This isn't about competence to use apps, it's about stopping people from being anonymous. A driving licence has two functions, proof of competence and a means of identifying people. The latter is meant in this story.
The problems with Chrome are that there's no way to stop it spawning multiple threads, the System box is missing on Windows and it installs a whole raft of crapware that phones home every 10 seconds. The cheeky thing even tried to install a scheduled task the last time I tested it.
Mozilla shot themselves in the foot by having Firefox start using the Internet Explorer security settings. If you want to download anything executable with Firefox, you have to give IE the same permissions. There's a config setting to turn this off but it doesn't work.
New Labour have assured us that the images from these scans can't be stored, misused or sold on by corrupt staff. I won't bore you by reminding you once more of all the other assurances New Labour gave that turned out to be 100% untrue.
Incidentally, what happens to people who 'choose' not to be scanned? Are they allowed to leave the airport unmolested, or is it straight off to the torture camps to explain their 'suspicious' behaviour?
The 'fall in vaccination uptake' issue was never about medicine, it was about government credibility - New Labour insisted that MMR was safe in just the same way that they insisted beef was safe, or that CIA torture flights weren't using British airports, or that Saddam could attack Britain with biological weapons at 45 minutes' notice. 'False in one thing, false in all,' thought British parents.
Unfortunately there'd be no way of enforcing these rules between days in trials. There have already been cases in the UK of jurors reaching verdicts on the basis of subjective internet comments about the accused.
Can't we just for once have a story that goes 'The US military has rejected plans for the new flying keyhole penetration nerve gas delivery system. "Use of this device would lead to indiscriminate civilian killings and stain America's proud record of adherence to the laws of war," said Gen Cyrus Bigchin.'
Technology will give the police the power they need to mercilessly gun down hundreds of people in tube stations simultaneously, rather than one at a time as they used to. Also, auto-fabricators will be able to make up a misleading account of events in each case. But it is excellent to see further association of the Blair olympics with authoritarianism: a few more stories like this and the connection will be inescapable. But what did they expect when they started the whole charade by allowing the Chinese secret police to beat up protestors on the streets of London during the 2008 torch procession, as the police and 2012 collaboration committee looked on?
What a shame - still, given the revisionist Earthsea sequels, and the constant cat litter references in everything she's written since about 1980, perhaps it's just as well.
The Basic/Expert rule version was the most fun to play. If only the Companion rules hadn't taken so long to come out that, when they did, they weren't compatible with the first two versions of the Basic rules.
Like many people my only acquaintance with JB is through the references in Death of a Salesman. Benny supposedly thanked Arthur Miller for thus keeping his name in the public view.
Absolutely. But where else is there to go where they speak English and don't have conscription or identity cards? The US - nope, it's support our troops or get out over there too. Australia - rampant net censorship. New Zealand - pray-as-you-go welfare.
They always claim that they have to take all jokes seriously. But really these events are about punishing people who heckle during performances at the security theatre.
Your best chance of seeing the moons with binoculars is if you rest the binoculars on something, preferably a tripod. I never saw one Jovian moon with binos until I found a way to keep them still (the binos, not the moons).
The authorities have assured us that the images from these scanners cannot be stored, masturbated over, taken away or sold on by airport security thugs. If anyone wants to believe that then let them do so.
Absolutely - I never use a debit card with a Chip & Fraud reader because you have no protection against the store making unauthorised payments from your account. The bank will just claim that you gave them your PIN - there are 100 complaints a month to the financial ombudsman about this issue.
'Only if alternatives are developed' = APACS will come up with some inadequate, fraud-prone solution involving debit cards. They'll claim it's an alternative and use that as an excuse for abolishing cheques. There'll be about 5-10 years of widespread abuse and then the FSA will tighten up the rules. It was the same with Chip & Fraud cards, it'll be the same with contactless debit cards.
So what is the status of this 'tribunal'? The ones proposed in the UK equivalent won't be proper courts - I hope for the NZers' sake that their tribunal is different.
Absolutely. Malls have an implied invitation to the general public to enter - and their rights come in with them. 'Private property' isn't a law-free zone even in a capitalist analysis.
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This isn't about competence to use apps, it's about stopping people from being anonymous. A driving licence has two functions, proof of competence and a means of identifying people. The latter is meant in this story.
..and good to see a lord making himself useful.
