This is all very strange - on BSI (this is what the german abbreviation of Federal Office for IT Security is) site there is nothing about this, BuergerCert site informs about new upcoming release of firefox that is going to fix unspecified security problem. If you compare it with IE warning from some time ago there is a difference - back then BSI issued a warning telling people not to use compromised software that is actively used for attacks and here you have a warning based on information of new release. Fear mongering - that is what it is - a new and terrible thing has happened - somebody is releasing software to fix the bug that nobody has abused yet. Good that German Gov. is issuing warning but judging on this government record (Moevenpick subsidy to hoteliers or sucking of Mr Sawicki on request of big Pharma) I'd say FDP and/or CDU (governing parties) took money from somebody again. I would not look for conspiracy anywhere but current government actually does not even bother with hiding their deplorable attitude towards private money - funny thing is that they do it in such incompetent way that it is almost laughable (well one should cry actually - they have our tax money).
I guess the appropriate analogy would be: if accidents happen one should not drive the car - of course educated and well trained users help but absolute IT security is only when you have no IT.
Not sure how this works in US but in Europe at least the lawyers have discovered new paradise - mass produced requests to settle or face court case are being produced to get easy money although not all agree with this approach but it still works fine, Why bothering with actually selling stuff? Threaten to sue whoever looks like prospective customer of hard pr0n and you can be sure money will flow. How nice that legal system of big European countries (the same happens in Germany from what I know) go along.
excellent sense of humor or is it a sarcastic remark? I mean some artists will get some money I am sure but judging by the way things are going this is probably not true. OTOH somebody must stop the nonsense that is going on good that O2 is trying.
A responsible citizen of any given country can be expected to avoid place where military of this country wedges a war. I can sympathize with US citizens in their quest for freedom and fair treatment that they obviously do not have (well come to think of it I am in no better situation either) but what you want is that US military knows about location of all US citizens abroad which besides being difficult to do is bound to take more rights from you too. It is the war so if you socialize with the guys that on occasion shoot your soldiers then you are taking risks. I do not claim that there is a just cause to exercise in Afghanistan but I say that if you play with fire it is likely you burn your fingers and you should stop blaming others for what can happen.
It is of course impossible to test it all and real time systems are darned difficult to debug but it may always be made easier to debug. I had a day job with a telecom company where the significant system events could be divided into two types - ones with the event history and ones without. Automotive industry from what I could see till now wanted to have things on the cheap and opted to have only the later which of course make any trouble shooting into looking at debris for clues and desk checking the code. But I can imagine that there is another great (computer) scientist then have a theory of how it works.
sometimes an effort needed to code stuff anew is the same as to lookd for libraries that do stuff you want, find out why the do not do exactly the stuff you want and find the way around. If you are unlucky chances are you may repeat the 'find the stuff' and following steps few times. OC it al depends. Balming all on Java and libraries is just a joke and the whole thread a silly rant. Fact is that majority of us do not work with rocket science. Yet when quality matters we usually rely on very few good sources and write code ourselves only this is not what general customer and your manager think is needed. Then again QA engineers like me have great fun fixing the stuff that has been copy pasted by geniuses that know libraries etc.
human body is connected to the human brain and that in most cases is a major source of problem as this brain is badly equipped. conditioned by faulty education, provided with false information by authorities and other gullibles and on top of it all is ill equipped to cope with things that were not common on savannas and jungles that are ape grandpas and grandmas lived on.
OTOH it does not matter whether this type of radiation kills us directly or by making us sick trough our minds. If we (majority of us anyway) feel bad about having technology so close to us then this is enuff. No amount of industrial grade propaganda is going to change that. We learned from bad experiences that industry lies. It may be that in this case they do not but not because they do not want to - it seems simply that the effects are negligible so they do not have to. Possibly they may have even lied but that does not matter because it is (apparently) so safe.
you need a lawyer t o presnt and defend your case not to pretend you are not guilty. Even if you killed somebody there is a legal difference whether this was a man slaughter or murder etc. and this difference may make you avoid execution squad even if lawyer does not pretend you are innocent.
how strange it is - on one hand a totalitarian system being undermined by people's wrath on the other there the same 'movement' if you will is just a modern version of lynching practice, inaccurate and rather brutal usually. I guess this is what happens when all other breaks installed in the society stop functioning or is it another case of mass hysteria like 'commies are coming' in US back then.
