But in the end, the Aussie government can do whatever they want to. It's not like they have to listen to the people, since they banned all private ownership of guns.
They didn't ban all guns. But, they made it more difficult to get them, and even more difficult again to get the nastier ones.
And, they did listen to a lot of people, and ignored some others. I happen to agree guns should be hard to get. The "right to bear arms" in the USA is ridiculous.
So it's been established that PaeTec must obey the court order. But, how about their peers ? PaeTec would have links to various other ISPs and backbone types. What if someone informed those ISPs of Monsterhut's static IP address, and they dropped all packets coming from there ?
What would happen then ? That's not PaeTec's fault. And, those ISPs could cite their own AUPs.
I'm still curious as to how he's going to change Ad-Aware to prevent it being uninstalled by this other program. Does anybody know?
There's a program provided with the $15 version which is like a virus monitor, but it monitors for spyware. It stops the spyware from running, or installing itself. Lavasoft just needs to add detection for this new bit of spyware.
Umm, moderators ? Why was this modded down to zero ? It should be modded up.
The parent is exactly correct.
The RIM 850 uses the Motient network. The RIM 950 uses the mobitex network. The new devices use the GSM network. They are completely different, and will have different converage.
I received an email from ebay telling me about the changes, and it had a link to my user preferences page on their site. That page had an email link to a "delete account" address, which I emailed.
They emailed me back a:
Subject: Receipt of your email to eBay Customer Support
Then, followed that with a
Subject: Re: REMOVE
Thank you for writing to eBay about closing your account.
We're sorry that you want to leave our Community, but before it's final, is there anything we can do to change your mind? Please be aware this is a serious step: not only will you be blocked from eBay, and your contact information concealed, but also your Feedback Profile will no longer be available. Additionally, please remember that once the account is closed the email address will never be able to be used to open up a new account on eBay.
For more information about the entire process, please look here: http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/closedAccount.ht ml
If you still feel like you want to leave us, just reply to this email restating your request and I will sadly close your account permanently.
I appreciate the opportunity I've had to assist you!
So I replied, and then got another email saying "your account is in the process of being unregistered". Then, I got another one "Subject: IC FINAL NOTICE : User Account Closed per User Request Complete".
Done, at last. And I only wanted my account deleted so I didn't keep getting spam.
Actually, transparent caching can be a pain for someone testing their web page, if they want to do lots of changes in a short space of time, and check them. I was having all sorts of problems with my ISP's transparent proxy.
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Well, we've already got Buffy DVDs seasons 1 to 3, and Angel season 1 in Australia.
Just get yourself a region free player, and order from here (or New Zealand). I think the UK has them too.
Is relative - 7000m/s sounds impressive but when BOTH spacecraft are travelling at 7000m/s in the SAME relative direction they are actually travelling ( in relation to each other ) at 0m/s
Yeah, but they're not both travelling in the same direction or the same speed.
They're in different orbits, which means that their speed and direction is always different (except for instantaneously occasionally when they can have the same direction, but still different speeds)
Your suggestion is close to what I am already planning to do. Linux box with a 4 input vidcap card, wired into security system also. When there's movement according to the cameras, then PC triggers the alarm. PC dials up the internet, and dumps the pictures on my web site, and emails me. The alarm automatically calls my mobile phone to tell me it's gone off. Through the internet or my mobile, I want to be able to trigger some device to incapacitate the burglars.
I'd thought of the ink, but that would ruin my furniture. So perhaps would pepper spray. I want something that would easily permeate the whole house, not stain the furniture, and be easily dissapated by be when I get home. I'm not sure whether I want it to piss them off so they run out, or send them to sleep so that I can deal with them when I get home.
Any suggestions appreciated.
(I'm also going to make the system output to my TV, act as a set-top webcam and camera playback, internet gateway for my other networked PC. It will act as an answering machine, and be DTMF controllable for disabling alarms, triggering gas etc. It will have audio connected to the front door, so that when the door bell rings and I'm not home, it will telephone my mobile, and I can talk to whoever's at my door.) I'm still working on the plans though. So far I've only got the capture card. Buying a new PC soon.... Got to make sure that it lasts on battery power for a long time though.
Perhaps slightly off topic, but in Australia, i Rembmer seeing on "Today Tonight" (think current affairs program for australia) and they where talking about alternative fuel made out of oil used to cook chips! A company was getting together to sell this oil at 69cents a litre in australia (very cheap for our fuel prices.)
I didn't see this. Did you have to change your car at all, or should it work with normal engines without modification ?
