"while the gardenia's leaves create water vapour in the air, reducing the surface temperature of the factory surrounds and, therefore, reducing the energy needed for cooling"
Doesn't pretty much every plant with leaves do that? Hence the need for watering...
Sent men in black vans to rummage through individuals bins to make sure that they are sorting their rubbish properly (before sending to mass landfill anyway).
Binmen inspect what you put in the recycling bin. One bin full of badly sorted waste can contaminate an entire truck of recyclable material. If you don't sort properly, your recycled bin gets put in the landfill.
Started placing cameras *in* families homes - 20000 of them over the next few years.
Bullshit typical of the Daily Mail
Reduced bin collection to every *two weeks* AND reduced the size of bins.
Bin collection alternates recycled and landfill each week. Bins are regular sized wheelybins. If you sort, the amount of rubbish collected is no different.
Placed cameras in alleyways to ensure people are tying off their garbage bags properly.
How dare they put a camera in a public street to ensure people don't treat it like their public dump!
Seized the pole from a barbers shop - that had been their for 30 years.
Impounded a mothers pram.
More Daily Mail crap.
Arrested a man for leaving the lid of his bin open four inches greater than regulation allows.
Leaving the lid open 4 inches... and causing his street to get infested with rats. The lids have to be firmly shut for a reason. Still the story is likely BS anyway. He probably got a caution saying he'd get a fine if he continued to do it.
Started using thermal imaging to send residents notices if they are allowing heat to escape from their homes.
Sending such evil "notices" as "you could save £30 a year on heating bills if you got loft insulation". How dare they give out money saving advice!
An article from a Daily Mail group article (which based on the date, that was) isn't the best of sources.
There are around 22,000 councillors in the UK. Based on the figure the Evening Standard gives, that's an average of around £8,000 per councillor. However considering more important council members such as council leaders and members for large cities (which are far more involved positions and involve much more responsiblity), the typical councillor wage is £4-5K. That's 1/3rd of what is classed as living in poverty.
What town councillors get varies per county but it's not a wage you can live on. Lots of councils only pay expenses but a typical 'wage' for a regular councillor is £5500 a year. That's only about £1000 more than if they did no work at all and claimed benefits. Council leaders get a proper wage of around £12,000 but that's still only comparable to a McDonalds worker.
These are not jobs done for a living, these are largely volunteers who are getting just enough money to ensure they're not starving. They're not in it to earn money, they're in it to be active in the community.
What can they do to silence this blogger? Take him to court and spend months and insane amounts of money to silence him? All to make the job they're supposed to be doing because they enjoy it tolerable again? Who's to say after a long court case, they win and then this blogger is replaced by another one?
These are not career politicians, they do not expect these kinds of non-stop vicious personal attacks on them when they've done nothing especially wrong.
There side of the story is already in the public domain through the minutes of public meetings and various stuff available under FOIA requests.
Councillors simply can't respond to random militant bloggers on a level playing field. For one they can't use the language bloggers use (if they like being employed that is). Even if the councillor does use civil language, getting in a public debate with someone that hostile not only will look bad (regardless of if they win it or not) , it will add legitimacy to that blog.
With Linux you can heap extra layers of security on so that exploits can't be attempted. You not only have to deal with an exploit, you need to get past all the other security measures too.
With a web based CMS you are constantly exposed and exploits can implemented and run in minutes (mod security only provides limited protection). You don't need to infect a webserver to do damage, you just need to be able run an sql query or upload a file with code.
There will always be a timelag between an exploit being identified and a patch being installed on a server and that's a real problem for sites like The White House.
An online store can ensure it's e-commerce sections are heavily sandboxed, a popular news site may get the odd attack which will get mentioned by a few blogs. The White House however would make for major news if it was defaced or delivered malicious code to users and it would be under attack far more than almost any other Drupal sites.
Drupal is a big target. Exploiting Drupal means being able to hack 10,000's of sites.
Assume you have 10 people determined to hack the white house. In a custom CMS, you've 10 people searching for exploits and abusing them when one is found. In a popular CMS, you then have 1000 people looking for exploits and, once one's published the 10 people from the first case then proceed to code an attack in an attempt to beat the patch.
The problem with using Drupal for the White House is that it's a popular CMS and has lots of people looking for exploits and vulnerabilities. The second a proof of concept piece of code or an easy exploit is discovered, a few thousand script kiddies will decend to get their 15 minutes of fame.
