In Sweden it is crime watching adult or cartoon porn, if the person portrayed appears to under 18 or is supposed to be under 18. Sweden is not exactly known for its sanity in sexual crime laws.
Lisa Simpson is over 18 now. Which is a good job, as I'm sure people in Sweden have seen the London 2012 logo.
Sounds pretty dumb if no-one had actually noticed that a getaway had ever taken place.
Here's a hypothetical
1) Man collects child porn, or just browses occasionally 2) Wife finds out 3) Man denies all knowledge - "it just appeared there, someone must have broken into my computer" 4) Wife doesn't believe him 5) Man reports it to the police to prove how serious he is 6) Police and social workers see right through it, but lack concrete evidence 7) We get to this situation
I'm not saying that's what happened, but it's a theory that fits the (very few) facts that have been reported.
Just about any modern editing software can read VOB files these days, once they've been ripped. Even Premiere can take a DVD and turn it into about any format you like.
I was wondering who they hired. All the newspapers are scrambling as if his internet "thingy" sprung up overnight to do this. all the media groups are doing this right now in a desperate attempt to stay relevant.
Sadly it's too late. A lot of people getting their news online already found the news sources that get the scoop on the traditional news outlets hours and even days before. I get a kick watching a news item hit the net and then slowly spread across all the sites during the day. Or hearing fro a Co-worker that X just happened! and I reply, no it happened this morning, and I read about it while I was ditching the boss for the 8am meeting.
Hope you milk them for all you can Taco! Because you just joined a sinking ship as the head bucket manager of the bailing team.
I get a kick out of watching a news story hit the net, spread fast and wide, then get debunked later by the uncool old media. Sadly "Breaking news Obama dead" gets more attention than the rebuttal when a real journalist actually bothers to check the sources.
Sadly uncool old media has suffered from massive budget cuts, while being under pressure to be first to break. It's harder for them to get past the PR, spin, exaggeration and lies to the truth.
Personally I'd rather have a decent indepth real news report on newsnight, or the bbc's features page, than another "breaking news Lady Gagas cat has died" tweet.
Supported another year on the desktop, 3 more on the server (I've still got some 8.04 servers there that I'll be bringing up to 12.04 over the next 6 months)
Some code I knocked up a few months ago had a problem with the leap-day just gone.
Difference being, that script wasn't meant to run for more than a few days, was knocked up in an hour, was untested, and didn't run anything critical at all (it moved scanned PDF files into an archive folder for a scanner used by precisely two people).
Seriously, Microsoft, you have a system that you expect government to use and you can't even work around a leap-day in advance?
I had some code which I wrote in 2009 which used an old version of an internal library which itself used a built-in apache-commons lib. The code I had was meant to be replaced 6 months later, but never was in once case. The internal library was replaces 12 months later, but never was. Globally I had 98 servers running the new code, and 1 which hadn't been upgraded.
TSA serves an important function, i.e. keeping terrorists off our airplanes!
Actually since I bought my new rucksack there have been no terrorists board a plane in the U.S.
Therefore my rucksack is keeping terrorists off airplanes
Preventing them from doing their jobs is a recipe for disaster.
I'm usually pro-civil liberties, and I think DHS banning the UK teens for their tweets was stupid, but TSA does an important job, and they are worried about your safety, not getting their jollies by feeling up people. Do you think the same of your doctor?
My doctor feels me for my safety.
You are alleging that TSA feel me up for the safety of others, not mine. Unless you're suggesting they're looking for a bomb that's been strapped to me without my knowledge?
Oh, yeah, the radiation issue.
Equivalent to 3 MINUTES OF FLIGHT. So if it scares you don't fly, or live in Denver or anywhere above sea level!
If the scanners are calibrated, if the dose is even, if the scanners are operated by trained radiographers.
Mailinator can achieve high compression rates because most people use it for registration emails. Those mails differ from each other in only a few words, making the data set highly redundant, and easily compressible.
Which reminds me, Facebook is backed up onto a single LTO-5
Only once have you actually seen sound depicted in space? And you say you've seen a *lot* of scifi? I've seen sound depicted in Star Trek and Star Wars, not to mention hundreds of other shows and movies. Firefly stands out from the crowd because it's the only one I can think of which actually depicted no sound at all in space.
