Comment So it sounds like..... (Score 1) 194
....they installed it under the radar.
#sorrynotsorry
....they installed it under the radar.
#sorrynotsorry
Too bad the UK claims it.
And tangle with @BorderRockall and NATO Article 5 at your own peril!!
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The UK also claims legal jurisdiction over Sealand.
Not technically true. Any enquiries about Sealand are referred to the UK's Foreign And Commonwealth Office.
Sealand declared UDI before the UK extended its territorial waters from 3 to 12 nautical miles in 1987, so at the time of UDI it was in international waters.
OK so no states formally recognise it as a sovereign state, but the UK does not assert legal jurisdiction over Sealand.
Yes people really are.
I registered the domain {myfirstname}.net in 1996.
I get several hundred emails a year where people have used {myfirstname}@{myfirstname}.net to sign up to things. It's annoying, yes
Luckily I registered the domain {mylastname}.net in 1997 and now have a different mailbox that {myfirstname}@{mylastname}.net goes to. This one does not suffer in that way.
I used to try resetting passwords and cancelling accounts, but recently I've been signed up for online access to health records(!) using my address. Firstly, it would be unprofessional of me to attempt to access the actual data (since I work in Govt Security). Secondly, the "password reset" functions want a DOB and Postcode (Zip code for those on the left of the Big Pond) to perform a reset.
So I just ignore them, other than marking new ones as spam.
I think it's partly due to the invasive & nosey nature of SO many webs(h)ites - every single one seems to want your email address, so I can't really blame people for providing "throwaway" addresses. I just wish they were not my ACTUAL address.
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There are two sorts of people: those who can extrapo
32F = 0C
35F = 1.667C
20C = 68F
Oops.
> They call it "mugging" over in India (and no, not mugging as in attacking someone and stealing their cash - I have no idea how the term came to be).
> You memorize. You don't deviate. You do not think for yourself. You do not understand a concept and come up with a solution;
> you only follow the solution that's been provided.
It's from the English "mug up" (http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/mug-up), meaning to quickly learn something.
(English is difficult, but can be understood through thorough thought though
FTS,
"The moral of this story seems to be that it is a bad idea to buy a game just before a major holiday."
Um, no the moral of this story is that DRM is beyond USELESS and only punishes the honest customers. I am sure that as usual the "pirates" are playing the game just fine.
Another moral to take away is don't give your money to people that want to treat you like a thief EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE ALREADY GIVEN THEM MONEY.
There is such a huge learning curve, there is simply no way for your average young developer to get into it. Some say that it's good that only older, more experienced people are getting into it. I would argue that when today's youth are older and more experienced, they still won't be working on it.
That's because the average reflects the lowering of standards. Average CS student 15-20 years ago was expected to do Pascal/Ada, C, a full-course on assembly (and not just a few weeks), Lisp/Prolog, create multi-threaded/multi-tasked applications from scratch (and if lucky to be at a good university, create a bootloader or mini-os or an embedded app from scratch as well) by the time of graduation. Some even were lucky to learn how to create primitive calculators with hardware in their computer org classes.
Average CS student now is expected to know how to create a dynamic web site in Java or whatever without ever having to learn how all of this shit works from the moment they press the "power on" button on their computers. Mind you, I do Java for a living, so it's not like I'm a C-enamored freshman bashing Java development for the heck of it.
So to say that the learning curve is too great for the average developer is just a reflection of the averages TODAY (and an indictment of our CS education nowadays.)
"I got a question for ya. Ya got a minute?" -- two programmers passing in the hall