This might be the most expensive boondoggle, but a disaster is where peoples lives are lost. There are better examples of computer disasters.
Many lives will be lost. People who can't trust the medical system are less likely to get diagnosis or treatment and some of them will die. This affects a whole country, so the numbers will quickly add up.
"The front page lead in [November 1st] Guardian explains how personal medical data (including details of mental illness, abortions, pregnancy, drug taking, alcohol abuse, fitting of colostomy bags etc etc) are to be uploaded to a central NHS database regardless of patients' wishes.
The Government claims that especially sensitive data can be put into a "sealed envelope" which would not ordinarily be available... except that NHS staff will be able to "break the seal" under some circumstances; the police and Government agencies will be able to look at the whole record -- and besides, this part of the database software doesn't even exist yet, and so the system will be running without it for some time."
Q: Are you open sourcing the Java language or the Java SE platform specifications?
A: We are not open sourcing the Java programming language, nor the platform APIs and specifications, which are governed by the JCP. We're open sourcing Sun's implementations of the Java SE and Java ME specifications. - FAQ
Sorry if this has already been posted, but it's important to note that Sun seem to be GPLing Java implementations which already face Open Source competition, but not Java itself. You might not realise this from most news reports.
On this basis, whether they GPL Solaris will depend on how strong they think the threat from Linux is. Does Sun have any other realistic choice?
...because you can limit user input to ordinary text.
Parent and GP are 100% correct. Spammers have scripts for forms provided by the main blogging systems, but everyone else is likely to be OK. I've created dozens of comment forms and never received organized spam. The only time I've had problems is when some moron who disagrees with my views spends 10 minutes pressing send, but this is rare and takes seconds to clean up. Also it now carries a 10 year prison sentence here in the UK!
"Buildings, roads and sidewalks have developed an appetite for air pollution. Researchers in Japan and Hong Kong are testing construction materials coated with titanium dioxide--the stuff of white paint and toothpaste--to see how well they can fight pollution. Better known as a pigment for whiteness, titanium dioxide can clear the air because it is an efficient photocatalyst: it speeds the breakdown of water vapor by ultraviolet light. The results of this reaction are hydroxyl radicals, which attack both inorganic and organic compounds, and turn them into molecules that can be harmlessly washed away with the next rainfall." - Scientific American (Feb 2002 Issue)
By sleeping outside Best Buy for a week, instead of paying for Hotel rooms, these guys are saving enough money that their Play Stations are in effect free. They're not so dumb.
One problem is called global dimming, and means that our earlier pollutants (such as soot) have been reflecting sunlight out of the atmosphere and thus hiding the effect of the greenhouse gases.
<sarcasm> Because soot is such a good reflector </sarcasm>
I'm a gamer, and I use Wine to run all my Win32 games. The very latest ones aren't perfect (yet)
A gamer would buy whatever it takes to run the latest games perfectly, even Windows. I used to be a gamer, but I got older. Now, like you, I sometimes play games.
...in the software. While this clause is in the EULA, I don't see how "PC home-brew system builders" can use Vista.
Surely this is exactly what hobbyists are doing when they e.g. install a more powerful graphics card? Ditto programmers when they work-around the bugs in any Microsoft API
BBC is reporting that a newly created Pentagon unit has a mandate to fight 'inaccurate' news stories
I've never known a news story where I was personally involved to be reported accurately. I don't mean political bias, but basic things like names, dates, and the order of events.
Journalists are especially bad at reporting quotes accurately and "harden them up" by missing out important reservations. Journo: "Will this disaster happen?" Interviewee, "Well, yes, if nobody does anothing to fix things." As reported in the paper: 'Interviewee said, "Disaster will happen!"'.
Ofcom, the communications regulator, has given companies a green-light to take the unprecedented step of sponsoring entire television channels and radio stations... The sponsorship of ITV1's Coronation Street by Cadbury is worth £10 million a year [$19 million], indicating any deal to sponsor the whole channel would come in at tens of millions of pounds." - Ofcom says TV channels can be sponsored
If a big part of your job involves using a Web-based application, reducing page-load times really helps. My real job is writing one of these applications and getting the caching right is much more important than sexier topics like AJAX. There's some good advice in TFA.
The only time you'd see a difference in energy consumption would be during spin-up.
Not so, because the drive motor needs to be sized to handle the biggest load, which is presumably during spin-up. A lighter platter means you need a smaller motor, which will reduce wasted energy at all times, even when it's not working hard.
Google is being accused of refusing to remove racist blogs targeting minority groups in Australia
So racist blogs targeting majority groups are OK with this guy? Sounds like one racist moron is complaining about other racist morons. Also BTW talking bullshit (see TFA) is not terrorism, and when Stokes claims that it is, he demeans the victims of real terrorists.
"From today [October 05, 2006] all British citizens renewing their passport will receive a new biometric passport. The hi-tech, or ePassports contain a secure chip with an image of the holder's face, and are designed to make forgery more difficult and improve international security... also from today passport fees will rise. A 10-year adult passport will now cost £66" - Times
Q. So why are we paying this tax on holidays for a technology that apparantly couldn't tell Osama bin Laden from Captain Birdseye?
