Take for instance, the situation where a cop needs to give someone a ticket for a broken tail-light. The ticket coming from the cop needs to carry a presumption of veracity, otherwise it would be very impractical for cops to ticket anyone.
You could do what traffic wardens do over here with illegally-parked vehicles - take a photo of the clock in the depot before they leave for a patrol, then take a photo of the car with the ticket on the windscreen. Digital cameras are cheap, and have reasonably accurate clocks. One quick photo and there's no question of whether you were or weren't parked illegally.
This works both ways, because the ticket isn't enforceable without the photo. So, no sneaky writing tickets for cars that are parked perfectly legally, because then the photo won't match up.
Well, then that means that you'll have to get a scholarship for being, you know, a scholar. Maybe they should concentrate on studying, instead of playing catch with their friends.
The Sinclair C5 - cool though it was, and I still want one - was a small electric recumbent cycle. Its real range was closer to 25km than 40km, and at a top speed of 25km/h. It had pedals, but then the aerodynamic design was compensated for by carrying around 30kg of deep-cycle lead-acid battery. It needed to charge up overnight from flat, giving about an hour's run time for a full 12 hours of charging.
I'm not a particularly hardcore cyclist, but even I can beat the C5's range and speed, powered only by a pint or two of beer and a couple of pies...
The UK isn't actually in Europe, a bit like Switzerland. The difference is, of course, that Switzerland pick all the good bits of the EU membership and use them, but leave the stupid bits, and the UK picks all the shit bits of EU membership and doesn't use the good bits.
... we can't believe you let yourselves be driven to a point where you have to be strip-searched, molested and interrogated before they let you on a plane - and all that while maintaining an attitude of utter submission to your TSA masters.
Seriously, guys, you're the only ones doing this shit. You need to stop it, you're beginning to look silly.
So, with Windows 7 you get basic support for modern ATA devices, something that tries to be Pulseaudio, something that tries to be Compiz, something that tries to be tcpd, and a pretty theme?
It's pretty cute, but Windows 7 still looks like an Aldi own-brand version of Kubuntu LTS.
2. Searching a car is not the same as compelling someone to give self-incriminating testimony.
I don't see that it's *that* different.
Okay, what about a locked briefcase? Could the police force you to open then, even if it contained all the details of your elaborate insurance fraud? Would that be giving self-incriminating testimony?
An *actual* straight razor, as in an exposed blade that folds into the handle and which will do you some serious damage if mishandled? Or do you mean safety razors with the single disposable blade, that people seem to have started calling "straight razors"?
Safety razors are definitely better than disposables.
What is happening in China and the UK is much much different. It is a coordinated effort to watch the citizens and invade their privacy
As a previous poster said, [citation needed].
In what way does half a dozen video cameras in the centre of a city, and half a dozen cameras spread out around some of the more notorious motorway junctions infringe my privacy?
You do *know* that the ridiculous figures of something like 1500 cameras per person in the UK was entirely made up by a tabloid journalist, don't you? What they did was count up the number of cameras in a short stretch of a busy street in a rough part of London - all the bookies, off-licences, and even more unsavoury places - and multiplied by the total distance of all the roads in the UK. If the figure was even remotely accurate, it would mean that on every single bit of road in the UK right down to a farm track, you'd pass a camera every 50' or so.
If you don't think that *every* major city in the US isn't bristling with cameras, I don't know what you must think the things on top of poles must be. Some sort of funny glass bird feeder, possibly.
Why would an automatic gearbox be a necessity? I drive about half an hour each way just to commute to work, and frequently drive for four or five hours each way to travel to sites. I've never felt an automatic gearbox would be particularly helpful or desirable.
There used to be a double roundabout like this in Dundee joining the Kingsway and Forfar Road which is part of the A90 trunk road. There, traffic from the city centre mostly comes from the right, traffic from the south A90 comes from the left and traffic from the north A90 comes from the top. It was never really that hard to figure out.
Now they've replaced it with a big crazy set of cross-roads with traffic lights on them, and it's damn near impossible to work out where you're supposed to go.
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Take for instance, the situation where a cop needs to give someone a ticket for a broken tail-light. The ticket coming from the cop needs to carry a presumption of veracity, otherwise it would be very impractical for cops to ticket anyone.
You could do what traffic wardens do over here with illegally-parked vehicles - take a photo of the clock in the depot before they leave for a patrol, then take a photo of the car with the ticket on the windscreen. Digital cameras are cheap, and have reasonably accurate clocks. One quick photo and there's no question of whether you were or weren't parked illegally.
This works both ways, because the ticket isn't enforceable without the photo. So, no sneaky writing tickets for cars that are parked perfectly legally, because then the photo won't match up.
Well, then that means that you'll have to get a scholarship for being, you know, a scholar. Maybe they should concentrate on studying, instead of playing catch with their friends.
... what the hell is the NCAA?
