During my engineering degree in the UK (still a part of Europe - for now...), we had a couple of students in my courses who hadn't got the requisite qualifications for course entry in high school but went to local colleges (only universities grant degrees in the UK), got Higher National qualifications and used those to apply to university. They got grants (not worth very much but we had them then) and student loans no problem, and they had a base of significantly better maths and electronics ability than the people who came straight from high school (like me). The two things I learned are 1) never look down on someone just cos they didn't get into the degree course first time, and 2) sometimes a second chance can salvage some very talented people.
Okeydoke, I'll take that one on the chin - I was wrong. I was a subject when I was born but now I'm a citizen. Good to know. Doesn't really change anything unless we've stopped living in a constitutional monarchy though. And, from the British subject article
Although the term "British subject" now has a very restrictive statutory definition in the United Kingdom, and it would therefore be incorrect to describe a British citizen as a British subject, the concept of a "subject" is still recognised by the law, and the terms "the Queen's subjects", "Her Majesty's subjects", etc., continue to be used in British legal discourse.
"United Kingdom" (a country) "England" (a province)
So very wrong. United Kingdom = state. England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland = countries. Ulster (Northern Ireland + 3 counties in Eire) = province. Great Britain (or just Britain as we're not so big-headed these days) = England + Scotland + Wales + islands (but not Northern Ireland, and definitely not Eire). Nationality of a UK subject - as we're subjects of the Crown rather than citizens of the state - is British.
Anywhere but here?
"Honey, you know how you were saying you were working late on Thursday night? How come facebook says you were haggling for a sniff in the fleshpots of Marrakesh?"
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It's also Republic Day here in India too, celebrating them (I'm just visiting from London) finally ratifying their own constitution and throwing off the last of the laws imposed on them by the perfidious British oppressors. Having witnessed the independence of spirit and disdain for tyrannical rules most Indians exhibit on the road first-hand (like, you know, all driving the same way along a carriageway), I'm frankly amazed the Raj lasted longer than a day and a half.
OK, so maybe the phone won't take down the plane but, if I'm stuck in an aluminium tube for 8 hours with some nitwit with verbal diarrhoea, then I'm going to get peeved. I can understand that people have different coping mechanisms for dealing with the forced confinement but you've got to give it a rest at some point - the world won't end if a call goes unmade or unanswered. If an action is likely to increases the stress levels of your fellow travelers, then you probably shouldn't do it.
In Ariana Huffington's case, I think the point could be made by asking her to move so she's not in aisle seat - and tell her it's because I wouldn't want to be stuck behind her ignorant, dithering fat ass in case of an emergency.
So poison it with something that will cause regulators a headache. In the UK set your address and telephone number to the contact information for the Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
+44 303 123 1113
I imagine after a couple of thousand automated calls from off-shore call centers they may get round to tightening up those regulations.
It used to be you'd get a cool movie or a cut scene epilogue after completing a game and that was a satisfying way of wrapping things up. I finished Civ5 with a Space Race victory after 5 solid days of play, crashes, recovery, AI cheats, and gross over-simplification and what do I get? A dialog saying "Congratulations on your space race victory, do you want to continue playing?" Whoopee-doo... If I'd known that's what I'd get for my £30 and 5 days of struggle with that buggy POS, I'd never have hit the Purchase button. Why should I keep hitting the feeder bar if the food pellets are made of sawdust and ashes?
Say I wanted to setup and open a WiFi AP for neighbors to check email, etc, when their connection is down. How can I do that and not get screwed if they download kiddie porn or send a threatening letter to the white house?
If you're really worried that they're going to download CP or troll the POTUS, then you probably just shouldn't do it at all. Yeah, the internet is epoch defining communication tool and a great source of entertainment but I seriously doubt your neighbours' lives are going to grind to a halt if they can't browse Craiglist for the next single woman to keep in their chest freezer.
It has two passwords: One password provides access to the system. The other, if used, causes the system to silently erase itself or otherwise self-destruct. In this case, the prisoner could solve two problems with the second password: He provides "the password" to the authorities, thereby keeping himself out of jail, and he has those same authorities do the dirty work of destroying the evidence.