Firefly didn't have sound, but Serenity did:(
Sure, the viewer hears sound, but there's no evidence that the characters can hear the sound
Or do you perhaps mean conversation? In that case, Spaceballs is the only one I can think of where characters actually carried out a conversation in space, without the benefit of space suits or any kind of environmental protection.
Any time you are driving on surface streets (hate that term), you soon learn to "drive the stop-lights" by looking ahead a block or two. Its not that hard, and even when you can't see the lights driving just about the speed limit will be close enough to get you 5 greens out of 6 tries.
That being said, anything that can guarantee more greens is welcome, but putting it in cars seems the wrong approach. If the stop lights just talked to each other you would have enough info. When Stoplight A can't clear its queue in the allotted green, you can pretty much bet stoplight B won't be able to do so when that slug of cars reaches it.
In most cases the problem is dumb signals, hold overs from the Pleistocene, with no attempt to make traffic efficient.
Despite driving to hit a green wave (which usually means the speed limit), I get idiots overtaking, then having to stop to wait at the light. I approach just as the light goes green, but have to slow down as these idiots accelerate.
They've been removed from Heathrow now (at least T5, the BA one). I believe Manchester is the only ones left.
As I understand it, only the X-ray systems have been removed (except in Manchester). The L3 and Smiths detection (millimeter wave) scanners are still very much authorized for use at LHR.
There isn't one at T5-South (where I normally pass through -- nearer the lounge), as it used to be a radiation booth. I'm fairly sure it's been removed from T5 north too.
Personally I'm fine with making everyone passing through, or working at, or in charge of (up to the politicians), to be naked. Assuming they increase the temperature first. I'm not fine with recalibrated machines whose sole purpose is to fire an unknown quantity of ionising radiation at you.
i can't f'ing believe this crap.. is it ever going to end?? i have a worrisome feeling that mankind's inalienable rights, the ones the US founding fathers identified, will eventually be completely squished under a boot of tyranny. I mean every year there's a relentless assault on it. It's starting to feel like we're all huddled inside the Alamo. Except there's no Texian Army to avenge it.
You are an american, and you believe that mankind has specific inalienable rights. That's fine. The rest of the world may disagree, or broadly agree, but disagree to some parts (the right to bear arms for example). I'm certain that the rest of the world couldn't give a monkeys about the 10th amendment for example, but are much more concerned about the right not to be owned -- something that your founding fathers didn't identify.
Your precious founding fathers didn't enshrine a right to privacy. Doesn't mean it's not an inalienable right. Perhaps people in Europe have different opinions.
Exactly my first impression too.So, in one sentence, EVERYTHING IS ALREADY MONITORED. Even google, the moment you google: bl%^$&^%$&%^$& the motherfuckers, and you are suspect zero.
So am I going to guantanamo for saying "Fuck the US president" ?
Not just profiling. Grossly lazy policing. It seems that many places in the world the police are simply getting lazier and stupider.
Not just policing. Journalism is my bugbear. Years ago journalists would check facts spouted out by companies, but now PR has one, they just say "xxx has released a new widgit which 'cures cancer', according to their spokesperson joe bloggs"
In the past a quick call to a reputable scientific contact would have scrubbed the story. Nowadays they don't have the time or budget to make reputable contacts, so the PR dross becomes news.
He said "exploser" which is French for "explode", which he interprets as "succeed" or "blow them away". I am originally from France and I can't say I'm familiar with that specific wording, but that's how I would interpret it myself if I ever received such a message from a co-worker (unless of course I was a terrorist, in which case context means everything).
If I were a terrorist, I'd say something like "The pig is in the poke"
But then terrorists are usually dumb. They just have excellent lobbyists telling them what to do and excellent PR firms to spin what they do for the general public.
(A terrorist being someone that incites terror in the country. Paul Dacre is one of the biggest ones in the UK)
Unless every read does a checksum ( they don't or it would kill performance ) then there is still the possibility of a silent read corruption. At 70TB it would be rare, but not as rare as many would think and would depend on the sector size and checksum on the individual drives.
