From the article "In May of this year, for example, an 18-year-old Miami girl was kidnapped and murdered on a Saturday night. By working with her bank to track transactions on her ATM card, the police were able to follow her abductors as they traveled from one location to another"
If the privacy advocates had their way, this criminal would probably still be out there.
'nuff said.
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"when he scans the bill, the serial number would be unique, so it (hopefully) wouldn't match anything in the Fed's database."
That's the WHOLE POINT!!!! Every number that's been issued would be ON the database so if one is scanned that isn't - BAM you're caught.
The point is that it's much easier to distinguish between a big blue rectangle of paper and a big green rectangle of paper than it is to flick through the stash of notes looking for a 5 or a 10. You will quickly learn that blue means 5 and green means 10 or whatever. Here in the UK, and I guess in mosty of europe, we simply don't look at the numbers. Heck, I couldn't even tell you whete the "5" is on a 5 pound note, I just know it's the "blue" note. We do all our counting by colour, it's so much simpler!
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"The only real advantage i can see would be that you could fan your money and find blue"
Exactly, except it should read "casually glance at it to find the blue". You have to look harder to find the number 5, wheras a blue 5 pound note is blatently obviously different to thr orangy brown 10 pound note
I agree it IS a very busy page, but that link has been there for the last 3 months at least. I agree that maybe the text should be actual text and not a gif, but at least it does stand out on the main page (imho). I can't say that Ive ever been frustrated by not being able to find it though.
If you find the site slashdotted, it's because of the Korea/Italy game - it's the same servers they're using to give a live feed of the match report, and as it's just gone into extra time, it's likely to be congested for the next 45 minutes or so. Soccer fever is one of the very few things that can "slashdot" the bbc, I've only ever seen it once before, that was 9/11
Without intelligence gathering powers like this, then plots like the above mentioned may go undiscovered. Should there be another major terrorist incident, and people question why wasn't it uncovered, do we really want people to say "Beacuse we're obsessed with privacy rights".
I've often said that if it wasn't for games, we'd probably all still be using 486's for our day-to-day desktop office machines. I've always thought that it's been the games market that's driven the technology advances, particularly in sound and video. Of course, there are lots of other applications that require fast hardware, (site servers, video and stills graphic design, university research etc) but for the average joe home user, it's been games which have led to them having a 1ghz+ machine on their desktop for writing docs and surfing the web.
The Linux sources themselves have an even more serious problem with non-free software: they actually contain some. Quite a few device drivers contain series of numbers that represent firmware programs to be installed in the device. These programs are not free software. A few numbers to be deposited into device registers are one thing; a substantial program in binary is another.
The presence of these binary-only programs in "source" files of Linux creates a secondary problem: it calls into question whether Linux binaries can legally be redistributed at all. The GPL requires "complete corresponding source code," and a sequence of integers is not the source code. By the same token, adding such a binary to the Linux sources violates the GPL.
So, you've been warned! Go remove all those illegal copies you have!!!
Nope, that's the 14 day trial for which you have to register and hand over a plastic number. You can call up to cancel withing fourteen days if you don't wnat to be charged the $$$$ each month.
It's a bit more than that. There's a sample of each stable element stored it's relevant place on the table. Look at the pictures - there's a LOT of work in there!
I thought it was highly amusing that when I went to the news story, the article was carrying an Oracle advert. Refresh the page a few times if you don't see it first time.
So, what's the difference between talking on a mobile at a restaurant and talking to your dinner companion ? I don't get this argument at all.
Some say it's because they talk louder on a phone than they do in normal conversation, but I don't see that - if a person is loud on the phone, then usually they are loud in face to face conversation too.
The annoyance of mobiles for me is the stupid ringtones. SET THEM TO VIBRATE people. I do use my phone quite a bit, but nobody ever hears it ring, nd I speak in a normal face to face conversation volume so it doesn't annoy people.
Not to mention that it's also thoroughly antisocial, and potentially dangerous - what if someone genuinely needs to make an urgent call, maybe a medical emergency, and some moron has a jammer on? .
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From the article
"In May of this year, for example, an 18-year-old Miami girl was kidnapped and murdered on a Saturday night. By working with her bank to track transactions on her ATM card, the police were able to follow her abductors as they traveled from one location to another"
If the privacy advocates had their way, this criminal would probably still be out there.
'nuff said.
