You must understand that most people in the UK want this.
Er, really? Who says so? I don't recall being asked if I wanted any self-serving government dick-head who felt like it, accessing information about me, at will, possibly to try and find a way of prosecuting me for something, excluding me from something, or including me in something.
Because the government don't tell us in the news "we are doing something to take away more of your rights" most people just don't even realise it's happening until it's too late.
The posession and use of private firearms is not illegal in the UK - anyone except for convicted criminals can own and use a firearm, subject to police checks, and having a valid reason to own and use a firearm.
The RIPA act http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/ripa/ makes it an offence to NOT disclose passwords when required, by the law enforcement agencies of this country.
Non disclosure is punishable by up two years imprisonment!
My ISP (Karoo) blocks the Virgin_killer image/page, but I was able to go straight to the two pages in this reply with no problem!
ISP's that seem to be allowing the page to be viewed are -
3 Mobile Broadband
AOL
Sky
BT
Force 9
Obviously there may be more, and so far ones blocking it are
Karoo
O2
I have found this out by posting to another forum, and asking for peoples input.
I have emailed my ISP to complain, and told them that I still have a way of accessing the page, but have not explained how - I don't think they have realised that exists!
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One of the interesting aspects, is that most of the music we see today, is still a combination of patronage and intellectual property.
The recording & distribution companies, pay the artist to create works, A quite interesting thing about this, is that only a few months ago, scientists were claiming that every possible combination of musical notes had been used - so that would mean that any music that is written now, is by default a copy (maybe unwittingly) of someones work in the past.
Does this also then, mean that DRM/Copyright of music is not a valid system, if you are trying to stop someone from using/stealing something that you just copied/used/stole?
Wouldn't you think that AV firms would be glad of this type of competition? It will allow them to (possibly) find and fix a problem or problems, BEFORE they are found in the wild! This will make them PRO active instead of RE active, and will make them more efficient. If they were to try employing malware/virus writers, to create these software problems for them, instead of waiting for them to arrive at peoples computers, then people might actually think their products are worth paying for!
Well, if you're wierd, then I must be too! I got the Headfirst Javascript book; and then because I learned well from it, I went out and bought the Java book too. They must just both suit my sense of humour, and preferred learning style. As acomparison, I've looked at some of the 'For dummies' books in the past, and chucked them out, 'cos they were just crap,and had so much waffle in them, that you didn't actually learn anything, the HF books are different,as is only to be expected from O'Reilly.
In my opinion, Jesus was just an early terrorist, with a good PR company! Okay, you believers, if he was around now, and railed against the establishment in the way the bible says (especially in the UK or US) he would be locked away immediately! If he had carried out his 'miracles' in the middle ages in the UK, he would have been burned at the stake as a witch! If the same 'miracles' were to be performed today, he would either be making a fortune as a stage magician, or be busy being dissected by scientists. Never mind that his mother got pregnant out of wedlock, in an age when women could be, and were, stoned to death for this 'crime'; she just got lucky and managed to fool most of the people, most of the time! Perhaps Pontius Pilate was one of the few people to see things clearly, in much he same way the UK and US governments do now - kill Osama Bin Laden, and the party has no host! They just need to remember what Pontius forgot - clear all the records so there is no evidence; in the same way that the Whitehouse have done with their E-mails.
Sorry to all you believers, please don't be offended - I'm a believer too, I just believe differently to you!
Seems to me, the US administration is deep in the brown stuff at the moment, and whatever they do won't get them out- BUT - sometime, they're going to be even deeper, and they'll realise that some of those missing e-mails will get them out of it, and they will magically be able to find them again! The US police/courts/FBI or whatever, should keep records of the dates that these 'missing' e-mails fall between, and then when one appears, chase them all... somebody, somewhere, WILL still have them all saved, even if it is on an unofficial googlemail account; somebody always does!
I agree with this, I had a conversation with a cinema manager about this subject a couple of years ago; talking about video piracy. He asked why people would buy a pirated film, his position being that you wouldn't have as good an experience as if you saw the same film at the cinema. My answer was that most of the people buying pirated films probably wouldn't go to the cinema anyway, so the cinemas haven't actually lost any money - they just haven't made any!He got the point!
I don't advocate piracy, and I only have open-source/freeware games, so personally, it's a moot point; however, I do know people that have played pirated games, and then gone on to buy and play legitimate versions of the same game, so in that sense, you could argue that piracy is free advertising!
I agree with you - who the f**k gives the United Shits of Arseland the right to push laws on the rest of us?
On Dec 5, there was a report that US congress were banning humans on Mars, who are they to say what the rest of the world can do? Mars doesn't belong to them!
I can understand why Muslims/Cubans/Chinese etc. don't like America when they come out with rubbish like this.
I write my HTML and scripts etc. by hand in Vi. I am doing an IT degree course at university, where they prefer us to use windows apps (Dreamweaver/Photoshop etc.) I really feel uncomfortable using these 'tools'. The tutor just seems to expect everyone to know which button(s) to press, and after a very short time, I get frustrated and switch off.
Some of my classmates were very surprised when they found out that you don't need Dreamweaver to write HTML, and that you don't have to use photoshop to edit graphics.
Given a very specific 'spec' I can write a web-site faster using Vi than most of my classmates can using Dreamweaver.
It just proves a point - learn the basics and the theory properly, and you can use the basic tool to do the same job.
If you need to chop a tree down, you can use an ax or a chainsaw, at the end of the day, the tree is still down!
I have asked PC World for laptops/desktops with either no OS, or with Linux pre-installed, and they just don't do them (that's when you find a member of staff that knows what Linux is)! When I have suggested buying one and removing Windows, they immediately tell you that this will invalidate the warranty! On top of that, they tell you that if the computer does ever need to go back to them for repair, they will simply re-install Windows!
