But I can tell you that in the United States, gun ownership has a strong corellation with reduced crime, including violent crime.
It is a casual, not a causal correlation though. Rural communities tend to have higher rates of gun ownership and lower rates of crime all over the world. This is only interpreted as "gun ownership reduces crime" in the minds of a few deranged gun nuts.
Actually, if you already look like you belong in that neighbourhood (that is, like you're more likely to be the mugger than the mugging victim) then headphones can actually amplify this
This works if you have some big fuck-off DJing cans that look like they've had a lot of use. It does not work if you're wearing a pair of white girly iPod phones.
Err, no... the camera does all of the image processing, so there is no GPRS or MMS stuff going on.
The idea is that you interact with local interfaces with low-latency (comms over Bluetooth, fast and free), and when/if you want to buy something, you can just go online and pay via your phone bill without having to whip out credit card numbers etc.
OK, I see the cellphone in there - instead of pulling out my credit card number, I pull out some phone number I guess. But I still don't see a mouse and keyboard, sounds like a barcode scanner to me (and no, I still can't get to the website to RTFA).
So every time I want to move my pointer on the screen, I wait for my cellphone camera to take a photo and pay my network provider 30p for the MMS message? Nice gimmick, but no thanks. 10p for 160 characters is not quite so bad, but I do find my PC's keyboard much easier to use that the 12 key phonepad, even with predictive text input and both thumbs going flat out.
Using a Ruby based configuration makes sense if your project uses Ruby anyway, just as using Ant makes sense for Java projects, but for building standalone C/C++ projects non-standard build tools are just another dependancy that will ensure that noone will bother to use your project because you set the barriers too high.
The benefit of autoconf/automake is that only the developers need to use it. End users run a pre-built configure script, which runs in/bin/sh.
When I saw a spray-painted logo of Napster.co.uk on the sidewalk outside my office this morning.
Take a photo, and send it to them with your latest council tax bill attached. Why should the public have to put up with our spaces being polluted like this?
No joke, that shit (or rather, those beans) are BURNT. They were also incredibly oily. Perhaps as a side effect of being burnt (fried?:)
Oily beans are a sign that they've been sitting around too long. Freshly roasted beans will be dried out on the outside, with the oils (which is where a lot of the flavour comes from) locked in the center. Once the oils reach the surface, the oil content, and thus flavour of the beans starts reducing.
Whelan subjected the helicopter memo to the same scrutiny, and the results suggested South Korea was the most likely anonymous supplier of helicopter knowledge to Iraq. Right. 'Cause North would never fit in the same number of pixels.
Apparently not as it would be the more obvious choice. On the other hand, it seems to me that the current agenda of the Bush Government would be better served by releasing that info if it was North Korea, so the fact that it has been redacted makes me suspect that she may be right. Come to think of it, when that train blew up in North Korea, all the News pictures were showing steam trains still in operation there. Do you really think they have a helicopter industry?
Simple. there's no patent treaty between the US and the EU.
There is a WIPO patent treaty which is recognized by US and EU. It does not set down any standards for patents, but says that if an invention has been patented in 7 (from memory, maybe 1 or 2 more or less) member states, then it is automatically recognized in all states. That is the reason you see companies like Microsoft trying to patent XML formats in New Zealand. Holding a New Zealand Patent is not much use to Microsoft in and of itself, but if the New Zealand Patent system is lax enough to let this through, and not bogged down so they can get it through quickly, it can help them get to the point where they can get their patent into other countries by default. Ghana is another popular place to patent things for the same reason.
Current interpretation of EU patent law's exception for software is that "being software" is not enough to give something "technical purpose", but if you can show technical purpose besides being software, you can still get a patent. Something like Amazon's one-click patent is a business method implemented in software, neither of which would qualify it under current EU patent law, so that's the sort of patent that the law change the Germans are voting against is trying to legalize.
Add to that, if OPEC does switch to pricing oil in euros, as they've been threatening to do, it would cripple the US economy and skyrocket the euro-using nations in the EU.
Please explain what mystery economic process would cause this. It doesn't matter if I buy my oil in pesos or groats, it still costs the same, and the exchange rate is still 27 pesos to the groat no matter which currency I use.
