More like having an easily picked lock. There is a flaw in a system that is designed to prevent entry. An open door would be putting said data on a non advertised part of your website.
"In the UK though, we bury our power cables" bzzzt, wrong.
In new developments and in built up areas maybe, but elsewhere not. My home is supplied by an overhead feed (used to be two uninsulated conductors, but they changed it to an insulated cable a few years ago, made painting the house etc. hair raising) The street is still wired with four uninsulated conductors.
Out in the country buried cables are a rarity. Don't be confused if it is a single cable on a telegraph pole, the thicker ones are usually power.
I remember an article from way back, where they figured out a way to clamp a fibre optic cable to the top of the inside of a drain pipe using a robot. So your suggestion is maybe not so silly...
Interesting point, but one that could be avoided if the mailserver has an address book with a pricelist. Presumably you would need to transfer some form of electronic payment at this point anyway. You would mark mailing lists, friends etc. as free in your address book. The mailing list would then refuse to send you email if it had a cost.
Nice for some applications (think of public phone charging points / laptop tables with power + wifi) but its only just wireless. It's more like plugless, you have to be on the pad (though I wonder if it could be scaled up to power electric cars for instance, think about an electric highway!)
Tesla had a more practicle wireless power solution in his tower. That crystal radio that you built as a child is wireless power in my book, even if it is only a trickle. (You're not a geek until you build a crystal radio. Hope we never switch over exclusively to digital)
I have heard rumours about someone living under a transmitter being prosecuted after he was found with a large number of coils in his roof, using them to provide heat, but i have my doubts about this one.
Swansea University Computer Science Department used to have a lab of Power Macintoshes. I am lead to believe the lab used to be an Amiga Lab. All the computers in that room were on a timeswitch which switched the power off for that room, I kid you not!
Microsoft are said to be very interested in this new technology. They have released a provisional price list of 100 dollars per processor OEM. 269 dollars per processor Retail.
I'm not sure. I've not noticed any lag in either the el cheapo crapo box or the Sony. I'd have a look at a neighbour who has digital and decide for yourself...
Yeah what is it about the chinese crappy electrical stuff Tesco is selling now. Your shopping list can now be like Milk, Bread, Jaffa Cakes, Cornflakes, Computer, chocolate digestives.
You just know it will be cruddy, have a user interface that you can't work out and break down exactly 1 minute after the guarantee is up.
Still if it gives the likes of Dixons etc. a good reason to introduce reasonable prices....
Yes, but they are rubbish, don't work very well and the user interface is so counter intuative the remote control buttons might as well be written in Klingon.
I know exactly what you mean. We used to have a Bush DFTA4 and I still don't have a clue why they designed it like that. Not only was the reception rubbish (freezes / loosing sound) but the remote was hidious. It was a case of just mashing the buttons until the channel you wanted came up. We now have a Sony VTX-D800U and all is lovely. The picture and reception is perfect, changing channel easy (there is a big channel up / channel down toggle switch). Even the EPG is easy to use. You get what you pay for, as ever....
I wouldn't be so quick to blame the technology. It may just be your TV box. We originally had a Bush DFTA4 set top box, which was rubbish. The picture would freeze and loose sound periodically for no reason. Upgrading to a VTX-D800U solved all the problems and now the picture on all channels are perfect.
It shows underground and some rail stations, but outside London it just shows rail lines, which is completely useless. Just try looking for Barnstaple station for instance.
I'd give my eye'd teeth for that service with Ordnance Survery Maps available as well. Just imagine a free, scrollable zoomable Ordnance Survey map mmmm.
Of course they are useless as street maps, but ideal for just about everything else (yes I know you can pay for online Ordnance Survey maps)
Sorry, I *love* Ordnance Survey map. They certainly are not idea street maps (the scale is wrong for a start - zoom in on Multimap for a street map).
They just are so fantastically detailed. Look at this map of Mount Snowdon. You can almost visualise the mountains. It's quite amazing to be able to figure out which rock outcrop your arse is currently sitting on. It's certainly very usefull to have the gradient lines....
It's not like you can go visit anyway. They errected huge steel gates at the end of Downing street years ago. All you can do if peer through the railings.
I'm sorry to break this to you, but when it comes down to it they are just TV shows. That includes TOS/TNG/DS9/Voyager/Enterprise. It's just telly. If you don't like it turn it off and watch/do something else. Your life is too important to waste obsessing about something you don't like. You seem to just have an obsession with Trek, just like people get watching really bad reality TV like Big Brother. There is more to life...
It's not just patches. If you want to install extra Linux software these days you had better have a broadband connection t'interweb. Without yum or apt-get resolving all the dependancies will take you a long time and some effort (broken dependancy xyz.lib, now where do I get that.)
Now windows installers are huge. But at least it's usually just a case of downloading and running setup.exe and all is done done for you.
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More like having an easily picked lock. There is a flaw in a system that is designed to prevent entry. An open door would be putting said data on a non advertised part of your website.
Maybe, but how do you know which kind have snuck in. Do you really want somebody else rooting through your browser cache, email and dodgy photo album.
I think one of the parent post put it right when they said we all have a right to privacy.
Shortly to be renamed minilove when Tony gets his ID cards.
"In the UK though, we bury our power cables" bzzzt, wrong.