The only way to get a computer from PC World with no OS is through their business department.
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You must understand that most people in the UK want this. Er, really? Who says so? I don't recall being asked if I wanted any self-serving government dick-head who felt like it, accessing information about me, at will, possibly to try and find a way of prosecuting me for something, excluding me from something, or including me in something. Because the government don't tell us in the news "we are doing something to take away more of your rights" most people just don't even realise it's happening until it's too late.
If it is IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE THINGS POINTY - then how would you get a pointy knife?
The posession and use of private firearms is not illegal in the UK - anyone except for convicted criminals can own and use a firearm, subject to police checks, and having a valid reason to own and use a firearm.
The RIPA act http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/ripa/ makes it an offence to NOT disclose passwords when required, by the law enforcement agencies of this country. Non disclosure is punishable by up two years imprisonment!
My ISP (Karoo) blocks the Virgin_killer image/page, but I was able to go straight to the two pages in this reply with no problem! ISP's that seem to be allowing the page to be viewed are - 3 Mobile Broadband AOL Sky BT Force 9 Obviously there may be more, and so far ones blocking it are Karoo O2 I have found this out by posting to another forum, and asking for peoples input. I have emailed my ISP to complain, and told them that I still have a way of accessing the page, but have not explained how - I don't think they have realised that exists!
My idea of the perfect phone call, is the one I miss!
Wouldn't you think that AV firms would be glad of this type of competition? It will allow them to (possibly) find and fix a problem or problems, BEFORE they are found in the wild! This will make them PRO active instead of RE active, and will make them more efficient. If they were to try employing malware/virus writers, to create these software problems for them, instead of waiting for them to arrive at peoples computers, then people might actually think their products are worth paying for!
Well, if you're wierd, then I must be too! I got the Headfirst Javascript book; and then because I learned well from it, I went out and bought the Java book too. They must just both suit my sense of humour, and preferred learning style. As acomparison, I've looked at some of the 'For dummies' books in the past, and chucked them out, 'cos they were just crap,and had so much waffle in them, that you didn't actually learn anything, the HF books are different,as is only to be expected from O'Reilly.
In my opinion, Jesus was just an early terrorist, with a good PR company! Okay, you believers, if he was around now, and railed against the establishment in the way the bible says (especially in the UK or US) he would be locked away immediately! If he had carried out his 'miracles' in the middle ages in the UK, he would have been burned at the stake as a witch! If the same 'miracles' were to be performed today, he would either be making a fortune as a stage magician, or be busy being dissected by scientists. Never mind that his mother got pregnant out of wedlock, in an age when women could be, and were, stoned to death for this 'crime'; she just got lucky and managed to fool most of the people, most of the time! Perhaps Pontius Pilate was one of the few people to see things clearly, in much he same way the UK and US governments do now - kill Osama Bin Laden, and the party has no host! They just need to remember what Pontius forgot - clear all the records so there is no evidence; in the same way that the Whitehouse have done with their E-mails. Sorry to all you believers, please don't be offended - I'm a believer too, I just believe differently to you!
I would consider maths to be the basis of science! In this case, the maths involve astronomy - so it IS science!
Seems to me, the US administration is deep in the brown stuff at the moment, and whatever they do won't get them out- BUT - sometime, they're going to be even deeper, and they'll realise that some of those missing e-mails will get them out of it, and they will magically be able to find them again! The US police/courts/FBI or whatever, should keep records of the dates that these 'missing' e-mails fall between, and then when one appears, chase them all... somebody, somewhere, WILL still have them all saved, even if it is on an unofficial googlemail account; somebody always does!
I agree with this, I had a conversation with a cinema manager about this subject a couple of years ago; talking about video piracy. He asked why people would buy a pirated film, his position being that you wouldn't have as good an experience as if you saw the same film at the cinema. My answer was that most of the people buying pirated films probably wouldn't go to the cinema anyway, so the cinemas haven't actually lost any money - they just haven't made any!He got the point! I don't advocate piracy, and I only have open-source/freeware games, so personally, it's a moot point; however, I do know people that have played pirated games, and then gone on to buy and play legitimate versions of the same game, so in that sense, you could argue that piracy is free advertising!
I agree with you - who the f**k gives the United Shits of Arseland the right to push laws on the rest of us? On Dec 5, there was a report that US congress were banning humans on Mars, who are they to say what the rest of the world can do? Mars doesn't belong to them! I can understand why Muslims/Cubans/Chinese etc. don't like America when they come out with rubbish like this.
I write my HTML and scripts etc. by hand in Vi. I am doing an IT degree course at university, where they prefer us to use windows apps (Dreamweaver/Photoshop etc.) I really feel uncomfortable using these 'tools'. The tutor just seems to expect everyone to know which button(s) to press, and after a very short time, I get frustrated and switch off. Some of my classmates were very surprised when they found out that you don't need Dreamweaver to write HTML, and that you don't have to use photoshop to edit graphics. Given a very specific 'spec' I can write a web-site faster using Vi than most of my classmates can using Dreamweaver. It just proves a point - learn the basics and the theory properly, and you can use the basic tool to do the same job. If you need to chop a tree down, you can use an ax or a chainsaw, at the end of the day, the tree is still down!
I have asked PC World for laptops/desktops with either no OS, or with Linux pre-installed, and they just don't do them (that's when you find a member of staff that knows what Linux is)! When I have suggested buying one and removing Windows, they immediately tell you that this will invalidate the warranty! On top of that, they tell you that if the computer does ever need to go back to them for repair, they will simply re-install Windows! The only way to get a computer from PC World with no OS is through their business department.