Yeah, they always had technobabble to explain why TV detector vans work. But the reality is that there is not and never was such a thing.
I had moved house and the very next day had a visit from a detector van guy who said he had detected a TV. He was right, there was one but at that point had not even been plugged in yet. It must have been BS because the TV could not have been making any emissions since its arrival.
I believe that they consult the Land Registry to find people moving house and try to catch them before they have had time to get a licence for the new place.
the Telegraph is well known for it's daily hate technique of propaganda.
I cannot see your problem with the Telegraph here. Seems to me they are just reporting what the BBC are saying, and if anything are uncomfortable with it.
having a database of every dwelling which has had a TV license previously and currently doesn't also helps ensure a brown envelope drops on the right door mats, for years.
I moved house, let the old BBC licence shortly expire, and the old house was empty for nearly a year before I sold it. I'd go back to it once a week to pick up mail, and those brown envelopes soon arrived. They got increasingly hysterical about I was going to be visited and fined for having no licence. Then after about the third letter they'd stop and I'd hear nothing for a month. Then they'd start from the beginning again.
I tried phoning them to say the house was empty but I was led round an automated circle for 20 minutes until a robot told me to use their website. The website told me to use the phone. I'd have written to them but was damned if I was going to pay for a stamp.
They cannot have been using detector vans to find me as there was no TV there. I was probably the only house in a middle-class area without a licence - an easy target (they thought). I expect in an area of flats, squats and bed-sits, especially with a high immigrant population and some pit-bulll terriers around, they would not have bothered.
The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth did carry troops during WW2. They ran the North Atlantic without escorts, because they were so fast a U-Boat spotting them would have essentially no chance of getting into position for a shot.
They did have escorts, certainly in European waters, but they were not put in the routine slow convoys. They had a special escort which seemed to have included elderly light cruisers, because in October 1942 the QM cut one in half - HMS Curacoa (a WW1 veteran). While it would have been very difficult for a U Boat to torpedo such a fast target, there were still aircraft and even surface attakers to worry about.
So what if has the name SS United States, it's not special
It's special because it was the fastest ever passenger liner, and one of the last, if not the last, of the great trans-atlantic liners that once represented an entire cultural era.
I'm sure the shipping line's engineers thought of all of this because they are the pros - I'm just a dipshit software developer and am absolutely unqualified to second guess folks who are in the profession.
I've no doubt they did think of it (ex-marine engineer myself). However I expect that the marketing department pushed this idea as far as it would go.
I believe that once the Blue Riband was obtained, some of the boilers and possibly turbines were removed to give more passenger and/or cargo capacity, and hence the speed was reduced. The Blue Riband run was a one-off for the prestige. The power-speed relationship is a cube law and it was no way economical to do regular trans-Atlantic runs at 35 Knots.
As a matter of interest, the power, displacement and speed were very similar to a WW2 Iowa class battleship (240,000 hp / 45,000 tons / 35 kts).. To emphasise the steep power-speed relationship of displacement (ie non-planing) vessels, consider the WW2 British Abdiel class of fast minelayers : diminutive ships of only 2600 tons that could do 40 knots but required 72,000 hp to do it (1/3 of that of USS Iowa & SS United States for a ship 1/20th of the displacement)).
And Microsoft plans to charge a monthly fee for this?
Nope.
You are sure of that are you? Reference ? I don't have a reference that they will introduce rental, but I don't see how else they will get an income from consumer Wiindows. I suspect that users will fall behind and/or get drowned in ads if they don't move to rental when it is offered. Think 2-3 years from now.
I still think they should have.... designated the major releases using names of various rodents. Windows X Hamster, Windows X Squirrel, Windows X Guinea Pig, etc
Apple still CHARGES you for those updates every year where MS you get them for free.
It's early days for Win10, which MS has told us is the last ever Windows. We have yet to see if MS gives free updates in the longer term. I very much suspect you will need to sign up to rental for that, sooner or later.
With a level of knowlege of the car model, and undisturbed time, and additional batteries and cable, any car security can be defeated. However my thief will probably look for something easier. I did not mention that I sold that particular car recently and removed the feature, restoring the wiring to standard. It took me most of an afternoon, with the aid of my own and the manufacturer's circuit diagrams.
Don't forget I still have all the standard anti-theft features of the car as well.
[my car will have ] a homemade switch in one of the ignition wires, hidden somewhere discreet.
My car does. The switch does two things, disables the ignition and also the starter motor. Very discouraging to a thief if the starter will not even turn. My switch is not "home made" of course and is in fact a multi-pole key switch and even if the thief realises there is such a switch he is unlikely to be bothered to find it. Even if he did, he is not going to be able to hot-wire it without seeing my circuit diagram or alternatively being familiar with the fuse box area and handy with a soldering iron.
The advantage of "home made" is that it is unique.
a person may pay for and erect his soapbox any place.... and speak his piece. He may not force you to listen.
Trouble is there are people arguing (even here) that you are not forced to listen to the phone call either - you can hang up.
