If we eventually use Bitcoin in everyday life, say, in the supermarket, how will we deal with prices in fractions of a Bitcoin? What terminology might we use for something priced at 0.00000005 Bitcoins?
I wrote about a similar problem a few days ago. Facebook and Twitter are the only contact I have with some people, yet they are private businesses with no obligation to provide a service, and they can and do close accounts on a whim.
I think you have a good point there. In trying to place extra restrictions and obligations on free software GPL3 will actually reduce the usage of said software. It's the coders choice, of course, but I think GPL3 is a bad choice.
Not so; but rebooting would have to include zeroing all of the memory. Starting up and resuming with the contents intact would be more akin to coming out of sleep mode.
I'm afraid your understanding is wrong. You must have a license if you watch or record TV (or internet TV) as it is broadcast. It is not related to owning a TV receiver, although if you purchase a TV your details will be sent to the thugs at TV licensing who will send you menacing letters if you don't have a license.
I was using OpenDNS when the IWF blocked a Scorpions album page on Wikipedia. I could still see it. If I stopped using OpenDNS I couldn't see it any more.
I think that most UK ISPs use DNS to substitute their proxy for servers that are on the IWF list. If you don't use their DNS servers, you don't hit their proxy and so get through to the intended site.
This is wrong way around. We need plastics far more than we need oil. We can get our energy from other sources, but do we want to return to fabric wrapped wiring and wooden cases for equipment?
What's with the sudden rush of Slashdotters linking to the Daily Mail? Please don't even give them the traffic, never mind give credence to what they say!
Except that what is shown when you visit the A&A prices page (when you eventually find it) is the 20CN allowances that is available to everyone, not the 21CN ones that only half the country can get. So it's 1GB and 50GB.
I went to their website, tried very hard to see any prices at all (not a good sign) and eventually found the prices and allowances that I quoted.
I looked in to A&A a few months ago when I changed ISP, and I had the same problem then too. I would love to use an ISP with sensible policies and some actual intelligence about technical users, but hiding prices and giving a 1GB or even 2GB daytime allowance is just completely inadequate.
I work from home a lot of the time. The rest of the time I work evenings and weekends so as not to disrupt my customers business while working on their computers. I frequently need access to the internet between 9am and 6pm. A&A is useless for me, and I can't be the only one.
How is 1GB per month enough for anything except a few emails? Here in the real world we use streaming audio and video, download software updates, and buy games on Steam at 10GB a time. Get back to us when that costs less than £100 per month with Andrews & Arnold.
The same law also makes it a criminal offence to lie on the internet or over the phone in order to wind someone up, or to be indecent or obscene. I guess all those sex phone lines are illegal. And any crude comments on facebook or twitter.
The Communications Act 2003 contained parts of a 1930s law aimed at stopping obscene phone calls made to telephone operators. Definitely not aimed at bomb threats, jokes, or any medium other than 1 to 1 telephone calls.
In normal circumstances only those followers would see it. For anyone else to see it, they would have to search twitter for some part of it. (Such as the name "Robin Hood Airport" on this occasion.)
As for knowing the difference from your example, the message in questions has many markers of a joke, and if you can't see them then you probably need to have more actual conversations with real people.
He didn't send this to the world. He sent this to his Twitter followers, who are not stupid enough to think that a hyperbolic joke is actually a real threat . It just happened to be visible to other people if they took the time to look for it. Maybe if you read the details you might realise that the airport saw it, and deemed it not a threat. The police investigated and recognised that this was not a threat. The CPS and the Judges, however, threw the book at him and prosecuted under an antique law that should not even apply.
This tweet was clearly not a real threat, and anyone with half a brain can recognise that, apart from judges. And you.
kdawson complains about having lost nineteen months of 'mac life' but what was there to lose? These were backups. They weren't the only location of the files in question, and if there were files stored only in Time Machine, are you also one of those people that keep important files in the trash can?
I'm not saying there isn't a problem if Sophos deleted the backups, just that it isn't that big a deal.
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If we eventually use Bitcoin in everyday life, say, in the supermarket, how will we deal with prices in fractions of a Bitcoin? What terminology might we use for something priced at 0.00000005 Bitcoins?
I wrote about a similar problem a few days ago. Facebook and Twitter are the only contact I have with some people, yet they are private businesses with no obligation to provide a service, and they can and do close accounts on a whim.