I gather it's some sort of "sports" thing. Surely if you don't want your whole life dictated by them, you just don't need to play their game?
Find a different game to play. One that's fun, and doesn't require you to sign yourself up to a life of servitude.
The Sinclair C5 - cool though it was, and I still want one - was a small electric recumbent cycle. Its real range was closer to 25km than 40km, and at a top speed of 25km/h. It had pedals, but then the aerodynamic design was compensated for by carrying around 30kg of deep-cycle lead-acid battery. It needed to charge up overnight from flat, giving about an hour's run time for a full 12 hours of charging.
I'm not a particularly hardcore cyclist, but even I can beat the C5's range and speed, powered only by a pint or two of beer and a couple of pies...
Wait, what? You can be jailed for six months for going to the park in the US?
Makes me even more glad I live in the UK.
I think you have it backwards. That's what happens in the US.
The UK isn't actually in Europe, a bit like Switzerland. The difference is, of course, that Switzerland pick all the good bits of the EU membership and use them, but leave the stupid bits, and the UK picks all the shit bits of EU membership and doesn't use the good bits.
2004. It only appeared in Ubuntu in 2008. Oh, and you could do per-app volume with dmix way back when ALSA came out first, over a decade ago.
... we can't believe you let yourselves be driven to a point where you have to be strip-searched, molested and interrogated before they let you on a plane - and all that while maintaining an attitude of utter submission to your TSA masters.
Seriously, guys, you're the only ones doing this shit. You need to stop it, you're beginning to look silly.
So, with Windows 7 you get basic support for modern ATA devices, something that tries to be Pulseaudio, something that tries to be Compiz, something that tries to be tcpd, and a pretty theme?
It's pretty cute, but Windows 7 still looks like an Aldi own-brand version of Kubuntu LTS.
2. Searching a car is not the same as compelling someone to give self-incriminating testimony.
I don't see that it's *that* different.
Okay, what about a locked briefcase? Could the police force you to open then, even if it contained all the details of your elaborate insurance fraud? Would that be giving self-incriminating testimony?
But they do still gun down protesters, journalists and members of the UN peacekeeping forces when it's convenient.
Right, but how is that different from the police being able to legally compel you to open a safe, or let them look in your car?
If a 240-volt reset was what it needed, why couldn't the people on site just pull the power lead?
Where do you think they learned it from?
At least they didn't just let the protesters get there and gun them down. This is surprisingly restrained behaviour from the Israeli government.
What should he have there? Jesus? Things would be oh so much better if we just prayed for a solution, right?
No, just the Magic Carbon Sky Pixie. You just have to let yourself believe, like all the rest of the AGW faithful.
An *actual* straight razor, as in an exposed blade that folds into the handle and which will do you some serious damage if mishandled? Or do you mean safety razors with the single disposable blade, that people seem to have started calling "straight razors"?
Safety razors are definitely better than disposables.
Fair enough ;-)
Looking back at it, Computerworld isn't the worst offender - but I did get a bloody great big javascripty overlay thing when I visited the site first.
A link to the project site in the summary wouldn't have gone amiss though.
... instead of the Computerworld advert farm:
http://belogic.com/uzebox/index.asp
Sheer comedy, such a geektastic project being hosted with ASP?
Don't bother to mod this up, save your points for something less karma-whorey.
What is happening in China and the UK is much much different. It is a coordinated effort to watch the citizens and invade their privacy
As a previous poster said, [citation needed].
In what way does half a dozen video cameras in the centre of a city, and half a dozen cameras spread out around some of the more notorious motorway junctions infringe my privacy?
So, pretty much the same as the UK, then?
You do *know* that the ridiculous figures of something like 1500 cameras per person in the UK was entirely made up by a tabloid journalist, don't you? What they did was count up the number of cameras in a short stretch of a busy street in a rough part of London - all the bookies, off-licences, and even more unsavoury places - and multiplied by the total distance of all the roads in the UK. If the figure was even remotely accurate, it would mean that on every single bit of road in the UK right down to a farm track, you'd pass a camera every 50' or so.
If you don't think that *every* major city in the US isn't bristling with cameras, I don't know what you must think the things on top of poles must be. Some sort of funny glass bird feeder, possibly.
One of the things that amazes me about the US is that there is blanket CCTV coverage, and people refuse to believe it's there.
Why would an automatic gearbox be a necessity? I drive about half an hour each way just to commute to work, and frequently drive for four or five hours each way to travel to sites. I've never felt an automatic gearbox would be particularly helpful or desirable.
There used to be a double roundabout like this in Dundee joining the Kingsway and Forfar Road which is part of the A90 trunk road. There, traffic from the city centre mostly comes from the right, traffic from the south A90 comes from the left and traffic from the north A90 comes from the top. It was never really that hard to figure out.
Now they've replaced it with a big crazy set of cross-roads with traffic lights on them, and it's damn near impossible to work out where you're supposed to go.