You don't know that. What you know is that it helped prevent them in that specific location. Unless you have detailed data to back it up you simply have no basis for claiming that the reduction in crimes at that specific location wasn't matched by an equivalent rise somewhere else.
If you put up a camera in a single location in an area that was not previously targeted, then it would be extremely stupid of people to continue their behavior right there. That does not automatically mean they stopped, when they could have just moved somewhere else.
That's "only" 6 per square kilometer of London, and with large parts of them concentrated in the centre, along major arteries and shopping streets.
They're a drop in the sea compared to privately owned cameras, and while the UK have many of them I really doubt there's that many more privately owned cameras here than elsewhere.
No, they are not. The vast majority of privately owned CCTV cameras in the UK are either just connected to a monitor or to a recording device, and the vast majority of people using recording devices will cycle tapes regularly. Why? Because they don't want the cost of keeping archives AND under the Data Protection Act anyone can demand copies of any footage they appear on, as long as they can give a rough time and location.
What do you mean "hit"? Unless you mean "we" as in your family or your employer we're well past that point already.
There are a lot larger arrays than 10TB for sale. The company I order servers from at work delivers standard configurations up to 24TB, and the only reason they don't offer anything larger is that their customer base is mainly relatively small companies that wouldn't need it. IBM sells "off the shelf" systems that can scale to at least 512TB...
Heck, I've got the space for more than 10TB worth of RAID5 storage in my home machine, just no use for it (might come in handy for heating come winter, though...)
No, they don't, but on the other hand none of the things you listed are even remotely hard to write either (yes, I've written all of them, and yes they've been highly scalable - one of my message queue apps was even written in Ruby). It's hardly rocket science.
The possibility of registering your copyright has "always" existed. In fact, it used to be mandatory to do so to get copyright protection. This doesn't alter the risk of someone fraudulently registering for copyright in a work they didn't create. Neither does it change the fact that doing so is clearly illegal.
Totally off-topic, but I find it interesting how dark Norway is. I think they have as dense population as Sweden which is much brighter and much denser than Finland, which is bright in the southern part and dark in the north. Norway has a population density of around 13 people per square kilometer, and of that population, about a quarter is located in a small region in the South East, with most of the rest in a narrow band around the coast. Sweden has twice the population, concentrated heavily in the south but more evenly spread out over a larger region of the south than in Norway (the entire centre of the bulbous part of Southern Norway is mountains).
I don't get why you find it difficult to believe. I have the same attitude.
But I wouldn't send my body to some random stranger for the reason that it might matter to my relatives. I might not care, but if they do, then I'm not going to rob them of the possibility of having a ceremony or whatever they'd like.
If they decide they'd be happy to let you do whatever you have in mind to my dead body, then what do I care?
It's not like I visit the grave sites of m dead relatives - I'd rather think of them in happier terms than as a rotting corpse, so the whole obsession with funerals is really quite distasteful and alien to me.
Which would be a damn lot safer to just use scp (optional: via a third country) to transfer out. In my last job I had ssh sessions going from California to Beijing a lot of the time, and also from London to California and London to Beijing at the same time. If I had access to export restricted information and wanted to ship it somewhere, there's no way in hell I'd even remotely consider physically carrying it on me. Especially not through a US airport.
The interesting thing is that while laying underwater cable is pretty costly, for long legs it's very competitive compared to land based cable systems. Europe's connections to South East Asia for example are abysmal. From the UK at least huge chunks of the traffic end up routed the "long way round" over the Atlantic to the US, over land to the west coast and then over the pacific. Trust me when I say that ssh over a connection that takes the long way around from London to Beijing is no fun.
Part of it is of course that for underwater cables you don't have to deal with pesky roads and buildings that people don't appreciate you laying cables over, and digging cable trenches cutting through built up areas is extremely expensive.
So in other words the solution for those of us who hate those ridiculous names is to start using them with 5-6 wildly different definitions to make them more ambiguous... Hmm. good idea.
Just because you're as incompetent when it comes to designing sane XML schemas as Microsoft doesn't mean a well designed XML based format would be anywhere near that verbose.
This is far older than Torchwood. John Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar" from 1968 had the same concept, and the idea might very well be older than that too.