I'm not sure how Drupal fares with bugs and patching speed (I know Wordpress seems to get some high profile holes discovered) but even if all vulns are patched before someone takes advantage of it, you're still going to need an admin who's going to be constantly alert to patching it.
I'm not arguing against closed source vs open, more about popular vs obscure.
Malware makers do not want to hack *you*. They want to hack thousands of systems in a short space of time before a vulnerability is patched.
Why spend weeks finding an unpatched vuln and exploiting it so you infect a dozen or so people? You've then got people who are under a solid firewall so can't send their credit card info, the people who never type in any notable passwords or credit card information and people who notice they're infected and clean it before any damage has been done.
You may get one or two purchases from each credit card you find before it gets blocked (if that). If you can't ensure that you've got thousands of systems to potentially get CC info and passwords from, it's not going to be worth your time as a malware developer. Especially when the same effort targeted at something with a 90% user base will get you exponentially more CC numbers.
You're guessing without evidence that a company was at fault and not an individual who had already broken the law with the radio and then sold her story to the papers?
The PRS sent her a letter saying that she wasn't allowed the radio on in the store front. She sent a letter back saying "I'll just sing instead". PRS took this to mean "I'll sing to the customers" rather than "I'll sing to myself when working".
I'd be willing to bet she sent an inflammatory letter back to the PRS that helped cause the misunderstanding. In general there's a certain type of people who send these "nanny state gone mad!" stories to tabloids and you never hear the full chain of events.
It's weird I love a sleazy action film but I when they had the mother getting high (L O L) and the knee high camera shots of girls' arses, all I could think was "this is a film being at least partly marketed at 10 year olds?". It's not something I would have taken kids to.
It's actually extremely difficult to do a reliable sound system. The drivers for a large number of cards are pretty bad.
From what I understand up until recently most OS' treated sound cards like any other hardware. If you got a bad response from them, the OS would halt the system rather than risk physical damage. Hence sound cards are one of the leading causes of blue screens in windows 9x and XP.
One of the things Vista did right was recognise that drivers for sound cards can't be trusted and put in an additional software layer between the hardware and drivers to minimise sound card related blue screens. It's why Directsound has been removed from DX and one of the biggest reasons DX10 can't run on XP.
It could actually be bad for him too. By giving permission for people to download the books, he could be seen as giving away rights that aren't his to give away and be in breach of contract.
Publishers that offer higher rates of royalties tend to do either less promotion or only take on authors who they know have a good record of producing popular books. You'd expect Stephen King for instance to be able to negotiate a better deal than John Smith on his debut novel.
Would you really complete a survey sent by someone you hate or have problems with? If you say he could easily fake the person who sent it, well then he could, but that would be an offence on his part (and it you wanted to intimidate an enemy there are far simpler ways of doing it that don't have an opt-in survey and a "it was all fake" message at the end).
Last time I checked, there aren't thousands of kids in jail having made prank calls. I don't know about the US but in the UK there are plenty of pay services which will prank call people.
In fact the most clear cut case of deliberate online intimidation which drove someone to suicide didn't even result in a conviction.
I've actually found out details of what the campaign involved.
It is designed as a prank to pull on someone else. What happens is you gave the email of someone you want to prank and it sent them a fake personality where they'd fill out their personal details and give consent to receive further emails.
You were then sent a schedule (or one was presented before you agreed to prank them) of exactly what they would receive.
This is not nearly as sinister as the money grabbing woman filing the lawsuit made out to be. Not only does it require someone you know to initially set up the prank, it describes the nature of the prank to whoever sets it up and, through the fake survey, it ensures that you have to actively take action for it to start and you are unlikely to be targetted by strangers.
If you sue anyone, sue the friend who not only started the prank, but didn't tell you about it when you were apparently being so traumatised.
"After a short time a small boy appeared. Sorry I said, I want to see the manager.
It turns out the small boy was the manager."
Yeah... that kinda makes you sound like a prick. Waving around a BBC ID like it makes you special and somehow exempt from the rules everyone else has to follow isn't the most endearing quality either.
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"while the gardenia's leaves create water vapour in the air, reducing the surface temperature of the factory surrounds and, therefore, reducing the energy needed for cooling"
Doesn't pretty much every plant with leaves do that? Hence the need for watering...
Sent men in black vans to rummage through individuals bins to make sure that they are sorting their rubbish properly (before sending to mass landfill anyway).
