Posts by Phil O'Sophical 7408 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Oct 2011
And it's really not at all difficult to insert spaces so that a phone number looks like it does in the phone book or printed on letterheads.
You think so? What's the correct spacing for a French phone number? A UK one? Swiss?
Website forms should obey Postel's instructions from the very early RFCs. Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.
When did governments stop representing us and start representing corporations
The question raises an interesting point about this article. When it says "America wants" or "NZ opposes" etc, who exactly is it talking about? Is this a government committee, a private industry rep, a bored civil servant, or what? Where exactly in "government" is this being discussed?
Why?
Maybe we're meant to parse it differently? I can never see penisland.net as a site that sells writing instruments (but they do, although also unfortunately claiming to specialize in wood), and as for the talent agent finder site www.whorepresents.com ...
(both perfectly SFW, in case you're wondering)
Migration is a well proven exercise with very few unknowns at this point....
And a price tag that would go a long way towards buying a new PC.
If Microsoift were serious about getting people off XP they'd offer W7 upgrades for $50, but they'd obviously prefer to line their distributors pockets with cash from people forced to buy new PCs instead.
I have to say I started to get very tired of the Master being the default baddie in the early series. I presume he was a cheap villain in terms of makeup/special effects, but even so...
I had hoped he wouldn't make an appearance in the reboot, sadly he did so and with nowhere hear the evil menace of the late Roger Delgado, he was more of a cartoon baddie.
In the early 80's we had one in the office in our development lab, it was hooked up to an A3 pen plotter for drawing diagrams and flowcharts. I'm pretty sure ours had an 8" floppy drive though, I remember reverse-engineering the CP/M disk format and writing a program that could read/write the disks in the console drive of our VAX 11/780, that being the easiest way to transfer data between the two systems!
Great systems, always wanted one myself, but they were, as the article says, way too expensive for home use.
On the other hand, I despise anyone that makes people work on Sundays.
Don't impose your view on the rest of us, please.
Few companies make people work on Sundays, but many get more volunteers than they need.
When UK supermarkets started Sunday opening they asked for volunteers among their staff, to be paid at a higher salary, and were taken aback by getting more offers than they needed. Turned out that there are a lot of people who live alone, but who are by no means lonely. They have many friends, but at weekends those friends are often with their families and children, on the other hand they may have free time during the week when their kids are in school, and their partner is at work.
The Sunday volunteers saw it as a win-win, they were out of the house getting paid more on what would otherwise have been a boring Sunday, and then they got a day off during the week when they could meet up with their friends. For an increasing number of poeple Sunday is just another day of the week, and it's useful to be able to organize one's 5 day work week as one wants.
Thanks for the info, interesting reading, but I'l take issue with two small things:
System A not only had 65 per cent of the vertical resolution of later standards, but it couldn’t do colour.
System A did colour just fine, the BBC experimented with 405-line NTSC before finally settling on 625-line PAL and System I. They only broadcast System A colour experimentally, but it was more a case of "didn't" than "couldn't".
So did transmitting colour data for effectively half the number of lines, though that was the result of PALs alternation of the colour signal’s phase to help correct phase errors by cancelling them out.
Not quite, that is how SECAM works, it alternates the Y-R and Y-B line by line at transmission, transmitting at helf-resolution.
PAL transmits both on each line, simultaneously modulated onto the colour subcarrier, with full vertical resolution, just as NTSC does. Because the resulting phase modulation of the carrier is subject to distortion over the signal path, which in NTSC gives the classic red grass/green faces problem, PAL reverses the phase on each line. If there is, say, 10% distortion it ends up in the receiver as +10% on one line, -10% on the other, and up to about 20% that cancels out visually in the viewer's brain.
To get better cancellation, later PAL receivers used a delay line to save up one line's signal and electrically average it with the next one. That is what gives the half-resolution colour reduction, but it's done at the receiver, not in the transmitted signal. SInce the eye is much less sensitive to colour resolution than brightness resolution this goes unnoticed anyway.
