Olivier added that anyone who thinks that their legal case is based only on health issues is sorely mistaken, adding that their case is not built on health concerns alone, but rather various other aspects related to the mast, including the public participation and environmental approval processes which they are confident are flawed.
So "other issues" are in fact environmental...
According to Olivier residents are now looking at a solution through the Department of Environmental Affairs, and if that fails they will fight the matter in court.
So the residents certainly don't seem to be after money, as it seems they're just trying to get the tower gone.
Another resident, Dave McGregor, is also quoted in The Star as saying that his wife and nine-year-old son suffer bouts of nausea and retching, and have developed skin rashes since the erection of the tower. “We’ve told our son that the tower is only switched on one day a week, so it’s not psychosomatic,” McGregor told The Star.
Now this is interesting, assuming it's true. One answer might be that the son saw his mom still exhibiting symptoms, and did so in response to that. Another answer - one that seems more likely - is that there is something else added to the environment when the tower was installed, which is having a more direct impact.
Oh, come on. The first time you run IE8 it prompts you to pick a search provider or to use the default of Bing- and it keeps prompting every time you launch until you make a choice or tell it to go away. It lists Google right there, no need to search for more providers. It really can't be made any easier than that.
For an existing install, I can't say as I haven't tried it. But it seems odd to me that the first run would have data that a subsequent run would not.
At least when it comes to the work supplied by major vendors, this is pretty much incorrect or at least mostly so. There are educational requirements. Your career track is decided when you are in the equivalent of US high school, if not earlier. Your post-secondary education is focused on this as well. I don't know how the financing works, but I do know that in the major houses you don't get in the door without an education.
The problem here is not that they don't have training, but that the training can't teach people how to think in the way a programmer must think. It can, on the other hand, teach them how to memorize a bunch of rules that they may not understand, and how to google for solutions (that they also may not understand, but will paste into place).
From what I have seen and learned talking with Indian coworkers here and offshore, IS-related work is one of THE big ways out of poverty or sub-standard living conditions. This means a lot of people who are not fundamentally suitable for this kind of work are diving headfirst into it. (We are seeing the same thing to a much lesser extent in the US, from the dot.com boom. In India, *need* drives you to this path. In US, the desire to get rich quick drove you there. ) Because they had the book skills, they were able to get through school -- but without the understanding of what you're doing, book skills don't help.
Management on-shore is not helping either, because they're buying into the line that vendors are feeding them: programmers are just cogs, you can give them detailed specs and any programmer will turn out the same code. The net result is a situation like we have: our "detailed specs" are in some cases actually code that they can copy and paste into cpp files. Anything less, and it gets screwed up -- because so many people in the industry there do not have the critical thinking ability that programmers need.
The rate of people who have a clue most likely occurs the same there as anywhere in the world; but the nature of the environment there means that they are rare gems in a sea of over-eager, under-qualified IS workers.
True, it does not make sense for all situations. In my own case, it's a game with multi-player functionality-- which is only available to those who purchased. Since player would continue to work regardless.
Few months ago Apple changed the rules and they now allow in app purchasing from free apps. before you had to charge for an app to so in-app purchasing. This allows companies to give away stripped down demo type apps with limited functionality and charge for features, new levels, weapons or whatever. And from what i'm reading on the internet it's very easy to detect jailbroken iphones and not allow them to do in app purchasing. pretty much all the piracy that was out there was on jailbroken iphones because it was easy to rip out the app DRM. the solution is to not allow any jailbroken iphone to purchase in app content
The problem with that solution is that you exclude the people who jailbreak their phones for legitimate reasons as well - such as wanting a different provider, or wanting apps not in the app store. Theoretically there are more of those than the type of jailbreak strictly to pirate.
Does the iphone have anything like BlackBerry's PIN, which is a non-private unique number assigned to each blackberry? The software I'm developing for BB will be tied to a specific PIN (which the user can change an unlimited number of times on the web site) in order to access the features of the purchased version. The app will do a 'call home' at startup to check for updates and to confirm available features for the given PIN. If network isn't available but it previously authorized, it will continue to run in full-featured mode for a limited amount of time. Otherwise it will run in limited/trial mode. (Side note: if I ever cease support/updates, I'll push out a version that no longer dials home...)
