If you really believe that the left is less intrusive of civil liberties than the right, you just don't have enough experience with the left. Or you're willfully ignoring it. They just usually attack different civil liberties than (some of) the right attacks, but you can bet your bottom dollar that once they have their highest priorities taken care of, they'll go after the rest. One of the first to go will be - no surprise - freedom to dissent. That's neither particularly left nor right, governments of all stripes tend to dislike criticism and will suppress it if they can, by any means they can.
Don't believe any of that? Try living and working in a communist country for a while. It'll open your eyes.
If you really believe that the left is less intrusive of civil liberties than the right, you just don't have enough experience with the left. Or you're willfully ignoring it. They just usually attack different civil liberties than (some of) the right attacks, but you can bet your bottom dollar that once they have their highest priorities taken care of, they'll go after the rest. One of the first to go will be - no surprise - freedom to dissent. That's neither particularly left nor right, governments of all stripes tend to dislike criticism and will suppress it if they can, by any means they can.
Don't believe any of that? Try living and working in a communist country for a while. It'll open your eyes.
Having seen serious combat in many countries and *gagged* by the official secrets act there are some things I would like to post anonymously but am afraid slashdot would get a subpoena for my details so it makes no difference anon or not.
Therefore I am going to jump in and tell you what has been occuring at GCHQ http://www.gchq.gov.uk/ because no matter what I do or say on slashdot, I am pretty high up on the radar and my phone calls have been monitored too as I am trained in counter-espionage and ISTAR.
Despite what the government tells you, it is easy to end up on a database as a threat or just for speaking your mind. There are secret files held on people and it does not matter whether you use the "Freedom of Information Act" you will never get access to those files.
Wiretapping is redundant and "deep packet inspection" has been used by GCHQ for as long as I can remember with my career in the Mil going back to 1985 even on nix SLIP accounts. GCHQ have had the abilitiy to triangulate you using your Mobile/Cell phone since 1992! All your civil liberties are eroded beyond belief. Sorry if I rant too much but my reply to the topic is putting out an Amnesty and then after all the info-gathering getting punished.
Remember all governments will and can change their minds without contridicting themselves. I say power to the people.
I've never heard of anyone work being done on IPv10. What are you talking about? Why would IPv6 be insufficient? Are you worried it doesn't have sufficient address space? There should be enough addresses in IPv6 for every person on the planet to have millions of addresses: the addressing scheme allows for 2^128 which is large enough that we'd only ever need to increase the address space if we intended to deploy billions of swarms of billions of individually addressed nano-bots.
Or is there some other technical deficiency of IPv6? Or are you just trolling?
Firstly, I am not trolling and China has been experimenting with IPv9 for the past 3 years to get an edge.
Maybe I failed to explain myself in a clear manner, mainly because the mind boggles and you can call me a troll all you like, but every device you can imagine in 20 years will have commands issued remotely from alarm clocks to smart embedded chips under your skin, biometrics, banking you name it.
Therefore there has to be scope in order for these services to work. Yes some services will run on IPv6 as will some on IPv4.
Now if you think I am bonkers or lost the plot. I was a close friend of Sir Arthur C Clarke and visited him many times in Sri Lanka when he was alive and we had huge discussions at his house in Columbo which was a huge eye opener on issues like this, so yes I am bonkers and if you like I am a troll too. It still does not change the fact that IPv10 is a standard to aim for.
I'm sorry you had to endure your wartime experience and believe you deserve respect for what you've endured.
It's possibly worth noting that the game in question is not a war game but I don't think that probably changes your core objection, which as I understand it is against making violence against humans (or human-looking things) and personal peril a recreational activity. I should note that, politically, I'm generally in favour of not banning things where reasonably possible. Why? Well, my core reasoning is based on the principle of freedom of speech. I prefer for the state to minimise its use of control over its citizens, even if well-intentioned, as this minimises the temptation / opportunity to increase their own power at the expense of the citizenry.