There are a lot of factors that can influence whether a change is viable. One could be whether you can move all or majority of your systems to another vendor without bothering too much, the other one is education and general willingness to try. I personally see the later the major obstacle not only to linux adoption but also to a reform in any other branch of life esp. when more than small group (me and my brother-in-low) is affected, say national health system, tax system etc. It is always the same story - people refuse to change because the old shit is the shit they know, and new shit could be dangerous or even cause SPD (soft penis disease) . Now whether actually linux would be cheaper is an open question. As far as I can tell Germans are good at counting beans so I would expect that they counted it all well enough. The city of Muenchen switched (I think the process is still not quite complete) to Linux some time ago and what the guy responsible for it claimed this change to be cost neutral.
"They seem to loathe [the music]," said the proud railway guy. "It's pretty uncool to be seen hanging around somewhere when Mozart is playing."
. It is a shame of course but there are some other things officialdom in UK (and I would believe not only there) does to people: blasting with high energy light or using high pitched noise apparently to drive all under 20 (this including toddlers) away. I am not sure if I should believe this article but nothing is impossible these days and technology offers 'solutions' to problems that only twisted mind of a public servant or perverted sadist would consider acceptable.
I have another idea (not mine actually) why don't we equalize everybody to t he level of a moron that deploys such things?
and I cannot stop myself of thinking - this russian student in NK that revealed the secret to the evil world - what happens to this poor soul? I mean either he was f.g silly, the regime told him to do it or the regime is already falling apart and everybody (in NK) can see it. Well I personally opt for silliness.
Actually you may touch very interesting point - the utilities are usually natural monopolies and as such are not really suited for a real free market which can be seen for instance by water companies that not only increase the price after privatization but also let the leaking water go where it always went at least as long as it is legally possible and does not affect renumeration of the CEO. The news outlets were not monopolies till now but mr Murdoch and forces of free market (possibly Internet is also at play here) caused major outlets to integrate into few gigantic institutions that are not controllable by anybody and most likely have some agenda. Where this can (albeit does not have to) lead is perfectly visible in Italy where one corrupt bully has made himself popular enough with his own TV stations and other media outlets and became prime minister three times (or is it four already).
Not sure about BBC right now as in recent years the quality seems to have deteriorated a bit (but so did it in the rest of media) but BBC provided service of quality superior to almost any other media organisation. It was and is one of the few organisations that justify their existence by great service. Pity if it were to cut too much of it.
confused or not I do not like to pay but if I have to I will. However if I have a choice I will not pay to this little brat of a boy that you so nicely describe.
Actually if they managed to film osama with his boys doing naughty things that would probably finish aq fast. OTOH the nutcases like this may just hope for the virgins (not sure why would this be attractive but what do I know - cellar etc) so some CGI would be needed.
the way I see it is similar - java and alikes are the source of all evil. Not in technical terms but because it is too easy to write 'hello arse world' and claim expertise. The fact is that any language is just a tool - what matters is a hard heart of the coder. If he knows his/her trade s/he is an engineer, if not s/he is a computer scientist or worse. Unfortunately world is polluted with the later with bunch of clueless managers following newest off shoring trend (or what is newest fashion) on top. But hey why do I complain - I live well (still) by fixing mess created by this lot so maybe I should not.....
Ohh now pools are evil - what else I came across while reading this flame. This is good - I knew it when I saw the title of TFA - wholy war is coming and now it is here! Fantastic!
