Some vulnerability/user allows a virus/program to install a VNC-style thing without you knowing. If you're firewalled, no matter. If you're not, then anyone can control your computer
Friend of mine was, but remember paypal is an American company, out of UK jurisdiction.
Fortuantly she hadn't sent the goods when the chargeback occured, but she had emptied the account. She had the money in her bank account no problem. Paypal wouldn't take a credit card to put the funds back though. They wouldn't take a GBP cheque either. She had to get a friend with a U.S. Bank account to send paypal a cheque to bring her balance back up to $0.
Piracy isn't theft, as you aren't taking anything. It is, however, akin to fare dodging (off peak). If you dont buy a train ticket, the train will still run. It doesn't cost anyone anything extra (the added fuel needed because of your addedmass is negligable).
Trouble is, if everyone does it, the train doesnt make any money and then it wont run. Everyone loses.
Of course, some trains will still run out peaoples love of driving trains, but theres no guarentee it wil go when and where you need it.
a television programme service is defined as something being broadcast and received in real time or near-real time (i.e. cache delays over the internet count, but downloading from suprnova doesnt) from a UK based operator (includes sky digital, and AlJazera on the Astra 2 platform, but doesnt include Satelites that are uplinked from outside the UK by a company outside the UK jurisdiction.
And yuo think TV Licensing is complicated, just look at tax law.
Meaning of "television receiver" 9. - (1) In Part 4 of the Act (licensing of TV reception), "television receiver" means any apparatus installed or used for the purpose of receiving (whether by means of wireless telegraphy or otherwise) any television programme service, whether or not it is installed or used for any other purpose.
(2) In this regulation, any reference to receiving a television programme service includes a reference to receiving by any means any programme included in that service, where that programme is received at the same time (or virtually the same time) as it is received by members of the public by virtue of its being broadcast or distributed as part of that service.
Why do I have to prove that I am using the TV in a non-chargeable way (CCTV monitoring, or something).
You dont
Why am I guilty until proven innocent!?
You're not. The thugs at TVL might make you think that, but (as TVL evasion is a civil offence IIRC), there is a ballance of probabilities. You have a TV but no CCTV system, VCR, DVD or computer, and it's plugged into an aeriel, tuned in, and theres a copy of the radio times by the control, then you'll be found liable for the fine. Dont have an aeriel, have it wired up to CCTV, and even on the off chance the goons come round, and then get a search warrant and the police, and you'll still be found not liable.
the men hunting through the mean streets of London for rogue local oscillators are employees of the BBC
No, they're not. They do try to get you to cooperate with intimidation (although you only have to let them in if they are accompanied by police with search warrents issued by a magistrate), but they aren't BBC employees. TVL has nothing to do with the BBC any more then the NHS has anything to do with the inland revenue.
It's also illegal to download a copy of that game (which is both importing *and* copyright theft). Much better to smuggle in the real copy, then the media will know you are protesting against the ban rather then just copying it cause you want to play it.
Back the the days before the commodotiy internet, we had non networked computers. People had floppy disks to bring their files in. Those disks had viruses on.
We do have a prize for them. It's call capitalism. Develop the product and you'll get the customers. Patents ensure noone rips your idea off before you recoup R&D costs either.
They didn't get SCAR, or us news engineers, and I heard rumours that studio engineers (and equipment?) are part of resources. Selling off CCA was diabolical, but I get the feeling that TPTB didn't realise what they were doing until it was too late. I thought transmission was Crown Castle and BBC Broadcast.
The only people in Stage 6 that have moved are the server and network team. They tried to get some IT guys, but they realised Jupiter means evey PC on the news network is "broadcast equipment", and news don't want to sell that off (at least, until BH in 4 years)
The submitter isn't conducting a "revolution". He isn't throwing ship loads of games overboard because of high taxes, he's doing the equivelent of fare dodging when he could quite easilly buy a train ticket and have it posted to him.
Of course, if you equate it to a router rather then a bittorrent style thing, I assume that you'd have "common carrier" status, however I have a dim recolection of stories saying that you are personally responsible for traffic through your home connection (i.e. "I run an open WAP, all I know is the dodgy material was downloaded to MAC aa:00:bb:11:cc:22" is not an excuse)
BBC Technology (RIP) have nothing to do with Research and Design. BBCT has been a seperate (wholey owned) company, making a profit, for years. They're concerned with a lot of things, from boring PC, email, SAP maintenence, to Big Ass Satelite Dish control and signal routing.
Broadcast Equipment, (at least in News, and I think elsewhere), is looked after by a division that's still the BBC. For now.
R&D are basically a seperate department that noone else in the corporation has anything to do with. We throw money to Kingswood waren each year, and every so often they come out with a box that does some amazing things. They all play croquet too.
