I take it you've never checked to see if a web server (process) is up from an ssh session on the machine itself by doing "telnet localhost 80" then? Or the equivalent for a pop3 or smtp server, etc.
No, I'd never connect to a machine using telnet to use the machine itself - but there are situations where it is invaluable.
They're actually allowed to arbitrarily search anyone in London under this law, arbitrarily, as it's designated a zone of terrorist threat or somesuch.
Note that the law doesn't target London specifically - it applies to any place that is considered to be a likely target. That pretty-much covers the whole of central London (although personally I'd be hard-pressed to argue that Walthamstow should count with a straight face...)
Still, what did you expect from a government that brought us such gems as RIPA and the constant stream of increases in the length of time a suspect in a terrorist case can be detained without charge (currently 48 days)?
The shows? Almost certainly, but they can make for entertaining viewing. YMMV of course, but I quite enjoy seeing deserving obnoxious idiots being taken down a peg or two by the police...
Actually, I just searched for aardwolf on google.com and your homepage was the 23rd or so hit. Mind you, it wasn't in the first 10 pages of results on cuil.com.
On the other hand, it's well known that part of google's algorithm depends on how well linked-to a page is, and yours is linked from every slashdot comment you make. That may well inflate your position in google's results.
I'm not sure that the right to roam gives you quite as much freedom as you think it does - I can't spend long researching it, but google searches suggest that it applies to open countryside. You most certainly do not have the right to roam on to my driveway, for example, which is clearly private property.
Some drunk people shout and fight. I've been drunk many, many times and have never, ever had a fight with anyone (or sober, for that matter). For that matter, I can only think of one or two fights that I've seen in 15 years of being of legal age to drink (and a couple of years of illegal drinking before that).
I can only assume that you've not spent a couple of hours in a small room with a few dope-smoking friends.
No, walking past people in the street smoking isn't going to get you high, but it's definitely possible to be affected by other people's smoking, in the right circumstances.
But that's just it - the vast majority of people don't even know that you can dual-boot, let alone want to. In addition, this only affects Vista Enterprise and Ultimate - most people will be using either Home Basic, Home Premium or maybe Business.
This really does affect a tiny proportion of a small proportion of users.
Yes, and one method of trying to get around that protection would be to boot the OS into an evil VM that lies to Vista and says "yeah, sure, all is well, open up!".
You don't care (4 digit uid), I don't care (5 digit uid), a very cursory glance appears to show that those who do (in this thread at least) have 6 and 7 digit uids... maybe it's a "length of time on the site" thing?
Does anyone else think that "999" is too easy to hit accidentally?
Easy to hit accidentally, yes; easy to dial accidentally, no. I don't know about you, but I'm old enough to remember my parents' old rotary dial telephone...
I wonder how many of these false calls were just little kids punching the numbers to play "music"
Some, perhaps, but from reading a couple of blogs prank calls are a genuine problem. There is also increasingly a problem of youths starting fires then attacking the fire brigade when they arrive to put them out. My dad has personally seen kids throwing stones at fire engines that have attended fires near where he lives.
So believe me, some prank calls are most definitely on purpose.
I was under the impression that terminal services won't let you log in with an account that has a blank password. That may be a relatively recent change though I guess.
I was countering the assertion that McKinnon committed a crime in the US (rather than in the UK) by arguing by analogy. I in no way support the decision to extradite him or the treaty under which the request was made, nor was I attempting to liken his crime to murder.
I can only assume that your anger at the decision has temporarily clouded your reading comprehension - either that or you're reading at +5 (or something) and didn't bother to see what I was replying to.
I were stood on the Mexico side of the border and you on the US side and I shot you, I would have committed my crime in Mexico, no? Same thing, greater distance involved.
From TFA, this appears to be being done only by Avon and Somerset Police. Something most people aren't aware of is that the 43 ("geographical") police forces of England and Wales (there are a number of "non-geographical" ones too, such as British Transport Police) are essentially separate companies. Or at least they were 2 years ago when I was working on a project to assist in inter-force information sharing.
The point being that you'll very often find a given force doing something that none of the rest are, as apparently is the case here. So yes, "British police" are doing this, but only in two counties.
Personally I'd still rather that, than not recognise my daughter. I'd also rather put my loved ones through a relatively swift and dramatic end to my life, than a very slow, gradual decline, in which I am effectively dead to them (as I don't know who they are) long before I stop breathing or moving around.
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I take it you've never checked to see if a web server (process) is up from an ssh session on the machine itself by doing "telnet localhost 80" then? Or the equivalent for a pop3 or smtp server, etc.
No, I'd never connect to a machine using telnet to use the machine itself - but there are situations where it is invaluable.
They're actually allowed to arbitrarily search anyone in London under this law, arbitrarily, as it's designated a zone of terrorist threat or somesuch.
