So the Port Phillip massacre was no reason to strengthen gun control laws, was it?
But since firearms can easily be obtained illegally anyway (here in the UK at least), why prevent law abiding citizens from having them? I can point out several examples where firearms in the hands of ordinary people would have prevented horrific crimes.
Simply add alias dselect='dselect --expert' to your ~/.bashrc file. But I agree, the dselect interface could do with a major overhaul, although the program itself is more or less faultless.
As a Greenpeace member who's been following the debate for over a decade, it's hard not to feel aggrieved at those with their own agenda who have pushed the theory that global climate change isn't happening. Risk = probability x consequence..."
A nice biased report, as usual. What Greenpeace don't want you to know is that there is no scientific proof that global warming is the result of the actions of mankind. The majority of scientists agree with this. I am sick of hearing about people that Greenpeace describe as 'having their own agenda', which generally means those people brave enough to question these fanatics. Or those who lose their jobs as a result of eco-terrorism.
For a firewall sitting between my LAN and my cable modem, I use LRP. Runs on anything from a 486 upwards, off a floppy. Once you've finished configuring the floppy (takes between 5 mins and 3 hours, depending on how experienced you are with Linux and networking), you can simply write-protect it, and you have a completely uncrackable system. If someone breaks into it, just reboot the computer and it'll load everything back into ramdisk. It can also act as a dhcp and dns server. Check hereand here for documentation.
Contrary to popular belief, the Senate voted unanimously against Kyoto several years ago. Clinton let the issue hang, purposely leaving it for the next President to deal with. All Bush was doing was putting through what the Senate had voted in favour of some time ago.
Please research your facts before making emotional statements like that.
Don't know about you lot, but here in UK it's pretty easy to beat the copy protection which prevents you from taping it. Am I right in thinking that all they use over there is macrovision? Of course, joe sixpack doesn't have a clue how to get round it, but most ppl reading/. probably do.
Is anyone else a little worried about Capshaw being in this movie? I mean, of the three Jones girls, her character (Willie) was the worst. She acted it out reasonably well, but the character she was acting out was... a bit crap, and not really suited to a Jones movie. Maybe they would be wiser to get Karen Allen (Marion) back, or just have Indy go with some new girl.
Also, there's a lot of political resistence to Europeanization in the UK. Many there seem to still think of the Continent as chaotic, unreliable, and irrational. There is an ongoing political pressure to slow down the UK's entry into the EU.
Brits are also distrustful of anything which is forced upon them by those who are not elected. The European Union is an example of such an instituion. Those on the continent, not having a history of democracy, have less of a problem with being told what to do.
This decision has been made without any kind of referendum among the people. It has been a decision forced on them by bureaucrats and politicians. It is an absolute disgrace; 2/3rds of Germans, for example, would rather keep the Mark (which was once the third strongest currency in the world) than join the Euro.
At least in Britain, we are going to have a referendum (election) on whether or not we go into the Euro. Interestingly, the Irish people voted against the Nice treaty last year, yet their European 'partners' are still forcing the Nice treaty on them.
The European Union is an undemocratic syndicate of nations, formed without the will of the people. The sooner we can get out of it, the better.
Just thought I'd provide the other side of the story, since the BBC (British Bullshit Corporation) is fanatically pro-Euro. I wish/. wouldn't link to it so much:-)
It's a bureaucratic joke. It has laws saying what can and what can't go into a sausage. It has a law making it illegal to sell goods in english measurements (and yes, several market traders have been prosecuted for this). It is considering software patents. It has destroyed Britain's fishing industry. It was partially responsible for the foot and mouth fiasco. It is considering a law making it illegal to criticise the EU (article 91 of the Nice treaty). Its commision is unelected, and yet has more power than our sovereign government. Oh, and it is now illegal to employ people under 16 for anything (guess my little brother will have to say goodbye to his paper round, his only source of income).
So don't you yanks start thinking it's paradise over here! In fact, I'm thinking of moving over there.
If this ridiculous piece of legislation is passed, it could being to erode the US's competitiveness on the world market. Here in Britain, we will be able to continue to run Linux and 'non-approved' devices such as (gasp) PCs which we have built ourselves, which will make things much easier for businesses (and consumers) than it would be over there. If such a law was passed here, no one would take much notice anyway. We've got bigger problem at the moment (eg stopping an attack on the Square Mile).
Haven't your maggots (er, politicians) got bigger things on their plate too?
Have a look at the linux router project (lrp). http://www.linuxrouter.org. I have had it running 24/7 for about 6 months now, and not once has it crashed (not surprising, since it's based on linux). However, it also runs directly off a floppy, which means the PC you run it on is virtually silent.
I have it running on a 486-66, 16MB, no hdd, to connect my cable modem to my LAN. Of course, you can also use it with Tx/DSL/ISDN/analogue.
