Wrong article perhaps? I can understand recieving ads via the TV, theres nothing wrong with that, unless of course it is a Halifax advert, with some twat babbling on about something to the 'who let the dogs out' tune. Anyone in the UK with a TV will probably know what I am talking about.
Some people have $60 to just throw away and hope that it does work. If it does turn out to be a fraud, what are most men in the world going to do about it? Take the company to court and advertise the fact that they think they have a small penis?
Under U.S. law, it is a felony to access a computer without permission
Does anyone know what the laws are on this kind of thing in the UK? or where to look them up. Basically, how illegal is it for me to go and delete files from spammers machines who cleverly allow write access to all on their windows boxes.
Probably not the same, but very close...
I dont know of any non-microsoft browsers which support MS extensions to HTML very well (although some may try). But, the number of web sites I go to which tell me to download IE or fuck off is still growing. This sounds like the same kind of thing, if it is going to be used by people at home - who are more likely to have Windows than anything else, then it will probably end up the default (It almost certainly will if MS manages to buy enough companies into its own little PEAP group). Most users may not even know it is turned on, they will only know when they get a box showing some sort of "Unable to authenticate with base station" like message when they try to communicate with a non-PEAP device. It will be the non-PEAP device which is at fault, obviously, because it always worked before.
Whatever SMS provider ICQ uses will most likely charge ICQ for sending messages. They probably dont charge per message though, but amount of time connected to the SMS server. Anyone in the UK can dialup to a public SMSC with a normal modem (which supports 9.6Kbps) and send as many messages as they want and only pay for the time connected to the SMSC. The actual time connected is charged at something like 35pence/minute ($0.50 ish) and the number of 160byte messages that can be sent in one minute is much more than 3.5 (it costs 10p / SMS here in the UK for 'normal' users).
Not that any message you ever send via ICQ ever gets delivered - none that I have tried anyway, so maybe ICQ are actually having problems with their SMS charging.
oops, I forgot to tick the little AC box;)
I know theres more than just KDE and Gnome, but do we ever hear about them in the Slashdot comments? - well, maybe windowmaker.
OfB: KDE has become the most used Linux desktop, in fact OS News recently put the number at over 50% of the market. What do you think has been KDE's secret so far?
buh?
Sure, companies don't like having to support multiple products, but I'll bet there'd be a market for this.
Isn't it illegal for normal people to import/export weapons? I guess they would just get classed as weapons of digital piracy.
What is next generation anyway? We have CRTs, LCD displays and projectors and probably some others already. To me next-gen sounds like 'some new technology'. Of course, that could mean any kind of new tech added to the TV, but the only thing I can think of right now that could be considered new for TVs is a DRM box that everything passes through. In which case, why would people (who know) want to buy them?
"Over here" ass is similar to using the word donkey, I don't see donkey-kissing being a valuable skill any time soon:). As for arse, I wouldn't say that is considered vulgar here - more 'amusing' and sometimes used as a replacement for the F word when things go wrong.
That's just silly - there's nothing differentiating the truly exceptional from those who could either kiss a lot of arse or slough through it and do all the extra credit.
It doesnt matter how exceptional you are, kissing arse will probably come in handy sometime in the future - good thing to learn at school
Just curious, I guess FL means Florida, which is 'over there'.. shouldn't you say '...kiss a lot of ass...' instead of correctly spelling it as arse?
Hah, DSL? Not in anywhere like that (whine whine, I want DSL here too). The phone number for the Manor seems to be 01476860338, if you go to BT's broadband page you can stick that number in and it tells you that only 4 people have registered interest in having broadband on that exchange - which means it is very unlikely they will have DSL there anytime soon.
Anyone in the UK who can't get ADSL yet, but wants it, should go to that bt broadband site and let them know you want it - phone an ISP and register your interest.
It seems strange that laws like this are only just getting to over there. Here in the UK it has been illegal to drive and use a handheld mobile for years, and there have been loads of things on TV about it being bad using handsfree too - because of the distraction. Aparently, it is more dangerous driving while talking on a mobile that it is driving when drunk.