If you think Quorn tastes like meat you have mostly tasted meat that have a distinct similarity to carboard. Quorn is far better than Tofu or other soy based products to me, but it's only hard to distinguish from meat if the meat is bad quality and poorly prepared and the Quorn is seasoned excessively with fat and/or spices.
If you were able to come up with a "simple XSL transform" to convert between ODF and OOXML, you really should start licensing it - you'd make a ton of money.
The problem is that these people did not have the power to decide to vote or not. It was/is decided for them by the people running Standard Norway.
80% of the committee were likely to vote no but were not given the chance, because the leadership of Standard Norway didn't want to take a vote but made them leave.
What you are saying adapted to what actually happened could be rephrased as "if people don't vote when we don't hold elections it's ok to make decisions for them", which I'm sure is a justification a lot of dictators would find very pleasing, but really has no room in a standards organization which is meant to represent the needs of the industry and the populace, not the needs of a convicted monopolist trying to shove a piece of junk through a process that was designed for a completely different use.
That doesn't work if ANY person in the room don't WANT to come to consensus that the comments aren't satisfactorily resolved. Seeing as Microsoft, Statoil (a major Microsoft partner) and the Standard Norge employees wanted a yes result there could be no consensus on those issues no matter what the remaining 80% wanted.
Essentially the system is set up so that the employees can overrun their technical committee at any time. Having at least a one or two members refusing to go along with the vast majority just makes their job justifying it a little bit easier, since they can use the "no consensus" excuse.
Using lack of consensus as an excuse to vote for the alternative with least support shows that an excuse is all it was.
I still would like to see the USA withdraw all troops from Europe and the middle east, and let those people get their own oil, for the things Chirac said.
A pretty significant number of people both in Europe and the Middle East would thank you if you did.
Alex Brown may complain all he wants, but after the way he managed the ballot resolution meeting, either he doesn't know or understand the rules all that well, or he ignored them on purpose. I HOPE he just didn't know what he was doing, and I can see why he wants people to stop focusing on how he did his job, but that doesn't make it any less appalling.
If you had RTFA'd you'd have seen that what they claim is that the pollutants bond with the molecules causing the scents and that as a result neutralize the scents much closer to the source. It is not about the scent being overpowered, but removed. Hence the smell would not travel further, because it wouldn't exist anymore - the molecules causing them will be a part of a different chemical compound.
The article doesn't give enough details to judge the quality of the research.
Go read some history. Just because unions were co-opted and abused at some point does not make them all bad. If it weren't for US unions we'd all still be worked nearly to death - it was decades of fight, including significant loss of life from union members, that brought us to 8-hour working day for example.
You're not on a 32-hour work week because your unions have been broken. It was US unions that forced through the 40-hour workweek through decades of demonstrations, legal and illegal strikes and high risk organization work (see the employers didn't like the increasing unionization).
Many of your union reps. and members gave their lives to secure the 8-hour day.
To me, that is one of the things that you Americans should be most proud of, yet most of you seem to have absolutely no awareness about how much the US labor movement actually did for the world. Think about it on May 1st when the rest of the world see massive demonstrations on a day that was originally organized as a direct result of the fight of the US unions for the 8-hour day.
Probably because the distinction has little meaning other than for legal purposes. I'd guess that in common use the distinction will have disappeared within decades.
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If you put up a camera in a single location in an area that was not previously targeted, then it would be extremely stupid of people to continue their behavior right there. That does not automatically mean they stopped, when they could have just moved somewhere else.
They're a drop in the sea compared to privately owned cameras, and while the UK have many of them I really doubt there's that many more privately owned cameras here than elsewhere.
No, they are not. The vast majority of privately owned CCTV cameras in the UK are either just connected to a monitor or to a recording device, and the vast majority of people using recording devices will cycle tapes regularly. Why? Because they don't want the cost of keeping archives AND under the Data Protection Act anyone can demand copies of any footage they appear on, as long as they can give a rough time and location.
Very few of them are networked in any way.
There are a lot larger arrays than 10TB for sale. The company I order servers from at work delivers standard configurations up to 24TB, and the only reason they don't offer anything larger is that their customer base is mainly relatively small companies that wouldn't need it. IBM sells "off the shelf" systems that can scale to at least 512TB...
Heck, I've got the space for more than 10TB worth of RAID5 storage in my home machine, just no use for it (might come in handy for heating come winter, though...)
