You're smart person is going to look pretty dumb when he encounters and angry dumb person with a gun and a motive.
Why do angry dumb people in america have guns, and why would they shoot them? We have plenty of angry dumb people in the UK, yet very few are ever likely to shoot someone.
Well, he is a citizen. He can try to change and fix this in his country (as he does). He can't do a thing about Argentina except refusing to go back, though.
Argentina takes your fingerprints because your country takes fingerprints from their citizens.
Change your "democratic" country and problem solved.
So how exactly does taking fingerprints help with national security? I can see how it would help identify (after the fact) visitors who commit crimes, but while useful that has little to do with national security. Beyond that all I can see it doing is possibly making life difficult for any known spys or terrorists whose prints are already in the system. But frankly the spys can probably fake their fingerprints easily enough, and the terrorists are probably just as happy to use unknown stooges in their stead anyway, they were already doing just that long before any of the current security theater was put in place.
But you need to change the speed display on cars as well, or people won't honestly know if they're over the limit or not. (Don't expect average joe to multiply while driving, please, don't be THAT naive!)
Cars in the UK have had dual-dials since before I was born. I buy petrol in litres, and my car does about 45mpg, which means it's about 1/10th of the pump price per mile, so a pump price of £1.40 is 14p/mile. I drink a pint of beer and have a 16 oz steak, then go to the shop for 2 litres of milk. I buy 300 grammes of chicken for tomorrow. I weigh myself at home and I'm back over 12 stone again, have to cut down on the quarter-pound burgers and 500ml coke bottles for lunch. When I drive in Europe I know the speed limit is 130kph, which I know is 83 for some reason, but at home I know it's 112, and it's 48 in town. That's fairly irellevent as I tend to drive at 20-25 in town, and 80-90 on the motorway.
The one imperial measurement I could never get the hang of is Fahrenheit, and I only encounter that in the states. My oven goes on 180C, my microwave is 800W, my kettle runs at 13A, or about 3kW. I tend to boil about 1 litre (1kg) at a time (the gradient goes up to 1.7 from about 15C to 100C, so 85C*4kJ*1kg is about 340kJ, which takes about 2 minutes to boil at 3kj/second, plenty of time to put 1 teaspoon of instant coffee into the cup.
When that pretty blond western journalist was brutally raped in Cairo during the Egyptian uprising against Mubarak, Al Jazeera deleted all posts that mentioned it.
I'll have to take your word about Al Jazeera's censorship, but it's interesting that there's surprisingly little coverage of this case. The BBC doesn't have any mention of a british citizen being attacked in this way. it's cropped up in reputable sources (the independent and CNN), as well as the sensationalist tripe that is the daily mail. The coverage that Lara Logan got 15 months earlier was much more extensive coverage world wide, but it appears Al Jazeera didn't cover it. They later ran a story on sexual violence in Tahir Square in general, mentioning both women, linking to abc news for the Logan assault.
A lot of the blame can be put at the backwards society that prevails in the middle east and south asia, men are brought up to think of women as objects to be possessed and conquered, and they're asking for it if they're not hiding under a blanket, or dare to go out on their own. Sadly this society is infiltrating the more enlightened parts of the world, like Europe and the U.S.
We can only hope that main stream muslims will eventually grow out of these views, like christians eventually stopped genocide in south america and burning "witches"
I read Al Jazeera's English website regularly. They provide good news, good video clips, and seem right up there with the BBC or CBC for the quality of their reporting.
But unlike the BBC and CBC, a lot of their news is about Asia and Africa, areas which aren't even *mentioned* on "mainstream" channels unless there is a major disaster or a few dozen people killed.
Oddly enough, they manage to cover the world with only one front page to their website, the same screen real-estate that the other channels have.
In comparison, the BBC and CBC are "local" news channels. And the US news feeds are just a freakin' joke -- they don't cover anything that can't be directly related to US white house policy. Navel-gazing waste of time -- no wonder most Americans are so ignorant about world politics and economic issues.
The BBC gives a tailored page depending on where you're connecting from.
In the U.S. You get the U.S. front page. That's what americans want. I'm currently sat in Singapore, the stories on the front page are MAIN * Venezuela * India * Sudan
VIDEO * Spain * USA * Czech Republic * UK
Special report * arab uprisings * eurozone
Now if I go through a U.S. proxy it's similar, drops the Sudan piece for some non-news on yet-another-shooting in Colorado. The in depth reports are different though.