Yes, that would work because everyone working for police IT departments are complete idiots and would never think about imaging the drive as soon as they get their hands on it, getting you to unlock an imaged drive then running a comparison with the unmodified image after you "unlock" the partition. Even if they did they'd never think of charging your clever, clever self with perverting the course of justice and tampering with evidence along with the original charges and reporting at the sentencing hearing that you tried to impede the investigation. They also never read Slashdot, Ars Technica, 2600, or any of the other sites where this infallible solution is regularly discussed. Thank goodness.
Completely untrue. During the Troubles in Northern Ireland most RUC officers carried guns (and still do) and and it was common for politicians to have and carry guns for self-defense. In fact, "self defense" is still an acceptable reason for applying for a Firearms Certificate in NI, where gun ownership rates are significantly higher than the mainland.
In my 38 years in the UK, I owned pistols (.22 and 9mm) for 6 years, until Dunblane. The ban did affect me - I had to surrender property I'd never misused and got no compensation for it because the pistols I owned weren't on the police price list. I was also forced to give up a sport I enjoyed and lost touch with all the friends I'd made. The ban was a massive overreaction and to this day most people in the UK don't understand that the reason it was brought in wasn't because the gun owners couldn't be trusted with their firearms but because the police forces couldn't be trusted to administer the laws. A lot of people died in Dunblane because Central Scotland Police failed to investigate Thomas Hamilton despite concerns and complaints from the local community and gun clubs in the area.
Plenty of gang members carry guns around London too, but somehow I doubt you see more of London than your flat, your office, and the whole foods store. Sadly, your attitude is all too typical in British community life - happy to revoke rights and privileges you choose not to exercise, whilst simultaneously demonising those that do. It's called Tyranny of the Majority - glad to see you're doing your part.
Laws based on fixed speed/rules suck. There should be only one offense: driving dangerously under the conditions. Traffic police should be required to prove that it was dangerous every time.
Ha - you wish! The purpose of the rule of law is that everybody knows where they stand with respect to the law - and that sometimes means arbitrary limits are placed on behaviour. You might not agree with what limits are set but here's a thought: tough titty. Posted speed limits are simple, unambiguous (unless the signs are unclear), and easily tested. They're not unfair as long as they apply to everyone. Except coppers (sadly).
You seriously want to waste a court's time when you know you're in the wrong? When they've got murderers and armed robbers and sexting teens to deal with? There's fighting the man, and there's being a bit of a narcissistic arse...
Ass. Censorship is suppressing information you don't want people to see. Coercion is when you make people do what you want against their will. Imprisonment is when you lock up people you don't want to see. They are different words because they are not the same thing.
While they don't have to pay the staff anymore on Saturday than the rest of the week, there's sizable overhead in managing 5-day work weeks when mail is delivered 6-days a week. By going to a 5-day delivery schedule, they can save on all of the overhead and assign one carrier to one route all week. This makes things easier and more efficient all around.
Wow. The overheads needed to manage a rota must be fucking staggering
Oh, wait... The Postal Service don't do it from the grace in their fairy slave hearts, they expect to get paid to deliver the goods, even on a Saturday?! Unless they pay the staff extra on a Saturday, then I can't see what USPS's problem is.
Dunno about the US, but in the UK about 40% (so I hear) of people are single and don't have anyone waiting in all week for a big parcel to arrive. Saturday's about the only day I can get a parcel delivered to my house. Any other day, and I have to wait a couple of days before collecting it from the depot a couple of miles away.
If a civil servant had been injured, 18 USC 844(i) states he'd have had to serve at least 7 years. As for the firearms offence, don't strong encryption systems count as munitions? Certainly for export they do. I would think that it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to apply the munitions definition to import too. Without looking into the record of the trial there's still room for doubt. Didn't Jebus say something about those without skin?
Not yet - wait until the Digital Economy Bill kicks in in about a year and all sorts of sites start falling off the net because they enabled 'copyright infringement'. And that's forgetting the efforts by the Internet Watch Foundation trying to get sites blocked for teh kiddehs. Damn, I'm thinking of starting a Stay the Fuck Out of Other People's Business Party. That's change you can believe in.