Why do I mention these? Because they're illustrative of the sort of asshole that's endemic these days; the sort who doesn't give a shit, and who can only be controlled by laws and/or 2x4s.
And who cause more hassle for the rest of us, it will probably come to the point where you get searched when you enter the cinema and have any mobile confiscated (off/silent/vibrate whatever) until you leave - I know I wouldnt trust them with expensive electronic toys, I dont even trust the cloackroom people in clubs:)
Isn't there some devices out there that cause interference so that the phones dont get a signal? Something like that, which prevented the phones working at all within certain boundaries, would be better imho - of course, that would mean more money spent by the people running the cinema.
Google keeps anon stats of users who visit their website and Linux numbers are still at 1%.
But how many of them are just Linux users who have set their user agent to say IE5 win2k or something. I have galeon pretending to be IE most of the time thanks to the online banking type services I use who refuse to let you login with any other browser (for which galeon works fine with)
Can't anybody even remotely associated with Linux these days just be allowed to enjoy the beautiful outdoors?
Yes, but driving for a few hours, getting on a ferry overnight, then driving another 6 hours just to cut the lawn is a bit over the top. My parents got a little farm house in France, but still live in the UK until they retire. I set up a little box there with a few webcams so they could see what was going on, and later it got a few relays attached to it so they could water the garden and play with the lights, also temperature monitoring/control. At the moment a friend who lives in France is going up to the house to cut the lawn, parents feel a bit guilty sometimes getting him to look after the house most of the year - we decided a remote control lawnmower would be a good thing a few weeks ago.
I returned the call late the next day from my car on my way home from work. I was driving along a narrow tree-lined street in Pasadena that I sometimes take when the traffic is heavy on the freeway.
Children played on bikes and jumped rope in the growing shadows of the July afternoon. The street was stained a beautiful orange by the setting sun.
A narrow road, children playing on bikes, sun probably shining in your eyes (like it always seems to at that time), and theres you on a phone.. you bad bad man;)
I thought the same thing first time I saw Futurama. It was nothing special, sometimes just boring, and Simpsons seemed so much better. I never watched Futurama after the first few episodes. Then, a few years later I saw it and watched it, and for some reason I found it very funny and have watched it whenever I had the chance. I have no idea why I changed my mind about Futurama, maybe it has something to do with Simpsons being on so-bloody-much now - we get episodes repeated within a week of each other sometimes!
I got an email yesterday saying someone had a crush on me, but it wasn't like this one (although I have seen this one asking for emails a year ago). The one I got yesterday wanted me to phone them to find out who it was - maybe it is similar but they are trying to get your phone numbers instead... or maybe they just plan on making money on the call which costs 2.5p a second! (thats about 1.5 cents a second)
Do any of you know how it is really spelled? So far there are 4 replies, and they are:
"We have it... although I think we call it fooseball."
"We call it "foosball"."
"...playin' any of that there foozball..."
"Well, we're familiar with it as "fussball""
You could probably get the crap they throw at you turned around and thrown back at them.. but it still has to go through you - so if they were planning on just making your puny adsl connection unusable by beating it up with theirs and their friends many big fat pipes it would make no difference - all the traffic goes through your connection.
If they were going to be exploiting some bug in the filesharing software that they discovered, then the only way to stop that would be to block the port to your filesharing program.. which means you wont be sharing anyway, so, they get what they wanted. It would be possible to block incoming connections from riaa.[org/com] and friends, but they could get round that.
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1) I doubt it, well - the media could be the same, but the players wont be able to decode whats on it (if the different compression algorithm is used)
2) The lower end of the new HDDVD players will probably only play HDDVD, better quality ones will probably play old DVDs - just like some DVD players now play VCDs too. This could be one of the reasons for keeping with red laser, if blue was used then it wouldn't read the old media.
The thing I noticed most was that people actually knew how to quote others postings - by adding a > at the beginning of the line. None of this 'choosing a different character in an attempt to impress others and making it look pretty' crap.
Actually, I am English (from England;) ) and find that hearing "You've got mail" is very annoying after hearing it a few times on TV/Films in an American accent. Isn't it also an AOL thing?
