It would be interesting to know what those immigration charges are. My guess is breeching some minor technicality of the new student visa rules that came into force in September 2007, which he would have been deemed to be subject to if he left the UK and re-entered since then, even if his student visa was originally obtained under earlier rules. For instance, if he is a part time student on a course that lasts longer than 6 months, there is no longer provision for that in the new rules and he would technically be in breach if he were to become subject to the new rules, even if it was OK under his original visa.
Once the system has labelled you a suspected terrorist, justified or not, you can be sure that they will find any reason to get rid of you.
It's an awful state of affairs when academics are being prosecuted under terror legislation.
I have no problem with academics being prosecuted under terror legislation if they are indeed engaging in the support of terrorism. But for downloading material which the US Government has cleared for release on its websites? I have trouble believing that anything about al-Qaeda on a US government website could be grounds for suspicion, let alone arrest.
Don't confuse the reasonableness, or lack of it, with the issue of refusing to follow the instructions of a police officer several times in a row.
This would seem to be the dictionary definition of "police state", where police can give unreasonable orders based on a deliberate misreading of the law, which the public has no option but to follow. But from the country that brought us ASBOs and CCTV everywhere, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Luckily the CPS saw sense on this occasion.
If you read the article, what the CPS said is that to be considered "abusive or insulting" under the law, it would have to be offensive (as seen from a neutral bystander's point of view, not the CoS). So it is a higher standard than what you might think of as the colloquial meaning of "insulting".
J.B. Hunt and IBM learned an important lesson from this, too: Don't let the driver be able to see the tablet. Before they started positioning them where the driver couldn't read it while in motion, at least one accident occurred because of fixation.
This is the same reason Volkswagens and Audis have the OBD-II connector positioned so it is accessible from the back seat, and not under the dash, where most cars position it. US regulations don't help though, as they require it to be within three feet of the driver.
Only reason they wouldn't would be that he refused to take down the sign having been asked several times.
Is it a crime to disobey an obviously ludicrous order from a law enforcement officer? Does it help their case in the slightest? If not, I don't see why the CPS would take that into consideration at all. Obviously if he'd complied, it would never have gotten this far, but now that it has, it is the legality of the actual case before them that the CPS has to look at.
DEFINATLY get a Barister/Solicitor (You need someone who is both.. not sure which is which...
A barrister is a lawyer who has passed the "bar exam", and is thus allowed to represent clients in District and High courts. A solicitor is someone who can advise the public on legal matters. In the UK, lawyers cannot be both solicitors and barristers, and a barrister is employed by a solicitor on your behalf, not directly. Clients always deal directly with solicitors, and given the minor nature of the "crime", it will probably be tried in a Magistrates Court, where solicitors can provide representation themselves.
Members were or are even banned from emigration into the UK.
I'm not aware of any ban on any religious or cult group leaving or entering the UK. Perhaps Scientologists don't qualify for certain special visas that real religious leaders can get to visit on church business, but if they fit other criteria I don't see why they would not be allowed in.
The video shows him receiving a warning. It also shows him quoting a court case where the judge called Scientology a cult, and stating that he will not be removing his sign, just before it cuts away to another scene. His story is that the officer continued to charge him with the offence after he refused to remove his sign, so although he may not have received his court summons yet, the video does not seem to tell the whole story.
If you release a coin in small quantities, then of course they are going to become collectable and sit in collectors' drawers. That happens with £5 coins too, despite 30 million of them going into circulation since 1990. If they're really serious about introducing a dollar coin, they'd do a proper production run, and judging by the economics cited by other countries' mints, they'd save a lot in printing costs by making the move completely.
Having seen a documentary a few years back about the US updating its currency (in the late 1990s I think), I think the problem is not that they don't consider the usability of their currency, it is that they place too much importance on the opinions of their test group. People are resistant to change, so they'll tell you they don't like using a dollar coin, different sized notes ("they don't look tidy in my wallet" was the reason given), or different colored notes ("looks unamerican"). But if the treasury was bold and made the change anyway, people would get used to it, just as they do in other countries.
There's actually two pasteboards. Selecting it puts it into the X11 pasteboard, ctrl+c puts it into the gnome/kde pasteboard.
They are called the "PRIMARY" selection and "CLIPBOARD" respectively. CLIPBOARD is older than Gnome and KDE, though they promoted consistent use of it.