Ideally you'd have something like zfs's scrubbing in the background. Or keep it in the application level (the application stores metadata about the files, may as wel throw in a checksum on create, then have a background checker), however a 1 bit error in an mpeg file isn't important.
And when you're creating and destroying data at multi-gigabit speed, how do you perform backups?
A certain amount of the banks money it lends comes from money that banks get from it's customers
A bank starts with borrowing 10x$100 bills from "the Fed" The bank lends Joe 10x$100 bills Joe pays Steve 10x$100 bills Steve puts those 10x$100 bills in the bank Jane borrows 10x$100 bills Jane pays Steve 10x$100 bills Steve puts those 10x$100 bills in the bank
The bank is owed 20x$100 bills from Jane and Joe The bank owes 20x$100 bills to Steve and 10x$100 bills to "the Fed"
The bank has borrowed more money than exists in the world ($1k from the Fed, $2k from Steve)
There would still be a gateway. There would still be a firewall. From an external point of view, the only visible difference is the number of IPs that route through the GW.
Imagine I accidently set all the rules on my firewall to "allow"
With nat, i've given access to my firewall, hopefully secured with a password
With a normal router, I've given access to every desktop machine there is.
NAT is a second layer of protection beyond the firewall
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"Free BJs for Life" coupon coming his way from his wife.
I don't know how they do it in your country, but I don't recall ever paying my wife for a blow job.
In Sweden it is crime watching adult or cartoon porn, if the person portrayed appears to under 18 or is supposed to be under 18. Sweden is not exactly known for its sanity in sexual crime laws.
Lisa Simpson is over 18 now. Which is a good job, as I'm sure people in Sweden have seen the London 2012 logo.
Sounds pretty dumb if no-one had actually noticed that a getaway had ever taken place.
Here's a hypothetical
1) Man collects child porn, or just browses occasionally
2) Wife finds out
3) Man denies all knowledge - "it just appeared there, someone must have broken into my computer"
4) Wife doesn't believe him
5) Man reports it to the police to prove how serious he is
6) Police and social workers see right through it, but lack concrete evidence
7) We get to this situation
I'm not saying that's what happened, but it's a theory that fits the (very few) facts that have been reported.
Just about any modern editing software can read VOB files these days, once they've been ripped. Even Premiere can take a DVD and turn it into about any format you like.
Not ones with CSS. Not legally anyway.
I was wondering who they hired. All the newspapers are scrambling as if his internet "thingy" sprung up overnight to do this. all the media groups are doing this right now in a desperate attempt to stay relevant.
Sadly it's too late. A lot of people getting their news online already found the news sources that get the scoop on the traditional news outlets hours and even days before. I get a kick watching a news item hit the net and then slowly spread across all the sites during the day. Or hearing fro a Co-worker that X just happened! and I reply, no it happened this morning, and I read about it while I was ditching the boss for the 8am meeting.
Hope you milk them for all you can Taco! Because you just joined a sinking ship as the head bucket manager of the bailing team.
I get a kick out of watching a news story hit the net, spread fast and wide, then get debunked later by the uncool old media. Sadly "Breaking news Obama dead" gets more attention than the rebuttal when a real journalist actually bothers to check the sources.
Sadly uncool old media has suffered from massive budget cuts, while being under pressure to be first to break. It's harder for them to get past the PR, spin, exaggeration and lies to the truth.
Personally I'd rather have a decent indepth real news report on newsnight, or the bbc's features page, than another "breaking news Lady Gagas cat has died" tweet.
10.10 updates will expire when 12.04 is released, and I'll finally be forced to use Gnome3 or switch distros. I'm thinking Arch or Fedora with XFCE.
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS"
Supported another year on the desktop, 3 more on the server (I've still got some 8.04 servers there that I'll be bringing up to 12.04 over the next 6 months)
Some code I knocked up a few months ago had a problem with the leap-day just gone.
Difference being, that script wasn't meant to run for more than a few days, was knocked up in an hour, was untested, and didn't run anything critical at all (it moved scanned PDF files into an archive folder for a scanner used by precisely two people).
