This is particularly annoying. MS documentation used to be very good in this aspect, now if it says "Included on Windows 2000 and later", you don't know whether it really means that, or it was introduced in NT 3.1 and Windows 95. Also there are cases where they've blanked out pages for no apprent reason other than to prevent third party developers from using their APIs effectively - see the documentation for the Unicode Subrange Bitfield of FONTSIGNATURE, which was fully documented a year or so ago - at least they've added the ability to comment so I could add a pointer to what appears to be the same information in the Opentype spec.
Most STBs come with a serial port, but it is refreshing to find one that gives you enough documentation to do something useful with it. I have a DVB-S STB manufactured by Philips, and I'd love to be able to hook the serial port up to my PC so I can control it for recording, and preferably access the EPG so I don't have to screen scrape the provider's javascript infested webpages that change structure regularly to break my xmltv configuration.
Not quite what you are suggesting since it doesn't connect to the client PC so there's a lot more data entry required of the user, but these devices, widely deployed by UK banks, have a feature where they can sign transaction amounts and destinations. Some banks terms and conditions hint that their use might be extended to online shopping in the near future, which would be a great improvement over the horribly insecure "click here to change your password using the information that any fraudster already has" verified by visa system.
What are you going to do, shut down the website without a full legal investigation?
Yes, sometimes the public interest outweighs the commercial interest of a business. It happens in meatspace every day for all kinds of reasons, from anonymous bomb threats to the president coming within 2 miles of the place.
How do you know it moved in space? Movement is all relative, we have no absolute frame of reference (do we?), so for all we know, Earth could actually be stationary with the rest of the universe revolving around it (however unlikely, unless intelligent design is somehow involved after all)
The only flaw in this plan is that the average juror does not think like you. Upon seeing that you're "hiding" something, the average person makes the assumption that you've got something to hide. You can argue all you want about the invalidity of that assumption, but the average person is going to start from there. When the trusted policeman pulls out a DVD in court and claims that he found it on your desk, it fills in some gaps - the jury now "knows" what it is you have to hide, and since they have no evidence to the contrary they accept the evidence willingly. Now that you are a criminal in their minds, do you really expect them to accept your version of events over the trusted policeman's?
huge numbers of people, even if small compared to the total number of people ever
It isn't as small as you might think. I don't remember the exact figures, but explosive population growth during the 20th and 21st centuries have led to a situation where the proportion of people still alive to those who have ever lived is surprisingly high.
I have half a dozen neighbours on channel 6, about 4 on channel 11 and one on channel 9. Ideally I'd use 1, but one of my PCs has trouble connecting on that channel, and the others show a worse signal to noise ratio, so I kept mine on 6 (which has better signal to noise than 11, due to the fact that some of the neighbours on 11 are closer).
The most disturbing case, however, is that of Jose Padilla
No the most disturbing cases are the Canadian citizens who keep getting pulled aside in transit through the US and deported to Syria for torture without ever going near a court and without embassy officials being kept up to date of their whereabouts. Maher Arar has been cleared by a Canadian commision of inquiry of any involvement in terrorism, and there are at least another three Canadian citizens of Middle Eastern descent who have suffered the same fate and are yet to have their cases heard.
I'm in Belgium, if somebody sends you something, then asks you to or send money or send it back, you can instead keep it and not send money.
I was thinking of the equivalent UK law and wondering if it was EU wide. But I don't think that is relevant in this case, because the download was explicitly requested. The UK has "Distance Selling Regulations" which would help in this case - you are allowed to return any item bought outside of retail premises for a full refund within 7 days of receiving the item or being billed, whichever comes last. The music and movie industries have negotiated exceptions from this though, which may also apply to software if the exception is broad enough to cover all copyrighted content that is copyable.
While it is not a bad idea in and of itself, changing work schedules to some bizarre non-standard system is usually a sign that the company management is trying to squeeze more work out of you.
Around here it is done to squeeze less out of you, with a corresponding pay cut. Many companies (factories especially) have gone to 4 day weeks, or even 3 days weeks to save money.
