That should be familiar to any Oliver fans and hardcore critics alike. For those in neither camp, Barbecoa was Oliver's butchery that was shut down last June after receiving an "A Hazardous" rating from the Food Standards Agency following complaints of food poisoning form several of his restaurants that also received poor FSA ratings for general hygiene. Oliver was also fined £17,000 over this scandal, consisting of just one specimen charge of violating the Food Safety Act, which is pretty fucking disgusting after his ironically calling the US fast food industry out for unsafe kitchen practices. He should have been shut down altogether. Oh, semi-insider info: I have it on very good authority that his restaurants have a higher staff turnover than practically every other sector. They are hellish places to work in. Certainly not worth the wage slavery. The management expect new staff to already know how it all works (in Oliver's eclectic kitchen system!?), training is not only nonexistent it's an inside joke that "training" is a curse word. Most of his staff are school leavers. The only ones over the age of 18 are upper management.
my wife has Verified By Visa on her card already, has done for several years now. Thing is, it *doesn't bloody work*. It's supposed to prompt for password every time (which you set the first time you use it), yet the next time you use your card for online purchasing it just runs through the verification theatre without ever asking for the password.
(I've used it to buy coach and train tickets, mail order and courier deliveries online, all sorts - only ever got asked for VBV password the ONCE back in September 2009, which was the second time it was used to buy something over the net).
What does work for me is when you make an online purchase, when the bank calls your registered number within a minute or three of completing the purchase and asks you to verify that you just made a transaction. That's all they'll ask. Ring. "This is XXXXX Visa Debit, we'd like you to confirm that you just made a transaction for X amount?" If you say no or fail to pick up, they will fail the transaction. "Thank you for using Visa Debit." Click. They'll generally do that for any online purchases that fall outside your normal withdrawal pattern.
car makers don't support custom EMUs because they don't know other people's EMUs and how they interact with their engines, they only know their own EMUs and they're the ones they support. Why should Ford support a Renault unit?
One would think that you'd have some idea of a: what you're doing and b: the consequences of what you're attempting not to mention c: the risks involved with what you're doing (thinking the EMU here) before you embark on such ventures. Otherwise it becomes an exercise in stating the bleedin' obvious right here. Don't want to blow your engine? Then don't fuck with the EMU. Don't want to brick your $600 phone? Then don't flash it. Prepared to take the risk? Good luck. On another branch of this conversation, I allude to the times when performing such operations is a necessity, for example when like in my case, a phone develops a fault in its firmware with the only possible fix being a reflash. There's no risk involved because the phone is already bricked, it can only get more functional at that point. Happily for me it worked. If it hadn't I'd've only been down a £500 phone I only paid £35 for.
no, I replaced a firmware that wasn't working - period - with another that thankfully allowed me to use the handset for its intended purpose: an IMEI-tagged receiver handset with a subscriber number contained on a card with which I was then able to make and receive telephone calls. Whether it "calls home" or not on the new firmware is neither issue nor concern for me, as I don't take it out when I leave the house and I don't discuss sensitive issues over the phone to anyone. That's not paranoia, that's operational security training.
In England, there is no law REQUIRING you to WEAR a seatbelt. There is a law REQUIRING front dual airbags, and belts to be fitted on all seats and that all safety devices are BSI certified. That is where the analogy ends. Fucking with vehicle safety devices falls under "criminal negligence" and can get you sent to jail. Fucking with your phone's firmware isn't likely to kill anyone.
House: It's up to you if you want to buy property in a gated community, you take the consequences of your choice even if it means you don't actually get to paint the outside shocking pink. There are districts where this would be allowed. I can name one right now: Fernandina Beach, Florida. Another: Daytona Beach, Florida. Another: Jacksonville, Florida. Another: Eastbourne, East Sussex. There's a whole street full of properties in a rather fetching pastel pink in Brighton, East Sussex. Funnily enough, there's a row of houses in the same pink that looks absolutely horrible in Clifton, Nottinghamshire. I guess it's the difference between Edwardian frontages and 40's-50's urban semi.
