Eric Frank Russell, Fredric Brown, Keith Laumer (Retief in particular), Jame Tiptree Jr, H. Beam Piper.
Basically plunder all the free ebook sites for classic/pulp - there's a lot of good stuff there and I even quite like the not so good:-)
I refer my learned friend to the answer given in Arkell v. Pressdram.
There are many hits on google but this is a nice uncluttered version.
(For those who are unaware Pressdram is the publisher/company name of Private Eye, a long running UK satirical magazine which is often sued and Arkell V Pressdram is frequently referred to in its pages)
I keep thinking of SCO v Novell for some reason, can't think why...
I realise it's not for my benefit. The first time it popped up I thought it was a phishing site, but they're not normally as amateur. It wanted me to phone up and give my card details over a number I'd never heard of. An the Master card one is as inept. I rarely use either of those cards so it's not a problem.
I have also considered the use of the disposable cards you can buy - they're pre-paid but act like a normal card. Some companies used to allow you to create one-shot 'cards' so you only deal with a known institution.
Mostly I only buy from a few sites or small amounts via paypal (which I haven't confirmed/whatever so the exposure is low)
I'm even happier at the coalition then. I'm not really a fan of coalitions but this one may work - keeping the looney LibDem Left and the ranting Conservative right under control and working on a sane(?) middle ground. Laws is seriously impressive, as are Gove, IDS and Hague. I'm not too sure about Clegg/Cameron but if they leave the others to do their jobs that's probably enough. Just ditch Cable asap.
I think we may have the least worst option really. I just think everybody should be aware that their vote is in theory traceable.
<JOKE> You could have used the ID card to prevent fraud... </JOKE>
The real worry would have been elecronic voting - use your ID card to vote and have it recorded in a database for future reference: "Sorry officer, what did I do wrong? Well, yes I did vote Green when I was 20....."
I wouldn't give Clegg and the Lib Dems all the credit - this lot was in the Conservative manifesto and would have happened if Cameron had won a majority. The only people against all of your list (I think, not sure about some of the smaller parties) were Labour.
I don't understand the privacy issue. I like the lib dems, I'm glad they are in power, and I think ID cards are expensive - but I don't understand why this is such a massive issue for so many people. I'm not afraid of CCTV and I'm not afraid of ID cards. I can't say I'm an expert in the issues (the wiki article is pretty lame, for example), so please feel free to educate me.
I realised your lack of expertise (or thought) from the rest of your post. As for educating you, I'm sure others will help me out here...
The reason I want ID cards, is not really for ID cards. I want my identity to be electronic, to make real world transactions, authentication etc as easy as internet authentication. On the internet I can access any site and make any payments with just a username and password. In the real world there are a bunch of ass backwards tools - coins, keys, access cards, phone sim cards and other bull. One of the reasons I can't shed this crap is because of "privacy concerns", which I don't worry about. For example, I share almost all of my personal information with google - and I don't worry about them trying to misuse it. I also share all of my wealth with the Bank Of England - I don't worry about them either. Germany also has a system of ID cards, which works.
You're doing better than me, I need several userids and passwords - Verrified by Visa and the Mastercard equivalents or paypal spring to mind.
And please tell me that you really expect to replace coins and keys with an ID card. These things would soon have been cloned you realise. And how are you going to get mulinational phone companies to use a national ID card as a sim? And how often do you need to worry about your sim card(s)?
As you don't have any privacy concerns please tell us you name, d.o.b. address and bank account details - or did you miss Jeremy Clarksons little cock up by doing this? The Bank Of England doesn't have all my wealth, no one institution does. Does Germany also have the Big Brother database that was going to go with these useless cards?
The reason I want CCTV is because it should make solving crime a lot easier. Combine it with face recognition and you can build a map of where people go and when. Add datamining, and perhaps you can start to track down drug dealers, burglars, rapists, etc. It starts to get very difficult to commit the really nasty crimes that still happen (although not nearly as much as people think)
They have a miserably small effect on crime solving at present, and I'm sure the rest would have been great for the Staasi. You should consider the possible unintended conseauences as well as the stated aim. The fact that it is possible to identify how anybody voted in UK General Elections also makes me unhappy, or did you not realise that the ballot papers are traceable?
