With respect, why should Scotland get it's own TLD? Because it's historically it's own culture and was conquered by the British?
Uh, British is a term that encompasses everyone in the whole country (Wales, England, Scotland etc..). In terms of being conquered, it was the Scottish highland chiefs who sold out their land rights to English sheep farmers, and then moved down to London. Thus premeditating the Highland Clearances.
Scottish MP's like doing things to enhance Scottishness - it keeps the nationalists happy, especially since high-tech industries that are profitable usually end up relocated down South (eg. defense software).
Most likely everyone who already has a.com,.de,.uk,.fr,.ch,.es, etc. tld will just be covering themselves and redirect to their existing site and have to pick these up to fend off another opportunity for cyber-squatting. Smells almost like some kind of tax.
There was some proposal in Europe that would allow only software patents if the systems interacted directly with the forces of nature (eg. wireless communications, robotic feedback systems, sensors etc)...
But this would still affect the garage inventor working with radio controlled devices (cars, aeroplanes, robots).
More likely he's looking for new ways to raise taxes, especially after raiding pension funds, applying stealth taxes on property inheritance through fiscal drag, and introducing an new tax on landowners who sell land to property developers.
As soon as anything can be "owned" and has "value" in the eyes of the law, then the right to use and transfer of ownership can be taxed.
The biggest danger as always is that the large multinational companies will squeeze out the small software developers, especially when government contracts are concerned.
That's very true - all the cashiers really care about is that the bar code reader goes *beep* when they pass it through the machine, especially when they have a queue of people to deal with.
This idea has been proposed many times before, especially when people see the bright burning flares from oil rigs. The industry argument is that the gases are too volatile to be processed in any purposeful way (Hydrogen, Methane, etc...) or maybe they mean it's not cost effective to process them; they would have to be separated, compressed, stored and transported back somehow. Landfill sites do the same with the Methane they produce - it seems a waste, but perhaps there could be a way of converting the heat into electricity using a wind turbine that is driven by the air being pulled in towards the flame.
Although since a lava stream is anywhere between 800C and 1200C which is enough to melt most metals below manganese, you would probably just end up being a large carbon statue.
The French are very defensive when it comes to their language and particularly their small cinemas. It's actually illegal to import movie DVD's because of the fear that people would just by the DVD's and not go to the cinemas.
If it were anyone, it would be the mobile phone companies like Nokia, Vodaphone etc... who want to keep charging services per minute.
Workers already have protection. For many professions, any college or university graduate has to complete an apprenticeship before setting up their own company. And when they do, they have to pay a hefty company registration fee, along with any leases, insurance bonds and property taxes that they might have to pay.
My favourite loopy law was the German tax on radio valves. The more valves your radio had, the more tax you had to pay. This inspired the electronics industry to attempt to package as many elements inside a glass envelope as possible, thus pioneering integrated circut design with the Loewe radio.
Have a look at the tutorials at QuBit.org. The general principle is that the QuBit computer uses constructive interference between the qubits to generate a new state that is closer towards a solution, and eventually reaches a final state. This article describes how to implement Quantum Cryptoanalysis using a Quantum Fourier Transform.
As an example, imaging the qubits were discs of polarizing glass being rapidly spun by electric motors. You could test the state of each bit by having a set of lasers on one side to a beam of light through the discs to a bunch of light sensors on the other side. Depending on the states detected by the light sensors, the motors are used to adjust the rotation or position the discs. If you get the right feedback system, you will iterate towards whatever solution needed.
The only difference is that the quantum computer would be instantanous.
Bootleg tapes from live concerts always sound completely different from either the final official tape or the recording studio version.
There really isn't any appeal to buy such a tape unless you are either a hardcore fan who wants to own every piece of merchandise or you were actually at the concer t and want to relive those memories.
Anyone who really wants to record the song can easily make a video from the TV, a recording off the radio or buy a second-hand CD.
There isn't anywhere else for them to hang out together. There might not be any space for them at home with the parents in the living-room watching TV (probably Songs of Praise) and a bedroom only big enough for a bed, some shelves and nothing else. Nightclubs and bars want to charge 20 pound entry fee, and other sources of entertainment are closed after 9pm due to fear of drunk teenagers. Maybe the community centre is only open a couple of nights a week because they can't get volunteers.
Why is everyone so worried about the government using their data?
Function creep. Information that is collected exclusively for one purpose, will always end up being used for another purpose, particularly taxation.
As an example, in the UK, universities maintain a list of students registered for each course. The registration details include both a home address and term-time address. With the introduction of the poll tax (charged per person rather than per property), the government passed a law requiring that all universities must forward their student registry details to the property tax collectors. This eventually proved to be unworkable since some students kept changing addresses four times a year if not more often.
