No, the only reason the US sent *people* to the Moon was because the Russians had already beaten them to the punch regarding both farside orbit and robotic softlanding. Manned landing was the only milestone left.
"BUY IT NOW!" on DVD and game ads *is* misleading. You're "buying" a revocable license to use the media in an approved device. I've been saying this for YEARS on/. and getting slated for it. Now it seems people are at last waking up to this most insidious truth.
partly to FTFT, partly to inform: ACTA is an enabling piece of EU legislation that allows Governments to shut down websites they deem to be overly freethinking in their politics (eg positive action group blogs and newsboards). This is nothing to do with copyright infringement but with ACTA, they won't need pesky courts of Law, or even investigation into claims of copyright infringement - just the mere suggestion of copyright infringement will be enough for permanent shutdown and shitlisting of the domain.
Screw due process, Slashdot is subversive and it links to copyrighted material. Hell, you don't even have to go to court or attend police interviews.
To piss all over the argument that people should stop commuting: there is no choice in the current climate of massive housing estates, financial centres and retail parks. These three in particular are purpose built to be situated separately to maximise use of finite space. When you have say, food warehousing concentrated in a place where you can lay it out by the pallet, that's efficient use of space (give it some Walmart, Aldi, Lidl). Independents who run a corner shop in the middle of the housing estate are just sucking up oxygen and land area that could be used to breed and populate State schools. The way megalopolies have developed over the past sixty years reflects very much on this efficient use of space and there is no stopping it no matter how much you want to.
Of course, you have the cascade argument that commuters need something other than, and more convenient than, and cheaper than, private motorised transport, to get to work. Enter, Stage Left, the Omnibus. I know of lots of people who use the bus to get to work - at least, in the terminal stage of their journey (via a Park & Ride). Who do you think drives those buses? You want to put them out of work because they clash with your utopian vision of no commuting?
On recycling: Little publicised is the fact that recycling aluminium requires almost twice as much energy as refining it from bauxite. Same for steel, most other alloys and most certainly glass (which can be made by heating SAND). Also little publicised is the fact that one particular plant can easily remove our dependence on oil. That plant is "illegal" practically everywhere for that reason and that reason alone. That plant is hemp. Remove the finite resource that is oil and replace it with a practically infinite resource that grows everywhere humans have settled, and you have a product with ZERO net emissions. In fact, it's a net gainer in every sense of the word because all you do is plant it and it converts solar energy into chemical potential energy that can be used for everything from food to pharmaceuticals to textile fibre to fuel. Since hemp plastics are cellulose based, these are biodegradable hence non-pollutant. Epic win.
Commence to flame/mod down/whatever. Those are just my thoughts.
Greenland was named by Viking settlers to confuse Saxons and Normans - who wanted to go there and see the green. They saw ice. Lots of ice.
Iceland, on the other hand, is rarely ice-covered nine months of the year: between December and March there is a layer of tempfrost which is rapidly dissipated by a combination of geothermal and solarthermal. It's greener than... Greenland. Also named by Viking settlers to confuse those pesky Southerners.
(source: my best man who just happened to be very proud of his Islandaic heritage).
you *are* full of shit, sir (posting AC is evidence enough of that for me). FPR (specifically, section 97 of the Children Act 1989) states that third party discussions of cases/in proceeding/ are prohibited - it says NOTHING about discussion of cases/after/ proceedings have finished. If you were legally trained you would KNOW THIS. Case Law reflects the use of Superinjunctions to stifle publication of case details where it is suggested that this "might" occur, otherwise there is NO LEGAL IMPEDIMENT to publishing post hearing.
CA proceedings are held in camera not to protect the identity of children (who ARE KNOWN - to family, friends and to the community!), but to protect the identities of those in Local Authorities who perjure themselves, those "expert witnesses" who fabricate reports, those imposters who act under the colour of Law and impersonate judges, and those fraudsters who are members of the Family Panel of the Law Society and the Bar, who charge the public purse TENS OF THOUSANDS PER CASE and do everything they can to ensure their contracts for the next year - NOTHING OF WHICH INVOLVES DEFENDING FAMILIES RIGHTS TO LIVE PEACEFUL LIVES TOGETHER. Family Panel "solicitors" who "represent" parents do NO SUCH THING: they parrot and support the opinions of the Local Authority and meekly follow care plans, agreeing with everything the LA say and suppressing the parents' evidence and more importantly WITNESSES. This they do because continued membership of the Family Panel is dependent on RESULTS FAVOURABLE TO THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES and it GUARANTEES INCOME.
