As a side effect of removing Craig Murray's site, celeb MP Boris Johnson also disappeared from the web for a time. On reappearing, Boris has very commendably wasted no time in making a statement:
This is London, not Uzbekistan. It is unbelievable that a website can be wiped out on the say-so of some tycoon. We live in a world where internet communication is increasingly vital, and this is a serious erosion of free speech.
Good show! Things are indeed looking less than peachy for Usmanov and his legal hit team. Next up, Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz?
Which is pretty much like going to Canada and having to pay $3 a minute roaming charges... Are the roaming charges in Europe as bad as they are here?
Same deal, it's just a matter of geographic scale. US States tend to be on the same scale as European countries.
The EU is due to cap the roaming charges, and many providers have already started cutting the charges in anticipation of the cap. I pay 0.55 euro per minute roaming, which is a lot less than I used to pay and is just inside the cap of 0.49 euro +tax (12.5% in the UK): http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/81ea23c6-0913-11dc-a349-000b5df10621.html. If I step outside the EU, but still in Europe -- well, it depends where I go. If I go into Norway my roaming charges stay the same. If I go to Serbia they jump to 2.42 euro per minute
And then they would make it illegal for anybody to do so. BTW, you can't go around masked in a public place in many countries, a cop will come around and order you to remove your balaclava/mask/helmet/whatever and you either comply or are arrested. Nearly the case in the UK. It's not illegal to go around masked, but a police officer can require you to remove the mask and it's illegal not to comply.
Do you mean it should have had a capital "S"? Yes, sorry.
If you mean there are no States, then I suggest you read some of the documents coming out of the EU. There are lots of States in Europe -- the word does have meanings other than its federal one.
You have to cross a body of water to reach another state? From at least one US state, yes -- Hawaii. I can't offhand think of any European state with no land boundary (the UK has a land boundary with the Republic of Ireland, of course), but somebody with better knowledge of geography than me will no doubt be able to think of one.
European wireless customers never pay for incoming calls. Calls are charged to the caller, whether the caller is a landline or mobile. Unless they go to another country (geographically pretty much equivalent to crossing a state line in the USA), in which case incoming calls/are/ charged.
Even then, the story is written in a pretty neutral way and should be of interest to pro-RIAA folks as much as anti-RIAA folks. As far as I can see it's only the tagging that shows a clear bias (and I don't usually bother looking at that).
I'm sick of slashdot pretending to be some kind of grown up adult web site, when in reality, like digg, its just a publicity machine for the idiots in the pirate party. You seem to be a little confused./. is not a person./. is a collection of lots of different people, including you, with different views, including yours./. does not pretend or claim to be anything beyond "News for nerds. Stuff that matters", although individuals may pretend or claim that it is something else./. cannot be a publicity machine for any interest group (except, perhaps, nerds) because although individuals may act as publicity machines for particular groups it's an open forum and so contrary opinion can always be expressed with equal weight (and the holder of that contrary opinion is just as liable to get mod points). Do try to remember that a couple of guys you happen to disagree with do not comprise the whole of/., and if you have a counter-argument to what they say then present it.
Good luck cutting that 80Gb drive into 2Gb Fat16 chunks (you'll run out of drive letters) Who cares? What would you put on them all anyway? At least, what would you put on them that the apps that ran on MS-DOS 5 could deal with?
You see the logs of some guy looking a kiddie porn and you report it to your HR department.
Where's the ethical dilemma?
If HR does nothing about it, you report it to the FBI. How do you know that HR has done nothing about it? They probably have a code of conduct too, and should not tell you about confidential matters concerning other employees.
There was no winning that one. Had he not put on an exuberant face his bluff would have been called by the Reich and Britain would have been in Hitler's sights before they were ready.
Chamberlain showed a huge amount of courage and foresight, and doesn't get the credit for what he achieved. At the time he got his "piece of paper" there was no way whatsoever that Britain could have taken on the Reich. As soon as he had made the "Peace in our time" speech he shifted the economy over to a war footing, and introduced conscription (the first time in British history that there had been conscription in peace time). It deflected Hitler, and bought us the time we needed to enter the war at a time that was good for Britain, not good for the enemy. It wasn't appeasement, it was a magnificent tactic that cost Chamberlain his job but arguably won the war.
