I have a 20GB hard drive that formats to 10GB. There're no bad sectors reported on it or anything like that, it's been like that since I partitioned it the second time round. Were they doing this to hard drives as well way back when a 20 set you back £200?
This. Also consider that these so-called knockoff chips are made on EXACTLY the same process lines as the "real thing", using EXACTLY the same substrates, screens, whatever... the only difference is that the "knockoffs" haven't been power tested - so you're taking pot luck that they actually work, even if they are actually as specified on the box (how long have the 8GB cards with 64/128GB firmwares been sitting in storage?? They're still genuine cards, what makes them slightly hooky is the firmware. There's fuck all wrong with them otherwise).
I've seen webcams and Bluetooth SD cards as well, even a composite GPS/storage card (how in the fuck they got a GPS to fit INSIDE an SD form factor with only an inch and a quarter of wire sticking out (the antenna) is anybody's guess...).
I'll take the praise on rye and hold the sarcasm. What you missed, I think, was the fact that the DM not only reported on the fact that they had been handed this information they published every bit of evidence I gave them. Which is a pretty rare thing for ANY newspaper to do.
Would it have made you happier if I'd sent the information to the Guardian instead? Or is there something about them that you don't like? The Sun? How about the Mirror? For fuck's sake, just tell me which one you mistrust the LEAST, and I'll send it to them.
On second thought, take your idiotic comments and stick them up your arse.
one would sincerely hope that CC has a support tier - beyond Tier I script drones - manned by people actually qualified to investigate such esoteric issues? Pretty much any other provider I've ever dealt with certainly does.
companies such as Virgin, Talktalk and Sky run ads which claim like £8 a month for ubercahunadogsbollocksbroadband, and if you're paying attention there's a smallprint flash at the bottom of the screen that indicates that this is on top of line rental at £15/mo and a phone number at £19/mo. Unfortunately for us, that flash is enough to get out of false advertising claims (which is why they did it, but still they push the ubercahunadogsbollocksbroadband deal).
Is this so-called consumer rights advocacy group actually saying that a company paying a rent for prepared flat space which is currently sitting idle is in the wrong for doing so?
Don't ask me why, I couldn't tell you, but if I used Gnome (the X client) I would have donated. If this had been a Microsoft story, I'd've been like "Let the fuckers burn" (I do use Windows 7). Probably something to do with the profit motives of the two communities - one works to improve itself by helping the community improve itself by acting on community input, the other listens to shareholders and the SEC and marketdrones to develop ways of milking "consumers" for every red cent they can get out of them while making it look like they're actually providing something a: useful and b: secure.
you forgot Derek Bird and Raoul Moat, to name two right off the top of my head, there are more. From your much-loved WSJ: "Within a decade of the handgun ban and the confiscation of handguns from registered owners, crime with handguns had doubled according to British government crime reports. Gun crime, not a serious problem in the past, now is." source. "Strict gun laws in Great Britain and Australia haven't made their people noticeably safer, nor have they prevented massacres. The two major countries held up as models for the U.S. don't provide much evidence that strict gun laws will solve our problems."
A few comments from me to close down any further idiocy from the anti-gun crowd:
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Criminals DO NOT CARE about the Law. That's why they were once called "out laws". From the old English literally meaning vermin, wolfsbane or wolfshead, which were basically fair game for anybody with a weapon and the brass bollocks to go take him down, nobody was allowed to offer an outlaw food, water or shelter. Presenting a local sheriff with a wolfsbane usually attracted a reward. Outlawry was abolished in England in 1861. The Castle Doctrine, however, still stands in English law which means that I would be perfectly within my rights to shoot an intruder into my home in the face, but if I shoot him in the back, that's murder (Tony Martin case: [2001] EWCA Crim 2245).
the case I cited should have been a bit of a clue as well. Yes, England. Tomlinson was murdered by an on-duty police officer, at the G8 protest while he was travelling home from work - he wasn't even part of the protest but that's tangential to the issue.
The Toshiba has a 45W PSU. The Dell has a 70. Both can charge off my solar pile (and they are when the sky is light). So for me, electricity is not really considered a running expense.
