By strange coincidence, the top two countries of mine I've wanted to go visit in my lifetime is the USA (again), and Japan. However, they treat tourists like criminals, and surprise, I'm not visiting those countries. There are dozens and dozens of other countries around the world that value my tourist money and are equally stunning, polite, and photogenic. No problem to me, just wait for the American tourist board to squeal some more soon about the amount of people willing to go to see the US is going down even more.
There are a number of factors as to why science is sliding, and it's not unique to the USA, most of the Western countries have this problem.
- In the UK, anyone on a science / engineering degree is sneered at; science, engineering and IT are SERIOUSLY uncool. - In the UK, it is cool to be a moron. - In the UK, there are no incentives for smart children to take up sciences (the government socially engineering moron population - easier to control). - In the UK, a degree in a useless subject like English, art, politics, history, Latin, drama, can get you on the career paths which can earn LOTS of money (ie. acting, banking, politics). How many rich people do you see that are engineers? The list rapidly runs out after Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Ellison and a few others. - Education in sciences is not that great, many lecturers prefer the textbook approach and not enough practical skills.
But that's the education side. The other problem is people in the sciences of engineering come up with a new gadget or process, but then find out that they can't proceed because part of their idea has already been patented by Mega rich corp..
There's only one way to look at this story, the quantum encryption may or may not be broken, or maybe partially so, so both cases could be true at the same time.
What you're saying is that for example Sony make or made the CD/DVD writers and blank media, cassette tapes and decks, VHS tapes and decks, MiniDV camcorders/tapes, record players, amplifiers, cables etc. etc. then they moan when the very electronics they produced is used to copy the stuff their record and film production companies puts out.
Either Sony should be forced to be a electronics manufacturer or a film/music company, not both.
Fact remains, the politicians around the world are all corrupt.
My fear that eventually travelers will all have to fly wearing issued paper-tissue gowns and be sedated during the flight approaches...
I thought the airlines were doing that already during the flights, what with the percentage of recycled air plus poisonous noxious fumes leeching into the air system from the engines, all help to make the passengers dopey and docile through the entire flight.
Maybe the next deal, Warner could, you know, sign artists that can sing or compose their own music? Then they could stop using the excuse of piracy for their falling sales of music and films. If you think this is a troll post, just listen or watch what passes for "modern" music or films.
That's easy for you to say not to pay the disgusting BBC tax, but recent developments will most likely mean that all phone lines will get a new BBC tax (eventually).... because you "could" get the BBC by clicking a link.
A project where they are motion capturing strippers, no wonder the project has got nowhere! Probably the most uncovered women these 'nerds' have seen in their life. Why would they want to stop that?!
I would rather see the end of cards, what with people who can't even remember an insecure and hopelessly short 4 digit pin, or paying for a newspaper - on a card, or the communications breakdown between cashier terminal and the bank. These people all drastically slow down the "10 items" lines in a store, there should be cash tills only.
Now credit and debit cards are coming out with contactless technology, so it will be even easier to steal money from your bank account, all without your knowledge, and as it's a small payment, the bank will do noting about the fraud.
I have a netbook, there are two points that would be nice. A better resolution in the more or less screen screen space, and for it to have a dual-core processor. Yes I know you can get that and more in a laptop and even for a similar price, but the size of a laptop is why I got a netbook. Dual core is nice to work on something without the computer running like it's in molasses. Would be nice to run compiz and other stuff without it bogging the netbook down.
Just think of the applications of plastic memory. Completely undetectable by the security scanners at airports, you can have your high security decryption key on you without having a USB key confiscated to see what is on it, possibly revealing your decryption key. One in the eye to the security nut-jobs who like to confiscate things to see what's on them under pretext of crime prevention / terror.
Notoriously bad*? Did Lucas do something like clean up the picture then add characters into the original to change the plot of certain scenes, thus ruining the original?
* I am not a SW "fan", and have not seen this "special", only that Weird Al Yankovic knows of it in the video "White and Nerdy".
Why not let the senile man put a stop to Google's web spider and see how long his rags last without people going to them to read the articles (and ads). If Murdoch thinks people will pay for his content, he will be "surprised" that they won't, that's why The Times became a free online newspaper in the first place, not enough were willing to pay for the content he had locked up in 6 monthly updated CD-ROM article archives (and the one week expiry of news articles before they were "archived").
European home affairs ministers are today set to approve a transatlantic deal that will see them turn reams of private banking data over to US intelligence.
The expected approval signals a remarkable diplomatic victory for Washington. The European Commission and the US had previously clashed over the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP).
TFTP began in secret following the 9/11 terror attacks. It allows US authorities to monitor SWIFT, the Belgian company that acts as clearing house for millions of daily transactions between European banks.