Binmen inspect what you put in the recycling bin. One bin full of badly sorted waste can contaminate an entire truck of recyclable material. If you don't sort properly, your recycled bin gets put in the landfill.
Started placing cameras *in* families homes - 20000 of them over the next few years.
Bullshit typical of the Daily Mail
Reduced bin collection to every *two weeks* AND reduced the size of bins.
Bin collection alternates recycled and landfill each week. Bins are regular sized wheelybins. If you sort, the amount of rubbish collected is no different.
Placed cameras in alleyways to ensure people are tying off their garbage bags properly.
How dare they put a camera in a public street to ensure people don't treat it like their public dump!
Seized the pole from a barbers shop - that had been their for 30 years.
Impounded a mothers pram.
More Daily Mail crap.
Arrested a man for leaving the lid of his bin open four inches greater than regulation allows.
Leaving the lid open 4 inches... and causing his street to get infested with rats. The lids have to be firmly shut for a reason. Still the story is likely BS anyway. He probably got a caution saying he'd get a fine if he continued to do it.
Started using thermal imaging to send residents notices if they are allowing heat to escape from their homes.
Sending such evil "notices" as "you could save £30 a year on heating bills if you got loft insulation". How dare they give out money saving advice!
An article from a Daily Mail group article (which based on the date, that was) isn't the best of sources.
There are around 22,000 councillors in the UK. Based on the figure the Evening Standard gives, that's an average of around £8,000 per councillor. However considering more important council members such as council leaders and members for large cities (which are far more involved positions and involve much more responsiblity), the typical councillor wage is £4-5K. That's 1/3rd of what is classed as living in poverty.
Actually you're wrong.
What town councillors get varies per county but it's not a wage you can live on. Lots of councils only pay expenses but a typical 'wage' for a regular councillor is £5500 a year. That's only about £1000 more than if they did no work at all and claimed benefits. Council leaders get a proper wage of around £12,000 but that's still only comparable to a McDonalds worker.
These are not jobs done for a living, these are largely volunteers who are getting just enough money to ensure they're not starving. They're not in it to earn money, they're in it to be active in the community.
What can they do to silence this blogger? Take him to court and spend months and insane amounts of money to silence him? All to make the job they're supposed to be doing because they enjoy it tolerable again? Who's to say after a long court case, they win and then this blogger is replaced by another one?
These are not career politicians, they do not expect these kinds of non-stop vicious personal attacks on them when they've done nothing especially wrong.
Councillors simply can't respond to random militant bloggers on a level playing field. For one they can't use the language bloggers use (if they like being employed that is). Even if the councillor does use civil language, getting in a public debate with someone that hostile not only will look bad (regardless of if they win it or not) , it will add legitimacy to that blog.
With Linux you can heap extra layers of security on so that exploits can't be attempted. You not only have to deal with an exploit, you need to get past all the other security measures too.
With a web based CMS you are constantly exposed and exploits can implemented and run in minutes (mod security only provides limited protection). You don't need to infect a webserver to do damage, you just need to be able run an sql query or upload a file with code.
There will always be a timelag between an exploit being identified and a patch being installed on a server and that's a real problem for sites like The White House.
An online store can ensure it's e-commerce sections are heavily sandboxed, a popular news site may get the odd attack which will get mentioned by a few blogs. The White House however would make for major news if it was defaced or delivered malicious code to users and it would be under attack far more than almost any other Drupal sites.
Drupal is a big target. Exploiting Drupal means being able to hack 10,000's of sites.
Assume you have 10 people determined to hack the white house. In a custom CMS, you've 10 people searching for exploits and abusing them when one is found. In a popular CMS, you then have 1000 people looking for exploits and, once one's published the 10 people from the first case then proceed to code an attack in an attempt to beat the patch.
The problem with using Drupal for the White House is that it's a popular CMS and has lots of people looking for exploits and vulnerabilities. The second a proof of concept piece of code or an easy exploit is discovered, a few thousand script kiddies will decend to get their 15 minutes of fame.
I'm not sure how Drupal fares with bugs and patching speed (I know Wordpress seems to get some high profile holes discovered) but even if all vulns are patched before someone takes advantage of it, you're still going to need an admin who's going to be constantly alert to patching it.
I'm not arguing against closed source vs open, more about popular vs obscure.