Oh, and I wouldn't call "Today Tonight" a current affairs program. I would call it the worst tabloid piece of sensationalist crap in existence.
So it sounds like if you say "yes", that they definitely x-ray your bags and stuff.
I've had that happen to me once as a random check anyway. Saying "yes" probably just makes it a definite.
Is that right ?
I was worried that saying "yes" would mean you'd have to wait for hours for your chance for a body cavity search, and have to dump your luggage contents all over the floor to be picked through with tweezers.
Is it just me, or do the following quotes from the article not make sense ?
The new magnetic sheet "...is the first non-metallic magnet to work at room temperature."
"...she found instead that the new material was magnetic even above 200 C. Until now, the highest temperature at which a non-metallic material was magnetic was 255 C."
So where the spec says it's a 'world' phone, it aint.
IMO 900MHz + 1800MHz + 1900MHz = world phone.
Yep, I agree. Sounds like they think it's a world phone because they've combined the frequency only the US uses (1900) with another one (900) of the two which the world uses.
Without 1800, it's not quite worldly enough for any non-Americans to buy. Only Americans who occasionally travel overseas would be happy with the worldliness.
As an Aussie who often travels to the US, it's not good enough for me.
Well, if you want to pick nits, this [palmpower.com] has been around much, much longer.
They don't make 'em anymore, though.
Well, actually they look very similar, don't they. That's because the Kyocera phone is the Qualcomm phone.
The company changed their name, or was bought out or something. The Kyocera phone is just the new model from the one with "Qualcomm" emblazened across it.
HA bloody ha. May I counter and say the census will rather provide an idea on how many Muslims will need protection from ppl with irational biases like yourself.
I'm actually more a cynic than irrationally biased. I do definately believe that the government would use the knowledge about where the Mulsims are (which they'd already know even without the census, granted) to help determine deployment of intelligence and police resources.
I personally have no problem with Muslims or any other religion, and in fact I feel sorry for the Muslims who are being unfairly targetted, and are even more victims of terrorism than anyone else, because they're getting it from both sides.
So, the government is that interested in making sure they can read your email ?
Well, there's an obvious solution.
Every email you send to someone else, cc: it to the government. If they really want to be able to read your email, then send it to them unencrypted. The next time you're asking your friend which movie you are going to see that night, or when he should pick you up to go the pub, cc: it to the FBI. When you're asking your wife what colour paint she just bought for the loungeroom walls, cc: it to the NSA. When you want to know how old Nelly is doing after her hip replacement, cc: it to the CIA.
Start now in cc:ing all your emails to those people who are in danger of allowing this bill to pass. Make sure you include an appropriate opening statement saying why they're getting cc:d your emails.
OK, so let's say that the US bans encryption without a backdoor. How likely are other countries to follow suit ? I'm hoping Australia isn't going to follow the US into this sort of really bad policy.
And what about interfaces ? Is an American allowed to have a copy of PGP on their computer to receive a heavily encrypted message that someone from a non-silly country sends him ?
In Australia, there are many places where you can buy a DVD player that has been modified to get around the stupid protection mechanisms.
DVDs have coding on them to stop them being played in the wrong region. DVDs from the US aren't meant to be able to be played on DVD players bought in Australia. Well, you can easily buy a modified player from the shop that ignores this restriction, as I did. It means that I've now got access to about 4 times as many DVD movies as I could get in Australia alone.
Also, there's this thing called "Macrovision" which is meant to stop you from recording DVD movies onto VHS. It stuffs up the signal coming out of the DVD player in such a way that most TVs are OK, but most VHS recorders aren't. Well, it also effects many legitimate uses of VHS players, as well as overhead projectors. Anyway, you can buy DVD players here with that removed too.
At least, you used to be able to. This new law has made it illegal to sell Macrovision disabled players in Australia. Shops have stopped selling them modified in this way. It sucks. Lucky I got in a few months ago to get mine.
We are still allowed to sell multi region DVD players though. Small mercy.
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But in the end, the Aussie government can do whatever they want to. It's not like they have to listen to the people, since they banned all private ownership of guns.
They didn't ban all guns. But, they made it more difficult to get them, and even more difficult again to get the nastier ones.
And, they did listen to a lot of people, and ignored some others. I happen to agree guns should be hard to get. The "right to bear arms" in the USA is ridiculous.
The documentary I saw said that the analysis showed that the paint was made of very similar stuff as rocket fuel.
