If not, why should France/ Estonia/Germany/ other EU nation rely on a US system? I can't imagine many heads of armed forces being too happy about relying on a foreign power's system that is out of their control.
What kind of crap metaphor is this? can somebody explain to me: "He's the Winston Churchill of technology - he mobilizes the English language at least once a week, and sends it into battle against Sun's rivals."
Somebody break this one down for me and explain it... this guy is similar to a UK First Lord of the Admiralty and war time prime minister because he a> 'mobilizes the English language at least once a week' and then b>talks about how his company is better than another computer company..
..if you want to be taken seriously. Fast and loose spelling and grammar is ok on slashdot, txt msgs to peers, but if you're writing a formal letter to a conservative organisation (a pressure group, the government, big businesses, etc) then check your grammar and spelling. If you don't, then they will just throw your letter in the bin before getting to the end of it. It will be a waste of your time rather than of benefit to anybody else.
presumably if it's a free market then we just sit back and let commercial organisations do it? Or do we ask our national governments to pass national and international legislation limiting data collection and data privacy? Or are there other ways to control who keeps data on us (apart from becoming some hardcore-retreat-to-the woods-with-ma-guns survivalist?)
where? I lived in London for ten years, moved out a couple of years back (but still go back about once a month). Where are these computer gaming arcades? There's the Trocadero in tourist ghetto Piccadilly, and that's half full of of other fleece-the-tourist leisure crap. There's that one big single floor amusement arcade up in Soho, seems mostly fruit machines these days. My count is one possibly zero... other people care to correct me? would be interested to know. Are we talking London as in central tourist zone, or where people live (none of those 4 storey gaming arcades in Hackney anyway). Unless of course you're talking about crap bars/chain pubs with TVs and pool tables and a couple of fruit machines in a corner.
I fix my retired dad's computer, he is unlikely to ever learn enough to deal with all of its peculiarities. I teach him a little more each time, and some of it sticks. He fixes my car, I neaver learnt about cars when I was young, unlikely to spend much time doing it now. He teaches me a little every time he fixes something, a little sticks each time.
Seems like a fair trade to me. Even disregarding the total care and support I got for the first 18 years of my life and the continuing partial support ever since.
From the BBC: "MoD (UK Ministry of Defence) files exposed to asbestos". Oops. "Up to 63,000 secret files exposed to asbestos have been put out of range of the Freedom of Information Act until they can be decontaminated." Files accidently contaminated during a building renewal. These files can technically be requested but alas now journalists/members of the public won't be able to ask for them till they are cleaned. Bit of a shame.
I live in the UK. AC is a luxury item still sold on cars here because 95% of the year, you just don't need it. Different temperature/humidity range in green and rolling England from desert conditions in Australia/southern USA etc. "Essential" is what our agreed safety requirements are. I drive a 1965 Singer Gazelle and get on just fine without AC, ABS, no power steering, any computers and a total of two electrical fuses:-) I'd be sad but would accept if people said that a minimum safety requirement meant certain kinds of braking mechanism etc which meant I had to adapt or take my car off the road. But the call for comfort devices as essential, well, that's all relative I think. We can all find old photos of people trundling around severe conditions in open Land Rovers, Model T Fords, etc.
Favourite quote from the response article "There's many, many different species and they're all based on real things, [...] a Scorchio is a dragon," Jacqui said."
Hmm, I think they better pull this promotion, some people are having big reality problems here. Or maybe I'm not as familiar with Australian fauna as I thought I was....
you probably got back into IT because construction work is a young man's game... fun when you're in your 20s but doing the same job when you're 55 doesn't seem so much like a good idea.. try doing construction work for 20/30 yrs.
So move it out of the USA! What do you need to support the suborbital space industry?
lots of space and near the equator? - plenty of sub-saharan African countries very happy to see the income!
Local budding space industry and high tech facilities? - India, South Korea...
Close to USA? - Mexico, Canada
Proven history of space launches? Kazakhstan (home of soviet space programme), French Guiana (home of ESA's space launches).