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Wrong article perhaps? I can understand recieving ads via the TV, theres nothing wrong with that, unless of course it is a Halifax advert, with some twat babbling on about something to the 'who let the dogs out' tune. Anyone in the UK with a TV will probably know what I am talking about.
Some people have $60 to just throw away and hope that it does work. If it does turn out to be a fraud, what are most men in the world going to do about it? Take the company to court and advertise the fact that they think they have a small penis?
Under U.S. law, it is a felony to access a computer without permission
Does anyone know what the laws are on this kind of thing in the UK? or where to look them up. Basically, how illegal is it for me to go and delete files from spammers machines who cleverly allow write access to all on their windows boxes.
Probably not the same, but very close...
I dont know of any non-microsoft browsers which support MS extensions to HTML very well (although some may try). But, the number of web sites I go to which tell me to download IE or fuck off is still growing. This sounds like the same kind of thing, if it is going to be used by people at home - who are more likely to have Windows than anything else, then it will probably end up the default (It almost certainly will if MS manages to buy enough companies into its own little PEAP group). Most users may not even know it is turned on, they will only know when they get a box showing some sort of "Unable to authenticate with base station" like message when they try to communicate with a non-PEAP device. It will be the non-PEAP device which is at fault, obviously, because it always worked before.
Whatever SMS provider ICQ uses will most likely charge ICQ for sending messages. They probably dont charge per message though, but amount of time connected to the SMS server. Anyone in the UK can dialup to a public SMSC with a normal modem (which supports 9.6Kbps) and send as many messages as they want and only pay for the time connected to the SMSC. The actual time connected is charged at something like 35pence/minute ($0.50 ish) and the number of 160byte messages that can be sent in one minute is much more than 3.5 (it costs 10p / SMS here in the UK for 'normal' users).
Not that any message you ever send via ICQ ever gets delivered - none that I have tried anyway, so maybe ICQ are actually having problems with their SMS charging.
oops, I forgot to tick the little AC box ;)
I know theres more than just KDE and Gnome, but do we ever hear about them in the Slashdot comments? - well, maybe windowmaker.
OfB: KDE has become the most used Linux desktop, in fact OS News recently put the number at over 50% of the market. What do you think has been KDE's secret so far?
buh?
Sure, companies don't like having to support multiple products, but I'll bet there'd be a market for this.
Isn't it illegal for normal people to import/export weapons? I guess they would just get classed as weapons of digital piracy.
What is next generation anyway? We have CRTs, LCD displays and projectors and probably some others already. To me next-gen sounds like 'some new technology'. Of course, that could mean any kind of new tech added to the TV, but the only thing I can think of right now that could be considered new for TVs is a DRM box that everything passes through. In which case, why would people (who know) want to buy them?
"Over here" ass is similar to using the word donkey, I don't see donkey-kissing being a valuable skill any time soon :). As for arse, I wouldn't say that is considered vulgar here - more 'amusing' and sometimes used as a replacement for the F word when things go wrong.
That's just silly - there's nothing differentiating the truly exceptional from those who could either kiss a lot of arse or slough through it and do all the extra credit.
It doesnt matter how exceptional you are, kissing arse will probably come in handy sometime in the future - good thing to learn at school
Just curious, I guess FL means Florida, which is 'over there'.. shouldn't you say '...kiss a lot of ass...' instead of correctly spelling it as arse?
Hah, DSL? Not in anywhere like that (whine whine, I want DSL here too). The phone number for the Manor seems to be 01476860338, if you go to BT's broadband page you can stick that number in and it tells you that only 4 people have registered interest in having broadband on that exchange - which means it is very unlikely they will have DSL there anytime soon.
Anyone in the UK who can't get ADSL yet, but wants it, should go to that bt broadband site and let them know you want it - phone an ISP and register your interest.
It seems strange that laws like this are only just getting to over there. Here in the UK it has been illegal to drive and use a handheld mobile for years, and there have been loads of things on TV about it being bad using handsfree too - because of the distraction. Aparently, it is more dangerous driving while talking on a mobile that it is driving when drunk.
Why do I mention these? Because they're illustrative of the sort of asshole that's endemic these days; the sort who doesn't give a shit, and who can only be controlled by laws and/or 2x4s.
