I assume to posses the original legally they'll have to have it deactivated too. Although that depends on if it's actually classed as a firearm in the first place, while it obviously should be I don't know if the law actually sees a 3d printed bit of plastic as a firearm just because it could fire a bullet (after all lots of things could do).
He's running AdBlock because he's annoyed that the ads he's been seeing aren't relevant enough.
That seems to be the point they're missing (deliberately I'm sure). I don't want to see ads, but I especially don't want to see relevant ads. I remember during the various stages of banning advertising of smoking in the UK they used to talk about not promoting smoking just brand awareness to get existing smokers to switch to them. This was of course rubbish, and the same is true for most advertising. They aren't trying to get you to buy a product you are already planning to, just from them instead of someone else, they are trying to get you to buy something you don't want or didn't realise you wanted (but were perfectly happy without). If I actually wanted something I would search for it myself, I'm not going to wait till an ad on my favourite website suggests it. So more relevant ads means finding a weakness in you they can exploit to sell you some crap you don't really want.
Every year when you fill the in electoral roll return there is a tick box for every person listed to choose to opt out of the version of the register that is sold. Despite what it says in the linked article it is very clear and the purpose is explained. While it does seem a bit crap that they might want to sell this in the first place it is very easy to opt out if you actually read the form. Any time you put your name to something and don't bother to read it and only get spam in return you should consider you got off lightly. I have to assume those who don't tick it don't mind spam and if that contributes a few pounds to the local council then great, they need all the extra income they can get (perhaps if they were allowed to charge more for the list they could afford to bring back weekly bin collections!).
The question seems to use copper wire and ISDN interchangeably. In the UK the DSL you mention runs over those copper wires, so they aren't going anywhere.
...they write it. Clicking a button to convert your architect's UML to Java isn't the same. Perhaps that's the problem here, but I didn't bother to RTFA because it didn't sound very interesting.
> What are your concerns with Firefox 21 versus 17? > Is it the social api? Is it the health report?
I don't think it's anything this sensible, I think it's just the version number. I don't really understand what issue people have with it, but that seems to be what's exciting most people. If they just versioned the new releases as point releases there wouldn't be half as many comments to this story. I think having mostly small incremental changes in new full version numbers has really upset some people's sense of normal software conventions and their brains have melted.
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> They combined Download and Web History. So since FF20, when you clear one, they both go.
Really? Mine doesn't do that. I've cleared my download history many times and still have >6 months of web history.
Before you waste your time downloading the SDK note that it is for windows phone 7 only. I know they did sell a few, but I've never met anyone who bought one.
> Mine does not. I have no facebook apps what so ever.
Ditto. But if you are the type of person that uses facebook and would like to access it on your phone you are type of person who already has a smartphone and does just that, therefore there is one to sell this device too.
> If my CM ROM bricks the phone I'll be out 99 cents?
I'm assuming 99 cents is just the deposit on a 2 year hire-purchase agreement with mobile service. If you brick your phone you'll still paying for it for the next 2 years and not being able to use the service you are also paying for without forking out the retail price of another phone.
If they really were 99 cents a phone there would be no shortage of people buying them.
What are you saying is correct/incorrect? You say believe the version on the page you have linked to, but this also states that the automated exchange was invented by Strowger (the person I linked to), so as far as I can work out from your link you are agreeing with me.
This is the point I stopped reading. If looking at wine in a shop to see which ones are labelled as dry is beyond him I'm not surprised the results of his attempt to follow a recipe weren't great. Just because a book is intended for a "newbie" doesn't mean it'll work equally well for a retard.
Putting aside the fact that everyone here hates DRM (me included), is what WHSmith did unreasonable? I assume it's their standard practise to add this protection to what they sell. While we might object on a number of ground (efficacy being one of them) I'm sure they see DRM as a sensible thing to do to protect the material they sell from piracy. Would you expect a retailer to check this "anti-theft" measure to be ok with the publisher first? Do they normally check before they fit those RFID type tags to products to stop them being stolen from a store? I know there is a difference in the end product for the consumer between these two, but probably WHSmith don't realise that (and actually neither will most of their customers). While I agree they shouldn't do it if the publisher doesn't want it, I doubt that was ever communicated to them and I wouldn't expect them to check that first. Should they check you aren't a raging environmentalist before they offer the customer a carrier bag to take your book home in?
And remember that fines are a punishment for doing something wrong (no difference here from any other crime/punishment model). If you stick to reporting the truth you'll be fine. Ideally have evidence for this, although that isn't necessary unless anyone tries to make a claim against you (in which case you'll need to find that evidence to defend yourself). If you want to report lies or harmful speculation then you deserve punishing.
Admittedly much of it do to the mechanisation, but this seems like a poor comparison. It's basically saying something is good because just it worked for a long time, not because it's actually better. We lived in caves for thousands of years too, but I wouldn't want to go back just because it's "entirely natural".
