I have a website, but I didn't explicitly authorize NZ residents to view it. Does that make it illegal for NZ residents to download my copywritten material just by visiting the website? Politicians and lobbyists really do live on another planet.
Maybe it's about time the Windows operating system was given the ability to cache DNS queries locally BY DEFAULT. It would speed up searches for most used sites by the user, and take the load of the internet from running requests for sites the user keep on visiting.
Also here in UK, taught to take foot of gas and let the car coast as much as possible until you need to brake. This is not always possible as there are ALWAYS dickheads that have lead feet and are right up to your bumper (fender) because they want to get to that red light faster. If you can let the car coast then do so, also wastes less energy from not using the brakes until you really need to.
Of course, that kind of driving to traffic lights may be different for [electric] cars with regenerative braking.
Having used Mandrake and Mandriva, the problem with the sound system can be put down to two events. The introduction of KDE4 which was pushed out into a working distro before KDE4 was really ready (and no way back to KDE3 which p'ed off a LOT of users). Then there's the introduction of PulseAudio (although one of the developers was most helpful in tracking down bugs I had found which he pushed out patches into the main distro).
While not the fault of PulseAudio, there are packages that still do not behave nice with it, in particular the hopelessly outdated Skype (who still do not have a 64bit version in static / dynamic - and Linux users don't all use Ubuntu).
I would say the financial wrangling of Mandriva did not help, and the ultimate sacking of key developers who setup Mageia distro may have given a good kick up the backside of Mandriva... all be it too late to save all those that jumped to Mageia.
After World War 2 people were appalled to find out that the Nazi government were building up files of peoples measurements of faces and other such measurements to show / prove their master race theory.
Isn't having DNA taken the exact same thing? There should be outrage over this kind of thing and where it could possibly lead mankind.
I can't say if a computer is better than a human at marking, but in my engineering subjects, when my name was on the test papers I did not get very good grades (actually at least grade lower than expected). But as soon as all the students were given anonymous numbers the grades went up. Conclusion, the staff could no longer decide to give better grades to their pet students. So in theory, there could be many students who get better grades because there is no more favouritism.
Ironic that Paypal should be looking to starve others of funds, I boycot Paypay for NOT being a bank*, for taking money from users accounts depending on what the weather is, for their disgraceful terms and conditions which affect your privacy and give them the right to do what they like, and generally getting away with scummy anti-competitive practices. The consumer councils here do not want to take on Paypal, and as people might of noticed in the recent news, the UK police are institutionally corrupt.
Two can play the game of cutting off money supply, and from my perspective, I hurt far more companies than Paypal, and have no sympathy for their "only pay" or "must pay" using Paypal", for example Ebay,
Two fingers to the RIAA and MPAA, should have sold recent music / films, not the garbage you've been rolling out for years. Your industry is dying, don't expect me to prop it up. Time to find your coke fund from somewhere else.
*Basing yourself in a European country with the least regulations to get away with what they do to users.
Many of these [automatic number plate recognition] cameras are less of an intrusion on privacy than may be feared: the 6,600 ANPR traffic monitoring cameras run by the Highways Agency and Trafficmaster do not transmit numberplates. But according to the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), there are 10,502 ANPR cameras collecting data for police forces - including cameras run by councils, which pass data on - which transmit full registration numbers, and in some cases photos of drivers and passengers, with the former held for two years at the National ANPR Data Centre (NADC).
However, this article suggests that the plates, locations, times, and photographs of people in the cars will "only be kept for 2 years". When have you EVER known government to throw away information it collects on you - EVER???? With storage so cheap, they will keep data forever.
The UK feels like a virtual prison, spied upon everywhere you go. That's not a free society, but they will bullsh*t you that it's for your safety.
If it bothers you that much, don't bee a freetard, get yourself a basic website with webspace, and you control your own domain and don't have to worry about companies making up such TOCs where they think they own copyrights they have no right to. (this was not a troll posting).
There is a problem with user data, I thought that Microsoft would have fixed it in Win7, but it didn't. Microsoft by default saves all user files in the Windows partition. Wipe install Windows and kiss your data goodbye.
Win WInd7, Microsoft seemed to have made a "System reserved" partition, so why could they not keep the user files separate from the OS in another partition?
Thank goodness for better partition layout scheme in Linux (most distros put/home in a separate partition and not in root).
"Health-care staff treating you may not be aware of your current medications in order to treat you safely and effectively."
"Health-care staff treating you may not be made aware of current conditions and/or diagnoses leading to a delay or missed opportunity for correct treatment."
"Health-care staff may not be aware of any allergies/adverse reactions to medications and may prescribe or administer a drug/treatment with adverse consequences."
Many people have written to keep themselves off the database, but that means nothing as the government does what it pleases, always has, always will.
Why contemplate Google Chrome? Dump the Google branding and install Chromium instead. Still, Firefox has vastly more plug-ins which make browsing more bearable, which is why it has a bigger following. If only they could stop some of the plug-ins from being so damn slow.
