Ok some, but still allot and it really begs the question why? not why technically, but why would you even bother doing something on that scale just to fit your channel in terrestrial when it was clearly more suited to cheap cable/satellite..
I think they have it on satellite and cable though, waste of space if you ask me. Oh apart from Worlds Wildest Police Videos with John Burnel that shit is da bomb thank you America!
To people outside the UK, channel 5 is basically a terrestrial channel in the format of a tacky trash newspaper, they made their debut in the late 90's however they were plagued with problems, in order to get a frequency all VCRs in the country had to be retuned by a technician (no idea don't ask), their signal was much weaker than other stations and was known for crap reception and they were the only terrestrial channel to stick a logo in the corner of their screen, they've improved a little since then but they're still 'that' channel in most peoples minds. If they had waited for a couple of years for digital terrestrial tv they could probably have saved a whole load of money but they would be watched even less than that crappy shopping channel. Oh and the program in question - Fifth Gear is a blaitent rip-off of the BBC program Top Gear without Jeromy Clarkson.
Not saying it is, just that certain political views could be aligned with certain personalities and traits (violence? passifism? etc) so someone of a certain part could be assumed to be more likely to be violent, so you could then look for a DNA link
Thats the most tragic story ive ever heard - you would think they would bring a better game than solitare if they were forced to make the effort of putting it on a disk!?
(just kidding -- wanted to see what it was like to wear the foil hat for a few minutes)
Why is that so far fetched? all thats needed is a machine that can process DNA samples and produce the relevant code (shouldnt be too far off?) and computer to compare everyone's DNA looking for patterns and cross referencing them with behavioural traits (from your criminal record, jobs, political affiliation, shopping list, religion, etc). I could even imagine this being edged in slowly - while anyone who gives a damn about human rights will be appalled, the hick masses will hear something like "we have a way of detecting paedophiles by their DNA" and they're gonna accept that and the mass gassing that ensues.
--not wearing tin foil hat --just saying its possible
sounds like a good idea to me, but what happens if you simply modify the solitare binary and change one byte to throw the hash then rename it to important_work_related_app.exe?
You can bet your ass that almost no police/medical records system has even been designed to allow guaranteed deletion, for any record there are probably at least a dozen copies in backup tapes, duplicate lab samples and slides, photocopies and files lost behind furniture, at the very least they could design the system so that after a record wasn't needed you could be assured that there would only be one copy in existence and it would be in a safe place.
but yeah you have absolutely got to think of the children!
In the US whats the law on criminal records - do you have access to everything the police have on you? can they give it to other people? This is gonna be a very important issue especially if finger-print scanners make it big - which i think is a very bad idea, using biometrics means a) if someone gets a copy theres no way to 'change your biometric pin number' and b) stealing your biometrics can mean cutting off your finger.
You need to at least have the right to know exactly what personal data any organisation has on you (a right enjoyed by the EU)
Its almost certainly gonna be digital and encrypting a digital signal when both sides keys can by synchronised is trivially easy so theres no excuse for it not to be. I wonder how they deal with frequency allocation? maybe its some sort of 802.11-like system..
Some of those machines are a joke, they pay lip-service to security by putting a half-inch tall guard around the key-pad like thats going to stop anyone looking at an angle of more then 2 degrees! My idea is to stick little LCDs on each key or make the whole keypad a touch screen, put one of those filters on so that you can only see it when you are almost exactly facing it and then randomly place the digits. As a bonus store this as an option on each card so idiots who can't handle buttons that move positions can ask to turn the feature off for their cards. Unfortunately this is unlikely to ever happen becuase millions of shops have already bought new machines. Its not really that much of a big deal i guess, you really can just stick your hand over it and someone has to mug you anyway.
I can vouch for that, my school made the mistake of letting us work wherever we wanted during free periods, hours in the computer room on slashdot don't help with exams. At home, game addictions didn't help either but i think kids need to exposed to be able to get over things like this - if you can't handle game and net addictions to a reasonable degree when you become an adult you have failed life, simple as that.
Take a page from the BBC's book - when they wanted to show Jerry Springer the Opera uncut (gay Jesus, lots of swearing etc), the hardcore Christians went absolutely ape shit - 50,000 complaints before the program even aired and demonstrations outside "British Blasphemy Corporation". The BBC stuck through it and showed it because their job is to provide programs for everyones tastes at different times, not dumb down all progams into one PC mush of shit.
That gives me a cunning idea.. re-write a solitaire clone and distribute it on all your companies machines, have it produce such a statistic and send it to a server, keeping the employee's name tied to each statistic is optional depending on local privacy laws and how much fun you want to have..
Probably not, the way the BBC is funded is unlikely to happen in any other media organisation ever again and its hardly a big profit maker, but its definitely good that its there to provide a source free from sponsors and majority shareholders.
This is what gets me about the entire telemarketing industry -
If you get a phone call and someone tries to sell you something, you have absolutely no idea who they really are, what company they really represent and even if they are in the same country as you, why on earth would anyone give them credit card details to make a purchase?!?
Im surprised this hasn't been going on for decades: 1) Call random people 2) Offer them an amazing deal 3) Take credit card and address details 4) Fucking profit big-time
Add to that, find a country that has no extradition treaties with yours and only call people in that country, the long-distance charge will be worth it from all the money you rake in from total fucking idiots who are prepared to give you their credit card without any credentials.
The fact that there actually is a telemarketing industry proves that some people must be stupid enough. From now on I propose a special 'code word' which will be known among telemarketers and non-stupid people the conversation will go something like this:
A: Good morning sir, Im wondering if you would be interested in this special offer we.. B: Banana! A: Oh terribly sorry to bother you sir, ill take you off all telemarketing lists immediately, thank you.