So it's been established that PaeTec must obey the court order. But, how about their peers ? PaeTec would have links to various other ISPs and backbone types. What if someone informed those ISPs of Monsterhut's static IP address, and they dropped all packets coming from there ?
What would happen then ? That's not PaeTec's fault. And, those ISPs could cite their own AUPs.
I'm still curious as to how he's going to change Ad-Aware to prevent it being uninstalled by this other program. Does anybody know?
There's a program provided with the $15 version which is like a virus monitor, but it monitors for spyware. It stops the spyware from running, or installing itself. Lavasoft just needs to add detection for this new bit of spyware.
Umm, moderators ? Why was this modded down to zero ? It should be modded up.
The parent is exactly correct.
The RIM 850 uses the Motient network. The RIM 950 uses the mobitex network. The new devices use the GSM network. They are completely different, and will have different converage.
I received an email from ebay telling me about the changes, and it had a link to my user preferences page on their site. That page had an email link to a "delete account" address, which I emailed.
They emailed me back a :
Then, followed that with a
So I replied, and then got another email saying "your account is in the process of being unregistered". Then, I got another one "Subject: IC FINAL NOTICE : User Account Closed per User Request Complete".
Done, at last. And I only wanted my account deleted so I didn't keep getting spam.
Actually, transparent caching can be a pain for someone testing their web page, if they want to do lots of changes in a short space of time, and check them. I was having all sorts of problems with my ISP's transparent proxy.
Well, we've already got Buffy DVDs seasons 1 to 3, and Angel season 1 in Australia.
Just get yourself a region free player, and order from here (or New Zealand). I think the UK has them too.
Is relative - 7000m/s sounds impressive but when BOTH spacecraft are travelling at 7000m/s in the SAME relative direction they are actually travelling ( in relation to each other ) at 0m/s
Yeah, but they're not both travelling in the same direction or the same speed.
They're in different orbits, which means that their speed and direction is always different (except for instantaneously occasionally when they can have the same direction, but still different speeds)
Your suggestion is close to what I am already planning to do. Linux box with a 4 input vidcap card, wired into security system also. When there's movement according to the cameras, then PC triggers the alarm. PC dials up the internet, and dumps the pictures on my web site, and emails me. The alarm automatically calls my mobile phone to tell me it's gone off. Through the internet or my mobile, I want to be able to trigger some device to incapacitate the burglars.
I'd thought of the ink, but that would ruin my furniture. So perhaps would pepper spray. I want something that would easily permeate the whole house, not stain the furniture, and be easily dissapated by be when I get home. I'm not sure whether I want it to piss them off so they run out, or send them to sleep so that I can deal with them when I get home.
Any suggestions appreciated.
(I'm also going to make the system output to my TV, act as a set-top webcam and camera playback, internet gateway for my other networked PC. It will act as an answering machine, and be DTMF controllable for disabling alarms, triggering gas etc. It will have audio connected to the front door, so that when the door bell rings and I'm not home, it will telephone my mobile, and I can talk to whoever's at my door.) I'm still working on the plans though. So far I've only got the capture card. Buying a new PC soon.... Got to make sure that it lasts on battery power for a long time though.
Perhaps slightly off topic, but in Australia, i Rembmer seeing on "Today Tonight" (think current affairs program for australia) and they where talking about alternative fuel made out of oil used to cook chips! A company was getting together to sell this oil at 69cents a litre in australia (very cheap for our fuel prices.)
I didn't see this. Did you have to change your car at all, or should it work with normal engines without modification ?
Oh, and I wouldn't call "Today Tonight" a current affairs program. I would call it the worst tabloid piece of sensationalist crap in existence.
Is it possible to buy these types of devices and use them in Australia ? I'd love one of these types of things. Do they work with PAL ?
Do you need to hack the device to make it work ? Does it work with standard non-cable broadcasts ? Ie. Free to air ?
Where can I get more information on getting one of these things for my neck of the woods ?
Thanks
So it sounds like if you say "yes", that they definitely x-ray your bags and stuff.
I've had that happen to me once as a random check anyway. Saying "yes" probably just makes it a definite.
Is that right ?
I was worried that saying "yes" would mean you'd have to wait for hours for your chance for a body cavity search, and have to dump your luggage contents all over the floor to be picked through with tweezers.
Thankyou,
But those links just talk about what happens if you are a smart arse.
I just want to know what happens if you tell the truth, and say that someone else did pack your bags.
Is it illegal to tell the truth now ?
