Great. Now show me where on the bbc website they "broadcast" programmes "at the same time (or virtually the same time) as it is received by members of the public by virtue of its being broadcast or distributed as part of that service".
You can watch some stuff historically, but I think you'll find that this particular piece of legislation doesn't apply here. Also, nowhere in the site's Terms of use does it say a TV license is required.
Please get a clue before posting.
Not everyone in the UK pays TV tax.
Not even everyone with a TV in the UK pays a TV tax.
Everyone in the UK who has a TV tuned to terrestrial analog or digital broadcasts should pay for a TV license.
I get all my bbc content from bbc.co.uk without giving them a penny myself.
Mostly true, except it's still widely acknowledged that the dynamic range on digital camera sensors (yes, even the really expensive ones on the 1d series) is lacking compared to that of film.
Digital might be there on resolution, but resolution is far from everything. That said, they're getting a lot better, and I don't think this is an example of an industry that's moving backwards.
So I enter a public space, and there's an unsecured wi-fi point. Am I breaking the law if I connect to that? Do I need explicit permission to connect to an unsecured access point, and what form must that permission take? Or am I allowed to connect to anything and it only becomes illegal if the owner complains? How does the owner prove they're the owner of an SSID?
How the hell are you supposed to know if you're allowed to connect to an available unsecured access point or not? Can starbucks arrest everyone in their shop using it if they decide on a whim that they didn't actually mean anyone to unlawfully 'break into' their unsecured wireless network?
It's all about risk. People speed because the chance of being caught combined with the penalty is such that they feel it's a risk they'll take. If you create new laws that enable capital punishment for speeding, people won't speed. You won't have to police or enforce it any more, it'll just happen.
That's pretty much what SOX did. If the company makes it's numbers up, the CEO and/or CFO go to jail. That's a pretty big jump from the punishments had before. Therefore, companies are less inclined to take that risk.
So you mean, big boxes with loads of CPUs and tonnes of memory, all connected to a huge storage system?
Sounds like IBM did a good thing keeping their mainframe business open:p
Commodity hardware was sold over big mainframes on the basis that it's much more scalable. If you want to do something else, just buy a couple of relatively cheap boxes and away you go. The thing that no-one mentioned is that it suddenly starts to cost a lot more $$$ to keep the things in power and cooled properly, so now we're seeing a potential shift back towards the big-powerful-single-box-model. Interesting that.
My work laptop has it's My Documents folder pointing at a network drive which is offlined. When I connect to the vpn or the work network, I can synchronize it fairly quickly. The central file server is backed up to tape every day. If I break my laptop, I get a new one, whack a standard image on, and my files are all still there. If I delete the remote copy (because I'm stupid), I just request yesterdays tape be restored for me.
No, because stealing someone's identity isn't a crime. Stealing someone's identity and then using it to make illegal gains for yourself is, and it's still called *fraud*.
Bear in mind that if they offsite any tape backups, for them legally to have deleted your profile they'll have had to track down every single tape with your data on it and erase your data from that tape without disturbing the other contents of the tape. Similar story for any other sort of redundancy/replication/backup. If they don't do this, they still have your data. It's not as simple as an 'rm' command at a shell.
Any large company that runs a datacentre has a really fecking expensive time actually removing a specific piece of data from it's premises. And because no company is 100% efficient with it's documentation, it can never be 100% sure that it's actually gone when it thinks it is.
Didn't one airline (may have been Israeli) suggest that they actually build a bulkhead between the cockpit and the passenger compartment? The pilot/copilot would then have their own external door to enter/exit the plane. They theorised that hijackings would reduce, because there's no way of moving from the passenger area to the cockpit whilst the plane is in flight without structurally damaging the airframe.
Seems a good, if expensive, idea to me...
Funnily enough, the people who make the bit you interactive with on a linux system are not the same people who build 'Linux'. Learn the difference. I'd imagine that Gnome and KDE have a bunch of HI people working on their design however.
Well, lets see, if you want to use anything slightly less than a "everyone and their grandmother has this" kind of program (such as firefox, open office, ect) then it will likely have both a windows executable, and a source that you can compile to whatever version of linux you currently have.
Hmmmm, so if I want to use Anything other than firefox and openoffice, I have to compile it? What about gimp? Or gaim, grsync, skype,wireshark, (flips through menu), ekiga, synergy, thunderbird, evolution, banshee, exaile, fhythmbox, sound juicer, vlc, beryl, etc etc etc. All available in the repositories for Ubuntu Feisty at least, and I'd imagine most other linux distros Seriously, what century are you in?
Which I'm sure is fabulous if you're using.NET and MSSQL. However, I imagine that particular combination doesn't make up a very large percentage of all the database applications out there.
Don't get me wrong, stored procs are a useful tool which are the correct answer to some types of problem. But completely overkill if you just need simple or even slightly complicated CRUD operations. Using stored procs when they're not really necessary is the mark of a developer who doesn't know how to use every tool in his toolbox properly.
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Great. Now show me where on the bbc website they "broadcast" programmes "at the same time (or virtually the same time) as it is received by members of the public by virtue of its being broadcast or distributed as part of that service".
You can watch some stuff historically, but I think you'll find that this particular piece of legislation doesn't apply here. Also, nowhere in the site's Terms of use does it say a TV license is required.
I'm really not. Go and read what the law says.
Yes, lets punish MS because they forced everyone to buy their buggy OS and also forced the virus/worm writers to target Windows.