However the robot call has obliged you to stop what you are doing (possibly hanging wallpaper) and go to the phone (in case it's your daughter in trouble again). So a better analogy would be the soap box guy dragging you to in front of his soap box, but allowing you to leave after hearing a few words.
The question was, could you ban somebody from blasting their political message into your bedroom at four in the morning, but not ban someone from blasting their charitable message. And the answer was no.
IANAL, but I understood that the charitable calls could already be banned (by placement on the user's DNC list), but not politcal ones (which cannot be put on DNC lists). So this state tried to close that loophole by specifically banning political calls, thus making everything level. This judge said that you cannot discriminate against a particular type of call (although those who made the CNC list rules did), and presumable he, like the state, did not have the power to overturn the rule that politicians cannot be put on DNC lists.
I receive robocalls that I welcome. I'm signed up for the robocall if my city declares a snow emergency. I get some robocalls from my health care providers.
I have windows and can see if it is snowing. Why TF would you need robot calls from a health care provider? Serious question; my mother has visiting health care and I cannot think of a scenario where a robot call would be needed.
Blocking robocalls is similar to banning speech in the town square. The phone is specifically designed for people to contact you so you do not have to be in some public place.
Are you nuts or was that just a wind-up? I can walk away from a town square but I cannot walk away from my phone or house. My phone installation was not designed to hear public announcements, it was designed for me to talk to friends and to businesses I want to deal with..
I'm not sure what your point is. You do not have to listen to the speech. Just hang up.
It is not "just hang up". It is also "just" having to interrupt your meal, "just" having got out from under your car that you were repairing (and cleaned your hands up), "just" having come in from the garden where you were digging a flower bed, "just" having to break off a conversation with some visitors, "just " being woken up from sleep you happen to need it in the day. I could go on, but I hope you get the point.
I simply don't answer calls if I don't recognize the number.
But doesn't that involve getting up from your dinner and going to look at the phone display? (if it's the land line or you don't keep tyour mobile on the dinner table - not everyone does). Not so simple.
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Sataya Nadalla had finally made me stop hating Microsoft.
Each to his own, but he's not on my screen when I jack off.
How much is MS paying for this constant Windows10 crap on slashdot?!?!?!?
Are MS paying for this? If so they are not getting any value from it. Everything I read only make Win10 sound even worse than I thought it was.
These people are simply criminals that should be sought out and arrested.
You are the first post that has raised the suggestion that anyone might excuse them. All criminals feel self-justified.
Yeah, they always had technobabble to explain why TV detector vans work. But the reality is that there is not and never was such a thing.
I had moved house and the very next day had a visit from a detector van guy who said he had detected a TV. He was right, there was one but at that point had not even been plugged in yet. It must have been BS because the TV could not have been making any emissions since its arrival.
I believe that they consult the Land Registry to find people moving house and try to catch them before they have had time to get a licence for the new place.
the Telegraph is well known for it's daily hate technique of propaganda.
I cannot see your problem with the Telegraph here. Seems to me they are just reporting what the BBC are saying, and if anything are uncomfortable with it.
having a database of every dwelling which has had a TV license previously and currently doesn't also helps ensure a brown envelope drops on the right door mats, for years.
I moved house, let the old BBC licence shortly expire, and the old house was empty for nearly a year before I sold it. I'd go back to it once a week to pick up mail, and those brown envelopes soon arrived. They got increasingly hysterical about I was going to be visited and fined for having no licence. Then after about the third letter they'd stop and I'd hear nothing for a month. Then they'd start from the beginning again.
I tried phoning them to say the house was empty but I was led round an automated circle for 20 minutes until a robot told me to use their website. The website told me to use the phone. I'd have written to them but was damned if I was going to pay for a stamp.
They cannot have been using detector vans to find me as there was no TV there. I was probably the only house in a middle-class area without a licence - an easy target (they thought). I expect in an area of flats, squats and bed-sits, especially with a high immigrant population and some pit-bulll terriers around, they would not have bothered.
Well prepared, well prepared.
No preparation needed, it just has no baggage. It's a long time since I saw a page load so fast.
The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth did carry troops during WW2. They ran the North Atlantic without escorts, because they were so fast a U-Boat spotting them would have essentially no chance of getting into position for a shot.
They did have escorts, certainly in European waters, but they were not put in the routine slow convoys. They had a special escort which seemed to have included elderly light cruisers, because in October 1942 the QM cut one in half - HMS Curacoa (a WW1 veteran). While it would have been very difficult for a U Boat to torpedo such a fast target, there were still aircraft and even surface attakers to worry about.
Sounds like it was built like a tank to resist U-boats, and fitted with diesels sized for aircraft carriers. The Wikipedia page is worth a read.
Read it yourself : it was steam propelled ("SS" is a clue).
So what if has the name SS United States, it's not special
It's special because it was the fastest ever passenger liner, and one of the last, if not the last, of the great trans-atlantic liners that once represented an entire cultural era.
I'm sure the shipping line's engineers thought of all of this because they are the pros - I'm just a dipshit software developer and am absolutely unqualified to second guess folks who are in the profession.