Define offensive, because to a lot of people, the sight of politicians going around for votes and kissing babies is offensive. Will those pictures be banned? Stranger danger, beware of politicians!
I watched the videos, and say without hesitation, that they show the exact reason I never started with Linux back then. At least with Windows it was setup.exe and away you go.
Don't get me wrong, when I actually stated in Linux, you still had to mess around with configuring x and the graphics resolution on first install, but by that stage you did not have a reliance on DOS, and you had a sort of graphical representation of what is on your hard drive, so you don't install into the wrong partition.
Today Linux is MILES better than it was and is easy to install, the only problem is convincing people that it is usable instead of Windows.
I was hoping Skype would take the opportunity to update the 2 year old Linux 2.1.0.81 version (which did NOT crash and could dial without problem to non affected users). We don't all use Ubuntu.
"Thousands of Turkish demonstrators poured into central Istanbul yesterday to protest against the government's Internet censorship.
They did? I didn't hear anything about it.
Seriously, the BBC (in the UK) were very quiet about this happening, almost as if the BBC were censoring the news to show us populist garbage of football (soccer) results.
I predict not a single update will go into the Linux and Android versions, and the Mac and iPhone versions will lag behind in features.
When was the last update for Linux users? Most people are stuck on 2.10.81, which is seriously broken - it is ancient! Most people DO NOT use Ubuntu, so are stuck with the ancient 32bit POS on a 64bit system.
For a so called environment minister, you'd think she (Caroline Spelman) would have SOME sort of science or engineering degree, but no, she has a BA First Class in European Studies.
Like most politicians, they are NOT qualified in the areas they speak about, and is why such idiotic laws and outbusts are made.
Ubuntu is not the only Linux distro that is changing their UI, the forthcoming release of Mandriva will change theirs as well.... http://www.jzkretail.com/mandriva-2011-beta-2/ Why change the desktop to look like a netbook install?
At least those that use Mandriva will have a choice, they can jump to the new community fork Mageia which does not have these UI changes (Mageia currently in Beta testing, and from what I've tested of it, it works well).
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I have a website, but I didn't explicitly authorize NZ residents to view it. Does that make it illegal for NZ residents to download my copywritten material just by visiting the website? Politicians and lobbyists really do live on another planet.
Maybe it's about time the Windows operating system was given the ability to cache DNS queries locally BY DEFAULT. It would speed up searches for most used sites by the user, and take the load of the internet from running requests for sites the user keep on visiting.
Also here in UK, taught to take foot of gas and let the car coast as much as possible until you need to brake. This is not always possible as there are ALWAYS dickheads that have lead feet and are right up to your bumper (fender) because they want to get to that red light faster. If you can let the car coast then do so, also wastes less energy from not using the brakes until you really need to.
Of course, that kind of driving to traffic lights may be different for [electric] cars with regenerative braking.
Having used Mandrake and Mandriva, the problem with the sound system can be put down to two events. The introduction of KDE4 which was pushed out into a working distro before KDE4 was really ready (and no way back to KDE3 which p'ed off a LOT of users). Then there's the introduction of PulseAudio (although one of the developers was most helpful in tracking down bugs I had found which he pushed out patches into the main distro).
While not the fault of PulseAudio, there are packages that still do not behave nice with it, in particular the hopelessly outdated Skype (who still do not have a 64bit version in static / dynamic - and Linux users don't all use Ubuntu).
I would say the financial wrangling of Mandriva did not help, and the ultimate sacking of key developers who setup Mageia distro may have given a good kick up the backside of Mandriva... all be it too late to save all those that jumped to Mageia.
After World War 2 people were appalled to find out that the Nazi government were building up files of peoples measurements of faces and other such measurements to show / prove their master race theory. Isn't having DNA taken the exact same thing? There should be outrage over this kind of thing and where it could possibly lead mankind.
I can't say if a computer is better than a human at marking, but in my engineering subjects, when my name was on the test papers I did not get very good grades (actually at least grade lower than expected). But as soon as all the students were given anonymous numbers the grades went up. Conclusion, the staff could no longer decide to give better grades to their pet students. So in theory, there could be many students who get better grades because there is no more favouritism.
Ironic that Paypal should be looking to starve others of funds, I boycot Paypay for NOT being a bank*, for taking money from users accounts depending on what the weather is, for their disgraceful terms and conditions which affect your privacy and give them the right to do what they like, and generally getting away with scummy anti-competitive practices. The consumer councils here do not want to take on Paypal, and as people might of noticed in the recent news, the UK police are institutionally corrupt.
Two can play the game of cutting off money supply, and from my perspective, I hurt far more companies than Paypal, and have no sympathy for their "only pay" or "must pay" using Paypal", for example Ebay,
Two fingers to the RIAA and MPAA, should have sold recent music / films, not the garbage you've been rolling out for years. Your industry is dying, don't expect me to prop it up. Time to find your coke fund from somewhere else.
*Basing yourself in a European country with the least regulations to get away with what they do to users.
