I believe CCTV, properly used, is a good supplement to traditional and other policing methods. CCTV used as a replacement for the above has a roughly negative overall effect.
CCTV provides objective evidence in court, can be used for public appeals (to good effect, looking for both suspects and missing kids or whatever).
I'd bet most of these people arguing with my initial statement are of the gun-owning-right-defending variety, but would fail to see the blatant double standard; "Guns good but people bad, CCTV bad all on its own".
I live in BB capital of the world, the UK. There's 4 million cameras here for 60 million people.
I've never heard of a single instance of someone suborning CCTV for their own ends, and it has to be said, I'm a lot happier that someone is keeping an eye on my mother as she goes shopping, walks through "underpasses" etc.
While I'm sure it's hard studying something that by definition you can never experience, measure or predict, I'd rather get my climate scares from a meteor-, climat- or oceanologist, thanks very much.
I can't remember whose idea it was originally, but the best one yet IMO is an exponential increase in copyright renewal fees.
Produce something, and the copyright's yours for 10 years. At the end of 10 years it's either PD'd or you pay 10,000 dollars to renew copyright. Another 10 years, you pay 1,000,000. Eventually, say you have a large-eared mouse that's a fundamental part of your income, you can afford to re-copyright it.
This method (poorly described here) applies free market darwinism to copyright.
The BBC tech guys at Kingswood Warren "got it" (I remember their webcam with a huge inflatable Tux in the background..)
They were "right-sized" as part of the preparation for the sell-off of BBC Technology (which is a national shame), and their new marketdroid paymasters took one look at their (underappreciated here) efforts to ogg etc stuff and said "get back to work".
How do you know? If they did have a well kept secret, it's well kept so you might not have found out. I'm not trying to be rude, just trying to point out that just because you know some things, doesn't mean you know everything
See, there's things we know we know. And there's things we know we don't know. Then...
This was touched on earlier but not fully expanded;
Google isn't a search engine. It isn't a portal, or a SP, or even a web engine.
It's an operating system, deisgned to run on thousanmds of servers, be self-healing etc etc. There's much more about this back here
Cue, MS scalable OS for clusters. The first rule of "embrace and extend" is working out what to embrace, and I think they hit the nail on the head.
I just can't wait for the PSP to come out, so prices for decent sized Memory Stick Duo cards come down out of the sky somewhat.
I knew the 512Mb one was going to be expensive when I saw that it was a Sony Memory Stick Duo Pro. "Pro" is like a multiplier on Sony kit./frustrated P800 owner
I'd say that a program that installs itself and runs constantly without my asking it to, that can't be disabled or stopped from within itself, and which includes a built-in SMTP engine for mailing out stuff to HQ counts as Spyware.
Who said anything about Linux? Just because I'm hanging out on slashdot..;)
I run Linux on my router, Xbox and TiVo, and no-where else. My powerbook runs a better multics simulator as standard and my x86 runs WinXP (only ever over RDP from the powerbook though - bit faster and more useful than a virtual PC).
I was being a bit of a devil's advocate - I use my Xbox for video, which is mplayer.
I get annoyed that the BBC, which I pay for, only uses Real formats for their distribution (Dirac, I know, I know). What this means for all of my windows friends/relatives is they all run RealPlayer, and all hate the pop-ups, nags, etc. On principle the BBC should not be making their funders use a commercial format, when there are dozens of viable open formats.
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Amplification, again;
I believe CCTV, properly used, is a good supplement to traditional and other policing methods. CCTV used as a replacement for the above has a roughly negative overall effect.
CCTV provides objective evidence in court, can be used for public appeals (to good effect, looking for both suspects and missing kids or whatever).
I'd bet most of these people arguing with my initial statement are of the gun-owning-right-defending variety, but would fail to see the blatant double standard; "Guns good but people bad, CCTV bad all on its own".
I agree that CCTV is a supplement, not a replacement. But it does have an inherent deterrent value of its own.
The danger is that people don't see the need for a "multi-prong" approach, and just jump from one whizz-bang Ultimate Solution to another.
The concept of deterrent is obviously lost on you.
I live in BB capital of the world, the UK. There's 4 million cameras here for 60 million people.
I've never heard of a single instance of someone suborning CCTV for their own ends, and it has to be said, I'm a lot happier that someone is keeping an eye on my mother as she goes shopping, walks through "underpasses" etc.