:)
And who cause more hassle for the rest of us, it will probably come to the point where you get searched when you enter the cinema and have any mobile confiscated (off/silent/vibrate whatever) until you leave - I know I wouldnt trust them with expensive electronic toys, I dont even trust the cloackroom people in clubs
Isn't there some devices out there that cause interference so that the phones dont get a signal? Something like that, which prevented the phones working at all within certain boundaries, would be better imho - of course, that would mean more money spent by the people running the cinema.
Google keeps anon stats of users who visit their website and Linux numbers are still at 1%.
But how many of them are just Linux users who have set their user agent to say IE5 win2k or something. I have galeon pretending to be IE most of the time thanks to the online banking type services I use who refuse to let you login with any other browser (for which galeon works fine with)
Can't anybody even remotely associated with Linux these days just be allowed to enjoy the beautiful outdoors?
Yes, but driving for a few hours, getting on a ferry overnight, then driving another 6 hours just to cut the lawn is a bit over the top. My parents got a little farm house in France, but still live in the UK until they retire. I set up a little box there with a few webcams so they could see what was going on, and later it got a few relays attached to it so they could water the garden and play with the lights, also temperature monitoring/control. At the moment a friend who lives in France is going up to the house to cut the lawn, parents feel a bit guilty sometimes getting him to look after the house most of the year - we decided a remote control lawnmower would be a good thing a few weeks ago.
I returned the call late the next day from my car on my way home from work. I was driving along a narrow tree-lined street in Pasadena that I sometimes take when the traffic is heavy on the freeway.
Children played on bikes and jumped rope in the growing shadows of the July afternoon. The street was stained a beautiful orange by the setting sun.
A narrow road, children playing on bikes, sun probably shining in your eyes (like it always seems to at that time), and theres you on a phone.. you bad bad man
I thought the same thing first time I saw Futurama. It was nothing special, sometimes just boring, and Simpsons seemed so much better. I never watched Futurama after the first few episodes. Then, a few years later I saw it and watched it, and for some reason I found it very funny and have watched it whenever I had the chance. I have no idea why I changed my mind about Futurama, maybe it has something to do with Simpsons being on so-bloody-much now - we get episodes repeated within a week of each other sometimes!
I got an email yesterday saying someone had a crush on me, but it wasn't like this one (although I have seen this one asking for emails a year ago). The one I got yesterday wanted me to phone them to find out who it was - maybe it is similar but they are trying to get your phone numbers instead... or maybe they just plan on making money on the call which costs 2.5p a second! (thats about 1.5 cents a second)
Do any of you know how it is really spelled? So far there are 4 replies, and they are:
"We have it... although I think we call it fooseball."
"We call it "foosball"."
"...playin' any of that there foozball..."
"Well, we're familiar with it as "fussball""
You could probably get the crap they throw at you turned around and thrown back at them.. but it still has to go through you - so if they were planning on just making your puny adsl connection unusable by beating it up with theirs and their friends many big fat pipes it would make no difference - all the traffic goes through your connection.
If they were going to be exploiting some bug in the filesharing software that they discovered, then the only way to stop that would be to block the port to your filesharing program.. which means you wont be sharing anyway, so, they get what they wanted. It would be possible to block incoming connections from riaa.[org/com] and friends, but they could get round that.
1) I doubt it, well - the media could be the same, but the players wont be able to decode whats on it (if the different compression algorithm is used)
2) The lower end of the new HDDVD players will probably only play HDDVD, better quality ones will probably play old DVDs - just like some DVD players now play VCDs too. This could be one of the reasons for keeping with red laser, if blue was used then it wouldn't read the old media.
Works fine here (yes, I do use the AIC7xxx driver :) ). Which patch did you use? I got the bz2.
The thing I noticed most was that people actually knew how to quote others postings - by adding a > at the beginning of the line. None of this 'choosing a different character in an attempt to impress others and making it look pretty' crap.
Actually, I am English (from England ;) ) and find that hearing "You've got mail" is very annoying after hearing it a few times on TV/Films in an American accent.
Isn't it also an AOL thing?