DO NOT try and tell me it does not happen. I am a full time McKenzie Friend* and have seen it happen FAR TOO OFTEN.
*someone who DOES NOT use money as incentive. Someone who actually FIGHTS his clients' corner and CHALLENGES the LAs to PRODUCE THEIR EVIDENCE.
As a matter of historical fact, it was Tony Blair who in 2000 implemented a 50% target increase in adoptions with cash incentives** for Local Authorities: as a result, adoptions doubled between 2000-2003 but then so did the number of children in care (36,000-68,000 over the same period). Something is wrong with this picture. The number of children going into care should have followed the trend, instead it *doubled*?? What else changed?
**Kent County Council in 2003 collected a bonus of 1.3 million Pounds for hitting adoption targets. It is the busiest unitary authority in the UK for adoptions **without the parents' consent** (which by definition is FORCED ADOPTION).
What else changed was this: new thresholds were added to Section 31 proceedings as justifications for removal: "risk of future emotional harm" was the biggy.
Now, if you'd like to tell me exactly what that means, you'd have done something that no member of the Law Society, the Bar, or anyone who has ever been called to Silk, has ever done.
Only Children Services agents seem to know and they're not telling; it would unravel their fraud for all to see.
Stars convert matter to energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation as a result of nuclear fusion reactions in the core. Ergo, they shed mass - our own Sun sheds mass at the rate of some 4.2 million tonnes per second (citation). This converts to pure energy, incident at Earths equator at around 1000W/m^-2.
But don't worry, if the iron cycle weren't endothermic then the Sun would be good for another 600 billion years or so...
Mod parent up. The so-called "justice" system here in the UK is a joke. Well, it would be if it were funny. If you only knew...
OK, here's a clue: every year, over two hundred men and women are sent to jail for indeterminate periods by ULTRA SECRET Star Chamber sessions presided over by individuals operating under the colour of Law. Their "crime"? Complaining publicly when the State steals their children for profit in forced adoption (source: Harriet Harman, then Minister for Children and Families responding to a press question on how many parents are jailed following (NOT "during" or "as a result of") care and adoption proceedings in the UK - she did NOT HAVE AN EXACT NUMBER - SHE WAS THE CHILDREN'S MINISTER, SHE SHOULD HAVE THIS INFORMATION!).
Yes, you just read that right. Jailed by the State when the State destroys their FAMILY for a quick buck!
If you have a family, stay the FUCK AWAY from the UK. If you're in the UK and you have kids, get them the FUCK OUT!
I will be observing very VERY closely when the Olympic teams and their families come to London for the Games - how many of those will be returning to their respective countries without their kids?
The Holy Grail of ZX-compatible computers for me was the MGT Sam Coupé. Oh, what a beautifully (relatively) fast machine that was! Mine came with the full 4.5MB memory expansion, internal DSDD floppy drive and microdrive, and the Messenger (which was completely useless for state capture from a Speccy, no matter what the ads claimed!)
I had the solution for the problems with the memory pack... strip it down, lay it flat and pin-solder it to the mainboard. Sorted. Didn't move after that. Yes, it got bloody hot, so I used a finned copper block with a small fan attached to cool it.
Only problem I had after that was the bloody thing kept running out of memory(!)
I have several Dell laptops of the old PP01 chassis persuasion. Using the BIOS on my C840 to lock the hard drive renders any partition information USW unreadable by ANY OTHER HARDWARE. If that laptop motherboard fails while the lock is active, the data on the hard drive is RENDERED PERMANENTLY UNRECOVERABLE.
We're talking about documents that have been encased in concrete and dropped down the Mariana Trench *before* the subpoena.
The evidence is intact (ie not spoiled, its location and disposition is known), but why the fuck should I help the prosecution by putting on a drysuit and diving down to get it? They can do that themselves.
