Or other such device. You're looking for a solution for a problem that does not exist - there is significant power in computers of ever decreasing size these days. If you want to keep your phone separate from your computer, go for a netbook.
please understand, that intent is not the burden in civil law: only the ability*. If you HAVE something that is capable of receiving live broadcast video, then according to the Telecommunications Act you require a license - regardless of whether or not you bought a HDMI-ported TV with the intention of plugging in an antenna or you bought it because your graphics card has an HDMI output and the TV is a quarter the price of a professional panel with the same specification. The fact is that it *can* receive a signal and decode it, therefore the finding is that you are liable.
*This is also how they fucked my brother over. He had an air rifle that was 5% over the legal limit for a non-FAC air weapon. He didn't do as I'd advised (to demand a trial by jury in a criminal court), and the single magistrate in civil court not only had the weapon confiscated, but also dismissed his counterclaims against the police because during the dawn raid on his home they had removed several items without warrant, without cataloguing and without cause. Those items (some very rare and priceless paraphernalia) will never be seen again. Back to the real fuck-over: the only burden of proof on the police was that the weapon was overpowered. OK. They went a little further and said that the weapon was able to be turned up even further (not true, the hammer spring was sealed behind a solid rivet hence tampering was impossible without destroying the weapon), but the magistrate took the police at their word. Part of the judgement he said that the weapon was overpowered, had the potential to be powered up even further hence had to be confiscated. In a criminal court the burden would have been on the CPS to prove that the intent in buying a tamperproof weapon was to tamper with it and make it lethal at range. Notwithstanding the fact that it was only lethal if you were a rabbit at 70m or a tin can at 100m.
All this is, is paving the way for EUSOPA and criminalising everyone who tries to use the Internet for anything more than clicking on iPlayer and G+. Since there will suddenly be so many crims wandering our libraries and cyber cafés, to try them all by jury would be prohibitively expensive, so what we'll end up with is TV Licensing-type day sessions in courts up and down the country, fifteen minute hearings in front of a single magistrate, and automatic defaults in favour of the copyright cartels followed by fixed penalty judgements.
Most people who end up in front of a magistrate over TV Licensing, even if like me they don't have a TV, don't realise that they CAN and SHOULD DEMAND a trial by Jury. Over the past several years I've been in front of magistrates and walked out after informing them in no uncertain terms that I am not playing their game, that the burden is on TVLA to PROVE their case, even the point of PROVING that they have SEEN TV equipment in my home, working and tuned. What can they do? Jail me for asserting my RIGHTS under the Law of the Land? Bring it.
nice... the Haystack gives my offline passphrase 7.8x10^114 years.
I think I could live with that. It's non-dictionary yet easy to remember, but wouldn't work if I recited it verbally so it'd still be useless to anyone torturing me for it.
I was talking about recording something you're directly involved in, but I know what you mean. Refer the Rodney King incident.
By the way, if I'm getting the shit kicked out of me by a cop or cops at any point in the future (I couldn't imagine why I would be, but there again I don't think King was expecting it either), please, for the love of God, put down the fucking camera and HELP ME!
Oh, on the BarkingDogs link: in the UK, you can covertly record a conversation you are involved in (in person or on the phone), as long as one person in the conversation is aware and consents to the conversation being recorded. That'd be the one holding the recording device (ie, you). So, you're covered. 1998 (c.29) Section 36.
It's a useful thing to be able to videotape cops. It's a check on them ABUSING THEIR POSITION, which they often do. It is also allowedbyLaw. I'd go one step further than that and say that it's an obligation to self to do all one can to protect oneself since NOBODY ELSE IS GOING TO DO IT FOR YOU. Do not ever kid yourself that anyone will.
I have a Toshiba 755D laptop bought as a desktop replacement last April (OK you can stop laughing now). The keyboard is just fine for my pianist hands, didn't even have to adjust. I also have an Asus 1008HA netbook. The keyboard on that is half the size, yet I can still type just as fast on that as on the Toshiba. That said, I do still revert to my classic (I mean, PS/2 connector!) Microsoft Natural keyboard for really long projects simply because that is *the* most comfortable keyboard I have ever used. Bar NONE.
As to the original topic, it pisses me off that a technology that went mainstream for computers first (lcd screens) has been coopted for television sets, and now we have people ON SLASHDOT saying "if you want better resolution get a TV."! Fuck you! I DO NOT WANT A TV, I WANT A COMPUTER MONITOR WITHOUT THE BAGGAGE OF A UK TV LICENCE.