Sorry, this reads like an ad, but I really love this distro - it has made life so much easier.
Personally, I wouldn't trust anything I saw on the BBC either. They are *very* pro-Blair indeed, and are also strongly in favour of Britain scrapping its currency in favour of the Euro. Despite the fact that they are funded by the taxpayer, and should therefore be impartial.
From the NYTimes article: The service, which will be available only to those with high-speed Internet connections, is an attempt to get ahead of piracy problems that have plagued the music industry through services like Napster and which were beginning to be felt in the film industry with newer file-swapping services.
So, which of the big five owns the NYT? Or are they just naturally biased and/or stupid, like the BBC here in Britain?
Interesting that they say "plagued" the music industry. I assume that by plagued they mean a 1pc drop in single sales accompanied by a 13pc (or so) rise in album sales?
And please, don't pretend that a few hundred ppl using winmx, etc, to download a couple of movies a month is going to affect the movie industry!
At school, they taught us not to smoke, drink or take drugs. By the sixth form (age 16-18), half of the year smoked, three quaters of them got pissed every night and a quarter of them smoked pot and took xtc every weekend.
Anyway, the way the education system in this country is now, by the time it filters down to classroom level, MP3s, etc, will be way out of date.
I should point out that not all of us Brits are in favour of CCTV. Nor do we all blindly trust our gvt as much as this bloke obviously does.
Do you honestly think that there is no probability of these cameras being abused by the police? Do you honestly think that these cameras won't be used by a tyrannical gvt in future (or now)?
As for gun laws in this country, don't even get me started on them.
This was quite an interesting article, but wasn't particularly technical (eg didn't explain the difference between GPL and BSD). Btw, is the WSJ considered by americans to be an 'intelligent' paper? (What we in Britain call broadsheets). If so, I'd hate to see one of your tabloids. I didn't realise American papers were as bad as American TV:-)
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It's like wanting to buy Windows 3.1.
Or Windows XP, for that matter.
How many hours before someone cracks it?
So the Port Phillip massacre was no reason to strengthen gun control laws, was it?
But since firearms can easily be obtained illegally anyway (here in the UK at least), why prevent law abiding citizens from having them? I can point out several examples where firearms in the hands of ordinary people would have prevented horrific crimes.
To the artists? I thought it was to the canadian equivalent of the RIAA...
always going past help screens becomes a pain
Simply add alias dselect='dselect --expert' to your ~/.bashrc file. But I agree, the dselect interface could do with a major overhaul, although the program itself is more or less faultless.
Couldn't tell whether this was supposed to be an April Fool's joke or not...
As a Greenpeace member who's been following the debate for over a decade, it's hard not to feel aggrieved at those with their own agenda who have pushed the theory that global climate change isn't happening. Risk = probability x consequence..."
A nice biased report, as usual. What Greenpeace don't want you to know is that there is no scientific proof that global warming is the result of the actions of mankind. The majority of scientists agree with this. I am sick of hearing about people that Greenpeace describe as 'having their own agenda', which generally means those people brave enough to question these fanatics. Or those who lose their jobs as a result of eco-terrorism.
For a firewall sitting between my LAN and my cable modem, I use LRP. Runs on anything from a 486 upwards, off a floppy. Once you've finished configuring the floppy (takes between 5 mins and 3 hours, depending on how experienced you are with Linux and networking), you can simply write-protect it, and you have a completely uncrackable system. If someone breaks into it, just reboot the computer and it'll load everything back into ramdisk. It can also act as a dhcp and dns server. Check hereand here for documentation.
Contrary to popular belief, the Senate voted unanimously against Kyoto several years ago. Clinton let the issue hang, purposely leaving it for the next President to deal with. All Bush was doing was putting through what the Senate had voted in favour of some time ago.
Please research your facts before making emotional statements like that.
you only get to watch it once
/. probably do.
Don't know about you lot, but here in UK it's pretty easy to beat the copy protection which prevents you from taping it. Am I right in thinking that all they use over there is macrovision? Of course, joe sixpack doesn't have a clue how to get round it, but most ppl reading
Is anyone else a little worried about Capshaw being in this movie? I mean, of the three Jones girls, her character (Willie) was the worst. She acted it out reasonably well, but the character she was acting out was... a bit crap, and not really suited to a Jones movie. Maybe they would be wiser to get Karen Allen (Marion) back, or just have Indy go with some new girl.
Also, there's a lot of political resistence to Europeanization in the UK. Many there seem to still think of the Continent as chaotic, unreliable, and irrational. There is an ongoing political pressure to slow down the UK's entry into the EU.