I think the lack of grace comes from their body weight compared to birds, which perhaps makes them more appropriate for copying when you want to load a microcraft down with cameras and transmitters etc. They seem to use their wings downward flap to pull their body up, then immediately start falling, unlike birds which are able to glide for some distance without significant loss of altitude.
My guess is that a large part of the energy he attributes to searches is energy that would be consumed by google's servers whether you did the search or not. So if his article results in a reduction in searches, it will just make the remaining google searches more wasteful without having significant impact on the overall energy usage of google's server farms.
Now, if the various governments could/would authorize their law enforcement agencies to use this method...
Who needs authorization? Just say that evil terrists might be using one or two of the PCs in the botnet, and the FBI will treat it as the green light to throw the rulebook out the window.
You do realize that you're lying, right ? Egypt's border with Gaza is Egypt's to control.
Look up the Camp David Accords sometime. Egypt is not allowed to deploy its own troops anywhere near the border (nor is Israel, but that doesn't seem to stop them blowing up smuggling tunnels). The border area is patrolled by a multi-national observer force (akin to UN peacekeepers, but not under UN control).
Timing traffic lights is indeed difficult. Often attempts to fix problems just end up causing an even worse problem elsewhere. When the Chiswick roundabout in West London had its lights changed from carefully designed fixed cycle lights to "intelligent" lights that adapted to traffic flows, they ended up causing tailbacks on both the A4 Eastbound and North Circular Southbound, because when traffic got heavy, the sensors detected no flow and gave both major roads short green cycles. There were also situations where both the A4 Eastbound and North Circular southbound were given green to go onto the roundabout at the same time, causing the A4 traffic to move forward 5 car lengths until they hit the red on the roundabout, quickly entering the no traffic flow situation described above. Eventually it got sorted out, whether by reverting to fixed cycles when traffic got heavy, or tweaking the algorithms.
Well, go into any half-decent music shop and I'll bet you find more Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven recordings on the shelf than Beatles, Floyd and Zeppelin.
They're all copies, the "originals" (if Beethoven ever conducted his own symphonies, I guess you could call it an original) are unobtainable because they predate recorded music. Wait until the Beatles music goes out of copyright (if the RIAA ever lets it) before you make any comparison.
My guess is that the messages will be relevant in that you'll only get ads for Continental tyres when there is a "relevant" promotion on at a nearby Lexus dealer. And McDonalds ads will only come on when you're about to drive past a McDonalds, so its "relevant" right?
They know this, and yet they violate the sanctity of that cocoon anyways. How self-destructively stupid can you get? Can you give the Darwin award to a car maker?
I can just imagine the scene in Toyota's boardroom.
Sir, all the other major car manufacturers are getting government assistance.
- Dammit, why aren't we getting some.
Because we aren't in as desparate a situation as they are.
- Hmmm, what can we do to get ourselves a piece of the government pie?
Well, we could try losing some customers by pissing them off. I suggest starting with the most demanding customers - the Lexus buyers.
- Excellent idea, we could try spamming them, that would be sure to work, everyone hates spam. Now lets award ourselves bonuses for coming up with this brilliant plan. We can cover it by telling the shareholders there'll be no dividends this year because of the financial situation.
At 6pm UK time it is 3am Monday morning in Japan, and 2am in Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore. None of the Asian markets are open yet. Probably its just that nothing is on TV at that time: BBC1 - Songs of Praise (church in your living room), BBC2 - World Darts Championship (pub in your living room, without the beer), ITV1 - You've been framed (long in the tooth Candid Camera clone), C4 - Time Team (reality TV for archaeologists), Five - 80's (or sometimes 70's) family movie.
There is some protocol overhead at various levels to deal with
To take that into account, I divide by 10 rather than 8 to convert bits to bytes. It is both easier to do in your head, and gives you a more realistic expectation of the throughput to expect. In the old days it was actually accurate, as you had stop and start bits as overhead on every byte.