Same as my triple-cascade encrypted hard drives. I've got all the time in the world, how many processors can the prosecution afford to throw at a trillion-year problem like that?
I've often thought about this; do any net based conferencing solutions such as Skype and Hangout have any compatibility to each other? If not, why not? Is the lack of interoperability purely politically-based, or is it a technological problem (that can be solved, all tech problems can be solved)?
My company uses videoconferencing all the time to communicate between not only offices across the world, but also clients. It's a very handy thing, particularly when it comes to facetime with colleagues that live in another country yet I work very closely with them - sometimes to the point where we independently create virtually identical documents - it adds a dimension and an intimacy to the transaction that is completely absent in a voice-only teleconference or short message exchange. I reckon that's the meat of the discussion here, and the entire point of videoconferencing for the purposes of it: the facetime factor. Also there's something about body language that adds a whole lot more to a conversation than spoken or typed words. If you could see me now while I type this, you'd probably get what I'm trying to say.
IIRC back in the DOS days, the first thing the kernel did to a user-opened file, no matter the extension, was to try and execute it. The same holds for any DOS-based windowing system.
When the.wmf format went viral, people quickly discovered that it could not only send commands to a printer/fax/other such output device, it could also be made to overwrite boot sectors, among other nasty surprises. This issue has still NOT been fixed, after what, nearly two decades?
Just two of many examples I can think of off the top of my head.
Are you effin' kidding me? Any vendor that claims an autoanswer feature as a compromise between security and usability is one that wouldn't be getting my business! That's just being damn lazy, if you want to take a call, push a button: denial of service through inaction in that case is where the smart money is. Cisco, take heed!
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No, the only reason the US sent *people* to the Moon was because the Russians had already beaten them to the punch regarding both farside orbit and robotic softlanding. Manned landing was the only milestone left.
"BUY IT NOW!" on DVD and game ads *is* misleading. You're "buying" a revocable license to use the media in an approved device. I've been saying this for YEARS on /. and getting slated for it. Now it seems people are at last waking up to this most insidious truth.
Some people owe me a fucking apology!
partly to FTFT, partly to inform: ACTA is an enabling piece of EU legislation that allows Governments to shut down websites they deem to be overly freethinking in their politics (eg positive action group blogs and newsboards). This is nothing to do with copyright infringement but with ACTA, they won't need pesky courts of Law, or even investigation into claims of copyright infringement - just the mere suggestion of copyright infringement will be enough for permanent shutdown and shitlisting of the domain.
Screw due process, Slashdot is subversive and it links to copyrighted material. Hell, you don't even have to go to court or attend police interviews.
Bye Slashdot, 'twas nice knowing you.
...give the job to someone well versed in wiretapping.
To piss all over the argument that people should stop commuting: there is no choice in the current climate of massive housing estates, financial centres and retail parks. These three in particular are purpose built to be situated separately to maximise use of finite space. When you have say, food warehousing concentrated in a place where you can lay it out by the pallet, that's efficient use of space (give it some Walmart, Aldi, Lidl). Independents who run a corner shop in the middle of the housing estate are just sucking up oxygen and land area that could be used to breed and populate State schools. The way megalopolies have developed over the past sixty years reflects very much on this efficient use of space and there is no stopping it no matter how much you want to.
Of course, you have the cascade argument that commuters need something other than, and more convenient than, and cheaper than, private motorised transport, to get to work. Enter, Stage Left, the Omnibus. I know of lots of people who use the bus to get to work - at least, in the terminal stage of their journey (via a Park & Ride). Who do you think drives those buses? You want to put them out of work because they clash with your utopian vision of no commuting?
On recycling:
Little publicised is the fact that recycling aluminium requires almost twice as much energy as refining it from bauxite. Same for steel, most other alloys and most certainly glass (which can be made by heating SAND).
Also little publicised is the fact that one particular plant can easily remove our dependence on oil. That plant is "illegal" practically everywhere for that reason and that reason alone. That plant is hemp. Remove the finite resource that is oil and replace it with a practically infinite resource that grows everywhere humans have settled, and you have a product with ZERO net emissions. In fact, it's a net gainer in every sense of the word because all you do is plant it and it converts solar energy into chemical potential energy that can be used for everything from food to pharmaceuticals to textile fibre to fuel. Since hemp plastics are cellulose based, these are biodegradable hence non-pollutant. Epic win.
