He was in US custody from December 2001, and was only charged last month (ie, over six years later!). I encourage you to read the page, it's quite enlightening (in a gruesome way).
Most disturbingly, you've got to wonder why his release (probably at the end of the year) is conditional on him not talking to media for a year...
Nobody seems to be taking into account eye motion. Surely the eye moving about would increase the effective resolution visible, even though the real resolution of the eye isn't so great?
Bizarre. Here (Australia), as someone else has commented, everything is broadcast in SD. Some shows are also broadcast in HD at the same time. Besides, HD boxes will be cheap soon enough!
Actually, there's one big reason they couldn't be a similar price in the US... HDTV. Your dirt-cheap DVB box only decodes DVD-resolution digital broadcast. When you have much more bandwidth, and 6X the resolution, you need far beefier chips.
Don't US broadcasters send both SD and HD signals?
What this means is that the content cabal is asserting that they are the only ones with the right to encrypt using AACS by virtue of the fact that they are the only ones who can license others to decrypt using AACS. If I decide I want to encrypt something with AACS, I'm going to need a player that decrypts it. I don't need the content cabal's sacred keys - I just need the keys that I generate to decrypt my own work. This software provides the mechanism for applying my keys to my content.
So what we need is somebody to encrypt a bunch of work using AACS, and start issuing DMCA notices to HD-DVD / Blu-ray manufacturers...
It still means something when your TiVo suddenly stops getting new episodes for no reason, and you can't tell when the next one was coming. Hope that wasn't a cliff-hanger!:)
I'm quite disgusted at how some other shows get treated. Stargate and Farscape are two great examples.
Both shows moved timeslots. Frequently. Several times a season.
Both shows "paused" mid-season, to suddenly re-appear 6 months later (with no or minimal advertising - don't watch the TV guide like a hawk? Too bad).
Star Trek has been similarly treated. Every new series started out at 8:30PM. Then 9:30. 11:30PM. Then "11:30PM, as long as the show before doesn't run too late, and there's no tennis on".
Could one not argue similarly about Wicca? Only really became known as a religion in the 50s, secrets are passed between members (Book of Shadows etc).
I'm -really- tired of people saying how well OpenOffice works when it doesn't. Just because it -is- an alternative doesn't mean it's superior, or even on an even footing with its competition.
Depends on the criteria used to judge superiority... For me, something in Debian Unstable is much more preferable than something not, just for ease of (un)install & upgrades. There are only a couple of things that I use that aren't available through apt, and they almost never get updated, because it's just too much hassle. They also typically don't fit into my desktop theme. I can't flick a document to a friend with a comment "if you can't open it, just get the software yourself".
On the other hand, if you want "word count" in a sensible place...;)
If there's plenty to go around, then why not spend some of it on boondoggles like Iraq or NASA?
I meant that if the Iraq war hadn't been funded, there would be enough money to fund NASA, improve health-care and education, and still give millions to needy people in other countries, if that's what was desired.
It just seems kind of stupid to me, to complain that we're spending our spare change on one luxury item instead of another luxury item, with all the trouble in the world today...
It's a matter of scale. Billions upon billions of dollars have been spent on an invasion of a foreign country, and NASA seems to have trouble finding the odd million to service Hubble every few years etc.
Said state-owned telco is still screwing people over, but is forced to allow access; this includes ISPs being allowed to install DSLAMs for DSL2+ into exchanges.
You'd let people vote directly on a war? Remember that the U.S. initiative against Iraq was helped by the confusion in the popular mind that the 9/11 hijackers had significant ties to Iraq. If the public is emotionally stirred up and ignorant enough, all kinds of bad things can happen if you give them the change to go wild. Furthermore, the people would instantly vote away their liberties if they thought it would gain them some security, and they would then turn on that portion of the population which rejected calls for tighter restrictions on whatever matters.
Yup, I'm so glad we don't let people vote directly. We'd be at war and be losing civil liberties left and right!
