Or do you think that other smart tvs somehow are not nearly as scary?
I haven't the faintest idea one way or the other - which is why I would like to have that information. When the information is available if it turns out that all the other smart TVs do exactly the same thing then I know not to buy a smart TV. If it turns out that most do and a few don't then that acts as the first filter to my buying decision. Not having that information available makes it impossible to make that decision.
See the subject. Those are the most useful pieces of information that could have been put in the article but they were omitted for some reason. Does anyone know?
Information reported by the Daily Mail and The Commentator making the BBC look bad is reliable? Really? The Evening Standard (part-owned by the Daily Fail anyway) is similarly as reliable.
The report you refer to was published 10 years ago and meant that "As a result of the internal BBC publication of the Balen Report, changes were instigated in the methodology of the BBC’s Middle East" (http://bbcwatch.org/the-balen-report-2004/). The results of the changes seem to be fairly reasonable (http://bbcwatch.org/bbc-responses-to-criticism/).
I am not sure that I find the evidence terribly compelling at this point. Do you have any more?
Oh, thank you for noticing. I AM adorable but I don't like to draw attention to it, being the modest sort.
I was asking an honest question as I hadn't come across any reports one way or the other. Given the BBC are meant to be unbiased and I tend to (more-or-less, hopefully without descending into hopeless naivety) use them as my primary news source. So if there are areas where there is endemic bias I would be interested in knowing them so I can adjust my impressions accordingly. Do you have any reliable sources that would show where there is bias please?
I am not sure that I understand the point you are trying to make. Gay folk are perfectly capable of having stable family life including a steady partner and children so how is this different from straight people? I am not aware of anything that says a gay couple shouldn't arrange things so there is a worker bee and a house-spouse.
As the the possibility of relationships between more colleagues of differing seniorities (NOT superiorities FFS) - I don't know that sexuality has any major impact there. Beside which - icky power differentials are really grotty in a relationship (though that last bit is just my preference).
Blimey! That's a great deal of effort to go to - I didn't realise I was talking to an SME.
I don't expect you change your mind based on anecdeotal evidence posted up by a stranger on the internet - that'd be silly. I suppose you checked out Belle de Jour? Other than that I can't think of any online resources to point you towards.
Anyhow, my friends, whilst not being entirely sparkly clean, are hardly a scourge on society either - just like pretty much everyone else in the world.
And they're NOT the kind of people who act as a warm, wet, hole - they're services are for an entirely more discerning kind of customer.
Point of order sir. I have a number of friends who work in the adult services industry and they are certainly not the disease-ridden, duplicitious individuals you are generalising them to be.
Really? That's not the medicine that I recognise. It seems to be more along the lines of 'this looks about right so we'll give it to some people and see what happens'. There seems to be very limited understanding of how the drug actually works and interacts with other compounds in the body.
In that ways it's a lot like climate - both deal with large. complex, only partially understood systems. Both get reasonable results most of the time. Both acknowledge there are gaps and both are workign to close those gaps.
Whilst I agree with you that, in general, comments that explain the intent are always to be welcomed, your example is not so good. You'd define a constant called REVERSAL_OF_CREDIT, set to 3 and possibly another one called DEBIT_ENTRY your SELECT becomes:
select blah from foo where trans_type = REVERSAL_OF_CREDIT
or even more clearly (as reversal of credit is a bit of a double negative)
select blah from foo where trans_type = DEBIT_ENTRY
True enough, but when you do need it you really need it.
Case in point. The project I'm working on at the moment has no connection to the internet and I needed to get some Perl modules built. CPAN doesn't help to much under these circumstances, especially not if the mandated build tool is maven. We're running Solaris without the GNU tool chain so getting things to build was a little challenging. Without access to the source code I wouldn't have been able to tweak things to get them building under our environment, let alone track down a failing #DEF that pointed to another #DEF that was defined in a third file.
So no, from a purely pragmatic perspective, most of the time you don't need access to the source code but if you do, not having access can be a complete show-stopper.
