While it's easy to say that speed limits are set low to trap motorists and get £$â in fines...how many court cases do you think there will be if they say "You can drive 60mph on this road, but only 55mph at night...or if it's raining . But if it's just drizzle it's still 60. But if there's surface water, 55mph. For snow, lets say 45mph. For unusually clear, dry conditions, 100mph. If you have a new car with 5 star safety rating, you can do 80 on a regular day, but if you have a 20 year old fiesta, you can do a max of 40 in any conditions."
Laws need to be clear cut because people are idiots. People will not understand laws if they're over complicated, and the powers that be will "catch-out" more people who misunderstand the speed limits than they "catch-out" at the moment with the low speed limits.
There was a court case my mum spoke of recently (she's CPS) where someone was pulled up at a red light, and an ambulance on the blue was coming up behind them. So they did the human thing, got out the way. This involved going slightly over the stop line. The anti-run-red-light cameras took a picture of them, in their car over the line. They took it to court. They lost the case. The law saying you're not allowed past the white line when the red light is on stands regardless of the situation. No exceptions.
Before cameras for speed and red lights etc were about, it was the police who'd stop you for speeding, or running red lights. In a situation like this, a copper would use their discretion and say "Fair play, you were just getting out of the ambulances way" and not give you a ticket. Unfortunately, now there is no human judgement, you have to sit at that red light until it goes green and let the guy in the back of the ambulance die...otherwise you are in the wrong.
As far as this idea goes; bare in mind. If you get caught, you are seriously screwed legally. There was another case where a motorbiker would get hit by the same forward-facing speed camera pretty much every day. Because the bike didn't have a plate on the front, he got away with it for a very long time. Until, a rear-facing camera got his number plate. They matched his bike based on stickers and decals on his bike and helmet with all the previous pictures and did him...considerably.
A similar thing applies here. You can get away with it for so long and hope they never catch you. But if they do, they'll throw the book and then some at you.
I suppose, if you're desperate enough to want to try this deodorant is most likely desperate enough to ef a fatty. In which case, this deodorant is perfect for the job.
Surely the issue isn't using UDP to get around ISP's 'traffic management', the problem lies with the ISPs who have forced BitTorrent to use UDP with said 'traffic management' policies.
If the ISPs didn't throttle bandwidth, BitTorrent would have no need to use UDP and the world would be a better place. If the ISPs didn't complain to their customers for using the bandwidth they supply but had networks that could support their advertised bandwidth, everyone would be happy.
Unfortunately as well we all know, using 10Mbps of the 10Mbps connection you paid for is bad, you're not allowed to do that - heaven forbid you use the bandwidth you're buying from them:o
1. Start a website
2. Post a tool that a small number of the general populous would give 2 shits about
3. Find an asinine excuse to post it on Slashdot
4. Get web traffic
5. Profit?
That's pretty much what I thought when I RTFA. The OP is either/really/ thin skinned and think this is bullying, or, it's all a ploy to get more traffic to his/her site. I'd guess it's the latter for the two.
It wouldn't surprise me if the 'troll' was actually the OP talking to him/herself.
I'd suggest web programming. That's what got me into it, I know that it has all been done before, but what is your kid interested into? For me at the time, I liked GTA, so I made a fan site. Made a news system, expanded it so that people could post comments, expanded it so it had a simple user system, user privileges, admin panel etc. It just grew as my knowledge did. While it had been done before, there were other bigger GTA fan sites, there were news systems and downloads systems I could have used, I found it more fun to make my own.
Why are you asking us what your kid is interested in? Ask him:p
You don't actually have to have the source code on the CD with the software. All you need to do is provide a way for the user to acquire the source code for free. So they could just include a slip of paper and say "Just go to ubuntu.com and look for it".
It's actually legal to have it only available by request.