The actual time you are exposing yourself to radiations from your mobile phone is at two different times:
location update
when you are talking over it
this compared with your constant exposure to radiation while being inside a microwave oven of your 'killer apartment' is another exposure altogether.
Besides all this - just thinking of possible even if unlikely danger is going to make him sick anyway. If that does not his girlfriend will. Oh wait we are on/. - forget it. Go on buy it!
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This is all very strange - on BSI (this is what the german abbreviation of Federal Office for IT Security is) site there is nothing about this, BuergerCert site informs about new upcoming release of firefox that is going to fix unspecified security problem. If you compare it with IE warning from some time ago there is a difference - back then BSI issued a warning telling people not to use compromised software that is actively used for attacks and here you have a warning based on information of new release. Fear mongering - that is what it is - a new and terrible thing has happened - somebody is releasing software to fix the bug that nobody has abused yet. Good that German Gov. is issuing warning but judging on this government record (Moevenpick subsidy to hoteliers or sucking of Mr Sawicki on request of big Pharma) I'd say FDP and/or CDU (governing parties) took money from somebody again. I would not look for conspiracy anywhere but current government actually does not even bother with hiding their deplorable attitude towards private money - funny thing is that they do it in such incompetent way that it is almost laughable (well one should cry actually - they have our tax money).
I guess the appropriate analogy would be: if accidents happen one should not drive the car - of course educated and well trained users help but absolute IT security is only when you have no IT.
The sound of sirens of coming fire brigade is also a good indicator.
Not sure how this works in US but in Europe at least the lawyers have discovered new paradise - mass produced requests to settle or face court case are being produced to get easy money although not all agree with this approach but it still works fine, Why bothering with actually selling stuff? Threaten to sue whoever looks like prospective customer of hard pr0n and you can be sure money will flow. How nice that legal system of big European countries (the same happens in Germany from what I know) go along.
excellent sense of humor or is it a sarcastic remark? I mean some artists will get some money I am sure but judging by the way things are going this is probably not true. OTOH somebody must stop the nonsense that is going on good that O2 is trying.
which just proves that scientists especially the 'social' brand are not real scientists. What a surprise.
A responsible citizen of any given country can be expected to avoid place where military of this country wedges a war. I can sympathize with US citizens in their quest for freedom and fair treatment that they obviously do not have (well come to think of it I am in no better situation either) but what you want is that US military knows about location of all US citizens abroad which besides being difficult to do is bound to take more rights from you too. It is the war so if you socialize with the guys that on occasion shoot your soldiers then you are taking risks. I do not claim that there is a just cause to exercise in Afghanistan but I say that if you play with fire it is likely you burn your fingers and you should stop blaming others for what can happen.
It is of course impossible to test it all and real time systems are darned difficult to debug but it may always be made easier to debug. I had a day job with a telecom company where the significant system events could be divided into two types - ones with the event history and ones without. Automotive industry from what I could see till now wanted to have things on the cheap and opted to have only the later which of course make any trouble shooting into looking at debris for clues and desk checking the code. But I can imagine that there is another great (computer) scientist then have a theory of how it works.
sometimes an effort needed to code stuff anew is the same as to lookd for libraries that do stuff you want, find out why the do not do exactly the stuff you want and find the way around. If you are unlucky chances are you may repeat the 'find the stuff' and following steps few times. OC it al depends. Balming all on Java and libraries is just a joke and the whole thread a silly rant. Fact is that majority of us do not work with rocket science. Yet when quality matters we usually rely on very few good sources and write code ourselves only this is not what general customer and your manager think is needed. Then again QA engineers like me have great fun fixing the stuff that has been copy pasted by geniuses that know libraries etc.
