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Why? Surely this is exactly the place to come to get quality information on the subject; assuming they can get past the derision. I have some sympathy for these people. The 'jokes' here revolve around the fact that EMR is a wide spectrum, much of which is encountered normally in every day life. So we jest "oh well, better keep out of the sun then - har har har" - well, yes, there is a definite link between exposure to sunlight and melanoma, so sunlight is not 'safe'. The jokes then also confuse hard radiation from Gamma and Beta decays with EMR and while background radiation is encountered every day, there are still strong correlations between elevated radiation levels and elevated rates of cancer which strongly suggest that the there is some causal link between even background radiation and incidences of cancer. Even when we are talking about proper EMR, it is not simply the case that EMR is safe. You would not want to be a target for a modern steerable naval radar and you are probably generally grateful that the last microwave you used had shielding to keep the radiation on the inside. None of which is to say 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz signals as used in WiFi will cause harm to someone's health, but just that the situation is actually quite complex [*1]. Couple that with a nocebo effect, which will be a very real experience for people even if it appears objectively to be entirely unrelated (causally) to the presence of WiFi etc; well, for most people personal experience is the most powerful evidence there is and couple that with the truism that the easiest person for anyone to fool is themselves, it is entirely understandable that people will form a very strong belief that WiFi is harmful. Trolling and deriding them simply pushes them further into their belief. [*1] So to try and illustrate that, we have a 5Ghz transmitter situated 1 meter from your head and we will vary the output power starting from 0.001W to 1,000,000W (9 orders of magnitude). At what point would you start to feel uncomfortable with this arrangement and why?

Powershell. Same thing : export the users you need, set the passwords you want and reimport. The import code I have from last time I did similar : Import-Module ActiveDirectory $AccList=Import-CSV c:\tmp\2015\yr7.csv foreach ($acc in $accList) { Get-ADUser $($acc.UserName) | Set-ADAccountPassword -Reset -NewPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText $($acc.Password) -Force) }

I can't check this easily, I'd try : Import-Csv -Path .\UserPagers.csv | ForEach {Set-ADUser $_.sAMAccountName -pager $_.pager}

@ranj. In AD management console, make sure View|Advanced Features is checked. Now, when you bring up a user there should be a tab called "Attribute Editor" which if you scroll down will show pager and many other fields. For the task you are doing, I'd first extract info from AD using powershell's Get-AdUser into a CSV. I'd then use VLookup in excel to match with info from the system maintaining the smart card data (basically adding an extra column for the smart card ID). I'd probably handle any non matches at that point. I'd then use poswershell's Set-ADUser to reimport that data into the pager field (match on the info you extracted from AD so the match is exact). Hope that is some help.

On a quick look, IMO it is a good looking site with some nice work. That said, I hate sites which display nothing unless I allow scripts to run and generally I'll just close the tab at that point. I think it is reasonable these days for people to protect themselves from scripting and sites which demand JS before they display are therefore making unreasonable on users.

Heh. I tried that trick too - didn't really work for me either. For a couple of years I used a heat-gun intended for paint stripping, a big wooden spoon and a big dog bowl, took 15-20 mins but I could roast ~500g at a time. Very much a Garden only activity. That joy was replaced by a hot-top roaster which has been banished to outhouses, greenhouses etc. The smell of roasting coffee is not particularly pleasant.

Very nice. Now, to come over fully to the dark side (or just a light cinnamon side) how about roasting your own beans?

There are very close precedents. A&M vs Napster and particularly MGM vs Grockster. I'd bet on them being found liable if it came to trial in the USA but I'd think it even more likely they will cop a plea bargain rather than go to trial because if the lose on any of the three copyright charges which might get them 5 years, they will cop the money laundering which could get them 20.

They are facilitating and they are an accessory to large scale copyright infringement. They are obviously doing it for financial gain. In UK copyright law that should stick well enough. The fact that countries enter into reciprocal international protection agreements suggests US might well be similar. Cite? I've only seen "money laundering", which may make sense from the POV of them being an accessory to large scale copyright infringement for financial gain. Tax evasion may well be possible to prosecute locally but that can't be part of the charges the US are presenting for extradition.

We block torrent sharing sites wholesale, we block google searches for torrents. If you search on Google for "Star Trek Beyond" you will get the movie site, IMDB, reviews etc etc etc. You will not get a torrent at least in the first few pages of results. If do the same search on KAT, you will get ONLY links to illegally obtained content. There is a major difference right there.

Sure. They are just profiting from people who illegally share content they have no rights to. So presumably you don't block these sites or torrents in your school? By doing so they acknowledge that the links that form the majority of the content that they serve, are links to illegal content. I think you might have a case if it was 1% of the content was 'illegal' rather than 99% but while these sites are 99% links to illegally shared content, it is obvious that these people are simply out to make money by facilitating illegal acts. It is much the same as someone taking a commission for introducing a thief to a fence. It is also not simply a moral issue - it is very much a legal one. Courts do not issue arrest warrants for moral issues.

Because that is the thing that has raked in tens of millions in advertising revenue for the owners of these sites. Do the sites respond to take down requests from content owners? If not, what does it matter that 0.01% of the content is legal to distribute that way? If you walked past a pawnbrokers shop in the high street and stuff that had been stolen from you was in the window, would you say they were offering a legitimate service because a small fraction of their stuff was legally acquired?