Book: You're hitting this thing with a fork: there is nothing to prevent you, either technically or legally, from xeroxing the entire book. You would fall foul of copyright if you then gave away or sold those copies. The original purchased copy is otherwise yours to do with as you please - you can read or you can use it to wipe your arse.
In England, the maxim of "First Sale" applies to all things, in which any item - whether practical, decorative, or literary in nature - has fixed intrinsic value to the buyer whose ownership of that finite object ends the SECOND he sells it or otherwise disposes of it, and its new owner is the recipient - the buyer or the trash collector. Particularly concerning non-fiction, technical or similar books, the First Sale Doctrine grants the limited right of distribution to any person who buys a book to that one copy. There is ample precedent on this.
I know I rooted my V3, because before it wouldn't even boot... after I flashed it, the thing came up with a spanking new interface (Motorola default rather than the Vodafone OEM theme) and it has worked perfectly ever since.
So this. Meantime, patents should only be defendable if the INVENTION is a: ready to market at the time of filing and b: ON the market when the filing is processed.
And if it isn't dated April 10 1990 then you don't have the Jolly Roger Cookbook. Other tells include the classic obtuse-nerd 35-year-old-virgin-still-lives-with-mom language used.
(Another tell is the blatant plagiarism this takes off the Anarchist Cookbook which was published 19 years prior).
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do OCZ 8GB USB flash drives count?
Six years and counting.
yes I am bitter because at 36 I applied and was told I was too old for *any* position within Jamies Italian Kitchen.
I hope he dies in a firestorm of writs. Figuratively and literally.
uh... bollocks. Look up "Barbecoa".
That should be familiar to any Oliver fans and hardcore critics alike. For those in neither camp, Barbecoa was Oliver's butchery that was shut down last June after receiving an "A Hazardous" rating from the Food Standards Agency following complaints of food poisoning form several of his restaurants that also received poor FSA ratings for general hygiene. Oliver was also fined £17,000 over this scandal, consisting of just one specimen charge of violating the Food Safety Act, which is pretty fucking disgusting after his ironically calling the US fast food industry out for unsafe kitchen practices. He should have been shut down altogether. Oh, semi-insider info: I have it on very good authority that his restaurants have a higher staff turnover than practically every other sector. They are hellish places to work in. Certainly not worth the wage slavery. The management expect new staff to already know how it all works (in Oliver's eclectic kitchen system!?), training is not only nonexistent it's an inside joke that "training" is a curse word. Most of his staff are school leavers. The only ones over the age of 18 are upper management.
my wife has Verified By Visa on her card already, has done for several years now. Thing is, it *doesn't bloody work*. It's supposed to prompt for password every time (which you set the first time you use it), yet the next time you use your card for online purchasing it just runs through the verification theatre without ever asking for the password.
(I've used it to buy coach and train tickets, mail order and courier deliveries online, all sorts - only ever got asked for VBV password the ONCE back in September 2009, which was the second time it was used to buy something over the net).
What does work for me is when you make an online purchase, when the bank calls your registered number within a minute or three of completing the purchase and asks you to verify that you just made a transaction. That's all they'll ask. Ring. "This is XXXXX Visa Debit, we'd like you to confirm that you just made a transaction for X amount?" If you say no or fail to pick up, they will fail the transaction. "Thank you for using Visa Debit." Click. They'll generally do that for any online purchases that fall outside your normal withdrawal pattern.
either use your old pin or ask your card issuer to send a new one (not the bank, they don't issue the cards).
I never signed the cards. It's not a verification sample anyway - it's a tacit acceptance of any liability from misuse. Read the T&Cs properly.
car makers don't support custom EMUs because they don't know other people's EMUs and how they interact with their engines, they only know their own EMUs and they're the ones they support. Why should Ford support a Renault unit?