The BBC need the codec in order to save themselves a bucketload of cash in the future
Yet ironically we're moving some DHCP servers from linux to windows, plan to move the central image server from Linux/SGI to Windows/SGI and then finally Windows/Windows, have just implemented a multi million pound project, in java, but put in windows servers for most of it, refuse to consider Open Office, refuse to have Mozilla as part of the standard desktop (and you have to jump through hoops to "legally" install it), and have half an intranet that's unavailable to the (few) Mac, Linux and Mozilla users, and the entire of Research and Development.
The BBC is a large company, some sectors are run my MCSEs living up Bill Gates' ass, others are at the forefront of technology.
So you're going to copy it (hurting the game maker) because your government is stupid? The real solution is buy it from abroad and import it, and while you're waiting for it to arrive, write to your MP and newspaper and point out the fact you're sending money abroad instead of keeping it local.
as this is slashdot, I cant be bothered reading the links. Wouldn't something like this mean
1) Theres a lot of unneccersary use of bandwidth (If I ran a node at home, I'd be downloading and uploading a lot of traffic that I'd never use) 2) The RIAA will go for the nodes passing the information on, which netstat will easilly display.
However, were we living in a survival of the fittest environment, the people that survive and have a chance to breed are the ones with the immunity. In 10 generations the entire world is immune.
Trouble is, old laptops tend to have crap, if any, battery life. Wireless is great, but it still leaves you tied down.
I use an old laptop as a personal dns/mail/web server. It's not fast, but it doesn't need to be. More importantly if I trip the fusebox, my server stays up for 5 and a half minutes. Poor man's UPS.
It's been my observation that gameplay has gotton worse over the last 15 years. Where we had classics like Railroad Tycoon, Civ, and even Duke Nukem 3D is Ye Olde Days, nowadays the gameplay just isn't there. I used to spend hours every night playing the games of yore, but nowadays the emphasis is on pretty graphics that require $1000 of hardware upgrades each year.
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Some vulnerability/user allows a virus/program to install a VNC-style thing without you knowing. If you're firewalled, no matter. If you're not, then anyone can control your computer
It could be worse, they might make them available only in a satanic text, and only to people who pledge their first born to Lord Gates
Friend of mine was, but remember paypal is an American company, out of UK jurisdiction.
Fortuantly she hadn't sent the goods when the chargeback occured, but she had emptied the account. She had the money in her bank account no problem. Paypal wouldn't take a credit card to put the funds back though. They wouldn't take a GBP cheque either. She had to get a friend with a U.S. Bank account to send paypal a cheque to bring her balance back up to $0.
Piracy isn't theft, as you aren't taking anything. It is, however, akin to fare dodging (off peak). If you dont buy a train ticket, the train will still run. It doesn't cost anyone anything extra (the added fuel needed because of your addedmass is negligable).
Trouble is, if everyone does it, the train doesnt make any money and then it wont run. Everyone loses.
Of course, some trains will still run out peaoples love of driving trains, but theres no guarentee it wil go when and where you need it.
a television programme service is defined as something being broadcast and received in real time or near-real time (i.e. cache delays over the internet count, but downloading from suprnova doesnt) from a UK based operator (includes sky digital, and AlJazera on the Astra 2 platform, but doesnt include Satelites that are uplinked from outside the UK by a company outside the UK jurisdiction.
And yuo think TV Licensing is complicated, just look at tax law.
(relevent broadcasting act ammendment, 2004)
Meaning of "television receiver"
9. - (1) In Part 4 of the Act (licensing of TV reception), "television receiver" means any apparatus installed or used for the purpose of receiving (whether by means of wireless telegraphy or otherwise) any television programme service, whether or not it is installed or used for any other purpose.
(2) In this regulation, any reference to receiving a television programme service includes a reference to receiving by any means any programme included in that service, where that programme is received at the same time (or virtually the same time) as it is received by members of the public by virtue of its being broadcast or distributed as part of that service.
Of course, also, Straight from the horses mouth too.
Why do I have to prove that I am using the TV in a non-chargeable way (CCTV monitoring, or something).
You dont
Why am I guilty until proven innocent!?
You're not. The thugs at TVL might make you think that, but (as TVL evasion is a civil offence IIRC), there is a ballance of probabilities. You have a TV but no CCTV system, VCR, DVD or computer, and it's plugged into an aeriel, tuned in, and theres a copy of the radio times by the control, then you'll be found liable for the fine. Dont have an aeriel, have it wired up to CCTV, and even on the off chance the goons come round, and then get a search warrant and the police, and you'll still be found not liable.
the men hunting through the mean streets of London for rogue local oscillators are employees of the BBC
No, they're not. They do try to get you to cooperate with intimidation (although you only have to let them in if they are accompanied by police with search warrents issued by a magistrate), but they aren't BBC employees. TVL has nothing to do with the BBC any more then the NHS has anything to do with the inland revenue.