"when he scans the bill, the serial number would be unique, so it (hopefully) wouldn't match anything in the Fed's database."
That's the WHOLE POINT!!!! Every number that's been issued would be ON the database so if one is scanned that isn't - BAM you're caught.
The point is that it's much easier to distinguish between a big blue rectangle of paper and a big green rectangle of paper than it is to flick through the stash of notes looking for a 5 or a 10. You will quickly learn that blue means 5 and green means 10 or whatever. Here in the UK, and I guess in mosty of europe, we simply don't look at the numbers. Heck, I couldn't even tell you whete the "5" is on a 5 pound note, I just know it's the "blue" note. We do all our counting by colour, it's so much simpler!
"The only real advantage i can see would be that you could fan your money and find blue"
Exactly, except it should read "casually glance at it to find the blue". You have to look harder to find the number 5, wheras a blue 5 pound note is blatently obviously different to thr orangy brown 10 pound note
I agree it IS a very busy page, but that link has been there for the last 3 months at least.
I agree that maybe the text should be actual text and not a gif, but at least it does stand out on the main page (imho). I can't say that Ive ever been frustrated by not being able to find it though.
"Get JavaTM Technology Now" and a big image to click on... How much easier do you want it to be ?
I know it's Foorball, but I translated it for our American friends :)
Didn't know about the stats page, that's cool! Thanks.
If you find the site slashdotted, it's because of the Korea/Italy game - it's the same servers they're using to give a live feed of the match report, and as it's just gone into extra time, it's likely to be congested for the next 45 minutes or so. Soccer fever is one of the very few things that can "slashdot" the bbc, I've only ever seen it once before, that was 9/11
And if one of those few thousand was you wife/child/mother/father ? Would you still be so idealistic?
two words: Dirty Bomb.
Without intelligence gathering powers like this, then plots like the above mentioned may go undiscovered. Should there be another major terrorist incident, and people question why wasn't it uncovered, do we really want people to say "Beacuse we're obsessed with privacy rights".
I've often said that if it wasn't for games, we'd probably all still be using 486's for our day-to-day desktop office machines. I've always thought that it's been the games market that's driven the technology advances, particularly in sound and video. Of course, there are lots of other applications that require fast hardware, (site servers, video and stills graphic design, university research etc) but for the average joe home user, it's been games which have led to them having a 1ghz+ machine on their desktop for writing docs and surfing the web.
To be totally correct, it's IEE1394 but firewire trips off the tongue much easier...
The Linux sources themselves have an even more serious problem with non-free software: they actually contain some. Quite a few device drivers contain series of numbers that represent firmware programs to be installed in the device. These programs are not free software. A few numbers to be deposited into device registers are one thing; a substantial program in binary is another. The presence of these binary-only programs in "source" files of Linux creates a secondary problem: it calls into question whether Linux binaries can legally be redistributed at all. The GPL requires "complete corresponding source code," and a sequence of integers is not the source code. By the same token, adding such a binary to the Linux sources violates the GPL.
So, you've been warned! Go remove all those illegal copies you have!!!
"All your boxen are belong to us?"
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... I knew you could
Why are you using the past tense? They're still used today - Menwith Hill in the UK has dozens of them.
"Interesting, informative, and humorous conent. "
I think that should be "content"
Nope, that's the 14 day trial for which you have to register and hand over a plastic number. You can call up to cancel withing fourteen days if you don't wnat to be charged the $$$$ each month.
Ummmm Go and actually READ the article (gasp!) and then you might understand
It's a bit more than that. There's a sample of each stable element stored it's relevant place on the table. Look at the pictures - there's a LOT of work in there!
The article states that only the stable elements are stored.
I thought it was highly amusing that when I went to the news story, the article was carrying an Oracle advert. Refresh the page a few times if you don't see it first time.
Some say it's because they talk louder on a phone than they do in normal conversation, but I don't see that - if a person is loud on the phone, then usually they are loud in face to face conversation too.
The annoyance of mobiles for me is the stupid ringtones. SET THEM TO VIBRATE people. I do use my phone quite a bit, but nobody ever hears it ring, nd I speak in a normal face to face conversation volume so it doesn't annoy people.
Not to mention that it's also thoroughly antisocial, and potentially dangerous - what if someone genuinely needs to make an urgent call, maybe a medical emergency, and some moron has a jammer on?
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What happens if you become self-employed?
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