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The problem with your suggestion is the phrase "third party with a narrow focus".

There are dozens of OpenID providers. The majority, and certainly all the major ones, offer it as part of another service, i.e. Google, Yahoo!, etc.

So to authenticate with some-guys-website.com you want me to then register an account with a third party, because that's better than having a different password for this site?

The likes of Google, Yahoo, etc already have way too much information about what people do, you seriously want to force people to give them more?

I freely admit that there is a problem with the current system, but the solution is not dumping the concept completely and just trusting the likes of Google for authentication everywhere.

It's perfectly possible to have very strong password hashes (e.g. bcrypt/blowfish, scrypt, PBKDF2) but when you have idiot developers, you get bad results.
What about all the prison rape scenes in movies?? Will this make them illegal? Or as they are same sex, they don't count? Would be interesting to see if they classify them as perversion or something similar instead of rape. With this current government, it would not surprise me if they say that a same sex rape victim is asking for it or something...
Thanks all for your well-reasoned praise of this ISP outfit. I knew they were good, but very expensive - when I last looked, my current usage would have cost me north of £50 a month. Home:1 appears to be £25 (with the option to double your cap for a heavy month for a tenner), which is comparable to my current monthly bill.

I currently pay about £20 a month to Eclipse, who are very good indeed - except for the fact that IPv6 is perpetually currently being tested and coming soon. I live in a rural area, no fibre, so I wanted the best normal ADSL connection I could get for a reasonable amount. I'm likely to be moving again in the next six months (job "changes" apparently looming) so I'll re-consider A&A when I do.

I miss South Yorkshire's Digital Region. Origin Broadband was uncapped, unthrottled, unfiltered 40Mbps fibre for £22.50 a month...
>Heh, I'm massively pro Royal

It's 2013. Why would you be that?

You like paying money for some blood-line family to sit and have the good life?
it depends on the cipher and your software, I had tremendous trouble with some free php forum stuff recently when it curled things with PFS.
Sure, just start with searches for "how to get out of jury duty"
What you're missing is the fact that having a mortgage implies having an asset (a house) worth something more than the mortgage principal. The government does spend on investment, but the vast majority of the budget in sunk into running costs. Then, the more appropriate comparison would be a £25k earner with £57k in credit card debts, which is obviously a lot more scary - but again not completely comparable as the guy would be paying 20-30% interest while the government pays close to 0%, mostly because they have the power to raise their income on demand if they need to in order to service their debts.
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In this new model of app upgrades, where they offer new versions of the app as a separate download, you pretty much have to buy all of the features again. This is not unlike buying hardware -- and I think this new model is bringing software more in line with hardware.

Suppose I bought a lawnmower from Honda in 2000. After 13 years, I move to a home with a bigger yard, and I decide that I'd like a bigger mower. Should I reasonably expect to get a discount from Honda on my next mower just because I bought one of their products before?
My kindle contains The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett), so now I can't travel to uk without violating the law?

Quoting from wikipedia: "The book was listed at no. 33 on the BBC's Big Read" (2003)

Everybody is a suspect, when will we start to learn from history?
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I guess Pulp Fiction will be banned too.
Plus they're big on removing child pornography so we can also say good bye to Lolita as well.
I like that he covers his ass by saying "terrorists and other groups" have been changing their habits. "Other groups" probably means stuff like Occupy, animal welfare activists, other sorts of scary 'fringe' groups, and probably rank-and-file citizens too, but it's a useful way to bulk up his claim a little more.
Simulated? He drugs then rapes two underage girls.
More or less...

The Queen still has extensive powers, that she does not use.

For example, all laws must be signed by the Queen, but the last time someone refused to sign a law was around the 1700s, but if she wants, she can still refuse to sign a law.

Also, the Queen can refuse a parliament election (resulting into having no parliament)

Also, she can sell whatever she wants that belongs to the state in a unilateral manner (but I do not know the last time a monarch used this power O.o)

Also she can kick out the prime minister (this power seemly was threatened to be used on Tony Blair when he got excessively trigger happy regarding US wars... seemly threats to use it, made him tone down a bit his hunger for blood).
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Not OP, but the typical justification is to have a human being overseeing the highest form of power (the monarch can dissolve the parliament) and that they cannot be as corrupted as an elected or appointed person.
If it's as good as the "standard car's internal combustion engine" then it's mighty near great.

Seing that the other alternatives to "standard car's internal combustion engine" are either off the market or marginal/niche.

People complained in this post that it wasn't good. As in: crap compared to the standard.

For the analogy with cars to hold, it would have to be like a seriously brain damaged internal combustion engine -- not like the "standard car's" one.
No specific link. My primary interest in the topic is very applied; primarily in bidirectional data binding expressions mapping data and business objects to UI controls, possibly over a transport.