I'd just like to explain what violent games have done to me, psychologically. Before I started playing them, I was squeamish about even swatting flies. I avoided pretty much any game with remotely realistic representations of gore or death, not because I was morally opposed to their *existence* or to people who play them but because I personally felt uncomfortable with them. Since then I've been persuaded into playing them and now enjoy them regularly, although I must admit that the most graphics / violent games make me uncomfortable and I still prefer to avoid those. The psychological change that's resulted? The violence in the game doesn't feel as real to me. But this is not, as some opponents of video games feels, because I've become more accepting of violence in general or because I've lost empathy for images of injured humans. Rather I've dehumanised the computer-generated pixels on the screen - I don't see video game violence as realistic anymore since it is simply a bunch of bits and computations inside a computer chip and some flickering lights on a screen. So for that reason it doesn't bother me as much. Real world violence remains an entirely different matter - I still hate killing insects and avoid doing so wherever possible, I abhor violence against humans and I hate to see suffering. This is because I know that real world violence is *real*, actual suffering is happening, and it pains me to think of that.
This is obviously merely anecdote. Also, as I understand it psychologists do not rate a personal evaluation of one's own thought processes as a very convincing way of determining what's really going on. But I think it's worth noting that, whilst changes can occur as a result of playing violent games, they're not necessarily going to be the immediately obvious and clearly detrimental ones that some people expect. This is, I think, a major reason why there's a fairly acrimonious split between people who (quite understandably) think that violent games present images of unacceptable acts and the people who cannot see the problem with them at all. I think they're both right - they are sometimes images of unacceptable acts but that does not *necessarily* make the images themselves unacceptable. My personal position, as you've no doubt inferred, is that real violence is usually morally unacceptable (avoiding thorny philosophical questions about how it's sometimes justified) but that images do no direct harm and are therefore acceptable to me even though I find some of them disturbing and would personally prefer not to see them.
Dear LemmingMark, Firstly I would like to congratulate you on a very positive and insightful post to which puts many things into perspective.
Really you touched my heart with a sane and very challenging view. "Thinking out of the box". Sadly it is unfortunate, not everyone is like you and can see things in such an analytical manner.
I sincerely understand you are really immune from the effects of images but most people are not.
This is why sumbliminal advertising was banned and hypnotic phrases, however it is still used.
Now go and have a drink and think about your reply:)
Different solders melt at different temperatures depending upon the mix of metals. Cardboard, depending on the chemical treatments would work, however the properties of cardboard are in question here because it is a good conductor for heat which does not dissipate and defeats the object totally.
Also cardboard is lethal, given the right temperature, cardboard has incredible explosive properties at flash point and can create a blast akin to a small amount of C4 (Plastic Explosive). So as in MythBuster style "will this take off?" Yes it will take off your leg if it reaches the right temperature which is another good reason not to have ya box under the desk!
I did make a comment in another article that says IPv6 will be redundant when it becomes standardised. IPv10 is the standard we should be aiming for. If you think IPv6 is the solution you are higly mistaken and not taken in to consideration the full picture of devices and stream carriers. Smart Grids are already in operation in power stations and nuclear facilities. France has a good one already which is where the UK gets some electricity from!
Having spent time in real war zones and been in full on combat fire fights for 22 hours none stop literally pissing in my pants because if I did not lock and load again, I would have died. Therefore, you need to understand war is very ugly and this game has no place in "sane society".
Ask yourself the question about what message this sends out to people? Do you really think this is a game which has no ramifications whatsoever. I would also question your mental state if you think that carving up people is fun and it means nothing. Psychologically, these traits end up with little value for human life, later in life.
Indeed, it gives one great pause since that computer *should* have been running anti-virus software to check each download and executable as it was opened, and, presumably, would have caught this installation. Through professional contacts, I'm passingly familiar with the IT environment in a Big University Hospital and the hoops that my colleagues have to jump through to put a PC on the hospital network are near onerous. Those machines are sterile, or as close to sterile as humanly possible.