No and they are generally quite long service life but exactly how long the recommended service life is will be in the manual :-). At £15 a Haynes manual is cheaper than 5 litres of good quality synthetic oil and it's a few minutes of a mechanics time. You must be destitute!

Errr.... not doing it would seem to be perfectly viable. I mean, there are actual choices to be made. I'd agree that licensing is complicated and is running behind technology and the way people want to consume content, but fundamentally the issue comes down to the right for creators to have control over how they licence their property. If you agree that you as a creator should have those rights, then on what basis can you say that other people have no alternative than to violate those rights? These things don't happen in a legal vacuum. If seizures and arrests have been made, you would think that they comply with local law. To me it seems perfectly sensible that IP rights might be reciprocally agreed between civilised states. Where those agreements are in place, rights holders should be able to act on them. Are IP rights exclusively an American thing?

I agree. You can also add that Microsoft supply a program for copying stuff, and that copying stuff might be illegal. What that misses is intent and incitement. Mostly KAT, piratebay etc deliver links to content which has been acquired illegally (is a breach of the licence that was supplied with the original). I'd assume the site owners know this, if not because 'common sense' then because copyright holders will have requested them to cease and desist (probably in large numbers). So I think there is a very good basis to establish that there is intent to facilitate and publicise illegal acts. Then there is the fact that the links themselves facilitate another 'illegal act' - the further copying of protected works. They are to some extent inciting these acts. Does it start to look a bit different to Google now?

Much the same - oil & filters, glow plugs, fluids, rubber bushings etc. Your best bet is to get the Haynes manual for the actual make and model which will have details of the recommended service items and their intervals. If you DIY your services and keep cars for more than 5 minutes, it will quickly pay for itself many times over.

Depends what you mean by "mess with the database". Ideally an n-tier architecture decouples the application presentation from the business rules and those from the underlying data structures - but that is an ideal world. I've never seen it happen in practice. There is also coupling between the database and application security that is unlikely to be entirely fit for purpose in a new technology. So any redevelopment is unlikely to be able to avoid changes to the schema and as soon as that happens, you start to run into those "legacy problems". There are some other interesting issues for them too. A good approach in terms of managing scope risks would be to freeze functional change while a transition is made to a new platform; so you have a like for like system in terms of data, validations and business logic. That way it doesn't matter what client the schools are using 7.last or 8.first - are both equivalent. But SIMS does not exist in an environment where business stays still. I'd bet ASC, CTF and 'statutory' functionality for their locales (Northern Ireland used to have it's own particular requirements) still suck up huge amounts of developer time in Cardington and Mumbai (or where ever offshore is these days). The external drivers for change are numerous, do not stop and some need to be delivered irrespective of the fact that it hampers other, more commercial plans. Another issue they will face is people, knowledge and skills. Do you transition the people with good domain knowledge over to the new development and leave legacy development to contract/offshore or do you hire people with the development skills you need and try and transition the domain knowledge. Can you even find people with the right skills and knowledge? It's all very well getting someone who is a good C#/HTML5/PHP etc coder but you then need to integrate them into a team and turn them into (say) an FMS domain expert. All of that is again, complex, time consuming and expensive. In the end, from the outside it is extremely easy to underestimate the complexity of building and maintaining something like SIMS for 20,000 customers. They have nearly 25 years of sometimes weird knowledge captured in their code. That legacy is just difficult to deal with.

They suffer from a sort of "backwards compatible legacy" on an integrated platform that makes it complex to move on even with just incremental changes to modules within the existing .net n tier architecture. If you want a competitor to compare to, you need someone who has tried to move an existing MIS lock stock and barrel to a new platform. How well have Advanced Learning done with the transition from CMIS/ePortal to Progresso and how long have they been at it? Now consider they have a fraction of the customers SIMS needs to support through that transition.

The supported way is to use their command line reporter to run a defined report and have the results spat out to a file which you can then use. A step up from that would be to buy into their 3rd party tools and support which I believe gives you access to some kind of API - not sure if that is usable directly from PHP but it is what many companies use to interface to SIMS. The totally unsupported and 'bad' way would be to access the database directly. That has the potential to cause problems with performance and potentially data security, as well as platform changes blowing any assumptions you might make out of the water every release, so I'd be very wary of going down that road!

So they expect someone to spend a few hours crafting a job application, then spend more time travelling and doing interviews/tests perhaps even have references sought from their employer and then, after all that SLT could turn round and decide they can't (or don't want to) even pay market rates. Why can't they decide that upfront? Anyone with good skills for the advertised role will have little trouble walking into a job and an advert with no salary just makes people ask - "why would I want to work for an organisation which cannot or will not supply critical information to the people that need it". Please note, I'm not trying to have a go or have a debate, I would just like to encourage employers to post salary information because not posting it potentially wastes everyone's time and at best it says to prospective employees that you are a bit ... 'muddled' as an employer (which is a put off to good quality candidates IMO). Perhaps you could feed back to them that someone would like to know the salary range?

Let me guess - no salary info on those either?!

No salary on post (I believe it is requested in the post layout rules for this forum) or in the job ad or in the further details. Might be useful info either to save people wasting their time or possibly yours.

Possible reaction to impending visit by Boris?

I thought when it comes to typefaces, you were the font of all knowledge?

It is looking really good. Get the pi to display a sad robot face between plays and say random things like "Brain the size of a planet and they turn me into a games machine" and call it Marvin. ;-)