And if you'd RTFA'd, you'd have known that is not what he's comparing.
The one place a guy can say he is a lesbian in a mans body without making a crappy joke.
No, they don't, but on the other hand none of the things you listed are even remotely hard to write either (yes, I've written all of them, and yes they've been highly scalable - one of my message queue apps was even written in Ruby). It's hardly rocket science.
The possibility of registering your copyright has "always" existed. In fact, it used to be mandatory to do so to get copyright protection. This doesn't alter the risk of someone fraudulently registering for copyright in a work they didn't create. Neither does it change the fact that doing so is clearly illegal.
But I wouldn't send my body to some random stranger for the reason that it might matter to my relatives. I might not care, but if they do, then I'm not going to rob them of the possibility of having a ceremony or whatever they'd like.
If they decide they'd be happy to let you do whatever you have in mind to my dead body, then what do I care?
It's not like I visit the grave sites of m dead relatives - I'd rather think of them in happier terms than as a rotting corpse, so the whole obsession with funerals is really quite distasteful and alien to me.
Which would be a damn lot safer to just use scp (optional: via a third country) to transfer out. In my last job I had ssh sessions going from California to Beijing a lot of the time, and also from London to California and London to Beijing at the same time. If I had access to export restricted information and wanted to ship it somewhere, there's no way in hell I'd even remotely consider physically carrying it on me. Especially not through a US airport.
Part of it is of course that for underwater cables you don't have to deal with pesky roads and buildings that people don't appreciate you laying cables over, and digging cable trenches cutting through built up areas is extremely expensive.
So in other words the solution for those of us who hate those ridiculous names is to start using them with 5-6 wildly different definitions to make them more ambiguous... Hmm. good idea.
Just because you're as incompetent when it comes to designing sane XML schemas as Microsoft doesn't mean a well designed XML based format would be anywhere near that verbose.
This is far older than Torchwood. John Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar" from 1968 had the same concept, and the idea might very well be older than that too.
If you think Quorn tastes like meat you have mostly tasted meat that have a distinct similarity to carboard. Quorn is far better than Tofu or other soy based products to me, but it's only hard to distinguish from meat if the meat is bad quality and poorly prepared and the Quorn is seasoned excessively with fat and/or spices.
If you were able to come up with a "simple XSL transform" to convert between ODF and OOXML, you really should start licensing it - you'd make a ton of money.
80% of the committee were likely to vote no but were not given the chance, because the leadership of Standard Norway didn't want to take a vote but made them leave.
What you are saying adapted to what actually happened could be rephrased as "if people don't vote when we don't hold elections it's ok to make decisions for them", which I'm sure is a justification a lot of dictators would find very pleasing, but really has no room in a standards organization which is meant to represent the needs of the industry and the populace, not the needs of a convicted monopolist trying to shove a piece of junk through a process that was designed for a completely different use.
Essentially the system is set up so that the employees can overrun their technical committee at any time. Having at least a one or two members refusing to go along with the vast majority just makes their job justifying it a little bit easier, since they can use the "no consensus" excuse.
Using lack of consensus as an excuse to vote for the alternative with least support shows that an excuse is all it was.
A pretty significant number of people both in Europe and the Middle East would thank you if you did.
Alex Brown may complain all he wants, but after the way he managed the ballot resolution meeting, either he doesn't know or understand the rules all that well, or he ignored them on purpose. I HOPE he just didn't know what he was doing, and I can see why he wants people to stop focusing on how he did his job, but that doesn't make it any less appalling.
The article doesn't give enough details to judge the quality of the research.
Go read some history. Just because unions were co-opted and abused at some point does not make them all bad. If it weren't for US unions we'd all still be worked nearly to death - it was decades of fight, including significant loss of life from union members, that brought us to 8-hour working day for example.
Many of your union reps. and members gave their lives to secure the 8-hour day.
To me, that is one of the things that you Americans should be most proud of, yet most of you seem to have absolutely no awareness about how much the US labor movement actually did for the world. Think about it on May 1st when the rest of the world see massive demonstrations on a day that was originally organized as a direct result of the fight of the US unions for the 8-hour day.
Probably because the distinction has little meaning other than for legal purposes. I'd guess that in common use the distinction will have disappeared within decades.