In other words, they're not going to nail me just because I downloaded all 5 RedHat disks today.
True. But apparently, if you download 2 disks today, 2 disks tomorrow and the third the next day then you may well get a slap on the wrist, as you might have gone over your 1gb limit three times in a two week period.
Remember, you can't buy out someone who isn't for sale.
But you can buy a guy to stop selling essential equipment to someone-who-isn't-for-sale; or buy a guy to make what the person-who-isn't-for-sale is doing illegal; or buy a guy to "persuade" the person-who-isn't-for-sale to stop doing whatever it is that they are doing....
"And while I don't have an objection to being filmed whilst in M&S, it is slightly galling that some private company is filming me when I'm walking down the street."
Too bad. If I want to point a camera at you in public and take a picture that's my right. Otherwise, free press is destroyed.
I'm not sure that is accurate. Given that I am a very dull person, you would have a fair amount of difficulty persuading anyone that it was in the Public Interest for you to photograph me.
Whilst this does not stop you from taking a snap, you would find yourself in somewhat trickier circumstances if you followed me all day, continuously filming me without my permission (which is, in effect, what these companies do). It strikes me that you would fall foul of some of the UK Anti Harassment laws.
To comment on a few things (me = East-End Londoner)
1. The overwhelming majority of CCTV in the UK are privately owned and maintained.
True. But this includes open-air CCTV, CCTV on shopping streets, council estates etc. AFAIK (and I am often wrong) you don't get CCTV being manned by the police, simply because there are better things to do with a trained officer. So they contract it out to private companies. And while I don't have an objection to being filmed whilst in M&S, it is slightly galling that some private company is filming me when I'm walking down the street.
It's the same problem I have with the latest wheeze of letting parkies and binmen fine people on the spot for littering - lack of accountability.
4. Most CCTV footage is very poor, even when enhanced.
In which case, one is tempted to ask what the point of the bloody things is.
There isn't a camera within half a mile of my house, and I live in a densely populated suburb of London, so where would they start?
Heh. If they wanted to track you, they could always follow your mobile phone. And Oxford Street still has the densest CCTV coverage in the world.
You have to admit that the Govt. does have a thing about CCTV. If only because it is much cheaper than trying to hire extra bobbies. (Of course, I'd rather there was a policeman around to stop me being mugged in the first place, rather than hoping some minimum-wage yahoo caught it on CCTV but what do I know...)
Yeah, residents of the US can't really talk about our rights being eroded, but it doesn't mean it isn't happening. The Criminal Justice Act, the RIPA and whatever crap is being introduced this year should be proof enough.
Xenon II's scrolling was 4 layer, but it was at 25 frames per second, and the bottom layer was a starfield. Shadow of the Beast on the Amiga had 25 layers of scrolling and it was a steady 50 frames per second.
Shadow of the Beast, I remember it well.
Pros : Stunningly beautiful, free T-Shirt Cons : Played like a dog. A dog that had been run over by a truck, had all it's legs crushed, been buried, had been decomposing for six months, been dug up and converted into a video game.
Xenon II, on the other hand, was great. I remember one particularly whorish game mag giving it a rating of 100%....
Well, humour is a very subjective thing. Some people thought Scary Movie was funny, so there is no accounting for taste. (OT : There is a Scary Movie 3 coming out? good god....)
I'm having trouble explaining exactly why I find it so funny - I agree that there isn't much in the way of actual gags on the site.
I guess it is more of a "meta-joke" than anything funny on the site itself. Perhaps something to do with how difficult it is to be so carefully and correctly wrong. The author has accurately skewered the mentality of the self-proclaimed "expert" who has just enough knowledge to be dangerous.
'Course it could just be me having an odd sense of humour...:-)
BTW for another example of an anti-site parody, try Think of the Children. Slightly more obviously fake, but still legit enough to get pulled by the ISP and get a mention in the UK Press!
--If you really get to know me, you'll probably eventually realize that it's NOT a good idea to piss me off. I'm a nice guy and all, but I get REAL touchy, REAL QUICK when I get to feeling screwed over...
Uh huh. So basically, you're saying that you're quite prepared to be violent if you think you are in the right?
Well OK then. Good to know that we don't have to worry about being randomly shot... unless of course you get offended in which case fire away! pop a cap in their ass, they deserve it! After all, they pissed you off! And you being such a nice guy and all...
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??
"This guy scammed me." "Hit him with a bat!" "Smash his face!" "Break his legs!" "Hurt him!" "Shoot him!" "Kill him!"
as far as the tiny lightsaber. why would you want it? it is not built for you it is built for yoda.
1) Get Yoda's lightsaber. 2) Get a crossbow. 3) Attach lightsaber to crossbow bolt. 4) Go deep sea fishing on Naboo with your super-deluxe "Light Harpoon".
And to address the spam issue, there is none with IM clients. All you have to do is set the client to only receive messages from people on your contact list. Poof, no more IM spam.
Yeah, but, well, isn't that the point of this article?
For the 50,000 people that cant have a dish, DTT and cable will cover about 90% of them
Maybe you can help me out then. I live in Mile End, East London, on the third floor of a small block of flats.
