Please, you must support this ID card, think of all those very poor multinational IT companies like IBM sorting through people's data, just like they did in Nazi Germany. Think of the politicians and their backhanders, and please, think of the taxpayer who is seemingly ever willing to put their hands in their pockets to find another £20bn (about $40bn US) the country cannot afford, whilst the government loses yet more personal data of the population.
The only people that are backing the ID cards are people with a vested interest in rolling out the police state, and cretins who's only idiotic childish reasoning is "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear."
Of course, the UK government have ways of forcing this "voluntary" ID card. It says that for students (university age) it will be voluntary, but to get a student loan to go to university will will HAVE to get an ID card, no ID card, no loan, no university. Not voluntary in other words unless you have lots of money.
If Apple pushed their OS more, they could start to worry Microsoft more, just as Linux already worries Microsoft (that's not a troll statement). Apple could also do that other thing that companies usually do to exist - make more money.
I can assure you, ISO is alive and well, and will be around for a many good years.
What are standards needed for anyway anymore? The record companies already regularly break the "Red Book Standard" for audio CD's and sell those fake data CD's as real audio CD's.
If only the autorities spent as much energy doing something REAL about burglars (house breakers), muggers, rapists and all the other low-lifes that make everyday law abiding people's lives a f-ing misery.
This fanciful figure on fibre rollout is to get the government to use taxpayers money to fund something the BT shareholders are too tightfisted to pay up themselves. They are just there for profits, not to pay for capital investment, let the sucker customers do that.
BT have had it REAL good since privitisation in the 1980's. They got the entire network for nothing, can charge other prividers access money to "their" lines, have benefited vastly because of digital switching so no need to have big buildings as exchanges (most now housed in street cabinets), and have sold off most the old phone exchanges to property developers.
They also charged "line rental" on top of call charges (and if you use the internet more line charges via your ISP* subscription). For what they charged over the years, you could have pulled/blown your own fibre down the cable ducts to the local exchange.
* Most people even if they have it at their exchange, are not on unbundled local-loop lines.
The Europeans might be pressuring Google to reduce its retention periods, but I suspect that Google heard the opposite point-of-view from the government here in the USA.
Interesting the Europeans want Google to not keep logs on people, the complete opposite of the European Union who have no problem on keeping logs of people for ever longer time to see if they are a threat (to them getting voted out). The oppression loving UK government is interested in unlimited retention time of data.
The European Parliament has approved rules forcing telephone companies to retain call and internet records for use in anti-terror investigations.
Records will be kept for up to two years under the new measures.
I am a _little_ from ideal weight because sometimes coding is mentally exhaustive that I don't feel like doing exercise. However, when stuck into a particular computer task which I want to get out of the way, I don't feel like eating and don't miss food, just need to have a (non soft drink) drink.
I was privileged in the past to visit the main ATC hub in the UK, and there they described the systems they used. They had a LOT of redundant systems but they were old, in fact in computing terms, some of it was ancient.
The head controller showing us around summed up the problem as this. As much as they would like to have new technology, it has to be tested and tested and tested to the point they could say the equipment is VERY reliable. Suppose they got a system using Pentium processors - the ones with the floating point problem. What if the software encountered that floating point problem, then because of that error it bought down a plane?
At the time, they were only just experimenting with colour displays for the controllers to watch over.
The new main control center for the UK that was opened is a gradual move from the old facililty to the new one. However the new facility was overbudget, and because of the need for exhaustive testing, years late.
Any updates to an air traffic system will take years.
So the BBC tax takes off of people BY THREAT OF PRISON £135-ish a year*, and now that the British public has paid for all the content the BBC are hoarding, they are expected to pay yet again.
I thought the RIAA is an American cartel not a UK one.
* You have to pay this tax even if you never watch the BBC on your tv, instead watching foreign satellite tv etc.
Standards are great, but who says you have to implement them?
Look at Internet Explorer and the w3 standards as a case.
