Posts by blofse 65 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2010
Does that go on a database or is that uploaded? If uploaded, innocent until proven guilty is becoming eroded.
DNA next. Rather have finger print than DNA though - DNA's my secret and my IPR! I own me!
Time to wear some funky latex gloves with anonymous finger prints... well in public anyway :-)
Mind you, if bought from the net could be already linked to a crime - whoops...
Detica bearing any unforeseen costs?
Isn't Detica owned by BAE? I am confused as to how the finances work with this one...
So MoJ (MoD) pay BAE which then sub-contract to detica who make profit and give back to BAE? I never quite got this dodgey sounding 'sky high' umbrella accounting... can someone help?
It's a nice theory to have all data in one, very secure place.
One password to rule them all etc....
Pro:
- only one organisation has your information. No more of your details getting hacked from several sites.
- easier to remember and therefore less frustration
- cheaper for us all.
Cons:
- this is another quango isn't it? Thought the conservatives said they would have less quangos? Oh yes - they are called con-tradication party where they do the opposite of everything they said they would/wouldn't do. Well except be a bunch of rich ponse's only looking out for the rich - that hasn't changed!
- is if that system is not secure, your very private and accurate (no one lies to the gov and gets away with it eh?) information is up for grabs. This is worse than a normal website where you can try to keep real info to a minimum.
- one gateway to hack which probably makes it less secure. Hit it hard enough and it could be taken down.
- DDoS problems - 1 target = easy target
- you cannot access these services if you are banned from the internet (BPA three strikes rule)! Is this against your rights if your banned that you cannot access gov websites?
No system is secure over time and I fail to see how any government of this country would be able to keep ahead of exploits in time because of a lengthy change control process.
don't fix the root cause of the problem - get around it by wasting another 15gig of space you could really do with (oh and not tell you about it where it is - e.g. really hidden folders etc)!
Sod it. I'll stick with my Ubuntu installation. 3gig install, lightning fast on SSD, lightweight use of system resources and it does not get slower over time (except if I keep adding new stuff), most of the games I barely play work though wine, why do I need to install it as my main OS?
Erm, not relearn - adapt maybe - but not re-learn!
As for pluggable frameworks (spring, seam, hibernate, ehCache etc), they were always independent of the language. It's just the lang is nicking their ideas and bringing into the main JDK.
I find this worrying we have the label 'OpenJDK' execpt the companies involved are anything but open....
Be interesting to see how this pan's out!
...dream of real pens? - i.e. phillip k dick.
Seriously though, isn't it our own stupidity and ignorance to assume all animals are extremely stupid*?
They may act strange and dumb from our own perspective but if we could experience their perspective we may change our views....
* and any human from years ago for that matter - e.g. we assume the Egyptians did not have metal work but we know they did. They simply must of had cranes to build the grand pyramids of giza in 22 years...
..and it seems things have started.
The youTube stuff seems like a test case for me. If you think about it if they allowed this to stand (and not throw it out straight away like it should do) then that pushes that it's a criminal intent to look at content - i.e. premeditation before a crime - but proof when you actually comment that you have intent.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think you can get into trouble if you are seen to have criminal intent - e.g. go to a gun shop, look at guns, talk about shooting people, etc.
This is a bit of a problem however because surely you are allowed to say 'hey that's cool' or 'omg!' without getting in any sort of trouble. You don't watch Mafia/Action films where they show killing people and when you comment on it, you have no intent of going though with anything - you just say it's cool (which is ironic isn't it mr sony aka MPAA? Circular suicide potentially :-) ). Also you may just be looking for PS3 material and land on this page - there is absolutely no intent there. Also a lot of people wont understand the full implications of what is being displayed, and a lot of people are minor's and therefore there is no contractual meeting of minds. In fact I bet 99% of PS3 owners have not read the latest terms and conditions and 100% agree even though they are effectively being blackmailed (i.e. agree or you cannot play this anymore, you cannot sell it for the same value or refund it ether outside of warrantee)...
I think this feels to me that it is not an intent issue and therefore the case should be thrown out. A couple of things - you buy hardware, you have a right to do what ever you want with it after. You don't rent the device, your not under contract so you should have the right to modify however you see fit (so rooting should be allowed if your capable); just because people comment does not mean it is real (sometimes it's a showing off type thing - the internet is less tangible so comments are likely to be more extreme and that should be taken into account).
Big coorp's and now gov's (thanks to Tunis/Egypt, gov's are now scared) will want to quash things as much as possible. Enjoy the freedom while you can....
They seem to have the opinion that the line must be drawn with the free, intangible internet. It does seem worrying that the line is getting closer to being a small circle of what you used to be able to do but cannot any more. Take twitter blogging - they are closing the freedom of speech down.
Nothing wrong with SSH tunnels and international proxy's, let alone anonymous web browsing and firewall stealth modes...
