The british problem with binge drinking and random violence pales in comparison with domestic abuse in Britain.
Some stats (Women's Aid Federation [England] report, 1992, Domestic Violence - Home Office Research Study 107):
Between 40 and 45% of murdered women are killed by thir male partners;
more than 25% of all violent crime reported to the police is domestic violence of men against women, making it the second most common violent crime;
One quarter of all assaults are in domestic circumstances
In Edinburgh, Scotland, out of 3020 cases of violence reported to the police, three quarters of those were wife assault
So your argument is putting cameras up in order to stop crime? At what point will it be acceptable to put cameras in people's homes? It's the next step. It makes sense. If it helps save women from domestic abuse what does it matter that we lose some privacy?
At the moment people would go nuts but things will change. Our lives outside our home will be constantly recorded in the future so will people really rebel when the cameras move into our homes?
You might trust the government now, and welcome more cameras, and in a few years from now major cities could be completely covered by cameras. Which I gather you wouldn't think is a bad thing?
The problem arises when you don't trust the government. A system of cameras covering people's lives gives enormous power to the ones controlling it. Eventually a corrupt group will control the system as it provides too much power to leave alone. Take a camera down for an hour, commit a murder. Blank past recordings for incidents you don't want to be known. Record different events over old tapes, essentially rewriting history.
When you do reach a situation when you no longer trust the people in control it will be next to impossible to stand against them. It would certainly be impossible, if things came to it, to organise any kind of resistance against the government. No such thing as secret meetings. Potentially large crowds could be dispersed before they ever got troublesome.
The best service I've found for this kind of thing is allofmp3.com. You can encode music as at any bitrate (you can pick custom bitrates and it does on the fly encoding), in any format (mp3/wma/ogg/mpeg-4/mpc/lossless) including downloading the original cd data.
It costs $10 per GB you download and is legal (because of strange Russian copyright laws).
For example, nobody calls those XBox live voice features VoIP.
On the xbox all traffic is encrypted except for voice and player-text traffic. Any time you want to send traffic you must specifically say which bit is data and which bit is voice and the xbox automatically encrypts the data and leaves the voice alone.
The xbox development documents state that this is to stop "criminal elements" from using the xbox as a means of secure voice communications.
Before you submit a game for the xbox you must meet a list of requirements called TCRs (Technical Certification Requirements) and one of them states that voice and player created text must be sent in the clear.
So even if nobody calls it VOIP (which I disagree with) it certainly has be designed to be wiretapped, even if it isn't being done at the moment.
Doom 3 fast approaches, and the newest edition of PC Gamer has the "world exclusive" review. How did it score? It scored a 94%. Check out its highs, lows and bottom line:
Highs: Extraordinary graphics and sound; incredible tension, atmosphere, and mayhem.
Lows: Some stabs at humor fall a bit flat.
Bottom Line: Just as we'd hoped, it's a non-stop ride of tension, carnage and terror. A new classic.
UPDATE: Here's some more info I've found over at NVNews:The game will apparantly have a DVD version. There are multiple covers for the PC Gamer mag and the game boxes are different than the pre-order boxes.
3) Your wings will disappear... then you slam into the pentagon and blow up leaving a ridiculously small hole in the side of the building and a very specific and also quite small amount of debris. minus the wings of course.. coz they disappeared... you don't believe me??
This is a very old (in internet terms) report. Its results are taken from when gnutella and napster were two "popular" p2p architecuters (report refers to data gathering in May of 2001). Since then napster has died and been reborn in a new form and gnutella has adopted a 2-tier topology such as kazaa has. Companies such as clip2, who are long dead and buried, are referenced and bandwidth usage is stated from 2001 making the results useless and the references impossible to find.
I assume its an old report resubmitted by somebody who doesn't know better otherwise research like this is worse than useless because it provides completely inaccurate results.
Neo stops the sentinels because he was enlightened by the process of becoming the One.
You cannot pass this off as an explanation!! It doesn't mean anything! It supposed to be based in our world some time in the future. People now adays rarely become "enlightened" and do incredible things so there is no reason people in the future can do it either....
The only way I can figure out it can be "explained away" is as follows. Neo is connected to the matrix. The matrix is connected to the machines. (duh so far). Neo, when blind, can only see machines and machine buildings (he can't see trinners when she is dying). So he is obviously connected in with the machines (he sees them and what they see). So... I suppose the way he kills them is through interaction with them.
