A place I frequent just got stiffed (by the PRS and PPL both on the same bloody day). The building they are in has a license, covering the venue. Apparently that's not enough.. they want that venue to be separately licensed *and* back royalties for 3 years. Apparently they've been told to get stuffed.. but I can see it getting messy.
Legally, the PRS and PPL could jump down your neck if you did that.
I doubt even they would try that though (although I did hear of a garage that didn't even own a radio being stiffed for charges because their customers were driving in with their radios on).
Otherwise every work place that has a radio - factories, offices, etc, will have to pay a fee.
In the UK they do.
There are two organisations, the PRS and the PPL. If one gets you then the other one will shortly afterwards as they tell each other about 'violators'. You have to pay both, by law.
You need to pay even if you have an office room in your house and have the radio on. It's really stupid but there's no way around it.
They tested an old busted up plane (IIRC they installed the instruments themselves even) and by turning the cellphone output up way high they were able to have some effect. Then they tested a real plane and even ramping up the signal to max they were able to have no effect. At all.
The conclusion at the end had more to do with not getting in trouble with the FAA than the actual results.
especially since from all reports I've seen the TomTom devices themselves don't expose the filenames they are working with.
Which reports would these be.. the ones from people who have never used a TomTom?
All a tomtom basically is to a PC is an external drive (actually two, for the models with internal and addon flash separate) - then the TomTom software reads and writes files to it. This includes the OS (linux) and boot files, so LFN is pretty much required, unless TomTom have a version of Linux that can boot using only 8.3 filenames.
How so? 90% of users wouldn't know what a torrent was, and of the remainder how many would know how to configure their router so they could use it? Use WinRAR, VLC etc.? Even know how to install them?
And even then you've done that mess it's not streaming.. you've got to download first. Screw that. Open browser, goto www.hulu.com, watch show. Torrent just can't compete with that.
That happens - There's a class of admin who won't apply MS updates unless they think it affects them directly, and sometimes not even then. They are the people who've gone beyond healthy paranoia (don't change what's working) to stupidity (don't apply critical security updates because they might break stuff).
There's also dumb firewalls/proxies that won't let the updates through.
There's no excuse for a business to be infected with conficker... if it happened here half the IT would find themselves on the street. Home users you can excuse somewhat.. they don't know how to look after their machines and may switch off updates for some reason eg. they don't want to pay for the bandwidth.
There is no 'grand activation date'. April 1st *or later* when it updates itself.. it's more likely to upgrade to conficker D than do anything else.
It's just not in the authors interest to do any damage - whilst people don't know they are infected they can participate in the botnet. If the virus makes itself obvious then all that potential revenue is destroyed.
If that's the case, then it's not a remote detection tool rather something locally. Surely there are plenty of other ways to see you're infected eg. you haven't run windows update in over 6 months is a good sign.
Not a bug - trunk always rounds down, so can be.999999 out easily. log(1000) is 2.999999 recurring on most spreadsheets, so it's doing what you're telling it.
For more accuracy round don't truncate.. or even better don't do either and let the formatting handle it.
It's fairly clear from the text that it's not a law, merely a declaration of common values... discrimination on religious grounds is already pretty well covered by the human rights legislation anyway (and widely ignored, but then the UN doesn't really have much in the way of enforcement powers).
Even that's recent - when I went to school the only thing we did was an hour on WW1, and that was just that someone shot Archduke Ferdinand and Britain went to war over it.. which doesn't even make sense (but as a child you don't question, and this was pre-internet and definately pre-history channel so we didn't have any other sources).
You're able to re-take modules? Hell. I didn't realize it had got that bad.
It's long since passed the point where I as an employer (I do interview occasionally) would take a GCSE or A level at face value, which is a shame - in the drive to create a 'nobody loses' culture they've devalued the one thing that allowed the bright students to stand out, so now *everybody* loses because without other experience your CV now goes in the bin.
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A place I frequent just got stiffed (by the PRS and PPL both on the same bloody day). The building they are in has a license, covering the venue. Apparently that's not enough.. they want that venue to be separately licensed *and* back royalties for 3 years. Apparently they've been told to get stuffed.. but I can see it getting messy.
Try persuading them of that.
Even live music venues that play only original music have been forced to pay PRS fees. Unless you're into long legal fights it's not worth it.
Legally, the PRS and PPL could jump down your neck if you did that.
I doubt even they would try that though (although I did hear of a garage that didn't even own a radio being stiffed for charges because their customers were driving in with their radios on).
Otherwise every work place that has a radio - factories, offices, etc, will have to pay a fee.
In the UK they do.