Don't be a shithead. E-Mail is not a replacement for a file system. Nor should hospitals be using systems that are even remotely succeptible to malware. Pretending otherwise or, worse, blaming the user for defective products is an M$ attitude. There are two underlying problems hidden:
1) How the hell was it possible for a hospital unit to have Windows on any of their computers in the first place? HIPAA compliance has been mandatory for many years now and there has been more than enough time to phase out Windows. Did you read the dozen EULAs for the Windows box and all its software and server hooks? For all service packs and CALs? Thought not. Neither did the hospital management. The woman is not at fault, the hospital management who signed of on the purchase or deployment of the Windows machines is the sole group to blame (excepting the sender of course).
2) Any self-respecting milter can strip ALL attachments automatically and delete them. MIMEDefang is a good example, but one of many. The stripping of attachments can even include a non-looping auto-reply to the sender including instructions on the correct way to transfer files.
Dear SgtChaireBourne,
Your comments are well founded, however in the UK most hospitals use Windows as does the DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) along with other government agencies and Police. The National Health Service is also open to attack despite spending over 4 billion pounds on an new IT system which is totally foobar.
Maybe this should be another story for another slashdot, if a user wants to digg a little deeper and google "The Big Opt Out". But otherwise I have to concur with your comments.
All the best,
NSN
Sarkozy is a nutter. France has double-standards just like in the Falklands War supplying Argentina with Exorcet missiles. Oh yes I never forget the Falklands.
This is now war, and Sarkozy being such a short arsed bumblebee like Napoleon now thinks he can rule the world. Sarkozy is like a Hitler in the making! Can you not see this trait?
You have been warned, Sarkozy is a dangerous man, doing charitable work as a diplomat in disguise to socially engineer other leaders in to his way of thinking,
Make up your own mind.
Maybe I should release some counter-espionage blue-print gadgets to really make law enforcement agencies think twice about doing this. Who's your daddy now 22SAS muuuuuuuuuuhahahahhaaaa,.
Shag iTunes from behind, hump Apple and Steve "blow" Jobs, jailbreak iphones with better firmware.
Torrent an app for this and an app for that or just code an app yourself!
How much longer do people have to be sucked in to such crap, No fun and tis not a rap!
Law is the law and should be in the public domain, you cannot make laws and copyright them and deny people access. That is a violation of "Human Rights" and tilts the balance of power to Law Enforcement who can just do what they like to suit themselves and lock anyone up. It is no different than International Terrorism Laws, whereby you can get locked up without trial for not knowing the law.
I can just see this discussion going on forever until it is overturned. Mind you, Oregon is a Police State as I understand which makes the story even more credible.
Recently the BBC Management have been doing rather odd things recently including trying to pull off "dirty tricks" report here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6167078/BBC-schedules-Strictly-Come-Dancing-against-The-X-Factor.html
It seems to me that as competition in the UK Market has reached saturation point and we will see constant "on-going" battles for customers and viewer ratings. Sky is trying to rope people in hard and fast for Sky HD which they are doing with some success, but have reached the point whereby the Public are sick of putting up with advertisements, now usually 20 mins for a 1 hour show and paying through the nose for SKY and they're HD channels.
Trying to be analytical about this, the BBC has to fight back somehow, but without being seen to be malicious as they need to protect Market Share. Remember Murdoch does not give two hoots who he hurts along the way and will try and rope you all in so you have no other choice but to use Sky and pay him money.
The alternative is http://www.freesat.co.uk/ I have switched from SKY recently and get HD channels through freesat which is saving me a staggering £339.00 per year that would otherwise go to Sky!
I have saved a lot of money and hope some of you other people take the plunge as moving to freesat can only make the BBC better value for money.
Is it just me or does this sound like it might create more accidents than it prevents?
Sometimes I recognize that I need to do a correction (speed up, slow down, watch out for some other car driving recklessly, etc.) and my wife recognizes that need at the same time and makes a loud gasp. At those moments I find myself more distracted and occasionally make a stupid mistake (like pressing the brake harder than I need to). I worry that a loud noise and lights may make drivers panic and make poor decisions in response.