If this isn't the explanation and "He does it through, love, peace and an understanding of the world" IS then shoot me now! For I have lost all faith in films. And obviously film makers have lost all faith in our intelligence.
On a slightly different note I found someone who enjoyed the film! Trust me when I say he is being grilled as I speak... we'll find out why....
This is not rocket science but if I hadn't used windows since '98 (in 98 windows did not have a quick launch feature at all) I wouldn't know where to look for turning it on
Or maybe, just maybe, you would pull up windows help (press F1) and do a search for "launch from taskbar" or "launch programs from the taskbar" or something with a little intelligence and windows will nicely tell you about the quicklaunch bar. I think the only thing to say here is RTFM!
he does point out legitimate issues with windows... (You have to double click the clock in windows as opposed to single click in KDE) I wonder does this also come under the category of slowing him down.. all that extra clicking.. how do people get anything done??
The driver issue is a valid one Oh my god! Please oh please don't try and pretend that installing hardware under linux is easier than under windows! I use windows as a work machine (have to) but linux the rest of the time (and its on all of our servers in work) and I quite often have problems installing hardware. I have years of experience of linux and I still get bogged down on some cards with new and weird drivers. But on windows you never get problems. Not because windows is better in any way simply because its supported by ALL hardware vendors. You are guaranteed that any new hardware you buy will work in your windows box. Without grabbing the latest kernel and patching and updating your modutils coz they no longer work and.... ah. please! make the hurting stop....
I would never in my life considering putting anything other than openbsd or linux on a server but when it comes to desktop machines i think windows+open office+mozilla is the best option out there.
Actually Trinity's bandwidth usage barely budged. The problem seems to have been the ancient webserver. I suppose up until last night there has never really been any real need for a nice fast webserver. The time it happened was about 10pm GMT.. guesing slashdot being about 6hrs behind GMT.
Slashdot Mirror
It's actually havok complete. (Havoc with a 'k').
In case you don't know who Havok is, here's their client list.
Most notable being Max Payne 2, Half-life 2, Halo 2 and Painkiller.
You don't have to downgrade. Leave windows do its mad upgrading thing and then if you want to run "old" media player type "mplayer2" in start->run.
Personally I think you can't been vlc.
The british problem with binge drinking and random violence pales in comparison with domestic abuse in Britain.
Some stats (Women's Aid Federation [England] report, 1992, Domestic Violence - Home Office Research Study 107):
Between 40 and 45% of murdered women are killed by thir male partners;
more than 25% of all violent crime reported to the police is domestic violence of men against women, making it the second most common violent crime;
One quarter of all assaults are in domestic circumstances
In Edinburgh, Scotland, out of 3020 cases of violence reported to the police, three quarters of those were wife assault
So your argument is putting cameras up in order to stop crime? At what point will it be acceptable to put cameras in people's homes? It's the next step. It makes sense. If it helps save women from domestic abuse what does it matter that we lose some privacy?
At the moment people would go nuts but things will change. Our lives outside our home will be constantly recorded in the future so will people really rebel when the cameras move into our homes?
You might trust the government now, and welcome more cameras, and in a few years from now major cities could be completely covered by cameras. Which I gather you wouldn't think is a bad thing?
The problem arises when you don't trust the government. A system of cameras covering people's lives gives enormous power to the ones controlling it. Eventually a corrupt group will control the system as it provides too much power to leave alone. Take a camera down for an hour, commit a murder. Blank past recordings for incidents you don't want to be known. Record different events over old tapes, essentially rewriting history.
When you do reach a situation when you no longer trust the people in control it will be next to impossible to stand against them. It would certainly be impossible, if things came to it, to organise any kind of resistance against the government. No such thing as secret meetings. Potentially large crowds could be dispersed before they ever got troublesome.
With no privacy you lose power.
The best service I've found for this kind of thing is allofmp3.com. You can encode music as at any bitrate (you can pick custom bitrates and it does on the fly encoding), in any format (mp3/wma/ogg/mpeg-4/mpc/lossless) including downloading the original cd data.
It costs $10 per GB you download and is legal (because of strange Russian copyright laws).
On the xbox all traffic is encrypted except for voice and player-text traffic. Any time you want to send traffic you must specifically say which bit is data and which bit is voice and the xbox automatically encrypts the data and leaves the voice alone.