I would have put the phone on the desk, yelled at the computer (make up your own stuff for this bit), and then played an mp3 VERY LOUD of a.357 Magnum going off five times right next to the phone.
So when you get the call, make a holy show of not being able to install the software. Just sort of randomly offer your public IP, and when they jump on your dick for it, give it to them and let 'em rip:
it will have if the exchange (or any part of the route) is digital. If the call is terminated at either end, the connection is permanently broken. Most (if not all) UK branch exchanges these days are digital. There may be some analogue PBX (Private Branch Exchange, or Switchboard) equipment still in use (I have a 64-line PBX in the basement somewhere), but more usually these days branching occurs over a DSL to VOIP via a non-geographic number and the VOIP software does the branching.
Nobody ever went broke selling weapons. My cousin went into weapons, now he owns his own moon. Me? I opened a bar in the back end of Space.
- Quark
Or something like that.
Also:
Rule of Acquisition #34: war is good for business.
Why does nobody go to war with Switzerland? Because Switzerland is the home of the largest banks in the world, and the largest weapons manufacturers in the world. They supply money and arms to everybody. One man's money is as good as another's, be he Western despot or Eastern hero <g>.
1. what exactly qualifies you to make the assertion that I'm mentally ill? I'm pretty sure we've never met, never mind had the six months of biweekly face to face and multiple assessments? By what measurement do you make the assertion? What is your (or your textbooks') definition of mental normality?
2. what do you think has made me the way I am? A conscious decision, or environmental factors? Clue: not the first one.
I'm not ill, by the way. Neither am I "broken" by what appears to be your "I read it in OK Magazine" yardstick. Here's another question for you: Given that I have, by rule of thumb (and barring accidents), 38 years left to me, and given that by that measure I've already given half my life to others, can you give me one good compelling reason why I should not take the second half of my life for myself?
Is it spiteful for someone to want to live his own life for himself having given nearly four decades making everybody else happy? Is it being bitter to finally say "no, I'm not doing it anymore, I'm living for myself where I know I will be thanked for my efforts"?
I think it's pretty fucking selfish for anyone to expect someone else to do everything for them. The contrary (doing for yourself) is absolutely not the case.
@AC: so I'm elitist? Good. I think I'm justified. Unforgiving? Sure. Why the hell should I praise stupidity? Overcritical? When it's justified. Crass? No, that's calling it like I see it. If you don't like it, go have a nice cup of shut the fuck up. Sociopathic? I don't think that means what you think it means.
Thanks, Mickey. I sure didn't make me the way I am in this context. Like I said before, years of being dragged down to Neanderthal has made the decision to be crass, selfish, critical, cynical, and all the other bad -icals you can find in the dictionary, for me. I'm 37 years old and sick of doing for others when all I get in return is shat on. I'm in this life for ME now. If people around me start seeing changes for the "worse" in me when I start telling them they have to start thinking for themselves, I leave them to wonder if they might have had something to do with it.
This is Defective By Design brought into the Western education system. Standardised tests cater for the "average" or below; they do not challenge the intelligent, who are later deemed to be mentally ill(!). Normality these days is shuffling fries and frying burgers. When Joe 170 stands up and says "I'm going to do something different", he's ridiculed by those who scored Cs across the board because they do not know any better - because none of them were taught to challenge.
I pity those Average Joes because as a 170, I see the world from outside the box and often see better ways of doing things. Following several years of having my self esteem floored by the knuckledraggers around me, I'm at the point of "fuck it, you know what, I don't care anymore. Enough of trying to do good for others, I'm doing this for *me* and the rest of the world can go fuck itself."
The rest of the world can go fuck itself. I won't even gloat when the oil runs out and you're all sitting there bemoaning the fact that you all didn't listen. I'll just fire up my solar powered car and leave you in the shit of your own making.;
Flame away, Joe Average, let us know who you are so we can avoid you.
Oh, and re: your #1. There is better equipment, but it isn't in orbit. It's generally in the form of a UAV/UCAV which can be launched from a short temporary airstrip/road or even by hand (I've had my paws on the microdrones, and they're fun), they're far cheaper to launch/run and they have a bit longer than 45 minutes on-task than a satellite zipping around at 17,000mph.
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no investigation required, you know where your stuff is. It's a problem of recovery. That you can do yourself.
heh... I've had police approach me for forensic recoveries, each and every time I've told them they couldn't afford me.
Fucking useless wankers.
Or other such device. You're looking for a solution for a problem that does not exist - there is significant power in computers of ever decreasing size these days. If you want to keep your phone separate from your computer, go for a netbook.
that too. Amazing how cliché finds itself repeating through niche culture...