The third one seems a valid reason to retract a bid.
Which still leaves a nice wide-open loophole. I'd probably argue that all three should be closed. If you have a question, it should be either before you place your first bid, or after you've won the auction. IMHO it's a "fair" trade-off. At the very least, make them email eBay and ask nicely to undo the bid - and have eBay automatically compare all the request emails to make sure they're not automated:)
Curiously written? There's an understatement. I'm sure if your stretch your imagination to its limit with apologist interpretations the bible can also be used as a car repair guide.
Seriously, once my car wouldn't start, and I couldn't figure out why. Then I read what the bible had to say about things starting. It said "Let there be light". I took a look at the spark plugs, and woudn't you know it, no light in there. So I got new ones, and then there was light in there, and the car worked.
See, the bible really can be used as a care repair guide.
Now, I took it to mean that I needed to use a lighter on the petrol to start the car.
Rubbish. Every Linux user I know personally (ok, only a dozen or so) is required to use Windows as their primary desktop OS at their place of work. This even includes some people who are primarily Linux developers.
My office allows people to pick their OS. I run Linux. Most run XP. Quite a few others run OS X.
One of my friends uses XP at home and Linux at work, now that I consider somewhat amusing:)
The bank will make you sign a whole bunch of stuff saying it wasn't an authorized transaction. If you're really really sure, then there's no problem if anybody decides to take you to court - since you can tell them all the things you did to try to stop them in good faith.
I actually reported my card lost and had it replaced in order to get rid of an Earthlink DSL account a couple of years ago. Even though I (or anyone else) hadn't lived at the DSL location for 6 mos, and the phone line asociated w/ the acount had been disconnected for the same amount of time, they would not cancel the acount, so I did what I had to do.
For future reference (or other people reading), the best thing to do if your CC is being charged when it shouldn't, is talk to the bank. The bank issues a chargeback to the merchant (ie. Earthlink), takes the money back from them, gives it to you, then stiffs the merchant with a fee. Your account will stop being charged very quickly if you do that a couple of times. If everybody did it, companies would wise up pretty quick!
Note that you have to really really make sure you've done everything you can to stop the merchant first.
If you had ANY idea how close they already are to real time with simply correlating credit card data and mobile phone cell lock records, you'd shit yourself.
I can't speak for how it works in England, but what I've seen here in Australia doesn't concern me at all. Seriously.
3. Credit Card security systems. I'm not concerned with credit card fraud. I hate Citibank -- they block my card about twice a week because I travel to a new city or country every week. If someone steals my card, I am not liable -- neither is Citibank. The retailer is. Security should be at the retail end. I do a chargeback, the merchant account provider charges back the merchant. End of story. I hate security on credit, it is ridiculous and limits me all the time.
I don't agree that the retailer necessarily should be the only place responsible for losses. eg. if an online merchant has a stolen card number used, they get the chargeback, plus a chargeback fee, for a card they can't even see. Or if you don't sign your card immediately, it gets lost/stolen, signed by someone else, then used - who is really responsible?
A lot of the time there really isn't a fair place to put the loss, IMHO.
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The Australian of which you speak is David Hicks.
He was in US custody from December 2001, and was only charged last month (ie, over six years later!). I encourage you to read the page, it's quite enlightening (in a gruesome way).
Most disturbingly, you've got to wonder why his release (probably at the end of the year) is conditional on him not talking to media for a year...
Nobody seems to be taking into account eye motion. Surely the eye moving about would increase the effective resolution visible, even though the real resolution of the eye isn't so great?
Bizarre. Here (Australia), as someone else has commented, everything is broadcast in SD. Some shows are also broadcast in HD at the same time. Besides, HD boxes will be cheap soon enough!
Don't US broadcasters send both SD and HD signals?
So what we need is somebody to encrypt a bunch of work using AACS, and start issuing DMCA notices to HD-DVD / Blu-ray manufacturers...