Think what would happen if a supersmart managed to come up with a working Unified Field Theory and gave the wrong people access to antigravity. It could only do that if it had the connectivity to chose who it gave information to. You weren't thinking anybody would be daft enough to connect it to the internet, were you?;-)
Asimov implicitly recognized that fact, and had to come up with his Three Laws Three laws of robotics, not of computing -- peripherals again!
Thus the first ultra-intelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.'
Make that "... man is allowed to make" and I'll buy it. That depends on whether we have the intelligence to keep control of the off-switch. It's one thing to have intelligence, it's another to have the right peripherals connected. At the risk of being offensive, who here will admit that Stephen Hawking could take them in a fight?
The books that got me started on math[s] were the Martin Gardner collections of his mathematical recreations column in Scientific American -- "Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions" and "More Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions" (I think they were published under different titles in the USA).
Note that in Scotland if you are released without charge or found not guilty the DNA is destroyed. That seems draconian! Destroying a person's DNA seems pretty terminal!
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Good show! Things are indeed looking less than peachy for Usmanov and his legal hit team. Next up, Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz?
I'm not sure how significant Boris Johnson's comments will be. Clearly enough people take him seriously to keep him in office, but a lot of people consider him a buffoon, at least in part because of his frequent gaffes (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6901161.stm,http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=410160&in_page_id=1770, http://www.richardcorbett.org.uk/releases/20061004.htm)
Same deal, it's just a matter of geographic scale. US States tend to be on the same scale as European countries.
The EU is due to cap the roaming charges, and many providers have already started cutting the charges in anticipation of the cap. I pay 0.55 euro per minute roaming, which is a lot less than I used to pay and is just inside the cap of 0.49 euro +tax (12.5% in the UK): http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/81ea23c6-0913-11dc-a349-000b5df10621.html. If I step outside the EU, but still in Europe -- well, it depends where I go. If I go into Norway my roaming charges stay the same. If I go to Serbia they jump to 2.42 euro per minute
Cyprus is moot.
Do you mean it should have had a capital "S"? Yes, sorry.
If you mean there are no States, then I suggest you read some of the documents coming out of the EU. There are lots of States in Europe -- the word does have meanings other than its federal one.
Any tax evasion lawyer is on shaky ground. A tax avoidance lawyer would be a different matter.
Malta. I thought of that just after I posted.
Even then, the story is written in a pretty neutral way and should be of interest to pro-RIAA folks as much as anti-RIAA folks. As far as I can see it's only the tagging that shows a clear bias (and I don't usually bother looking at that).
Where's the ethical dilemma?
If HR does nothing about it, you report it to the FBI. How do you know that HR has done nothing about it? They probably have a code of conduct too, and should not tell you about confidential matters concerning other employees.
It does look as if that limits the right to a full refund, but the right to repair or replacement seems to be unaffected.
There was no winning that one. Had he not put on an exuberant face his bluff would have been called by the Reich and Britain would have been in Hitler's sights before they were ready.
Chamberlain showed a huge amount of courage and foresight, and doesn't get the credit for what he achieved. At the time he got his "piece of paper" there was no way whatsoever that Britain could have taken on the Reich. As soon as he had made the "Peace in our time" speech he shifted the economy over to a war footing, and introduced conscription (the first time in British history that there had been conscription in peace time). It deflected Hitler, and bought us the time we needed to enter the war at a time that was good for Britain, not good for the enemy. It wasn't appeasement, it was a magnificent tactic that cost Chamberlain his job but arguably won the war.
Make that "... man is allowed to make" and I'll buy it. That depends on whether we have the intelligence to keep control of the off-switch. It's one thing to have intelligence, it's another to have the right peripherals connected. At the risk of being offensive, who here will admit that Stephen Hawking could take them in a fight?
The books that got me started on math[s] were the Martin Gardner collections of his mathematical recreations column in Scientific American -- "Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions" and "More Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions" (I think they were published under different titles in the USA).
See? There is value in the study of Humanities ;-)