Actually it will cause more accidents than it prevents, especially someone going in to a "blind panic" and running off the side of a road down a ditch because they do not know what to do.
The question is, how much more control and sensible judgement do you want to have taken away from you? IMHO it is your duty to "pay attention" not just for yourself but others. If you cannot grasp the concept of being "alert" then you might as well be dead.
There was another/. comment regarding Sky doing this and attempting to lock you in to fake high definition 3D TV sets you can buy for a few thousand next year.
3D TV of the future is Hologram's The idea's are there, but you cannot do it right now and it certainly is not profitable. These ideas' have been floating around since the 1870's with stereo vision cards and glasses/lenses/photographs/viewers
3D is not new and is an alterted perception. Maybe dropping a few LSD tablets would be acceptable to be 3D. Thankfully I to see things without distortion:)
Saying "metamaterials are just periodic structures" is like a circular argument - perfectly valid, but not very interesting. It so happens that currently all of the structures we've manufactured with a refractive index that is negative somewhere, have that 'somewhere' outside of the visible spectrum. This is due entirely - it is theorised - due to our aqueous origins when we were evolving eyes and doesn't make the materials any less fascinating! As the understanding behind these structures grows, we might be able to produce more and more exotic 'period structures' that have a refractive index closer to glass (i.e. a real refractive index in the visible that rapidly becomes purely imaginary [dissipative] elsewhere). The same is true of Type II superconductors - just because they're periodic structures that we don't understand fully yet doesn't mean that they're not useful to society at large!
I hate to pop your balloon (pun intended) but 10,000 feet is not that high. In World War 2 the Germans had anti-aircraft guns that could easily get to much over 20,000 feet. Many cheap modern shoulder held anti-aircraft missiles can easily shoot this high and a blimp would be easy to hit. It might be safe from small arms fire but a few small holes wouldn't hurt it much. An anti-aircraft missile is another matter.
You are quite correct Mr. You do not really need a missile either. A Berett 95M will just about do the trick. Two Miles up. The problem here is with short arms fire. The way to handle these drones is to pepper them like a shotgun and that is why drones are effective, because you need a carrier to get the munition to the right height.
This makes these butterflies hard to hit you see.
Now you want to know why the Children of Today are becoming increasingly stupid? handing your child a phone before they can properly speak is totally backward.
I keep my iPhone in my back pocket. It's not directly under me, taking my full weight, but I am partially sitting on it. So far no explosions. Also today I am wearing a black shirt. Though, I'd like to say in my defense that I don't always wear black shirts.
Up the rear bro! sorry I could not resist the comment!
The email, which advises her team how to fill out staff claim forms, specifies a time and date highlighted in bold red,
RED equals Danger and it must be in Bold, However this lady was BOLD ENOUGH to USE CAPS, as some people cannot SEE Colours or BOLD.
Just REMEMBER WHEN on Bomb DISPOSAL (EOD) red is NOT the LIVE WIRE or BLACK with a RED SLEEVE. Niether Is Brown/Blue or Green and YELLOW Stripes.
Therefore, you now might UNDERSTAND why she used CAPS whilst on SENTRY duty to make WAKE people UP as seeing RED does not trigger an ALARM.
I say good on you girl for being SWITCHED on when other's were NOT.
no AC/DC jokes please!:)
Which axis? Probably the axis of evil for all the editor knows...
Dude I love you and your axis of evil! I thought about making an evil comment but I would get in to trouble breaking the Official Secrets Act. Can we discuss this over Kashmir/curry?
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If you really believe that the left is less intrusive of civil liberties than the right, you just don't have enough experience with the left. Or you're willfully ignoring it. They just usually attack different civil liberties than (some of) the right attacks, but you can bet your bottom dollar that once they have their highest priorities taken care of, they'll go after the rest. One of the first to go will be - no surprise - freedom to dissent. That's neither particularly left nor right, governments of all stripes tend to dislike criticism and will suppress it if they can, by any means they can.