It seems rather stupid to ask the question "did you pack your bags" if it's only legal to say "yes".
I have always wondered - what happens if you say "yes, it has been out of my sight since I packed it.", or "no, someone else packed it".
I never have, even when someone else did pack the bag, because I didn't know what would happen if I did tell the truth.
It seems like they're only asking so that you incriminate yourself if something is found on you.
But, what are they instructed to do if you say that someone else has packed it, or had access to it ? I've always wondered.
Actually, my original comment which I cut and pasted the offending piece from the article. I still can't see the minus sign in my comment.
But, I have just cut and paste from my comment into notepad, and can now see the minus sign !!! Yay!
Is it just me, or do the following quotes from the article not make sense ?
The new magnetic sheet "...is the first non-metallic magnet to work at room temperature."
"...she found instead that the new material was magnetic even above 200 C. Until now, the highest temperature at which a non-metallic material was magnetic was 255 C."
Which is it ?
So where the spec says it's a 'world' phone, it aint.
IMO 900MHz + 1800MHz + 1900MHz = world phone.
Yep, I agree. Sounds like they think it's a world phone because they've combined the frequency only the US uses (1900) with another one (900) of the two which the world uses.
Without 1800, it's not quite worldly enough for any non-Americans to buy. Only Americans who occasionally travel overseas would be happy with the worldliness.
As an Aussie who often travels to the US, it's not good enough for me.
Well, if you want to pick nits, this [palmpower.com] has been around much, much longer. They don't make 'em anymore, though.
Well, actually they look very similar, don't they. That's because the Kyocera phone is the Qualcomm phone.
The company changed their name, or was bought out or something. The Kyocera phone is just the new model from the one with "Qualcomm" emblazened across it.
HA bloody ha. May I counter and say the census will rather provide an idea on how many Muslims will need protection from ppl with irational biases like yourself.
I'm actually more a cynic than irrationally biased. I do definately believe that the government would use the knowledge about where the Mulsims are (which they'd already know even without the census, granted) to help determine deployment of intelligence and police resources.
I personally have no problem with Muslims or any other religion, and in fact I feel sorry for the Muslims who are being unfairly targetted, and are even more victims of terrorism than anyone else, because they're getting it from both sides.
It's because they want to know how scared to be. The more Muslims in your area, the more scared you should be.
Also, the government will put more intelligence operatives there to look out for terrorists.
So, the government is that interested in making sure they can read your email ?
Well, there's an obvious solution.
Every email you send to someone else, cc: it to the government. If they really want to be able to read your email, then send it to them unencrypted. The next time you're asking your friend which movie you are going to see that night, or when he should pick you up to go the pub, cc: it to the FBI. When you're asking your wife what colour paint she just bought for the loungeroom walls, cc: it to the NSA. When you want to know how old Nelly is doing after her hip replacement, cc: it to the CIA.
Start now in cc:ing all your emails to those people who are in danger of allowing this bill to pass. Make sure you include an appropriate opening statement saying why they're getting cc:d your emails.
Who's with me ?
OK, so let's say that the US bans encryption without a backdoor. How likely are other countries to follow suit ? I'm hoping Australia isn't going to follow the US into this sort of really bad policy.
And what about interfaces ? Is an American allowed to have a copy of PGP on their computer to receive a heavily encrypted message that someone from a non-silly country sends him ?
In Australia, there are many places where you can buy a DVD player that has been modified to get around the stupid protection mechanisms.
DVDs have coding on them to stop them being played in the wrong region. DVDs from the US aren't meant to be able to be played on DVD players bought in Australia. Well, you can easily buy a modified player from the shop that ignores this restriction, as I did. It means that I've now got access to about 4 times as many DVD movies as I could get in Australia alone.
Also, there's this thing called "Macrovision" which is meant to stop you from recording DVD movies onto VHS. It stuffs up the signal coming out of the DVD player in such a way that most TVs are OK, but most VHS recorders aren't. Well, it also effects many legitimate uses of VHS players, as well as overhead projectors. Anyway, you can buy DVD players here with that removed too.
At least, you used to be able to. This new law has made it illegal to sell Macrovision disabled players in Australia. Shops have stopped selling them modified in this way. It sucks. Lucky I got in a few months ago to get mine.
We are still allowed to sell multi region DVD players though. Small mercy.
If it means I can beam sync calender/number information from my Palm to my phone, I'll be a happy man.
I have a Palm, and a Nokia 8210. I can already beam stuff like that between the two.
Having an open standard so that more devices support it would be even better though.