If Microsoft don't add the competing OPEN format to Office, they will p-off lots of businesses and governments who went open source but still have departments using Microsoft products.
Just so long as they didn't do what the BBC did in the 1980's with the UK's modern "Doomsday Book" history archive project. The archive went on a Laserdisc, and what hardware today can read that format (not the machines on ebay)?
So when are the government going to do something about the music industry and film industry cartels that are anti-consumer? Those kickbacks to politicians also working well in the UK.
When is the last time you met a criminal buy a £3000 dSLR + lens kit to case out a place? At least the photographer was not accused by irrational mothers of photographing their children. Will they ban the sale of ALL cameras "for the sake of the children"?
Society, or rather, the moronic Western countries have got seriously warped, whilst everyone else looks on in laughter at what we've done TO OURSELVES in less than 10 years.
As someone that's looking to replace their ageing "cheap" film SLR to a dSLR, the thought that someone thinks that you're somehow a greater threat because you have an SLR rather than a pocket / easily concealable camera astounds me. We've allowed the politicians to twist the minds of the simpletons, and the simpletons to hold power over us in their jobs as "security" guards.
I'd like to encrypt emails, but everyone complains on something simple like adding digital signatures to the email, I get "what the hell is this sh*t?" Apparently MS-Outlook / Outlook Express do not like the digital signatures from applications like Thunderbird that understand OpenPGP signatures, they add loads of "garbled text" to the message.
So I can't sign my emails as having 100% come from me, what hope for persuading people to encrypt when they use such backward email packages?
I watched a news report about the exporting / dumping of PC's in Africa. I was amazed that in an effort to extract the copper from such cables as mains cables, they just set fire to the cables in some fuel. Surely it's cheaper and far less toxic to get a pair of cutters or knife and pull the copper wire out of it's sheath (easy) then pay for fuel to burn the cables?
Thankfully with Linux, I've not needed to get rid of my older PC's to a dump, have passed my stuff to others that don't need latest equipment just to surf or do email. You could say Linux promotes environmental responsibility.
So not only are businesses and tourists stopping going to the USA because of their over the top (and widely meaningless) security, now the US. wants to finish off their economy with people not doing trade altogether with the US. Smart thinking.
We could call the new film "Indiana Jones: A Bridge Too Far". It describes Indiana going to Europe in search of a decent Lucas script, but Indiana pushed so far and fast across Europe he got bogged down in Arnhem (he forgot his whip), his lackey cannot help Indy because he can't land because of fog. Indiana meets intense local opposition saying "enough of the franchises and rubbish scripts." So Indiana gets beaten back and returns home empty handed.
The film will later be re-released in THX certified, ultra-cleaned up digital transfer HiDef with additional scenes to hide the lack of continuity and script errors in the original release.
I loved my DAT (for audio) portable recorder, it employed Double-Reed-Solomon error correction, you would have to do some serious hammering to the side of the recorder to get the tape to "skip" in a way the error correction could not correct it and you'd hear it drop out, running and recording was NOT out of the question though.
Now what do the consumers have for recorders - cr*ppy, cheap, nasty, low bitrate, overcompressed MP3 recorders. The recording industry killed off an excellent (but expensive) format to palm off rubbish compressed audio to the masses. (Proper PCM recorders are no different in price to the DAT decks).
Sorry son, this label from the know-alls in NY say the this game is too violent for your age group, wait a few more years to play it. Oh, you joined a gang, that's good, you get out more AND you have social interaction with your peers.
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Please, you must support this ID card, think of all those very poor multinational IT companies like IBM sorting through people's data, just like they did in Nazi Germany. Think of the politicians and their backhanders, and please, think of the taxpayer who is seemingly ever willing to put their hands in their pockets to find another £20bn (about $40bn US) the country cannot afford, whilst the government loses yet more personal data of the population.
The only people that are backing the ID cards are people with a vested interest in rolling out the police state, and cretins who's only idiotic childish reasoning is "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear."