A lens is just a pair of (setter, getter). It's a first-class reference that you can pass around, much like you'd pass around a pointer to a location; except you can transform it. If you use bijective functions to do the transformation, you can wrap both the getter and setter, one with the function and the other with its inverse. These lenses are a little like pipes, wormholes or ducts that are attached at one end to your model / data layer / business layer / wherever.

I simply plugged them into the UI, and added some extra control information for reactive UI updates at the web application server request / response boundary. The upshot was that the user could poke at the UI, a request would be sent down effectively addressing that particular lens endpoint, business logic as necessary would run, and then the minimal UI update would come back in the response - only lenses whose values had changed would be sent back. The business logic never had to specifically tell the UI which bits needed to be refreshed; the bits that needed to be sent were inferred automatically.

I wrote a data-binding language specifically to implement this scheme. It was called Gravity, in part because it accreted more and more responsibility in the system :)
But there has never been the capability to capture, store, index and query every piece of audio and text communication, for all persons, forever. Comparing historical spies to the modern surveillance state is like comparing the musket to the A-bomb.
and goodbye, Irréversible, Stockholm International Film Festival's winner for best film.
I would love to go with them! But sadly I live in a rural area that barely gets 3mbps from the major companies so I doubt an independent would be able to get even that :-(
Simulated in the sense that it's a fictional work, not a documentary.
Access to a computer is more a geographical / social (=community) problem, then a gender or racial problem.

If i'm not mistaking, you have social programs to get people cheap internet access / computers (we have in our country (belgium)).

But i don't know how it really is, but according to my experience, girls just don't code (much), it's the same generalisation as girls don't game (except games like 'The Sims').

And if they have any interest, it's more in design, then coding.
Of my Informatics class (4 girls of 20 guys), none of them actually ended up programming...

I'm curious about the results of your program, pre and after about how much girls are really coding and are getting interested in it (and doing it after hours, for example).

None the less, it's a great initiative and i hope you have a success :)

If i generalise 2 jobs by gender:

- coding = guys

- nursing / children care = girls

Like the first response: Girls Code, would be a better initiative, in my subjective personal opinion.

PS. Fighting against racism, is mixing a lot of races together. Not splitting them up in a class with just one race... You're actually giving a bad example by not mixing races, other races can also live in poverty, you know ;-)

Nothing is stopping you from actively recruiting "black" girls, but with this title, you're excluding a lot of other girls who could benefit from this program, but aren't black. They won't even try to join if they see your programs title and might feel offended. All your pupils will be influenced to hang out with only other black people :-)
Netflix x 4 (we're 4 at home), soundcloud, 1080p youtube, gaming, dropbox, backing up a couple of pc's to the cloud...

I don't like third parties to assume what a normal bandwidth usage is for me. I like my internet uncapped and unthrottled.
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If you're just looking to manage your personal environment, probably Vagrant + Chef. If we're talking about for a team or organization, a former co-worker of mine wrote a nifty tool called Boxen [http://boxen.github.com] that's definitely worth checking out.
"Monarchy is indeed a government which requires a high degree of civilization for its full development ... An educated nation recoils from the imperfect vicariate of what is called a representative government." -- Benjamin Disraeli

The British system of government is far less costly than that of the US.
wouldn't that logic mean that both the koran and the bible are banned too?
Yeah, I've run into this as well. I would say avoid doing this if you can and use an AJAX call from inside the javascript to pull the data in that you need. Sometimes this isn't feasible/ideal though (especially if the data is slow to get/calculate and is already used on the html page...). If you can cache the results of the calculation on the server-side, that would mitigate the performance implications a bit and then you just have the overhead of the request itself.
>the typical justification is to have a human being overseeing the highest form of power

Em, you can have an elected President (like France IIRC). No reason to have some arbitrary blood-line human.

>and that they cannot be as corrupted as an elected or appointed person

If history is anything to go by, they can be even more corrupt and corrupted.

Nero was a monarch.
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Scene opens in PM David Cameron's 10 Downing St. office.

PM: Shall we have tea first, or shall we look at the list? Have you fetched me the list?

Aide: What list?

PM: You know, the list. The list of people that was created when we made pornography filtering opt-out instead of opt-in, and those who opted in to pornography automatically registered themselves in our database in the act of doing so.

Aide: Oh, yes, sir, I have it right, here. It's this volume right here. It is, ahem, quite long.

PM: How long?

Aide: Quite.

PM: (more sternly) How long?

Aide: It is several thousand pages, sir.

PM: Ah. Ok. How very disappointing. Have you scanned the list?

Aide: I have.

PM: And who, might I ask, is it comprised of? Degenerates, criminals, ne'er-do-wells, perverts, thugs, know-nothings, liberals?

Aide: Sir, well...sir....

PM: Spit it out.

