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by omh 15y ago
IBM is in the process of removing the Lotus brand from everything. This 'Greenhouse' is a test bed for the "Lotus" community and hasn't gone through the rebranding yet. I'm sure that when they release this properly it won't have the dreaded
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by omh 15y ago
I suspect the GP was referring to FTP over SSL, which is an ugly abomination with few redeeming features.
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by omh 15y ago
Sensitive data? Over an unsecured protocol?
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by omh 15y ago
FTP is definitely outdated, and there are better uses in many circumstances. But I find some of these criticisms a bit odd. The client listening was largely solved by 'passive' mode, and just about every server and client supports this now.
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by omh 15y ago
I would modify that to include one offline backup. If it's connected to other systems in an automated way then there's usually a way that it can be accidentally overwritten. Often there could be an event which cascades through all of your
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by omh 15y ago
There are certainly people willing & able to teach programming, but most of them are not currently teachers, and many IT teachers would probably struggle to teach programming effectively. The article suggests that they want to make this
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by omh 15y ago
I'd never heard it in quite those terms before, but that echoes the way that my generation might consider e-mail to be for talking to friends and physical letters to be "formal".
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by omh 15y ago
But could anyone seriously claim that children are leaving school and not able to use computers? I'd guess that the average teenager would be more capable with e-mail and office applications than students of 5 or 10 years ago. Even if they
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by omh 15y ago
The main part of the correlate site lets you do this: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/
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Statistics of failures in solving crosswords(significancemagazine.org)
1 points by omh 15y ago|0 comments
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by omh 15y ago
The aim is for monitoring traffic from within Iran. The government almost certainly controls all internet traffic entering or leaving the country at the ISPs, and could intercept and/or redirect it as necessary.
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by omh 15y ago
Windows is loading the real "hosts" file. This is hidden, and there's a non-hidden "h_sts" file there as well. It seems like it would only work for hiding from people casually checking. Personally I'd open the file by typing the path myself
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by omh 15y ago
They certainly violated the spirit, but may not have violated any actual rules. I could imagine that there's some exclusion in the safe harbor rules for "national security". It's not clear whether the Data Protection laws were ever designed
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by omh 15y ago
The article doesn't mention the "Safe Harbor" provisions. This is a negotiated exception to EU Data Protection - roughly speaking, US companies can export the data to the US, as long as they promise to give equivalent protection. Google use
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by omh 15y ago
If Google US has no control over Google EU then a number of issues could arise. Does Google EU have access to Google US data? What about the code that runs everything? What about profits - why would Google EU send profits back to Google US?
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by omh 15y ago
Under some interpretations of the laws, Google would need to ensure that nobody under US jurisdiction has any access to the data. A full "split" would be difficult, and seemingly break a lot of the large-scale load-balancing and redundancy
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by omh 15y ago
If the printer itself is significantly cheaper overall and the toner is cheaper then many companies would see it as the more sensible option. And you can always use financing options to spread any up-front cost out, which would probably wor
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by omh 15y ago
"Black Hat" refers to the security conference, currently happening in Vegas.
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by omh 15y ago
I'm not so sure of that. A quick search put the figure at just 3.4% of GDP [1]. Even if a lot of sales do happen online, many of them could shift back to phone calls relatively easily. Obviously there would be a significant impact, but I th
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by omh 15y ago
Why?
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by omh 15y ago
Is that an advert in your captcha? Seriously?
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by omh 15y ago
Seems to be common in two-party democracies anyway The UK has three parties, in fact we have a coalition government (albeit perhaps only technically)
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by omh 15y ago
Our government pretended to listen to us while it decided with business, behind closed doors, what law to pass. Then it ignored what the public said. Then it passed the bill at the very last minute, without any real debate, and without even
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Public consultation on UK's Digital Economy Act was a sham(torrentfreak.com)
32 points by omh 15y ago|27 comments
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by omh 15y ago
Actually the judge says: Finally, I agree with counsel for the Studios that the order would be justified even if it only prevented access to Newzbin2 by a minority of users. Though he probably doesn't realise quite
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by omh 15y ago
If you happen to be in UK, I'd recommend trying an ISP like bethere While Be are a much better ISP, they do implement the IWF watchlist and so are technically capable of complying with a similar order, should one come along. If you really
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by omh 15y ago
They now have a method and a precedent for blocking "bad" web sites. Pirate Bay will be next.
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by omh 15y ago
If you've got a Thunderbolt display as a docking station then you could just connect a DVD drive to one of its USB ports - even the "Macbook Air" SuperDrive addon, if you want to keep everything Apple-styled.
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by omh 15y ago
And this means you can add their public key as well, meaning you can control (i.e. revoke) their access easily and don't have to give them any root passwords.
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by omh 15y ago
This is difficult for the BBC - where would they draw the line about which phones should be supported? They drew similar criticism in the other direction with their iPlayer site that supported iPhone but no other manufacturer. In this case,

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