I can't put up a dish, as I don't have access to the exterior wall of my flat (the only windows that open are small things I can just about get an arm through and I have no balcony. Yes I'm sure this probably contravenes a load of fire regulations)
I can't get OnDigital (or the new equivalent) through the communal arial as the signal is too weak.
I can't get cable, as the only cable available in East London is for phones. (Because of the Cable London fiasco).
I would LIKE to be able to get Digital TV, or Sky, or anything.
They definitely won't have thought of that. What an ingenious idea.
You'd be surprised. When the first phonecards came out in the UK, (back before the dawn of time/widespread use of mobiles) it was discovered that if you coated the back of them with clear nail polish, then they wouldn't decrease in value...
I think I must have made about a hundred hours of phone calls until BT wised up...
Sod that. Who on earth remembers the dull happy ones?
If I find out that I'm going to die soon, I'm gonna be the loudest, whiniest most obnoxious patient anyone has ever seen. I want people to think of me in 10 years time as "that crochety bastard who made my life hell".
And after I die, I want to be cremated and my ashes poured into the petrol tank of my Doctor.
I may not be remembered fondly, but they won't forget me in a hurry!
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In other words, they're not going to nail me just because I downloaded all 5 RedHat disks today.
True. But apparently, if you download 2 disks today, 2 disks tomorrow and the third the next day then you may well get a slap on the wrist, as you might have gone over your 1gb limit three times in a two week period.
Your understanding is wrong.
Well, mostly wrong. We used to have a culture of "innocent until proven guilty", but that is slowly being undermined
Remember, you can't buy out someone who isn't for sale.
But you can buy a guy to stop selling essential equipment to someone-who-isn't-for-sale; or buy a guy to make what the person-who-isn't-for-sale is doing illegal; or buy a guy to "persuade" the person-who-isn't-for-sale to stop doing whatever it is that they are doing....
just sayin'.
"And while I don't have an objection to being filmed whilst in M&S, it is slightly galling that some private company is filming me when I'm walking down the street."
Too bad. If I want to point a camera at you in public and take a picture that's my right. Otherwise, free press is destroyed.
I'm not sure that is accurate. Given that I am a very dull person, you would have a fair amount of difficulty persuading anyone that it was in the Public Interest for you to photograph me.
Whilst this does not stop you from taking a snap, you would find yourself in somewhat trickier circumstances if you followed me all day, continuously filming me without my permission (which is, in effect, what these companies do). It strikes me that you would fall foul of some of the UK Anti Harassment laws.
To comment on a few things (me = East-End Londoner)
1. The overwhelming majority of CCTV in the UK are privately owned and maintained.
True. But this includes open-air CCTV, CCTV on shopping streets, council estates etc. AFAIK (and I am often wrong) you don't get CCTV being manned by the police, simply because there are better things to do with a trained officer. So they contract it out to private companies. And while I don't have an objection to being filmed whilst in M&S, it is slightly galling that some private company is filming me when I'm walking down the street.
It's the same problem I have with the latest wheeze of letting parkies and binmen fine people on the spot for littering - lack of accountability.
4. Most CCTV footage is very poor, even when enhanced.
In which case, one is tempted to ask what the point of the bloody things is.
There isn't a camera within half a mile of my house, and I live in a densely populated suburb of London, so where would they start?
Heh. If they wanted to track you, they could always follow your mobile phone. And Oxford Street still has the densest CCTV coverage in the world.
You have to admit that the Govt. does have a thing about CCTV. If only because it is much cheaper than trying to hire extra bobbies. (Of course, I'd rather there was a policeman around to stop me being mugged in the first place, rather than hoping some minimum-wage yahoo caught it on CCTV but what do I know...)
Yeah, residents of the US can't really talk about our rights being eroded, but it doesn't mean it isn't happening. The Criminal Justice Act, the RIPA and whatever crap is being introduced this year should be proof enough.
Pretty funny. I entered your URL exactly as-is (including the extra space) and realized what the error message meant:
/
http://marina.horde.org/gallery/?g=../../../etc
EXCELLENT security dudes!
I'm just gonna sit here and be stunned for a bit. Y'all can talk amongst yourselves.
jaysus!
You mean a Snapgun? (Although, I guess a drill would work too!)
...hey, that's a point. I guess Ingersoll, Yale et al could sue manufacturers of lockpicks/snapguns under the DMCA?
So, it's like having a building with a super-duper unpickable lock on the front door, but with an unlocked door on the side.
:-)
AKA "Helmsdeep"?
Xenon II's scrolling was 4 layer, but it was at 25 frames per second, and the bottom layer was a starfield. Shadow of the Beast on the Amiga had 25 layers of scrolling and it was a steady 50 frames per second.
Shadow of the Beast, I remember it well.
Pros : Stunningly beautiful, free T-Shirt
Cons : Played like a dog. A dog that had been run over by a truck, had all it's legs crushed, been buried, had been decomposing for six months, been dug up and converted into a video game.