Note that the law doesn't target London specifically - it applies to any place that is considered to be a likely target. That pretty-much covers the whole of central London (although personally I'd be hard-pressed to argue that Walthamstow should count with a straight face...)
Still, what did you expect from a government that brought us such gems as RIPA and the constant stream of increases in the length of time a suspect in a terrorist case can be detained without charge (currently 48 days)?
The shows? Almost certainly, but they can make for entertaining viewing. YMMV of course, but I quite enjoy seeing deserving obnoxious idiots being taken down a peg or two by the police...
ObPratchett: Sam Vimes. He watches them.
Exactly. Here in the UK there are a couple of reality TV shows that follow a team of police around, filming them as they go about their duties.
From time to time someone they're dealing with will demand that the cameraman stop filming, and the response is always along the following lines:
"He can film what he likes, we're in public"
Well, then that surely applies both ways, no?
Actually, I just searched for aardwolf on google.com and your homepage was the 23rd or so hit. Mind you, it wasn't in the first 10 pages of results on cuil.com.
On the other hand, it's well known that part of google's algorithm depends on how well linked-to a page is, and yours is linked from every slashdot comment you make. That may well inflate your position in google's results.
I'm not sure that the right to roam gives you quite as much freedom as you think it does - I can't spend long researching it, but google searches suggest that it applies to open countryside. You most certainly do not have the right to roam on to my driveway, for example, which is clearly private property.
Drunk people shout and fight.
Some drunk people shout and fight. I've been drunk many, many times and have never, ever had a fight with anyone (or sober, for that matter). For that matter, I can only think of one or two fights that I've seen in 15 years of being of legal age to drink (and a couple of years of illegal drinking before that).
I can only assume that you've not spent a couple of hours in a small room with a few dope-smoking friends.
No, walking past people in the street smoking isn't going to get you high, but it's definitely possible to be affected by other people's smoking, in the right circumstances.
Well I'll never forget the times Mandrake's X server locked up on me forcing a hardware reset, but I'm still willing to forgive.
In the UK, without a warrant, yes.
But that's just it - the vast majority of people don't even know that you can dual-boot, let alone want to. In addition, this only affects Vista Enterprise and Ultimate - most people will be using either Home Basic, Home Premium or maybe Business.
This really does affect a tiny proportion of a small proportion of users.
Yes, and one method of trying to get around that protection would be to boot the OS into an evil VM that lies to Vista and says "yeah, sure, all is well, open up!".
You don't care (4 digit uid), I don't care (5 digit uid), a very cursory glance appears to show that those who do (in this thread at least) have 6 and 7 digit uids... maybe it's a "length of time on the site" thing?
Does anyone else think that "999" is too easy to hit accidentally?
Easy to hit accidentally, yes; easy to dial accidentally, no. I don't know about you, but I'm old enough to remember my parents' old rotary dial telephone...
I wonder how many of these false calls were just little kids punching the numbers to play "music"
Some, perhaps, but from reading a couple of blogs prank calls are a genuine problem. There is also increasingly a problem of youths starting fires then attacking the fire brigade when they arrive to put them out. My dad has personally seen kids throwing stones at fire engines that have attended fires near where he lives.
So believe me, some prank calls are most definitely on purpose.
Thanks - you made the same point I was going to, but supplied more information than I would have done.
Bottom line is that self-defence is ok, but Tony Martin was not acting in self-defence.
I was under the impression that terminal services won't let you log in with an account that has a blank password. That may be a relatively recent change though I guess.
I was countering the assertion that McKinnon committed a crime in the US (rather than in the UK) by arguing by analogy. I in no way support the decision to extradite him or the treaty under which the request was made, nor was I attempting to liken his crime to murder.
I can only assume that your anger at the decision has temporarily clouded your reading comprehension - either that or you're reading at +5 (or something) and didn't bother to see what I was replying to.
I were stood on the Mexico side of the border and you on the US side and I shot you, I would have committed my crime in Mexico, no? Same thing, greater distance involved.
Well, you're the only ones who can realistically try to do anything about it - peacefully, at least...
From TFA, this appears to be being done only by Avon and Somerset Police. Something most people aren't aware of is that the 43 ("geographical") police forces of England and Wales (there are a number of "non-geographical" ones too, such as British Transport Police) are essentially separate companies. Or at least they were 2 years ago when I was working on a project to assist in inter-force information sharing.
The point being that you'll very often find a given force doing something that none of the rest are, as apparently is the case here. So yes, "British police" are doing this, but only in two counties.
Personally I'd still rather that, than not recognise my daughter. I'd also rather put my loved ones through a relatively swift and dramatic end to my life, than a very slow, gradual decline, in which I am effectively dead to them (as I don't know who they are) long before I stop breathing or moving around.
It's called a baseball bat.
The word you're thinking of is "affordable".
That's not what he's complaining about - he's saying (quite rightly) that raw GHz figures are utterly meaningless.