My spares are the ones that came with devices that I replaced with a larger one. I've got a couple of 256Mb, a 128Mb and I think I have some old 8Mb SD cards somewhere. Likewise I have a couple of old 64Mb and one 128Mb CF cards from an old camera lying around somewhere in case I need a spare card for the SLR in an emergency.
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This is particularly annoying. MS documentation used to be very good in this aspect, now if it says "Included on Windows 2000 and later", you don't know whether it really means that, or it was introduced in NT 3.1 and Windows 95. Also there are cases where they've blanked out pages for no apprent reason other than to prevent third party developers from using their APIs effectively - see the documentation for the Unicode Subrange Bitfield of FONTSIGNATURE, which was fully documented a year or so ago - at least they've added the ability to comment so I could add a pointer to what appears to be the same information in the Opentype spec.
Most STBs come with a serial port, but it is refreshing to find one that gives you enough documentation to do something useful with it. I have a DVB-S STB manufactured by Philips, and I'd love to be able to hook the serial port up to my PC so I can control it for recording, and preferably access the EPG so I don't have to screen scrape the provider's javascript infested webpages that change structure regularly to break my xmltv configuration.
I'd be very surprised if the real Barclays internet banking site used http.
Not quite what you are suggesting since it doesn't connect to the client PC so there's a lot more data entry required of the user, but these devices, widely deployed by UK banks, have a feature where they can sign transaction amounts and destinations. Some banks terms and conditions hint that their use might be extended to online shopping in the near future, which would be a great improvement over the horribly insecure "click here to change your password using the information that any fraudster already has" verified by visa system.
Yes, sometimes the public interest outweighs the commercial interest of a business. It happens in meatspace every day for all kinds of reasons, from anonymous bomb threats to the president coming within 2 miles of the place.
How do you know it moved in space? Movement is all relative, we have no absolute frame of reference (do we?), so for all we know, Earth could actually be stationary with the rest of the universe revolving around it (however unlikely, unless intelligent design is somehow involved after all)
The only flaw in this plan is that the average juror does not think like you. Upon seeing that you're "hiding" something, the average person makes the assumption that you've got something to hide. You can argue all you want about the invalidity of that assumption, but the average person is going to start from there. When the trusted policeman pulls out a DVD in court and claims that he found it on your desk, it fills in some gaps - the jury now "knows" what it is you have to hide, and since they have no evidence to the contrary they accept the evidence willingly. Now that you are a criminal in their minds, do you really expect them to accept your version of events over the trusted policeman's?
It isn't as small as you might think. I don't remember the exact figures, but explosive population growth during the 20th and 21st centuries have led to a situation where the proportion of people still alive to those who have ever lived is surprisingly high.
I have half a dozen neighbours on channel 6, about 4 on channel 11 and one on channel 9. Ideally I'd use 1, but one of my PCs has trouble connecting on that channel, and the others show a worse signal to noise ratio, so I kept mine on 6 (which has better signal to noise than 11, due to the fact that some of the neighbours on 11 are closer).
My ISP has a router installed on my internet connection, so I must be safe right?
There are 14 routers between me and slashdot.org, not one of them is doing any type of NAT.
No the most disturbing cases are the Canadian citizens who keep getting pulled aside in transit through the US and deported to Syria for torture without ever going near a court and without embassy officials being kept up to date of their whereabouts. Maher Arar has been cleared by a Canadian commision of inquiry of any involvement in terrorism, and there are at least another three Canadian citizens of Middle Eastern descent who have suffered the same fate and are yet to have their cases heard.
I was thinking of the equivalent UK law and wondering if it was EU wide. But I don't think that is relevant in this case, because the download was explicitly requested. The UK has "Distance Selling Regulations" which would help in this case - you are allowed to return any item bought outside of retail premises for a full refund within 7 days of receiving the item or being billed, whichever comes last. The music and movie industries have negotiated exceptions from this though, which may also apply to software if the exception is broad enough to cover all copyrighted content that is copyable.
