Today via DNS, tomorrow the great firewall of China will be translated into English. The whole principle is wrong. If someone puts child porn up, there are laws to deal with that. If someone is viewing it, then bust down their door and deal with what they now have on their computer. There are appropriate ways of dealing with it that do not involve a Chinese style nanny state creeping slowly into the UK and the "Oooh, it does not affect me" brigade are enabling the strangulation of the net.
The idea that the sight of a naked child is pornographic is completely stupid as is the idea that there is no child porn that needs to be dealt with. What is the way to deal with child porn? Why ban it? Are we really afraid that more people will come to like it? If not then we should not need to ban it as the obvious thing to do is to go and seize the server and arrest the owners. No ban required, deal with the problem. If it is in another country then log the traffic to find the customers etc. Deal with the problem not the phobia. This is all theatre. If they know where it is in order to block it are they really saying that they are not going to deal with it? It is OK to leave it there for anyone that can find a way to circumvent the block?
As a Johnny Foreigner who had the cost of his last passport double to comply with the visa waiver fee, I for one feel shafted. I wish my spinless poodle run government had told Bushbaby to stuff his visa waiver scheme and allowed me to keep my cheap passport and apply for a visa if and when I want to go to the land of the once were free.
This is not meant as an anti US rant but an anti stupidity rant... I do not think this or my double price passport does anything to stop the plane destroying nutjobs who carry valid ID anyway.
Why would you be annoyed by something that is not true? The parent is a troll and should be seen as such. I am a British citizen and my passport etc. makes that clear. Subjects were none British citizens that lived subject to British rule during the colonial times.
I work in the muddle east and it is easy to get a phone with international roaming with only a notion of telling them who you are. The scary jihadists only needs to get their phones in another more liberal country and take them on the raid with them. There are always so many holes in these measures that it becomes transparent that it is not the scary jihadist that they want to spy on. The bad guys have always been able to use countermeasures but Joe the plumber [sorry, I mean Joe Average] will become easier to keep tabs on.
But we are talking about civil law and not criminal law. Should a site be blocked for the sake of one person's view? If so you will soon have all sites critical of the Republicans blocked. If this were a case of criminal law (i.e. actual theft) then the arguements would be different but no crimal law is being broken. If the Democrats where saying that www.republican.com should be closed down because they frequently defame democrats, would you agree? I think that is a civil action that should be settled in a court.
That was in 2003 and now the databases are growing faster than the chacks and balances on them. Fingerprint records are almost global but the limited points that they check mean that there are almost certainly 1000s of duplicates.
I do support the use of these databases to support real evidence. If you are running from the scene and you say that you were not there, but the DNS/fingerprints say otherwise then it is good evidence but when they pull a total stranger from 1000s of miles away, out of a database then there is going to be problems...
It is far too easy to get false positives with these huge databases and big trouble is that people truly believe that it is impossible for there to be a duplicate. People need to know that one in 113,000,000,000 is an exageration that means a lot when there is good evidence to support the case but it means nothing on a global database (and obviously with a US based database it means more than nothing but not much more).
Hindenburg was hydrogen filled with hydrogen. Although there are lots of ideas about the cause of the accident, the effect would have been much less fatal in a modern, helium filled airship.
So a modern version of this would have had near to 100% survival as is would have just settled to the ground and collapsed.
I live in Azerbaijan at the moment... it is still the same here. The only change is that those in power make more money and the ordinary people make less.
IANAL and all the other caveats about not knowing everything...
I think that solicitors that encourage action when that is not good professional advice, should be ordered by the courts to pay all costs and there should be no cost to the person taking action. The mother naturally wants to take action, I accept that she is asking to take action... but the solicitor is the professional and should have an obligation to make it really clear that there is no case when there is no case. If the courts made a few solicitors pay when it was beyond doubt that they had encouraged action, then it would make the rest think twice before recommending action. Such a ruling would also cut down on frivolous claims by greedy companies...
He says "we are too good to be true" and he is telling the truth...
Trouble with a lot of these wonder solutions is that you do not really know yet how environmentally damaging the production process is. If it is possible I would be happy to pay more to get less reliant on areas of the world that we should get away from... (speaking as someone living in Azerbaijan [north of Iran])
I have also heard that paedophiles take children to hotels so we should ban children from hotels and often they take them to restaurants first, so we should ban children from restaurants as well. I am sure that with a bit of lobbying I could get a quiet life out of this...
