Well, from someone in the UK - on the front of our census forms it said something to the effect that lying on any of the questions will lead to a fine and/or prosecution EXCEPT for the question on religion.
So, a lot of my friends at Uni. finally realised their dreams of becoming Jedis. I guess for once the UK government did something intelligent and just plain chose to deflect a very heated argument (like how to define a religion - try telling a Jainist or a Satanist or a Zoroastrian that their religions arent recognised by the state) - and also we're guaranteed freedom of religion under the EU human rights charter.
maybe this will be one push that open source developers need to finally produce a system that Joe Average would be willing/able to use.
-Nano.
p.s. any of you arrogant linux users out there who still feel the need to keep linux 'pure' so that only you 31337 h4x0rz can use it should learn it's bigots like you that keep linux away from the wide acceptance you want it to have.
Let's look on the bright side: this law allows us to bypass the Regulation of Investigatory Powers bill(RIP) - we encript our data, and because it is a written piece of material it is automatically afforded copyright protection, therefore if the government (or a police officer) demands your encryption key (which you must provide) they cannot legally decrypt the file, even if they want to because it is protected by this new law!
not the best explanation, but you see where i'm going.
Someone call me silly - but in order to triangulate the position of a frequency-hopping signal, you don't actually need to listen in to what's being said, you just need to find the place where the frequency keeps hopping around so much, because there's obviously someone sat there with some funky technology....
The point is that if *noone* had noticed or/. hadn't raised the point, MS would have just kept on saying that they were *real* screenshots. It's a poor sign for a company to lie so blatantly to its costomers. Imagine if palm came out and said 'oh yeah, those new pictures of the m500 and m505 are just something my son worked out in photoshop - they're really about the size of a shoebox but you won't find out until we've got about 10,000 pre-orders in' don't you think it would harm palm's image?
Finally, good password protection (the current Vx system where you unlock a file and it stays unlocked when you switch the thing off is a joke - that's not security) and a better alarm.....oh, what's this I see - you need to pay $450 to upgrade before you can get these. nice move palm. great customer service and support.
Hmm....just thinking, why not have a 'merge rail' sitting next to a 'high speed rail' so people get onto the merge rail at the slow 35mph....get upto speed before the next merge point (3 miles), and then merge into the high-speed rail running alongside at a more reasonable 70-80mph, so that the fast traffic doesn't need to slow down so much.
The system could be introduced into the outermost 2 lanes of any large 6+ lane highway so that people can still use their normal cars, and when the scheme really takes off, the remaining normal car lanes and be reclaimed and turned into something nice (awww...how pretty ma - real trees!)
My only concern with this is the speed.....I mean, why would I want to jump into something with a top speed of 62mph when I can legally do 70 without breaking a sweat.....I do think that if the main advantage of this system is increased safety due to its train-like nature, then we should also be seeing train-like speeds to encourage people to get into their RUFs and out of their cars.....150mph between cities would convince me and most other long-distance drivers of their worth.
I just have to say that the most important religion on earth...i.e. scientology....accepts the fact that we are all offspring of Xenu the intergalactic ruler and all of his H-bombed body thetans...You just haven't been told the truth yet..
-Nano (written with *incredible* tongue in cheek....www.xenu.net)
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I think that the main point here is that we all accept life bagan elsewhere, probably being started by a grat intergalactic dictator called Xenu, who told Earth that 'All your base are belong to us' and then began the religion of Scientology, which I strictly adhere to, yessiree I sure do.
You can't fault Scientology......nor Earth's colonisation by martian microbes....both are equally valid theories......yep
www.xenu.net
-Nano.
Have a read of Peter F. Hamilton's 'The Reality Dysfunction' trilogy (disappointing ending but hey, the rest was good...) for some very cool investigations into wetware - he calls it 'Neural Nanonics'...rather good name.
Well, I wish we could all be as cool as you Mr. 3l337 superuser, but until people like you accept that there are those of us who just plain want to have a nice looking, sweet-talking graphical installer, I don't think *nix acceptance is going to spread much further.
Well, I reckon someone should hire a smart-ass lawyer to make a good test case out of this and show just how stupid regional coding is in this day and age.
Can I just laugh at the person who still believes in government 'stepping stone' propaganda. 26 years of legalisation in the netherlands has actually reduced opiate usage and dependency. check it out at:
Personally I'd like to see an example program given alongside the same in C/C++ just so that we can all see just what the hell they're on about.
my $.02
well,
it sure is a much easier solution than slowing down our co2 emissions etc and contributing to global warming.....cough cough...load of shi*t
-nano
But there lies the rub: If you convince the law that source code is not literature, then all the protection it enjoys under articles for the freedom of speech (i.e. because source code is seen as literature) start to tumble down around it.
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Well, from someone in the UK - on the front of our census forms it said something to the effect that lying on any of the questions will lead to a fine and/or prosecution EXCEPT for the question on religion.