A. Although "facial recognition biometric data" all sounds very sci-fi, it is in fact the least accurate biometric identifier there is, according to experts. It will, however, be good enough for entry into the US without a visa - BBC
If we allow folks to sell advertising against our FULL content then we will lose 90% of our revenue. People will republish Engadget and Autoblog, call it an RSS reader, and sell ads against it - Jason Calacanis of Weblogs via Techdirt
No, no, no! The downside is that you lose part of your potential revenue, not your actual revenue. The upside is that more people learn about you and you therefore get more visitors and more revenue. One of the issues is where this balance lies.
"If the only thing you're going to run on a computer is an Oracle database, you don't need an operating system," Ellison told reporters - November 16, 1998
Presumably this is the same Oracle and the same Ellison. Does anyone know when he changed his mind and decided that you do need an operating system after all?
If you use a TV or any other device to receive or record TV programmes (for example, a VCR, set-top box, DVD recorder or PC with a broadcast card) - you need a TV Licence. You are required by law to have one." - TV Licensing
Note that this official advice isn't limited to conventional broadcasts, except as an example. But I can't find any clear-cut court cases and Wikipedia is uncertain - TV broadcasts over the internet are also a grey area
Slashdot Mirror
The Nazca Lines were first, and much bigger. The picture at bottom left is even a baby chicken. Or a moose upside down.
"The front page lead in [November 1st] Guardian explains how personal medical data (including details of mental illness, abortions, pregnancy, drug taking, alcohol abuse, fitting of colostomy bags etc etc) are to be uploaded to a central NHS database regardless of patients' wishes.
The Government claims that especially sensitive data can be put into a "sealed envelope" which would not ordinarily be available... except that NHS staff will be able to "break the seal" under some circumstances; the police and Government agencies will be able to look at the whole record -- and besides, this part of the database software doesn't even exist yet, and so the system will be running without it for some time."
Security Research, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
On this basis, whether they GPL Solaris will depend on how strong they think the threat from Linux is. Does Sun have any other realistic choice?
...with a 1-finger GUI. Mimes are supposed to be silent, dammit.
...because you can limit user input to ordinary text.
Parent and GP are 100% correct. Spammers have scripts for forms provided by the main blogging systems, but everyone else is likely to be OK. I've created dozens of comment forms and never received organized spam. The only time I've had problems is when some moron who disagrees with my views spends 10 minutes pressing send, but this is rare and takes seconds to clean up. Also it now carries a 10 year prison sentence here in the UK!
"Buildings, roads and sidewalks have developed an appetite for air pollution. Researchers in Japan and Hong Kong are testing construction materials coated with titanium dioxide--the stuff of white paint and toothpaste--to see how well they can fight pollution. Better known as a pigment for whiteness, titanium dioxide can clear the air because it is an efficient photocatalyst: it speeds the breakdown of water vapor by ultraviolet light. The results of this reaction are hydroxyl radicals, which attack both inorganic and organic compounds, and turn them into molecules that can be harmlessly washed away with the next rainfall." - Scientific American (Feb 2002 Issue)
By sleeping outside Best Buy for a week, instead of paying for Hotel rooms, these guys are saving enough money that their Play Stations are in effect free. They're not so dumb.
I used to be a gamer, but I got older. Now, like you, I sometimes play games.
...in the software. While this clause is in the EULA, I don't see how "PC home-brew system builders" can use Vista.
Surely this is exactly what hobbyists are doing when they e.g. install a more powerful graphics card?
Ditto programmers when they work-around the bugs in any Microsoft API
...by simply adding Google ads to their homepage.
Most sites would kill to get this level of traffic, and all these guys can think of is getting it stopped.
Journalists are especially bad at reporting quotes accurately and "harden them up" by missing out important reservations. Journo: "Will this disaster happen?" Interviewee, "Well, yes, if nobody does anothing to fix things." As reported in the paper: 'Interviewee said, "Disaster will happen!"'.
Ofcom, the communications regulator, has given companies a green-light to take the unprecedented step of sponsoring entire television channels and radio stations ... The sponsorship of ITV1's Coronation Street by Cadbury is worth £10 million a year [$19 million], indicating any deal to sponsor the whole channel would come in at tens of millions of pounds." - Ofcom says TV channels can be sponsored
If a big part of your job involves using a Web-based application, reducing page-load times really helps. My real job is writing one of these applications and getting the caching right is much more important than sexier topics like AJAX. There's some good advice in TFA.
"From today [October 05, 2006] all British citizens renewing their passport will receive a new biometric passport. The hi-tech, or ePassports contain a secure chip with an image of the holder's face, and are designed to make forgery more difficult and improve international security ... also from today passport fees will rise. A 10-year adult passport will now cost £66" - Times
Q. So why are we paying this tax on holidays for a technology that apparantly couldn't tell Osama bin Laden from Captain Birdseye?
A. Although "facial recognition biometric data" all sounds very sci-fi, it is in fact the least accurate biometric identifier there is, according to experts. It will, however, be good enough for entry into the US without a visa - BBC