Filesharing can be done with MSIE, at least the downloading side of things. Perhaps they should go after Microsoft?;)
Actually, filesharing would be a lot harder if it wasn't for the TCP/IP stack. And if TCP/IP were to be banned, practically every ISP on the planet would be against such a move.
Not sure where the GP poster is, but in the UK we have the Sale of Goods Act, and a disc like this is easy to demonstrate to be defective, and the Act therefore requires it to be replaced or the customer refunded. If the replacement also proves to be defective they pretty much have to refund the customer. The keywords here is "not of merchantable quality".
GP poster is (apparently) in Norway, where British English will have more influence than American English. Here in UK, the correct spelling is "disc", however "disk" is unfortunately common due to the influence of American businesses in the computer industry. Philips, the inventor of the CD, is European. Take any CD with the Compact Disc logo and check how they spelt "disc".
If this post above is referring to miles per US gallon, and its parent post was referring to miles per Imperial gallon, surely these revised figures should be lower since the Imperial gallon is bigger than the US gallon (4.546L for the Imperial gallon versus approx. 3.78L for the US gallon)?
On the up-side, your country is not going to have to spend yet more taxpayers' dollars keeping him incarcerated. (If UK figures are anything to go by, keeping someone in prison isn't cheap.)
In the UK PayPal are regulated by the Financial Services Authority. So you're probably a little bit safer if your PayPal account is a UK one. The FSA do have teeth.
In fact, in this instance it is the school (or that administrator) who is in violation of the Computer Misuse Act, by using a keylogged password to attempt to access a machine he has no business or permission to access.
Depends on the definition of "own". What if the disc is a home-made DVD video of your grandfather's 85th birthday party, being sent out to (overseas) relatives who couldn't make it to the party.
There's a build of PuTTY that refers to config files instead of the registry (though at the moment I can't find it...) That combined with a stored key on the USB drive, then the only place you need to VNC to is 127.0.0.1. Your VNC desktop doesn't even need to be directly visible to the internet then, only the machine (or port) that listens for on the public internet is for SSH sessions. Oh, and SSH's compression might speed things up a little too and it's end-to-end encrypted.
As for taking your eyes off the road to dial, is it really any worse than taking them off the road to change stations on the radio
Some new cars (like my 2004 Renault Scenic) have the facility where you have a control on the steering column, so you don't have to take either hand off the wheel (or look away from the road) to change radio station, track on the CD, or (if fitted) the disc in the multi-changer.
(and, to stay on topic, on those rare occasions when I have to use my mobile phone in the car, it's always with a bluetooth handsfree using voicedial or shortcuts on the phone keypad. And I always tell the other person I'm on the road.)
My experience of driving a brand new Chevrolet up California's route 101 for a week, was that it was not unlike playing GTA:San Andreas from a large comfortable sofa with all the responsiveness and cornering of an exceptionally reluctant cow.
Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow.
I was also referring to the non-US people visiting the States. With the exception of South Korea and Japan, the remainder of the world has standardised on GSM, it's just some networks in USA, Canada, South Korea and Japan (and, IIRC, one in NZ) that have decided to be incompatible.
The good news that most companies that use GSM will be forced to move to CDMA (UMTS, WCDMA), because CDMA uses the available spectrum more efficiently. So in a about 5 years perhaps the situation will be different, but there will also be more people using cell phones -- so who knows...
Somehow I'd suspect the networks wouldn't be quite so willing to cut off the rather lucrative money-spinner that is international roaming. And, the GSM networks have the feature that the !GSM ones can't offer - seamless international roaming in pretty much everywhere else in the world (handset permitting, needs 900/1800MHz to work outside North America/Canada).
I frightened myself on a bus the other day by imagining the giganormous woman in front of me carreening into me at 45 miles an hour if the bus had had to stop suddenly. Ow.
Hang on. If this lump of lard is in front of you then if the bus stops suddenly she will carry on moving forwards, not back into you. You, on the other hand will move forwards, perhaps into her, and you'd have the benefit of a large flabby lardbag to cushion you like a car's airbag.
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There's a radio station in SW England, "Pirate FM".
Yes, they have a licence to broadcast.
Forget SSH.
;)
Filesharing can be done with MSIE, at least the downloading side of things. Perhaps they should go after Microsoft?
Actually, filesharing would be a lot harder if it wasn't for the TCP/IP stack. And if TCP/IP were to be banned, practically every ISP on the planet would be against such a move.
Extinguishing the nitrogen won't help.
