so the next time you enter small dealer he can offer you an upgrade to a more expensive service.
Or as happened to me: a dealer ''sold me a phone'' -- what he did was to lie and tell vodafone that he had done so and collected
his kick-back from vodafone for doing so. The first that I knew about it was many months later when I cancelled my contract of some
5 years and vodafone wanted me to pay them some fee since they thought that I had a new phone and new contract!
I wonder where he got all the details about me from, had the Vodafone database been abused many years ago, so how many times since ?
I eventually got them to back down, but I never got a letter of apology -- they don't seem to give a damn.
As far as I am concerned: Vodafone suck -- don't go near them.
I wonder if the US government would go after it quite so much ?
There does seem an attempt to play up the blame on BP and not the part played by Halliburton & others.
Yeah, Look at airplane tickets and how much they have gone down...
The difference is freedom and ease of choice. When you fly you can take a different airline
every day of the week. Changing electricity supply company is not that quick and easy; if your
supplier has a power shortage you can't use another one for a day or so until it recovers.
Understand this: patriotism in the US now means supporting the politicians, not the constitution.
I hope that that is a realistic correction, in that it is the individuals who are pursuing their own agendas and who have the ears of the media who are
the problem. Ie most civil servants would prefer/want to do the right thing, but have to do what their political bosses tell them to do.
Each put £50 into the pot and then you can afford to rent your own server just for wikileaks.
The point is that if/when it gets attacked by your government you don't really care if it is forcibly taken down by someone else.
This is much better than putting a machine that in some way earns you money or something.
You may want to check with the hosting provider first -- if you like them!
You miss my point -- all too often the abuse is claimed just to get the bloke out of the house. Very often is has not happened. If there is an allegation the police will remove the man, in 40% of cases it is the woman who is violent -- they still remove the man.
If there is real violence then it must be dealed with, what happens today is all too often one sided.
If a domain is really being used for illegal activity then I can support this. However: if it is just an irritant to the police/government/... then leave it well alone.
Nomient is asking
whether safeguards are necessary (an appeals process, for example)
-- boggle! Of course there must be an appeals process.
The UK is becoming worse, there is a proposal by the home secretary to throw someone out of his house even if there was not enough evidence to charge; this is going to be abused by wifes who want a divorce -- get the bloke out on made up complaints of violence; by the time that he would be allowed back in she will have started the legal process and grabbed the property and stopped him seeing the kids.
There are plenty of motor car manufacturers, and most people don't just drive a Ford (or whatever). So why is the computing market so different ?
I don't believe that it is down to manufacturing capacity, ie s/ware is so much easier to make many of once you have the first copy; if that was so then the
many smaller manufacturers, the list is huge.
I think that the key is standards, everyone wants the same - especially file formats. The way that MS got to where it is was by taking everyone else's standards and keeping its own as secret as it could.
Whatever reasons: it is something that we should learn from and stop from happening again.
Disclaimer: my desktop has always been Unix based since 1986, Linux for the last 15 years.
they are clearly still an American company - pay the American taxes or go get EU citizenship and move your corporate arses!
It is, or should be, more complicated than that with companies that operate in many different countries -- a multinational.
These should be expected to contribute to the areas where they sell -- ie pay local taxes.
The trouble is that multinationals are able to get away with playing one country off against another -- because getting politicians in different countries to cooperate is like herding cats.
I am not talking about a small company that makes the occasional sale into another country, but those that make significant sales elsewhere.
Genuine national security to deal with real threats that are known to exist and would result in many, many people dead
Puffed up stories about national security to provide an excuse for
making the politicians look as if they are doing something about threats that have been blown up in the media (to sell newspapers)
the police/... carrying out warentless searches on people who are real criminals that they would otherwise not be able to do (legally)
the police/... following the flights of fantasy that come about from too long in the job. If they spend all of their time looking for criminals, they everyone with a funny smile must be evil in some way
keeping the otherwise unemployable in a job at national borders
looking after the political security of elected representatives; eg harass those who threaten to expose the wrong doings of politicians
steal commercial secrets: either from foreign companies or rivals to those in which politicians/police/... have some financial interest
The commercial interests of companies that sell scanners/... These lobby politiians or convince them that there are real threats, just so that they can sell more machines or services
Of all of the reasons, the first is the only justifiable one. If I was really convinced that this was the why these searches were happening then I would
happily submit to them; however I am not convinced and so I am not happy about the searches.
This is not an issue specific to PA territories: in any islamic country you would be screwed if you logged in to Facebook as God and criticized islam. The same would have happened in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey etc. Sadly, the problem is with islamism (and maybe with islam).
You are fortunate that, by accident of birth, you were born in a different location where it is personally dangerous to not profess believe in faith X. This you understand.
You are also fortunate that, by accident of birth, you were not born a few hundred years ago where uttering enacceptable views the inquisition would have done much the same as has happened to this unfortunate man. This is not just a disease of Islam, but many other faiths mistreat those who do not accept their quirky world view.
This is why freedom of speech is so important and is a right that we need to fight to preserve.
This is also why we need a clear division between functioning of the state and any form of religion. In many countries this has been achieved, but some countries are regressing -- the USA is one of these.
The article says that the same ''mis-spellings'' seem to happen all of the time. This suggest that that this is a ''standard'' transformation in the path gene to phenotype.
What the article is saying is that this path is more complicated than we thought it was, we have discovered similar things before and I expect more in the future.
I thought that I would say that before some religious nutter makes the claim that ''this shows that Darwin was wrong''.
they seem to want to keep more and more on me and to compel others to do the same - eg what web sites I have been to, my movements indexed by mobile 'phone cell, spy cameras at the road side,...
If I had DOS then I could have installed an old version of cygwin and then got my favourite GNU tools working!