I've no doubt they did think of it (ex-marine engineer myself). However I expect that the marketing department pushed this idea as far as it would go.
I believe that once the Blue Riband was obtained, some of the boilers and possibly turbines were removed to give more passenger and/or cargo capacity, and hence the speed was reduced. The Blue Riband run was a one-off for the prestige. The power-speed relationship is a cube law and it was no way economical to do regular trans-Atlantic runs at 35 Knots.
As a matter of interest, the power, displacement and speed were very similar to a WW2 Iowa class battleship (240,000 hp / 45,000 tons / 35 kts).. To emphasise the steep power-speed relationship of displacement (ie non-planing) vessels, consider the WW2 British Abdiel class of fast minelayers : diminutive ships of only 2600 tons that could do 40 knots but required 72,000 hp to do it (1/3 of that of USS Iowa & SS United States for a ship 1/20th of the displacement)).
I am sick and tired of the Microsoft propaganda that gets published here
Was TFA propaganda? Sorry, I hadn't realised. TFA left me cold, I assumed it was just factual. I didn't rush off to install Windows, sorry.
Simply turn updates off. It can be done.
I understood that was impossible in Win10 unless you disconnect from the internet. Reference anyone?
And Microsoft plans to charge a monthly fee for this?
Nope.
You are sure of that are you? Reference ? I don't have a reference that they will introduce rental, but I don't see how else they will get an income from consumer Wiindows. I suspect that users will fall behind and/or get drowned in ads if they don't move to rental when it is offered. Think 2-3 years from now.
I still think they should have .... designated the major releases using names of various rodents. Windows X Hamster, Windows X Squirrel, Windows X Guinea Pig, etc
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Apple still CHARGES you for those updates every year where MS you get them for free.
It's early days for Win10, which MS has told us is the last ever Windows. We have yet to see if MS gives free updates in the longer term. I very much suspect you will need to sign up to rental for that, sooner or later.
With a level of knowlege of the car model, and undisturbed time, and additional batteries and cable, any car security can be defeated. However my thief will probably look for something easier. I did not mention that I sold that particular car recently and removed the feature, restoring the wiring to standard. It took me most of an afternoon, with the aid of my own and the manufacturer's circuit diagrams.
Don't forget I still have all the standard anti-theft features of the car as well.
[my car will have ] a homemade switch in one of the ignition wires, hidden somewhere discreet.
My car does. The switch does two things, disables the ignition and also the starter motor. Very discouraging to a thief if the starter will not even turn. My switch is not "home made" of course and is in fact a multi-pole key switch and even if the thief realises there is such a switch he is unlikely to be bothered to find it. Even if he did, he is not going to be able to hot-wire it without seeing my circuit diagram or alternatively being familiar with the fuse box area and handy with a soldering iron.
The advantage of "home made" is that it is unique.
a person may pay for and erect his soapbox any place .... and speak his piece. He may not force you to listen.
Trouble is there are people arguing (even here) that you are not forced to listen to the phone call either - you can hang up.
However the robot call has obliged you to stop what you are doing (possibly hanging wallpaper) and go to the phone (in case it's your daughter in trouble again). So a better analogy would be the soap box guy dragging you to in front of his soap box, but allowing you to leave after hearing a few words.
The question was, could you ban somebody from blasting their political message into your bedroom at four in the morning, but not ban someone from blasting their charitable message. And the answer was no.
IANAL, but I understood that the charitable calls could already be banned (by placement on the user's DNC list), but not politcal ones (which cannot be put on DNC lists). So this state tried to close that loophole by specifically banning political calls, thus making everything level. This judge said that you cannot discriminate against a particular type of call (although those who made the CNC list rules did), and presumable he, like the state, did not have the power to overturn the rule that politicians cannot be put on DNC lists.
I receive robocalls that I welcome. I'm signed up for the robocall if my city declares a snow emergency. I get some robocalls from my health care providers.
I have windows and can see if it is snowing. Why TF would you need robot calls from a health care provider? Serious question; my mother has visiting health care and I cannot think of a scenario where a robot call would be needed.
Blocking robocalls is similar to banning speech in the town square. The phone is specifically designed for people to contact you so you do not have to be in some public place.
Are you nuts or was that just a wind-up? I can walk away from a town square but I cannot walk away from my phone or house. My phone installation was not designed to hear public announcements, it was designed for me to talk to friends and to businesses I want to deal with..
I'm not sure what your point is. You do not have to listen to the speech. Just hang up.
It is not "just hang up". It is also "just" having to interrupt your meal, "just" having got out from under your car that you were repairing (and cleaned your hands up), "just" having come in from the garden where you were digging a flower bed, "just" having to break off a conversation with some visitors, "just " being woken up from sleep you happen to need it in the day. I could go on, but I hope you get the point.
I simply don't answer calls if I don't recognize the number.
But doesn't that involve getting up from your dinner and going to look at the phone display? (if it's the land line or you don't keep tyour mobile on the dinner table - not everyone does). Not so simple.