It still means something when your TiVo suddenly stops getting new episodes for no reason, and you can't tell when the next one was coming. Hope that wasn't a cliff-hanger! :)
These days I don't watch any normal TV.
I'm quite disgusted at how some other shows get treated. Stargate and Farscape are two great examples.
Both shows moved timeslots. Frequently. Several times a season.
Both shows "paused" mid-season, to suddenly re-appear 6 months later (with no or minimal advertising - don't watch the TV guide like a hawk? Too bad).
Star Trek has been similarly treated. Every new series started out at 8:30PM. Then 9:30. 11:30PM. Then "11:30PM, as long as the show before doesn't run too late, and there's no tennis on".
You and I have must disagree on what "recent" means
Could one not argue similarly about Wicca? Only really became known as a religion in the 50s, secrets are passed between members (Book of Shadows etc).
I wouldn't want to clump it with Scientology!
I'm -really- tired of people saying how well OpenOffice works when it doesn't. Just because it -is- an alternative doesn't mean it's superior, or even on an even footing with its competition.
;)
Depends on the criteria used to judge superiority... For me, something in Debian Unstable is much more preferable than something not, just for ease of (un)install & upgrades. There are only a couple of things that I use that aren't available through apt, and they almost never get updated, because it's just too much hassle. They also typically don't fit into my desktop theme. I can't flick a document to a friend with a comment "if you can't open it, just get the software yourself".
On the other hand, if you want "word count" in a sensible place...
If there's plenty to go around, then why not spend some of it on boondoggles like Iraq or NASA?
I meant that if the Iraq war hadn't been funded, there would be enough money to fund NASA, improve health-care and education, and still give millions to needy people in other countries, if that's what was desired.
It just seems kind of stupid to me, to complain that we're spending our spare change on one luxury item instead of another luxury item, with all the trouble in the world today...
It's a matter of scale. Billions upon billions of dollars have been spent on an invasion of a foreign country, and NASA seems to have trouble finding the odd million to service Hubble every few years etc.
Said state-owned telco is still screwing people over, but is forced to allow access; this includes ISPs being allowed to install DSLAMs for DSL2+ into exchanges.
And you want to spend the Iraq war funds on telescopes to watch a robot land on Mars?
He didn't say the whole amount, he said part. There's plenty to go around.
See also: NYT article, "What $1.2 Trillion can buy".
Unless, of course, eBay doesn't show anybody who the winning bidder is until after it's over. Then all the shill problems disappear...
Can you be my friend?
(Please?)
Now, I took it to mean that I needed to use a lighter on the petrol to start the car.
Didn't turn out so well... damn interpretation!
You could look for an oxygen/carbon-dioxide atmosphere, but then you're just making assumptions about what sort of life you're looking for...
My office allows people to pick their OS. I run Linux. Most run XP. Quite a few others run OS X.
One of my friends uses XP at home and Linux at work, now that I consider somewhat amusing
Or, they could ask the questions after taking the photos...
The bank will make you sign a whole bunch of stuff saying it wasn't an authorized transaction. If you're really really sure, then there's no problem if anybody decides to take you to court - since you can tell them all the things you did to try to stop them in good faith.
For future reference (or other people reading), the best thing to do if your CC is being charged when it shouldn't, is talk to the bank. The bank issues a chargeback to the merchant (ie. Earthlink), takes the money back from them, gives it to you, then stiffs the merchant with a fee. Your account will stop being charged very quickly if you do that a couple of times. If everybody did it, companies would wise up pretty quick!
Note that you have to really really make sure you've done everything you can to stop the merchant first.
I can't speak for how it works in England, but what I've seen here in Australia doesn't concern me at all. Seriously.
I don't agree that the retailer necessarily should be the only place responsible for losses. eg. if an online merchant has a stolen card number used, they get the chargeback, plus a chargeback fee, for a card they can't even see. Or if you don't sign your card immediately, it gets lost/stolen, signed by someone else, then used - who is really responsible?
A lot of the time there really isn't a fair place to put the loss, IMHO.