Aide: It seems everyone is on the list, sir.

PM: Everyone?

Aide: Yes. Everyone.

PM: Do you mean everyone in Liverpool?

Aide: I'm afraid I mean everyone in the UK, sir.

PM: That's 60 million people.

Aide: Indeed.

PM: That's nonsense. The Britons are more decent than that! Next you'll be telling me that the Queen herself is on the list!

Aide looks down at his feet.

Aide: Um.

PM: Oh for God's sake, sir. Don't tell me that the Queen is on the list!

Aide: I'm afraid she is.

PM: Wait. So you're telling me that, when I turned pornography filtering on by default nation-wide, that every single natural born citizen of the UK, including the Queen, chose to get to their computers, logged into the filtering system, and opted in to pornography?

Aide: That's what it seems like, sir. Er, well...there is one who is not on the list. UK tennis player and Wimbledon champion Andy Murray is not on the list. He is as pure as new-fallen snow.

PM: National treasure, that chap.

Aide. Indeed. But everyone else is on the list.

PM: Ballocks. Ah well, I tried. It was for the children, you see. Now if you'll excuse me I have some porn I mean, er, ahem, important reading I have to get to, privately.
I'm gently sympathetic to the "let's help children avoid accidentally stumbling across hard core pornography". I don't think this is the right way to do it, and I don't think it's nearly as much of a problem as it used to be, although the various porn-video sites don't seem to require any age verification at all.

Google and DDG and others seem to be working hard to reduce the amount of pornographic content shown to people doing searches. (A Google image search for [vintage beef] largely returns the YouTuber and Minecraft player, and not vintage naked men. Even without filtering explicit results it's just a few naked men, and nothing "horrible".)

Email is a lot better than it used to be, I think. It would have been nice if the UK had implemented a real anti-spam law when we had the chance. Existing law means it's only illegal to show porn to people under 18 if you do so for the purpose of sexual gratification. (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/12)
kink.com does this in all of their videos (at the beginning of each scene discuss what is going to happen and then at the end discuss how they though it went). This is a lot better than most "vanilla" porn.
But we must protect people from being offended!
Good question. SMS are transmitted over the NAS layer of the 3GPP stack, which terminates beyond the cell (NB/eNB). There is NAS level security but I don't know if it's end-to-end or only over the air link. Hopefully it's the former but one should dig the specs at 3gpp.org to confirm.
Nor does the UK they are a profit generator not a cost centre.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just SEO the fuck out of that (and provide something like DMV.org), rather than ads and retargeting?
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A&A uses lines from BT Openreach and TalkTalk Wholesale. They're great at getting the most from a line - if you're getting 3mbps from a major, you're likely to get as good or better with A&A.
For brits, a petition!

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/51746
Looking for most of Whitehall to roll with heads?
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So now the UK is turning into saudi arabia ? or is it iran ?

Anyone who is choked when they hear about alcohol or porn banned in these countries and is not choked by this move from the UK government has a serious mental problem.
The Brazilian O Globo newspaper site could use an option like this on the Pope's visit.
Ah, okay, thanks. That eases my mind a bit!
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I liked how he said 'No one can listen to all the phone calls and read all the emails, the volume is simply too much!' neatly side stepping the fact that a computer is not a person.
I think the Queen is far too popular for a republic referendum to happen in her lifetime. Granted Charles would certainly help the cause, but I think that if the throne passes to William then his beautiful family will probably fill the gossip pages (and hence the minds of the masses) for generations to come.

On balance, the monarchy does actually provide the UK with an unquanitifiable mystique that you don't really appreciate until you've lived abroad for a while (I've been away since 1998 and I'm just beginning to appreciate the seductive power available to top UK businesses through Royal connections).

I think that if you are a visiting dignitary / trade envoy to the UK and your host swings you an invite from "The Queen of England" to Buckingham Palace for dinner, you've been beaten.

So, despite the seeming overt display of opulence at tax payers expense, they probably do pay their way.
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What's next, Empire reborn?

Seriously, a pubic morals campaign under the banner of "think of the children" looks antiquated in the 21st century.

And if anything it will make abuse harder to identify and track down - instead of sharing online it will be shady deals out of the boot of a car. The NSA can't intercept that (or can they??).

Only in Great Britain. A stuffy, red faced PM whipping up a righteous moral panic because images of this awfully taboo and horrendous thing called human sexuality are freely available to all.

Is this the beginning of a return to the Victorian era, with it's forceful sexual repression and the insidious forms of abuse that came with it?

Sad. Not the actions of an enlightened, open society.
I know multiple devs on PS3 were using the SPUs to rasterize low resolution depth buffers, so that they could then do occlusion culling without hitting the GPU at all. I expect we'll see similar approaches using GPU compute in the future, assuming people can get the latency down low enough so that it still beats native GPU occlusion queries.
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>We know what frameworks and other tools they use.

