There isn't a lot of point. They used to use them for fox hunting but that was eventually banned. Most of the time they're heirlooms (yes, I know a few farmers.. they don't use guns).
Bad example - bittorrent *was* - the creator admitted it publicly.
Yes and the purpose of a gun is to kill. Your definition is like saying 'the purpose of a car is to rotate wheels at a specific speed'. It's meaningless.
Newsgroup feeds use up about 1.5TB a day. Do the math for 14 days retention. It's a heck of a committment.
Dropping the entire alt tree is an overreaction but it will save them money in server administration and bandwidth - I'm willing to bet 95% of their users have never even heard of usenet (and half of the remainder call it 'google groups').
Bittorrent is *not* more bandwidth efficient. It is merely more efficient for the distributor. It uses at a minimum the same amount - normally more in fact, due to its forcing of uploads (many torrents throttle based on upload and few will let you block uploads completely) but it's spread across the users. It's also far slower than other methods.. so is only better if your time is worth nothing.
BT is a major problem the ISPs need to deal with - if you download something over usenet or FTP once it's done it's done. On BT unless you actively kill the connection it'll continue sucking bandwidth... that contributes to something like 60% of average ISP traffic being P2P, and why it's increasingly being blocked.
Once you're beyond a few hops it's really impossible to say what the bandwidth issues are. If you can get 8Mb to reasonably local servers then that's what your ISP is giving you. Once it's passed their routers it's really not anything they can do anything about.
A judge can instruct a jury to make a specific choice (they can refuse, of course, but seldom do, since that power is only used in exceptional circumstances) or a mistrial can be declared. Same kind of thing. If found guilty there's also the appeals process, given sufficient new evidence.
Ultimately the court system works... you're tried by a jury of your peers. You have a lawyer defending you (and one accusing you) and a judge to make sure that everything is above board.
It is - we have a right to know the charges against us and a right to be brought before a magistrate. Only the magistrate should be able to order detention until the case is heard by the Crown court.
This gives the police the effective right to order long periods of detention without evidence. It's a hairs breath away from the right to 'disappear' people just because they're inconvenient.
69% of the UK population in favour of 42 days detention without charge - if you believe the results of a YouGov Poll
In other news, 69% of the population are so ignorant of history they forgot why the Magna Carta was so damned important, or probably even that the UK has a constitution (although it's not actually written in a single document... we have a rather more complex history than allows for that).
"NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right."
Sometimes you in the US are lucky.. you're still taught about your bill of rights, etc. so when the government seeks to overturn it you at least realize it's wrong.
It's got to go back to commons twice (three times?) before that can be used.
He *barely* got it through commons this time, by promising free blowjobs to those that voted with him. You're looking at maybe a couple of years of this, and Brown just won't be there that long. I'd be surprised if he lasts long enough for the first reading in the Lords in November.
The lords take a much longer view on things, and will never let something like this get through. It's just Gordon Brown trying (and failing) to be populist.
It'll be available on pay and go in lots of countries, just invalidating the argument somewhat.. if you don't need the phone bit, don't top it up - end of problem. iPhone ends up costing half the price of the touch (in the UK at least).
Ultimately the Touch is dead as a product unless there's some real price cutting happening this month.
O2 just announced that the iphone will be available on Pay and Go in the UK. If we're to take Steve's words literally ($199 maximum price everywhere) it'll be priced at the same as the contract price - £99 (O2 have only announced their contract rates.. Free iphones on higher contracts!).
So I can buy an 8GB ipod touch for £179, or an 8GB PayG iphone for £99 - and the iphone has GPS, 2.0 software for free.
Can't see many people buying the more expensive product.
Umm... no. Europe has phone standards mandated by european law. It's all GSM and UMTS (which happens to use WCDMA as an interface, but it's *not* compatible with the US CDMA system).
Nice idea but it doesn't work - the wifi costs to maintain, and someone has to pay for that. The local starbucks have both terminated their wifi recently (well, one of them nearly a year ago now) and have no plans to renew it. AFAIK there is no wifi at all now around here.
If you have several PCs with servers running get multiple IPs or run ipv6 or something. Don't rely on port forwarding hacks. You're *already* out of the home user demographic by running servers in the first place.
VOIP does't need port forwarding at all SIP pairs with STUN and Skype has its own methods. Any client protocol that does is broken by design... but they're few and far between - my firewall is locked down tight and I won't use port forwarding on principle - and it's pretty rare for something to have an issue.
If you've downloaded some malware, say via a flash advert for example, your machine hasn't been compromised 'as such' but it's trivial to tell a upnp router to open all ports. Getting credit card numbers is harder as they're stored in different places.
Many upnp routers can be configured to reroute outbound traffic to an external proxy, too. So you dial up your bank and suddenly it's doing a MIM attack on your secure connection (and don't think users care about security popups.. they simply don't).
There's a reason why professional routers don't support such nonsense.
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There isn't a lot of point. They used to use them for fox hunting but that was eventually banned. Most of the time they're heirlooms (yes, I know a few farmers.. they don't use guns).
Bad example - bittorrent *was* - the creator admitted it publicly.
Yes and the purpose of a gun is to kill. Your definition is like saying 'the purpose of a car is to rotate wheels at a specific speed'. It's meaningless.
alt used to be called Anarchists Lunatics and Terrorists.
But don't tell the politicians that...
It's too late. September will never end.