OTOH it does not matter whether this type of radiation kills us directly or by making us sick trough our minds. If we (majority of us anyway) feel bad about having technology so close to us then this is enuff. No amount of industrial grade propaganda is going to change that. We learned from bad experiences that industry lies. It may be that in this case they do not but not because they do not want to - it seems simply that the effects are negligible so they do not have to. Possibly they may have even lied but that does not matter because it is (apparently) so safe.
you need a lawyer t o presnt and defend your case not to pretend you are not guilty. Even if you killed somebody there is a legal difference whether this was a man slaughter or murder etc. and this difference may make you avoid execution squad even if lawyer does not pretend you are innocent.
how strange it is - on one hand a totalitarian system being undermined by people's wrath on the other there the same 'movement' if you will is just a modern version of lynching practice, inaccurate and rather brutal usually. I guess this is what happens when all other breaks installed in the society stop functioning or is it another case of mass hysteria like 'commies are coming' in US back then.
Standard!=windoze
There are a lot of factors that can influence whether a change is viable. One could be whether you can move all or majority of your systems to another vendor without bothering too much, the other one is education and general willingness to try. I personally see the later the major obstacle not only to linux adoption but also to a reform in any other branch of life esp. when more than small group (me and my brother-in-low) is affected, say national health system, tax system etc. It is always the same story - people refuse to change because the old shit is the shit they know, and new shit could be dangerous or even cause SPD (soft penis disease) . Now whether actually linux would be cheaper is an open question. As far as I can tell Germans are good at counting beans so I would expect that they counted it all well enough. The city of Muenchen switched (I think the process is still not quite complete) to Linux some time ago and what the guy responsible for it claimed this change to be cost neutral.
here I fixed that for you.
"They seem to loathe [the music]," said the proud railway guy. "It's pretty uncool to be seen hanging around somewhere when Mozart is playing."
. It is a shame of course but there are some other things officialdom in UK (and I would believe not only there) does to people: blasting with high energy light or using high pitched noise apparently to drive all under 20 (this including toddlers) away. I am not sure if I should believe this article but nothing is impossible these days and technology offers 'solutions' to problems that only twisted mind of a public servant or perverted sadist would consider acceptable.
I have another idea (not mine actually) why don't we equalize everybody to t he level of a moron that deploys such things?
and I cannot stop myself of thinking - this russian student in NK that revealed the secret to the evil world - what happens to this poor soul? I mean either he was f.g silly, the regime told him to do it or the regime is already falling apart and everybody (in NK) can see it. Well I personally opt for silliness.
Not sure about BBC right now as in recent years the quality seems to have deteriorated a bit (but so did it in the rest of media) but BBC provided service of quality superior to almost any other media organisation. It was and is one of the few organisations that justify their existence by great service. Pity if it were to cut too much of it.
confused or not I do not like to pay but if I have to I will. However if I have a choice I will not pay to this little brat of a boy that you so nicely describe.
What is wrong with the breasts? I like breasts.
looks more and more like m$ way - destroy opponents any which way and get money from clueless but 'cool' public flowing.
Actually if they managed to film osama with his boys doing naughty things that would probably finish aq fast. OTOH the nutcases like this may just hope for the virgins (not sure why would this be attractive but what do I know - cellar etc) so some CGI would be needed.
the way I see it is similar - java and alikes are the source of all evil. Not in technical terms but because it is too easy to write 'hello arse world' and claim expertise. The fact is that any language is just a tool - what matters is a hard heart of the coder. If he knows his/her trade s/he is an engineer, if not s/he is a computer scientist or worse. Unfortunately world is polluted with the later with bunch of clueless managers following newest off shoring trend (or what is newest fashion) on top. But hey why do I complain - I live well (still) by fixing mess created by this lot so maybe I should not.....
Ohh now pools are evil - what else I came across while reading this flame. This is good - I knew it when I saw the title of TFA - wholy war is coming and now it is here! Fantastic!
this compared with your constant exposure to radiation while being inside a microwave oven of your 'killer apartment' is another exposure altogether. Besides all this - just thinking of possible even if unlikely danger is going to make him sick anyway. If that does not his girlfriend will. Oh wait we are on /. - forget it. Go on buy it!