Re: 'We've never claimed chip-and-PIN is 100 per cent secure'
> that would be illegal and has been so for several years.
Do you expect that to stop them?
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Cambridge boffins: Chip and PIN cards CAN be cloned – here's how
Boffin named Jubb to fire whopping hybrid thruster
Wednesday 12th September 2012 16:59 GMT
Re: Not the first
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Rocket
"Neither the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme nor the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, the official speed record certifying bodies, recognise the record attempt, the speed purported to have been reached or that the vehicle ever attained supersonic speeds"
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GNOME hacker: Culture isn't holding desktop Linux back
Wednesday 12th September 2012 17:34 GMT
Re: There's one simple issue Linux has (apart from Unity)
> Fonts. GNOME 2, GNOME 3 and KDE Plasma all look like they're being displayed on a
> monitor running at the wrong resolution
Well, I'm sat in front of two monitors. The right-hand one is attached to a computer running Windows XP SP3, the left-hand one to a computer running Fedora 14. The monitors are identical
Of the two, I'd say the Fedora display is much nicer.
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Wednesday 12th September 2012 12:52 GMT
Re: My opinion
> I don't need, or want, to be told to recompile the kernel.
1992 called. It wants it's meme back.
You will not be told[1] to recompile the kernel to add drivers. That hasn't been necessary for many a long year. Aside from the fact that most drivers are already bundled with the stock kernel, those that aren't are available a plugins. You add or remove them at will (which is why we can upgradfe so much without needing to reboot the machine).
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[1] except by morons. There are always shouty people who like to tell you stuff, and are simply wrong. This happens throughout computing, but it seems especially prevalent when newbies are looking to switch to Linux, and are given scare stories by people who have clearly not seen a Linux distribution this century.
Wednesday 12th September 2012 12:35 GMT
Re: Hang on there
> Gnome is based on GTK and KDE is based on Qt.
Yes. But if you write for GTK+, you can run that app on Gnome or KDE or Windows (Or OSX, I think, but I haven't done that personally). Similarly, if you write for Qt, you can run on the same variety of desktops.
> Go do some reading before you make an even bigger fool of yourself.
Oh, the irony...
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Microsoft preparing for diskless Windows 8 PCs
Wednesday 12th September 2012 17:26 GMT
Re: Still haven't separated OS and Data
> Why would you create a repo at home for installing COTS software?
You probably wouldn't. That's not the purpose of the repository.
But the vendor of that software could do so trivially. And then updates go through the same channel as everything else.
> Besides, it's fairly trivial to setup a similar system for Windows in the enterprise.
Maybe it is. But my comment was in reply to the comment "if you need anything commercial you're either going to be running scripts or manually installing an rpm", which is patently untrue.
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Wednesday 12th September 2012 14:22 GMT
Re: USB 2.0
> I wouldn't try to boot anything I wanted up quickly from a USB2 anything
I have a Fedora USB stick in my pocket. It's my most uiseful recovery tool.
> still slooowww, abuot 5 mins for a very basic XFCE desktop and little else.
Then there's something wrong with your installation. I get a desktop up very quickly.
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Wednesday 12th September 2012 14:18 GMT
Re: Still haven't separated OS and Data
> if you need anything commercial you're either going to be running scripts or manually installing an rpm
This is not true.
It is a trivial matter to create a repository; it doesn't need to be FOSS within that repository. Adding that repo to the user's list of active repos means that your commercial software pops up right alongside all that FOSS in the package manager browser.
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LOHAN straps on satellite comms capability
iPhone to account for half of US economy by 2030 - projection
Phone-hack saga: Prison officer cuffed in cop bung probe
Apache man disables Internet Explorer 10 privacy setting
Tuesday 11th September 2012 17:00 GMT
Re: Anyone can undo the change
> No copyright notice = he doesn't own or control the file
Well, the file is copyrighted anyway; no notice jsut makes it harder to work out who owns which copyrights.
Nevertheless, a copyright notice has no bearing whatsoever on whether or not someone else can change the file. All it needs is someone with commit access. This is Free Software...
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Tuesday 11th September 2012 16:50 GMT
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> ultimately the header is useless if advertisers refuse to acknowledge it.
And this is the nub of the problem.
The advertisers have said that they *will* refuse to acknowledge it if one of the major browers sets the flag by default - so by defaulting DNT to on[1], Microsoft has put us into the situation where advertisers will ignore the flag for absolutely everyone. The entire system becomes useless.
I think Fielding's response is way OTT, but I can see the point he's trying to highlight. This is clearly not the right way to handle the problem, but I'm not sure I know what would be the right way.
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[1] If that is actually what MS has done - the comments in this thread suggest that it might or might not be so...
Broadband minister's fibre cabinet gripe snub sparks revolt
Tuesday 11th September 2012 12:33 GMT
Re: Seriously
> i.e. places that have already been developed by ripping up fields
In that case, there should be no difficulty getting through the standard Planning process.
I dislike NIMBYism as much as the next guy, but this widespread removal of residents' rights is extremely worrisome...
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Virus lab blogger collared by blundering copyright cop bot
Tuesday 11th September 2012 11:02 GMT
Re: Malware authors should have no copyright claim against their work
Yes they should. All original works of copyrightable material should be afforded the protection of copyright law.
The interesting thing, of course, is what happens when a malware author tries to enforce that copyright :-)
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Health minister warns ISPs: Block suicide websites or face regulation
Tuesday 11th September 2012 07:09 GMT
Re: Anyone for helium?