Commence to flame/mod down/whatever. Those are just my thoughts.
Greenland was named by Viking settlers to confuse Saxons and Normans - who wanted to go there and see the green. They saw ice. Lots of ice.
Iceland, on the other hand, is rarely ice-covered nine months of the year: between December and March there is a layer of tempfrost which is rapidly dissipated by a combination of geothermal and solarthermal. It's greener than... Greenland. Also named by Viking settlers to confuse those pesky Southerners.
(source: my best man who just happened to be very proud of his Islandaic heritage).
Guilty conscience, AC? Is that why you're posting AC? Stop, you're projecting, AC.
you *are* full of shit, sir (posting AC is evidence enough of that for me). FPR (specifically, section 97 of the Children Act 1989) states that third party discussions of cases /in proceeding/ are prohibited - it says NOTHING about discussion of cases /after/ proceedings have finished. If you were legally trained you would KNOW THIS. Case Law reflects the use of Superinjunctions to stifle publication of case details where it is suggested that this "might" occur, otherwise there is NO LEGAL IMPEDIMENT to publishing post hearing.
CA proceedings are held in camera not to protect the identity of children (who ARE KNOWN - to family, friends and to the community!), but to protect the identities of those in Local Authorities who perjure themselves, those "expert witnesses" who fabricate reports, those imposters who act under the colour of Law and impersonate judges, and those fraudsters who are members of the Family Panel of the Law Society and the Bar, who charge the public purse TENS OF THOUSANDS PER CASE and do everything they can to ensure their contracts for the next year - NOTHING OF WHICH INVOLVES DEFENDING FAMILIES RIGHTS TO LIVE PEACEFUL LIVES TOGETHER. Family Panel "solicitors" who "represent" parents do NO SUCH THING: they parrot and support the opinions of the Local Authority and meekly follow care plans, agreeing with everything the LA say and suppressing the parents' evidence and more importantly WITNESSES. This they do because continued membership of the Family Panel is dependent on RESULTS FAVOURABLE TO THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES and it GUARANTEES INCOME.
DO NOT try and tell me it does not happen. I am a full time McKenzie Friend* and have seen it happen FAR TOO OFTEN.
*someone who DOES NOT use money as incentive. Someone who actually FIGHTS his clients' corner and CHALLENGES the LAs to PRODUCE THEIR EVIDENCE.
As a matter of historical fact, it was Tony Blair who in 2000 implemented a 50% target increase in adoptions with cash incentives** for Local Authorities: as a result, adoptions doubled between 2000-2003 but then so did the number of children in care (36,000-68,000 over the same period). Something is wrong with this picture. The number of children going into care should have followed the trend, instead it *doubled*?? What else changed?
**Kent County Council in 2003 collected a bonus of 1.3 million Pounds for hitting adoption targets. It is the busiest unitary authority in the UK for adoptions **without the parents' consent** (which by definition is FORCED ADOPTION).
What else changed was this: new thresholds were added to Section 31 proceedings as justifications for removal: "risk of future emotional harm" was the biggy.
Now, if you'd like to tell me exactly what that means, you'd have done something that no member of the Law Society, the Bar, or anyone who has ever been called to Silk, has ever done.
Only Children Services agents seem to know and they're not telling; it would unravel their fraud for all to see.
hang on, if the North Star was what was supposed to bring the wise men to the stable, then wouldn't they have come from the SOUTH, not the EAST??
ah, that's because when it clicks over to 100,000 the Morlocks invade...
...then this would surely take the prize.
Stars convert matter to energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation as a result of nuclear fusion reactions in the core. Ergo, they shed mass - our own Sun sheds mass at the rate of some 4.2 million tonnes per second (citation). This converts to pure energy, incident at Earths equator at around 1000W/m^-2.
But don't worry, if the iron cycle weren't endothermic then the Sun would be good for another 600 billion years or so...
iron filings, shredded magnesium and dusted aluminium oxide.
All findable in and about the chassis of a 1940's Volkswagen Beetle.
Mod parent up. The so-called "justice" system here in the UK is a joke. Well, it would be if it were funny. If you only knew...