Xenon II, on the other hand, was great. I remember one particularly whorish game mag giving it a rating of 100%....
I read a comic (Hellblazer, don't remember the issue #) that had a plot about this. The solution was a bit sick.
... :-)
If ever there was a post that deserved -1:Redundant
(draught can=keg with valve?)
nah, it's a can with a... well... a widget inside.
Do pirates pirate ships?
I thought they piloted pirate ships.
Pirates pirate ships via piloted (possibly pirated) pirate ships.
Well, humour is a very subjective thing. Some people thought Scary Movie was funny, so there is no accounting for taste. (OT : There is a Scary Movie 3 coming out? good god....)
:-)
I'm having trouble explaining exactly why I find it so funny - I agree that there isn't much in the way of actual gags on the site.
I guess it is more of a "meta-joke" than anything funny on the site itself. Perhaps something to do with how difficult it is to be so carefully and correctly wrong. The author has accurately skewered the mentality of the self-proclaimed "expert" who has just enough knowledge to be dangerous.
'Course it could just be me having an odd sense of humour...
BTW for another example of an anti-site parody, try Think of the Children. Slightly more obviously fake, but still legit enough to get pulled by the ISP and get a mention in the UK Press!
Uh huh. Given that the expert quoted is also the Director of Research for The National Institute on Media and the Family, I can't consider him an unbiased source. (Besides, if they can't spell centre right, then they can sod off)
Humour is a relative thing, but I personally find a subtle parody much funnier than a blatant one. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, and all that.
Now that's funny. MAVAV isn't funny at all. I didn't see one joke on there.
No, see, that's the beauty of irony. It doesn't have to contain fart jokes for it to be funny.
"An armed society is a POLITE society."
--If you really get to know me, you'll probably eventually realize that it's NOT a good idea to piss me off. I'm a nice guy and all, but I get REAL touchy, REAL QUICK when I get to feeling screwed over...
Uh huh. So basically, you're saying that you're quite prepared to be violent if you think you are in the right?
Well OK then. Good to know that we don't have to worry about being randomly shot... unless of course you get offended in which case fire away! pop a cap in their ass, they deserve it! After all, they pissed you off! And you being such a nice guy and all...
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??
"This guy scammed me." "Hit him with a bat!" "Smash his face!" "Break his legs!" "Hurt him!" "Shoot him!" "Kill him!"
Jesus Christ...
I just read that the AD-36 virus and related variants have been shown to be a contributing factor in 30% of the obesity in the world
s/AD-36 virus/eating all the pies/g;
A player in this profession can modify the way other players look as well as create clothing.
Yup, the most powerful man in town will not be the mob boss or mayor, it will be the shrewd tailor who corners the marked on gold bikinis...
as far as the tiny lightsaber. why would you want it? it is not built for you it is built for yoda.
1) Get Yoda's lightsaber.
2) Get a crossbow.
3) Attach lightsaber to crossbow bolt.
4) Go deep sea fishing on Naboo with your super-deluxe "Light Harpoon".
And to address the spam issue, there is none with IM clients. All you have to do is set the client to only receive messages from people on your contact list. Poof, no more IM spam.
Yeah, but, well, isn't that the point of this article?
For the 50,000 people that cant have a dish, DTT and cable will cover about 90% of them
Maybe you can help me out then. I live in Mile End, East London, on the third floor of a small block of flats.
I can't put up a dish, as I don't have access to the exterior wall of my flat (the only windows that open are small things I can just about get an arm through and I have no balcony. Yes I'm sure this probably contravenes a load of fire regulations)
I can't get OnDigital (or the new equivalent) through the communal arial as the signal is too weak.
I can't get cable, as the only cable available in East London is for phones. (Because of the Cable London fiasco).
I would LIKE to be able to get Digital TV, or Sky, or anything.
How can I do it?
They definitely won't have thought of that. What an ingenious idea.
You'd be surprised. When the first phonecards came out in the UK, (back before the dawn of time/widespread use of mobiles) it was discovered that if you coated the back of them with clear nail polish, then they wouldn't decrease in value...
I think I must have made about a hundred hours of phone calls until BT wised up...
2) Accept the free gift of salvation from Jesus Christ...
"Free when you convert now. But hurry, this offer must end soon...."
oh, oh, wait..
"Try Heaven free for 30days with JhC as part of our no-risk offer. That's right, absolutely free...."
Sod that. Who on earth remembers the dull happy ones?
If I find out that I'm going to die soon, I'm gonna be the loudest, whiniest most obnoxious patient anyone has ever seen. I want people to think of me in 10 years time as "that crochety bastard who made my life hell".
And after I die, I want to be cremated and my ashes poured into the petrol tank of my Doctor.
I may not be remembered fondly, but they won't forget me in a hurry!
You should assume that whatever you send over your network link is publicly readable (if not alwys modifyable) and encrypt accordingly
I know that. You know that. And the odds are very high that Joe Terrorist/Paedophile/Sniper knows that.
The only person who doesn't know that, and the only person who will be snooped on, is yer average citizen of the UK.
And that's the plan.