It is all stupid anyway. I work in Azebaijan (lots of restrictions on P2P and VOIP) and before that I worked in the UAE (where VOIP is illegal). Several other crazy places (like Thailand where they banned YouTube) before that. I am used to crazy laws. I now use a proxy in Switzerland that costs me $5 a month because it gets me through the censors anonymously using SSH. As these stupid laws proliferate the anonymous proxies in Switerland will have a golden era. US, Canadian and EU citizens will now need them as well so that they can carry their iPods empty through customs and go online and fill them up the other side. If you want to avoid the eyes of the MAAFIA use SSH to a proxy in Switzerland (land of the free).
Avoid the proxies in Sweden etc. as they are subject to EU law, Switzerland is not subject to EU law and do no reveal your identity to anyone.
My MP3s do not have 'skanky' stamped on them. If I rip one of my CDs it is OK, but if I have a rip of someone else's it does not get stamped 'illegal'. They will just guess, and based on the fact that there is unlikely to be anyone with an iPod full of legal tunes, they can just collect iPods for their friends and families.
How can the Linux ntfs utility gain access to the Vista partition if it was encrypted... remember we haven't booted Vista yet?
Some things cannot be encrypted as the encryption must be loaded before the system can access encrypted files. Therefore base system cannot be encrypted.
Secondly, which moron in Microsoft would allow 'root' level programs to run 'before' the user has logged in as root?
I did say 'moving' and 'becoming more', not 'arrived' or 'are'... I am currently living in the FSU and do not find a lot of difference except the corruption is out of control here.
and Adolf Hitler was a Socialist, how could there be any confusion. Nazi is an abbreviation of National Socialism, like all crazies, they thought that they were the good guys.
The vote is just something they 'allow' us to have because it appeases the masses.
Why do people go on about the vote as if it makes a difference? In China they have had elections for decades and nothing has changed. The party puts forward a few suits to chose between and the people choose a puppet to stand in front of them. In Britain we get to choose between 3 suits and in the US they get to choose between 2... It is a long time since we have been any different to China or Russia.
Russia and China are moving in one direction and becoming more free. The UK and the US are moving in the other direction. Russia has closed its gulags and the US has opened its own...
In a few years we will be different to Russia and China again when they become the representatives or the free world.
I have never heard of a car manufacturer that claims you have the right to take a car back and have the AC and windows taken out in the way that the EULA claims that you have the right to not accept Windows. Yes, she knew when she bought it that she had the right to take the copy of Windows back and they, as they always do, tried to get out of paying the refund. Read the EULA. That is if you even accept that there is any legal enforcability in an agreement made before you have the right to find out what you are getting. I prefer the option where the EULA has no legal basis and for that reason I do not like this case. It is only the right decision if you are in favour of EULAs.
Everyone seems to overlook the large percentage of people that do not even want the internet let alone need it. I often meet people that cannot see what the fuss is about. They use their mouths to 'talk' to people that they want to communicate with. It is really blinkered to think that what suits us well must suit everybody. I would not be happy without the internet but that does not mean that I fail to respect another persons right to not want it.
How do we know that the dog was not a terrorist? It might have been a really frightening piece of dog shit!!! I think that we should put the dog in Guantanamo for the next 6 years to make sure...
I am sure that he will now get Yahoo and that he will get it for less than has been offered so far (in other words I mostly agree). He played a great hand by just walking away because now Yahoo are begging him to come back. I think that this will be bad for most of us and very bad for Yahoo who will be raped like Hotmail was. I like choices so I am happy with a lot of players in the market. I think that is good for the user to have choice, but now there will only be one major player and our future will be to accept what is on offer or go without.
Yes, I have heard of Google:-P but I doubt that they will do well against M$/!Y combined. What choice is there going to be in the messenger market soon?
Given that the Mac was using Safari and now he has the Air he knows to use Firefox, I would say that he is very happy. OK, I admit to being a FB and I know which one I would have wanted to take home.
I have split along slightly different lines. I still find that I prefer Linux on the desktop because of price. I can make a powerful PC using Linux and my specifications for less than I can get a Mac with their specs. The problems that I have putting Linux on laptops just are not worth the hassle though and my MacBook Pro is so good that I would never recommend anything else for a laptop again. I used to end up going back to Windows with my thinkpad but never again.
I have recently switched to Leopard and Xtools was on the disk. If you want to use KDE etc. you can. Once you have MacPorts running you can use most Gnu stuff. I think that MacPorts is better than Fink for getting all the Gnu stuff running but that is because I prefer an easy life.