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While it's easy to say that speed limits are set low to trap motorists and get £$â in fines...how many court cases do you think there will be if they say "You can drive 60mph on this road, but only 55mph at night...or if it's raining . But if it's just drizzle it's still 60. But if there's surface water, 55mph. For snow, lets say 45mph. For unusually clear, dry conditions, 100mph. If you have a new car with 5 star safety rating, you can do 80 on a regular day, but if you have a 20 year old fiesta, you can do a max of 40 in any conditions."
Laws need to be clear cut because people are idiots. People will not understand laws if they're over complicated, and the powers that be will "catch-out" more people who misunderstand the speed limits than they "catch-out" at the moment with the low speed limits.
There was a court case my mum spoke of recently (she's CPS) where someone was pulled up at a red light, and an ambulance on the blue was coming up behind them. So they did the human thing, got out the way. This involved going slightly over the stop line. The anti-run-red-light cameras took a picture of them, in their car over the line. They took it to court. They lost the case. The law saying you're not allowed past the white line when the red light is on stands regardless of the situation. No exceptions.
Before cameras for speed and red lights etc were about, it was the police who'd stop you for speeding, or running red lights. In a situation like this, a copper would use their discretion and say "Fair play, you were just getting out of the ambulances way" and not give you a ticket. Unfortunately, now there is no human judgement, you have to sit at that red light until it goes green and let the guy in the back of the ambulance die...otherwise you are in the wrong.
As far as this idea goes; bare in mind. If you get caught, you are seriously screwed legally. There was another case where a motorbiker would get hit by the same forward-facing speed camera pretty much every day. Because the bike didn't have a plate on the front, he got away with it for a very long time. Until, a rear-facing camera got his number plate. They matched his bike based on stickers and decals on his bike and helmet with all the previous pictures and did him...considerably.
A similar thing applies here. You can get away with it for so long and hope they never catch you. But if they do, they'll throw the book and then some at you.
I suppose, if you're desperate enough to want to try this deodorant is most likely desperate enough to ef a fatty. In which case, this deodorant is perfect for the job.
Surely the issue isn't using UDP to get around ISP's 'traffic management', the problem lies with the ISPs who have forced BitTorrent to use UDP with said 'traffic management' policies.
If the ISPs didn't throttle bandwidth, BitTorrent would have no need to use UDP and the world would be a better place. If the ISPs didn't complain to their customers for using the bandwidth they supply but had networks that could support their advertised bandwidth, everyone would be happy.
Unfortunately as well we all know, using 10Mbps of the 10Mbps connection you paid for is bad, you're not allowed to do that - heaven forbid you use the bandwidth you're buying from them :o
A surprisingly accurate method of estimating bug frequency, but it makes statisticians cry.
echo 'Cogito ergo sum'; //I think therefore I am
By Descartes' reasoning, any machine that executes that code exists at least as a thinking thing (a consciousness)
Or we could also take the python route and simply;
import soul
1. Start a website 2. Post a tool that a small number of the general populous would give 2 shits about 3. Find an asinine excuse to post it on Slashdot 4. Get web traffic 5. Profit?
That's pretty much what I thought when I RTFA. The OP is either /really/ thin skinned and think this is bullying, or, it's all a ploy to get more traffic to his/her site. I'd guess it's the latter for the two.
It wouldn't surprise me if the 'troll' was actually the OP talking to him/herself.
I'd suggest web programming. That's what got me into it, I know that it has all been done before, but what is your kid interested into? For me at the time, I liked GTA, so I made a fan site. Made a news system, expanded it so that people could post comments, expanded it so it had a simple user system, user privileges, admin panel etc. It just grew as my knowledge did. While it had been done before, there were other bigger GTA fan sites, there were news systems and downloads systems I could have used, I found it more fun to make my own. Why are you asking us what your kid is interested in? Ask him :p
You don't actually have to have the source code on the CD with the software. All you need to do is provide a way for the user to acquire the source code for free. So they could just include a slip of paper and say "Just go to ubuntu.com and look for it".
It's actually legal to have it only available by request.