Many years ago I got sent into a local auto parts store to ask for the radiator cap to a '69 beetle. With a straight face the old codger behind the register tells me that they didn't have any in stock, but in a few days they might have an old junker Franklin arriving that would have a cap that fits.
Needless to say, I was not amused when I got back out to the car and relayed the answer, to be assaulted by gales of laughter... (Though in retrospect, pretty damned funny...)
Clearly there's a reason for it, I didn't say otherwise. The context here is one specific use case is made more difficult in Win 7 (and probably Vista) -- I wasn't getting into the reasons for it, only stating that it was more effort now than it used to be. And that GP's attempt to say "you shouldn't do that" does not make the change in the use case go away.
Sure, it'd be an expensive nuisance to replace it if your laptop is one of the microscopically small percentage that are seized; but if that's where the only copy of your life's work resides, then you're a fool in more ways than one.
Where to begin with this...
First - the principle should make your entire "argument" moot. If his laptop was not seized unreasonably in the first place, then the rest of the discussion would be unnecessary. Your argument is based on the foundation that these seizures are acceptable to begin with, but you've provided nothing to support that assumption.
Second - one man's "expensive nuisance" is another man's livelihood. Even more so in this DRM'd age, when software is tied to specific machines -- on my development box I have over $10k in legitimate software that I require, but much of it can't be moved to another machine without major hassle - and some can't be moved at all.
Third: IP concerns. You have no idea what happens to the data on these machines. Government officials are people too. While I don't think the government as a whole is going to turn around and do something evil with my data, I have no such confidence in the individuals employed by the same government. There are also very real concerns about things like trade secret agreements (providing the data on my system to ANYONE would cost me a huge amount of money) and contractual obligations (clients don't want to hear that the government stole my laptop - so that would cost me money too).
Do you honestly expect us to believe that you don't have backup copies of your work on a USB drive or on a file server somewhere where you could download it, should such a need arise?
Well that just takes care of any possible problem associated with this behavior, doesn't it?
Who in the hell still manually configures IP addressed for workstations?
Your DHCP server should be assigning static IP leases, leaving out all workstation-side configuration.....
When you're running a home network of a few VMs and a couple of laptops, it's really not worth the time. Faster to set it up by hand, since it takes a few seconds each (except for win 7).
This also doesn't negate the point- just because it's not something you might want to use doesn't mean that it hasn't gotten more difficult to do.
I just plugged in the network cable and the job was done. What's so hard?
In other words, "It works for me so must be fine"? I've found it to be a pain in the ass to manually configure IP info -- it's still just as possible , but it takes twice the clicks to get to the appropriate screen. Not to mention the rather non-intuitive step of right-clicking on a hyperlink (network connection name) to open the final properties dialog.
Before you criticize the positive influences of drugs on art and culture, take a look at what you might have missed in Pollock's work
Taylor seems to be one of those who think that the natural world describes fractals, as opposed to fractals being a tool to describe the natural world. Just because a pattern is observed doesn't mean that there's significance to it.
What does one have to do with the other? Proper sanitization of inbound data is basic security. HTML conformance is important to, but failing to conform isn't going to result in data theft, loss, or corruption on the servers.
the Gates Foundation killed legislation that would have removed intellectual property restrictions from drug markets in poor countries
Citation needed. (Secondarily: the foundation doesn't have legal authority to kill legislation. That's something only lawmakers can do.)
Microsoft, via the Gates Foundation
You realize that Microsoft did not found, nor does it control, the Foundation?
On the other hand, that was a most artistic method of painting the one of the world's largest charitable foundations -- spending billions annually in research, health care, and vaccinations -- as a mass murderer of millions.
InnoDB (and BDB) was bought up by Oracle. They didn't kill it which kind of disproves monty's argument, not that there was any substance behind it in the first place.
It was bought up, but it's also still dual licensed - which means Oracle can't kill it.
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Olivier added that anyone who thinks that their legal case is based only on health issues is sorely mistaken, adding that their case is not built on health concerns alone, but rather various other aspects related to the mast, including the public participation and environmental approval processes which they are confident are flawed.
So "other issues" are in fact environmental...