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You, sir, are an idiot.
please understand, that intent is not the burden in civil law: only the ability*. If you HAVE something that is capable of receiving live broadcast video, then according to the Telecommunications Act you require a license - regardless of whether or not you bought a HDMI-ported TV with the intention of plugging in an antenna or you bought it because your graphics card has an HDMI output and the TV is a quarter the price of a professional panel with the same specification. The fact is that it *can* receive a signal and decode it, therefore the finding is that you are liable.
*This is also how they fucked my brother over. He had an air rifle that was 5% over the legal limit for a non-FAC air weapon. He didn't do as I'd advised (to demand a trial by jury in a criminal court), and the single magistrate in civil court not only had the weapon confiscated, but also dismissed his counterclaims against the police because during the dawn raid on his home they had removed several items without warrant, without cataloguing and without cause. Those items (some very rare and priceless paraphernalia) will never be seen again. Back to the real fuck-over: the only burden of proof on the police was that the weapon was overpowered. OK. They went a little further and said that the weapon was able to be turned up even further (not true, the hammer spring was sealed behind a solid rivet hence tampering was impossible without destroying the weapon), but the magistrate took the police at their word. Part of the judgement he said that the weapon was overpowered, had the potential to be powered up even further hence had to be confiscated. In a criminal court the burden would have been on the CPS to prove that the intent in buying a tamperproof weapon was to tamper with it and make it lethal at range. Notwithstanding the fact that it was only lethal if you were a rabbit at 70m or a tin can at 100m.
All this is, is paving the way for EUSOPA and criminalising everyone who tries to use the Internet for anything more than clicking on iPlayer and G+. Since there will suddenly be so many crims wandering our libraries and cyber cafés, to try them all by jury would be prohibitively expensive, so what we'll end up with is TV Licensing-type day sessions in courts up and down the country, fifteen minute hearings in front of a single magistrate, and automatic defaults in favour of the copyright cartels followed by fixed penalty judgements.
Most people who end up in front of a magistrate over TV Licensing, even if like me they don't have a TV, don't realise that they CAN and SHOULD DEMAND a trial by Jury. Over the past several years I've been in front of magistrates and walked out after informing them in no uncertain terms that I am not playing their game, that the burden is on TVLA to PROVE their case, even the point of PROVING that they have SEEN TV equipment in my home, working and tuned. What can they do? Jail me for asserting my RIGHTS under the Law of the Land? Bring it.
I got the Picard reference. Clever.
nice... the Haystack gives my offline passphrase 7.8x10^114 years.
I think I could live with that. It's non-dictionary yet easy to remember, but wouldn't work if I recited it verbally so it'd still be useless to anyone torturing me for it.
I was talking about recording something you're directly involved in, but I know what you mean. Refer the Rodney King incident.
By the way, if I'm getting the shit kicked out of me by a cop or cops at any point in the future (I couldn't imagine why I would be, but there again I don't think King was expecting it either), please, for the love of God, put down the fucking camera and HELP ME!
on a passphrase of 63 characters, through a triple cascade encryption?
Obviously, this is an offline setup.
Oh, on the BarkingDogs link: in the UK, you can covertly record a conversation you are involved in (in person or on the phone), as long as one person in the conversation is aware and consents to the conversation being recorded. That'd be the one holding the recording device (ie, you). So, you're covered. 1998 (c.29) Section 36.
It's a useful thing to be able to videotape cops. It's a check on them ABUSING THEIR POSITION, which they often do. It is also allowed by Law. I'd go one step further than that and say that it's an obligation to self to do all one can to protect oneself since NOBODY ELSE IS GOING TO DO IT FOR YOU. Do not ever kid yourself that anyone will.
I have a Toshiba 755D laptop bought as a desktop replacement last April (OK you can stop laughing now). The keyboard is just fine for my pianist hands, didn't even have to adjust. I also have an Asus 1008HA netbook. The keyboard on that is half the size, yet I can still type just as fast on that as on the Toshiba. That said, I do still revert to my classic (I mean, PS/2 connector!) Microsoft Natural keyboard for really long projects simply because that is *the* most comfortable keyboard I have ever used. Bar NONE.
As to the original topic, it pisses me off that a technology that went mainstream for computers first (lcd screens) has been coopted for television sets, and now we have people ON SLASHDOT saying "if you want better resolution get a TV."! Fuck you! I DO NOT WANT A TV, I WANT A COMPUTER MONITOR WITHOUT THE BAGGAGE OF A UK TV LICENCE.