Here's my blog post about it. The fragility of social networks
I think you have a good point there. In trying to place extra restrictions and obligations on free software GPL3 will actually reduce the usage of said software. It's the coders choice, of course, but I think GPL3 is a bad choice.
Not so; but rebooting would have to include zeroing all of the memory. Starting up and resuming with the contents intact would be more akin to coming out of sleep mode.
I'm afraid your understanding is wrong. You must have a license if you watch or record TV (or internet TV) as it is broadcast. It is not related to owning a TV receiver, although if you purchase a TV your details will be sent to the thugs at TV licensing who will send you menacing letters if you don't have a license.
I was using OpenDNS when the IWF blocked a Scorpions album page on Wikipedia. I could still see it. If I stopped using OpenDNS I couldn't see it any more.
I think that most UK ISPs use DNS to substitute their proxy for servers that are on the IWF list. If you don't use their DNS servers, you don't hit their proxy and so get through to the intended site.
This is wrong way around. We need plastics far more than we need oil. We can get our energy from other sources, but do we want to return to fabric wrapped wiring and wooden cases for equipment?
What's with the sudden rush of Slashdotters linking to the Daily Mail? Please don't even give them the traffic, never mind give credence to what they say!
Your best source is The Guardian in the UK. They have stuff that US papers don't.
In soviet America, government threaten you! No, err, that seems wrong...
That does rather assume the luxury of being able to pay for the best service. I run a year old business and we're not even paying ourselves yet.
Except that what is shown when you visit the A&A prices page (when you eventually find it) is the 20CN allowances that is available to everyone, not the 21CN ones that only half the country can get. So it's 1GB and 50GB.
I went to their website, tried very hard to see any prices at all (not a good sign) and eventually found the prices and allowances that I quoted.
I looked in to A&A a few months ago when I changed ISP, and I had the same problem then too. I would love to use an ISP with sensible policies and some actual intelligence about technical users, but hiding prices and giving a 1GB or even 2GB daytime allowance is just completely inadequate.
I work from home a lot of the time. The rest of the time I work evenings and weekends so as not to disrupt my customers business while working on their computers. I frequently need access to the internet between 9am and 6pm. A&A is useless for me, and I can't be the only one.
How is 1GB per month enough for anything except a few emails? Here in the real world we use streaming audio and video, download software updates, and buy games on Steam at 10GB a time. Get back to us when that costs less than £100 per month with Andrews & Arnold.
The same law also makes it a criminal offence to lie on the internet or over the phone in order to wind someone up, or to be indecent or obscene. I guess all those sex phone lines are illegal. And any crude comments on facebook or twitter.
I'm not making this up, read it for yourself here.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/127
The Communications Act 2003 contained parts of a 1930s law aimed at stopping obscene phone calls made to telephone operators. Definitely not aimed at bomb threats, jokes, or any medium other than 1 to 1 telephone calls.
Airport security did see the tweet, (via a random search by an off duty staff member.) and rated it as "No credible threat"
In normal circumstances only those followers would see it. For anyone else to see it, they would have to search twitter for some part of it. (Such as the name "Robin Hood Airport" on this occasion.)
As for knowing the difference from your example, the message in questions has many markers of a joke, and if you can't see them then you probably need to have more actual conversations with real people.
He didn't send this to the world. He sent this to his Twitter followers, who are not stupid enough to think that a hyperbolic joke is actually a real threat . It just happened to be visible to other people if they took the time to look for it. Maybe if you read the details you might realise that the airport saw it, and deemed it not a threat. The police investigated and recognised that this was not a threat. The CPS and the Judges, however, threw the book at him and prosecuted under an antique law that should not even apply.
This tweet was clearly not a real threat, and anyone with half a brain can recognise that, apart from judges. And you.
kdawson complains about having lost nineteen months of 'mac life' but what was there to lose? These were backups. They weren't the only location of the files in question, and if there were files stored only in Time Machine, are you also one of those people that keep important files in the trash can?
I'm not saying there isn't a problem if Sophos deleted the backups, just that it isn't that big a deal.
Is anyone else terrified by the fact that this question even had to be asked?
It's not package management, but Ninite makes installing free software much more convenient.
No one can tell you what wave is.
You can only experience it for yourself.
I'm sure I have heard that before somewhere...