True you can track a mobile's location, however a pay as you go mobile (or a second hand one) doesnt need to be registered, so it certainly makes it harder for people to tie you into that number, especially if you swap mobiles a lot.
Remember Labour introduces something, theres massive objection, so they retreat an introduce a tame version to little media outcry. Rinse, repeat, and carry on doing that until 2011 because neither the torys or lib dems are going to win in 2006.
Trouble is the average person on the street believes "nothing to hide/nothign to fear", and thinks comparrisons with 1930's Germany (dont got goodwins on me) are stupid because "that will never happen" - even when you point out the BNP's growing popularity.
Doesnt apply to singles - which is what I get (as they are cheaper then a weekly card anyway). The card records the 2.30 going into the machine, and the fact the ticket went from A to B. Thats all. No linking together with any other ticket.
And what about credit card information? Why should I have somebody analyze my purchases to determine what I buy? Or, retail companies who analyze sales data by region (even right down to the household). If I want to buy from your store, I will.
Dont use a credit card, pay by cash. Dont use loyalty cards, dont give the nice girl at the ASDA checkout your post code (she understand my "Yes" when she asked If I minded giving the postcode I lived at. Should have given SW1A 1AA).
I'm looking for some realistic and practical solutions (blowing up governments is not a practical solution:-) ).
On the credit card front, dont use them. It's not hard. Pay by cash. For the government front, thats harder. Balaclava's are always conspicuous. The best bet (the UK is introducing ID cards, slashdot's not interested though), is sivil disobedience. Apply for thousands of ID cards with false names and addresses, but not your real one. With car numberplates, have a Bondesque switching one (how often does your car get looked at in that depth), then drive through cameras (especially automatic ones) with false numberplates (say a moped's) on it.
I currently commute Walthamstow to White City every day - I buy singles. Why? 10 singles cost 2.30, a 7 day travelcard costs 23.10. The travelcard needs a photoID (which means the tickets are theoretically trackable), and the "savings" arent really worth the effort. Anything longer (Monthly, yearly) does save money, however you need an oystercard. Add shift work on to that and I'm down to 7 trips a week - 16.10, similar price to the monthly card. I dont trust Ken Livingstone, and the inconvienience of buying a new ticket in the mornings isn't worth it. Unfortunatly he wants to bring face recognition into the CCTV cameras arround the capital, so to be truly safe we need to wear balaclavas when the tech is reliable. The everyday single cardboard tickets wont disapear, as it would cost too much and take too long for every tourist and his dog to get an oyster card to go from Waterloo - Euston once in a blue moon.
I do have a question about oystercards though: do they check your details, or can you apply with "Tony Blair" and "10 Downing Street" as your name/address?
Of course this is irrelevent, as Ken hates the tube. It's a "posh" way of travelling arround. Ken likes "busses" in a good commumist way. Get everyone on the worst form of public transport ever devised, which takes 3 times as long and makes you sick from the rocking and sudden stop starts. The congestion charge is irrelevent. It's worked too well, and aint making a profit. Nothing is going into public transport. Ken wants the whole country to pay for London's cockups. If I were mayor I'd order a project looking at replacing public transit in Zone 1 with a PRT system, banning cars and busses completely, and having all the streets covered, running with PRT tracks above, and moving walkways below. Basically turn the whole 10 square miles (or whatever) into a massive mall. Building operators could pay for PRT stations on the side of their towers - you could even have multiple levels so you could go to "Canary Wharf floor 12", you could have extensions out of town to large carparks too. London would become a showpiece for PRT, and everyone would be able to go where they want, when they want, 24 hours a day, without having to put up with drolling drunks next to them on the ride home.
Of course that involved massive forward thinking, something the status quo doesnt like. It would get rid of a lot of jobs too (bus drivers for one), which means Ken would lose votes.
the U.S. has a limitation of 2 lane roads? Make them one way, bus lane in one lane, normal traffic on the other (or just have bus lanes only like many roads)
But it accelerated away from the first space craft, who's clock was going slower then earths (from an observer outside the solar system). Surely by accelerating away from the spacecraft your clock will be slow relative to that spacecraft.