OK, here's a clue: every year, over two hundred men and women are sent to jail for indeterminate periods by ULTRA SECRET Star Chamber sessions presided over by individuals operating under the colour of Law. Their "crime"? Complaining publicly when the State steals their children for profit in forced adoption (source: Harriet Harman, then Minister for Children and Families responding to a press question on how many parents are jailed following (NOT "during" or "as a result of") care and adoption proceedings in the UK - she did NOT HAVE AN EXACT NUMBER - SHE WAS THE CHILDREN'S MINISTER, SHE SHOULD HAVE THIS INFORMATION!).
Yes, you just read that right. Jailed by the State when the State destroys their FAMILY for a quick buck!
If you have a family, stay the FUCK AWAY from the UK. If you're in the UK and you have kids, get them the FUCK OUT!
I will be observing very VERY closely when the Olympic teams and their families come to London for the Games - how many of those will be returning to their respective countries without their kids?
The Holy Grail of ZX-compatible computers for me was the MGT Sam Coupé. Oh, what a beautifully (relatively) fast machine that was! Mine came with the full 4.5MB memory expansion, internal DSDD floppy drive and microdrive, and the Messenger (which was completely useless for state capture from a Speccy, no matter what the ads claimed!)
I had the solution for the problems with the memory pack... strip it down, lay it flat and pin-solder it to the mainboard. Sorted. Didn't move after that. Yes, it got bloody hot, so I used a finned copper block with a small fan attached to cool it.
Only problem I had after that was the bloody thing kept running out of memory(!)
The Spectrum 128?
I know, bad form, but an example:
I have several Dell laptops of the old PP01 chassis persuasion. Using the BIOS on my C840 to lock the hard drive renders any partition information USW unreadable by ANY OTHER HARDWARE. If that laptop motherboard fails while the lock is active, the data on the hard drive is RENDERED PERMANENTLY UNRECOVERABLE.
gets kinda magical if the hash is seeded in part from the GUID of the host hardware.
Been there, still wearing the t-shirt.
We're talking about documents that have been encased in concrete and dropped down the Mariana Trench *before* the subpoena.
The evidence is intact (ie not spoiled, its location and disposition is known), but why the fuck should I help the prosecution by putting on a drysuit and diving down to get it? They can do that themselves.
Same as my triple-cascade encrypted hard drives. I've got all the time in the world, how many processors can the prosecution afford to throw at a trillion-year problem like that?
Apart from that: stress. Makes you forget things.
Like passphrases.
I can't tell you why, but no. I'm not kidding.
I've often thought about this; do any net based conferencing solutions such as Skype and Hangout have any compatibility to each other? If not, why not? Is the lack of interoperability purely politically-based, or is it a technological problem (that can be solved, all tech problems can be solved)?
Like it.
Although, a deft removal of plug from power point would work better to remove the possibility of either video or audio eavesdropping...
My company uses videoconferencing all the time to communicate between not only offices across the world, but also clients. It's a very handy thing, particularly when it comes to facetime with colleagues that live in another country yet I work very closely with them - sometimes to the point where we independently create virtually identical documents - it adds a dimension and an intimacy to the transaction that is completely absent in a voice-only teleconference or short message exchange. I reckon that's the meat of the discussion here, and the entire point of videoconferencing for the purposes of it: the facetime factor. Also there's something about body language that adds a whole lot more to a conversation than spoken or typed words. If you could see me now while I type this, you'd probably get what I'm trying to say.
And then you could tell me. :)
IIRC back in the DOS days, the first thing the kernel did to a user-opened file, no matter the extension, was to try and execute it. The same holds for any DOS-based windowing system.
When the .wmf format went viral, people quickly discovered that it could not only send commands to a printer/fax/other such output device, it could also be made to overwrite boot sectors, among other nasty surprises. This issue has still NOT been fixed, after what, nearly two decades?
Just two of many examples I can think of off the top of my head.
Are you effin' kidding me? Any vendor that claims an autoanswer feature as a compromise between security and usability is one that wouldn't be getting my business! That's just being damn lazy, if you want to take a call, push a button: denial of service through inaction in that case is where the smart money is. Cisco, take heed!