* Venezuela * India * Colorado
VIDEO * Venezuela * Bolivia * Denmark
SPECIAL REPORTS * China * US Election * US Sex Slaves
It's only very recently that BBC World has become more widely viewable in the u.s.,
The news is even inaccurate... Facebook didn't land him in jail, being a moron and driving drunk, then not stopping at the scene of an accident did.
Doing those things and then getting caught landed him in jail. Without blabbing on facebook he might not have been caught. As far as headlines go it's vaguely accurate.
Electricity landed him in jail. Without electricity facebook wouldn't exist, thus he wouldn't be able to brag about it and therefore get caught
His parents landed him in jail. Without them he would never be born and could not have crashed the car in the first place.
Scientology is just as legitimate a church as any other. It doesn't matter how you claim your religion started, all that really matters is that you NEVER deliver or prove any aspect of your faith. All modern organized faiths share the same aspects which are, empty words, vague expressions and no answers. Before anyone flies off the handle at me, show me one example of an organized church where the members actually get to see and interact with a real god. Not a god who you just pray to and believe in, not a god who is based off aliens, a god you can walk up to and shake the hand of.
Up until recently apple was a religion, you could shake Jobs' hand, he was worshipped as all knowing and all powerful.
Classic Shell from source forge is a great app to bring back the start menu. I used it for my desktop Win8 system and couldn't be happier. Win8 = Win7 + faster boot and some nice apps. All very cool
fair enough... i'm sure the danger is much less than if someone shot you directly
Don't buy lottery tickets today, it's just not your day. From the blurb to the article in question: "Most (77%) were hit in the head. The mortality rate was 32%, which is significantly higher than for all gunshot wound victims in general seen at the same medical center."
So if you want to celebrate your 2nd amendment rights, do a Cheney and aim at someone, rather than doing an afghan and shooting in the air?
So, you have a pointer to string S, and you want *S.length() to check whether S is null? Do you propose that all functions on null pointers return 0? If so, how would you determine if it's a null pointer, or if the answer really was 0?
...to scare away the evil spirits. "Haven't seen any this year, have you?" he would always ask. "Must have worked," he opined further. This story was told to a Mexican cabbie who in all seriousness replied that my father was being silly, and that all you had to do was throw water out the back door to scare evil spirits away for the year. Who knew?
FYI, my father was an electronics engineer whose tongue was often so far in his cheek that it might have protruded from the vulgar aperture.
Does your father realise that what comes up must come down? A bullet at terminal velocity does a lot of damage.
Back to isorox, drinkypoo and Opportunist - what kind of process do you go through when you get reconditioned computer equipment?
myke
Same as when I buy a new computer. Install an OS from scratch, which (at least for my OS) wipes the disk enough -- no need to go all writing zeros over the disk, just a quick remake of the partition table and mkfs.
Fundamentally what's the difference between watching a dvb stream over the air, and watching a Netflix program?
The fact that a Netflix subscription costs money and receiving OTA doesn't?
OTA can do, that what CAMs are for. Same as via satellite can be free.
There is no difference between my tv taking an mpeg stream via dvb over satellite and cable, atsc over terrestrial, rtp over ip, asi over a closed circuit, etc.
If your TV has an epg to select what you want, you might as well have YouTube.
Slashdot Mirror
You're smart person is going to look pretty dumb when he encounters and angry dumb person with a gun and a motive.
Why do angry dumb people in america have guns, and why would they shoot them? We have plenty of angry dumb people in the UK, yet very few are ever likely to shoot someone.
Well, he is a citizen. He can try to change and fix this in his country (as he does). He can't do a thing about Argentina except refusing to go back, though.
Argentina takes your fingerprints because your country takes fingerprints from their citizens.
Change your "democratic" country and problem solved.
So how exactly does taking fingerprints help with national security? I can see how it would help identify (after the fact) visitors who commit crimes, but while useful that has little to do with national security. Beyond that all I can see it doing is possibly making life difficult for any known spys or terrorists whose prints are already in the system. But frankly the spys can probably fake their fingerprints easily enough, and the terrorists are probably just as happy to use unknown stooges in their stead anyway, they were already doing just that long before any of the current security theater was put in place.
It identifies people travelling on stolen or borrowed passports
Or you can say pint and get a half-liter, the customer won't complain!
I certainly would. A pint is 568ml. One of the many confusing things about the imperial system -- every weight/volume is different.