The best/most frequent arguments against seem to me to be that it would give a corrupt government the power to identify certain elements of society, who could then be, say, put in camps, and it would give police power which they could use to victimise certain groups
The trouble is these things normally tend to happen, laws get applied more loosely than may have been intended: 'sus', 'stop and search'. and the unlwaful harrasing of phorographers (stretching some 'anti-terror' legislation). Someone one descibed Jack Straw (as Home Secretary) as too right wing for Mrs Thatchers government. Another oft-quoted saying is that Labour do what the Police tell them and the Tories tell the Police what to do. Look at the number of laws passed in the last 13 years which can result in imprisonment and read the 'Great Repeal' bill just announced - and be grateful we know have a Con/Dem coalition. I hope they are looking at Detention Orders too.
From a purely personal standpoint I don't see these things happening in Britain. The progress of Nazi Germany towards the holocaust was
I find it useful if the comments actually say something useful.
I worked on a project where 90%+ lines of code were comments, 90% of the comments were commented out lines of old code, often several versions one above the other with the current line at the bottom. The rest of the comments were no better, I ended up writing a macro to delete all the comments from the code before I saw it. The programmers responsible for it are still doing it even with a code versionning system to tell them what's change form the earlier versions. Insane.
Comments should be helpful but always treated with caution, even why comments can get out of date...
I use adblock.
I don't use Filterset.G. I manually add ads that annoy me - if I'm not annoyed why should I bother blocking the ads? The obvious example is Google - the ads are unobtrusive and sometimes useful so I won't be irritated enough to block them.
That also goes for eating a kebab with chilli sauce.
But that is the sort of mistake you make more than once - normally on the way back from the pub...
PDA's lack storage, but provide an excellent interface.
My old ipaq 5550 has 128Mb ram internally and I have a 1Gb SD card in the slot (and a few more full of mp3 to listen to).
Like some other people have mentioned I don't want convergence. I had a SE P800 but the screen was too small for real use after the novelty wore off so I bought the iPaq. When the screen broke on the P800 I got a RAZR (with a bluetooth headset).
I make calls on the RAZR, I don't use the calendar and the UI sucks compared to the SE but the size of the thing is perfect, there's no reason not to carry it from a convenience pov. The headset is useful with the iPaq too - especially when using bluetooth sat nav.
I have calligrapher on the iPaq and it's much, much, better graffiti was on my old palm - I couldn't contemplate going back to that! I use the iPaq for contacts, calendar, sat nav, mp3, ebooks, tons of html manuals and docs, games... you get the idea. And when I take my son to the beach or woods I leave the pda alone and only need the cellphone.
This is one area where I don't need or want convergence - like hi fi and tv/dvd etc. I like it modular to allow for convenience of repair and/or upgrade.
Oh, and you can get 4Gb sd cards now... but a bluetooth enabled portable hdd sounds cool.
I'm in the UK, they'll need long arms to knock on my door:)
Not any more. The US authorities (the DOJ I suppose) can just ask the Home Office to send you over. Under the latest extradition treaty the US doesn't have to present any evidence at all. It's not reciprocal of course, if the Home Office wants anyone from the US sent here they have to show probable cause. It's not even been ratified by the US yet but we are acting as if it was. The three men being sent to the US at present claim that they should be tried here (if anywhere) as they are UK nationals whose alleged crime was comitted in the UK against their UK employer, but they are going on a trip to the US. Enron has been mentioned but I don't know the conext.
I don't know any more than stated above but if the facts as stated are correct I don't see why they're being extradited.
TiddlyWiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com/) is effectively a wiki in a single web page. It sounds odd but is very impressive, it can be used for free format note keeping with all the linking etc that a wiki implies. There are a number of enhancements on the web - various customizations including skins. It's obviously not for multi-user use but great for personal stuff.
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A friend bought a microwave oven from Tesco before Christmas, when he got home he checked the bill and found he'd been charged for two. He went back to the shop and complained so they refunded the total amount and told him it was policy.
So as far as he's concerned Tesco gave him a free microwave oven.
Of course I hope that I'd notice an extra 70 pounds or so on my bill but he was in a hurry...