The answer to that, of course, is "never". It'll be about time the EU does something useful to its member-state citizens.
or at a stretch
*facepalm*
Not sure where the GP poster is, but in the UK we have the Sale of Goods Act, and a disc like this is easy to demonstrate to be defective, and the Act therefore requires it to be replaced or the customer refunded. If the replacement also proves to be defective they pretty much have to refund the customer. The keywords here is "not of merchantable quality".
GP poster is (apparently) in Norway, where British English will have more influence than American English. Here in UK, the correct spelling is "disc", however "disk" is unfortunately common due to the influence of American businesses in the computer industry. Philips, the inventor of the CD, is European. Take any CD with the Compact Disc logo and check how they spelt "disc".
If this post above is referring to miles per US gallon, and its parent post was referring to miles per Imperial gallon, surely these revised figures should be lower since the Imperial gallon is bigger than the US gallon (4.546L for the Imperial gallon versus approx. 3.78L for the US gallon)?
On the up-side, your country is not going to have to spend yet more taxpayers' dollars keeping him incarcerated. (If UK figures are anything to go by, keeping someone in prison isn't cheap.)
The US doesn't use the Imperial system. It uses the incompatible American or "English" units.
English units? In England we still use the Imperial ones (unless the EU threaten lawsuits against us for not using Metric).
*thinks*
French Horn: German.
English Horn: French. (known as the Cor Anglais)
English units: American.
Yes, I can see the pattern. No-one wants to claim responsibility for any of them.
In the UK PayPal are regulated by the Financial Services Authority. So you're probably a little bit safer if your PayPal account is a UK one. The FSA do have teeth.
In fact, in this instance it is the school (or that administrator) who is in violation of the Computer Misuse Act, by using a keylogged password to attempt to access a machine he has no business or permission to access.
No, that's the rest of us giving the USA financial aid. We pay them, they give us total crap.
Depends on the definition of "own". What if the disc is a home-made DVD video of your grandfather's 85th birthday party, being sent out to (overseas) relatives who couldn't make it to the party.
Yes I am - and thanks for the link!
There's a build of PuTTY that refers to config files instead of the registry (though at the moment I can't find it...) That combined with a stored key on the USB drive, then the only place you need to VNC to is 127.0.0.1. Your VNC desktop doesn't even need to be directly visible to the internet then, only the machine (or port) that listens for on the public internet is for SSH sessions. Oh, and SSH's compression might speed things up a little too and it's end-to-end encrypted.
As for taking your eyes off the road to dial, is it really any worse than taking them off the road to change stations on the radio
Some new cars (like my 2004 Renault Scenic) have the facility where you have a control on the steering column, so you don't have to take either hand off the wheel (or look away from the road) to change radio station, track on the CD, or (if fitted) the disc in the multi-changer.
(and, to stay on topic, on those rare occasions when I have to use my mobile phone in the car, it's always with a bluetooth handsfree using voicedial or shortcuts on the phone keypad. And I always tell the other person I'm on the road.)
My experience of driving a brand new Chevrolet up California's route 101 for a week, was that it was not unlike playing GTA:San Andreas from a large comfortable sofa with all the responsiveness and cornering of an exceptionally reluctant cow.
Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow.
-- Douglas Adams.
Why learn how to change spark plugs when you haven't got a car? ..or your car doesn't use them. Mine doesn't.
As luck would have it, I'm not that far from having one.
Unfortunately, that's absolutely no help for me trying to learn Cantonese (which she doesn't speak).
Mr Taylor, you are not doing yourself any favours with that little tirade.
Sounds rather like the plot to the bulk of The Thirteenth Floor...
I was also referring to the non-US people visiting the States. With the exception of South Korea and Japan, the remainder of the world has standardised on GSM, it's just some networks in USA, Canada, South Korea and Japan (and, IIRC, one in NZ) that have decided to be incompatible.
The good news that most companies that use GSM will be forced to move to CDMA (UMTS, WCDMA), because CDMA uses the available spectrum more efficiently. So in a about 5 years perhaps the situation will be different, but there will also be more people using cell phones -- so who knows...
Somehow I'd suspect the networks wouldn't be quite so willing to cut off the rather lucrative money-spinner that is international roaming. And, the GSM networks have the feature that the !GSM ones can't offer - seamless international roaming in pretty much everywhere else in the world (handset permitting, needs 900/1800MHz to work outside North America/Canada).
I frightened myself on a bus the other day by imagining the giganormous woman in front of me carreening into me at 45 miles an hour if the bus had had to stop suddenly. Ow.
Hang on. If this lump of lard is in front of you then if the bus stops suddenly she will carry on moving forwards, not back into you. You, on the other hand will move forwards, perhaps into her, and you'd have the benefit of a large flabby lardbag to cushion you like a car's airbag.