And now the UK government want to merge all their government database (driving licences, income tax, benefits, criminal records, property tax) into one super-database accessed by ID cards.
My quetion to this is , who is gonna stop the birds from flying around ???
Want to take that to a WHOLE new level ???
Simple. We will deploy Phalanx defence system around the perimeter of every city. Not one pigeon will fly in or out, without being first turned into pate.
There was a previous slashdot article on the problem, where NASA had proposed microwaving the surface area of the Moon for a future space colony, in order to prevent the dust from getting everywhere.
It is known by archeologists that the process of creating beer in ancient societies (Egypt, Africa), often led to the contamination of the storage containers by the streptomycedes bacterium. This in turn led to the production of the antibiotic "tetracycline". The physicans of the time knew that beer was a good cure for ailments, but not why.
There was a science article about the properties of moondust (Wired?). Apparently, the moondust particles have lots of jagged edges, if not barbs as well, which provide plenty of sharp pointy bits to emit static charge, and allow it stick to anything and each other. This has the advantage that microwaving the particles will cause them to clump together.
According to this article, Britain also has the highest Cocaine consumption rate. Perhaps, we should take this to be a good sign of prosperity and open borders?
For Telewest, the upload speed using Scientific Atlanta cable modems is only 64K while the download speed can reach a whopping 500K/second. Not bad when downloads on the university connection gets restricted to 32K/second. It's quicker ssh'ing into my home system, doing the download, and then reuploading back to the university computer.
In some of the offices I worked in, they had white-noise speakers mounted at regular intervals across the ceiling (the technical term is a "sound masking system"). When they weren't being used as a public-broadcast system to announce that the pizza arrived or that someone had left their car lights on, they would be used to generate white noise that would reduce the range that conversations would be heard. It was freaky to see two people chatting at a distance of three workspaces away and not actually hear what they were saying.
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With respect, why should Scotland get it's own TLD? Because it's historically it's own culture and was conquered by the British?
Uh, British is a term that encompasses everyone in the whole country (Wales, England, Scotland etc..). In terms of being conquered, it was the Scottish highland chiefs who sold out their land rights to English sheep farmers, and then moved down to London. Thus premeditating the Highland Clearances.
Scottish MP's like doing things to enhance Scottishness - it keeps the nationalists happy, especially since high-tech industries that are profitable usually end up relocated down South (eg. defense software).
Most likely everyone who already has a .com, .de, .uk, .fr, .ch, .es, etc. tld will just be covering themselves and redirect to their existing site and have to pick these up to fend off another opportunity for cyber-squatting. Smells almost like some kind of tax.
.sco domain for Scotland.
.eng for England.
There's also going to be a
Definitely seems to be a cash cow - taking this to the natural progression, there will also have to be a
Don't forget the sniffer dogs used at airports used to look for any counterfeit/contraband fruits and vegetables.
There was some proposal in Europe that would allow only software patents if the systems interacted directly with the forces of nature (eg. wireless communications, robotic feedback systems, sensors etc)...
But this would still affect the garage inventor working with radio controlled devices (cars, aeroplanes, robots).
More likely he's looking for new ways to raise taxes, especially after raiding pension funds, applying stealth taxes on property inheritance through fiscal drag, and introducing an new tax on landowners who sell land to property developers.
As soon as anything can be "owned" and has "value" in the eyes of the law, then the right to use and transfer of ownership can be taxed.
The biggest danger as always is that the large multinational companies will squeeze out the small software developers, especially when government contracts are concerned.
That's very true - all the cashiers really care about is that the bar code reader goes *beep* when they pass it through the machine, especially when they have a queue of people to deal with.
This idea has been proposed many times before, especially when people see the bright burning flares from oil rigs. The industry argument is that the gases are too volatile to be processed in any purposeful way (Hydrogen, Methane, etc...) or maybe they mean it's not cost effective to process them; they would have to be separated, compressed, stored and transported back somehow. Landfill sites do the same with the Methane they produce - it seems a waste, but perhaps there could be a way of converting the heat into electricity using a wind turbine that is driven by the air being pulled in towards the flame.
There are at least two accounts of people jumping into the hot springs in Yellowstone Park to rescue pet dogs. Snopes has an article about David Allan Kirwan, who jumped into a 200 degree C hot pool. ESPN has more details.
Although since a lava stream is anywhere between 800C and 1200C which is enough to melt most metals below manganese, you would probably just end up being a large carbon statue.