According to Olivier residents are now looking at a solution through the Department of Environmental Affairs, and if that fails they will fight the matter in court.
So the residents certainly don't seem to be after money, as it seems they're just trying to get the tower gone.
Another resident, Dave McGregor, is also quoted in The Star as saying that his wife and nine-year-old son suffer bouts of nausea and retching, and have developed skin rashes since the erection of the tower. “We’ve told our son that the tower is only switched on one day a week, so it’s not psychosomatic,” McGregor told The Star.
Now this is interesting, assuming it's true. One answer might be that the son saw his mom still exhibiting symptoms, and did so in response to that. Another answer - one that seems more likely - is that there is something else added to the environment when the tower was installed, which is having a more direct impact.
For an existing install, I can't say as I haven't tried it. But it seems odd to me that the first run would have data that a subsequent run would not.
Oh wait. It does.
Thanks for the info! As we'll likely be targeting iphone later, this is very good to have.
The problem here is not that they don't have training, but that the training can't teach people how to think in the way a programmer must think. It can, on the other hand, teach them how to memorize a bunch of rules that they may not understand, and how to google for solutions (that they also may not understand, but will paste into place).
From what I have seen and learned talking with Indian coworkers here and offshore, IS-related work is one of THE big ways out of poverty or sub-standard living conditions. This means a lot of people who are not fundamentally suitable for this kind of work are diving headfirst into it. (We are seeing the same thing to a much lesser extent in the US, from the dot.com boom. In India, *need* drives you to this path. In US, the desire to get rich quick drove you there. ) Because they had the book skills, they were able to get through school -- but without the understanding of what you're doing, book skills don't help.
Management on-shore is not helping either, because they're buying into the line that vendors are feeding them: programmers are just cogs, you can give them detailed specs and any programmer will turn out the same code. The net result is a situation like we have: our "detailed specs" are in some cases actually code that they can copy and paste into cpp files. Anything less, and it gets screwed up -- because so many people in the industry there do not have the critical thinking ability that programmers need.
The rate of people who have a clue most likely occurs the same there as anywhere in the world; but the nature of the environment there means that they are rare gems in a sea of over-eager, under-qualified IS workers.
True, it does not make sense for all situations. In my own case, it's a game with multi-player functionality-- which is only available to those who purchased. Since player would continue to work regardless.
Few months ago Apple changed the rules and they now allow in app purchasing from free apps. before you had to charge for an app to so in-app purchasing. This allows companies to give away stripped down demo type apps with limited functionality and charge for features, new levels, weapons or whatever. And from what i'm reading on the internet it's very easy to detect jailbroken iphones and not allow them to do in app purchasing. pretty much all the piracy that was out there was on jailbroken iphones because it was easy to rip out the app DRM. the solution is to not allow any jailbroken iphone to purchase in app content
The problem with that solution is that you exclude the people who jailbreak their phones for legitimate reasons as well - such as wanting a different provider, or wanting apps not in the app store. Theoretically there are more of those than the type of jailbreak strictly to pirate.
Does the iphone have anything like BlackBerry's PIN, which is a non-private unique number assigned to each blackberry? The software I'm developing for BB will be tied to a specific PIN (which the user can change an unlimited number of times on the web site) in order to access the features of the purchased version. The app will do a 'call home' at startup to check for updates and to confirm available features for the given PIN. If network isn't available but it previously authorized, it will continue to run in full-featured mode for a limited amount of time. Otherwise it will run in limited/trial mode. (Side note: if I ever cease support/updates, I'll push out a version that no longer dials home...)
Anyway, is there such a unique ID for iPhones?
Needless to say, I was not amused when I got back out to the car and relayed the answer, to be assaulted by gales of laughter... (Though in retrospect, pretty damned funny...)
Clearly there's a reason for it, I didn't say otherwise. The context here is one specific use case is made more difficult in Win 7 (and probably Vista) -- I wasn't getting into the reasons for it, only stating that it was more effort now than it used to be. And that GP's attempt to say "you shouldn't do that" does not make the change in the use case go away.
Mythbusters has become primarily an excuse to blow sh*t up. Not that that's entirely a bad thing...