Anyone who considers the rights of Gun Manufacturers on a par with the rights of Jews, Blacks and Homosexuals is seriously screwed in the head. Companies do not have the protection of Human Rights.
You sir, are what is known on Usenet as a kook. You are getting all worked up about your one little issue, to the total exclusion of all else.
Propoganda? I don't see much in that article other than reporting on facts from both sides, something the likes of Fox News have difficulty with. I don't think anyone will argue that Al Jazeera has bias, but they do not go so far as to cover up one side of the story and make up facts to support their view.
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does one have to be to decide: it's too difficult to carry money or plastic or identification. I'll just have a "nurse" implant a device under my skin.
Barcelona does have one of the worst rates of pickpocketing in Europe. So I can see why people don't want to be carrying their wallets around when they're drunk.
NTT were a major driving force behind WCDMA technology. Saying that Japan is following Europe in WCDMA technology is vastly underestimating the input of Japanese companies and the Japanese subsideries of European and US companies in development of the technology. Like other large telecoms companies like AT&T (used to), NTT invests a huge amount into research. They may not produce the products, but they were heavily involved in the design initial stages.
That would be SONY-Ericsson you are talking about? And you left NTT off the list. Most of the original design work was done by them, with Nokia and Ericsson backing it later when NTT had already proposed WCDMA as a Japanese standard. The significance of Nokia and Ericsson's involvement is that WCDMA is now a global standard with a lot of influence from GSM (use of sim cards, ease of roaming), not just a revision of PDC.
but rather smugly told me that they are in England so they do not have to obey the US unsolicited fax laws. She wouldn't provide me with any other company information, and then stopped answering calls from my number after repeated hang-ups. The FCC says that it is a civil matter, and to go through the courts. The Fax Preference Service in the UK says they cannot help people outside the UK.
First, a bit about UK law, which they do have to comply with if they are doing this from the UK. If you contact them directly and ask to be removed from their list, then they are committing an offense if they call you again.
The FPS is a UK-wide do not call list maintained by the Direct Marketers Association. All marketers are supposed to treat it the same as having called them directly to be removed from the list, but the only penalty for not following this seems to be a slap on the wrist and maybe getting booted out of the DMA. The DMA is not interested in enforcing the law, particularly against non-members.
Ultimately, enforcement is up to Ofcom and the Information Commissioner. If you do make a complaint, be sure to include the response you got from FPS, I'm sure they'd be interested to see how self-policing by the DMA really works.
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It is a casual, not a causal correlation though. Rural communities tend to have higher rates of gun ownership and lower rates of crime all over the world. This is only interpreted as "gun ownership reduces crime" in the minds of a few deranged gun nuts.
Which is why Dallas has a murder rate of around 20 per 100,000 people and Houston around 15, while London's rate is less than 3. Oh, wait...
This works if you have some big fuck-off DJing cans that look like they've had a lot of use. It does not work if you're wearing a pair of white girly iPod phones.
The Millenium footbridge was not found to be dangerous, it was found to sway more than it was designed to, which might give people motion sickness.
The headline. But I guess that's made up by CmdrTaco, not the submitter. Slashdot's usual standards.
The idea is that you interact with local interfaces with low-latency (comms over Bluetooth, fast and free), and when/if you want to buy something, you can just go online and pay via your phone bill without having to whip out credit card numbers etc.
OK, I see the cellphone in there - instead of pulling out my credit card number, I pull out some phone number I guess. But I still don't see a mouse and keyboard, sounds like a barcode scanner to me (and no, I still can't get to the website to RTFA).
So every time I want to move my pointer on the screen, I wait for my cellphone camera to take a photo and pay my network provider 30p for the MMS message? Nice gimmick, but no thanks. 10p for 160 characters is not quite so bad, but I do find my PC's keyboard much easier to use that the 12 key phonepad, even with predictive text input and both thumbs going flat out.