The French are very defensive when it comes to their language and particularly their small cinemas. It's actually illegal to import movie DVD's because of the fear that people would just by the DVD's and not go to the cinemas.
If it were anyone, it would be the mobile phone companies like Nokia, Vodaphone etc... who want to keep charging services per minute.
Workers already have protection. For many professions, any college or university graduate has to complete an apprenticeship before setting up their own company. And when they do, they have to pay a hefty company registration fee, along with any leases, insurance bonds and property taxes that they might have to pay.
My favourite loopy law was the German tax on radio valves. The more valves your radio had, the more tax you had to pay. This inspired the electronics industry to attempt to package as many elements inside a glass envelope as possible, thus pioneering integrated circut design with the Loewe radio.
Have a look at the tutorials at QuBit.org. The general principle is that the QuBit computer uses constructive interference between the qubits to generate a new state that is closer towards a solution, and eventually reaches a final state. This article describes how to implement Quantum Cryptoanalysis using a Quantum Fourier Transform.
As an example, imaging the qubits were discs of polarizing glass being rapidly spun by electric motors. You could test the state of each bit by having a set of lasers on one side to a beam of light through the discs to a bunch of light sensors on the other side. Depending on the states detected by the light sensors, the motors are used to adjust the rotation or position the discs. If you get the right feedback system, you will iterate towards whatever solution needed.
The only difference is that the quantum computer would be instantanous.
Bootleg tapes from live concerts always sound completely different from either the final official tape or the recording studio version.
There really isn't any appeal to buy such a tape unless you are either a hardcore fan who wants to own every piece of merchandise or you were actually at the concer t and want to relive those memories.
Anyone who really wants to record the song can easily make a video from the TV, a recording off the radio or buy a second-hand CD.
There isn't anywhere else for them to hang out together. There might not be any space for them at home with the parents in the living-room watching TV (probably Songs of Praise) and a bedroom only big enough for a bed, some shelves and nothing else. Nightclubs and bars want to charge 20 pound entry fee, and other sources of entertainment are closed after 9pm due to fear of drunk teenagers. Maybe the community centre is only open a couple of nights a week because they can't get volunteers.
Why is everyone so worried about the government using their data?
Function creep. Information that is collected exclusively for one purpose, will always end up being used for another purpose, particularly taxation.
As an example, in the UK, universities maintain a list of students registered for each course. The registration details include both a home address and term-time address. With the introduction of the poll tax (charged per person rather than per property), the government passed a law requiring that all universities must forward their student registry details to the property tax collectors. This eventually proved to be unworkable since some students kept changing addresses four times a year if not more often.
And now the UK government want to merge all their government database (driving licences, income tax, benefits, criminal records, property tax) into one super-database accessed by ID cards.
My quetion to this is , who is gonna stop the birds from flying around ???
Want to take that to a WHOLE new level ???
Simple. We will deploy Phalanx defence system around the perimeter of every city. Not one pigeon will fly in or out, without being first turned into pate.
... I thought this implied that online drug dealing was making greater profits that the bricks'n'mortar drug dealer.
There was a previous slashdot article on the problem, where NASA had proposed microwaving the surface area of the Moon for a future space colony, in order to
prevent the dust from getting everywhere.
It is known by archeologists that the process of creating beer in ancient societies (Egypt, Africa), often led to the contamination of the storage containers by the streptomycedes bacterium. This in turn led to the production of the antibiotic "tetracycline". The physicans of the time knew that beer was a good cure for ailments, but not why.
There was a science article about the properties of moondust (Wired?). Apparently, the moondust particles have lots of jagged edges, if not barbs as well, which provide plenty of sharp pointy bits to emit static charge, and allow it stick to anything and each other. This has the advantage that microwaving the particles will cause them to clump together.
According to this article, Britain also has the highest Cocaine consumption rate. Perhaps, we should take this to be a good sign of prosperity and open borders?
For Telewest, the upload speed using Scientific Atlanta cable modems is only 64K while the download speed can reach a whopping 500K/second. Not bad when downloads on the university connection gets restricted to 32K/second. It's quicker ssh'ing into my home system, doing the download, and then reuploading back to the university computer.
In some of the offices I worked in, they had white-noise speakers mounted at regular intervals across the ceiling (the technical term is a "sound masking system"). When they weren't being used as a public-broadcast system to announce that the pizza arrived or that someone had left their car lights on, they would be used to generate white noise that would reduce the range that conversations would be heard. It was freaky to see two people chatting at a distance of three workspaces away and not actually hear what they were saying.
...I feel as if a million eyes are watching me, silently...
Looks more like an CRTC "approved for use in Canada" sticker to me.