Seriously, Microsoft, you have a system that you expect government to use and you can't even work around a leap-day in advance?
I had some code which I wrote in 2009 which used an old version of an internal library which itself used a built-in apache-commons lib. The code I had was meant to be replaced 6 months later, but never was in once case. The internal library was replaces 12 months later, but never was. Globally I had 98 servers running the new code, and 1 which hadn't been upgraded.
TSA serves an important function, i.e. keeping terrorists off our airplanes!
Actually since I bought my new rucksack there have been no terrorists board a plane in the U.S.
Therefore my rucksack is keeping terrorists off airplanes
Preventing them from doing their jobs is a recipe for disaster.
I'm usually pro-civil liberties, and I think DHS banning the UK teens for their tweets was stupid, but TSA does an important job, and they are worried about your safety, not getting their jollies by feeling up people. Do you think the same of your doctor?
My doctor feels me for my safety.
You are alleging that TSA feel me up for the safety of others, not mine. Unless you're suggesting they're looking for a bomb that's been strapped to me without my knowledge?
Oh, yeah, the radiation issue.
Equivalent to 3 MINUTES OF FLIGHT. So if it scares you don't fly, or live in Denver or anywhere above sea level!
If the scanners are calibrated, if the dose is even, if the scanners are operated by trained radiographers.
Mailinator can achieve high compression rates because most people use it for registration emails. Those mails differ from each other in only a few words, making the data set highly redundant, and easily compressible.
Which reminds me, Facebook is backed up onto a single LTO-5
You can call it what it really is:
No Child Permitted to Excel
Good, if we must indoctrinate them in spreadsheets it should be an open-source one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_bono
Heh, I always thought that term was a collaboration between a Japaneese electronic/media firm and a U2 singer
Only once have you actually seen sound depicted in space? And you say you've seen a *lot* of scifi? I've seen sound depicted in Star Trek and Star Wars, not to mention hundreds of other shows and movies. Firefly stands out from the crowd because it's the only one I can think of which actually depicted no sound at all in space.
Firefly didn't have sound, but Serenity did :(
Sure, the viewer hears sound, but there's no evidence that the characters can hear the sound
Or do you perhaps mean conversation? In that case, Spaceballs is the only one I can think of where characters actually carried out a conversation in space, without the benefit of space suits or any kind of environmental protection.
Any time you are driving on surface streets (hate that term), you soon learn to "drive the stop-lights" by looking ahead a block or two. Its
not that hard, and even when you can't see the lights driving just about the speed limit will be close enough to get you 5 greens out of 6 tries.
That being said, anything that can guarantee more greens is welcome, but putting it in cars seems the wrong approach. If the stop lights just
talked to each other you would have enough info. When Stoplight A can't clear its queue in the allotted green, you can pretty much bet stoplight B won't be able to do so when that slug of cars reaches it.
In most cases the problem is dumb signals, hold overs from the Pleistocene, with no attempt to make traffic efficient.
Despite driving to hit a green wave (which usually means the speed limit), I get idiots overtaking, then having to stop to wait at the light. I approach just as the light goes green, but have to slow down as these idiots accelerate.
As I understand it, only the X-ray systems have been removed (except in Manchester). The L3 and Smiths detection (millimeter wave) scanners are still very much authorized for use at LHR.
There isn't one at T5-South (where I normally pass through -- nearer the lounge), as it used to be a radiation booth. I'm fairly sure it's been removed from T5 north too.
Personally I'm fine with making everyone passing through, or working at, or in charge of (up to the politicians), to be naked. Assuming they increase the temperature first. I'm not fine with recalibrated machines whose sole purpose is to fire an unknown quantity of ionising radiation at you.
You're making the assumption that the machines are configured / calibrated correctly. I've seen no evidence to indicate that's a valid assumption.
Really, they're operated by trained radiographers though, who wear dosimeters to ensure there's no unusually high radiation levels.
Aren't they?
Or Great Britain. Which is why for my trip to Europe next year, I will not be flying through LHR.
They've been removed from Heathrow now (at least T5, the BA one). I believe Manchester is the only ones left.