A friend of mine gave me some of that funky native American multi-coloured corn stuff which I duly harvested a few kernels off and stuck in some mud to see what would happen. At the moment I've got 5 (of 5 kernels planted) apparently healthy corn plants growing in a bucket in the back garden.
It's a bit early in the year to see whether I'll get any kind of harvest from them but it's looking fairly hopeful so far. Of course, I'm only doing this for the fun of it so I don't know how well it'd work on a larger scale but a 100% germination rate is pretty rare, even (or even especially) for seeds that have been bought specifically for growing produce from.
Given the material is tunable and x-rays are just another wavelength then I don't see why it can't be used. However, as the material merely guides the light rather than lengthening its wavelength, it would cause x-rays to be concentrated onto your retina which may not be the effect you were after.
Now that was strange. I went and looked up the River Severn, the longest river in the UK and home to the second biggest bore in the world and it's a landmark feature of type 'stream'. What on earth does place need to do to get classed as a river?
*> Ever heard of input sanity checking? It was very popular in the say, 60's, 70's and 80's.
Exactly! Guard the borders of your application, regardless of where those borders are: file, UI, webservice, whatever. Do it right at the border and only when you're sure it's not going to blow a hole in the system, then let it through.
Whilst I can agree with you about increasing specialisation leading to the loss of a sufficient number of peers to give an effective peer review I can't see how there's a link between this and capitalism.
Colour me stupid by all means but where is that link.
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Or do you think that other smart tvs somehow are not nearly as scary?
I haven't the faintest idea one way or the other - which is why I would like to have that information. When the information is available if it turns out that all the other smart TVs do exactly the same thing then I know not to buy a smart TV. If it turns out that most do and a few don't then that acts as the first filter to my buying decision. Not having that information available makes it impossible to make that decision.
Rosie
See the subject. Those are the most useful pieces of information that could have been put in the article but they were omitted for some reason. Does anyone know?
Rosie
Information reported by the Daily Mail and The Commentator making the BBC look bad is reliable? Really? The Evening Standard (part-owned by the Daily Fail anyway) is similarly as reliable.
The report you refer to was published 10 years ago and meant that "As a result of the internal BBC publication of the Balen Report, changes were instigated in the methodology of the BBC’s Middle East" (http://bbcwatch.org/the-balen-report-2004/). The results of the changes seem to be fairly reasonable (http://bbcwatch.org/bbc-responses-to-criticism/).
I am not sure that I find the evidence terribly compelling at this point. Do you have any more?
Rosie.
Oh, thank you for noticing. I AM adorable but I don't like to draw attention to it, being the modest sort.
I was asking an honest question as I hadn't come across any reports one way or the other. Given the BBC are meant to be unbiased and I tend to (more-or-less, hopefully without descending into hopeless naivety) use them as my primary news source. So if there are areas where there is endemic bias I would be interested in knowing them so I can adjust my impressions accordingly. Do you have any reliable sources that would show where there is bias please?
Rosie.
It is? I have never noticed it. I thought the BBC had some kind of institutional policy that forbade them from showing nay bias.
Rosie
Do you have any proof that the NUT would object to efforts to weed out bad teachers? If so would you mind citing a few references?
I bet you I could find a few which directly counter anything you might post. It will all be politics and all politics is lies and deceit.
Rosie
I am not sure that I understand the point you are trying to make. Gay folk are perfectly capable of having stable family life including a steady partner and children so how is this different from straight people? I am not aware of anything that says a gay couple shouldn't arrange things so there is a worker bee and a house-spouse.
As the the possibility of relationships between more colleagues of differing seniorities (NOT superiorities FFS) - I don't know that sexuality has any major impact there. Beside which - icky power differentials are really grotty in a relationship (though that last bit is just my preference).
Rosie
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Rosie
Blimey! That's a great deal of effort to go to - I didn't realise I was talking to an SME.
I don't expect you change your mind based on anecdeotal evidence posted up by a stranger on the internet - that'd be silly. I suppose you checked out Belle de Jour? Other than that I can't think of any online resources to point you towards.