Amazing:-) In the US you can get long term support for free? That is fantastic. I am not surprised that so many companies do well but I cannot understand how the companies providing the long term support make money...
It never ceases to amaze me how much BS the experts talk about Linux...
China has quietly been spending as much as the US on their military (without the outgoing expense of 2 theatres of war) for 10 years and has 2,000,000 soldiers in uniform. 10 years ago your view would have been stupid but nowadays it is worrying that people have not noticed how the world has changed. China is already stronger than the US and is growing while the US is in decline. Russia is already back in the frame and growing fast. The US could easily be in 3rd place in 10 years time if people do not wake up soon.
People talk about the 1990s as if Russia collapsed but it did not. It had 4 times the military that the US had and it could not cope with the cost. It cut right back at a speed which looked like collapse but they kept all the good stuff (titanium hulled subs etc.) and grew from that. They are back in the game and growing fast.
I was in China 10 years ago (I look forward to going back) and could see no reason why they would want to rise up against anything. The country is so different from the picture painted in our media that it was hard to recognise it. I was in Russia 5 years ago (and hated the place) and saw a people wholeheartedly behind their government.
If we, in the west, do not pull our heads out of our arses we will end up losing a major conflict soon as we will end up having to fight in Taiwan or North Korea and we could easily be on the losing side if we still think that Chinese missiles are 1950 models when they took our designs 10 years ago and improved on them.
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So they spend $100,000 on hookers "in pursuance of the investigation" and now they want their money back? What total cheaparse bums.
Today via DNS, tomorrow the great firewall of China will be translated into English. The whole principle is wrong. If someone puts child porn up, there are laws to deal with that. If someone is viewing it, then bust down their door and deal with what they now have on their computer. There are appropriate ways of dealing with it that do not involve a Chinese style nanny state creeping slowly into the UK and the "Oooh, it does not affect me" brigade are enabling the strangulation of the net.
The people need to be protected from such images :-
http://securityandthe.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/virgin_killer_lego.jpg
The idea that the sight of a naked child is pornographic is completely stupid as is the idea that there is no child porn that needs to be dealt with. What is the way to deal with child porn? Why ban it? Are we really afraid that more people will come to like it? If not then we should not need to ban it as the obvious thing to do is to go and seize the server and arrest the owners. No ban required, deal with the problem. If it is in another country then log the traffic to find the customers etc. Deal with the problem not the phobia. This is all theatre. If they know where it is in order to block it are they really saying that they are not going to deal with it? It is OK to leave it there for anyone that can find a way to circumvent the block?
As a Johnny Foreigner who had the cost of his last passport double to comply with the visa waiver fee, I for one feel shafted. I wish my spinless poodle run government had told Bushbaby to stuff his visa waiver scheme and allowed me to keep my cheap passport and apply for a visa if and when I want to go to the land of the once were free.
This is not meant as an anti US rant but an anti stupidity rant... I do not think this or my double price passport does anything to stop the plane destroying nutjobs who carry valid ID anyway.
Why would you be annoyed by something that is not true? The parent is a troll and should be seen as such. I am a British citizen and my passport etc. makes that clear. Subjects were none British citizens that lived subject to British rule during the colonial times.
I work in the muddle east and it is easy to get a phone with international roaming with only a notion of telling them who you are. The scary jihadists only needs to get their phones in another more liberal country and take them on the raid with them. There are always so many holes in these measures that it becomes transparent that it is not the scary jihadist that they want to spy on. The bad guys have always been able to use countermeasures but Joe the plumber [sorry, I mean Joe Average] will become easier to keep tabs on.
But we are talking about civil law and not criminal law. Should a site be blocked for the sake of one person's view? If so you will soon have all sites critical of the Republicans blocked. If this were a case of criminal law (i.e. actual theft) then the arguements would be different but no crimal law is being broken. If the Democrats where saying that www.republican.com should be closed down because they frequently defame democrats, would you agree? I think that is a civil action that should be settled in a court.
This is not even a new problem although the cause is different.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2885843.stm
That was in 2003 and now the databases are growing faster than the chacks and balances on them. Fingerprint records are almost global but the limited points that they check mean that there are almost certainly 1000s of duplicates.