There are two organisations, the PRS and the PPL. If one gets you then the other one will shortly afterwards as they tell each other about 'violators'. You have to pay both, by law.
You need to pay even if you have an office room in your house and have the radio on. It's really stupid but there's no way around it.
Well that's about 10 minutes.
There's another 4 hours to kill.
They tested an old busted up plane (IIRC they installed the instruments themselves even) and by turning the cellphone output up way high they were able to have some effect.
Then they tested a real plane and even ramping up the signal to max they were able to have no effect. At all.
The conclusion at the end had more to do with not getting in trouble with the FAA than the actual results.
You're a far more brave man than me if you attempt to get through US customs with your laptop.
There, fixed that for you.
A lot of the time with TomTom you're not - you're just copying files to the drive. TomTom Home largely sucks ass, and I'd hate to be forced to use it.
They may be able to produce models which pretend to be FAT to the PC, whilst running ext2 underneath, but that's a lot of work.
especially since from all reports I've seen the TomTom devices themselves don't expose the filenames they are working with.
Which reports would these be.. the ones from people who have never used a TomTom?
All a tomtom basically is to a PC is an external drive (actually two, for the models with internal and addon flash separate) - then the TomTom software reads and writes files to it. This includes the OS (linux) and boot files, so LFN is pretty much required, unless TomTom have a version of Linux that can boot using only 8.3 filenames.
Except TomToms use FAT SD cards to store their data, and with most of them, the OS too.
Kinda difficult to boot Linux on a filesystem with only 8.3 filenames available.
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I can see no indication that linda blair has ever made porn, or been associated with it.
not distributing them is no defense against a distribution charge
Wha...????
I'd love to know what that judge had been smoking.
How so? 90% of users wouldn't know what a torrent was, and of the remainder how many would know how to configure their router so they could use it? Use WinRAR, VLC etc.? Even know how to install them?
And even then you've done that mess it's not streaming.. you've got to download first. Screw that. Open browser, goto www.hulu.com, watch show. Torrent just can't compete with that.
Since nearly all of these services only stream to the USA that's kind of expected.
If they were someday to become international targeting ads by using IP geolocation is pretty easy.. so it's a non-issue.
That happens - There's a class of admin who won't apply MS updates unless they think it affects them directly, and sometimes not even then. They are the people who've gone beyond healthy paranoia (don't change what's working) to stupidity (don't apply critical security updates because they might break stuff).
There's also dumb firewalls/proxies that won't let the updates through.
There's no excuse for a business to be infected with conficker... if it happened here half the IT would find themselves on the street. Home users you can excuse somewhat.. they don't know how to look after their machines and may switch off updates for some reason eg. they don't want to pay for the bandwidth.
There is no 'grand activation date'. April 1st *or later* when it updates itself.. it's more likely to upgrade to conficker D than do anything else.
It's just not in the authors interest to do any damage - whilst people don't know they are infected they can participate in the botnet. If the virus makes itself obvious then all that potential revenue is destroyed.
The f-secure blog puts it best: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001636.html
If that's the case, then it's not a remote detection tool rather something locally. Surely there are plenty of other ways to see you're infected eg. you haven't run windows update in over 6 months is a good sign.
Not a bug - trunk always rounds down, so can be .999999 out easily. log(1000) is 2.999999 recurring on most spreadsheets, so it's doing what you're telling it.
For more accuracy round don't truncate.. or even better don't do either and let the formatting handle it.
It's fairly clear from the text that it's not a law, merely a declaration of common values... discrimination on religious grounds is already pretty well covered by the human rights legislation anyway (and widely ignored, but then the UN doesn't really have much in the way of enforcement powers).
What's wrong with that? It's a 100% true statement.
It doesn't give religion any more rights than it already has, it just stops hate speech, which is illegal in most countries already.
What? A law outlawing hatred and discrimination would crash and burn in the US?
Your country is more fucked up than I realized.
OK, it's a mouthful, but it's nothing that a reasonable person wouldn't vote for.
So they're note outlawing criticism, or attacking free speech, they're outlawing defamation.. which all civilised countries have outlawed anyway.
There's no story here.
Even that's recent - when I went to school the only thing we did was an hour on WW1, and that was just that someone shot Archduke Ferdinand and Britain went to war over it.. which doesn't even make sense (but as a child you don't question, and this was pre-internet and definately pre-history channel so we didn't have any other sources).
You're able to re-take modules? Hell. I didn't realize it had got that bad.
It's long since passed the point where I as an employer (I do interview occasionally) would take a GCSE or A level at face value, which is a shame - in the drive to create a 'nobody loses' culture they've devalued the one thing that allowed the bright students to stand out, so now *everybody* loses because without other experience your CV now goes in the bin.