One would think that you'd have some idea of a: what you're doing and b: the consequences of what you're attempting not to mention c: the risks involved with what you're doing (thinking the EMU here) before you embark on such ventures. Otherwise it becomes an exercise in stating the bleedin' obvious right here. Don't want to blow your engine? Then don't fuck with the EMU. Don't want to brick your $600 phone? Then don't flash it. Prepared to take the risk? Good luck. On another branch of this conversation, I allude to the times when performing such operations is a necessity, for example when like in my case, a phone develops a fault in its firmware with the only possible fix being a reflash. There's no risk involved because the phone is already bricked, it can only get more functional at that point. Happily for me it worked. If it hadn't I'd've only been down a £500 phone I only paid £35 for.
no, I replaced a firmware that wasn't working - period - with another that thankfully allowed me to use the handset for its intended purpose: an IMEI-tagged receiver handset with a subscriber number contained on a card with which I was then able to make and receive telephone calls. Whether it "calls home" or not on the new firmware is neither issue nor concern for me, as I don't take it out when I leave the house and I don't discuss sensitive issues over the phone to anyone. That's not paranoia, that's operational security training.
ooh, car analogy. OK, we'll start with that:
In England, there is no law REQUIRING you to WEAR a seatbelt. There is a law REQUIRING front dual airbags, and belts to be fitted on all seats and that all safety devices are BSI certified. That is where the analogy ends. Fucking with vehicle safety devices falls under "criminal negligence" and can get you sent to jail. Fucking with your phone's firmware isn't likely to kill anyone.
House: It's up to you if you want to buy property in a gated community, you take the consequences of your choice even if it means you don't actually get to paint the outside shocking pink. There are districts where this would be allowed. I can name one right now: Fernandina Beach, Florida. Another: Daytona Beach, Florida. Another: Jacksonville, Florida. Another: Eastbourne, East Sussex. There's a whole street full of properties in a rather fetching pastel pink in Brighton, East Sussex. Funnily enough, there's a row of houses in the same pink that looks absolutely horrible in Clifton, Nottinghamshire. I guess it's the difference between Edwardian frontages and 40's-50's urban semi.
Book: You're hitting this thing with a fork: there is nothing to prevent you, either technically or legally, from xeroxing the entire book. You would fall foul of copyright if you then gave away or sold those copies. The original purchased copy is otherwise yours to do with as you please - you can read or you can use it to wipe your arse.
In England, the maxim of "First Sale" applies to all things, in which any item - whether practical, decorative, or literary in nature - has fixed intrinsic value to the buyer whose ownership of that finite object ends the SECOND he sells it or otherwise disposes of it, and its new owner is the recipient - the buyer or the trash collector. Particularly concerning non-fiction, technical or similar books, the First Sale Doctrine grants the limited right of distribution to any person who buys a book to that one copy. There is ample precedent on this.
I'm more concerned with Samsung uploading an incremental mirror of your hard drive to its cloud.
(ditto inside joke thing).
care to give an example of where it's not a good idea to jailbreak something you OWN to get full use out of it?
I know I rooted my V3, because before it wouldn't even boot... after I flashed it, the thing came up with a spanking new interface (Motorola default rather than the Vodafone OEM theme) and it has worked perfectly ever since.
how about because there is no DMCA or other such legal bullshit preventing them from doing what they want with HARDWARE THEY OWN??
the fuck are you on about?
So this. Meantime, patents should only be defendable if the INVENTION is a: ready to market at the time of filing and b: ON the market when the filing is processed.
nice!
pfft. jrcookii.txt
And if it isn't dated April 10 1990 then you don't have the Jolly Roger Cookbook. Other tells include the classic obtuse-nerd 35-year-old-virgin-still-lives-with-mom language used.
(Another tell is the blatant plagiarism this takes off the Anarchist Cookbook which was published 19 years prior).
I got a chemistry set. And the knowledge to turn a light builb into a fairly potent bomb.
linky: http://www.amazon.com/Images-S...
It is a valid catalogue entry, the comments are hilarious tho.
I bullshit you not.
well, shit. :\
uh... whoosh?
doesn't matter, they're getting paid by the page impression, clickthrough referrals are a bonus.