If you want to model the economy as a physics problem, you will have to factor in a special category for politicians AND companies like the RIAA / MPAA. They would represent either;
a) the force of resistance to change.
OR
b) the amount of useful work done (which tends towards zero).
.... and also factor into this category's equation a loooooooong rate of change time.
Let's face it, he's a nerd / geek, so expendable as there are no votes in it for this government that likes to extradite TO the USA, but cannot get any wanted terrorist suspects extradited FROM the USA. That's the beauty of the extradition treaty THIS corrupt British government has, it's one way, they are a spineless government who rolls over for anyone these days, not giving a crap bout their own. The Americans never got the extradition treaty through their government machinery, they are laughing.
How to sneak something into UK law, easy, you use what's called the "Statutory Instrument". It was beefed up and abused by the current crooked government, and it allows ANY law to be passed without anyone in The House of Commons or House of Lords EVER having seen it.
If you're looking for an answer to the question - how does Labour make so much law without anyone noticing? - and if you want to know how 3,000 new offences have been created, over a third of which carry prison sentences, then you are half way there. The shocking abuse of secondary legislation, usually referred to by the term "statutory instruments", is one of the scandals of our time.
Statutory instruments - ministerial diktats by any other name - are a way of making sure that little is debated or scrutinised by MPs. With their increasing use, power passes from the chamber of the House of Commons and parliamentary committees to ministers and ultimately to senior civil servants, a naturally undemocratic group who think of the public as an awkward managerial problem.
The provisions, which are inserted in a bill and allow the government to amend or repeal the legislation without debate are known as Henry VIII clauses. With good reason: they were named after Henry VIII's Statute of Proclamation of 1539, which gave him the power to make law by proclamation.
The Lisbon Treaty is self amending. There does not need to be another vote for anything by the people. I think that qualifies as "carte blanche" for them to do what they like.
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Ah but nobody will take away the IPv4 address I got myself, 127.0.0.1 !
By strange coincidence, the top two countries of mine I've wanted to go visit in my lifetime is the USA (again), and Japan. However, they treat tourists like criminals, and surprise, I'm not visiting those countries. There are dozens and dozens of other countries around the world that value my tourist money and are equally stunning, polite, and photogenic. No problem to me, just wait for the American tourist board to squeal some more soon about the amount of people willing to go to see the US is going down even more.
There are a number of factors as to why science is sliding, and it's not unique to the USA, most of the Western countries have this problem.
- In the UK, anyone on a science / engineering degree is sneered at; science, engineering and IT are SERIOUSLY uncool.
- In the UK, it is cool to be a moron.
- In the UK, there are no incentives for smart children to take up sciences (the government socially engineering moron population - easier to control).
- In the UK, a degree in a useless subject like English, art, politics, history, Latin, drama, can get you on the career paths which can earn LOTS of money (ie. acting, banking, politics). How many rich people do you see that are engineers? The list rapidly runs out after Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Ellison and a few others.
- Education in sciences is not that great, many lecturers prefer the textbook approach and not enough practical skills.
But that's the education side. The other problem is people in the sciences of engineering come up with a new gadget or process, but then find out that they can't proceed because part of their idea has already been patented by Mega rich corp..
There's only one way to look at this story, the quantum encryption may or may not be broken, or maybe partially so, so both cases could be true at the same time.
Are the Italians that desperate to stop the video of Berlusconi being thumped being available around the world? :)
What you're saying is that for example Sony make or made the CD/DVD writers and blank media, cassette tapes and decks, VHS tapes and decks, MiniDV camcorders/tapes, record players, amplifiers, cables etc. etc. then they moan when the very electronics they produced is used to copy the stuff their record and film production companies puts out.
Either Sony should be forced to be a electronics manufacturer or a film/music company, not both.
Fact remains, the politicians around the world are all corrupt.
My fear that eventually travelers will all have to fly wearing issued paper-tissue gowns and be sedated during the flight approaches...
I thought the airlines were doing that already during the flights, what with the percentage of recycled air plus poisonous noxious fumes leeching into the air system from the engines, all help to make the passengers dopey and docile through the entire flight.
Maybe the next deal, Warner could, you know, sign artists that can sing or compose their own music? Then they could stop using the excuse of piracy for their falling sales of music and films. If you think this is a troll post, just listen or watch what passes for "modern" music or films.
That's easy for you to say not to pay the disgusting BBC tax, but recent developments will most likely mean that all phone lines will get a new BBC tax (eventually).... because you "could" get the BBC by clicking a link.
If the government can come up with a fake reason to slap a 50pence/month (plus VAT tax on this 50p tax) on all phone lines (even VoIP lines line SkypeIn), then they could put another tax on phone lines "just in case" you want to visit the BBC / view online content.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6770899/Pre-Budget-report-2009-50p-broadband-tax.html
BBC shows via Video on demand (different to their iPlayer service), another reason to tax phone lines, whether you use the BBC or not.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article6964461.ece
I missed the DOS box so much I installed Linux, where I could use it's equivalent Bash.