> apparently there's been a big rise in the use of helium* to commit suicide which has
> been attributed to knowledge gained from the Web
I find it disappointing that this is attributed to the Web,
When I did O-level Biology, we were taught that the impetus to breathe was down to CO2, not oxygen. A sufficiently large volume[1] of some anoxic gas is therefore going to give you a situation where life cannot be sustained, but without the discomfort of a CO2 drive. I thought this was commonn knowledge...
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[1] It needs to be a suffciently large amount so that exhaled CO2 does not build up sufficiently to generate the desire to breathe. That would be the plastic-bag suffocation you see depicted in films...
Tuesday 11th September 2012 06:55 GMT
Re: Ultimately
> it IS illegal to kill yourself - at least in the UK
It isn't. Hasn't been for decades.
> Have you not seen the news about near-vegetables with zero quality of life desperately fighting for the 'right to die'?
They are fighting for the right for someone else to help end their life, as they are no longer capable. Proponents of such an act call it "assisted suicide", opponents call it "murder". And therein lies the problem; it's very, very difficult to enable the former without accidentally enabling the latter.
I'm not sure the UK courts have actually got it right; that bloke a couple of weeks ago would not seem to be an on-the-line case...
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Airbus predicts catapult takeoffs and formation flying by 2050
Monday 10th September 2012 17:34 GMT
Re: If you want to save fuel
> Distance travelled does not enter the equation
Yes, it does. Drag is a force.
As any O-level physicist knows, energy expended = force * distance. So if you multiply[1] your drag by the distance over which it has acted, you get the total energy used to overcome it.
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[1] Strictly speaking, it's an integral, but let's keep it simple for now, huh?
Monday 10th September 2012 17:28 GMT
Re: glide + landing = controlled crash on wheels, hopefully
> those authorities know that gliding is basically falling with some modicum of control.
You'd be surprised. I was doing engine-failure drills a couple of weeks ago. The plane was remarkably well-controlled.
Now I've no idea what it's like in a big jet, but the Gimli Glider incident proves that it's perfectly possible.
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Listen up, Nokia: Get Lumia show-offs in pubs or it's game over
UK: 'We're legally bound to arrest Mr Assange'
Friday 31st August 2012 13:21 GMT
Re: There is absolutely no need to storm the embassy..
> he's got Internet access. So they've put him on their network.
That presumes that they only have one network.
> How happy would you be to give Julian Assange access to your precious network?
My precious network? He wouldn't get on there.
But I'd give him access to one of my filtered networks. That would give him Internet access with no opportunity to look at any of my stuff.
> On a grading of 1-10, how high would you rate him as a security risk to your data?
0. Yes, I'm aware that's less than your minimum.
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LOHAN rolls out racy rocketry round-up
Apple and Google in talks to end patent war?
Fired Toyota coder trashes systems, steals data
'FIRST ever' Linux, Mac OS X-only password sniffing Trojan spotted
Thursday 30th August 2012 17:32 GMT
Re: Linux trojan is not news
> the need to enter that password cannot be overriden
That's trivially over-ridden.
But to do so, you need to understand the sudoers file. Which means understanding the ramifications of such a thing. And that's why, quite often, a sysad says "no" when asked to do something[1].
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[1] For example, I installed MediaWiki for a customer once. The first thing he tried to do was to write a load of PHP in the pages to run his advertising scripts. He was furious when that didn't work, and *demanded* that I make PHP work in wiki pages. I told him I'd need written instructions before I'd do that...
Cops cuff journo over anonymous plod blogger unmasking
Number-plate spycams riddled with flaws, top cop admits
Thursday 30th August 2012 12:43 GMT
Re: Ken, with the greatest possible respect
> Maybe it's just the Met that are like this
There are dodgy coppers all around.
I kept an old banger running for at least three years after it ought to have been trashed. I lived next door to a DC, and he always knew where to go to get an MOT for it...
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Thursday 30th August 2012 12:25 GMT
Re: Probably just me but...
> It is well known that people using a vehicle for criminal purposes tend to not spend money on tax/insurance
Nonsense. Petty crooks might not, but serious criminals are squeaky-clean in that department. It would be imbecilic to get caught for having no car tax if you've got a boot full of high-value dodgy gear.
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More of Kim Dotcom's booty released by court
Open source author pulls code after GPL abuse
Wednesday 29th August 2012 13:57 GMT
Re: Essential clarification and emph
> Actually, it is distribution if you pass it on
It almost certainly isn't.
> you only have to provide the source to those you distribute it to
This is usually untrue.
GPL v2 section 3(a) distribution limits your obligation to pass on source to those who got the binary from you - but section 3(a) is *ONLY* possible if you distribute the source *with the binary*.
If you distribute source and binary separately, that's either sectuion 3(b) or section 3(c). 3(c) is only permissible for non-commercial distribution. 3(b) requires you to offer source to *any third party*.
The GPL v3 has very similar clauses, but they are in section 6 instead of section 3.
> Same goes for contractor
Not so, according to SFLC.
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Wednesday 29th August 2012 13:52 GMT
Re: Essential clarification and emph
> What if I'm a contractor,
That depends on the nature of the work.
If I, as a contractor, port a piece of (L)GPL code into a customer's proprietary code as a single work-for-hire for that customer, then that is acceptable. If I repeat the operation for a different customer, then it will be deemed distribution, and thus disallowed.
I'm a contractor. I checked this with SFLC.
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Wednesday 29th August 2012 13:50 GMT
Re: Essential clarification and emph
>> and at least one fork is being sold with a comercial license to add insult to injury.
> We still don't know whether this is against the GPL or not
Yes, we do. A GPL-derived program *must* be licenced under the GPL. It is contrary to the GPL to issue it under any other licence[1] or to add any additional restrictions[2].
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[1] GPLv2 section 2(b)
[2] GPLv2 section 6
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