Malware makers do not want to hack *you*. They want to hack thousands of systems in a short space of time before a vulnerability is patched.
Why spend weeks finding an unpatched vuln and exploiting it so you infect a dozen or so people? You've then got people who are under a solid firewall so can't send their credit card info, the people who never type in any notable passwords or credit card information and people who notice they're infected and clean it before any damage has been done.
You may get one or two purchases from each credit card you find before it gets blocked (if that). If you can't ensure that you've got thousands of systems to potentially get CC info and passwords from, it's not going to be worth your time as a malware developer. Especially when the same effort targeted at something with a 90% user base will get you exponentially more CC numbers.
You're guessing without evidence that a company was at fault and not an individual who had already broken the law with the radio and then sold her story to the papers?
The PRS sent her a letter saying that she wasn't allowed the radio on in the store front. She sent a letter back saying "I'll just sing instead". PRS took this to mean "I'll sing to the customers" rather than "I'll sing to myself when working".
I'd be willing to bet she sent an inflammatory letter back to the PRS that helped cause the misunderstanding. In general there's a certain type of people who send these "nanny state gone mad!" stories to tabloids and you never hear the full chain of events.
Princess Diana has died again?
Miyazaki would never direct a full CGI film, nor should he.
It's weird I love a sleazy action film but I when they had the mother getting high (L O L) and the knee high camera shots of girls' arses, all I could think was "this is a film being at least partly marketed at 10 year olds?". It's not something I would have taken kids to.
There were shots in the action scenes long enough for you to see what was happening?
Ah the old DRM FUD is still alive and well. Last time I checked, XP was perfectly happy to comply with the Blu Ray DRM.
DirectSound works like this - application > directsound > drivers > hardware UAA works like this - application > UAA > hardware
Ironically, Vista has a very solid sound system designed around the fact that audio drivers are a mess.
It's actually extremely difficult to do a reliable sound system. The drivers for a large number of cards are pretty bad.
From what I understand up until recently most OS' treated sound cards like any other hardware. If you got a bad response from them, the OS would halt the system rather than risk physical damage. Hence sound cards are one of the leading causes of blue screens in windows 9x and XP.
One of the things Vista did right was recognise that drivers for sound cards can't be trusted and put in an additional software layer between the hardware and drivers to minimise sound card related blue screens. It's why Directsound has been removed from DX and one of the biggest reasons DX10 can't run on XP.
The only thing worse than installing without asking is uninstalling without asking.
It could actually be bad for him too. By giving permission for people to download the books, he could be seen as giving away rights that aren't his to give away and be in breach of contract.
Publishers that offer higher rates of royalties tend to do either less promotion or only take on authors who they know have a good record of producing popular books. You'd expect Stephen King for instance to be able to negotiate a better deal than John Smith on his debut novel.
Would you really complete a survey sent by someone you hate or have problems with? If you say he could easily fake the person who sent it, well then he could, but that would be an offence on his part (and it you wanted to intimidate an enemy there are far simpler ways of doing it that don't have an opt-in survey and a "it was all fake" message at the end).
Last time I checked, there aren't thousands of kids in jail having made prank calls. I don't know about the US but in the UK there are plenty of pay services which will prank call people.
In fact the most clear cut case of deliberate online intimidation which drove someone to suicide didn't even result in a conviction.
I've actually found out details of what the campaign involved.
It is designed as a prank to pull on someone else. What happens is you gave the email of someone you want to prank and it sent them a fake personality where they'd fill out their personal details and give consent to receive further emails.
You were then sent a schedule (or one was presented before you agreed to prank them) of exactly what they would receive.
This is not nearly as sinister as the money grabbing woman filing the lawsuit made out to be. Not only does it require someone you know to initially set up the prank, it describes the nature of the prank to whoever sets it up and, through the fake survey, it ensures that you have to actively take action for it to start and you are unlikely to be targetted by strangers.
If you sue anyone, sue the friend who not only started the prank, but didn't tell you about it when you were apparently being so traumatised.
"After a short time a small boy appeared. Sorry I said, I want to see the manager.
It turns out the small boy was the manager."
Yeah... that kinda makes you sound like a prick. Waving around a BBC ID like it makes you special and somehow exempt from the rules everyone else has to follow isn't the most endearing quality either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Nehalem_(microarchitecture)
Lynnfield is one type of processor using the Nehalem arcitecture just like Conroe, allendale and wolfdale are all types of Core 2.