Everything's a balance, people.
And don't forget that NT is certified secure by the DoD (providing it's not plugged into any sort of network)...
Also relevant; this article from 1998, titled "Should Feds Trust Windows NT?"
Yeah, they've added a Continue... payfer to it since I went there. Very capitalist of them.
The sentence was something like "if anyone objects, I'll tell them to not bother rejuvenating and just go die somewhere" [extremely paraphrased].
I didn't see anything about a fee.
/.ers
Maybe they're gouging
Yes and no, in that order.
Sorry, but "that's your problem, not mine, why should I care, piss off and die" is a very American answer to a "why are you..." question.
While I'm sure it's hard studying something that by definition you can never experience, measure or predict, I'd rather get my climate scares from a meteor-, climat- or oceanologist, thanks very much.
I can't remember whose idea it was originally, but the best one yet IMO is an exponential increase in copyright renewal fees.
Produce something, and the copyright's yours for 10 years. At the end of 10 years it's either PD'd or you pay 10,000 dollars to renew copyright. Another 10 years, you pay 1,000,000. Eventually, say you have a large-eared mouse that's a fundamental part of your income, you can afford to re-copyright it.
This method (poorly described here) applies free market darwinism to copyright.
It's really quite simple.
The BBC tech guys at Kingswood Warren "got it" (I remember their webcam with a huge inflatable Tux in the background..)
They were "right-sized" as part of the preparation for the sell-off of BBC Technology (which is a national shame), and their new marketdroid paymasters took one look at their (underappreciated here) efforts to ogg etc stuff and said "get back to work".
And besides, whatever the technicalities, Gilligan was right.
No, he stated that number 10 deliberately and knowingly included untrue information in the dossier, in his 6:07 broadcast.
He made a mistake, chose his words poorly, and a man paid for it with his life (through his own volition, but still).
Unless you can prove that Number 10 did do it deliberately? If you can, you have the power to bring down a government, so I suspect you don't.
TR3-A, B... ;)
How do you know? If they did have a well kept secret, it's well kept so you might not have found out. I'm not trying to be rude, just trying to point out that just because you know some things, doesn't mean you know everything
See, there's things we know we know. And there's things we know we don't know. Then...
This was touched on earlier but not fully expanded; Google isn't a search engine. It isn't a portal, or a SP, or even a web engine. It's an operating system, deisgned to run on thousanmds of servers, be self-healing etc etc. There's much more about this back here Cue, MS scalable OS for clusters. The first rule of "embrace and extend" is working out what to embrace, and I think they hit the nail on the head.
I just can't wait for the PSP to come out, so prices for decent sized Memory Stick Duo cards come down out of the sky somewhat. I knew the 512Mb one was going to be expensive when I saw that it was a Sony Memory Stick Duo Pro. "Pro" is like a multiplier on Sony kit. /frustrated P800 owner
I'm not talking about Linux, as I explain elsewhere in the thread. Last I checked, /. wasn't OS-specific.
You don't quite seem to have grasped the unique way in which the BBC is funded. Namely, compulsorily, by act of law.
I'd say that a program that installs itself and runs constantly without my asking it to, that can't be disabled or stopped from within itself, and which includes a built-in SMTP engine for mailing out stuff to HQ counts as Spyware.
Maybe we just have differing definitions.
Yes, ultimately it boils down to the fact that I like being able to control what runs on my PC and uses my resources.
I dislike having to install all of the above to watch something I paid for in the first place (10.56 per month last I checked).
Who said anything about Linux? Just because I'm hanging out on slashdot.. ;)
I run Linux on my router, Xbox and TiVo, and no-where else. My powerbook runs a better multics simulator as standard and my x86 runs WinXP (only ever over RDP from the powerbook though - bit faster and more useful than a virtual PC).
I was being a bit of a devil's advocate - I use my Xbox for video, which is mplayer.
/personal bugbear
I get annoyed that the BBC, which I pay for, only uses Real formats for their distribution (Dirac, I know, I know). What this means for all of my windows friends/relatives is they all run RealPlayer, and all hate the pop-ups, nags, etc. On principle the BBC should not be making their funders use a commercial format, when there are dozens of viable open formats.
So when can I watch a .rm without filling my system full of nagware, adware, spyware and bloatware?