And choose cashback deals (these work by giving you a crap handset and using the networks handset subsidy to pay you cashback, and they assume some people will forget/not bother to claim). If you want just SMS hows this example deal for you: Samsung E1150 with 100mb data/month, 50 cross-network minutes/month and unlimited SMS, all for £0.88/month for 2 years (http://www.mobiles.co.uk/talk-mobile-samsung-e1150.html#/?sb=ec). That cashback comes from the seller of the phone. Here (and I assume this must exist in the US too) you can use third party websites to collect referral fees from the seller and get that back too (e.g. http://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/rab2). If you use this cashback site to go through to the deal above you'll earn £25 cashback, which is more than the entire 2 year contract will cost you. And you might get a couple of quitd for the crap handset on ebay. So basically you can be in profit and have 2 years mobiles service! Note on the contract above you have to pay out £10.50 per month for I think 6 months before you can start to claim the cashback, but so long as you remember to do it you win. I've been taking deals like this for the last 7 years (and only really paid for an occasional good value phone to use with the contracts, e.g. nexus 4). Only do this from reputable sellers thought, a couple of years ago there was a spate of dodgy companies screwing over their customers or going bust. This is also a good way to pick up a second sim to use just for data in your tablet.
> That's the rub though- vaccines used to be for life threatening diseases like polio and smallpox but are now more and more prescribed for things that are merely a nuisance(chicken pox anyone?).
Wait till you get a bit older, your immune system a little weaker and then your chicken pox returns as shingles. That's more than a mere nuisance for a lot of people.
> The problem is that vaccines rely on herd immunity.
Yes, this is an important point that not much has been made of in the comments so far. There are people who cannot be vaccinated or in whom the vaccine will not produce the desired immunity. So long as these people don't come in to contact with the disease they'll be fine, but if you don't want to get your child immunised and send them to school with some poor kid with a crappy immune system or on chemo or something then you might end up killing them too.
Are there schools that ban unvaccinated children from attending? I think that'd be a more effective way than kicking them out off the doctors list.
Yes, there are mainframe emulators. And if you compare processing power they come out quite well, but as others have pointed out mainframes aren't super computers and don't claim to be. If you just want something that can run your mainframe code that's great. What an emulator won't give you is any of the things that people actually want a mainframe for (see other posts for details).
It's a bit disappointing to see so many people on slashdot wondering what the purpose of a mainframe is. It shows so many "geeks" have a very limited knowledge of IT in the real world.
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That's probably illegal in the UK.
I assume to posses the original legally they'll have to have it deactivated too. Although that depends on if it's actually classed as a firearm in the first place, while it obviously should be I don't know if the law actually sees a 3d printed bit of plastic as a firearm just because it could fire a bullet (after all lots of things could do).
He's running AdBlock because he's annoyed that the ads he's been seeing aren't relevant enough.
That seems to be the point they're missing (deliberately I'm sure). I don't want to see ads, but I especially don't want to see relevant ads. I remember during the various stages of banning advertising of smoking in the UK they used to talk about not promoting smoking just brand awareness to get existing smokers to switch to them. This was of course rubbish, and the same is true for most advertising. They aren't trying to get you to buy a product you are already planning to, just from them instead of someone else, they are trying to get you to buy something you don't want or didn't realise you wanted (but were perfectly happy without). If I actually wanted something I would search for it myself, I'm not going to wait till an ad on my favourite website suggests it. So more relevant ads means finding a weakness in you they can exploit to sell you some crap you don't really want.
Every year when you fill the in electoral roll return there is a tick box for every person listed to choose to opt out of the version of the register that is sold. Despite what it says in the linked article it is very clear and the purpose is explained. While it does seem a bit crap that they might want to sell this in the first place it is very easy to opt out if you actually read the form. Any time you put your name to something and don't bother to read it and only get spam in return you should consider you got off lightly. I have to assume those who don't tick it don't mind spam and if that contributes a few pounds to the local council then great, they need all the extra income they can get (perhaps if they were allowed to charge more for the list they could afford to bring back weekly bin collections!).
Perhaps moving them all aft would have been sufficient to keep the boat balanced too !?
I would assume opening the file in your favourite zip tool and checking there is only one classes.dex file should be sufficient.
The question seems to use copper wire and ISDN interchangeably. In the UK the DSL you mention runs over those copper wires, so they aren't going anywhere.
...they write it. Clicking a button to convert your architect's UML to Java isn't the same. Perhaps that's the problem here, but I didn't bother to RTFA because it didn't sound very interesting.
> What are your concerns with Firefox 21 versus 17?
> Is it the social api? Is it the health report?
I don't think it's anything this sensible, I think it's just the version number. I don't really understand what issue people have with it, but that seems to be what's exciting most people. If they just versioned the new releases as point releases there wouldn't be half as many comments to this story. I think having mostly small incremental changes in new full version numbers has really upset some people's sense of normal software conventions and their brains have melted.
> They combined Download and Web History. So since FF20, when you clear one, they both go.
Really? Mine doesn't do that. I've cleared my download history many times and still have >6 months of web history.
Before you waste your time downloading the SDK note that it is for windows phone 7 only. I know they did sell a few, but I've never met anyone who bought one.