So, a lot of my friends at Uni. finally realised their dreams of becoming Jedis. I guess for once the UK government did something intelligent and just plain chose to deflect a very heated argument (like how to define a religion - try telling a Jainist or a Satanist or a Zoroastrian that their religions arent recognised by the state) - and also we're guaranteed freedom of religion under the EU human rights charter.
My $0.02
-Nano.
Anyone else here noticed that Nokia = Finnish and Linus Torvalds = Finnish.....hmm...
-Nano.
yeah, shit....that's a good argument. no wonder the US has comparable rates of violent homicide as nations with strict gun laws.
oh no, that's right - it doesn't.
-Nano.
maybe this will be one push that open source developers need to finally produce a system that Joe Average would be willing/able to use.
-Nano.
p.s. any of you arrogant linux users out there who still feel the need to keep linux 'pure' so that only you 31337 h4x0rz can use it should learn it's bigots like you that keep linux away from the wide acceptance you want it to have.
Let's look on the bright side: this law allows us to bypass the Regulation of Investigatory Powers bill(RIP) - we encript our data, and because it is a written piece of material it is automatically afforded copyright protection, therefore if the government (or a police officer) demands your encryption key (which you must provide) they cannot legally decrypt the file, even if they want to because it is protected by this new law!
not the best explanation, but you see where i'm going.
-Nanoakron.
Someone call me silly - but in order to triangulate the position of a frequency-hopping signal, you don't actually need to listen in to what's being said, you just need to find the place where the frequency keeps hopping around so much, because there's obviously someone sat there with some funky technology....
-Nano.
The point is that if *noone* had noticed or /. hadn't raised the point, MS would have just kept on saying that they were *real* screenshots. It's a poor sign for a company to lie so blatantly to its costomers. Imagine if palm came out and said 'oh yeah, those new pictures of the m500 and m505 are just something my son worked out in photoshop - they're really about the size of a shoebox but you won't find out until we've got about 10,000 pre-orders in' don't you think it would harm palm's image?
-Nano.
Finally, good password protection (the current Vx system where you unlock a file and it stays unlocked when you switch the thing off is a joke - that's not security) and a better alarm.....oh, what's this I see - you need to pay $450 to upgrade before you can get these. nice move palm. great customer service and support.
-Nano.
Hmm....just thinking, why not have a 'merge rail' sitting next to a 'high speed rail' so people get onto the merge rail at the slow 35mph....get upto speed before the next merge point (3 miles), and then merge into the high-speed rail running alongside at a more reasonable 70-80mph, so that the fast traffic doesn't need to slow down so much.
The system could be introduced into the outermost 2 lanes of any large 6+ lane highway so that people can still use their normal cars, and when the scheme really takes off, the remaining normal car lanes and be reclaimed and turned into something nice (awww...how pretty ma - real trees!)
-Nano.
My only concern with this is the speed.....I mean, why would I want to jump into something with a top speed of 62mph when I can legally do 70 without breaking a sweat.....I do think that if the main advantage of this system is increased safety due to its train-like nature, then we should also be seeing train-like speeds to encourage people to get into their RUFs and out of their cars.....150mph between cities would convince me and most other long-distance drivers of their worth.
I just have to say that the most important religion on earth...i.e. scientology....accepts the fact that we are all offspring of Xenu the intergalactic ruler and all of his H-bombed body thetans...You just haven't been told the truth yet..
-Nano (written with *incredible* tongue in cheek....www.xenu.net)
I think that the main point here is that we all accept life bagan elsewhere, probably being started by a grat intergalactic dictator called Xenu, who told Earth that 'All your base are belong to us' and then began the religion of Scientology, which I strictly adhere to, yessiree I sure do. You can't fault Scientology......nor Earth's colonisation by martian microbes....both are equally valid theories......yep www.xenu.net -Nano.
Have a read of Peter F. Hamilton's 'The Reality Dysfunction' trilogy (disappointing ending but hey, the rest was good...) for some very cool investigations into wetware - he calls it 'Neural Nanonics'...rather good name.
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I know, I know...offtopic
-Nano.
Well, I wish we could all be as cool as you Mr. 3l337 superuser, but until people like you accept that there are those of us who just plain want to have a nice looking, sweet-talking graphical installer, I don't think *nix acceptance is going to spread much further.
-Nano
Well, I reckon someone should hire a smart-ass lawyer to make a good test case out of this and show just how stupid regional coding is in this day and age.
-Nano
Can I just laugh at the person who still believes in government 'stepping stone' propaganda. 26 years of legalisation in the netherlands has actually reduced opiate usage and dependency. check it out at:
s /m arijuana/marijuana.html
http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/drug
-Nano
Personally I'd like to see an example program given alongside the same in C/C++ just so that we can all see just what the hell they're on about. my $.02
well, it sure is a much easier solution than slowing down our co2 emissions etc and contributing to global warming.....cough cough...load of shi*t -nano
But there lies the rub: If you convince the law that source code is not literature, then all the protection it enjoys under articles for the freedom of speech (i.e. because source code is seen as literature) start to tumble down around it.