I would have put the phone on the desk, yelled at the computer (make up your own stuff for this bit), and then played an mp3 VERY LOUD of a .357 Magnum going off five times right next to the phone.
(proved):
So when you get the call, make a holy show of not being able to install the software. Just sort of randomly offer your public IP, and when they jump on your dick for it, give it to them and let 'em rip:
"One two seven dot zero dot zero dot one."
What worries me is when the men at the other end of the line (invariably a Bangalorian judging by the dialects) respond to the question...
Something I can assure you, my wife takes great exception to.
it will have if the exchange (or any part of the route) is digital. If the call is terminated at either end, the connection is permanently broken. Most (if not all) UK branch exchanges these days are digital. There may be some analogue PBX (Private Branch Exchange, or Switchboard) equipment still in use (I have a 64-line PBX in the basement somewhere), but more usually these days branching occurs over a DSL to VOIP via a non-geographic number and the VOIP software does the branching.
lucky we're not calling through stargates then... you'd be boned for thirty eight minutes.
Nobody ever went broke selling weapons. My cousin went into weapons, now he owns his own moon. Me? I opened a bar in the back end of Space.
- Quark
Or something like that.
Also:
Rule of Acquisition #34: war is good for business.
Why does nobody go to war with Switzerland?
Because Switzerland is the home of the largest banks in the world, and the largest weapons manufacturers in the world. They supply money and arms to everybody. One man's money is as good as another's, be he Western despot or Eastern hero <g>.
...two questions, Mr. Shotgun:
1. what exactly qualifies you to make the assertion that I'm mentally ill? I'm pretty sure we've never met, never mind had the six months of biweekly face to face and multiple assessments? By what measurement do you make the assertion? What is your (or your textbooks') definition of mental normality?
2. what do you think has made me the way I am? A conscious decision, or environmental factors? Clue: not the first one.
I'm not ill, by the way. Neither am I "broken" by what appears to be your "I read it in OK Magazine" yardstick. Here's another question for you: Given that I have, by rule of thumb (and barring accidents), 38 years left to me, and given that by that measure I've already given half my life to others, can you give me one good compelling reason why I should not take the second half of my life for myself?
Is it spiteful for someone to want to live his own life for himself having given nearly four decades making everybody else happy? Is it being bitter to finally say "no, I'm not doing it anymore, I'm living for myself where I know I will be thanked for my efforts"?
I think it's pretty fucking selfish for anyone to expect someone else to do everything for them. The contrary (doing for yourself) is absolutely not the case.
@AC:
so I'm elitist? Good. I think I'm justified.
Unforgiving? Sure. Why the hell should I praise stupidity?
Overcritical? When it's justified.
Crass? No, that's calling it like I see it. If you don't like it, go have a nice cup of shut the fuck up.
Sociopathic? I don't think that means what you think it means.
Thanks, Mickey. I sure didn't make me the way I am in this context. Like I said before, years of being dragged down to Neanderthal has made the decision to be crass, selfish, critical, cynical, and all the other bad -icals you can find in the dictionary, for me. I'm 37 years old and sick of doing for others when all I get in return is shat on. I'm in this life for ME now. If people around me start seeing changes for the "worse" in me when I start telling them they have to start thinking for themselves, I leave them to wonder if they might have had something to do with it.
This is Defective By Design brought into the Western education system. Standardised tests cater for the "average" or below; they do not challenge the intelligent, who are later deemed to be mentally ill(!). Normality these days is shuffling fries and frying burgers. When Joe 170 stands up and says "I'm going to do something different", he's ridiculed by those who scored Cs across the board because they do not know any better - because none of them were taught to challenge.
I pity those Average Joes because as a 170, I see the world from outside the box and often see better ways of doing things. Following several years of having my self esteem floored by the knuckledraggers around me, I'm at the point of "fuck it, you know what, I don't care anymore. Enough of trying to do good for others, I'm doing this for *me* and the rest of the world can go fuck itself."
The rest of the world can go fuck itself. I won't even gloat when the oil runs out and you're all sitting there bemoaning the fact that you all didn't listen. I'll just fire up my solar powered car and leave you in the shit of your own making.;
Flame away, Joe Average, let us know who you are so we can avoid you.
Oh, and re: your #1. There is better equipment, but it isn't in orbit. It's generally in the form of a UAV/UCAV which can be launched from a short temporary airstrip/road or even by hand (I've had my paws on the microdrones, and they're fun), they're far cheaper to launch/run and they have a bit longer than 45 minutes on-task than a satellite zipping around at 17,000mph.