I've given up boggling at the bone-headedness of Sony's marketroids - their engineers create fabulous goodies and then the marketroids get them crippled. All the markets that Sony could have dominated but don't because of the blunders of these short-sighted nitwits. Without the Install Other OS option, the PS3 will almost certainly be reclassified by the EU as a games console and not a computer and be subject to an extra 2.2% import tariff in the EU, cutting significantly into their margins. I mean, the marketing guys are forcing the engineers to spend money so they can lose more money in the future? What other company would ever condone this idiocy?
Why do they have so much trouble understanding that honest people are honest and pony-up for their games and dishonest people are dishonest and will never pay for their games? Market to the honest people and forget the dishonest ones cos you'll never, ever convince them to pay for your stuff no matter how hard you lock down security.
If we could just keep the European Parliament with it's tendency to legislate in favour of anti-totalitarian laws and ditch the European Commission - unelected shills who keep trying to get the same tired corporate bullshit enacted as Euro law - we'd be golden. I do think the EU in general have a fundamentally wrong-headed understanding of the concept of human rights, in that too many of those rights force someone else to pay for the provision of that right, but mostly they're OK. And a damn sight safer than our current government, obsessed with cataloguing and indexing everyone and their activity just in case they become a nuisance in future and have to find something to incriminate them with.
I do anyway after one of their reps took issue with me taking issue over the pulsing led they use on the Cruzer Titanium I bought on the Sandisk Cruzer forum. It's a thoroughly distracting and unecessary "feature" that bugged the hell out of me and I wanted it off. His answer was that, if I didn't like it, I shouldn't have taken it out of its box in the first place and plenty of people like it so why don't I just shut the hell up?
Web bugs. Teeny tiny little pictures you never see. Used for all sorts of things like tracking users. Can also be used to link to images you'd rather not have cached on your work PC. Or any PC.
My favorite bit of the whole saga is that Cressida Dick, the police officer who, on her own authority, ordered de Menezes killed without giving him an opportunity to surrender (the euphemistic order was for a "hard stop") despite being told by the guys on the ground they were following the wrong man, has been promoted twice and is now the most senior female police officer in the UK. Oh and Liz Windsor gave her the Queen's Police Medal last week.
It's important to know what sort of functionary our Labour government chooses to surround itself with and reward in this upcoming election year.
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During my engineering degree in the UK (still a part of Europe - for now...), we had a couple of students in my courses who hadn't got the requisite qualifications for course entry in high school but went to local colleges (only universities grant degrees in the UK), got Higher National qualifications and used those to apply to university. They got grants (not worth very much but we had them then) and student loans no problem, and they had a base of significantly better maths and electronics ability than the people who came straight from high school (like me). The two things I learned are 1) never look down on someone just cos they didn't get into the degree course first time, and 2) sometimes a second chance can salvage some very talented people.
"United Kingdom" (a country) "England" (a province)
So very wrong. United Kingdom = state. England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland = countries. Ulster (Northern Ireland + 3 counties in Eire) = province. Great Britain (or just Britain as we're not so big-headed these days) = England + Scotland + Wales + islands (but not Northern Ireland, and definitely not Eire). Nationality of a UK subject - as we're subjects of the Crown rather than citizens of the state - is British.
Hope this clears up the confusion.
Anywhere but here? "Honey, you know how you were saying you were working late on Thursday night? How come facebook says you were haggling for a sniff in the fleshpots of Marrakesh?"
It's also Republic Day here in India too, celebrating them (I'm just visiting from London) finally ratifying their own constitution and throwing off the last of the laws imposed on them by the perfidious British oppressors. Having witnessed the independence of spirit and disdain for tyrannical rules most Indians exhibit on the road first-hand (like, you know, all driving the same way along a carriageway), I'm frankly amazed the Raj lasted longer than a day and a half.
OK, so maybe the phone won't take down the plane but, if I'm stuck in an aluminium tube for 8 hours with some nitwit with verbal diarrhoea, then I'm going to get peeved. I can understand that people have different coping mechanisms for dealing with the forced confinement but you've got to give it a rest at some point - the world won't end if a call goes unmade or unanswered. If an action is likely to increases the stress levels of your fellow travelers, then you probably shouldn't do it.
In Ariana Huffington's case, I think the point could be made by asking her to move so she's not in aisle seat - and tell her it's because I wouldn't want to be stuck behind her ignorant, dithering fat ass in case of an emergency.