Using a Ruby based configuration makes sense if your project uses Ruby anyway, just as using Ant makes sense for Java projects, but for building standalone C/C++ projects non-standard build tools are just another dependancy that will ensure that noone will bother to use your project because you set the barriers too high. The benefit of autoconf/automake is that only the developers need to use it. End users run a pre-built configure script, which runs in /bin/sh.
Take a photo, and send it to them with your latest council tax bill attached. Why should the public have to put up with our spaces being polluted like this?
Oily beans are a sign that they've been sitting around too long. Freshly roasted beans will be dried out on the outside, with the oils (which is where a lot of the flavour comes from) locked in the center. Once the oils reach the surface, the oil content, and thus flavour of the beans starts reducing.
I guess someone has exceeded their bandwidth limitations.
Apparently not as it would be the more obvious choice. On the other hand, it seems to me that the current agenda of the Bush Government would be better served by releasing that info if it was North Korea, so the fact that it has been redacted makes me suspect that she may be right. Come to think of it, when that train blew up in North Korea, all the News pictures were showing steam trains still in operation there. Do you really think they have a helicopter industry?
Yes that's the one.
There is a WIPO patent treaty which is recognized by US and EU. It does not set down any standards for patents, but says that if an invention has been patented in 7 (from memory, maybe 1 or 2 more or less) member states, then it is automatically recognized in all states. That is the reason you see companies like Microsoft trying to patent XML formats in New Zealand. Holding a New Zealand Patent is not much use to Microsoft in and of itself, but if the New Zealand Patent system is lax enough to let this through, and not bogged down so they can get it through quickly, it can help them get to the point where they can get their patent into other countries by default. Ghana is another popular place to patent things for the same reason.
Current interpretation of EU patent law's exception for software is that "being software" is not enough to give something "technical purpose", but if you can show technical purpose besides being software, you can still get a patent. Something like Amazon's one-click patent is a business method implemented in software, neither of which would qualify it under current EU patent law, so that's the sort of patent that the law change the Germans are voting against is trying to legalize.
Please explain what mystery economic process would cause this. It doesn't matter if I buy my oil in pesos or groats, it still costs the same, and the exchange rate is still 27 pesos to the groat no matter which currency I use.
You sir, are what is known on Usenet as a kook. You are getting all worked up about your one little issue, to the total exclusion of all else.
That was with Flash 7 on Windows BTW. So if you're stuck with Flash 6 on Linux you're not missing much.
Propoganda? I don't see much in that article other than reporting on facts from both sides, something the likes of Fox News have difficulty with. I don't think anyone will argue that Al Jazeera has bias, but they do not go so far as to cover up one side of the story and make up facts to support their view.
That is not Al Jazeera, that is some other guy that has set up a website close to their name.
Barcelona does have one of the worst rates of pickpocketing in Europe. So I can see why people don't want to be carrying their wallets around when they're drunk.
NTT were a major driving force behind WCDMA technology. Saying that Japan is following Europe in WCDMA technology is vastly underestimating the input of Japanese companies and the Japanese subsideries of European and US companies in development of the technology. Like other large telecoms companies like AT&T (used to), NTT invests a huge amount into research. They may not produce the products, but they were heavily involved in the design initial stages.
That would be SONY-Ericsson you are talking about? And you left NTT off the list. Most of the original design work was done by them, with Nokia and Ericsson backing it later when NTT had already proposed WCDMA as a Japanese standard. The significance of Nokia and Ericsson's involvement is that WCDMA is now a global standard with a lot of influence from GSM (use of sim cards, ease of roaming), not just a revision of PDC.
First, a bit about UK law, which they do have to comply with if they are doing this from the UK. If you contact them directly and ask to be removed from their list, then they are committing an offense if they call you again.
The FPS is a UK-wide do not call list maintained by the Direct Marketers Association. All marketers are supposed to treat it the same as having called them directly to be removed from the list, but the only penalty for not following this seems to be a slap on the wrist and maybe getting booted out of the DMA. The DMA is not interested in enforcing the law, particularly against non-members.
Ultimately, enforcement is up to Ofcom and the Information Commissioner. If you do make a complaint, be sure to include the response you got from FPS, I'm sure they'd be interested to see how self-policing by the DMA really works.