Since we seem to have a lot of number-loving commentards (numeritards?) today, you may want to watch Prof. Hans Rosing on BBC 2 this evening. His take on statistics of any sort is guaranteed to be hugely entertaining:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/bbc-two-hans-rosling.html
In the Newquay case it's more likely to be fear of another drunk teenager falling off a cliff, after which the ambulance-chasing no-win-no-fee lawtards will be advising the parents, and everyone else who saw it, to sue the council for compensation on the grounds that "it happened before and they've not done anything."
If the judges had the spine to tell these parasitic legal scum where to put their legal qualifications the whole country would be better off.
It's clear you don't know how voice conmuting works.
I do, actually, I've worked with SS7 software stacks.
You get a record with the cli, and it is mostly the same you get in your phone.
No, at the switch level you you get one or more ISUP packets containing the calling party number, or numbers if it has been forwarded. Those packets will have a parameter set to indicate whether the number can be presented to the called party as "CLI". If the bit isn't set the number won't be presented, but the receiving telco will still have the packet(s), and will still know the number(s), so it has an advantage over customer-premises call blocking equipment. There is no need to do any "tracing back", the data is provided for you in the signalling channel.
For external calls, you just know the call type and the trunk: the rest can be forged
Yes, it can be forged, but so what? If 200 people all report nuisance calls, and they all have calling number "999999999", you block all future calls with that number. You don't need to identify a real caller, just use the number as supplied. If the number purports to be from, say, London and it comes in on the international trunk, you can also choose to drop it as an obvious forgery. You don't need to identify a real caller, just make a decision based on the number as supplied.
A telco (like Talk Talk) shouldn't have to rely on the presented number that is used for CLI, they will be able to see the real calling number, and so should be able to do blocking on a much more accurate basis.
It would also be nice if there was some callback number that I could ring after getting a nuisance call to have that call's real number flagged, even if I don't get to see what the number is. If enough people flag any given number it could be invesitigated.
Sounds like both Khosla and the "Friends of Martin's Beach" had the money to pay good lawyers, and the Judge didn't really have any choice but to uphold the law as written. Just because it hinges on a 150-year-old treaty, or that one of the parties is a billionaire, doesn't make the law any less valid.
A lot of the complainers here seem to be working on the basis that just because Khosla's rich, he shouldn't be able to benefit from the law. Hardly seems fair, and it's not like that stretch of Highway 1 is short of beaches.
We were integrating some code from a third party once, and one of the developers found code which alloc'ed memory, and if it failed executed:
printf("Fuck me! No memory left\n");
exit (1);
He sent mail to the team asking "Should we change this?", to which our manager immediately replied "Of course, it isn't internationalized".
Ah, for the fun days programing for a young company with money :(
Recycling is less of a concern since it doesn't have to remain in usable condition after it's opened. Split it down the middle with a hammer & bolster chisel and you'd have access for recycling, although it wouldn't be advisable as a repair technique...
Not an excuse for the crappy construction, of course, just an observation.
I agree, but even if she knew it was being filmed, unless she signed a waiver to allow him to publish it, then it is simply wrong.
No argument from me, and the courts did agree. The debate is around how much the damages paid to her should take into account "modern youth"'s tendency towards openness/exhibitionism (selfies etc.), especially in a society like Sweden where people seem much less hung up about sex in general.
One significant detail that the story doesn't give is whether the girl agreed to be filmed, or if the filming was secret. If she agreed to the film being made, but assumed that it would remain private, then I'm inclined to agree with the court's position. If it was a hidden camera then it would be a lot more serious, the boyfriend should be looking at jail time.
No need for backups, 3 copies on a global cluster is all you need.
Really? And when a minor glitch in an application accidentally deletes last months sales figures, obediently performed on all three copies by your cluster, where are you then?
RAID != backup. Get it tattooed somewhere obvious.