So poison it with something that will cause regulators a headache. In the UK set your address and telephone number to the contact information for the Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
+44 303 123 1113
I imagine after a couple of thousand automated calls from off-shore call centers they may get round to tightening up those regulations.
Meh - the ZX81 16K RAM pack cost £50 in 1982, or $87.53 in Freedom Money. Adjusting for inflation, that's $191 (or $12,224/MB) in today's money.
It used to be you'd get a cool movie or a cut scene epilogue after completing a game and that was a satisfying way of wrapping things up. I finished Civ5 with a Space Race victory after 5 solid days of play, crashes, recovery, AI cheats, and gross over-simplification and what do I get? A dialog saying "Congratulations on your space race victory, do you want to continue playing?" Whoopee-doo... If I'd known that's what I'd get for my £30 and 5 days of struggle with that buggy POS, I'd never have hit the Purchase button. Why should I keep hitting the feeder bar if the food pellets are made of sawdust and ashes?
Say I wanted to setup and open a WiFi AP for neighbors to check email, etc, when their connection is down. How can I do that and not get screwed if they download kiddie porn or send a threatening letter to the white house?
If you're really worried that they're going to download CP or troll the POTUS, then you probably just shouldn't do it at all. Yeah, the internet is epoch defining communication tool and a great source of entertainment but I seriously doubt your neighbours' lives are going to grind to a halt if they can't browse Craiglist for the next single woman to keep in their chest freezer.
It has two passwords: One password provides access to the system. The other, if used, causes the system to silently erase itself or otherwise self-destruct. In this case, the prisoner could solve two problems with the second password: He provides "the password" to the authorities, thereby keeping himself out of jail, and he has those same authorities do the dirty work of destroying the evidence.
Yes, that would work because everyone working for police IT departments are complete idiots and would never think about imaging the drive as soon as they get their hands on it, getting you to unlock an imaged drive then running a comparison with the unmodified image after you "unlock" the partition. Even if they did they'd never think of charging your clever, clever self with perverting the course of justice and tampering with evidence along with the original charges and reporting at the sentencing hearing that you tried to impede the investigation. They also never read Slashdot, Ars Technica, 2600, or any of the other sites where this infallible solution is regularly discussed. Thank goodness.
Completely untrue. During the Troubles in Northern Ireland most RUC officers carried guns (and still do) and and it was common for politicians to have and carry guns for self-defense. In fact, "self defense" is still an acceptable reason for applying for a Firearms Certificate in NI, where gun ownership rates are significantly higher than the mainland.
In my 38 years in the UK, I owned pistols (.22 and 9mm) for 6 years, until Dunblane. The ban did affect me - I had to surrender property I'd never misused and got no compensation for it because the pistols I owned weren't on the police price list. I was also forced to give up a sport I enjoyed and lost touch with all the friends I'd made. The ban was a massive overreaction and to this day most people in the UK don't understand that the reason it was brought in wasn't because the gun owners couldn't be trusted with their firearms but because the police forces couldn't be trusted to administer the laws. A lot of people died in Dunblane because Central Scotland Police failed to investigate Thomas Hamilton despite concerns and complaints from the local community and gun clubs in the area.
Plenty of gang members carry guns around London too, but somehow I doubt you see more of London than your flat, your office, and the whole foods store. Sadly, your attitude is all too typical in British community life - happy to revoke rights and privileges you choose not to exercise, whilst simultaneously demonising those that do. It's called Tyranny of the Majority - glad to see you're doing your part.
Ha - you wish! The purpose of the rule of law is that everybody knows where they stand with respect to the law - and that sometimes means arbitrary limits are placed on behaviour. You might not agree with what limits are set but here's a thought: tough titty. Posted speed limits are simple, unambiguous (unless the signs are unclear), and easily tested. They're not unfair as long as they apply to everyone. Except coppers (sadly).
You seriously want to waste a court's time when you know you're in the wrong? When they've got murderers and armed robbers and sexting teens to deal with? There's fighting the man, and there's being a bit of a narcissistic arse...
Ass. Censorship is suppressing information you don't want people to see. Coercion is when you make people do what you want against their will. Imprisonment is when you lock up people you don't want to see. They are different words because they are not the same thing.