Around here it is done to squeeze less out of you, with a corresponding pay cut. Many companies (factories especially) have gone to 4 day weeks, or even 3 days weeks to save money.
I think the lack of grace comes from their body weight compared to birds, which perhaps makes them more appropriate for copying when you want to load a microcraft down with cameras and transmitters etc. They seem to use their wings downward flap to pull their body up, then immediately start falling, unlike birds which are able to glide for some distance without significant loss of altitude.
My guess is that a large part of the energy he attributes to searches is energy that would be consumed by google's servers whether you did the search or not. So if his article results in a reduction in searches, it will just make the remaining google searches more wasteful without having significant impact on the overall energy usage of google's server farms.
Who needs authorization? Just say that evil terrists might be using one or two of the PCs in the botnet, and the FBI will treat it as the green light to throw the rulebook out the window.
Look up the Camp David Accords sometime. Egypt is not allowed to deploy its own troops anywhere near the border (nor is Israel, but that doesn't seem to stop them blowing up smuggling tunnels). The border area is patrolled by a multi-national observer force (akin to UN peacekeepers, but not under UN control).
Timing traffic lights is indeed difficult. Often attempts to fix problems just end up causing an even worse problem elsewhere. When the Chiswick roundabout in West London had its lights changed from carefully designed fixed cycle lights to "intelligent" lights that adapted to traffic flows, they ended up causing tailbacks on both the A4 Eastbound and North Circular Southbound, because when traffic got heavy, the sensors detected no flow and gave both major roads short green cycles. There were also situations where both the A4 Eastbound and North Circular southbound were given green to go onto the roundabout at the same time, causing the A4 traffic to move forward 5 car lengths until they hit the red on the roundabout, quickly entering the no traffic flow situation described above. Eventually it got sorted out, whether by reverting to fixed cycles when traffic got heavy, or tweaking the algorithms.
They're all copies, the "originals" (if Beethoven ever conducted his own symphonies, I guess you could call it an original) are unobtainable because they predate recorded music. Wait until the Beatles music goes out of copyright (if the RIAA ever lets it) before you make any comparison.
My guess is that the messages will be relevant in that you'll only get ads for Continental tyres when there is a "relevant" promotion on at a nearby Lexus dealer. And McDonalds ads will only come on when you're about to drive past a McDonalds, so its "relevant" right?
I can just imagine the scene in Toyota's boardroom.
Sir, all the other major car manufacturers are getting government assistance.
- Dammit, why aren't we getting some.
Because we aren't in as desparate a situation as they are.
- Hmmm, what can we do to get ourselves a piece of the government pie?
Well, we could try losing some customers by pissing them off. I suggest starting with the most demanding customers - the Lexus buyers.
- Excellent idea, we could try spamming them, that would be sure to work, everyone hates spam. Now lets award ourselves bonuses for coming up with this brilliant plan. We can cover it by telling the shareholders there'll be no dividends this year because of the financial situation.
At 6pm UK time it is 3am Monday morning in Japan, and 2am in Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore. None of the Asian markets are open yet. Probably its just that nothing is on TV at that time: BBC1 - Songs of Praise (church in your living room), BBC2 - World Darts Championship (pub in your living room, without the beer), ITV1 - You've been framed (long in the tooth Candid Camera clone), C4 - Time Team (reality TV for archaeologists), Five - 80's (or sometimes 70's) family movie.
To take that into account, I divide by 10 rather than 8 to convert bits to bytes. It is both easier to do in your head, and gives you a more realistic expectation of the throughput to expect. In the old days it was actually accurate, as you had stop and start bits as overhead on every byte.
My spares are the ones that came with devices that I replaced with a larger one. I've got a couple of 256Mb, a 128Mb and I think I have some old 8Mb SD cards somewhere. Likewise I have a couple of old 64Mb and one 128Mb CF cards from an old camera lying around somewhere in case I need a spare card for the SLR in an emergency.