(probably because some of our telecoms companies are yet to understand the internet)
Ours tried to claim patent on Hyperlinks
In other news : "Take-up of broadband in the UK lags pitifully behind other countries in Europe, according to the latest stats from Nielsen/NetRatings."
UK Govt. sold off the monopoly telecoms company. We could have had fibre to the door from the profits but instead licences were sold to foreign investment. They have spectacularly failed to recoup their investment, not least because BT won;t open up the local loop. I have fibre to my street but copper to the door.
OK hindsight is easy but selling the country's comms to finance slashing income tax wasn't really in the best long term interests of that market.
It is correct that there was a lot of overcapacity of the workforce in the nationalised industries but why it takes private investment to sort it out is a mystery. Reducing expenditure and increasing profits isn't the only way to operate. Providing jobs with lower work rates is good for the emloyees.
The promise of technology bringing more leisure time has come true. The unforseen consquence of that was that the time would not be evenly distributed. We now have millions of people without work and millions of people with too much work to do. Crazy.
*sigh*. What did the Romans ever do for us?
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"How did this water get here?"
"Probably a burst pipe"
"Hey, what are you complaining for? It's your people that made the pipe burst. Don't blame the water."
Like running, listening is a skill that varies from person to person and can be improved with practice.
I've worked in a recording studio through which many many people have been and I've witnessed the variation first hand. engineer : "Which do you prefer, this... or this?" client : "Okay, play the second one now."
What makes me smile is that when I was a lad we were satisfied copying records to tape by playing the record loud and utilising the condenser mike on the tape recorder. Good quality was when there wasn't the sound of someone walking in the room followed by "your tea's ready, oh. what are you doing?" "shhhh mum, we're taping" on it.
I wasn't complaining & I'm not anti-US
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sound like you're looking for something to complain about
No, if you read the conversation the poster wanted to know where anti-American feeling comes from and, I believe, that my answer was addressing that question from my honest perspective.
You'll notice that I suggested that much of it came from America the Capitalist, not the people.
One could probably write a whole book on the subject so I'm sorry if my post didn't get across all the subtleties.
The symbol of the flag is very strong, marking one's territory. The international success of US retail business (bourne probably because of the vastness of the US continent and the necessity to think big) means we have many such flags and each one of them says 'we own you'. No other country has such a multitude of these symbols planted in our soil.
You'd think there would be such feeling around China and Taiwan. After all, a huge percentage of our household goods and electronics items are made in these places which adversely affects our balance of trade but our relations with China are generally ignored by most people. The only high profile Asiatic business I can think of round these parts is a Mitsubishi Car Dealer.
Personally I'm not predjudice either way because, like you say, it is relatively few people who wield the actual power. It's institutions that become problematic not the people running them. I believe the institutions will eventually crumble, like all that have gone before them. Perpetual Economic Growth as a goal is surely doomed to failure. The capitalists think that the problems will solve themselves once someone thinks of a way to make money out of solving them. Surely that can't be right, can it?
As for TV, well it's an Australian that started the channel that shows WWF all day Saturday and if ever a tv show carried the wrong message about Americans it is WWF. I mean, it's a TV show that's targetted at kids in which the protagonists fight because one of them drugged the other one's daughter and kidnapped her and married her in Las Vegas as some sort of revenge on the other to which the conclusion was for one to baseball bat the other unconcious while people cheered on. With commentary.
If I dislike America the Capitalist it'd because of it's success. It's ironic that the majority of Americans I have met are some of the friendliest and generous people I have met but when I walk through my town it makes me sad that everywhere I see Corporate America mocking me with it's ownership of my environment. Within 5 miles of my house there are 4 McDonalds, 2 Wal-Marts, 2 Starbucks and 1 GAP. As en experiment I just went and turned on my TV. Of the seven channels two of them are shwoing American programmes (Happy Days & something with Tia Carrera as Indiana Jones).
Of course, much of it doesn't start out as unwanted, I like Happy Days but as time goes by this cultural expansionism gets a bit much. Suddenly there are no shops but American shops. All your canned drinks say "made by the Coke Company" and there's nothing but Saved By The Bell or WWF on TV.
America can seem like a guest who brought round a six pack and a pizza but doesn't know when to leave.
Just ask Osama. The Americans come to help stabilise the region but then decide to maintain a military presence that goes far beyond the initial mandate. Now, I will admit, that this presence is probably to *my* benefit, but for some Muslims it's offensive (like Conservative Islam is to me).
I'm not suggesting that any of this makes it okay to spill American blood. Far from it. But that's what it's like living under American influence.
It's no wonder the people try to protect their culture from outside influence. They want dominion over their own affairs.
Perceived common enemies are the stock in trade for the human race be it burglars, burgers or Burghers. There's money/power to be made in "solutions" to all of these.
What's ironic, of course, is that many places record the audio with digital equipment before cutting it to vinyl.
Reminds me of a story. We were sitting in the cuttin groom and the engineer was reading our DAT. We sat there listening. As the track started to come to it's conclusion he started to hover his finger over the stop button on the DAT machine. The sounds stopped and just as he pressed the stop button I said, sounding alarmed, "No, it comes back in!". The rush of panic that swept through him was delightful. oh how we all laughed.