Brits are also distrustful of anything which is forced upon them by those who are not elected. The European Union is an example of such an instituion. Those on the continent, not having a history of democracy, have less of a problem with being told what to do.
This decision has been made without any kind of referendum among the people. It has been a decision forced on them by bureaucrats and politicians. It is an absolute disgrace; 2/3rds of Germans, for example, would rather keep the Mark (which was once the third strongest currency in the world) than join the Euro.
/. wouldn't link to it so much :-)
At least in Britain, we are going to have a referendum (election) on whether or not we go into the Euro. Interestingly, the Irish people voted against the Nice treaty last year, yet their European 'partners' are still forcing the Nice treaty on them.
The European Union is an undemocratic syndicate of nations, formed without the will of the people. The sooner we can get out of it, the better.
Just thought I'd provide the other side of the story, since the BBC (British Bullshit Corporation) is fanatically pro-Euro. I wish
There's a lot of potential to use this for tracking people's purchases, and that's a bad thing.
If you're a European minister, that's a very good thing. After all, we don't want any anti-Euro/EU groups being given anonymous donations now, do we?
You yanks should read some British papers every once in a while. Then you'll see what the European Union is really about.
Unless you are actually doing something wrong, do you have anything to fear from the cameras?
Unless you are actually doing something wrong, why do the cameras have to be watching you in the first place?
It's a bureaucratic joke. It has laws saying what can and what can't go into a sausage. It has a law making it illegal to sell goods in english measurements (and yes, several market traders have been prosecuted for this). It is considering software patents. It has destroyed Britain's fishing industry. It was partially responsible for the foot and mouth fiasco. It is considering a law making it illegal to criticise the EU (article 91 of the Nice treaty). Its commision is unelected, and yet has more power than our sovereign government. Oh, and it is now illegal to employ people under 16 for anything (guess my little brother will have to say goodbye to his paper round, his only source of income).
So don't you yanks start thinking it's paradise over here! In fact, I'm thinking of moving over there.
If this ridiculous piece of legislation is passed, it could being to erode the US's competitiveness on the world market. Here in Britain, we will be able to continue to run Linux and 'non-approved' devices such as (gasp) PCs which we have built ourselves, which will make things much easier for businesses (and consumers) than it would be over there. If such a law was passed here, no one would take much notice anyway. We've got bigger problem at the moment (eg stopping an attack on the Square Mile).
Haven't your maggots (er, politicians) got bigger things on their plate too?
Have a look at the linux router project (lrp). http://www.linuxrouter.org. I have had it running 24/7 for about 6 months now, and not once has it crashed (not surprising, since it's based on linux). However, it also runs directly off a floppy, which means the PC you run it on is virtually silent.
I have it running on a 486-66, 16MB, no hdd, to connect my cable modem to my LAN. Of course, you can also use it with Tx/DSL/ISDN/analogue.
Sorry, this reads like an ad, but I really love this distro - it has made life so much easier.
Personally, I wouldn't trust anything I saw on the BBC either. They are *very* pro-Blair indeed, and are also strongly in favour of Britain scrapping its currency in favour of the Euro. Despite the fact that they are funded by the taxpayer, and should therefore be impartial.
They're ok on foreign issues, though.
But.... we don't have the DMCA.
From the NYTimes article:
The service, which will be available only to those with high-speed Internet connections, is an attempt to get ahead of piracy problems that have plagued the music industry through services like Napster and which were beginning to be felt in the film industry with newer file-swapping services.
So, which of the big five owns the NYT? Or are they just naturally biased and/or stupid, like the BBC here in Britain?
Interesting that they say "plagued" the music industry. I assume that by plagued they mean a 1pc drop in single sales accompanied by a 13pc (or so) rise in album sales?
And please, don't pretend that a few hundred ppl using winmx, etc, to download a couple of movies a month is going to affect the movie industry!
Where would we be now if the DMCA had been in force in 1981?
At school, they taught us not to smoke, drink or take drugs. By the sixth form (age 16-18), half of the year smoked, three quaters of them got pissed every night and a quarter of them smoked pot and took xtc every weekend.
Anyway, the way the education system in this country is now, by the time it filters down to classroom level, MP3s, etc, will be way out of date.
I should point out that not all of us Brits are in favour of CCTV. Nor do we all blindly trust our gvt as much as this bloke obviously does.
Do you honestly think that there is no probability of these cameras being abused by the police? Do you honestly think that these cameras won't be used by a tyrannical gvt in future (or now)?
As for gun laws in this country, don't even get me started on them.
This was quite an interesting article, but wasn't particularly technical (eg didn't explain the difference between GPL and BSD). Btw, is the WSJ considered by americans to be an 'intelligent' paper? (What we in Britain call broadsheets). If so, I'd hate to see one of your tabloids. I didn't realise American papers were as bad as American TV :-)