No problem if people really want it to happen. Move somewhere else. This happened in the UK 100 years ago, British were at the forefront of automobile technology but then the govt. brought in a regulation that meant autos had to restrict speed to 5mph with somebody walking in front of them with a red flag - apparently this bill was heavily supported by politicians who had commercial interests in existing horse drawn transportation. UK fell way back in auto development but the designers/builders just flourished elsewhere.
I'm a bike enthusiast. Love my bike, keeps me fit, good for the planet, give me bike over car anyday. But how does the braking work for the big trailer? It would be totally cool to be able to haul big loads on my bike but I really don't fancy having to slam on my brakes fast going down hill because some Volvo driver has pulled out without looking and find the brand new fridge I'm towing isn't going to stop well... Disc brakes? are there brakes on the trailer?
"confiscation and public destruction of zombie computers." is not a solution.
In the blue corner: my retired dad. Dad can send email, and copy images from his digital camera. He's bought a copy of some anti-virus thing and his friend installed it. His computer works just fine and anyhow he only uses it for an hour or so a week, it does what he needs it to.
In the red corner: spammer. He's making good money getting spam around the net. He's either a technical expert, or employs one. Either way, in this corner there's somebody being paid good money to spend many hours reading cutting edge security advice to find holes and weaknesses in the major browsers and mail clients, and exploit these weaknesses.
Who's going to win? your guess!... come on, Joe public doesn't stand a chance! Joe Public doesn't want to spend 40 hours a week reading security advisories, he just wants to email his relatives, send them some holiday snaps, buy a cheap airline ticket. Maybe once every few months he will read a news story and download a new version of a free software patch, but that's about it. My dad doesn't really understand the word 'browser' - he knows he clicks on the blue E and then he can look at the internet. No problem by me, I don't understand anything about cars but my dad fixes mine all the time. Nobody can be an expert at everything. You don't offer a workable solution. Joe Public needs support. Either government support (laws) or commercial pressures, or some sort of expert support. Joe Public isn't going to be able to fight expert spam geeks, ever.
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I'd like to see posters in this discussion indicate if they have kids or not. I'm going to guess that those who post "not over my dead body/evil CIA tracking device/civil liberties being eroded by govt." are the single adults who've never lost a small child they are responsible for in a large, crowded public place.
ok, I don't really follow your argument -would welcome your response. I think you're saying that 2 parties are better than more because there are less choices to vote for, so you get a 'cleaner' response. I don't really get this. Slightly tongue in cheek, I'm suggesting using what I believe is your rationale, a one party system would be even 'cleaner'. I'm guessing you'll appreciate the humour and say nope, we need choice. So if that's the case, why not 3, or 4, or 10 parties? Disclaimer: I live and grew up in the UK where we have effectively a two party system with a third party which can be very influential, holding a sizeable minority of the seats in parliament, and on a local election level, a whole range of parties from the major parties to independents. Recently it's got more interesting with increased Scottish and Welsh assemblies which mean these places have multiple party situations (same big three national parties get quite different percentages and regional parties get significant votes). I've not lived in a country where there are frequent alliances after multi-party elections, I'd like to know how well that works. I'm guessing it all moderates to a centralist position (from a European perspective, this is probably considered dangerously left wing in some parts of the USA;-) )
The extra layer of required geek knowledge will be a vote loser. People will be reading the headline and either a> not understanding it (most under-30s) or b> wondering why the heck they should be supporting a group of techies trying to save video recorders they threw out 20 years ago and now have DVDs anyway.
Just a little bit too clever for your own good guys, might win you karma points on slashdot for geek-guru referential knowledge-humor, but in terms of getting things done? sheesh, you'll have to fill the voters in on the backstory to the headline before you even get to the real issue. Choose a meaningful title. Most people will give you 15/ 30 seconds and if you don't make the sell by then, they will move on...
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If not, why should France/ Estonia /Germany/ other EU nation rely on a US system? I can't imagine many heads of armed forces being too happy about relying on a foreign power's system that is out of their control.
