Imagine the police attaching one to the car of a suspect. Technology providing yet another way for our rights to be violated.
They've been bugging cars for years. When was the last time you, as an innocent person, checked under your car for a bug with a 5 mile radius, allowing tracking wherever you are.
Of course the criminals will check...
More worrying is every object you own will have a gps in, no doubt to elp locating when it gets stolen. Got a watch? it has a bug in. Pen? Phone? Beer bottle? It'd be "enemy of the state", but for real.
Along with every bit of digital information you own tagged, the only freedom you'll have is that of your mind. And how long will that last?
A consultant pointed out that while the PRT system had been fun, it would have been substantially cheaper to simply buy every student and staff member of WVU a new car every two years. (My stepfather was the smart-aleck consultant.) /me shifts 15 bottles of bud from infront of kbd so i appologise for spelling mistakes.
Here in the UK, we have major transport problems. I live in the north west and go to uni in the south west, however I still apreciate the problems of routes into london. With rail transport dying, the manchester metro at least 5 years behind schedule (from plans I saw in 1995 at least) and it being cheaper to taxi rather then bus from exeter uni campus to exeter town centre, and faster to walk, there is a need for a new transport system.
money isn't the only factor. And yes, over a time scale of 2 years, it may be more feasable to invest in 10,000 second hand cars. But the vast majority of people causing problems in the rail/road/air infrastructuure have cars. as said in the article mentioned on the original post, this system can provide motorway (3 lane 70mph legal, 110 typical fast, 90 typical most - mainly car transport system) capacity for 1/4 of the space and 1/10 of the cost. Also its pretty cool. I'd use my bike a lot more at home if I could travel the 15 miles to the nearest big city (manchester), or 6 miles to the nearest town (earrington), then bike around there. I bike a lot around exeter as I live within a mile of everywhere apart from the supermarket (which wouldnt be a good bike trip - last shopping load almost took 2 trips in a micra.
If you own the www.foobar.com domain, then you get email and a website to boot. If you dont own the domain you could get bob@foobar.com but the owner can stop you any time, increase charges etc. You are tied into one vendor. Same if you have a hotmail or yahoo address (not to mention the advertising that gets embedded in your outgoing mail and spam that gets into your inbox).
AOL arent going out of buisness, but if they put there price up you are locked in to them unless you spend a lot of time informing everyone that may want to contact you of your new address.
There is a new (this week I believe) domain heierarchy in the uk come in this week -.me.uk. Designed specifically for joe bloggs. Perhaps there should be a ".me.us" as well, but until then (and until.me.uk gets to a reasonable price in june), people will continue to register domain names for personal use the same way they keep the same phone number when changing mobile providers.
People want consitency, they dont want to be locked to the same vendor.
I'm not trying to make the web corporate here, or keep individual voices off, but couldn't the Dork Family put their loser pictures up at "earthlink.net/thedorkfamily/vacation" or whatever? Why do they need a domain for that?
Because that ties them to one ISP for the rest of their lives. Think about hte effort of changing your phone number, or moving house. With email its just as hard, if not harder, same with the web. I want to give an email addresss out to someone and not get an email 6 months later saying "Hey, do you want that job we talked about?" because I moved to a cheaper ISP? With my own domain name I can move it wherever I want (or just point to another email/website).
On top of that It'd have to play DVD's, MP3 CD's, VCD's and svcds to comete with my £90 dvd player. Oh and not use much power, be 100% stable and urn on in less then a second!
in the mid 1980's one bank inserted a sentence in the midst of its disclosure statement offering ten dollars to anyone who sent in a postcard with the words "Regulation E" on it. Out of 115,000 recipients of the statement not one responded.
Heh, imagine that now. With email and the internet that bank would have been out $1,000,000 no problem.
unless Katz is just trying to rile up some responses.
Say it aint so!
Apple brought the GUI, the floppy, easy networking, design, USB, etc., to the mass market, and now has brought Unix to the masses as well (and it's partially open sourced).
Yup, i'm seriously considering getting a mac for video editing.
Example: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back won't be released in Australian theaters until March. The Region 1 DVD comes out in February.
Perhaps they should release in austrailia then! This is [one of the] reasons that people buy region free dvd players, and download coppies from the internet. Hell people do it with TV programs.
When the shoe's on the other foot of course (SG1 is shown in the UK ahead of the USA), you amerians dont like it. I dont blame you - I boycotted the BBC for a year after finding Red Dwarf Series 8 was shown in canada before the UK.
Thats it Taco, way to go and vote with your dollars, show microsoft you dont support their actions by buying there stuff!
