Unlike most British series, which have few episodes and a single writer, each episode of the Doctor Who has a different writer, with Moffat writing key episodes and overseeing the story lines. This can lead to very different tones, from humorous to chilling. “Gareth Roberts, one of my fellow writers on Doctor Who, had a theory that you write the Doctor Who you remember.” Moffat explains. “He tended to remember the funny ones, so he writes funny Doctor Who, and I remember just being terrified over it, so I tend to write the scary Doctor Who. Neither memory is more accurate, it’s all kind of nonsense, but I do like the sort of weird sense of transgression of it being slightly wrong to have a television show whose mission statement is to petrify kids. Try pitching that and getting it made today!

10. ACTA is an anti-counterfeiting trade agreement.
    ACTA is about enforcement of various forms of intellectual property rights. It is not about trade.

Our biggest trading partner, the United States will not consider itself bound by ACTA. It is therefore not even an “agreement” for our most important partner.

Due to its secrecy, its undermining of agreed international forums and its exclusive and secretive nature, it has reduced the likelihood of agreement with the countries that the EU most needs to. It has alienated the countries that the EU would most like to agree with on enforcement mechanisms. It has therefore moved us further away from agreement with the countries that are most problematic regarding counterfeiting from an EU perspective.

Appelbaum: Am besten verzichten sie darauf, ein Mobiltelefon mit sich herumzutragen – insbesondere ein Smartphone. Denn die Gesetzgebung hat noch nicht mit der Tatsache Schritt gehalten, dass wir Peilsender kaufen, mit denen wir auch telefonieren können.

ZEIT ONLINE: Sollte man also statt Smartphones nur alte Handys ohne GPS-Modul nehmen?

Appelbaum: Ich denke, die Antwort ist: Benutzt am besten gar keine Mobiltelefone. ... Aber ich gebe Ihnen noch ein anderes Beispiel: Benennen Sie einfach mal Facebook um in Stasibook. Wie gut fühlen Sie sich jetzt, wenn Sie dort Auskunft über die Aktivitäten Ihrer Freunde geben? Es ist furchteinflößend, wenn man sich vorstellt, dass wir uns alle gegenseitig überwachen. Wir haben den Stasistaat privatisiert und demokratisiert. Wir sollten grundsätzlich nicht in einer Prestigekonsum-Gesellschaft leben, in der es immer darum geht, irgendwelche Belohnungen dafür zu kriegen, Menschen auf Fotos zu markieren.

Developers are also the only group where they are asked to do something which has never been done before, and tell someone else how long it will take before they even know what actually needs to be done.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that in conjunction with Safer Internet Day, (#SID2012) it will release free Internet safety training tools for students and have thousands of volunteers working to help raise awareness and educate students and businesses on Internet safety and digital responsibility.

IBM is unveiling three free volunteer kits to better educate students, parents and teachers on Internet safety

The junior officer, who has not been named, was monitoring an area hit by a series of burglaries in an unnamed market town in the country’s south.

As the probationary officer from Sussex Police searched for suspects, the camera operator radioed that he had seen someone “acting suspiciously” in the area.

But he failed to realise that it was actually the plain-clothed officer he was watching on the screen, according to details leaked to an industry magazine.

If you’re unhappy about the state of Metro applications, think about the poor Windows programmers. You’ve spent years learning .NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and now they have to learn WinRT and Jupiter/XAML.

Even developers who like WinRT give it “compliments” like “It’s a great time to get involved with WinRT, as the platform is still in its infancy, and will need a lot of developer support to build even more robust tools.” Really? That comment was made in January 2012, and the development tools are still in diapers!?

Last, but not least, Windows developers will need rewrite their Metro apps for the more traditional Windows-style desktop. Oh, and they’ll also need to build them for both x86 and ARM platforms....

Heck, Brandon Watson, head of developer experiences for Windows Phone, just left Microsoft for Amazon’s Android-based Kindle team Think he might know something?

The /bgscratch file system is the only disk space where BG/P jobs are allowed to write data. It is therefore suitable for jobs output data and dump files (checkpoints). The scratch file system is rather fast. The compute nodes could read and write data at a throughput of up to 10 GB/s.

User’s scratch directories are accessible from all Blue Gene/P nodes and front-end hosts through the same absolute path:

/bgscratch/$USER

The scratch file system has about 700 TB of storage space, shared among all users. Quotas aren’t activated.

You need to make sure that you do nothing that creates an incentive for the domain name reseller to remove your site.

it is important to avoid doing anything which would risk unilateral measures being taken by the registrar.