I think there is a replica of Colossus in the Science Museum in London, or maybe I'm confusing it with Babbage's differencing engine as it's about 8 years since I visited. There's no good reason why the equipment has to be preserved in an out of the way place in such a narrow interest facility as Bletchley Park.
1) It's pretty likely being as "curmudgeonly" as he is, he's on pretty underpowered hardware. Gentoo in particular can be extremely punishing when you want to update, and it you put it off too long, portage-rot builds up.
On the other hand, being curmudgeonly means you will not have much to update. I think most of the Gentoo reputation for punishment comes from users who want the latest and greatest everything, and use Gentoo because they want to enable all the optimisation switches that their hardware supports. I used to update quite a few packages and the kernel from source, back when I was using Slackware on a 100MHz Pentium, and never found it that much of a problem.
They're about 90 years out, but it sounds very familiar. These days its more likely to be the Surrey Police Helicopter, but I'm not sure it was buzzing about in the middle of the night so much in 1985.
This has nothing to do with Mozilla accepting user-submitted extensions. If anything, that makes them more careful about what they publish. A developer's machine becoming infected with an as yet unknown virus that is undetected by anti-virus scanners is a risk that every software producer faces. How many commercial software vendors even run their developers' code through a virus check when it is committed, let alone running regular anti-virus checks on software they have already released?
GPS is one way communication, it does not send anything back to the satellites. To do so would require either a very powerful transmitter on the ground device (say goodbye to GPS in your mobile and other handheld battery powered devices), or a very sensitive receiver on the satellite with the signal processing power to differentiate the weak signals of millions of devices from each other and from the general radio noise coming from earth.
The fact that you have an iPhone does not give you a right to steal their WiFi with your laptop. It does give AT&T an easy method of retaliation against you without dragging you through the courts though. They can simply cancel your contract for T&C violation, leaving you with an expensive but shiny brick.
If someone is going to go to the trouble of spoofing an iPhone with a valid phone number, then they'll just spoof the MAC address as well. It'll be even easier to guess a valid one than for the phone numbers, as each batch of iPhones manufactured will tend to use a corresponding batch of WiFi chips, probably with a consecutive block of MAC addresses. Phone number allocation is more random, since its done at time of purchase, and people can port numbers from older devices or other networks.
I own an iPhone and have AT&T service. Lets say I use this hack to get my laptop working on wifi using my own number; is it still stealing service?
Yes. The free WiFi is for your iPhone, which while more usable than most mobile phones is still not the kind of device you're going to camp out with all day at Starbucks. It is not for your keyboard equipped, large screen laptop that AT&T makes no revenue from whatsoever.
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There are plenty of stories that show US academics have no more freedom, some reported here before.
It would be interesting to know what those immigration charges are. My guess is breeching some minor technicality of the new student visa rules that came into force in September 2007, which he would have been deemed to be subject to if he left the UK and re-entered since then, even if his student visa was originally obtained under earlier rules. For instance, if he is a part time student on a course that lasts longer than 6 months, there is no longer provision for that in the new rules and he would technically be in breach if he were to become subject to the new rules, even if it was OK under his original visa.
Once the system has labelled you a suspected terrorist, justified or not, you can be sure that they will find any reason to get rid of you.
I have no problem with academics being prosecuted under terror legislation if they are indeed engaging in the support of terrorism. But for downloading material which the US Government has cleared for release on its websites? I have trouble believing that anything about al-Qaeda on a US government website could be grounds for suspicion, let alone arrest.
This would seem to be the dictionary definition of "police state", where police can give unreasonable orders based on a deliberate misreading of the law, which the public has no option but to follow. But from the country that brought us ASBOs and CCTV everywhere, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Luckily the CPS saw sense on this occasion.
If you read the article, what the CPS said is that to be considered "abusive or insulting" under the law, it would have to be offensive (as seen from a neutral bystander's point of view, not the CoS). So it is a higher standard than what you might think of as the colloquial meaning of "insulting".
This is the same reason Volkswagens and Audis have the OBD-II connector positioned so it is accessible from the back seat, and not under the dash, where most cars position it. US regulations don't help though, as they require it to be within three feet of the driver.
A barrister is a lawyer who has passed the "bar exam", and is thus allowed to represent clients in District and High courts. A solicitor is someone who can advise the public on legal matters. In the UK, lawyers cannot be both solicitors and barristers, and a barrister is employed by a solicitor on your behalf, not directly. Clients always deal directly with solicitors, and given the minor nature of the "crime", it will probably be tried in a Magistrates Court, where solicitors can provide representation themselves.
