot charge anything for your time - the judge would just toss that out. If you get an outside party in to do it for you then the charges have to be reasonable - £200/hr isn't and the court just wouldn't award it.
You can if you have been forced to spend *work* time on it. However for Harry Homeowner sifting through the mountains of spam one evening there is nothing he can claim for as no damages have been suffered. Now if the spammer mailbombed his account and OE crashed and he had to call Colin Cleverclogs from the local PC shop who charged for this service - that charge would be recoverable.
You can only sue in the small claim court for actual damages suffered. They generally hold that wasting your time is not claimable as damages - actions such as this will only succeed if you can show that you have lost time in the course of a buisness and then suffered a financial cost. Also you generally cannot set a precedent in the small claims court, even if you do win. For those interested further the website for the court is www.moneyclaim.gov.uk
Indeed. There was an article on the BBC news today about having used stem cells to isolate and express the gene(s) for cystic fibrosis. Several US researchers would have liked to have gotten samples, and the UK would be delighted to oblige but the US universities blocked to researchers from doing so.
Religious reasons or is the White House just stopping all stem cell research? Either way the train is steaming past and the US are still trying to buy a ticket - let alone run along the platform after it.....
Actually I find it quite worrying. Especially in the UK where so many people are not vaccinating children because there are fears of autism (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4311613.stm) a sudden outbreak of measles would be quite a big deal.
I was one of the very last children not to get the routine vaccs, and as such got measles immunity the hard way. It's not a disease I'd wish on anyone. It's kind of ironic seeing that Gates funds measles programs to a large extent. More to the point though I'd be interested in knowing what procedures Microsoft or other large companies have for protecting their workforce and advising them, as our company AFAIK has jack-s*** in the way of such policies.
The software or plain old fashioned human error - there's noting as effective as a really determined idiot after all. I was just pointing out that hardware is never totally failsafe and it's a bad idea to introduce blind spots into the mix by thinking like that.
Don't be too fast to jump on the failsafe hardware and extol it's virtues. At a local coal mine to me fourteen failsafes all went skywards and conspired to drop a lift cage to pit bottom full of men killing well over a dozen.
Modifying anything to circumvent a copy protection system is illegal in the UK ever since the European Copyrights and Patents directive was adopted. It's like a more draconian version of the DCMA if there were possible...
Rubbish. Insurance companies are prevented from law from disclaiming third party libilites like this and unless your contract states otherwise they won't be able to disclaim their liability to you either. Have no idea what it's like in other countries but that's the position in the UK.
There might be nothing wrong with it, but in the UK such actions are probably illegal even if you do own a copy of the same work on DVD
A friend of mine once managed to completely trash a database and accounts server by entering rm -rf * from the root folder, without entered the requisite cd to the correct folder. Yes he was logged on as root and couldn't stop the inevitable until he pulled the power cable. His company was smart and went after the fool who gave him the procedures and let someone who basically knew fsck all about UNIX loose on the root account.
Sounds like this company needs to do the same and write some proper procedures and find some way of checking input. Humans being fallible and all, firing someone making an honest mistake, especailly when they don't know the system does seem a little excessive.
Instead of going for that connection which won't hoover up everybody just tax the PC at point of sale. That way you can get even more for those freeloading households that have more that one PC per net connection. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/03/pc_tax/ (The register) - like the TV licence wasn't foolish enough we can try the same for the PC....
I don't agree with copyright infringment, but here in the UK it's a little draconian on what is and isn't an "infringing copy".
If I go out and buy some work, such as a DVD or music CD etc then I should have every right to do what I like with that creative work. I should be able to rip the CD to my iRiver player, copy the CD to a tape for the car, backup the DVD so the original doesn't get scratched, or jump past the PUP's that tell me in six different languages, two of which I cannot understand, that Piracy is Theft. I've bought the content but not the delivery method. I'm sure the studio would like to sell me the same content three different times on three different delivery systems, but that's just plain fscking greedy.
All these things are illegal in the UK. As long as I have bought the content once, *and* I am the only person who is going to view it then I fail to see morally how you can accuse me of doing anything wrong regardless of which delivery system I'm choosing to use.
Is it a good idea keeping a record of catch sizes as these - or will people hunting for the biggest fish just waste and deplete a valuable food source for local people?
It's the following me around and profiling with web bugs and cookies that's the real PITA