Yes. Or If I'm on the spacecraft and someone on earth sees me at 0.9c, and I launch another clock back to earth at the same speed, that clock is accelerating away from me, so should be going slower then me (who is already slower then earth). However it is not moving relative to earth, so should be going at the same speed of earth? Shouldnt it?
The clock on galileo is pretty much the same as the clock on earth isn't it - after all it was only traveling at 0.00004c. If I flew out there in my fast space ship, I know my clock will change, but I can reset it to "Earth time" when I get to galeleo as
1) I can see the time on earth (big telescope), and know how far in light seconds I am away 2) I can see the time on galileo which is the time on earth give or take a nanosecond.
However, why am I flying towards galileo? Time goes slow for me because I'm moving from galileo's POV, but from my POV galileo is flying towards me. Yeah I know its the twins paradox, but I never understood the resolving of it
CD's are not good for backing up - if you have a 100GB hard drive you need arround 150CDs. Lets say you can burn a CD in 5 minutes (allowing time for coasters), that takes 12 hours of your time, cost arround $50 for the CD's, and at $20 an hour $240 for your time. That 100GB file server starts looking more tempting.
Of course if you're going for a file server, you should be going for a fast box with gigE, booting off a CD into RAM, and 8 200GB or 300GB hard drives, giving you between 1.5 and 2.5TB of readilly available storage, should cost more then $3000 even with a top of the line processer and a gig of ram.
Obviously HDD's crash, so have them as a raid array - Still get 1.2TB of data on there, for $2.50 a gig. More expensive then DVDR or CD, but more convienent, and a lot cooler when you can answer "how much disk space you got" with terrabytes.
This is what I dont get about light cones and relativity. We know that the probe will hit jupiter at ~ 19:00GMT, however we cant see it happen until nearly an hour later. Does this mean it doesnt happen until nearer 20:00GMT? Is it something to do with Scrodinger's cat? Because theres no way for us to know its not hit the planet does it mean it hasn't?
Trademarks are actually good. It ensures that when you buy a big mac, you know you are getting a cheap piece of meat which may have some beef in it, a dolop of saliva, and service without a smile. Trademarks are there for consumer protection as much as anything.
Seriously, I didnt get a single lovebug, or andythign like that. The only thing I've ever got is one copy of sircam.
I've had 350 of this bugger though. So much for being unnafected running linux - 50MB in 24 hours is arround 600bytes per second. I feal for the dialup user.
Sure I can filter them, but only after they get to my inbox.
I rarely get worms - I had no lovebug and only one sircam (a spanish one). I've had 12 in the last couple of hours though.
As for where to send the bill, you could argue to send it to Microsoft (If ford released a car that suddenly exploded you'd sue them wouldnt you?), or you could argue you sue the people that got infected. Of course, if they have the right to send you an email you cant really sue them.
Yeah, and its a right bugger at 300k/message. Over a 600k cable modem its annoying, but imagine the pain when people on dialups find 100 in their inbox.
No nigerian scam messages for me, but I did get a South African one. Spam assassin doesnt recognise them, but does flag MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE. Shame kmail doesnt allow delete from server on its filters.
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don't have a mobile phone
True you can track a mobile's location, however a pay as you go mobile (or a second hand one) doesnt need to be registered, so it certainly makes it harder for people to tie you into that number, especially if you swap mobiles a lot.
Remember Labour introduces something, theres massive objection, so they retreat an introduce a tame version to little media outcry. Rinse, repeat, and carry on doing that until 2011 because neither the torys or lib dems are going to win in 2006.
Trouble is the average person on the street believes "nothing to hide/nothign to fear", and thinks comparrisons with 1930's Germany (dont got goodwins on me) are stupid because "that will never happen" - even when you point out the BNP's growing popularity.