Somebody break this one down for me and explain it... this guy is similar to a UK First Lord of the Admiralty and war time prime minister because he a> 'mobilizes the English language at least once a week' and then b>talks about how his company is better than another computer company..
err...
..if you want to be taken seriously. Fast and loose spelling and grammar is ok on slashdot, txt msgs to peers, but if you're writing a formal letter to a conservative organisation (a pressure group, the government, big businesses, etc) then check your grammar and spelling. If you don't, then they will just throw your letter in the bin before getting to the end of it. It will be a waste of your time rather than of benefit to anybody else.
presumably if it's a free market then we just sit back and let commercial organisations do it? Or do we ask our national governments to pass national and international legislation limiting data collection and data privacy? Or are there other ways to control who keeps data on us (apart from becoming some hardcore-retreat-to-the woods-with-ma-guns survivalist?)
love to see the article, anybody grab a mirror in time?
sounds interesting. Any links to picture galleries showing this?
where? I lived in London for ten years, moved out a couple of years back (but still go back about once a month). Where are these computer gaming arcades? There's the Trocadero in tourist ghetto Piccadilly, and that's half full of of other fleece-the-tourist leisure crap. There's that one big single floor amusement arcade up in Soho, seems mostly fruit machines these days. My count is one possibly zero... other people care to correct me? would be interested to know. Are we talking London as in central tourist zone, or where people live (none of those 4 storey gaming arcades in Hackney anyway). Unless of course you're talking about crap bars /chain pubs with TVs and pool tables and a couple of fruit machines in a corner.
Why iss this photo up on the Latvian army's website? anybody find any other goodies there?
yupyup I know what you mean. Sometimes I think that maybe 'karma' does exist (outside of /. of course). comes around and it turns around....
I fix my retired dad's computer, he is unlikely to ever learn enough to deal with all of its peculiarities. I teach him a little more each time, and some of it sticks. He fixes my car, I neaver learnt about cars when I was young, unlikely to spend much time doing it now. He teaches me a little every time he fixes something, a little sticks each time.
Seems like a fair trade to me. Even disregarding the total care and support I got for the first 18 years of my life and the continuing partial support ever since.
As Goldie Lookin Chain sing... ;-)
From the BBC: "MoD (UK Ministry of Defence) files exposed to asbestos". Oops. "Up to 63,000 secret files exposed to asbestos have been put out of range of the Freedom of Information Act until they can be decontaminated." Files accidently contaminated during a building renewal. These files can technically be requested but alas now journalists/members of the public won't be able to ask for them till they are cleaned. Bit of a shame.
I live in the UK. AC is a luxury item still sold on cars here because 95% of the year, you just don't need it. Different temperature /humidity range in green and rolling England from desert conditions in Australia/southern USA etc. "Essential" is what our agreed safety requirements are. I drive a 1965 Singer Gazelle and get on just fine without AC, ABS, no power steering, any computers and a total of two electrical fuses :-) I'd be sad but would accept if people said that a minimum safety requirement meant certain kinds of braking mechanism etc which meant I had to adapt or take my car off the road. But the call for comfort devices as essential, well, that's all relative I think. We can all find old photos of people trundling around severe conditions in open Land Rovers, Model T Fords, etc.
Favourite quote from the response article
"There's many, many different species and they're all based on real things, [...] a Scorchio is a dragon," Jacqui said."
Hmm, I think they better pull this promotion, some people are having big reality problems here. Or maybe I'm not as familiar with Australian fauna as I thought I was....
even parents / carers are allowed to have a life. But sometimes their children/ elderly relatives might have an accident at non-scheduled times...
you probably got back into IT because construction work is a young man's game... fun when you're in your 20s but doing the same job when you're 55 doesn't seem so much like a good idea.. try doing construction work for 20/30 yrs.
lots of space and near the equator? - plenty of sub-saharan African countries very happy to see the income!
Local budding space industry and high tech facilities? - India, South Korea...
Close to USA? - Mexico, Canada
Proven history of space launches? Kazakhstan (home of soviet space programme), French Guiana (home of ESA's space launches).