The search engine that provides traffic to your website could remove your site from search results, based on the law of the country where it is based.

The debate over enforcement of the GPL took an interesting turn this week, after one developer's call for more projects to begin enforcement proceedings against alleged GPL violators of the Linux kernel.

Red Hat kernel developer Matthew Garrett, who has long railed against downstream Android vendors who are very likely violating the GNU Public License, has turned the spotlight on a recent move by Sony's eLinux team to begin work on a replacement for BusyBox, which Garrett alleges is purely a move to sidestep the GPL'ed BusyBox project and enable embedded vendors like Sony to gain BusyBox functionality without the need to comply with the GPL.

Now that the SOPA and PIPA fights have died down, and Hollywood prepares their next salvo against internet freedom with ACTA and PCIP, it’s worth pausing to consider how the war on piracy could actually be won.

It can’t, is the short answer, and one these companies do not want to hear as they put their fingers in their ears and start yelling. As technology continues to evolve, the battle between pirates and copyright holders is going to escalate, and pirates are always, always going to be one step ahead. To be clear, this is in no way meant to be a “pro-piracy” piece, it is merely attempting to show the inescapable realities of piracy that media companies refuse to acknowledge.

Hadoop brings the ability to cheaply process large amounts of data, regardless of its structure. By large, we mean from 10-100 gigabytes and above. How is this different from what went before?

The Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) is a web-based administration tool for Samba, enabling GUI configuration from any computer with a web browser. SWAT is a server in its own right, and like all servers, it requires at least minimal configuration. In this article, learn how to install and configure SWAT itself and how to use SWAT to manage Samba.

JavaScript code that runs on one browser does not necessarily mean it will work on others. Without unit testing this code, organizations pay money for testing and re-testing web applications when deciding to upgrade or support new browsers. In this article, learn how efficient unit testing of your JavaScript can reduce testing costs and make it easier for you to support more browsers.

Security isn't an exact science, so the more difficulties you can put in a hacker's way, the better. This article considers how to enhance Secure Shell (SSH) access by eliminating passwords and using public/private key pairs instead. The article also explores how to recognize and block possible attacks, including brute-force and dictionary attacks, by denying server access to origins that are identified as unsafe.

ImageMagick is a suite of open source tools for creating, editing, and converting bitmap images. The advanced developer can leverage its many capabilities to produce quality, professional bitmap images, and other artwork for display on websites, in marketing brochures, and anywhere the artistic mood may strike. Licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, ImageMagick can be freely used, copied, modified, and distributed in both open and proprietary applications.

Der für den pazifischen Raum vorgesehene Klon des auf die EU gerichteten "Anti-Piraterie"-Abkommens sieht ein Mitspracherecht von Konzernen bei nationalen Gesetzen vor. Juristen orten einen "Krieg gegen die digitale Welt".

Die wahrscheinlich beste Beschreibung der Reaktion des Handelskommissars Karel de Gucht auf die Massenproteste gegen ACTA sei eine "Mixtur aus Irritation and Arroganz", schreibt der auf EU-Recht spezialisierte finnische Anwalt und Rechtsblogger Ralf Grahn.

De Gucht hatte auf die zunehmend wütende Kritik von Netzaktivisten am "Anti-Piraterie"-Abkommen ACTA reagiert - indem er ihnen nicht antwortete. De Gucht schrieb vielmehr an den Ausschuss für internationalen Handel des EU Parlaments und zieh Organisationen wie La Quadrature du Net der Verbreitung von Falschinformationen.

Taskwarrior is a command-line todo list manager.

It maintains a list of tasks that you want to do, allowing you to add/remove, and otherwise manipulate them. Task has a rich list of subcommands that allow you to do sophisticated things with it. You'll find it has customizable reports, charts, GTD features, Lua extensions, device synching and more.

Der Digitale Gesellschaft e.V. stellt der Studie „Vergleich von Modellen zur Versendung von Warnhinweisen durch Internet-Zugangsanbieter an Nutzer bei Urheberrechtsverletzungen“ des Bundeswirtschaftsministeriums einen Schattenbericht zur Seite. Darin wird deutlich, dass repressive Maßnahmen, wie sie in anderen Ländern durchgeführt werden, gefährlich und unverhältnismäßig sind sowie am eigentlichen Problem vorbei gehen.

I signed ACTA out of civic carelessness, because I did not pay enough attention. Quite simply, I did not clearly connect the agreement I had been instructed to sign with the agreement that, according to my own civic conviction, limits and withholds the freedom of engagement on the largest and most significant network in human history, and thus limits particularly the future of our children.