(not a flame post, meant as a joke)
A project where they are motion capturing strippers, no wonder the project has got nowhere! Probably the most uncovered women these 'nerds' have seen in their life. Why would they want to stop that?!
I would rather see the end of cards, what with people who can't even remember an insecure and hopelessly short 4 digit pin, or paying for a newspaper - on a card, or the communications breakdown between cashier terminal and the bank. These people all drastically slow down the "10 items" lines in a store, there should be cash tills only.
Now credit and debit cards are coming out with contactless technology, so it will be even easier to steal money from your bank account, all without your knowledge, and as it's a small payment, the bank will do noting about the fraud.
This is an important concept regarding the internet that most politicians haven't had any brown envelopes to bother with fixing yet.
I have a netbook, there are two points that would be nice. A better resolution in the more or less screen screen space, and for it to have a dual-core processor. Yes I know you can get that and more in a laptop and even for a similar price, but the size of a laptop is why I got a netbook. Dual core is nice to work on something without the computer running like it's in molasses. Would be nice to run compiz and other stuff without it bogging the netbook down.
Just think of the applications of plastic memory. Completely undetectable by the security scanners at airports, you can have your high security decryption key on you without having a USB key confiscated to see what is on it, possibly revealing your decryption key. One in the eye to the security nut-jobs who like to confiscate things to see what's on them under pretext of crime prevention / terror.
Notoriously bad*? Did Lucas do something like clean up the picture then add characters into the original to change the plot of certain scenes, thus ruining the original?
* I am not a SW "fan", and have not seen this "special", only that Weird Al Yankovic knows of it in the video "White and Nerdy".
Why not let the senile man put a stop to Google's web spider and see how long his rags last without people going to them to read the articles (and ads). If Murdoch thinks people will pay for his content, he will be "surprised" that they won't, that's why The Times became a free online newspaper in the first place, not enough were willing to pay for the content he had locked up in 6 monthly updated CD-ROM article archives (and the one week expiry of news articles before they were "archived").
iPhone 3.1...... hopefully it'll be better than Windows 3.1 was?! Or are we to avoid version number comparison?
Strange how both the crooked EU and USA have kept this quiet....
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/30/swift_tftp/
European home affairs ministers are today set to approve a transatlantic deal that will see them turn reams of private banking data over to US intelligence.
The expected approval signals a remarkable diplomatic victory for Washington. The European Commission and the US had previously clashed over the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP).
TFTP began in secret following the 9/11 terror attacks. It allows US authorities to monitor SWIFT, the Belgian company that acts as clearing house for millions of daily transactions between European banks.
If you want to model the economy as a physics problem, you will have to factor in a special category for politicians AND companies like the RIAA / MPAA. They would represent either;
.... and also factor into this category's equation a loooooooong rate of change time.
a) the force of resistance to change.
OR
b) the amount of useful work done (which tends towards zero).
Let's face it, he's a nerd / geek, so expendable as there are no votes in it for this government that likes to extradite TO the USA, but cannot get any wanted terrorist suspects extradited FROM the USA. That's the beauty of the extradition treaty THIS corrupt British government has, it's one way, they are a spineless government who rolls over for anyone these days, not giving a crap bout their own. The Americans never got the extradition treaty through their government machinery, they are laughing.
If you give one of these phones to your girlfriend / wife, will it help you decode her rants into a language men can understand?
Why would Microsoft build a back door into Win7, when the front door is so wide open?
How to sneak something into UK law, easy, you use what's called the "Statutory Instrument". It was beefed up and abused by the current crooked government, and it allows ANY law to be passed without anyone in The House of Commons or House of Lords EVER having seen it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2009/jan/14/statutory-instruments-parliament
If you're looking for an answer to the question - how does Labour make so much law without anyone noticing? - and if you want to know how 3,000 new offences have been created, over a third of which carry prison sentences, then you are half way there. The shocking abuse of secondary legislation, usually referred to by the term "statutory instruments", is one of the scandals of our time.
Statutory instruments - ministerial diktats by any other name - are a way of making sure that little is debated or scrutinised by MPs. With their increasing use, power passes from the chamber of the House of Commons and parliamentary committees to ministers and ultimately to senior civil servants, a naturally undemocratic group who think of the public as an awkward managerial problem.
The provisions, which are inserted in a bill and allow the government to amend or repeal the legislation without debate are known as Henry VIII clauses. With good reason: they were named after Henry VIII's Statute of Proclamation of 1539, which gave him the power to make law by proclamation.
The Lisbon Treaty is self amending. There does not need to be another vote for anything by the people. I think that qualifies as "carte blanche" for them to do what they like.