No problem if people really want it to happen. Move somewhere else. This happened in the UK 100 years ago, British were at the forefront of automobile technology but then the govt. brought in a regulation that meant autos had to restrict speed to 5mph with somebody walking in front of them with a red flag - apparently this bill was heavily supported by politicians who had commercial interests in existing horse drawn transportation. UK fell way back in auto development but the designers/builders just flourished elsewhere.
..or with the slashdot readership, riding a Virgin is probably about going where no sane woman would consider going at all...
I'm a bike enthusiast. Love my bike, keeps me fit, good for the planet, give me bike over car anyday. But how does the braking work for the big trailer? It would be totally cool to be able to haul big loads on my bike but I really don't fancy having to slam on my brakes fast going down hill because some Volvo driver has pulled out without looking and find the brand new fridge I'm towing isn't going to stop well... Disc brakes? are there brakes on the trailer?
In the blue corner: my retired dad. Dad can send email, and copy images from his digital camera. He's bought a copy of some anti-virus thing and his friend installed it. His computer works just fine and anyhow he only uses it for an hour or so a week, it does what he needs it to.
In the red corner: spammer. He's making good money getting spam around the net. He's either a technical expert, or employs one. Either way, in this corner there's somebody being paid good money to spend many hours reading cutting edge security advice to find holes and weaknesses in the major browsers and mail clients, and exploit these weaknesses.
Who's going to win? your guess!... come on, Joe public doesn't stand a chance! Joe Public doesn't want to spend 40 hours a week reading security advisories, he just wants to email his relatives, send them some holiday snaps, buy a cheap airline ticket. Maybe once every few months he will read a news story and download a new version of a free software patch, but that's about it. My dad doesn't really understand the word 'browser' - he knows he clicks on the blue E and then he can look at the internet. No problem by me, I don't understand anything about cars but my dad fixes mine all the time. Nobody can be an expert at everything. You don't offer a workable solution. Joe Public needs support. Either government support (laws) or commercial pressures, or some sort of expert support. Joe Public isn't going to be able to fight expert spam geeks, ever.
I'd like to see posters in this discussion indicate if they have kids or not. I'm going to guess that those who post "not over my dead body/evil CIA tracking device/civil liberties being eroded by govt." are the single adults who've never lost a small child they are responsible for in a large, crowded public place.
Can anybody remember what they are?.. mmm....
1. Unrequited love
2. Tragic lovers (Romeo and Juliet)
3. Hero's quest, through failure and self discovery to success
4. World saved by hero's self-sacrifice
5.... err...
Anybody help me here with the list?
ok, I don't really follow your argument -would welcome your response. I think you're saying that 2 parties are better than more because there are less choices to vote for, so you get a 'cleaner' response. I don't really get this. Slightly tongue in cheek, I'm suggesting using what I believe is your rationale, a one party system would be even 'cleaner'. I'm guessing you'll appreciate the humour and say nope, we need choice. So if that's the case, why not 3, or 4, or 10 parties? Disclaimer: I live and grew up in the UK where we have effectively a two party system with a third party which can be very influential, holding a sizeable minority of the seats in parliament, and on a local election level, a whole range of parties from the major parties to independents. Recently it's got more interesting with increased Scottish and Welsh assemblies which mean these places have multiple party situations (same big three national parties get quite different percentages and regional parties get significant votes). I've not lived in a country where there are frequent alliances after multi-party elections, I'd like to know how well that works. I'm guessing it all moderates to a centralist position (from a European perspective, this is probably considered dangerously left wing in some parts of the USA ;-) )
If a two party system is "more stable" than a larger number of parties, surely by your thinking a one party state is the logical way forwards?
Just a little bit too clever for your own good guys, might win you karma points on slashdot for geek-guru referential knowledge-humor, but in terms of getting things done? sheesh, you'll have to fill the voters in on the backstory to the headline before you even get to the real issue. Choose a meaningful title. Most people will give you 15/ 30 seconds and if you don't make the sell by then, they will move on...