It's also illegal to download a copy of that game (which is both importing *and* copyright theft). Much better to smuggle in the real copy, then the media will know you are protesting against the ban rather then just copying it cause you want to play it.
Back the the days before the commodotiy internet, we had non networked computers. People had floppy disks to bring their files in. Those disks had viruses on.
We do have a prize for them. It's call capitalism. Develop the product and you'll get the customers. Patents ensure noone rips your idea off before you recoup R&D costs either.
They didn't get SCAR, or us news engineers, and I heard rumours that studio engineers (and equipment?) are part of resources. Selling off CCA was diabolical, but I get the feeling that TPTB didn't realise what they were doing until it was too late. I thought transmission was Crown Castle and BBC Broadcast.
The only people in Stage 6 that have moved are the server and network team. They tried to get some IT guys, but they realised Jupiter means evey PC on the news network is "broadcast equipment", and news don't want to sell that off (at least, until BH in 4 years)
Why can't you import it (it hurt as you are not buying a cd which you have already said you'll buy were it available?)
The submitter isn't conducting a "revolution". He isn't throwing ship loads of games overboard because of high taxes, he's doing the equivelent of fare dodging when he could quite easilly buy a train ticket and have it posted to him.
Of course, if you equate it to a router rather then a bittorrent style thing, I assume that you'd have "common carrier" status, however I have a dim recolection of stories saying that you are personally responsible for traffic through your home connection (i.e. "I run an open WAP, all I know is the dodgy material was downloaded to MAC aa:00:bb:11:cc:22" is not an excuse)
BBC Technology (RIP) have nothing to do with Research and Design. BBCT has been a seperate (wholey owned) company, making a profit, for years. They're concerned with a lot of things, from boring PC, email, SAP maintenence, to Big Ass Satelite Dish control and signal routing.
Broadcast Equipment, (at least in News, and I think elsewhere), is looked after by a division that's still the BBC. For now.
R&D are basically a seperate department that noone else in the corporation has anything to do with. We throw money to Kingswood waren each year, and every so often they come out with a box that does some amazing things. They all play croquet too.
The BBC need the codec in order to save themselves a bucketload of cash in the future
Yet ironically we're moving some DHCP servers from linux to windows, plan to move the central image server from Linux/SGI to Windows/SGI and then finally Windows/Windows, have just implemented a multi million pound project, in java, but put in windows servers for most of it, refuse to consider Open Office, refuse to have Mozilla as part of the standard desktop (and you have to jump through hoops to "legally" install it), and have half an intranet that's unavailable to the (few) Mac, Linux and Mozilla users, and the entire of Research and Development.
The BBC is a large company, some sectors are run my MCSEs living up Bill Gates' ass, others are at the forefront of technology.
Oh well, off to bit torrent I go...
So you're going to copy it (hurting the game maker) because your government is stupid? The real solution is buy it from abroad and import it, and while you're waiting for it to arrive, write to your MP and newspaper and point out the fact you're sending money abroad instead of keeping it local.
as this is slashdot, I cant be bothered reading the links. Wouldn't something like this mean
1) Theres a lot of unneccersary use of bandwidth (If I ran a node at home, I'd be downloading and uploading a lot of traffic that I'd never use)
2) The RIAA will go for the nodes passing the information on, which netstat will easilly display.
Homosexuality isn't, as far as research can tell, genetic.
If it were, then there'd be no homosexuals on the world, as they wouldn't procreate
However, were we living in a survival of the fittest environment, the people that survive and have a chance to breed are the ones with the immunity. In 10 generations the entire world is immune.
None of them are particularly speedy, and half of them have cracked LCDs, but for what I'm using them for, they're fine
A table?
Trouble is, old laptops tend to have crap, if any, battery life. Wireless is great, but it still leaves you tied down.
I use an old laptop as a personal dns/mail/web server. It's not fast, but it doesn't need to be. More importantly if I trip the fusebox, my server stays up for 5 and a half minutes. Poor man's UPS.
It's been my observation that gameplay has gotton worse over the last 15 years. Where we had classics like Railroad Tycoon, Civ, and even Duke Nukem 3D is Ye Olde Days, nowadays the gameplay just isn't there. I used to spend hours every night playing the games of yore, but nowadays the emphasis is on pretty graphics that require $1000 of hardware upgrades each year.
i have a 5 gallon quarter jug
Which is emptied after the wife, and now because of the baby you're renting it out