I like the idea of the iPhone, but I hate AT&T plus I do not want any device I can't hack as I see fit without fear of bricking it (well, a long time ago I did pretty much brick a G3 but that was my own fault).
Have you looked at the Nokia N95/N96 phones? I am a MacBook Pro user and think that it is the best computer that I have ever owned but I would not even consider an iPhone, iPoo'd etc. when I can get a phone that does everything (phone, mp3 player, bluetooth etc.) and more (GPS etc.) that I can do what I want with and it does not turn into a brick.
I am not in the US so I cannot say who you can use the Nokia's with but the rest of the world uses SIM cards so they can go anywhere else. I live in one country and work in another so I am always changing SIM cards. I could not even consider the iPhone if I wanted to...
I cannot speak for most people but I found Linux better on the desktop that Windows. Before I left the UK I set up my mother's (she is in her 70s and does not like to mess with computers) computer with Linux... No, not because I am a Linux freak but because I was going to be away for a long time and I wanted something that she could use without help. It worked for 3 years without anyone else touching it until her ISP went bust and she had to get someone else to help her. That person switched her to Windows and now has to visit her regularly.
I switched to Mac but I have added the X tools etc. so that I can still get it to do what I want. I switched to Mac because I find my MacBook Pro to be the best laptop, one region where Linux does fall down is with laptops. I am not a beginner but I like reliability and I only like to play around when I want to. So I hate the unstable nature of Windows and prefer the alternatives.
If you think that this one is scary, I saw a news report on Al Jazeera today about a robot that dispenses prescriptions at a hospital in Bangkok, and the software driving it was by Microsoft... well known for their careful testing and ensuring that software is safe before release...
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It is all stupid anyway. I work in Azebaijan (lots of restrictions on P2P and VOIP) and before that I worked in the UAE (where VOIP is illegal). Several other crazy places (like Thailand where they banned YouTube) before that. I am used to crazy laws. I now use a proxy in Switzerland that costs me $5 a month because it gets me through the censors anonymously using SSH. As these stupid laws proliferate the anonymous proxies in Switerland will have a golden era. US, Canadian and EU citizens will now need them as well so that they can carry their iPods empty through customs and go online and fill them up the other side. If you want to avoid the eyes of the MAAFIA use SSH to a proxy in Switzerland (land of the free).
Avoid the proxies in Sweden etc. as they are subject to EU law, Switzerland is not subject to EU law and do no reveal your identity to anyone.
My MP3s do not have 'skanky' stamped on them. If I rip one of my CDs it is OK, but if I have a rip of someone else's it does not get stamped 'illegal'. They will just guess, and based on the fact that there is unlikely to be anyone with an iPod full of legal tunes, they can just collect iPods for their friends and families.
How can the Linux ntfs utility gain access to the Vista partition if it was encrypted... remember we haven't booted Vista yet?
Some things cannot be encrypted as the encryption must be loaded before the system can access encrypted files. Therefore base system cannot be encrypted.
Secondly, which moron in Microsoft would allow 'root' level programs to run 'before' the user has logged in as root?
Pick a number and get in line...
Should I install Windows Vista so that I can try this out? Naaaah, cannot be bothered. Pretty video, nice 2 mins, time to get on with life.
So if an Ethopian can show that his people claimed the Earth before people set foot in America, does that mean he owns America?
I did say 'moving' and 'becoming more', not 'arrived' or 'are'... I am currently living in the FSU and do not find a lot of difference except the corruption is out of control here.
Please, please, please stop putting forward new proposals until the next financial year. We already have enough projects for the current budget.
You can argue that one while you sit in your prison cell... when the keys have been thrown away...
Often the fact that you communicated with a certain individual is suspicious enough
Association is a guaranteed way of convicting an innocent person.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Six
and Adolf Hitler was a Socialist, how could there be any confusion. Nazi is an abbreviation of National Socialism, like all crazies, they thought that they were the good guys.
The vote is just something they 'allow' us to have because it appeases the masses.
Why do people go on about the vote as if it makes a difference? In China they have had elections for decades and nothing has changed. The party puts forward a few suits to chose between and the people choose a puppet to stand in front of them. In Britain we get to choose between 3 suits and in the US they get to choose between 2... It is a long time since we have been any different to China or Russia.
Russia and China are moving in one direction and becoming more free. The UK and the US are moving in the other direction. Russia has closed its gulags and the US has opened its own...
