Isn't that the same argument about guns - guns don't kill, people do. Religion may not kill but it has given people throughout the ages a reason to kill. those who don't agree with them. I suppose it could be worse, we could have religious nuts with guns... oh yeah they're called republicans.
Not much to destroy? Only the newly fledged parliament and all the MPs. It would be like blowing up the Senate building with all the people in it. Sure there wasn't much else around but this may have completely changed the course of British history.
We have this already in London - all cars in and out of the congestion charging zone get clocked by cameras and their number plates are fed into a central computer. Women wanting to know if their husbands made it into work today - or skipped off to play golf/see the mistress can call up and check if a plate has been in the zone. It wouldn't take too much effort to extend this out and use other vehicle characteristics rather than just number plates to track vehicles continuously.
We do Budweiser's UK web site and for legal reasons their lawyers tried to force us to do this by using IIS built in reverse DNS feature. Problem was the M$ reverse DNS blocked entry to those who's IP didn't resolve. We ended up blocking more people than we let in. Case of the lawyers wagging the tail of the tech dog.
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Isn't that the same argument about guns - guns don't kill, people do. Religion may not kill but it has given people throughout the ages a reason to kill. those who don't agree with them. I suppose it could be worse, we could have religious nuts with guns... oh yeah they're called republicans.
Why don't they include the hooks to let winamp use LAME to encode with?
Not much to destroy? Only the newly fledged parliament and all the MPs. It would be like blowing up the Senate building with all the people in it. Sure there wasn't much else around but this may have completely changed the course of British history.
For the first time ever my old university is mentioned on Slashdot. I'm so happy!
A better yet link to Penny Arcade
Guns don't kill people, kids who play video games do.
Perhaps the parents should sue themselves for buying the cosole and the game in the first place?
We have this already in London - all cars in and out of the congestion charging zone get clocked by cameras and their number plates are fed into a central computer. Women wanting to know if their husbands made it into work today - or skipped off to play golf/see the mistress can call up and check if a plate has been in the zone. It wouldn't take too much effort to extend this out and use other vehicle characteristics rather than just number plates to track vehicles continuously.
Think of all those all-in-one remotes which 'learn' the codes from the existing remotes. Surely they're breaking the DMCA.
Looks like my pages will be lighter and whiter as my ad blocker stops more of this rubbish.
We do Budweiser's UK web site and for legal reasons their lawyers tried to force us to do this by using IIS built in reverse DNS feature. Problem was the M$ reverse DNS blocked entry to those who's IP didn't resolve. We ended up blocking more people than we let in. Case of the lawyers wagging the tail of the tech dog.
This has been picked up by the BBC, you can read the article here.