I've tried evolution, thunderbird and kmail.
Thunderbird kept crashing on me and losing mail, I couldn't get evolution to work the way I want. KMail Just Works (most of the time).
I haven't found a perfect mua but KMail comes closer than most for my purposes.
I like the idea of thunderbird but I'll wait for it to be developed further, but if kmail continues advancing I may not bother again.
Why not try all three - set up two of them not to delete mail from the server (esp. if not running your own) and try them all until you decide which you like best. I also looked at sylpheed but it also lost out to kmail - for me.
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Eric Frank Russell, Fredric Brown, Keith Laumer (Retief in particular), Jame Tiptree Jr, H. Beam Piper. Basically plunder all the free ebook sites for classic/pulp - there's a lot of good stuff there and I even quite like the not so good :-)
There are many hits on google but this is a nice uncluttered version.
(For those who are unaware Pressdram is the publisher/company name of Private Eye, a long running UK satirical magazine which is often sued and Arkell V Pressdram is frequently referred to in its pages)
I keep thinking of SCO v Novell for some reason, can't think why...
I have also considered the use of the disposable cards you can buy - they're pre-paid but act like a normal card. Some companies used to allow you to create one-shot 'cards' so you only deal with a known institution.
Mostly I only buy from a few sites or small amounts via paypal (which I haven't confirmed/whatever so the exposure is low)
I'm even happier at the coalition then. I'm not really a fan of coalitions but this one may work - keeping the looney LibDem Left and the ranting Conservative right under control and working on a sane(?) middle ground. Laws is seriously impressive, as are Gove, IDS and Hague. I'm not too sure about Clegg/Cameron but if they leave the others to do their jobs that's probably enough. Just ditch Cable asap.
<JOKE> You could have used the ID card to prevent fraud... </JOKE>
The real worry would have been elecronic voting - use your ID card to vote and have it recorded in a database for future reference: "Sorry officer, what did I do wrong? Well, yes I did vote Green when I was 20....."
I wouldn't give Clegg and the Lib Dems all the credit - this lot was in the Conservative manifesto and would have happened if Cameron had won a majority. The only people against all of your list (I think, not sure about some of the smaller parties) were Labour.
Yes, they're having a database of foreign nationals but not of UK residents/citizens/subjetcs. The National Identity Register is going.
So they are getting rid of the database too, which is the more important thing, but the combination of card and database was the really bad news.
I don't understand the privacy issue. I like the lib dems, I'm glad they are in power, and I think ID cards are expensive - but I don't understand why this is such a massive issue for so many people. I'm not afraid of CCTV and I'm not afraid of ID cards. I can't say I'm an expert in the issues (the wiki article is pretty lame, for example), so please feel free to educate me.
I realised your lack of expertise (or thought) from the rest of your post. As for educating you, I'm sure others will help me out here...
The reason I want ID cards, is not really for ID cards. I want my identity to be electronic, to make real world transactions, authentication etc as easy as internet authentication. On the internet I can access any site and make any payments with just a username and password. In the real world there are a bunch of ass backwards tools - coins, keys, access cards, phone sim cards and other bull. One of the reasons I can't shed this crap is because of "privacy concerns", which I don't worry about. For example, I share almost all of my personal information with google - and I don't worry about them trying to misuse it. I also share all of my wealth with the Bank Of England - I don't worry about them either. Germany also has a system of ID cards, which works.
You're doing better than me, I need several userids and passwords - Verrified by Visa and the Mastercard equivalents or paypal spring to mind. And please tell me that you really expect to replace coins and keys with an ID card. These things would soon have been cloned you realise. And how are you going to get mulinational phone companies to use a national ID card as a sim? And how often do you need to worry about your sim card(s)? As you don't have any privacy concerns please tell us you name, d.o.b. address and bank account details - or did you miss Jeremy Clarksons little cock up by doing this? The Bank Of England doesn't have all my wealth, no one institution does. Does Germany also have the Big Brother database that was going to go with these useless cards?