Sure, it'd be an expensive nuisance to replace it if your laptop is one of the microscopically small percentage that are seized; but if that's where the only copy of your life's work resides, then you're a fool in more ways than one.
Where to begin with this...
First - the principle should make your entire "argument" moot. If his laptop was not seized unreasonably in the first place, then the rest of the discussion would be unnecessary. Your argument is based on the foundation that these seizures are acceptable to begin with, but you've provided nothing to support that assumption.
Second - one man's "expensive nuisance" is another man's livelihood. Even more so in this DRM'd age, when software is tied to specific machines -- on my development box I have over $10k in legitimate software that I require, but much of it can't be moved to another machine without major hassle - and some can't be moved at all.
Third: IP concerns. You have no idea what happens to the data on these machines. Government officials are people too. While I don't think the government as a whole is going to turn around and do something evil with my data, I have no such confidence in the individuals employed by the same government. There are also very real concerns about things like trade secret agreements (providing the data on my system to ANYONE would cost me a huge amount of money) and contractual obligations (clients don't want to hear that the government stole my laptop - so that would cost me money too).
Do you honestly expect us to believe that you don't have backup copies of your work on a USB drive or on a file server somewhere where you could download it, should such a need arise?
Well that just takes care of any possible problem associated with this behavior, doesn't it?
The need for glasses with straps holding them to your head would be a requirement
What's that you say? Strap-ons?
Who in the hell still manually configures IP addressed for workstations? Your DHCP server should be assigning static IP leases, leaving out all workstation-side configuration.....
When you're running a home network of a few VMs and a couple of laptops, it's really not worth the time. Faster to set it up by hand, since it takes a few seconds each (except for win 7). This also doesn't negate the point- just because it's not something you might want to use doesn't mean that it hasn't gotten more difficult to do.
I just plugged in the network cable and the job was done. What's so hard?
In other words, "It works for me so must be fine"? I've found it to be a pain in the ass to manually configure IP info -- it's still just as possible , but it takes twice the clicks to get to the appropriate screen. Not to mention the rather non-intuitive step of right-clicking on a hyperlink (network connection name) to open the final properties dialog.
Before you criticize the positive influences of drugs on art and culture, take a look at what you might have missed in Pollock's work
Taylor seems to be one of those who think that the natural world describes fractals, as opposed to fractals being a tool to describe the natural world. Just because a pattern is observed doesn't mean that there's significance to it.
So let me get this straight. Slashdot validates their SQL input. But they don't validate their HTML conformance?
What does one have to do with the other? Proper sanitization of inbound data is basic security. HTML conformance is important to, but failing to conform isn't going to result in data theft, loss, or corruption on the servers.
I don't know what this drumbeat is, but I keep having a tap,tap,tap,,,tap in my head and it's driving me mad. Can you hear it?
Maybe the ringing in my ears should meet the tapping in your head -- they could form a band!
That's fits in well with good editorial style.
Open, participatory, decentralized and public. Does that sound like someone wants to take control of your online life? Doesn't sound like that to me.
says Spyware23. And just how far we trust YOUR motives, hmmmm? (j/k, of course. GP clearly didn't go to the trouble of comprehending TFA. )
I probably am the only one who misread the title as "How to avoid a fiery premature death."
Duuuude... this is slashdot. Since when do we let facts interfere with our rhetoric? Troll.
This is what happens when one reads just the summary. The functionality isn't going away. The insecure implementation is.
the Gates Foundation killed legislation that would have removed intellectual property restrictions from drug markets in poor countries
Citation needed. (Secondarily: the foundation doesn't have legal authority to kill legislation. That's something only lawmakers can do.)
Microsoft, via the Gates Foundation
You realize that Microsoft did not found, nor does it control, the Foundation?
On the other hand, that was a most artistic method of painting the one of the world's largest charitable foundations -- spending billions annually in research, health care, and vaccinations -- as a mass murderer of millions.
Bravo.
the exact point being that innodb isn't gpl, and was actually bought by oracle independently of the deal with sun
Actually InnoDB is released dual-license - GPL and proprietary.
InnoDB (and BDB) was bought up by Oracle. They didn't kill it which kind of disproves monty's argument, not that there was any substance behind it in the first place.
It was bought up, but it's also still dual licensed - which means Oracle can't kill it.