Of course, the UK government have ways of forcing this "voluntary" ID card. It says that for students (university age) it will be voluntary, but to get a student loan to go to university will will HAVE to get an ID card, no ID card, no loan, no university. Not voluntary in other words unless you have lots of money.
If Apple pushed their OS more, they could start to worry Microsoft more, just as Linux already worries Microsoft (that's not a troll statement). Apple could also do that other thing that companies usually do to exist - make more money.
I can assure you, ISO is alive and well, and will be around for a many good years.
What are standards needed for anyway anymore? The record companies already regularly break the "Red Book Standard" for audio CD's and sell those fake data CD's as real audio CD's.
If only the autorities spent as much energy doing something REAL about burglars (house breakers), muggers, rapists and all the other low-lifes that make everyday law abiding people's lives a f-ing misery.
I'm on IPv6, so I hide behind ::1/128
This fanciful figure on fibre rollout is to get the government to use taxpayers money to fund something the BT shareholders are too tightfisted to pay up themselves. They are just there for profits, not to pay for capital investment, let the sucker customers do that.
BT have had it REAL good since privitisation in the 1980's. They got the entire network for nothing, can charge other prividers access money to "their" lines, have benefited vastly because of digital switching so no need to have big buildings as exchanges (most now housed in street cabinets), and have sold off most the old phone exchanges to property developers.
They also charged "line rental" on top of call charges (and if you use the internet more line charges via your ISP* subscription). For what they charged over the years, you could have pulled/blown your own fibre down the cable ducts to the local exchange.
* Most people even if they have it at their exchange, are not on unbundled local-loop lines.
The Europeans might be pressuring Google to reduce its retention periods, but I suspect that Google heard the opposite point-of-view from the government here in the USA.
Interesting the Europeans want Google to not keep logs on people, the complete opposite of the European Union who have no problem on keeping logs of people for ever longer time to see if they are a threat (to them getting voted out). The oppression loving UK government is interested in unlimited retention time of data.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4527840.stm
The European Parliament has approved rules forcing telephone companies to retain call and internet records for use in anti-terror investigations. Records will be kept for up to two years under the new measures.
I am a _little_ from ideal weight because sometimes coding is mentally exhaustive that I don't feel like doing exercise. However, when stuck into a particular computer task which I want to get out of the way, I don't feel like eating and don't miss food, just need to have a (non soft drink) drink.
I was privileged in the past to visit the main ATC hub in the UK, and there they described the systems they used. They had a LOT of redundant systems but they were old, in fact in computing terms, some of it was ancient.
The head controller showing us around summed up the problem as this. As much as they would like to have new technology, it has to be tested and tested and tested to the point they could say the equipment is VERY reliable. Suppose they got a system using Pentium processors - the ones with the floating point problem. What if the software encountered that floating point problem, then because of that error it bought down a plane?
At the time, they were only just experimenting with colour displays for the controllers to watch over.
The new main control center for the UK that was opened is a gradual move from the old facililty to the new one. However the new facility was overbudget, and because of the need for exhaustive testing, years late.
Any updates to an air traffic system will take years.
As a previously loyal conservative voter, I cannot vote for the conservatives this time largely due to C61.
I see your problem. If they made it C90 then maybe that would seem better voter value than a C61, I mean, you can get 45 minutes per side from a C90!
So the BBC tax takes off of people BY THREAT OF PRISON £135-ish a year*, and now that the British public has paid for all the content the BBC are hoarding, they are expected to pay yet again.
I thought the RIAA is an American cartel not a UK one.
* You have to pay this tax even if you never watch the BBC on your tv, instead watching foreign satellite tv etc.
Standards are great, but who says you have to implement them?
Look at Internet Explorer and the w3 standards as a case.
If Microsoft don't add the competing OPEN format to Office, they will p-off lots of businesses and governments who went open source but still have departments using Microsoft products.