In a few years we will be different to Russia and China again when they become the representatives or the free world.
I have never heard of a car manufacturer that claims you have the right to take a car back and have the AC and windows taken out in the way that the EULA claims that you have the right to not accept Windows. Yes, she knew when she bought it that she had the right to take the copy of Windows back and they, as they always do, tried to get out of paying the refund. Read the EULA. That is if you even accept that there is any legal enforcability in an agreement made before you have the right to find out what you are getting. I prefer the option where the EULA has no legal basis and for that reason I do not like this case. It is only the right decision if you are in favour of EULAs.
Everyone seems to overlook the large percentage of people that do not even want the internet let alone need it. I often meet people that cannot see what the fuss is about. They use their mouths to 'talk' to people that they want to communicate with. It is really blinkered to think that what suits us well must suit everybody. I would not be happy without the internet but that does not mean that I fail to respect another persons right to not want it.
Still bitter about Ken Livingstone
:-)
How could anyone be bitter, Boris is so much funnier
How do we know that the dog was not a terrorist? It might have been a really frightening piece of dog shit!!! I think that we should put the dog in Guantanamo for the next 6 years to make sure...
Ahh, yes, but maybe the terrorists need the book to learn how to NOT be identified :-)
I am sure that he will now get Yahoo and that he will get it for less than has been offered so far (in other words I mostly agree). He played a great hand by just walking away because now Yahoo are begging him to come back. I think that this will be bad for most of us and very bad for Yahoo who will be raped like Hotmail was. I like choices so I am happy with a lot of players in the market. I think that is good for the user to have choice, but now there will only be one major player and our future will be to accept what is on offer or go without.
:-P but I doubt that they will do well against M$/!Y combined. What choice is there going to be in the messenger market soon?
Yes, I have heard of Google
would result in significant audible alteration of the sound to the point of unusability....
Sounds like an average mobile phone call to me...
Given that the Mac was using Safari and now he has the Air he knows to use Firefox, I would say that he is very happy. OK, I admit to being a FB and I know which one I would have wanted to take home.
The only thing that I can remember about the BBC B was losing years of my life playing Elite... GOSUB??? You mean there was more to it?
I have split along slightly different lines. I still find that I prefer Linux on the desktop because of price. I can make a powerful PC using Linux and my specifications for less than I can get a Mac with their specs. The problems that I have putting Linux on laptops just are not worth the hassle though and my MacBook Pro is so good that I would never recommend anything else for a laptop again. I used to end up going back to Windows with my thinkpad but never again.
I have recently switched to Leopard and Xtools was on the disk. If you want to use KDE etc. you can. Once you have MacPorts running you can use most Gnu stuff. I think that MacPorts is better than Fink for getting all the Gnu stuff running but that is because I prefer an easy life.
I like the idea of the iPhone, but I hate AT&T plus I do not want any device I can't hack as I see fit without fear of bricking it (well, a long time ago I did pretty much brick a G3 but that was my own fault).
Have you looked at the Nokia N95/N96 phones? I am a MacBook Pro user and think that it is the best computer that I have ever owned but I would not even consider an iPhone, iPoo'd etc. when I can get a phone that does everything (phone, mp3 player, bluetooth etc.) and more (GPS etc.) that I can do what I want with and it does not turn into a brick.
I am not in the US so I cannot say who you can use the Nokia's with but the rest of the world uses SIM cards so they can go anywhere else. I live in one country and work in another so I am always changing SIM cards. I could not even consider the iPhone if I wanted to...
I cannot speak for most people but I found Linux better on the desktop that Windows. Before I left the UK I set up my mother's (she is in her 70s and does not like to mess with computers) computer with Linux... No, not because I am a Linux freak but because I was going to be away for a long time and I wanted something that she could use without help. It worked for 3 years without anyone else touching it until her ISP went bust and she had to get someone else to help her. That person switched her to Windows and now has to visit her regularly.
I switched to Mac but I have added the X tools etc. so that I can still get it to do what I want. I switched to Mac because I find my MacBook Pro to be the best laptop, one region where Linux does fall down is with laptops. I am not a beginner but I like reliability and I only like to play around when I want to. So I hate the unstable nature of Windows and prefer the alternatives.
If you think that this one is scary, I saw a news report on Al Jazeera today about a robot that dispenses prescriptions at a hospital in Bangkok, and the software driving it was by Microsoft... well known for their careful testing and ensuring that software is safe before release...