Cheers, AndroidCat. I just figured I'd better make sure there weren't any angry CoS kids suggesting I'm "Fair Game" there or anything.
I think the case in Cali was an extreme one. Since scientology has a much lower penetration here in the UK, and the courts seem considerably less likely to overreact to something like that, I figure I'm safe from litigation. And if I'm not I can always make use of the ease with which us Europeans can cross borders within the EU, and leg it to Germany : )
Again, thanks for the heads up; I'm glad you thought the post was funny. And it's increased traffic to my barely-visited site way more than Lycos ever did!
Checking my logs, it looks like someone's taken it upon themselves to post this to alt.religion.scientology. Are you trying to get me sued?
Seriously, I tried looking for it but that's quite a popular group and I don't have the time, so if anyone can tip me off to the thread name I'd appreciate it (in case I need to cover my @$$). Better yet would be a link to the thread on groups.google.com (work won't let me install a newsreader). Cheers. Dr Cheeks.
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There's a few of these scattered throughout Leeds too, looking all lonely and unused. I think even the vandals have been steering clear of them, though I doubt that'll last too long.
I actually got to use one of these in some motorway services (M1 northbound, somewhere in the Midlands North of the Leicester area) - they were on some sort of free trial (I think they may have been a more recent model than those in the phone boxes). Typing an address on an LCD touchscreen is not something particularly enjoyable (esp since the keys were too small and insensitive). Plus they only seemed to have limited support for stuff like JavaScript etc.
Would this mean that if I had an X-Box, and someone in the next room or or the floor above (within range) had one, both with SPIKE, then we'd be able to play head to head without trailing wires everywhere?
I couldn't find specific frequency info on the SPIKE site - it just said RF - so I dunno how much a signal would be attenuated by walls; perhaps some sort of booster could come in handy.
It seems that people seem to be overlooking an important when making this legislation; it only applies in the US. So if it's enforced then the US sites start blocking kids (I'm not even going to start picking holes in the credit card = adult theory). Good news for all the sites elsewhere. I'm sure there's plenty of European sites popping champagne corks right now.
Alternatively the pr0nographers could simply point their domain names at servers outside the US - will they still be answerable to US law if they're effectively in a different country?
As much as I'm loathe to say it, filter software seems like a better solution.
So, does this mean that along with controlling vitamins etc. in space-food they also work on the diet to make sure the astronauts aren't going to be producing their own "nefarious funk "?
Phew, too right. Plus imagine trying to data-mine that lot to find any actual criminals. In 7 years AOL alone must generate 100s terabytes or more of logs of just the URLs of sites that it's users request (using rough guesstimates, natch). Where does all this get stored? And who pays (oh, wait, that'll be us won't it?)?
If they record packets too, then we're looking at a vast boring and largely pointless sea of data, and as people use the net more and send more stuff this is going to swell to utterly ridiculous proportions (think about how much data was getting passed by ISPs 7 years ago).
You mean now that some new piece of whizzy kit gets released we've got to speculate what a Beowulf "distributed parallel computing array" of them would run like? Maybe if someone can come up with a cool-sounding name then folks will stop calling them clusters : )
Such concerns were heightened in January when two companies announced they had determined the genetic code of rice, years ahead of a government effort.
"One thing people could argue is, How can a company own the most important food crop in the world?" said Dr. Rod A. Wing of Clemson University.
Damn; which companies? I want to buy shares!
P.S. here's the working address for those who don't know to replace the www with channel:
http://channel.nytimes.com/2001/05/15/science/15 CR OP.html
Sorry mate - you got the colours the wrong way round - blue has the shorter wavelength (either that or my Physics teacher was lying to me all those years ago). Still a great joke though : )
The mortician's name was Strowager, and he gave us the Strowager Switch - a connector that swings across many contacts and selects a line depending on the # you dialed. See Tanenbaum's Computer Networks for more info.
Or what if the other worlds are kinda cheap, and don't even bother developing their quantum computer and just crib our answers when we're done? Damn dirty cheats!
Similar thing happened to me last October - Dell informed my Boss's Boss that some of the batteries in our laptops might catch fire. Guess who had to deal with getting in touch with our 2500 users throughout the UK (it's a big company) - yup, muggins.