Anyhow, my friends, whilst not being entirely sparkly clean, are hardly a scourge on society either - just like pretty much everyone else in the world.
And they're NOT the kind of people who act as a warm, wet, hole - they're services are for an entirely more discerning kind of customer.
Point of order sir. I have a number of friends who work in the adult services industry and they are certainly not the disease-ridden, duplicitious individuals you are generalising them to be.
Nick
I'm not sure that paying someone a fair price for a product (which is what fair trade aims to do) constitutes giving them aid.
Really? That's not the medicine that I recognise. It seems to be more along the lines of 'this looks about right so we'll give it to some people and see what happens'. There seems to be very limited understanding of how the drug actually works and interacts with other compounds in the body.
In that ways it's a lot like climate - both deal with large. complex, only partially understood systems. Both get reasonable results most of the time. Both acknowledge there are gaps and both are workign to close those gaps.
Possibly, but there's evidence (http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/fst30years) to the contrary.
Whilst I agree with you that, in general, comments that explain the intent are always to be welcomed, your example is not so good. You'd define a constant called REVERSAL_OF_CREDIT, set to 3 and possibly another one called DEBIT_ENTRY your SELECT becomes:
select blah from foo where trans_type = REVERSAL_OF_CREDIT
or even more clearly (as reversal of credit is a bit of a double negative)
select blah from foo where trans_type = DEBIT_ENTRY
True enough, but when you do need it you really need it.
Case in point. The project I'm working on at the moment has no connection to the internet and I needed to get some Perl modules built. CPAN doesn't help to much under these circumstances, especially not if the mandated build tool is maven. We're running Solaris without the GNU tool chain so getting things to build was a little challenging. Without access to the source code I wouldn't have been able to tweak things to get them building under our environment, let alone track down a failing #DEF that pointed to another #DEF that was defined in a third file.
So no, from a purely pragmatic perspective, most of the time you don't need access to the source code but if you do, not having access can be a complete show-stopper.
Nick
Yep, it's a UK thing, though it has some form http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pants.
Oh I don't know about that.
A friend of mine gave me some of that funky native American multi-coloured corn stuff which I duly harvested a few kernels off and stuck in some mud to see what would happen. At the moment I've got 5 (of 5 kernels planted) apparently healthy corn plants growing in a bucket in the back garden.
It's a bit early in the year to see whether I'll get any kind of harvest from them but it's looking fairly hopeful so far. Of course, I'm only doing this for the fun of it so I don't know how well it'd work on a larger scale but a 100% germination rate is pretty rare, even (or even especially) for seeds that have been bought specifically for growing produce from.
Given the material is tunable and x-rays are just another wavelength then I don't see why it can't be used. However, as the material merely guides the light rather than lengthening its wavelength, it would cause x-rays to be concentrated onto your retina which may not be the effect you were after.
Nick
Now that was strange. I went and looked up the River Severn, the longest river in the UK and home to the second biggest bore in the world and it's a landmark feature of type 'stream'. What on earth does place need to do to get classed as a river?
So the Empire of Murdoch can't emtirely dominate in the UK due to the BBC
So The Sun, the UK's most popular paper and owned by the Empie of Murdoch, changes its support from Labour to the Conservatives
And the BBC's board back down.
Abso-bloody-lutely marvellous. Now we can have news of the quality and independence served to the US by Fox.
*> Ever heard of input sanity checking? It was very popular in the say, 60's, 70's and 80's.
Exactly! Guard the borders of your application, regardless of where those borders are: file, UI, webservice, whatever. Do it right at the border and only when you're sure it's not going to blow a hole in the system, then let it through.
And always use whitelists.
Y'know I wonder if the whole Witch thing needs to become a corollary fo Godwin's law?
;).
Us Witches are perfectly capable of hexing you until you glow if you get too annoying
Whilst I can agree with you about increasing specialisation leading to the loss of a sufficient number of peers to give an effective peer review I can't see how there's a link between this and capitalism.
Colour me stupid by all means but where is that link.
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