But I still am tempted to get an MSX-Box if only to handle my DOA addiction.
Oh, well thats ok then, I forgive you, after all if you dont buy this console and give money to the proverbial devil, you'll die as you dont get to play some game!
Do many companies still operate flexitime? I can usually cope with being awake for a couple of hours between 9AM and 5PM - so I can sbe there for meetings.
With no time constraints (i.e. only boring lectures), I tend to drift from living a "normal life" for Moscow (GMT+4), then round the clock to Alaska (GMT-9), then up all night and back to moscow time (I live in the UK, GMT).
The digital data is PAL? News to me, and my computer (which doesnt use PAL or NTSC). The standalone player may very well output PAL only, or it may autoswitch, but just looking at a few of my region 2 dvd's, no mention of PAL on there at all. If he does use his old dvd player then he'll have problems unless he runs it through a cheap video with ntsc or pal inputs and ntsc output. Sell your dvd and TV here in europe and get a multi regional one in the US - if you cant find one tide yourself over with a DVD rom and set it to region 2.
Sites like linuxnewbie.org, linuxquestions.org, linuxjunior.org, linuxorbit.[com || org], etc. Wont tell you to RTFM, at least without pointing you to it (usually a nice vesion of man, like an NHF or PET). Check them out.
Emailing billg@microsoft.com saying "windows just went blue and had wierd writing and I lost my work" isnt going to get you far is it?
#linuxnewbie or #linuxnewbies probably exists on all [major] irc networks, try there.
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Imagine the police attaching one to the car of a suspect. Technology providing yet another way for our rights to be violated.
They've been bugging cars for years. When was the last time you, as an innocent person, checked under your car for a bug with a 5 mile radius, allowing tracking wherever you are.
Of course the criminals will check...
More worrying is every object you own will have a gps in, no doubt to elp locating when it gets stolen. Got a watch? it has a bug in. Pen? Phone? Beer bottle? It'd be "enemy of the state", but for real.
Along with every bit of digital information you own tagged, the only freedom you'll have is that of your mind. And how long will that last?
Yup, about the 11th December
A consultant pointed out that while the PRT system had been fun, it would have been substantially cheaper to simply buy every student and staff member of WVU a new car every two years. (My stepfather was the smart-aleck consultant.)
/me shifts 15 bottles of bud from infront of kbd so i appologise for spelling mistakes.
Here in the UK, we have major transport problems. I live in the north west and go to uni in the south west, however I still apreciate the problems of routes into london. With rail transport dying, the manchester metro at least 5 years behind schedule (from plans I saw in 1995 at least) and it being cheaper to taxi rather then bus from exeter uni campus to exeter town centre, and faster to walk, there is a need for a new transport system.
money isn't the only factor. And yes, over a time scale of 2 years, it may be more feasable to invest in 10,000 second hand cars. But the vast majority of people causing problems in the rail/road/air infrastructuure have cars. as said in the article mentioned on the original post, this system can provide motorway (3 lane 70mph legal, 110 typical fast, 90 typical most - mainly car transport system) capacity for 1/4 of the space and 1/10 of the cost. Also its pretty cool. I'd use my bike a lot more at home if I could travel the 15 miles to the nearest big city (manchester), or 6 miles to the nearest town (earrington), then bike around there. I bike a lot around exeter as I live within a mile of everywhere apart from the supermarket (which wouldnt be a good bike trip - last shopping load almost took 2 trips in a micra.
you made beer come out of my nose!
*sigh*
.me.uk. Designed specifically for joe bloggs. Perhaps there should be a ".me.us" as well, but until then (and until .me.uk gets to a reasonable price in june), people will continue to register domain names for personal use the same way they keep the same phone number when changing mobile providers.
If you own the www.foobar.com domain, then you get email and a website to boot. If you dont own the domain you could get bob@foobar.com but the owner can stop you any time, increase charges etc. You are tied into one vendor. Same if you have a hotmail or yahoo address (not to mention the advertising that gets embedded in your outgoing mail and spam that gets into your inbox).
AOL arent going out of buisness, but if they put there price up you are locked in to them unless you spend a lot of time informing everyone that may want to contact you of your new address.
There is a new (this week I believe) domain heierarchy in the uk come in this week -
People want consitency, they dont want to be locked to the same vendor.
I'm not trying to make the web corporate here, or keep individual voices off, but couldn't the Dork Family put their loser pictures up at "earthlink.net/thedorkfamily/vacation" or whatever? Why do they need a domain for that?