AGS PCR-1 BAR in.22, 19" choked 1:15 twist cromoly steel match barrel with 1/4" UNF thread, one piece "superskinny" custom stock, custom 7.75" three-chamber spring plated rubberised aluminium silencer, Hawke Eclipse 3-10x44 Mildot scope on taped Deben Sportsmatch mounts. Puts a 20gr slug exactly where I want it out to 180 yards, hunting range is usually kept below 60 yards.
Fact Check, that website set up by journalists and practitioners of applied psychology to check reports by journalists is sounding a lot like the police investigating the police. I detect a serious conflict of interest here. Yes, we had similar in the UK called Fullfact which was exposed by yours truly to the Daily Mail during the Leveson Inquiry as a front for pro-censorship groups and individuals such as paedophile rings, inside traders and arms dealers, politicians and members of the Royal Family.
hate to tell you this, but there are guns in the UK. LOTS of them. Most of them quite capable of cracking an engine block.
I can also absolutely confirm to you that most of those weapons are held by people wearing very similar clothes, ballistic vests and they also carry TETRA system radio gear. The only training they get is in the radio gear and how to fill in a kerbside citation.
(disclosure: I have assessed over 300 police officers through all stages of firearms training and failed ALL BUT TWO, purely on basic safety grounds).
there are setups that can bring the muzzle report to a mere whisper. Sometimes you wouldn't hear it if it went off next to your ear.
(disclosure: I stalk small mammals for food, silence truly is golden. My loudest rifle reports at about the same volume as someone cracking a can of soda).
...police still take 45 minutes to arrive during which time thirty kids get shot to shit and a teacher hides in a closet.
fuck this high tech solution bullshit, just fucking arm the teachers with a "If you're not meant to be here you WILL GET SHOT" policy.
Spree shooters aren't polite. They will not wait for the po-pos to arrive to negotiate, they're running through a school, with weapons, and with intent. The sooner they are STOPPED permanently the better it will be for EVERYBODY.
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Because Sony are content providers, we are pigs in the trough.
I have a 20GB hard drive that formats to 10GB. There're no bad sectors reported on it or anything like that, it's been like that since I partitioned it the second time round. Were they doing this to hard drives as well way back when a 20 set you back £200?
I usually throw a new card into a camera and format the thing. Generally sorts it out.
Wow, Foamy, lay off the coffee, eh?
oh, fuck, not another ransomware...
I'm just glad I keep all my data airgapped.
This. Also consider that these so-called knockoff chips are made on EXACTLY the same process lines as the "real thing", using EXACTLY the same substrates, screens, whatever... the only difference is that the "knockoffs" haven't been power tested - so you're taking pot luck that they actually work, even if they are actually as specified on the box (how long have the 8GB cards with 64/128GB firmwares been sitting in storage?? They're still genuine cards, what makes them slightly hooky is the firmware. There's fuck all wrong with them otherwise).
I've seen webcams and Bluetooth SD cards as well, even a composite GPS/storage card (how in the fuck they got a GPS to fit INSIDE an SD form factor with only an inch and a quarter of wire sticking out (the antenna) is anybody's guess...).
my first 486 came from a very well known manufacturer... with a virus in the BIOS!
fifteen hundred miles of ethernet cable.
I mean, seriously? No internet usually means no power either. Take a book.
I'll take the praise on rye and hold the sarcasm. What you missed, I think, was the fact that the DM not only reported on the fact that they had been handed this information they published every bit of evidence I gave them. Which is a pretty rare thing for ANY newspaper to do.
Would it have made you happier if I'd sent the information to the Guardian instead? Or is there something about them that you don't like? The Sun? How about the Mirror? For fuck's sake, just tell me which one you mistrust the LEAST, and I'll send it to them.
On second thought, take your idiotic comments and stick them up your arse.
one would sincerely hope that CC has a support tier - beyond Tier I script drones - manned by people actually qualified to investigate such esoteric issues? Pretty much any other provider I've ever dealt with certainly does.
call Comcast, it sounds like it's a "their problem" problem.
companies such as Virgin, Talktalk and Sky run ads which claim like £8 a month for ubercahunadogsbollocksbroadband, and if you're paying attention there's a smallprint flash at the bottom of the screen that indicates that this is on top of line rental at £15/mo and a phone number at £19/mo. Unfortunately for us, that flash is enough to get out of false advertising claims (which is why they did it, but still they push the ubercahunadogsbollocksbroadband deal).