Maybe Phil should have digitally signed his original comment :-)
Just so long as they didn't do what the BBC did in the 1980's with the UK's modern "Doomsday Book" history archive project. The archive went on a Laserdisc, and what hardware today can read that format (not the machines on ebay)?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/11/bbc_domesday_project_saved/ or
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/research/domesday.htm/community.htm
So when are the government going to do something about the music industry and film industry cartels that are anti-consumer? Those kickbacks to politicians also working well in the UK.
Maybe now they will concentrate on more worrying and damaging crimes of house breakers, muggers, and illegal immigration (incl. people trafficking).
When is the last time you met a criminal buy a £3000 dSLR + lens kit to case out a place? At least the photographer was not accused by irrational mothers of photographing their children. Will they ban the sale of ALL cameras "for the sake of the children"?
Society, or rather, the moronic Western countries have got seriously warped, whilst everyone else looks on in laughter at what we've done TO OURSELVES in less than 10 years.
As someone that's looking to replace their ageing "cheap" film SLR to a dSLR, the thought that someone thinks that you're somehow a greater threat because you have an SLR rather than a pocket / easily concealable camera astounds me. We've allowed the politicians to twist the minds of the simpletons, and the simpletons to hold power over us in their jobs as "security" guards.
I'd like to encrypt emails, but everyone complains on something simple like adding digital signatures to the email, I get "what the hell is this sh*t?" Apparently MS-Outlook / Outlook Express do not like the digital signatures from applications like Thunderbird that understand OpenPGP signatures, they add loads of "garbled text" to the message.
So I can't sign my emails as having 100% come from me, what hope for persuading people to encrypt when they use such backward email packages?
But no one knows what song out of my thousands I'm using, and I can remember it easily because it goes doo-dee-dah-dit-da like I like.
I suggest that you no longer use "Strangers in the night" as the password.
I watched a news report about the exporting / dumping of PC's in Africa. I was amazed that in an effort to extract the copper from such cables as mains cables, they just set fire to the cables in some fuel. Surely it's cheaper and far less toxic to get a pair of cutters or knife and pull the copper wire out of it's sheath (easy) then pay for fuel to burn the cables?
Thankfully with Linux, I've not needed to get rid of my older PC's to a dump, have passed my stuff to others that don't need latest equipment just to surf or do email. You could say Linux promotes environmental responsibility.
So not only are businesses and tourists stopping going to the USA because of their over the top (and widely meaningless) security, now the US. wants to finish off their economy with people not doing trade altogether with the US. Smart thinking.
We could call the new film "Indiana Jones: A Bridge Too Far". It describes Indiana going to Europe in search of a decent Lucas script, but Indiana pushed so far and fast across Europe he got bogged down in Arnhem (he forgot his whip), his lackey cannot help Indy because he can't land because of fog. Indiana meets intense local opposition saying "enough of the franchises and rubbish scripts." So Indiana gets beaten back and returns home empty handed.
The film will later be re-released in THX certified, ultra-cleaned up digital transfer HiDef with additional scenes to hide the lack of continuity and script errors in the original release.
I loved my DAT (for audio) portable recorder, it employed Double-Reed-Solomon error correction, you would have to do some serious hammering to the side of the recorder to get the tape to "skip" in a way the error correction could not correct it and you'd hear it drop out, running and recording was NOT out of the question though.
Now what do the consumers have for recorders - cr*ppy, cheap, nasty, low bitrate, overcompressed MP3 recorders. The recording industry killed off an excellent (but expensive) format to palm off rubbish compressed audio to the masses. (Proper PCM recorders are no different in price to the DAT decks).
"For a reasonable time" implies that the equipment is returned if you're found innocent.
Before or after your laptop has become obsolete?
Sorry son, this label from the know-alls in NY say the this game is too violent for your age group, wait a few more years to play it. Oh, you joined a gang, that's good, you get out more AND you have social interaction with your peers.