Although I'd probably end up ordering a litre like a do in Germany.
But you need to change the speed display on cars as well, or people won't honestly know if they're over the limit or not.
(Don't expect average joe to multiply while driving, please, don't be THAT naive!)
Cars in the UK have had dual-dials since before I was born. I buy petrol in litres, and my car does about 45mpg, which means it's about 1/10th of the pump price per mile, so a pump price of £1.40 is 14p/mile. I drink a pint of beer and have a 16 oz steak, then go to the shop for 2 litres of milk. I buy 300 grammes of chicken for tomorrow. I weigh myself at home and I'm back over 12 stone again, have to cut down on the quarter-pound burgers and 500ml coke bottles for lunch. When I drive in Europe I know the speed limit is 130kph, which I know is 83 for some reason, but at home I know it's 112, and it's 48 in town. That's fairly irellevent as I tend to drive at 20-25 in town, and 80-90 on the motorway.
The one imperial measurement I could never get the hang of is Fahrenheit, and I only encounter that in the states. My oven goes on 180C, my microwave is 800W, my kettle runs at 13A, or about 3kW. I tend to boil about 1 litre (1kg) at a time (the gradient goes up to 1.7 from about 15C to 100C, so 85C*4kJ*1kg is about 340kJ, which takes about 2 minutes to boil at 3kj/second, plenty of time to put 1 teaspoon of instant coffee into the cup.
When that pretty blond western journalist was brutally raped in Cairo during the Egyptian uprising against Mubarak, Al Jazeera deleted all posts that mentioned it.
I assume you're on about Natasha Smith, who's recently published a piece on sexual harassment in Egypt, and the wider area. Other outlets cover the problem more generally BBC, Guardian
I'll have to take your word about Al Jazeera's censorship, but it's interesting that there's surprisingly little coverage of this case. The BBC doesn't have any mention of a british citizen being attacked in this way. it's cropped up in reputable sources (the independent and CNN), as well as the sensationalist tripe that is the daily mail. The coverage that Lara Logan got 15 months earlier was much more extensive coverage world wide, but it appears Al Jazeera didn't cover it. They later ran a story on sexual violence in Tahir Square in general, mentioning both women, linking to abc news for the Logan assault.
A lot of the blame can be put at the backwards society that prevails in the middle east and south asia, men are brought up to think of women as objects to be possessed and conquered, and they're asking for it if they're not hiding under a blanket, or dare to go out on their own. Sadly this society is infiltrating the more enlightened parts of the world, like Europe and the U.S.
We can only hope that main stream muslims will eventually grow out of these views, like christians eventually stopped genocide in south america and burning "witches"
I think it will be good to get another International news channel into the mainstream, if that is indeed what is happening.
A few weeks ago BBC World became available on Time Warner (or at least is to be avaialble)
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/12/14/bbc-world-news-and-bbc-america-expand-distribution-with-time-warner-cable/161863/
I read Al Jazeera's English website regularly. They provide good news, good video clips, and seem right up there with the BBC or CBC for the quality of their reporting.
But unlike the BBC and CBC, a lot of their news is about Asia and Africa, areas which aren't even *mentioned* on "mainstream" channels unless there is a major disaster or a few dozen people killed.
Oddly enough, they manage to cover the world with only one front page to their website, the same screen real-estate that the other channels have.
In comparison, the BBC and CBC are "local" news channels. And the US news feeds are just a freakin' joke -- they don't cover anything that can't be directly related to US white house policy. Navel-gazing waste of time -- no wonder most Americans are so ignorant about world politics and economic issues.
The BBC gives a tailored page depending on where you're connecting from.
In the U.S. You get the U.S. front page. That's what americans want. I'm currently sat in Singapore, the stories on the front page are
MAIN
* Venezuela
* India
* Sudan
VIDEO
* Spain
* USA
* Czech Republic
* UK
Special report
* arab uprisings
* eurozone
Now if I go through a U.S. proxy it's similar, drops the Sudan piece for some non-news on yet-another-shooting in Colorado. The in depth reports are different though.
* Venezuela
* India
* Colorado
VIDEO
* Venezuela
* Bolivia
* Denmark
SPECIAL REPORTS
* China
* US Election
* US Sex Slaves
It's only very recently that BBC World has become more widely viewable in the u.s.,
Except that the passenger was not present -- the offending article was in a checked bag.
an electric toothbrush began vibrating inside a bag checked onto an AirTran flight
You think baggage handlers are authorized to do anything but hit the panic button?