Jobs would have had a fit it I could have done that.
And then some old person will implement an email client in C using only the oldest and slimmest of libraries and everybody's heads will explode with shock at the speed of it.
They already have and I use it, it is called mutt.
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so the next time you enter small dealer he can offer you an upgrade to a more expensive service.
Or as happened to me: a dealer ''sold me a phone'' -- what he did was to lie and tell vodafone that he had done so and collected his kick-back from vodafone for doing so. The first that I knew about it was many months later when I cancelled my contract of some 5 years and vodafone wanted me to pay them some fee since they thought that I had a new phone and new contract!
I wonder where he got all the details about me from, had the Vodafone database been abused many years ago, so how many times since ?
I eventually got them to back down, but I never got a letter of apology -- they don't seem to give a damn.
As far as I am concerned: Vodafone suck -- don't go near them.
Surely the cards should have been restricted to calling one 'phone numbrer only ???
I wonder if the US government would go after it quite so much ? There does seem an attempt to play up the blame on BP and not the part played by Halliburton & others.
Yeah, Look at airplane tickets and how much they have gone down...
The difference is freedom and ease of choice. When you fly you can take a different airline every day of the week. Changing electricity supply company is not that quick and easy; if your supplier has a power shortage you can't use another one for a day or so until it recovers.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the large blood stained machette that I carry when I go shopping ... :-)
However, soon viewing the above picture will be a criminal offense in the USA, in the UK we will still be able to opt in -- for a little bit.
Understand this: patriotism in the US now means supporting the politicians, not the constitution.
I hope that that is a realistic correction, in that it is the individuals who are pursuing their own agendas and who have the ears of the media who are the problem. Ie most civil servants would prefer/want to do the right thing, but have to do what their political bosses tell them to do.
Each put £50 into the pot and then you can afford to rent your own server just for wikileaks. The point is that if/when it gets attacked by your government you don't really care if it is forcibly taken down by someone else. This is much better than putting a machine that in some way earns you money or something. You may want to check with the hosting provider first -- if you like them!
Sounds like the dystopian future is slowly coming, I seem to remember seeing these in Terry Gilliam's Brazil. Spooky!
You have to see it from the governments point of view. They see him having any sex as a crime because they don't want him to reproduce.
Too late: he already has.
On a separate note: Dear Julian, keep up the good work.
If there is real violence then it must be dealed with, what happens today is all too often one sided.
-- boggle! Of course there must be an appeals process.
The UK is becoming worse, there is a proposal by the home secretary to throw someone out of his house even if there was not enough evidence to charge; this is going to be abused by wifes who want a divorce -- get the bloke out on made up complaints of violence; by the time that he would be allowed back in she will have started the legal process and grabbed the property and stopped him seeing the kids.
They won't. They'll nab you for child pornography that appears on your desk an hour after the dawn raid.
There: fixed that for you.
There are plenty of motor car manufacturers, and most people don't just drive a Ford (or whatever). So why is the computing market so different ? I don't believe that it is down to manufacturing capacity, ie s/ware is so much easier to make many of once you have the first copy; if that was so then the many smaller manufacturers, the list is huge.
I think that the key is standards, everyone wants the same - especially file formats. The way that MS got to where it is was by taking everyone else's standards and keeping its own as secret as it could. Whatever reasons: it is something that we should learn from and stop from happening again.
Disclaimer: my desktop has always been Unix based since 1986, Linux for the last 15 years.
and don't get caught: was how a legal person explained to me about lying in court. Basically some solicitors will do anything to line their pockets.
they are clearly still an American company - pay the American taxes or go get EU citizenship and move your corporate arses!
It is, or should be, more complicated than that with companies that operate in many different countries -- a multinational. These should be expected to contribute to the areas where they sell -- ie pay local taxes. The trouble is that multinationals are able to get away with playing one country off against another -- because getting politicians in different countries to cooperate is like herding cats.
I am not talking about a small company that makes the occasional sale into another country, but those that make significant sales elsewhere.
Of all of the reasons, the first is the only justifiable one. If I was really convinced that this was the why these searches were happening then I would happily submit to them; however I am not convinced and so I am not happy about the searches.
grabbing my penis, fondling my beasts
Wow! You must be an interesting shape! :-)
why Vincent cut his ear off, he was trying to escape detection ....... :-)
This is not an issue specific to PA territories: in any islamic country you would be screwed if you logged in to Facebook as God and criticized islam. The same would have happened in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey etc. Sadly, the problem is with islamism (and maybe with islam).
You are fortunate that, by accident of birth, you were born in a different location where it is personally dangerous to not profess believe in faith X. This you understand.
You are also fortunate that, by accident of birth, you were not born a few hundred years ago where uttering enacceptable views the inquisition would have done much the same as has happened to this unfortunate man. This is not just a disease of Islam, but many other faiths mistreat those who do not accept their quirky world view.
This is why freedom of speech is so important and is a right that we need to fight to preserve.
This is also why we need a clear division between functioning of the state and any form of religion. In many countries this has been achieved, but some countries are regressing -- the USA is one of these.
I thought that I would say that before some religious nutter makes the claim that ''this shows that Darwin was wrong''.
they seem to want to keep more and more on me and to compel others to do the same - eg what web sites I have been to, my movements indexed by mobile 'phone cell, spy cameras at the road side, ...
I quite agree, maybe we just get someone to put in a complaing about human rights.
If I had DOS then I could have installed an old version of cygwin and then got my favourite GNU tools working! Jobs would have had a fit it I could have done that.
And then some old person will implement an email client in C using only the oldest and slimmest of libraries and everybody's heads will explode with shock at the speed of it.
They already have and I use it, it is called mutt.