> Mine does not. I have no facebook apps what so ever.
Ditto. But if you are the type of person that uses facebook and would like to access it on your phone you are type of person who already has a smartphone and does just that, therefore there is one to sell this device too.
> If my CM ROM bricks the phone I'll be out 99 cents?
I'm assuming 99 cents is just the deposit on a 2 year hire-purchase agreement with mobile service. If you brick your phone you'll still paying for it for the next 2 years and not being able to use the service you are also paying for without forking out the retail price of another phone.
If they really were 99 cents a phone there would be no shortage of people buying them.
What are you saying is correct/incorrect? You say believe the version on the page you have linked to, but this also states that the automated exchange was invented by Strowger (the person I linked to), so as far as I can work out from your link you are agreeing with me.
> The automated telephone exchange was invented by someone who ran a fire brigade
Not quite, he was an undertaker:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almon_Brown_Strowger
This is the point I stopped reading. If looking at wine in a shop to see which ones are labelled as dry is beyond him I'm not surprised the results of his attempt to follow a recipe weren't great. Just because a book is intended for a "newbie" doesn't mean it'll work equally well for a retard.
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Putting aside the fact that everyone here hates DRM (me included), is what WHSmith did unreasonable? I assume it's their standard practise to add this protection to what they sell. While we might object on a number of ground (efficacy being one of them) I'm sure they see DRM as a sensible thing to do to protect the material they sell from piracy. Would you expect a retailer to check this "anti-theft" measure to be ok with the publisher first? Do they normally check before they fit those RFID type tags to products to stop them being stolen from a store? I know there is a difference in the end product for the consumer between these two, but probably WHSmith don't realise that (and actually neither will most of their customers). While I agree they shouldn't do it if the publisher doesn't want it, I doubt that was ever communicated to them and I wouldn't expect them to check that first. Should they check you aren't a raging environmentalist before they offer the customer a carrier bag to take your book home in?
And remember that fines are a punishment for doing something wrong (no difference here from any other crime/punishment model). If you stick to reporting the truth you'll be fine. Ideally have evidence for this, although that isn't necessary unless anyone tries to make a claim against you (in which case you'll need to find that evidence to defend yourself). If you want to report lies or harmful speculation then you deserve punishing.
Admittedly much of it do to the mechanisation, but this seems like a poor comparison. It's basically saying something is good because just it worked for a long time, not because it's actually better. We lived in caves for thousands of years too, but I wouldn't want to go back just because it's "entirely natural".
In case it's not obvious, this is a UK example.
And choose cashback deals (these work by giving you a crap handset and using the networks handset subsidy to pay you cashback, and they assume some people will forget/not bother to claim). If you want just SMS hows this example deal for you: Samsung E1150 with 100mb data/month, 50 cross-network minutes/month and unlimited SMS, all for £0.88/month for 2 years (http://www.mobiles.co.uk/talk-mobile-samsung-e1150.html#/?sb=ec). That cashback comes from the seller of the phone. Here (and I assume this must exist in the US too) you can use third party websites to collect referral fees from the seller and get that back too (e.g. http://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/rab2). If you use this cashback site to go through to the deal above you'll earn £25 cashback, which is more than the entire 2 year contract will cost you. And you might get a couple of quitd for the crap handset on ebay. So basically you can be in profit and have 2 years mobiles service! Note on the contract above you have to pay out £10.50 per month for I think 6 months before you can start to claim the cashback, but so long as you remember to do it you win. I've been taking deals like this for the last 7 years (and only really paid for an occasional good value phone to use with the contracts, e.g. nexus 4). Only do this from reputable sellers thought, a couple of years ago there was a spate of dodgy companies screwing over their customers or going bust.
This is also a good way to pick up a second sim to use just for data in your tablet.
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> That's the rub though- vaccines used to be for life threatening diseases like polio and smallpox but are now more and more prescribed for things that are merely a nuisance(chicken pox anyone?).
Wait till you get a bit older, your immune system a little weaker and then your chicken pox returns as shingles. That's more than a mere nuisance for a lot of people.
> The problem is that vaccines rely on herd immunity.
Yes, this is an important point that not much has been made of in the comments so far. There are people who cannot be vaccinated or in whom the vaccine will not produce the desired immunity. So long as these people don't come in to contact with the disease they'll be fine, but if you don't want to get your child immunised and send them to school with some poor kid with a crappy immune system or on chemo or something then you might end up killing them too.
Are there schools that ban unvaccinated children from attending? I think that'd be a more effective way than kicking them out off the doctors list.
Yes, there are mainframe emulators. And if you compare processing power they come out quite well, but as others have pointed out mainframes aren't super computers and don't claim to be. If you just want something that can run your mainframe code that's great. What an emulator won't give you is any of the things that people actually want a mainframe for (see other posts for details).
It's a bit disappointing to see so many people on slashdot wondering what the purpose of a mainframe is. It shows so many "geeks" have a very limited knowledge of IT in the real world.