The xbox development documents state that this is to stop "criminal elements" from using the xbox as a means of secure voice communications.
Before you submit a game for the xbox you must meet a list of requirements called TCRs (Technical Certification Requirements) and one of them states that voice and player created text must be sent in the clear.
So even if nobody calls it VOIP (which I disagree with) it certainly has be designed to be wiretapped, even if it isn't being done at the moment.
Here's some more info on the review:
And the cover of the issue.
You ARE spying. You're looking where you shouldn't; that's spying
That's kinda like saying you're eavesdropping on my conversation if I'm screaming at the top of my lungs...
This doesn't just apply to the UK. The e3 (2) per cd hike also applies to Ireland... grr!
More info
Being it's AT&T and assuming a great deal is billing and maintence functions
.. login... ok..
..
Oh how naive! It may be AT&T but the DB will still be run by a bunch of nerds...
"Right, boss needs a client list"
> use bigassdb;
> show tables;
games
porn
mp3s
films
tv
other
"Ok clients must be in here somewhere..."
The lads over at arstechnica also have a review of it.
Or, more likely...
1) Warning
2) Command
3) Your wings will disappear... then you slam into the pentagon and blow up leaving a ridiculously small hole in the side of the building and a very specific and also quite small amount of debris. minus the wings of course.. coz they disappeared... you don't believe me??
"Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /public/private/groklaw/system/databases/mysql.cla ss.php on line 108
.. from most people's point of view its quite a short article with very few people referenced...
Cannnot connect to DB server
This is a very old (in internet terms) report. Its results are taken from when gnutella and napster were two "popular" p2p architecuters (report refers to data gathering in May of 2001). Since then napster has died and been reborn in a new form and gnutella has adopted a 2-tier topology such as kazaa has. Companies such as clip2, who are long dead and buried, are referenced and bandwidth usage is stated from 2001 making the results useless and the references impossible to find.
I assume its an old report resubmitted by somebody who doesn't know better otherwise research like this is worse than useless because it provides completely inaccurate results.
Neo stops the sentinels because he was enlightened by the process of becoming the One.
You cannot pass this off as an explanation!! It doesn't mean anything! It supposed to be based in our world some time in the future. People now adays rarely become "enlightened" and do incredible things so there is no reason people in the future can do it either....
The only way I can figure out it can be "explained away" is as follows. Neo is connected to the matrix. The matrix is connected to the machines. (duh so far). Neo, when blind, can only see machines and machine buildings (he can't see trinners when she is dying). So he is obviously connected in with the machines (he sees them and what they see). So... I suppose the way he kills them is through interaction with them.
If this isn't the explanation and "He does it through, love, peace and an understanding of the world" IS then shoot me now! For I have lost all faith in films. And obviously film makers have lost all faith in our intelligence.
On a slightly different note I found someone who enjoyed the film! Trust me when I say he is being grilled as I speak... we'll find out why....
This is not rocket science but if I hadn't used windows since '98 (in 98 windows did not have a quick launch feature at all) I wouldn't know where to look for turning it on
Or maybe, just maybe, you would pull up windows help (press F1) and do a search for "launch from taskbar" or "launch programs from the taskbar" or something with a little intelligence and windows will nicely tell you about the quicklaunch bar. I think the only thing to say here is RTFM!
he does point out legitimate issues with windows
I wonder does this also come under the category of slowing him down.. all that extra clicking.. how do people get anything done??
The driver issue is a valid one
Oh my god! Please oh please don't try and pretend that installing hardware under linux is easier than under windows! I use windows as a work machine (have to) but linux the rest of the time (and its on all of our servers in work) and I quite often have problems installing hardware. I have years of experience of linux and I still get bogged down on some cards with new and weird drivers. But on windows you never get problems. Not because windows is better in any way simply because its supported by ALL hardware vendors. You are guaranteed that any new hardware you buy will work in your windows box. Without grabbing the latest kernel and patching and updating your modutils coz they no longer work and
I would never in my life considering putting anything other than openbsd or linux on a server but when it comes to desktop machines i think windows+open office+mozilla is the best option out there.
For a company thats worth $25 million $250 is kinda cheap... so how about $43,000? ;)
Actually Trinity's bandwidth usage barely budged. The problem seems to have been the ancient webserver. I suppose up until last night there has never really been any real need for a nice fast webserver.
The time it happened was about 10pm GMT.. guesing slashdot being about 6hrs behind GMT.