While they don't have to pay the staff anymore on Saturday than the rest of the week, there's sizable overhead in managing 5-day work weeks when mail is delivered 6-days a week. By going to a 5-day delivery schedule, they can save on all of the overhead and assign one carrier to one route all week. This makes things easier and more efficient all around.
Wow. The overheads needed to manage a rota must be fucking staggering
Yes, because it's free to put things in the post.
Oh, wait... The Postal Service don't do it from the grace in their fairy slave hearts, they expect to get paid to deliver the goods, even on a Saturday?! Unless they pay the staff extra on a Saturday, then I can't see what USPS's problem is.
Dunno about the US, but in the UK about 40% (so I hear) of people are single and don't have anyone waiting in all week for a big parcel to arrive. Saturday's about the only day I can get a parcel delivered to my house. Any other day, and I have to wait a couple of days before collecting it from the depot a couple of miles away.
If a civil servant had been injured, 18 USC 844(i) states he'd have had to serve at least 7 years. As for the firearms offence, don't strong encryption systems count as munitions? Certainly for export they do. I would think that it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to apply the munitions definition to import too. Without looking into the record of the trial there's still room for doubt. Didn't Jebus say something about those without skin?
Not yet - wait until the Digital Economy Bill kicks in in about a year and all sorts of sites start falling off the net because they enabled 'copyright infringement'. And that's forgetting the efforts by the Internet Watch Foundation trying to get sites blocked for teh kiddehs. Damn, I'm thinking of starting a Stay the Fuck Out of Other People's Business Party. That's change you can believe in.
I've given up boggling at the bone-headedness of Sony's marketroids - their engineers create fabulous goodies and then the marketroids get them crippled. All the markets that Sony could have dominated but don't because of the blunders of these short-sighted nitwits. Without the Install Other OS option, the PS3 will almost certainly be reclassified by the EU as a games console and not a computer and be subject to an extra 2.2% import tariff in the EU, cutting significantly into their margins. I mean, the marketing guys are forcing the engineers to spend money so they can lose more money in the future? What other company would ever condone this idiocy?
Why do they have so much trouble understanding that honest people are honest and pony-up for their games and dishonest people are dishonest and will never pay for their games? Market to the honest people and forget the dishonest ones cos you'll never, ever convince them to pay for your stuff no matter how hard you lock down security.
In the UK, we have to wait until the 31st April to have pi day. We'll be waiting a while...
If we could just keep the European Parliament with it's tendency to legislate in favour of anti-totalitarian laws and ditch the European Commission - unelected shills who keep trying to get the same tired corporate bullshit enacted as Euro law - we'd be golden. I do think the EU in general have a fundamentally wrong-headed understanding of the concept of human rights, in that too many of those rights force someone else to pay for the provision of that right, but mostly they're OK. And a damn sight safer than our current government, obsessed with cataloguing and indexing everyone and their activity just in case they become a nuisance in future and have to find something to incriminate them with.
I do anyway after one of their reps took issue with me taking issue over the pulsing led they use on the Cruzer Titanium I bought on the Sandisk Cruzer forum. It's a thoroughly distracting and unecessary "feature" that bugged the hell out of me and I wanted it off. His answer was that, if I didn't like it, I shouldn't have taken it out of its box in the first place and plenty of people like it so why don't I just shut the hell up?
Charmers.
Web bugs. Teeny tiny little pictures you never see. Used for all sorts of things like tracking users. Can also be used to link to images you'd rather not have cached on your work PC. Or any PC.
Its modded down due to the form it was put accross in, not the content of the comment.
You've posted to this thread, so how would you know why it was modded down? Telepathy, collusion, or a sock puppet account?
My favorite bit of the whole saga is that Cressida Dick, the police officer who, on her own authority, ordered de Menezes killed without giving him an opportunity to surrender (the euphemistic order was for a "hard stop") despite being told by the guys on the ground they were following the wrong man, has been promoted twice and is now the most senior female police officer in the UK. Oh and Liz Windsor gave her the Queen's Police Medal last week.
It's important to know what sort of functionary our Labour government chooses to surround itself with and reward in this upcoming election year.