To be honest I've always found the shutdown and startup audio to be a useful diagnostic.
It means you can know that a machine has booted into X|windows without looking at it or even needing a monitor, useful if you are under the desk or in the next room.
We have that for our customers, well it's a customised IRC in fact (we have a java irc app on our website too).
Customers like it. They join #reception. Whenever anyone joins #reception a notification goes to the other channels so that we can see customers arrive and if someone is dealing with it.
It's got the added benefit that one employee can deal with more than 1 customer simultaneously *and* still be connected to the work channels.
We all telecommute btw. our company has no building. If we need physical meeting rooms we hire them. That also means we can hire them near to the client which they appreciate. They like to get out of the office but like to avoid long journeys.
(a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer;
(b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and
(c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.
(2) The intent a person has to have to commit an offence under this section need not be directed at--
(a) any particular program or data;
(b) a program or data of any particular kind; or
(c) a program or data held in any particular computer.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to both.
Yes it is, well under UK law. It's spelled out in fact:
Gaining or attempting to gain anauthorised access to a computer.
Like all good laws no methodology is mentioned or proscribed. In this way the burden of proof is on the prosecution and the interpretation of the law is for the courts.
Incidentally I had a friend who was a phreaker. He was arrested for it before the Computer Misuse Act was put on the statute. The cops had a print out of phone company logs for all the phone calls he'd made through them. He had to sit there while they asked him if he'd made *every* individual call. It took them 10 hours.
In the end all he was prosecuted for was "theft of electricity" and walked with a £70 fine.
Slashdot Mirror
The biggest increase has been in the shittiest end of the job market. No contract protection, minimum wage etc. etc.
The point still stands, leisure time has increased but has not been distributed evenly.
even slashdot was hacked.
I don't think I need to say much more.
(probably because some of our telecoms companies are yet to understand the internet)
Ours tried to claim patent on Hyperlinks
In other news :
"Take-up of broadband in the UK lags pitifully behind other countries in Europe, according to the latest stats from Nielsen/NetRatings."
UK Govt. sold off the monopoly telecoms company. We could have had fibre to the door from the profits but instead licences were sold to foreign investment. They have spectacularly failed to recoup their investment, not least because BT won;t open up the local loop. I have fibre to my street but copper to the door.
OK hindsight is easy but selling the country's comms to finance slashing income tax wasn't really in the best long term interests of that market.
It is correct that there was a lot of overcapacity of the workforce in the nationalised industries but why it takes private investment to sort it out is a mystery. Reducing expenditure and increasing profits isn't the only way to operate. Providing jobs with lower work rates is good for the emloyees.
The promise of technology bringing more leisure time has come true. The unforseen consquence of that was that the time would not be evenly distributed. We now have millions of people without work and millions of people with too much work to do. Crazy.
"How did this water get here?"
"Probably a burst pipe"
"Hey, what are you complaining for? It's your people that made the pipe burst. Don't blame the water."
Yes. Thought wrong.
No
but don't be downhearted.
Like running, listening is a skill that varies from person to person and can be improved with practice.
I've worked in a recording studio through which many many people have been and I've witnessed the variation first hand.
engineer : "Which do you prefer, this... or this?"
client : "Okay, play the second one now."
What makes me smile is that when I was a lad we were satisfied copying records to tape by playing the record loud and utilising the condenser mike on the tape recorder. Good quality was when there wasn't the sound of someone walking in the room followed by "your tea's ready, oh. what are you doing?" "shhhh mum, we're taping" on it.
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sound like you're looking for something to complain about
No, if you read the conversation the poster wanted to know where anti-American feeling comes from and, I believe, that my answer was addressing that question from my honest perspective.
You'll notice that I suggested that much of it came from America the Capitalist, not the people.
One could probably write a whole book on the subject so I'm sorry if my post didn't get across all the subtleties.
The symbol of the flag is very strong, marking one's territory. The international success of US retail business (bourne probably because of the vastness of the US continent and the necessity to think big) means we have many such flags and each one of them says 'we own you'. No other country has such a multitude of these symbols planted in our soil.
You'd think there would be such feeling around China and Taiwan. After all, a huge percentage of our household goods and electronics items are made in these places which adversely affects our balance of trade but our relations with China are generally ignored by most people. The only high profile Asiatic business I can think of round these parts is a Mitsubishi Car Dealer.
Personally I'm not predjudice either way because, like you say, it is relatively few people who wield the actual power. It's institutions that become problematic not the people running them. I believe the institutions will eventually crumble, like all that have gone before them. Perpetual Economic Growth as a goal is surely doomed to failure. The capitalists think that the problems will solve themselves once someone thinks of a way to make money out of solving them. Surely that can't be right, can it?
As for TV, well it's an Australian that started the channel that shows WWF all day Saturday and if ever a tv show carried the wrong message about Americans it is WWF. I mean, it's a TV show that's targetted at kids in which the protagonists fight because one of them drugged the other one's daughter and kidnapped her and married her in Las Vegas as some sort of revenge on the other to which the conclusion was for one to baseball bat the other unconcious while people cheered on. With commentary.