Because that ties them to one ISP for the rest of their lives. Think about hte effort of changing your phone number, or moving house. With email its just as hard, if not harder, same with the web. I want to give an email addresss out to someone and not get an email 6 months later saying "Hey, do you want that job we talked about?" because I moved to a cheaper ISP? With my own domain name I can move it wherever I want (or just point to another email/website).
On top of that It'd have to play DVD's, MP3 CD's, VCD's and svcds to comete with my £90 dvd player. Oh and not use much power, be 100% stable and urn on in less then a second!
in the mid 1980's one bank inserted a sentence in the midst of its disclosure statement offering ten dollars to anyone who sent in a postcard with the words "Regulation E" on it. Out of 115,000 recipients of the statement not one responded.
Heh, imagine that now. With email and the internet that bank would have been out $1,000,000 no problem.
Post:
without scavenging existing hardware, where does one go to obtain jumpers?
Your response:
I always just rumaged through severely decrepid and archaic computer parts and ripped the jumpers off of them.
hmm. Read the post or just reply after the first 3 lines?
unless Katz is just trying to rile up some responses.
Say it aint so!
Apple brought the GUI, the floppy, easy networking, design, USB, etc., to the mass market, and now has brought Unix to the masses as well (and it's partially open sourced).
Yup, i'm seriously considering getting a mac for video editing.
Example: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back won't be released in Australian theaters until March. The Region 1 DVD comes out in February.
Perhaps they should release in austrailia then! This is [one of the] reasons that people buy region free dvd players, and download coppies from the internet. Hell people do it with TV programs.
When the shoe's on the other foot of course (SG1 is shown in the UK ahead of the USA), you amerians dont like it. I dont blame you - I boycotted the BBC for a year after finding Red Dwarf Series 8 was shown in canada before the UK.
And Galaxy quest
charge on neurons per second per personality per person.
I feel sorry for people with 500 multiple personalities.
On a voyage to goatse.cx!
Thats it Taco, way to go and vote with your dollars, show microsoft you dont support their actions by buying there stuff!
But I still am tempted to get an MSX-Box if only to handle my DOA addiction.
Oh, well thats ok then, I forgive you, after all if you dont buy this console and give money to the proverbial devil, you'll die as you dont get to play some game!
A few months ago I was introduced to Latex.
Another geek gets laid!
:)
Do many companies still operate flexitime? I can usually cope with being awake for a couple of hours between 9AM and 5PM - so I can sbe there for meetings.
With no time constraints (i.e. only boring lectures), I tend to drift from living a "normal life" for Moscow (GMT+4), then round the clock to Alaska (GMT-9), then up all night and back to moscow time (I live in the UK, GMT).
Occasionally I find I can cope with
awake: 4AM - 2PM [10 hours]
Asleep 2PM - 5PM [5 hours]
Awake 5PM - 12AM [7 hours]
Asleep 12AM - 4AM [4 hours]
My days always seem longer, but then I get a lot more work done when no one is around, and in a student environment, that means between 4AM and 8AM.
I always feel rested too hvaing gone to bed at midnight.
The only reason she might delay her flight is if you are boarding the plane.
thats funny, not troll! sheesh, [some] mods today...
That looks like a T with an o right beside it...
:)
Commonly known as the word "to"
Ahh, but when will it hit.
Oh shit, just happened.
The digital data is PAL? News to me, and my computer (which doesnt use PAL or NTSC). The standalone player may very well output PAL only, or it may autoswitch, but just looking at a few of my region 2 dvd's, no mention of PAL on there at all. If he does use his old dvd player then he'll have problems unless he runs it through a cheap video with ntsc or pal inputs and ntsc output. Sell your dvd and TV here in europe and get a multi regional one in the US - if you cant find one tide yourself over with a DVD rom and set it to region 2.
I shouldn't expect much for Christmas. This is fine, I guess I can understand if she leaves it at that, because they built a house and all that jazz.
OK
That said, I still got three new shirts, a pair of trousers, some candy, and $150. Go me!
What a selfish bastard you are, you dont think thats a lot? You are the kind of person that gives a bad name to americans!
One of the best perks about my job is the excuse to skip out and catch the first showing of Lord of the Rings at the local theater.
And that's so much better then free coffee, think about the number of times you can make use of it!
What about documenting the code?
An evil practice that should be avoided at all costs
Sites like linuxnewbie.org, linuxquestions.org, linuxjunior.org, linuxorbit.[com || org], etc. Wont tell you to RTFM, at least without pointing you to it (usually a nice vesion of man, like an NHF or PET). Check them out.
Emailing billg@microsoft.com saying "windows just went blue and had wierd writing and I lost my work" isnt going to get you far is it?
#linuxnewbie or #linuxnewbies probably exists on all [major] irc networks, try there.