The problems with Chrome are that there's no way to stop it spawning multiple threads, the System box is missing on Windows and it installs a whole raft of crapware that phones home every 10 seconds. The cheeky thing even tried to install a scheduled task the last time I tested it.
Mozilla shot themselves in the foot by having Firefox start using the Internet Explorer security settings. If you want to download anything executable with Firefox, you have to give IE the same permissions. There's a config setting to turn this off but it doesn't work.
New Labour have assured us that the images from these scans can't be stored, misused or sold on by corrupt staff. I won't bore you by reminding you once more of all the other assurances New Labour gave that turned out to be 100% untrue. Incidentally, what happens to people who 'choose' not to be scanned? Are they allowed to leave the airport unmolested, or is it straight off to the torture camps to explain their 'suspicious' behaviour?
The 'fall in vaccination uptake' issue was never about medicine, it was about government credibility - New Labour insisted that MMR was safe in just the same way that they insisted beef was safe, or that CIA torture flights weren't using British airports, or that Saddam could attack Britain with biological weapons at 45 minutes' notice. 'False in one thing, false in all,' thought British parents.
Unfortunately there'd be no way of enforcing these rules between days in trials. There have already been cases in the UK of jurors reaching verdicts on the basis of subjective internet comments about the accused.
Can't we just for once have a story that goes 'The US military has rejected plans for the new flying keyhole penetration nerve gas delivery system. "Use of this device would lead to indiscriminate civilian killings and stain America's proud record of adherence to the laws of war," said Gen Cyrus Bigchin.'
Technology will give the police the power they need to mercilessly gun down hundreds of people in tube stations simultaneously, rather than one at a time as they used to. Also, auto-fabricators will be able to make up a misleading account of events in each case. But it is excellent to see further association of the Blair olympics with authoritarianism: a few more stories like this and the connection will be inescapable. But what did they expect when they started the whole charade by allowing the Chinese secret police to beat up protestors on the streets of London during the 2008 torch procession, as the police and 2012 collaboration committee looked on?
Sorry, I just wanted to say that. Why can't Windows tell me that when I log on?
What a shame - still, given the revisionist Earthsea sequels, and the constant cat litter references in everything she's written since about 1980, perhaps it's just as well.
The Basic/Expert rule version was the most fun to play. If only the Companion rules hadn't taken so long to come out that, when they did, they weren't compatible with the first two versions of the Basic rules.
Like many people my only acquaintance with JB is through the references in Death of a Salesman. Benny supposedly thanked Arthur Miller for thus keeping his name in the public view.
We should have left copyright at 50 years, never mind 75 or 100.
Absolutely. But where else is there to go where they speak English and don't have conscription or identity cards? The US - nope, it's support our troops or get out over there too. Australia - rampant net censorship. New Zealand - pray-as-you-go welfare.
They always claim that they have to take all jokes seriously. But really these events are about punishing people who heckle during performances at the security theatre.
Rather than spending money to build mechanical FAKMs, it would be more cost-effective to continue training human ones.
Your best chance of seeing the moons with binoculars is if you rest the binoculars on something, preferably a tripod. I never saw one Jovian moon with binos until I found a way to keep them still (the binos, not the moons).
The authorities have assured us that the images from these scanners cannot be stored, masturbated over, taken away or sold on by airport security thugs. If anyone wants to believe that then let them do so.
Mandelson at it again. He certainly took a lot of notes when he met Geffen, didn't he?
Wait till the permafrost starts melting, that'll convince the Russians about climate change as their cities start wobbling and sinking.
Absolutely - I never use a debit card with a Chip & Fraud reader because you have no protection against the store making unauthorised payments from your account. The bank will just claim that you gave them your PIN - there are 100 complaints a month to the financial ombudsman about this issue.
'Only if alternatives are developed' = APACS will come up with some inadequate, fraud-prone solution involving debit cards. They'll claim it's an alternative and use that as an excuse for abolishing cheques. There'll be about 5-10 years of widespread abuse and then the FSA will tighten up the rules. It was the same with Chip & Fraud cards, it'll be the same with contactless debit cards.
So what is the status of this 'tribunal'? The ones proposed in the UK equivalent won't be proper courts - I hope for the NZers' sake that their tribunal is different.
Absolutely. Malls have an implied invitation to the general public to enter - and their rights come in with them. 'Private property' isn't a law-free zone even in a capitalist analysis.