Is this so-called consumer rights advocacy group actually saying that a company paying a rent for prepared flat space which is currently sitting idle is in the wrong for doing so?
The fuck?
Don't ask me why, I couldn't tell you, but if I used Gnome (the X client) I would have donated. If this had been a Microsoft story, I'd've been like "Let the fuckers burn" (I do use Windows 7). Probably something to do with the profit motives of the two communities - one works to improve itself by helping the community improve itself by acting on community input, the other listens to shareholders and the SEC and marketdrones to develop ways of milking "consumers" for every red cent they can get out of them while making it look like they're actually providing something a: useful and b: secure.
you forgot Derek Bird and Raoul Moat, to name two right off the top of my head, there are more. From your much-loved WSJ: "Within a decade of the handgun ban and the confiscation of handguns from registered owners, crime with handguns had doubled according to British government crime reports. Gun crime, not a serious problem in the past, now is." source. "Strict gun laws in Great Britain and Australia haven't made their people noticeably safer, nor have they prevented massacres. The two major countries held up as models for the U.S. don't provide much evidence that strict gun laws will solve our problems."
A few comments from me to close down any further idiocy from the anti-gun crowd:
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Criminals DO NOT CARE about the Law. That's why they were once called "out laws". From the old English literally meaning vermin, wolfsbane or wolfshead, which were basically fair game for anybody with a weapon and the brass bollocks to go take him down, nobody was allowed to offer an outlaw food, water or shelter. Presenting a local sheriff with a wolfsbane usually attracted a reward. Outlawry was abolished in England in 1861. The Castle Doctrine, however, still stands in English law which means that I would be perfectly within my rights to shoot an intruder into my home in the face, but if I shoot him in the back, that's murder (Tony Martin case: [2001] EWCA Crim 2245).
the case I cited should have been a bit of a clue as well. Yes, England. Tomlinson was murdered by an on-duty police officer, at the G8 protest while he was travelling home from work - he wasn't even part of the protest but that's tangential to the issue.
I'm surprised nobody's picked up on it yet...
The Toshiba has a 45W PSU. The Dell has a 70. Both can charge off my solar pile (and they are when the sky is light). So for me, electricity is not really considered a running expense.
AGS PCR-1 BAR in .22, 19" choked 1:15 twist cromoly steel match barrel with 1/4" UNF thread, one piece "superskinny" custom stock, custom 7.75" three-chamber spring plated rubberised aluminium silencer, Hawke Eclipse 3-10x44 Mildot scope on taped Deben Sportsmatch mounts. Puts a 20gr slug exactly where I want it out to 180 yards, hunting range is usually kept below 60 yards.
Fact Check, that website set up by journalists and practitioners of applied psychology to check reports by journalists is sounding a lot like the police investigating the police. I detect a serious conflict of interest here. Yes, we had similar in the UK called Fullfact which was exposed by yours truly to the Daily Mail during the Leveson Inquiry as a front for pro-censorship groups and individuals such as paedophile rings, inside traders and arms dealers, politicians and members of the Royal Family.
hate to tell you this, but there are guns in the UK. LOTS of them. Most of them quite capable of cracking an engine block.
I can also absolutely confirm to you that most of those weapons are held by people wearing very similar clothes, ballistic vests and they also carry TETRA system radio gear. The only training they get is in the radio gear and how to fill in a kerbside citation.
(disclosure: I have assessed over 300 police officers through all stages of firearms training and failed ALL BUT TWO, purely on basic safety grounds).
there are setups that can bring the muzzle report to a mere whisper. Sometimes you wouldn't hear it if it went off next to your ear.
(disclosure: I stalk small mammals for food, silence truly is golden. My loudest rifle reports at about the same volume as someone cracking a can of soda).
bit fuckin' early for April Fools isn't it?
...police still take 45 minutes to arrive during which time thirty kids get shot to shit and a teacher hides in a closet.
fuck this high tech solution bullshit, just fucking arm the teachers with a "If you're not meant to be here you WILL GET SHOT" policy.
Spree shooters aren't polite. They will not wait for the po-pos to arrive to negotiate, they're running through a school, with weapons, and with intent. The sooner they are STOPPED permanently the better it will be for EVERYBODY.