Because I have commented here, does that mean I could be sued? I have no intent - I don't use a PS3 for the main reason that it is too closed. A little linux box under the tv does the trick for me.... but because I have a viewpoint that is in disagreement with a big coorp, I now must hide :)
So Oracle has lost openOffice and hudson recently but in a step to try and keep myself up - are there any are the other forks we should all know about? Is there a complete and official list?
For e.g. mysql has been forked many times all with slightly different purposes. I would like to know if this has since been forked with the original purpose still in mind (i.e. an official fork with the same team of people that started the whole thing).
Java has forked but I am confused as to which version is like an official.
So basically if there is a list of the following tech and what they have or are turning into that would be very useful!
Mysql > ? MariaDB?
Husdon > Jenkins
Java > OpenJDK?
VirtualBox (worried about this one - it's a great bit of kit) > ?
Glassfish > ?
OpenSolaris (I think this is dead but please update me) > ?
Any others???
Being a guy who doesn't usually follow the pack and also wanting flac support, this device appealed to me a lot. Until I realised several things!
1) I did not know all the andriod app's were not availible for this device. That was a big hitter and I could not find bearly any useful app's I wanted. You can get around this (sort of) by following this link - http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=42067
Obviously not all the app's work and some crash the device. Look at it on an app by app basis.
2) The sound quality, imo was rubbish. I wanted this device to replace my recently blown up creative zen vision which had great sound quality but sadly no flac support (grrr to transcoding but for everything in 320kbs VBR mp3 it was great). This on the other hand had no real 'presense' of sound, it was lacking bass and reasonable mid-range which to me felt like it was tinny. It sounded (metaphorically) to me like a cheap stero rather than seperates, and that is not on.
3) The responsiveness of the screen was - annoying. I suppose you get used to these things but I just could not. Having played with iPods in the shop, everything scrolls as you want and there is no repressing/rescrolling when things go wrong. This has a big problem scrolling - particually the app menu. Once you have opened and if you have many apps to scroll up and down, half the time it would scroll far, far too much and others not the right amount.
So in the three days I had this device, I found three major annoyances. I gave up, took the device back and spent the extra £70 to get an iPod touch 32gig. Sound quality is much better and even better than my old mp3 player, app's are great fun and the size is suitable.
If you need the size, go for the classic.
Hope this helps you all - I would of only given this 30% at most, as the main thing it has going for it is the tv out and the great quality video.
As the annoyamous coward that posted on the 11th October 2010 16:17 GMT, it's all the managers which have muffed it all up and that was thanks to the tory paperwork that still remained under Labour!
It feel's to me that the gov are simply going to privatise everything under a wastage banner - however the only problem with that is short term savings but long term expense. Look at defence, sub-contracts after sub-contracts and a massive lack of communication between the MoD and private companies. The same will probably happen with the NHS which is not too far off that, if not already there. I don't feel this is the answer.
What they really need to do is bring a well trained manager to basically demolish all other management. However these should not be outsourced, these should be the guys who are actually doing the work. This means a plan of training for current staff and allow them to make the changes to operate the public sector, much like David Cameron's big sociality except it is not run by the rich. Let those people define their own paperwork (or computerise most of the processes with very small software teams), let them solve the problems.
The only issue with this idea - some of the people may no want to do that, however I am sure there is a fairly large employment pool seeing as a larger and larger amount of people are becoming unemployed (more if the gov has it's way with the public sector).
Why sack all front line staff and increase the amount of wastage by leaving a far greater percentage of managers*?
*on a sub point, if they want to stop people becoming so dependant on benefits and get people back to work, why are they doing the opposite by culling the staff of the public sector? Privatisation anyone?
/end cynical rant
This in turn will empower people and lead to much lower costs in the future.
As the anonymous coward that posted on the 11th October 2010 16:17 GMT, it's all the managers which have muffed it all up and that was thanks to the tory paperwork that still remained under Labour!
It feel's to me that the gov are simply going to privatise everything under a wastage banner - however the only problem with that is short term savings but long term expense. Look at defence, sub-contracts after sub-contracts and a massive lack of communication between the MoD and private companies. The same will probably happen with the NHS which is not too far off that, if not already there. I don't feel this is the answer.
What they really need to do is bring a well trained manager to basically demolish all other management. However these should not be outsourced, these should be the guys who are actually doing the work. This means a plan of training for current staff and allow them to make the changes to operate the public sector, much like David Cameron's big sociality except it is not run by the rich. Let those people define their own paperwork (or computerise most of the processes with very small software teams), let them solve the problems.
The only issue with this idea - some of the people may no want to do that, however I am sure there is a fairly large employment pool seeing as a larger and larger amount of people are becoming unemployed (more if the gov has it's way with the public sector).
Why sack all front line staff and increase the amount of wastage by leaving a far greater percentage of managers*?
*on a sub point, if they want to stop people becoming so dependant on benefits and get people back to work, why are they doing the opposite by culling the staff of the public sector? Privatisation anyone?
/end cynical rant
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