Dell gave a link to check if the batteries were from the faulty batch - it's http://support.dell.com/battery/check.asp and I had to type in the service tag and battery numbers for each one. And then Dell make you do it again to make sure you typed right (invariably I hadn't so had to do it again).
In the end the only possibly dodgy batterys I found belonged to my boss's boss, who'd informed us of it in the first place, but carried on using his battery w/o checking it for a further 3 weeks!
BTW, this is my first post since I've been coming here, so go easy on me, huh?
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I think the case in Cali was an extreme one. Since scientology has a much lower penetration here in the UK, and the courts seem considerably less likely to overreact to something like that, I figure I'm safe from litigation. And if I'm not I can always make use of the ease with which us Europeans can cross borders within the EU, and leg it to Germany : )
Again, thanks for the heads up; I'm glad you thought the post was funny. And it's increased traffic to my barely-visited site way more than Lycos ever did!
N.B. The CoS is illegal over in Germany.
Seriously, I tried looking for it but that's quite a popular group and I don't have the time, so if anyone can tip me off to the thread name I'd appreciate it (in case I need to cover my @$$). Better yet would be a link to the thread on groups.google.com (work won't let me install a newsreader). Cheers. Dr Cheeks.
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I actually got to use one of these in some motorway services (M1 northbound, somewhere in the Midlands North of the Leicester area) - they were on some sort of free trial (I think they may have been a more recent model than those in the phone boxes). Typing an address on an LCD touchscreen is not something particularly enjoyable (esp since the keys were too small and insensitive). Plus they only seemed to have limited support for stuff like JavaScript etc.
I couldn't find specific frequency info on the SPIKE site - it just said RF - so I dunno how much a signal would be attenuated by walls; perhaps some sort of booster could come in handy.
Just thinking out loud here...
Alternatively the pr0nographers could simply point their domain names at servers outside the US - will they still be answerable to US law if they're effectively in a different country?
As much as I'm loathe to say it, filter software seems like a better solution.
So, does this mean that along with controlling vitamins etc. in space-food they also work on the diet to make sure the astronauts aren't going to be producing their own "nefarious funk "?
OK, fair enough. I'm a dumbass. It's Friday afternoon and my brain's stopped working.
Is this supposed to be serious or are you just trolling?
Great; now distraught parents will be claiming that video games turned their children into homicidal lumberjacks.
It's true; pr0n helps media - see also the internet and the printing press (yes, people in the olden days were pervs too).
If they record packets too, then we're looking at a vast boring and largely pointless sea of data, and as people use the net more and send more stuff this is going to swell to utterly ridiculous proportions (think about how much data was getting passed by ISPs 7 years ago).
CERN Committee: Eh? OK Tim, um, sounds great...
You mean now that some new piece of whizzy kit gets released we've got to speculate what a Beowulf "distributed parallel computing array" of them would run like? Maybe if someone can come up with a cool-sounding name then folks will stop calling them clusters : )
"One thing people could argue is, How can a company own the most important food crop in the world?" said Dr. Rod A. Wing of Clemson University.
Damn; which companies? I want to buy shares!
P.S. here's the working address for those who don't know to replace the www with channel:5 CR OP.html
http://channel.nytimes.com/2001/05/15/science/1
Sorry mate - you got the colours the wrong way round - blue has the shorter wavelength (either that or my Physics teacher was lying to me all those years ago). Still a great joke though : )
...that TW eployees are now going to be subjected to the same "Horny naked teens" unsolicited mails that all the other AOL users get every day?
The mortician's name was Strowager, and he gave us the Strowager Switch - a connector that swings across many contacts and selects a line depending on the # you dialed. See Tanenbaum's Computer Networks for more info.
We'll be building a spice-rack out of Sputnik
Or what if the other worlds are kinda cheap, and don't even bother developing their quantum computer and just crib our answers when we're done? Damn dirty cheats!
Dell gave a link to check if the batteries were from the faulty batch - it's http://support.dell.com/battery/check.asp and I had to type in the service tag and battery numbers for each one. And then Dell make you do it again to make sure you typed right (invariably I hadn't so had to do it again).
In the end the only possibly dodgy batterys I found belonged to my boss's boss, who'd informed us of it in the first place, but carried on using his battery w/o checking it for a further 3 weeks!
BTW, this is my first post since I've been coming here, so go easy on me, huh?