How do you convince them otherwise?
Doesnt apply to singles - which is what I get (as they are cheaper then a weekly card anyway). The card records the 2.30 going into the machine, and the fact the ticket went from A to B. Thats all. No linking together with any other ticket.
And what about credit card information? Why should I have somebody analyze my purchases to determine what I buy? Or, retail companies who analyze sales data by region (even right down to the household). If I want to buy from your store, I will.
:-) ).
Dont use a credit card, pay by cash. Dont use loyalty cards, dont give the nice girl at the ASDA checkout your post code (she understand my "Yes" when she asked If I minded giving the postcode I lived at. Should have given SW1A 1AA).
I'm looking for some realistic and practical solutions (blowing up governments is not a practical solution
On the credit card front, dont use them. It's not hard. Pay by cash. For the government front, thats harder. Balaclava's are always conspicuous. The best bet (the UK is introducing ID cards, slashdot's not interested though), is sivil disobedience. Apply for thousands of ID cards with false names and addresses, but not your real one. With car numberplates, have a Bondesque switching one (how often does your car get looked at in that depth), then drive through cameras (especially automatic ones) with false numberplates (say a moped's) on it.
As another Londoner:
I currently commute Walthamstow to White City every day - I buy singles. Why? 10 singles cost 2.30, a 7 day travelcard costs 23.10. The travelcard needs a photoID (which means the tickets are theoretically trackable), and the "savings" arent really worth the effort. Anything longer (Monthly, yearly) does save money, however you need an oystercard. Add shift work on to that and I'm down to 7 trips a week - 16.10, similar price to the monthly card. I dont trust Ken Livingstone, and the inconvienience of buying a new ticket in the mornings isn't worth it. Unfortunatly he wants to bring face recognition into the CCTV cameras arround the capital, so to be truly safe we need to wear balaclavas when the tech is reliable. The everyday single cardboard tickets wont disapear, as it would cost too much and take too long for every tourist and his dog to get an oyster card to go from Waterloo - Euston once in a blue moon.
I do have a question about oystercards though: do they check your details, or can you apply with "Tony Blair" and "10 Downing Street" as your name/address?
Of course this is irrelevent, as Ken hates the tube. It's a "posh" way of travelling arround. Ken likes "busses" in a good commumist way. Get everyone on the worst form of public transport ever devised, which takes 3 times as long and makes you sick from the rocking and sudden stop starts. The congestion charge is irrelevent. It's worked too well, and aint making a profit. Nothing is going into public transport. Ken wants the whole country to pay for London's cockups. If I were mayor I'd order a project looking at replacing public transit in Zone 1 with a PRT system, banning cars and busses completely, and having all the streets covered, running with PRT tracks above, and moving walkways below. Basically turn the whole 10 square miles (or whatever) into a massive mall. Building operators could pay for PRT stations on the side of their towers - you could even have multiple levels so you could go to "Canary Wharf floor 12", you could have extensions out of town to large carparks too. London would become a showpiece for PRT, and everyone would be able to go where they want, when they want, 24 hours a day, without having to put up with drolling drunks next to them on the ride home.
Of course that involved massive forward thinking, something the status quo doesnt like. It would get rid of a lot of jobs too (bus drivers for one), which means Ken would lose votes.
the U.S. has a limitation of 2 lane roads? Make them one way, bus lane in one lane, normal traffic on the other (or just have bus lanes only like many roads)
Yeah, we have them in almost all British cities - they're called BUS LANES, not exactly hard to do.
it's the power of the moon. Or strictly, the earth-moon gravitational field.
Well the sun has an effect too
The tidal mill produces 300-kilowatts of electricity - enough to power 30 Norwegian houses or 60-80 British homes
Or half of a slashdotters basement
But thats not an underwater one - well obviously some of it is underwater, but its still has a visual impact
Or have the raid array stored 5 miles away on another part of the national grid (with its own UPS obviously) connected via wlan.