Don't believe any of that? Try living and working in a communist country for a while. It'll open your eyes.
If you really believe that the left is less intrusive of civil liberties than the right, you just don't have enough experience with the left. Or you're willfully ignoring it. They just usually attack different civil liberties than (some of) the right attacks, but you can bet your bottom dollar that once they have their highest priorities taken care of, they'll go after the rest. One of the first to go will be - no surprise - freedom to dissent. That's neither particularly left nor right, governments of all stripes tend to dislike criticism and will suppress it if they can, by any means they can.
Don't believe any of that? Try living and working in a communist country for a while. It'll open your eyes.
Having seen serious combat in many countries and *gagged* by the official secrets act there are some things I would like to post anonymously but am afraid slashdot would get a subpoena for my details so it makes no difference anon or not. Therefore I am going to jump in and tell you what has been occuring at GCHQ http://www.gchq.gov.uk/ because no matter what I do or say on slashdot, I am pretty high up on the radar and my phone calls have been monitored too as I am trained in counter-espionage and ISTAR. Despite what the government tells you, it is easy to end up on a database as a threat or just for speaking your mind. There are secret files held on people and it does not matter whether you use the "Freedom of Information Act" you will never get access to those files. Wiretapping is redundant and "deep packet inspection" has been used by GCHQ for as long as I can remember with my career in the Mil going back to 1985 even on nix SLIP accounts. GCHQ have had the abilitiy to triangulate you using your Mobile/Cell phone since 1992! All your civil liberties are eroded beyond belief. Sorry if I rant too much but my reply to the topic is putting out an Amnesty and then after all the info-gathering getting punished. Remember all governments will and can change their minds without contridicting themselves. I say power to the people.
I've never heard of anyone work being done on IPv10. What are you talking about? Why would IPv6 be insufficient? Are you worried it doesn't have sufficient address space? There should be enough addresses in IPv6 for every person on the planet to have millions of addresses: the addressing scheme allows for 2^128 which is large enough that we'd only ever need to increase the address space if we intended to deploy billions of swarms of billions of individually addressed nano-bots.
Or is there some other technical deficiency of IPv6? Or are you just trolling?
Firstly, I am not trolling and China has been experimenting with IPv9 for the past 3 years to get an edge. Maybe I failed to explain myself in a clear manner, mainly because the mind boggles and you can call me a troll all you like, but every device you can imagine in 20 years will have commands issued remotely from alarm clocks to smart embedded chips under your skin, biometrics, banking you name it. Therefore there has to be scope in order for these services to work. Yes some services will run on IPv6 as will some on IPv4. Now if you think I am bonkers or lost the plot. I was a close friend of Sir Arthur C Clarke and visited him many times in Sri Lanka when he was alive and we had huge discussions at his house in Columbo which was a huge eye opener on issues like this, so yes I am bonkers and if you like I am a troll too. It still does not change the fact that IPv10 is a standard to aim for.
I'm sorry you had to endure your wartime experience and believe you deserve respect for what you've endured.
It's possibly worth noting that the game in question is not a war game but I don't think that probably changes your core objection, which as I understand it is against making violence against humans (or human-looking things) and personal peril a recreational activity. I should note that, politically, I'm generally in favour of not banning things where reasonably possible. Why? Well, my core reasoning is based on the principle of freedom of speech. I prefer for the state to minimise its use of control over its citizens, even if well-intentioned, as this minimises the temptation / opportunity to increase their own power at the expense of the citizenry.