I've also had MMW scans at DME in Moscow, and Erez on the Gaza/Israel border.
Obviously always opt out in the U.S.
i can't f'ing believe this crap .. is it ever going to end??
i have a worrisome feeling that mankind's inalienable rights, the ones the US founding fathers identified, will eventually be completely squished under a boot of tyranny. I mean every year there's a relentless assault on it. It's starting to feel like we're all huddled inside the Alamo. Except there's no Texian Army to avenge it.
You are an american, and you believe that mankind has specific inalienable rights. That's fine. The rest of the world may disagree, or broadly agree, but disagree to some parts (the right to bear arms for example). I'm certain that the rest of the world couldn't give a monkeys about the 10th amendment for example, but are much more concerned about the right not to be owned -- something that your founding fathers didn't identify.
Your precious founding fathers didn't enshrine a right to privacy. Doesn't mean it's not an inalienable right. Perhaps people in Europe have different opinions.
Your constitution isn't perfect.
Exactly my first impression too.So, in one sentence, EVERYTHING IS ALREADY MONITORED. Even google, the moment you google: bl%^$&^%$&%^$& the motherfuckers, and you are suspect zero.
So am I going to guantanamo for saying "Fuck the US president" ?
Monica?
Not just profiling. Grossly lazy policing. It seems that many places in the world the police are simply getting lazier and stupider.
Not just policing. Journalism is my bugbear. Years ago journalists would check facts spouted out by companies, but now PR has one, they just say "xxx has released a new widgit which 'cures cancer', according to their spokesperson joe bloggs"
In the past a quick call to a reputable scientific contact would have scrubbed the story. Nowadays they don't have the time or budget to make reputable contacts, so the PR dross becomes news.
I imagine it's the same for the police.
He said "exploser" which is French for "explode", which he interprets as "succeed" or "blow them away". I am originally from France and I can't say I'm familiar with that specific wording, but that's how I would interpret it myself if I ever received such a message from a co-worker (unless of course I was a terrorist, in which case context means everything).
If I were a terrorist, I'd say something like "The pig is in the poke"
But then terrorists are usually dumb. They just have excellent lobbyists telling them what to do and excellent PR firms to spin what they do for the general public.
(A terrorist being someone that incites terror in the country. Paul Dacre is one of the biggest ones in the UK)
Unless every read does a checksum ( they don't or it would kill performance ) then there is still the possibility of a silent read corruption. At 70TB it would be rare, but not as rare as many would think and would depend on the sector size and checksum on the individual drives.
Ideally you'd have something like zfs's scrubbing in the background. Or keep it in the application level (the application stores metadata about the files, may as wel throw in a checksum on create, then have a background checker), however a 1 bit error in an mpeg file isn't important.
And when you're creating and destroying data at multi-gigabit speed, how do you perform backups?
My wife dropped hers from chest height, (Probably around 4 feet, she's a fairly tall woman) onto a a train track rail
And a train ran over it?
A certain amount of the banks money it lends comes from money that banks get from it's customers
A bank starts with borrowing 10x$100 bills from "the Fed"
The bank lends Joe 10x$100 bills
Joe pays Steve 10x$100 bills
Steve puts those 10x$100 bills in the bank
Jane borrows 10x$100 bills
Jane pays Steve 10x$100 bills
Steve puts those 10x$100 bills in the bank
The bank is owed 20x$100 bills from Jane and Joe
The bank owes 20x$100 bills to Steve and 10x$100 bills to "the Fed"
The bank has borrowed more money than exists in the world ($1k from the Fed, $2k from Steve)
Paying cash for cars is certainly realistic, if you don't fall for the shiny. We've worked our way up to a nice SUV.
I tend to pay by cheque, or debit card, I don't like walking around with £1000 in cash.
There would still be a gateway. There would still be a firewall. From an external point of view, the only visible difference is the number of IPs that route through the GW.
Imagine I accidently set all the rules on my firewall to "allow"
With nat, i've given access to my firewall, hopefully secured with a password
With a normal router, I've given access to every desktop machine there is.
NAT is a second layer of protection beyond the firewall