Many of these [automatic number plate recognition] cameras are less of an intrusion on privacy than may be feared: the 6,600 ANPR traffic monitoring cameras run by the Highways Agency and Trafficmaster do not transmit numberplates. But according to the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), there are 10,502 ANPR cameras collecting data for police forces - including cameras run by councils, which pass data on - which transmit full registration numbers, and in some cases photos of drivers and passengers, with the former held for two years at the National ANPR Data Centre (NADC).
However, this article suggests that the plates, locations, times, and photographs of people in the cars will "only be kept for 2 years". When have you EVER known government to throw away information it collects on you - EVER???? With storage so cheap, they will keep data forever.
The UK feels like a virtual prison, spied upon everywhere you go. That's not a free society, but they will bullsh*t you that it's for your safety.
The "i" stands for irritating. See the evidence..
Irritating Pad
Irritating Pod
Irritating Mac
Irritating Phone
Irritating Tunes
See, it all fist nicely, i for irritating.
Never mind, you can add the cost to the $14Trillion you already owe the rest of the world
If it bothers you that much, don't bee a freetard, get yourself a basic website with webspace, and you control your own domain and don't have to worry about companies making up such TOCs where they think they own copyrights they have no right to. (this was not a troll posting).
There is a problem with user data, I thought that Microsoft would have fixed it in Win7, but it didn't. Microsoft by default saves all user files in the Windows partition. Wipe install Windows and kiss your data goodbye. Win WInd7, Microsoft seemed to have made a "System reserved" partition, so why could they not keep the user files separate from the OS in another partition? Thank goodness for better partition layout scheme in Linux (most distros put /home in a separate partition and not in root).
That's nothing. In the UK the National Health Service is scaring people to accepting their details to be on computers instead of paper records. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7704050/NHS-scaring-patients-into-accepting-electronic-records-database.html
Such scares as:
"Health-care staff treating you may not be aware of your current medications in order to treat you safely and effectively."
"Health-care staff treating you may not be made aware of current conditions and/or diagnoses leading to a delay or missed opportunity for correct treatment."
"Health-care staff may not be aware of any allergies/adverse reactions to medications and may prescribe or administer a drug/treatment with adverse consequences."
Many people have written to keep themselves off the database, but that means nothing as the government does what it pleases, always has, always will.
Why contemplate Google Chrome? Dump the Google branding and install Chromium instead. Still, Firefox has vastly more plug-ins which make browsing more bearable, which is why it has a bigger following. If only they could stop some of the plug-ins from being so damn slow.
Define offensive, because to a lot of people, the sight of politicians going around for votes and kissing babies is offensive. Will those pictures be banned? Stranger danger, beware of politicians!
I watched the videos, and say without hesitation, that they show the exact reason I never started with Linux back then. At least with Windows it was setup.exe and away you go.
Don't get me wrong, when I actually stated in Linux, you still had to mess around with configuring x and the graphics resolution on first install, but by that stage you did not have a reliance on DOS, and you had a sort of graphical representation of what is on your hard drive, so you don't install into the wrong partition.
Today Linux is MILES better than it was and is easy to install, the only problem is convincing people that it is usable instead of Windows.
PayPal took my money, that's FAR more serious than alleged trade secrets. No police investigation into that though.
I was hoping Skype would take the opportunity to update the 2 year old Linux 2.1.0.81 version (which did NOT crash and could dial without problem to non affected users). We don't all use Ubuntu.
Considering the location has been photographed infinite times and lots of video before this decision, how can it ever be enforced?
"Thousands of Turkish demonstrators poured into central Istanbul yesterday to protest against the government's Internet censorship.
They did? I didn't hear anything about it.
Seriously, the BBC (in the UK) were very quiet about this happening, almost as if the BBC were censoring the news to show us populist garbage of football (soccer) results.
I heard one of the DVD's was "Monica does Bill".
Two factor login?
Q1: We will trawl your personal data to sell to advertisers, log in here...
Q2: Are you sure you want your details to be sold to advertisers? Log in here...
I predict not a single update will go into the Linux and Android versions, and the Mac and iPhone versions will lag behind in features.
When was the last update for Linux users? Most people are stuck on 2.10.81, which is seriously broken - it is ancient! Most people DO NOT use Ubuntu, so are stuck with the ancient 32bit POS on a 64bit system.
For a so called environment minister, you'd think she (Caroline Spelman) would have SOME sort of science or engineering degree, but no, she has a BA First Class in European Studies. Like most politicians, they are NOT qualified in the areas they speak about, and is why such idiotic laws and outbusts are made.
Ubuntu is not the only Linux distro that is changing their UI, the forthcoming release of Mandriva will change theirs as well.... http://www.jzkretail.com/mandriva-2011-beta-2/ Why change the desktop to look like a netbook install?
At least those that use Mandriva will have a choice, they can jump to the new community fork Mageia which does not have these UI changes (Mageia currently in Beta testing, and from what I've tested of it, it works well).