I do support the use of these databases to support real evidence. If you are running from the scene and you say that you were not there, but the DNS/fingerprints say otherwise then it is good evidence but when they pull a total stranger from 1000s of miles away, out of a database then there is going to be problems...
It is far too easy to get false positives with these huge databases and big trouble is that people truly believe that it is impossible for there to be a duplicate. People need to know that one in 113,000,000,000 is an exageration that means a lot when there is good evidence to support the case but it means nothing on a global database (and obviously with a US based database it means more than nothing but not much more).
or he really likes the little girl at hie feet...
Hindenburg was hydrogen filled with hydrogen. Although there are lots of ideas about the cause of the accident, the effect would have been much less fatal in a modern, helium filled airship.
So a modern version of this would have had near to 100% survival as is would have just settled to the ground and collapsed.
I live in Azerbaijan at the moment... it is still the same here. The only change is that those in power make more money and the ordinary people make less.
A Russian friend of mine once said that the difference between the east and the west is that in the east we always knew it was propaganda. :-)
IANAL and all the other caveats about not knowing everything...
I think that solicitors that encourage action when that is not good professional advice, should be ordered by the courts to pay all costs and there should be no cost to the person taking action. The mother naturally wants to take action, I accept that she is asking to take action... but the solicitor is the professional and should have an obligation to make it really clear that there is no case when there is no case. If the courts made a few solicitors pay when it was beyond doubt that they had encouraged action, then it would make the rest think twice before recommending action. Such a ruling would also cut down on frivolous claims by greedy companies...
You are argueing with someone that cannot get through 3 words without swearing about what is insightful??? You will not last long here :-))
Please do not forget the water car that was discussed here a couple of weeks ago
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=84561
I loved that one, we promise you a car that runs for free :-) I am already in the queue...
He says "we are too good to be true" and he is telling the truth...
Trouble with a lot of these wonder solutions is that you do not really know yet how environmentally damaging the production process is. If it is possible I would be happy to pay more to get less reliant on areas of the world that we should get away from... (speaking as someone living in Azerbaijan [north of Iran])
I have also heard that paedophiles take children to hotels so we should ban children from hotels and often they take them to restaurants first, so we should ban children from restaurants as well. I am sure that with a bit of lobbying I could get a quiet life out of this...
Amazing :-) In the US you can get long term support for free? That is fantastic. I am not surprised that so many companies do well but I cannot understand how the companies providing the long term support make money...
It never ceases to amaze me how much BS the experts talk about Linux...
I wonder how they do Manuel when they dub Fawlty Towers into Spanish?
No, are you? http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm1389.cfm
The US greatly inflates its figures whereas China plays down. This is not news.
China has quietly been spending as much as the US on their military (without the outgoing expense of 2 theatres of war) for 10 years and has 2,000,000 soldiers in uniform. 10 years ago your view would have been stupid but nowadays it is worrying that people have not noticed how the world has changed. China is already stronger than the US and is growing while the US is in decline. Russia is already back in the frame and growing fast. The US could easily be in 3rd place in 10 years time if people do not wake up soon.
People talk about the 1990s as if Russia collapsed but it did not. It had 4 times the military that the US had and it could not cope with the cost. It cut right back at a speed which looked like collapse but they kept all the good stuff (titanium hulled subs etc.) and grew from that. They are back in the game and growing fast.
I was in China 10 years ago (I look forward to going back) and could see no reason why they would want to rise up against anything. The country is so different from the picture painted in our media that it was hard to recognise it. I was in Russia 5 years ago (and hated the place) and saw a people wholeheartedly behind their government.
If we, in the west, do not pull our heads out of our arses we will end up losing a major conflict soon as we will end up having to fight in Taiwan or North Korea and we could easily be on the losing side if we still think that Chinese missiles are 1950 models when they took our designs 10 years ago and improved on them.
OK, lets try it :-
but does the trojan run on Soviet Russia jokes?
Hell, they're even dubbing 'allo 'allo [bbc.co.uk] for TV now. Times change :-)
??? 'allo,'allo' dubbed? It is the stupid accents and the way the do the foreign voices that make that programme, how would it work dubbed?
but does the trojan run on linux?
Not yet but ve vill be making a beowulf cluster soon...