At least Fonzie has good manners.
And other cultural vandalism.
If I dislike America the Capitalist it'd because of it's success. It's ironic that the majority of Americans I have met are some of the friendliest and generous people I have met but when I walk through my town it makes me sad that everywhere I see Corporate America mocking me with it's ownership of my environment. Within 5 miles of my house there are 4
McDonalds, 2 Wal-Marts, 2 Starbucks and 1 GAP.
As en experiment I just went and turned on my TV. Of the seven channels two of them are shwoing American programmes (Happy Days & something with Tia Carrera as Indiana Jones).
Of course, much of it doesn't start out as unwanted, I like Happy Days but as time goes by this cultural expansionism gets a bit much. Suddenly there are no shops but American shops. All your canned drinks say "made by the Coke Company" and there's nothing but Saved By The Bell or WWF on TV.
America can seem like a guest who brought round a six pack and a pizza but doesn't know when to leave.
Just ask Osama. The Americans come to help stabilise the region but then decide to maintain a military presence that goes far beyond the initial mandate. Now, I will admit, that this presence is probably to *my* benefit, but for some Muslims it's offensive (like Conservative Islam is to me).
I'm not suggesting that any of this makes it okay to spill American blood. Far from it. But that's what it's like living under American influence.
It's no wonder the people try to protect their culture from outside influence. They want dominion over their own affairs.
Perceived common enemies are the stock in trade for the human race be it burglars, burgers or Burghers. There's money/power to be made in "solutions" to all of these.
because you a whiny
get over it
moderation is about servicing the readers not the posters ego
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don't bother, it's obvious and boring
boring and obvious
What's ironic, of course, is that many places record the audio with digital equipment before cutting it to vinyl.
Reminds me of a story. We were sitting in the cuttin groom and the engineer was reading our DAT. We sat there listening. As the track started to come to it's conclusion he started to hover his finger over the stop button on the DAT machine. The sounds stopped and just as he pressed the stop button I said, sounding alarmed, "No, it comes back in!". The rush of panic that swept through him was delightful. oh how we all laughed.
To be honest I've always found the shutdown and startup audio to be a useful diagnostic.
It means you can know that a machine has booted into X|windows without looking at it or even needing a monitor, useful if you are under the desk or in the next room.
We have that for our customers, well it's a customised IRC in fact (we have a java irc app on our website too).
Customers like it. They join #reception. Whenever anyone joins #reception a notification goes to the other channels so that we can see customers arrive and if someone is dealing with it.
It's got the added benefit that one employee can deal with more than 1 customer simultaneously *and* still be connected to the work channels.
We all telecommute btw. our company has no building. If we need physical meeting rooms we hire them. That also means we can hire them near to the client which they appreciate. They like to get out of the office but like to avoid long journeys.
on my mobile I went out and recorded :
"hang on I'm just crossing the road"
busy road crossing noises
"right i'm ready, leave your message after the tone"
But what people tend to do is go to the store with the people for advice and then cross the road and buy it cheap.
:
Nine times out of ten they can't answer my question anyway.
Try this one
me : "Does the monitor provide excellent colour purity by automatically correcting any adverse influences of the Earths magnetic fields?"
bod : "eh?"
me : "It's just that the Sony monitor here does so I want to know if yours do too"
Any UK officer could pick one of (but not limited to)
I found a url for the other comment
Which, I think (IANAL) lays out in pretty straight terms that wardriving and portscanning is illegal in the UK.
Computer Misuse Act 1990
1. (1) A person is guilty of an offence if--
(a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer;
(b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and
(c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.
(2) The intent a person has to have to commit an offence under this section need not be directed at--
(a) any particular program or data;
(b) a program or data of any particular kind; or
(c) a program or data held in any particular computer.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to both.
Yes it is, well under UK law. :
It's spelled out in fact
Gaining or attempting to gain anauthorised access to a computer.
Like all good laws no methodology is mentioned or proscribed. In this way the burden of proof is on the prosecution and the interpretation of the law is for the courts.
Incidentally I had a friend who was a phreaker. He was arrested for it before the Computer Misuse Act was put on the statute. The cops had a print out of phone company logs for all the phone calls he'd made through them. He had to sit there while they asked him if he'd made *every* individual call. It took them 10 hours.
In the end all he was prosecuted for was "theft of electricity" and walked with a £70 fine.
the parent was suggesting that windows media was a subtitute for mpeg streaming and that one of the benefits was "it's free"
no, stupid, the client
(Own Win2k server? Windows media server is free!)
Can you show me where I can download an Windows Streaming Player for FreeBSD please?
oh, I have to buy a copy of Windows you say. Hmm
It was the scientists that made it a radio not any properties of the device.
They we're fooled by their own false authority.
"The circuit is producing oscillations".
surely life evolves to meet the challenges of the past not present :)
blown away ?
try Stephen Jay Gould or Richard Dawkins