We only know about SOME of them (e.g WebObjects).

>Those suck (which is a personal evaluation, sure, but the marketplace has pretty much validated my opinion on this).

In the same way that the marketplace has validated DOS and then Windows over UNIX? Javascript over LISP? VHS over Betamax?

Actually, WebObjects was one of the finest web frameworks (including in it's Java incarnation). Sure, there are newer things now, but nothing extremely better. Not to mention even giants like Facebook and Yahoo use PHP for christ's sake. It was also one of the most popular in its range, when it was available. It just didn't make sense for Apple to participate in that market.

>The performance/feature characteristics visible to the end user also suck.

Compared to what? In the same scale? Never hard any real issue with ITMs (at least none that I didn't have with online services 1/10 it's size).
As I recall it Lolita is discreet with the intercourse depictions; it's never "graphic" as I gather is 50 Shades.
It is worth mentioning that the ban on images of rape is to bring the rest of the UK in line with an existing Scottish law.

Therefore anyone who sees this as a right-wing thing is clearly wrong as (people are frequently fond of saying) there are actually more Pandas in Scotland than Tory MPs. The Scottish Parliament is currently dominated by a left-wing nationalist party that wants to remove Scotland from the UK.
ummm, maybe because they are the ones that EARNED the money, so they have a right to say where it goes?
If we're going with cars, it's more like say, 1960s British cars. Amazing industrial design, good engines and overall performance, etc., but crap electrical systems compared to other companies of the time -- yet people bought them because the overall package was still good, often largely due to how amazing the E-Type looked. Saying "the Jaguar electrical system sucks; for a company who makes such amazing products it's an embarrassment" was perfectly true, even if you still buy a Jaguar (along with lots of other people).

(although I think it was mainly other British marques who had horrible electrical systems at the time, and was more a 1950s thing)
Well, here's a link [0] to a recent report by the Children's commissioner for England which found:

- Access and exposure to pornography affect children and young people’s sexual beliefs

- Access and exposure to pornography are linked to children and young people’s engagement in “risky behaviours”

- Exposure to sexualised and violent imagery led to violent attitudes

[0]: http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/content/publications...
The 'caps bits' problem is really the core of it. OpenGL in that era was a nightmare for anything resembling game rendering. The OpenGL we have now is pretty reasonable, but back then, Direct3D was a breath of fresh air and DirectDraw was a much saner way to push pixels around efficiently as well. It was hard for me to ever understand why people preferred OpenGL at the time (other than the obvious benefit of theoretical portability). Vendor-specific shader bytecode, UGH.
It won't harm the phone, but it won't work either. You can find generic SIM card that you can program yourself, but that's not what is used in a phone. Your phone will only work with a SIM card embedding specific applications called SIM for 2G (that's where the name comes from as you see, the physical thingy is named UICC) or USIM for 3G/LTE. And this application embeds security components that will authenticate the card to the operator, either as a direct customer or as a customer of another telco which is a roaming partner. If this authentication fails, you'll have no access. If there's no valid SIM or USIM application your phone modem won't do anything with the card.
I remember reading some references about GPU voxel engines and raymarching in the demoscene, not sure about real games.
For their computer sales only?

I don't think so. How many people buy computers off of Amazon?

But even if so, that's a negligible pedantic correction. It's still in the top two.
I'm sure he was told that if he ended the programs it would cost lives, but it's not like we had lot of terrorist deaths before the government threw out the 4th amendment without telling anyone. There were attacks before and after, there will be more in the future as well. Most terrorist attacks get stopped because they actually aren't very sophisticated (see the shoe or underwear bombers), not because the NSA has everyone's email.
:s/It was for the children/It was for the Daily Mail/g
>they really ought to be able to predict who would click that link and default the page to the correct setting

That would deny republicans the satisfaction of clicking on the button as they shout "FUCK YOUUUU QUEEN!" inside their heads.

Like almost everything to do with the british state, this is 90% ceremony, which ultimately serves to prevent us cutting down the royals in the street like dogs in the manner of the continentals.
The Sopranos come to mind.
Fascinating article, especially all the political reasons as to why Microsoft introduced Direct3D in the first place.

"Direct3D was not an alternative to OpenGL [...] it was a designed to create a competitive market for 3D hardware"—and how it ultimately failed, with Direct3D becoming like OpenGL, more confusing, and paving way for the alluring simplicity of developing for a single hardware specimen—the Xbox.
Unlikely. Anti-pornography laws generally only apply to imagery whose purpose is to be titillating [1]. There's just too much content of a sexual nature that is perfectly legitimate (arts, sciences, and journalism in particular).

[1] See, e.g., the Scottish law after which the legislation is supposed to be modeled: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/03/extremeporno...
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