Every time I fly back from the states I have a note from the TSA saying they looked in my bag. They are authorised to search for vibrating objects, as well as remove and tamper with them
The news is even inaccurate... Facebook didn't land him in jail, being a moron and driving drunk, then not stopping at the scene of an accident did.
Doing those things and then getting caught landed him in jail. Without blabbing on facebook he might not have been caught. As far as headlines go it's vaguely accurate.
Electricity landed him in jail. Without electricity facebook wouldn't exist, thus he wouldn't be able to brag about it and therefore get caught
His parents landed him in jail. Without them he would never be born and could not have crashed the car in the first place.
How should a machine on the public Internet connect to one of the millions of machines behind a single IP?
You and I like this facility. For everyone else "the cloud" works fine
He did do something to stop the illegal behaviour: He didn't sell his software to them.
He should sue for copyright infringement.
Why don't the police go after Facebook? I'm sure many poker nights have been organised via the social networking site.
So in the u.s it's legal to own an assault rifle, but not play poker with a couple of mates?
My big question is what the return rate will be like. I suspect that some people are expecting a full desktop OS, like Windows.
The big question is how few will tell the difference. Apple knows this, Microsoft knows this, google knows this. Slashdot doesn't.
Scientology is just as legitimate a church as any other. It doesn't matter how you claim your religion started, all that really matters is that you NEVER deliver or prove any aspect of your faith. All modern organized faiths share the same aspects which are, empty words, vague expressions and no answers. Before anyone flies off the handle at me, show me one example of an organized church where the members actually get to see and interact with a real god. Not a god who you just pray to and believe in, not a god who is based off aliens, a god you can walk up to and shake the hand of.
Up until recently apple was a religion, you could shake Jobs' hand, he was worshipped as all knowing and all powerful.
Dosshell
Classic Shell from source forge is a great app to bring back the start menu. I used it for my desktop Win8 system and couldn't be happier. Win8 = Win7 + faster boot and some nice apps. All very cool
Classic shell is progman.exe
fair enough... i'm sure the danger is much less than if someone shot you directly
Don't buy lottery tickets today, it's just not your day.
From the blurb to the article in question:
"Most (77%) were hit in the head. The mortality rate was 32%, which is significantly higher than for all gunshot wound victims in general seen at the same medical center."
So if you want to celebrate your 2nd amendment rights, do a Cheney and aim at someone, rather than doing an afghan and shooting in the air?
So, you have a pointer to string S, and you want *S.length() to check whether S is null? Do you propose that all functions on null pointers return 0? If so, how would you determine if it's a null pointer, or if the answer really was 0?
If (s==null)
Madrid - Plaza Mayor. Kissing random Spanish women.
Well...it was fun, until I grew up and got a life.
Now, I'm sitting here talking to you fools, and watching a movie with the spouse.
Thanks, booked a ticket to Madrid for next year!
In bed by 10:00p! Staying up until midnight, the most overrated tradition ever.
Seriously, you go to bed before midnight on a normal day?
...to scare away the evil spirits. "Haven't seen any this year, have you?" he would always ask. "Must have worked," he opined further. This story was told to a Mexican cabbie who in all seriousness replied that my father was being silly, and that all you had to do was throw water out the back door to scare evil spirits away for the year. Who knew?
FYI, my father was an electronics engineer whose tongue was often so far in his cheek that it might have protruded from the vulgar aperture.
Does your father realise that what comes up must come down? A bullet at terminal velocity does a lot of damage.
Damn. If the Fins say your a bad driver
A moose!
Fair comment and I did learn from it.
Back to isorox, drinkypoo and Opportunist - what kind of process do you go through when you get reconditioned computer equipment?
myke
Same as when I buy a new computer. Install an OS from scratch, which (at least for my OS) wipes the disk enough -- no need to go all writing zeros over the disk, just a quick remake of the partition table and mkfs.
Fundamentally what's the difference between watching a dvb stream over the air, and watching a Netflix program?
The fact that a Netflix subscription costs money and receiving OTA doesn't?
OTA can do, that what CAMs are for. Same as via satellite can be free.
There is no difference between my tv taking an mpeg stream via dvb over satellite and cable, atsc over terrestrial, rtp over ip, asi over a closed circuit, etc.
If your TV has an epg to select what you want, you might as well have YouTube.
And the fact you didn't check the computer over before giving it to you daughter wasn't a problem?