I'm not aware of any ban on any religious or cult group leaving or entering the UK. Perhaps Scientologists don't qualify for certain special visas that real religious leaders can get to visit on church business, but if they fit other criteria I don't see why they would not be allowed in.
I doubt you'll find one in the UK either, and I have no doubt that US police officers make similarly bad judgements in such situations.
The video shows him receiving a warning. It also shows him quoting a court case where the judge called Scientology a cult, and stating that he will not be removing his sign, just before it cuts away to another scene. His story is that the officer continued to charge him with the offence after he refused to remove his sign, so although he may not have received his court summons yet, the video does not seem to tell the whole story.
If you release a coin in small quantities, then of course they are going to become collectable and sit in collectors' drawers. That happens with £5 coins too, despite 30 million of them going into circulation since 1990. If they're really serious about introducing a dollar coin, they'd do a proper production run, and judging by the economics cited by other countries' mints, they'd save a lot in printing costs by making the move completely.
Having seen a documentary a few years back about the US updating its currency (in the late 1990s I think), I think the problem is not that they don't consider the usability of their currency, it is that they place too much importance on the opinions of their test group. People are resistant to change, so they'll tell you they don't like using a dollar coin, different sized notes ("they don't look tidy in my wallet" was the reason given), or different colored notes ("looks unamerican"). But if the treasury was bold and made the change anyway, people would get used to it, just as they do in other countries.
They are called the "PRIMARY" selection and "CLIPBOARD" respectively. CLIPBOARD is older than Gnome and KDE, though they promoted consistent use of it.
I think there is a replica of Colossus in the Science Museum in London, or maybe I'm confusing it with Babbage's differencing engine as it's about 8 years since I visited. There's no good reason why the equipment has to be preserved in an out of the way place in such a narrow interest facility as Bletchley Park.
On the other hand, being curmudgeonly means you will not have much to update. I think most of the Gentoo reputation for punishment comes from users who want the latest and greatest everything, and use Gentoo because they want to enable all the optimisation switches that their hardware supports. I used to update quite a few packages and the kernel from source, back when I was using Slackware on a 100MHz Pentium, and never found it that much of a problem.
If multiple major distributions have the same release schedule, it gives some incentive for upstream packages to sync their release cycles too.
So up that to 7200 years ago. It is still younger.
They're about 90 years out, but it sounds very familiar. These days its more likely to be the Surrey Police Helicopter, but I'm not sure it was buzzing about in the middle of the night so much in 1985.
I don't know about vi, but Emacs has come with debugger integration since 1988.
In fact, it is more like less than one month, since the other two months is attributable to the delay in anti-virus vendors recognizing the trojan.
This has nothing to do with Mozilla accepting user-submitted extensions. If anything, that makes them more careful about what they publish. A developer's machine becoming infected with an as yet unknown virus that is undetected by anti-virus scanners is a risk that every software producer faces. How many commercial software vendors even run their developers' code through a virus check when it is committed, let alone running regular anti-virus checks on software they have already released?
GPS is one way communication, it does not send anything back to the satellites. To do so would require either a very powerful transmitter on the ground device (say goodbye to GPS in your mobile and other handheld battery powered devices), or a very sensitive receiver on the satellite with the signal processing power to differentiate the weak signals of millions of devices from each other and from the general radio noise coming from earth.
The fact that you have an iPhone does not give you a right to steal their WiFi with your laptop. It does give AT&T an easy method of retaliation against you without dragging you through the courts though. They can simply cancel your contract for T&C violation, leaving you with an expensive but shiny brick.
If someone is going to go to the trouble of spoofing an iPhone with a valid phone number, then they'll just spoof the MAC address as well. It'll be even easier to guess a valid one than for the phone numbers, as each batch of iPhones manufactured will tend to use a corresponding batch of WiFi chips, probably with a consecutive block of MAC addresses. Phone number allocation is more random, since its done at time of purchase, and people can port numbers from older devices or other networks.
Yes. The free WiFi is for your iPhone, which while more usable than most mobile phones is still not the kind of device you're going to camp out with all day at Starbucks. It is not for your keyboard equipped, large screen laptop that AT&T makes no revenue from whatsoever.