I've mentioned this before, but it is worth saying again - certain means of blocking ads (including, but not limited to, the FireFox add-on "AdBlock Pro") can stop that specific page from functioning properly.
Wow, the new idea is Free Games that make money through adverts, micropayments, donations or paid-for upgrades?
Man, I should totally recommend that idea to the people behind KoL (started in 2003, and funded entirely by donations), Kongregate (entered beta last year and gets revenue from adverts), etc..
What your ISP offers you and a real news service provider (with 120 days of binary retention and nearly 4 years of text retention) are not even close to the same thing.
Be Broadband. £24 per month. Up to 24Mb/s (theoretical max speed, but it depends on your line, so probably only 10-12Mb/s). Unlimited usage (and they've clarified in a few places that they really do mean unlimited, and I know of at least one person who has downloaded more than 100GB in a month).
People don't get T1 lines for the bandwidth, they get them for the reliability. Same goes for the UK where it is far cheaper to get a DSL connection (with ADSL2+ allowing up to a theoretical maximum connection of 24Mb/s available to home users from at least one isp) than lease a dedicated line, but the SLAs are markedly different.
Of course in the UK (and large portions of the rest of the world) we use the e-carrier system, not t-carrier, which means that standard leased lines (an E1 circuit) are 2.048 Mb/s (although you can sub-divide them based on time slots).
7000mbit = 7 bit, and, as there's no time scale, that means it must be a transfer limit, not a "speed". Either they mean they're not even allowed to download a byte before they reach their usage cap, or they made a typo.
I don't know how accurate all of the info in this PDF is
The answer is probably not very. The problem is that it covers a vast number of topics and it's therefore hard for any one person to refute the entire document but it's very easy to spot all sorts of errors.
For example, on page 68 it quotes an Act of Parliament that mentions a term of "one and twenty years" - which is 21 years (just like "four and twenty blackbirds" is 24) - but the pdf document goes on to describe this period as "one to twenty years".
There are various other typographical errors (primarily spelling mistakes), and the whole thing seems quite shoddy.
It provides a lot of interesting links, but I'm loath to believe the whole lot unconditionally.
"Up here in Scotland, we have our own paper money." Yes, you do. Because all Scottish banks have the right to print their own money.
"Although its legal throughout the UK, a lot of english shopkeeps will give you funny looks if you give them a scottish fiver." Actually, Scottish notes are not legal tender in the UK, although they can be used as money (there is a significant legal distinction).
the racists find out about it. Then it's all over. We can't afford to give some people too much latitude,
Surely the whole point of free spech, and this project, is that you can afford to give "people too much latitude". In fact you have to do so. If it is a right it can not be taken away.
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I've mentioned this before, but it is worth saying again - certain means of blocking ads (including, but not limited to, the FireFox add-on "AdBlock Pro") can stop that specific page from functioning properly.
Are you using FireFox?
Are you using AdBlock Plus with the default filter?
If so, then that'll be why. If not, I suspect it will be a similar filter, somewhere, causing it.
Wow, the new idea is Free Games that make money through adverts, micropayments, donations or paid-for upgrades?
Man, I should totally recommend that idea to the people behind KoL (started in 2003, and funded entirely by donations), Kongregate (entered beta last year and gets revenue from adverts), etc..
It's already been "reopened", apparently - http://po-ru.com/diary/bbc-iplayer-fix-hacked-again/
It's already been "closed", apparently - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7293988.stm
Obviously the BBC's take on the issue is slightly biased, but that's unsurprising.
One word for you. Giganews
What your ISP offers you and a real news service provider (with 120 days of binary retention and nearly 4 years of text retention) are not even close to the same thing.
Be Broadband.
£24 per month. Up to 24Mb/s (theoretical max speed, but it depends on your line, so probably only 10-12Mb/s). Unlimited usage (and they've clarified in a few places that they really do mean unlimited, and I know of at least one person who has downloaded more than 100GB in a month).
People don't get T1 lines for the bandwidth, they get them for the reliability.
Same goes for the UK where it is far cheaper to get a DSL connection (with ADSL2+ allowing up to a theoretical maximum connection of 24Mb/s available to home users from at least one isp) than lease a dedicated line, but the SLAs are markedly different.
Of course in the UK (and large portions of the rest of the world) we use the e-carrier system, not t-carrier, which means that standard leased lines (an E1 circuit) are 2.048 Mb/s (although you can sub-divide them based on time slots).
7000mbit = 7 bit, and, as there's no time scale, that means it must be a transfer limit, not a "speed".
Either they mean they're not even allowed to download a byte before they reach their usage cap, or they made a typo.
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of us?
You think this is an example of that "negative information" they've been talking about over in this thread?
The answer is probably not very. The problem is that it covers a vast number of topics and it's therefore hard for any one person to refute the entire document but it's very easy to spot all sorts of errors.
For example, on page 68 it quotes an Act of Parliament that mentions a term of "one and twenty years" - which is 21 years (just like "four and twenty blackbirds" is 24) - but the pdf document goes on to describe this period as "one to twenty years".
There are various other typographical errors (primarily spelling mistakes), and the whole thing seems quite shoddy.
It provides a lot of interesting links, but I'm loath to believe the whole lot unconditionally.
But it's free (as in beer), so who cares, right?
Where to start?
"Up here in Scotland, we have our own paper money."
Yes, you do. Because all Scottish banks have the right to print their own money.
"Although its legal throughout the UK, a lot of english shopkeeps will give you funny looks if you give them a scottish fiver."
Actually, Scottish notes are not legal tender in the UK, although they can be used as money (there is a significant legal distinction).
See http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/1_7.html
Try looking in TMC (The Mud Connector) - http://www.mudconnect.com/
"that's not what topics on phpBB.com", right?
Except http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=244451
You say that "it doesn't have to do with unpatched phpBB installations." And you also provide a link to the phpBB forum to "prove" it.
You're still wrong, though.
There have been many problems found with old versions of PHP, but this is a specific problem with phpBB
Here's part of my proof:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=240513
I'm not particularly pro- or anti-phpBB, I just like people to be informed of the facts.
Off by 60.
.42% of births are suckers.
c id=10951944/
(A minimum of*) one sucker born every minute.
4 people born every second, so 240 born every minute.
At least 1 sucker for every 240 people is approximately 0.42%
So a minimum of
*see comments further down - http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131196&
the racists find out about it. Then it's all over. We can't afford to give some people too much latitude,
Surely the whole point of free spech, and this project, is that you can afford to give "people too much latitude". In fact you have to do so. If it is a right it can not be taken away.