The reason I want CCTV is because it should make solving crime a lot easier. Combine it with face recognition and you can build a map of where people go and when. Add datamining, and perhaps you can start to track down drug dealers, burglars, rapists, etc. It starts to get very difficult to commit the really nasty crimes that still happen (although not nearly as much as people think)
They have a miserably small effect on crime solving at present, and I'm sure the rest would have been great for the Staasi. You should consider the possible unintended conseauences as well as the stated aim. The fact that it is possible to identify how anybody voted in UK General Elections also makes me unhappy, or did you not realise that the ballot papers are traceable?
The best/most frequent arguments against seem to me to be that it would give a corrupt government the power to identify certain elements of society, who could then be, say, put in camps, and it would give police power which they could use to victimise certain groups
The trouble is these things normally tend to happen, laws get applied more loosely than may have been intended: 'sus', 'stop and search'. and the unlwaful harrasing of phorographers (stretching some 'anti-terror' legislation). Someone one descibed Jack Straw (as Home Secretary) as too right wing for Mrs Thatchers government. Another oft-quoted saying is that Labour do what the Police tell them and the Tories tell the Police what to do. Look at the number of laws passed in the last 13 years which can result in imprisonment and read the 'Great Repeal' bill just announced - and be grateful we know have a Con/Dem coalition. I hope they are looking at Detention Orders too.
From a purely personal standpoint I don't see these things happening in Britain. The progress of Nazi Germany towards the holocaust was
Comments should be helpful but always treated with caution, even why comments can get out of date...
Well, you could alwys read TFA and find out what it says, but that's not the /. way.
Why? Why would the copyright holder(s) be deprived of copyright?
It's been that since RIPA was passed.
The other bit is that you can go to jail for telling anyone that you have had to decrypt your data.
I use adblock.
I don't use Filterset.G. I manually add ads that annoy me - if I'm not annoyed why should I bother blocking the ads? The obvious example is Google - the ads are unobtrusive and sometimes useful so I won't be irritated enough to block them.
His father was driving, RTFA
That also goes for eating a kebab with chilli sauce.
But that is the sort of mistake you make more than once - normally on the way back from the pub...
Like some other people have mentioned I don't want convergence. I had a SE P800 but the screen was too small for real use after the novelty wore off so I bought the iPaq. When the screen broke on the P800 I got a RAZR (with a bluetooth headset).
I make calls on the RAZR, I don't use the calendar and the UI sucks compared to the SE but the size of the thing is perfect, there's no reason not to carry it from a convenience pov. The headset is useful with the iPaq too - especially when using bluetooth sat nav.
I have calligrapher on the iPaq and it's much, much, better graffiti was on my old palm - I couldn't contemplate going back to that! I use the iPaq for contacts, calendar, sat nav, mp3, ebooks, tons of html manuals and docs, games... you get the idea. And when I take my son to the beach or woods I leave the pda alone and only need the cellphone.
This is one area where I don't need or want convergence - like hi fi and tv/dvd etc. I like it modular to allow for convenience of repair and/or upgrade.
Oh, and you can get 4Gb sd cards now... but a bluetooth enabled portable hdd sounds cool.
The three men being sent to the US at present claim that they should be tried here (if anywhere) as they are UK nationals whose alleged crime was comitted in the UK against their UK employer, but they are going on a trip to the US. Enron has been mentioned but I don't know the conext.
I don't know any more than stated above but if the facts as stated are correct I don't see why they're being extradited.
But who would foot the bill?
That might require a pedicure, I suppose?
TiddlyWiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com/) is effectively a wiki in a single web page. It sounds odd but is very impressive, it can be used for free format note keeping with all the linking etc that a wiki implies. There are a number of enhancements on the web - various customizations including skins.
It's obviously not for multi-user use but great for personal stuff.
So as far as he's concerned Tesco gave him a free microwave oven.
Of course I hope that I'd notice an extra 70 pounds or so on my bill but he was in a hurry...
Thunderbird kept crashing on me and losing mail, I couldn't get evolution to work the way I want. KMail Just Works (most of the time).
I haven't found a perfect mua but KMail comes closer than most for my purposes.
I like the idea of thunderbird but I'll wait for it to be developed further, but if kmail continues advancing I may not bother again.
Why not try all three - set up two of them not to delete mail from the server (esp. if not running your own) and try them all until you decide which you like best. I also looked at sylpheed but it also lost out to kmail - for me.