Please get a clue before posting. Not everyone in the UK pays TV tax. Not even everyone with a TV in the UK pays a TV tax. Everyone in the UK who has a TV tuned to terrestrial analog or digital broadcasts should pay for a TV license. I get all my bbc content from bbc.co.uk without giving them a penny myself.
Actually, that's a good point, my rockbox build isn't as recent as it could be...
Battery runs flat in about 30 mins with rockbox on my sansa - the default firmware is much better imo.
I stand absolutely, positively 100% corrected.
Mostly true, except it's still widely acknowledged that the dynamic range on digital camera sensors (yes, even the really expensive ones on the 1d series) is lacking compared to that of film.
Digital might be there on resolution, but resolution is far from everything. That said, they're getting a lot better, and I don't think this is an example of an industry that's moving backwards.
So I enter a public space, and there's an unsecured wi-fi point. Am I breaking the law if I connect to that? Do I need explicit permission to connect to an unsecured access point, and what form must that permission take? Or am I allowed to connect to anything and it only becomes illegal if the owner complains? How does the owner prove they're the owner of an SSID?
How the hell are you supposed to know if you're allowed to connect to an available unsecured access point or not? Can starbucks arrest everyone in their shop using it if they decide on a whim that they didn't actually mean anyone to unlawfully 'break into' their unsecured wireless network?
It's all about risk. People speed because the chance of being caught combined with the penalty is such that they feel it's a risk they'll take. If you create new laws that enable capital punishment for speeding, people won't speed. You won't have to police or enforce it any more, it'll just happen.
That's pretty much what SOX did. If the company makes it's numbers up, the CEO and/or CFO go to jail. That's a pretty big jump from the punishments had before. Therefore, companies are less inclined to take that risk.
Except in Nebraska...
So you mean, big boxes with loads of CPUs and tonnes of memory, all connected to a huge storage system?
Sounds like IBM did a good thing keeping their mainframe business open :p
Commodity hardware was sold over big mainframes on the basis that it's much more scalable. If you want to do something else, just buy a couple of relatively cheap boxes and away you go. The thing that no-one mentioned is that it suddenly starts to cost a lot more $$$ to keep the things in power and cooled properly, so now we're seeing a potential shift back towards the big-powerful-single-box-model. Interesting that.
Right, except for the bit about radio. There is no license requirement in the UK for owning and operating a normal receiving radio.
Errr, no you don't?
My work laptop has it's My Documents folder pointing at a network drive which is offlined. When I connect to the vpn or the work network, I can synchronize it fairly quickly. The central file server is backed up to tape every day. If I break my laptop, I get a new one, whack a standard image on, and my files are all still there. If I delete the remote copy (because I'm stupid), I just request yesterdays tape be restored for me.
Works great. Folders and all.
The amount of truth in this is actually staggering.
Anyone else? Or shall we approximate the linux userbase size as being "1"?
No, because stealing someone's identity isn't a crime. Stealing someone's identity and then using it to make illegal gains for yourself is, and it's still called *fraud*.
Bear in mind that if they offsite any tape backups, for them legally to have deleted your profile they'll have had to track down every single tape with your data on it and erase your data from that tape without disturbing the other contents of the tape. Similar story for any other sort of redundancy/replication/backup. If they don't do this, they still have your data. It's not as simple as an 'rm' command at a shell.
Any large company that runs a datacentre has a really fecking expensive time actually removing a specific piece of data from it's premises. And because no company is 100% efficient with it's documentation, it can never be 100% sure that it's actually gone when it thinks it is.
You been watching Airplane too much?
Didn't one airline (may have been Israeli) suggest that they actually build a bulkhead between the cockpit and the passenger compartment? The pilot/copilot would then have their own external door to enter/exit the plane. They theorised that hijackings would reduce, because there's no way of moving from the passenger area to the cockpit whilst the plane is in flight without structurally damaging the airframe. Seems a good, if expensive, idea to me...
Funnily enough, the people who make the bit you interactive with on a linux system are not the same people who build 'Linux'. Learn the difference. I'd imagine that Gnome and KDE have a bunch of HI people working on their design however.
Well, lets see, if you want to use anything slightly less than a "everyone and their grandmother has this" kind of program (such as firefox, open office, ect) then it will likely have both a windows executable, and a source that you can compile to whatever version of linux you currently have.Hmmmm, so if I want to use Anything other than firefox and openoffice, I have to compile it? What about gimp? Or gaim, grsync, skype,wireshark, (flips through menu), ekiga, synergy, thunderbird, evolution, banshee, exaile, fhythmbox, sound juicer, vlc, beryl, etc etc etc. All available in the repositories for Ubuntu Feisty at least, and I'd imagine most other linux distros Seriously, what century are you in?
Correct. And randomly throwing stored procs into your database when you don't need them doesn't make your database secure.
I'm sorry, but if you think that stored procedures are the be-all and end-all to db query security, then it would appear that you don't have a clue.
It is perfectly possible to write secure code without using stored procedures. It might be more difficult, in some cases, but not impossible.
Which I'm sure is fabulous if you're using .NET and MSSQL. However, I imagine that particular combination doesn't make up a very large percentage of all the database applications out there.
Don't get me wrong, stored procs are a useful tool which are the correct answer to some types of problem. But completely overkill if you just need simple or even slightly complicated CRUD operations. Using stored procs when they're not really necessary is the mark of a developer who doesn't know how to use every tool in his toolbox properly.