I'd just like to explain what violent games have done to me, psychologically. Before I started playing them, I was squeamish about even swatting flies. I avoided pretty much any game with remotely realistic representations of gore or death, not because I was morally opposed to their *existence* or to people who play them but because I personally felt uncomfortable with them. Since then I've been persuaded into playing them and now enjoy them regularly, although I must admit that the most graphics / violent games make me uncomfortable and I still prefer to avoid those. The psychological change that's resulted? The violence in the game doesn't feel as real to me. But this is not, as some opponents of video games feels, because I've become more accepting of violence in general or because I've lost empathy for images of injured humans. Rather I've dehumanised the computer-generated pixels on the screen - I don't see video game violence as realistic anymore since it is simply a bunch of bits and computations inside a computer chip and some flickering lights on a screen. So for that reason it doesn't bother me as much. Real world violence remains an entirely different matter - I still hate killing insects and avoid doing so wherever possible, I abhor violence against humans and I hate to see suffering. This is because I know that real world violence is *real*, actual suffering is happening, and it pains me to think of that.
This is obviously merely anecdote. Also, as I understand it psychologists do not rate a personal evaluation of one's own thought processes as a very convincing way of determining what's really going on. But I think it's worth noting that, whilst changes can occur as a result of playing violent games, they're not necessarily going to be the immediately obvious and clearly detrimental ones that some people expect. This is, I think, a major reason why there's a fairly acrimonious split between people who (quite understandably) think that violent games present images of unacceptable acts and the people who cannot see the problem with them at all. I think they're both right - they are sometimes images of unacceptable acts but that does not *necessarily* make the images themselves unacceptable. My personal position, as you've no doubt inferred, is that real violence is usually morally unacceptable (avoiding thorny philosophical questions about how it's sometimes justified) but that images do no direct harm and are therefore acceptable to me even though I find some of them disturbing and would personally prefer not to see them.
Dear LemmingMark, Firstly I would like to congratulate you on a very positive and insightful post to which puts many things into perspective. Really you touched my heart with a sane and very challenging view. "Thinking out of the box". Sadly it is unfortunate, not everyone is like you and can see things in such an analytical manner. I sincerely understand you are really immune from the effects of images but most people are not. This is why sumbliminal advertising was banned and hypnotic phrases, however it is still used. Now go and have a drink and think about your reply :)
Different solders melt at different temperatures depending upon the mix of metals. Cardboard, depending on the chemical treatments would work, however the properties of cardboard are in question here because it is a good conductor for heat which does not dissipate and defeats the object totally. Also cardboard is lethal, given the right temperature, cardboard has incredible explosive properties at flash point and can create a blast akin to a small amount of C4 (Plastic Explosive). So as in MythBuster style "will this take off?" Yes it will take off your leg if it reaches the right temperature which is another good reason not to have ya box under the desk!
I did make a comment in another article that says IPv6 will be redundant when it becomes standardised. IPv10 is the standard we should be aiming for. If you think IPv6 is the solution you are higly mistaken and not taken in to consideration the full picture of devices and stream carriers. Smart Grids are already in operation in power stations and nuclear facilities. France has a good one already which is where the UK gets some electricity from!
In a move borrowed from Gilette, Sony will relaunch as Star Wars Galaxies 2 with five health bars.
I am Victor Kiam back from the dead. Remington Micro Screen shaves as close as a blade or your money back, sold at all good health bars.
Having spent time in real war zones and been in full on combat fire fights for 22 hours none stop literally pissing in my pants because if I did not lock and load again, I would have died. Therefore, you need to understand war is very ugly and this game has no place in "sane society". Ask yourself the question about what message this sends out to people? Do you really think this is a game which has no ramifications whatsoever. I would also question your mental state if you think that carving up people is fun and it means nothing. Psychologically, these traits end up with little value for human life, later in life.
Indeed, it gives one great pause since that computer *should* have been running anti-virus software to check each download and executable as it was opened, and, presumably, would have caught this installation. Through professional contacts, I'm passingly familiar with the IT environment in a Big University Hospital and the hoops that my colleagues have to jump through to put a PC on the hospital network are near onerous. Those machines are sterile, or as close to sterile as humanly possible.