But it accelerated away from the first space craft, who's clock was going slower then earths (from an observer outside the solar system). Surely by accelerating away from the spacecraft your clock will be slow relative to that spacecraft.
Yes. Or If I'm on the spacecraft and someone on earth sees me at 0.9c, and I launch another clock back to earth at the same speed, that clock is accelerating away from me, so should be going slower then me (who is already slower then earth). However it is not moving relative to earth, so should be going at the same speed of earth? Shouldnt it?
Actually its more like $15 an hour at the moment. Get a job at a TV station.
The clock on galileo is pretty much the same as the clock on earth isn't it - after all it was only traveling at 0.00004c. If I flew out there in my fast space ship, I know my clock will change, but I can reset it to "Earth time" when I get to galeleo as
1) I can see the time on earth (big telescope), and know how far in light seconds I am away
2) I can see the time on galileo which is the time on earth give or take a nanosecond.
However, why am I flying towards galileo? Time goes slow for me because I'm moving from galileo's POV, but from my POV galileo is flying towards me. Yeah I know its the twins paradox, but I never understood the resolving of it
Relativity is fun, innit?
No
So a "bajillion" is arround 2000?
CD's are not good for backing up - if you have a 100GB hard drive you need arround 150CDs. Lets say you can burn a CD in 5 minutes (allowing time for coasters), that takes 12 hours of your time, cost arround $50 for the CD's, and at $20 an hour $240 for your time. That 100GB file server starts looking more tempting.
Of course if you're going for a file server, you should be going for a fast box with gigE, booting off a CD into RAM, and 8 200GB or 300GB hard drives, giving you between 1.5 and 2.5TB of readilly available storage, should cost more then $3000 even with a top of the line processer and a gig of ram.
Obviously HDD's crash, so have them as a raid array - Still get 1.2TB of data on there, for $2.50 a gig. More expensive then DVDR or CD, but more convienent, and a lot cooler when you can answer "how much disk space you got" with terrabytes.
This is what I dont get about light cones and relativity. We know that the probe will hit jupiter at ~ 19:00GMT, however we cant see it happen until nearly an hour later. Does this mean it doesnt happen until nearer 20:00GMT? Is it something to do with Scrodinger's cat? Because theres no way for us to know its not hit the planet does it mean it hasn't?
Trademarks are actually good. It ensures that when you buy a big mac, you know you are getting a cheap piece of meat which may have some beef in it, a dolop of saliva, and service without a smile. Trademarks are there for consumer protection as much as anything.
Next thing you know, someone's going to start charging for Linux.
Or International Standard country codes.
Ahh.
Make a worm which replaces the windows install with a linux one :D
Seriously, I didnt get a single lovebug, or andythign like that. The only thing I've ever got is one copy of sircam.
I've had 350 of this bugger though. So much for being unnafected running linux - 50MB in 24 hours is arround 600bytes per second. I feal for the dialup user.
Sure I can filter them, but only after they get to my inbox.
Why is it up to the givernment to judge someones qualifications? Remoe the need for visas altogether
I rarely get worms - I had no lovebug and only one sircam (a spanish one). I've had 12 in the last couple of hours though.
As for where to send the bill, you could argue to send it to Microsoft (If ford released a car that suddenly exploded you'd sue them wouldnt you?), or you could argue you sue the people that got infected. Of course, if they have the right to send you an email you cant really sue them.
It's tricky.
So whats 2^40/50/60?
Tibi, Petbi? Exbi?
Yeah, and its a right bugger at 300k/message. Over a 600k cable modem its annoying, but imagine the pain when people on dialups find 100 in their inbox.
No nigerian scam messages for me, but I did get a South African one. Spam assassin doesnt recognise them, but does flag MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE. Shame kmail doesnt allow delete from server on its filters.