Newsgroup feeds use up about 1.5TB a day. Do the math for 14 days retention. It's a heck of a committment.
Dropping the entire alt tree is an overreaction but it will save them money in server administration and bandwidth - I'm willing to bet 95% of their users have never even heard of usenet (and half of the remainder call it 'google groups').
No it's data.
It may contain information, but it may not.
Bittorrent is *not* more bandwidth efficient. It is merely more efficient for the distributor. It uses at a minimum the same amount - normally more in fact, due to its forcing of uploads (many torrents throttle based on upload and few will let you block uploads completely) but it's spread across the users. It's also far slower than other methods.. so is only better if your time is worth nothing.
BT is a major problem the ISPs need to deal with - if you download something over usenet or FTP once it's done it's done. On BT unless you actively kill the connection it'll continue sucking bandwidth... that contributes to something like 60% of average ISP traffic being P2P, and why it's increasingly being blocked.
Once you're beyond a few hops it's really impossible to say what the bandwidth issues are. If you can get 8Mb to reasonably local servers then that's what your ISP is giving you. Once it's passed their routers it's really not anything they can do anything about.
The modern sim locks in the Nokia's are insanely hard to break - BB5 took something like 2 years.
OTOH they're held on the SIM and the Baseband. I don't really see how this effects their opensource efforts... the OS is separate.
*cough* Belmarsh *cough*
Careful of that stone throwing... OK we stopped but we *have* behaved like that in the past.
A judge can instruct a jury to make a specific choice (they can refuse, of course, but seldom do, since that power is only used in exceptional circumstances) or a mistrial can be declared. Same kind of thing. If found guilty there's also the appeals process, given sufficient new evidence.
Ultimately the court system works... you're tried by a jury of your peers. You have a lawyer defending you (and one accusing you) and a judge to make sure that everything is above board.
It is - we have a right to know the charges against us and a right to be brought before a magistrate. Only the magistrate should be able to order detention until the case is heard by the Crown court.
This gives the police the effective right to order long periods of detention without evidence. It's a hairs breath away from the right to 'disappear' people just because they're inconvenient.
69% of the UK population in favour of 42 days detention without charge - if you believe the results of a YouGov Poll
In other news, 69% of the population are so ignorant of history they forgot why the Magna Carta was so damned important, or probably even that the UK has a constitution (although it's not actually written in a single document... we have a rather more complex history than allows for that).
"NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right."
Sometimes you in the US are lucky.. you're still taught about your bill of rights, etc. so when the government seeks to overturn it you at least realize it's wrong.
It's got to go back to commons twice (three times?) before that can be used.
He *barely* got it through commons this time, by promising free blowjobs to those that voted with him. You're looking at maybe a couple of years of this, and Brown just won't be there that long. I'd be surprised if he lasts long enough for the first reading in the Lords in November.
The lords take a much longer view on things, and will never let something like this get through. It's just Gordon Brown trying (and failing) to be populist.
None of those links claim he wrote the CAN-SPAM act.
Why do you keep replying with this exact message every time anyone mentions unlocking?
There's no way in hell ziphone will work with the new iphone. It won't even work with the v2 software on the old iphone.
Zibri is stuck with the code he stole. No way he's going to come up with anything new - that would require actual work.
UK pricing: http://www.o2.co.uk/iphone
*very* competative.
It'll be available on pay and go in lots of countries, just invalidating the argument somewhat.. if you don't need the phone bit, don't top it up - end of problem. iPhone ends up costing half the price of the touch (in the UK at least).
Ultimately the Touch is dead as a product unless there's some real price cutting happening this month.
O2 just announced that the iphone will be available on Pay and Go in the UK. If we're to take Steve's words literally ($199 maximum price everywhere) it'll be priced at the same as the contract price - £99 (O2 have only announced their contract rates.. Free iphones on higher contracts!).
So I can buy an 8GB ipod touch for £179, or an 8GB PayG iphone for £99 - and the iphone has GPS, 2.0 software for free.
Can't see many people buying the more expensive product.
Umm... no. Europe has phone standards mandated by european law. It's all GSM and UMTS (which happens to use WCDMA as an interface, but it's *not* compatible with the US CDMA system).
Nice idea but it doesn't work - the wifi costs to maintain, and someone has to pay for that. The local starbucks have both terminated their wifi recently (well, one of them nearly a year ago now) and have no plans to renew it. AFAIK there is no wifi at all now around here.
Windows fanboy? Show me a copy of vista and watch me foam at the mouth.
This is a non-story.
If you have several PCs with servers running get multiple IPs or run ipv6 or something. Don't rely on port forwarding hacks. You're *already* out of the home user demographic by running servers in the first place.
VOIP does't need port forwarding at all SIP pairs with STUN and Skype has its own methods. Any client protocol that does is broken by design... but they're few and far between - my firewall is locked down tight and I won't use port forwarding on principle - and it's pretty rare for something to have an issue.
If you've downloaded some malware, say via a flash advert for example, your machine hasn't been compromised 'as such' but it's trivial to tell a upnp router to open all ports. Getting credit card numbers is harder as they're stored in different places.
Many upnp routers can be configured to reroute outbound traffic to an external proxy, too. So you dial up your bank and suddenly it's doing a MIM attack on your secure connection (and don't think users care about security popups.. they simply don't).
There's a reason why professional routers don't support such nonsense.