Don't be a shithead. E-Mail is not a replacement for a file system. Nor should hospitals be using systems that are even remotely succeptible to malware. Pretending otherwise or, worse, blaming the user for defective products is an M$ attitude. There are two underlying problems hidden:
1) How the hell was it possible for a hospital unit to have Windows on any of their computers in the first place? HIPAA compliance has been mandatory for many years now and there has been more than enough time to phase out Windows. Did you read the dozen EULAs for the Windows box and all its software and server hooks? For all service packs and CALs? Thought not. Neither did the hospital management. The woman is not at fault, the hospital management who signed of on the purchase or deployment of the Windows machines is the sole group to blame (excepting the sender of course).
2) Any self-respecting milter can strip ALL attachments automatically and delete them. MIMEDefang is a good example, but one of many. The stripping of attachments can even include a non-looping auto-reply to the sender including instructions on the correct way to transfer files.
Dear SgtChaireBourne, Your comments are well founded, however in the UK most hospitals use Windows as does the DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) along with other government agencies and Police. The National Health Service is also open to attack despite spending over 4 billion pounds on an new IT system which is totally foobar. Maybe this should be another story for another slashdot, if a user wants to digg a little deeper and google "The Big Opt Out". But otherwise I have to concur with your comments. All the best, NSN
Sarkozy is a nutter. France has double-standards just like in the Falklands War supplying Argentina with Exorcet missiles. Oh yes I never forget the Falklands. This is now war, and Sarkozy being such a short arsed bumblebee like Napoleon now thinks he can rule the world. Sarkozy is like a Hitler in the making! Can you not see this trait? You have been warned, Sarkozy is a dangerous man, doing charitable work as a diplomat in disguise to socially engineer other leaders in to his way of thinking, Make up your own mind.
Maybe I should release some counter-espionage blue-print gadgets to really make law enforcement agencies think twice about doing this. Who's your daddy now 22SAS muuuuuuuuuuhahahahhaaaa,.
ccleaner is pretty 31337 for clearing up. Oh and do not forget the option to wipe free space.
Shag iTunes from behind, hump Apple and Steve "blow" Jobs, jailbreak iphones with better firmware. Torrent an app for this and an app for that or just code an app yourself! How much longer do people have to be sucked in to such crap, No fun and tis not a rap!
Law is the law and should be in the public domain, you cannot make laws and copyright them and deny people access. That is a violation of "Human Rights" and tilts the balance of power to Law Enforcement who can just do what they like to suit themselves and lock anyone up. It is no different than International Terrorism Laws, whereby you can get locked up without trial for not knowing the law. I can just see this discussion going on forever until it is overturned. Mind you, Oregon is a Police State as I understand which makes the story even more credible.
My wife's a psychologist and we have discussed such people. The answer to what it's like to be one is depressingly simple.
Yes that is right, your wife is equally as depressed about this situation as you. Have you both thought about getting counselling?
Recently the BBC Management have been doing rather odd things recently including trying to pull off "dirty tricks" report here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6167078/BBC-schedules-Strictly-Come-Dancing-against-The-X-Factor.html It seems to me that as competition in the UK Market has reached saturation point and we will see constant "on-going" battles for customers and viewer ratings. Sky is trying to rope people in hard and fast for Sky HD which they are doing with some success, but have reached the point whereby the Public are sick of putting up with advertisements, now usually 20 mins for a 1 hour show and paying through the nose for SKY and they're HD channels. Trying to be analytical about this, the BBC has to fight back somehow, but without being seen to be malicious as they need to protect Market Share. Remember Murdoch does not give two hoots who he hurts along the way and will try and rope you all in so you have no other choice but to use Sky and pay him money. The alternative is http://www.freesat.co.uk/ I have switched from SKY recently and get HD channels through freesat which is saving me a staggering £339.00 per year that would otherwise go to Sky! I have saved a lot of money and hope some of you other people take the plunge as moving to freesat can only make the BBC better value for money.
Is it just me or does this sound like it might create more accidents than it prevents? Sometimes I recognize that I need to do a correction (speed up, slow down, watch out for some other car driving recklessly, etc.) and my wife recognizes that need at the same time and makes a loud gasp. At those moments I find myself more distracted and occasionally make a stupid mistake (like pressing the brake harder than I need to). I worry that a loud noise and lights may make drivers panic and make poor decisions in response.