In new developments and in built up areas maybe, but elsewhere not. My home is supplied by an overhead feed (used to be two uninsulated conductors, but they changed it to an insulated cable a few years ago, made painting the house etc. hair raising) The street is still wired with four uninsulated conductors.
Out in the country buried cables are a rarity. Don't be confused if it is a single cable on a telegraph pole, the thicker ones are usually power.
I remember an article from way back, where they figured out a way to clamp a fibre optic cable to the top of the inside of a drain pipe using a robot. So your suggestion is maybe not so silly...
Interesting point, but one that could be avoided if the mailserver has an address book with a pricelist. Presumably you would need to transfer some form of electronic payment at this point anyway. You would mark mailing lists, friends etc. as free in your address book. The mailing list would then refuse to send you email if it had a cost.
That would be the Red ON button I'm assuming?
Nice for some applications (think of public phone charging points / laptop tables with power + wifi) but its only just wireless. It's more like plugless, you have to be on the pad (though I wonder if it could be scaled up to power electric cars for instance, think about an electric highway!)
Tesla had a more practicle wireless power solution in his tower. That crystal radio that you built as a child is wireless power in my book, even if it is only a trickle. (You're not a geek until you build a crystal radio. Hope we never switch over exclusively to digital)
I have heard rumours about someone living under a transmitter being prosecuted after he was found with a large number of coils in his roof, using them to provide heat, but i have my doubts about this one.
Swansea University Computer Science Department used to have a lab of Power Macintoshes. I am lead to believe the lab used to be an Amiga Lab. All the computers in that room were on a timeswitch which switched the power off for that room, I kid you not!
Presumably you get iColi from Apple and gnuColi from Redhat?
Microsoft are said to be very interested in this new technology. They have released a provisional price list of 100 dollars per processor OEM. 269 dollars per processor Retail.
I'm not sure. I've not noticed any lag in either the el cheapo crapo box or the Sony. I'd have a look at a neighbour who has digital and decide for yourself...
Yeah what is it about the chinese crappy electrical stuff Tesco is selling now. Your shopping list can now be like Milk, Bread, Jaffa Cakes, Cornflakes, Computer, chocolate digestives.
You just know it will be cruddy, have a user interface that you can't work out and break down exactly 1 minute after the guarantee is up.
Still if it gives the likes of Dixons etc. a good reason to introduce reasonable prices....
Yes, but they are rubbish, don't work very well and the user interface is so counter intuative the remote control buttons might as well be written in Klingon.
I know exactly what you mean. We used to have a Bush DFTA4 and I still don't have a clue why they designed it like that. Not only was the reception rubbish (freezes / loosing sound) but the remote was hidious. It was a case of just mashing the buttons until the channel you wanted came up. We now have a Sony VTX-D800U and all is lovely. The picture and reception is perfect, changing channel easy (there is a big channel up / channel down toggle switch). Even the EPG is easy to use. You get what you pay for, as ever....
Sony VTX-D800U I mean...
I wouldn't be so quick to blame the technology. It may just be your TV box. We originally had a Bush DFTA4 set top box, which was rubbish. The picture would freeze and loose sound periodically for no reason. Upgrading to a VTX-D800U solved all the problems and now the picture on all channels are perfect.
I guess you get what you pay for!
It shows underground and some rail stations, but outside London it just shows rail lines, which is completely useless. Just try looking for Barnstaple station for instance.
I'd give my eye'd teeth for that service with Ordnance Survery Maps available as well. Just imagine a free, scrollable zoomable Ordnance Survey map mmmm.
Of course they are useless as street maps, but ideal for just about everything else (yes I know you can pay for online Ordnance Survey maps)
Sorry, I *love* Ordnance Survey map. They certainly are not idea street maps (the scale is wrong for a start - zoom in on Multimap for a street map).
They just are so fantastically detailed. Look at this map of Mount Snowdon. You can almost visualise the mountains. It's quite amazing to be able to figure out which rock outcrop your arse is currently sitting on. It's certainly very usefull to have the gradient lines....
"I couldn't find the freeway and had to take some little back road called the M5"
Green A roads are Trunk route and maintainance is paid by the Highways agency (I think) rather than the local councils.
More on the speed (only for cars lorrys, busses, caravans etc. have lower limits). Road type doesn't matter.
Motorways are always 70mph unless signposted.
The Speed limit in urban areas (having street lighting not more than 200 yards apart) is 30mph unless signposted.
Outside urban areas:
Dual Carrageways are 70mph, Single Carriageways 60mph. Lower speed limits must be signposted and repeated every 200 yards (with small signs)
But there are so many signs everywhere in the UK now a speed limit sign will be near...
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It's not like you can go visit anyway. They errected huge steel gates at the end of Downing street years ago. All you can do if peer through the railings.
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Your post may be a troll but anyway...
I'm sorry to break this to you, but when it comes down to it they are just TV shows. That includes TOS/TNG/DS9/Voyager/Enterprise. It's just telly. If you don't like it turn it off and watch/do something else. Your life is too important to waste obsessing about something you don't like. You seem to just have an obsession with Trek, just like people get watching really bad reality TV like Big Brother. There is more to life...
It's not just patches. If you want to install extra Linux software these days you had better have a broadband connection t'interweb. Without yum or apt-get resolving all the dependancies will take you a long time and some effort (broken dependancy xyz.lib, now where do I get that.)
Now windows installers are huge. But at least it's usually just a case of downloading and running setup.exe and all is done done for you.