Actually it will cause more accidents than it prevents, especially someone going in to a "blind panic" and running off the side of a road down a ditch because they do not know what to do. The question is, how much more control and sensible judgement do you want to have taken away from you? IMHO it is your duty to "pay attention" not just for yourself but others. If you cannot grasp the concept of being "alert" then you might as well be dead.
There was another /. comment regarding Sky doing this and attempting to lock you in to fake high definition 3D TV sets you can buy for a few thousand next year.
3D TV of the future is Hologram's The idea's are there, but you cannot do it right now and it certainly is not profitable. These ideas' have been floating around since the 1870's with stereo vision cards and glasses/lenses/photographs/viewers
3D is not new and is an alterted perception. Maybe dropping a few LSD tablets would be acceptable to be 3D. Thankfully I to see things without distortion :)
Saying "metamaterials are just periodic structures" is like a circular argument - perfectly valid, but not very interesting. It so happens that currently all of the structures we've manufactured with a refractive index that is negative somewhere, have that 'somewhere' outside of the visible spectrum. This is due entirely - it is theorised - due to our aqueous origins when we were evolving eyes and doesn't make the materials any less fascinating! As the understanding behind these structures grows, we might be able to produce more and more exotic 'period structures' that have a refractive index closer to glass (i.e. a real refractive index in the visible that rapidly becomes purely imaginary [dissipative] elsewhere). The same is true of Type II superconductors - just because they're periodic structures that we don't understand fully yet doesn't mean that they're not useful to society at large!
You are intelligent!
I hate to pop your balloon (pun intended) but 10,000 feet is not that high. In World War 2 the Germans had anti-aircraft guns that could easily get to much over 20,000 feet. Many cheap modern shoulder held anti-aircraft missiles can easily shoot this high and a blimp would be easy to hit. It might be safe from small arms fire but a few small holes wouldn't hurt it much. An anti-aircraft missile is another matter.
You are quite correct Mr. You do not really need a missile either. A Berett 95M will just about do the trick. Two Miles up. The problem here is with short arms fire. The way to handle these drones is to pepper them like a shotgun and that is why drones are effective, because you need a carrier to get the munition to the right height. This makes these butterflies hard to hit you see.
Isn't it kind of easy to shoot down blimps? Can't anything a blimp does be better done with a satellite or a loitering drone?
Let me use a Stinger on this or a Sea Wolf Missile, Eitherway you will know the outcome when the "Lights go out".
Now you want to know why the Children of Today are becoming increasingly stupid? handing your child a phone before they can properly speak is totally backward.
I keep my iPhone in my back pocket. It's not directly under me, taking my full weight, but I am partially sitting on it. So far no explosions. Also today I am wearing a black shirt. Though, I'd like to say in my defense that I don't always wear black shirts.
Up the rear bro! sorry I could not resist the comment!
Some idiots SIT on their phones. And they expect a thin glass+electronics+thin metal/plastic shell to NOT break?
Come on.
That would be Fat American's who are the culprits. Don't feed the iphone trolls!
The email, which advises her team how to fill out staff claim forms, specifies a time and date highlighted in bold red, RED equals Danger and it must be in Bold, However this lady was BOLD ENOUGH to USE CAPS, as some people cannot SEE Colours or BOLD. Just REMEMBER WHEN on Bomb DISPOSAL (EOD) red is NOT the LIVE WIRE or BLACK with a RED SLEEVE. Niether Is Brown/Blue or Green and YELLOW Stripes. Therefore, you now might UNDERSTAND why she used CAPS whilst on SENTRY duty to make WAKE people UP as seeing RED does not trigger an ALARM. I say good on you girl for being SWITCHED on when other's were NOT. no AC/DC jokes please! :)
Which axis? Probably the axis of evil for all the editor knows...
Dude I love you and your axis of evil! I thought about making an evil comment but I would get in to trouble breaking the Official Secrets Act. Can we discuss this over Kashmir/curry?