This code word has basically told the marketer that you are not a total retard and are not worth calling in the future so that they may remove you from their list and actually save themselves time and money! All the actuall idiots who would fall for this crap can then have more telemarketers calling them and everyone is happy..
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When you are stoned to death or flogged until you collapse or your eyes are removed, taking the risk to run this sort of business means the price goes way up.
The Saudi royal family are sick pig-fucking dogs who fuck their own mothers and fathers anally - that's why they stink of shit when you go to their palace.
Had a few different (kde based) installations on a celeron 333 with 128mb, it ran like shit, took several minutes to login with kde and even opening file managers and browsers was worse than watching paint dry, it was absolutely unusable, had a fiddle around with the kdeinit with no success. Gave up and stuck Windows 2000 on the same machine: runs like a dream, boots fast, responsive, firefox, openoffice.
Anyone want to comment on KDE speed (out of the box for your favourite distro)? At the moment its totally un-usable on all but the fastest machine because of program loading time for one.. is it better now?
The absolute worse thing about Microsofts CSS support, is that its not even consistent between different versions of IE!! there are really irritating things that differ between 5 and 6 for example and IE for the Mac is just a totally different browser with Microsofts name tacked on the end. Firefox wins hands down - even tho its CSS isn't perfect it still works the same across all platforms (plus Mozilla;) and version wise i've yet to see a problem - or even see wildly out of date versions in use.
I think I see where the movie industry is going for the next 20 years. We've already had half the films from the last century remade (badly), and half the books and comics and cartoons adapted into movies, the next stage is to re-re-make all these movies in the latest format - 3D, so basically the industry will be kept alive by satisfying peoples curiosities yet again, using the same story bases. The way this works is quite simple: people want to satisfy their curiosities, theres a certain novelty to seeing scooby doo or inspector gadget as a real life film, it may only last about 10 minutes but thats often just enough time to get you into the cinema. Films often don't need any real content as long as they have a hook. Personally I think its great, capitalism is teh r0x0r.
Either way, its fucking lame and i would support an act to withhold their free speech rights on this and bring back the death penalty, there is no excuse for dumping shit like this on mankind.
All i know is that if they team up with the makers of that annoying frog ring tone to give the bike an engine noise there are gonna be scores of drivers intentionally running them over and laughing manically.
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Ok some, but still allot and it really begs the question why? not why technically, but why would you even bother doing something on that scale just to fit your channel in terrestrial when it was clearly more suited to cheap cable/satellite..
I think they have it on satellite and cable though, waste of space if you ask me. Oh apart from Worlds Wildest Police Videos with John Burnel that shit is da bomb thank you America!
To people outside the UK, channel 5 is basically a terrestrial channel in the format of a tacky trash newspaper, they made their debut in the late 90's however they were plagued with problems, in order to get a frequency all VCRs in the country had to be retuned by a technician (no idea don't ask), their signal was much weaker than other stations and was known for crap reception and they were the only terrestrial channel to stick a logo in the corner of their screen, they've improved a little since then but they're still 'that' channel in most peoples minds. If they had waited for a couple of years for digital terrestrial tv they could probably have saved a whole load of money but they would be watched even less than that crappy shopping channel. Oh and the program in question - Fifth Gear is a blaitent rip-off of the BBC program Top Gear without Jeromy Clarkson.
Not saying it is, just that certain political views could be aligned with certain personalities and traits (violence? passifism? etc) so someone of a certain part could be assumed to be more likely to be violent, so you could then look for a DNA link
Thats the most tragic story ive ever heard - you would think they would bring a better game than solitare if they were forced to make the effort of putting it on a disk!?
(just kidding -- wanted to see what it was like to wear the foil hat for a few minutes)
Why is that so far fetched? all thats needed is a machine that can process DNA samples and produce the relevant code (shouldnt be too far off?) and computer to compare everyone's DNA looking for patterns and cross referencing them with behavioural traits (from your criminal record, jobs, political affiliation, shopping list, religion, etc). I could even imagine this being edged in slowly - while anyone who gives a damn about human rights will be appalled, the hick masses will hear something like "we have a way of detecting paedophiles by their DNA" and they're gonna accept that and the mass gassing that ensues.
--not wearing tin foil hat
--just saying its possible
sounds like a good idea to me, but what happens if you simply modify the solitare binary and change one byte to throw the hash then rename it to important_work_related_app.exe?
You can bet your ass that almost no police/medical records system has even been designed to allow guaranteed deletion, for any record there are probably at least a dozen copies in backup tapes, duplicate lab samples and slides, photocopies and files lost behind furniture, at the very least they could design the system so that after a record wasn't needed you could be assured that there would only be one copy in existence and it would be in a safe place.
but yeah you have absolutely got to think of the children!
In the US whats the law on criminal records - do you have access to everything the police have on you? can they give it to other people? This is gonna be a very important issue especially if finger-print scanners make it big - which i think is a very bad idea, using biometrics means a) if someone gets a copy theres no way to 'change your biometric pin number' and b) stealing your biometrics can mean cutting off your finger.
You need to at least have the right to know exactly what personal data any organisation has on you (a right enjoyed by the EU)
Its almost certainly gonna be digital and encrypting a digital signal when both sides keys can by synchronised is trivially easy so theres no excuse for it not to be. I wonder how they deal with frequency allocation? maybe its some sort of 802.11-like system..
Some of those machines are a joke, they pay lip-service to security by putting a half-inch tall guard around the key-pad like thats going to stop anyone looking at an angle of more then 2 degrees! My idea is to stick little LCDs on each key or make the whole keypad a touch screen, put one of those filters on so that you can only see it when you are almost exactly facing it and then randomly place the digits. As a bonus store this as an option on each card so idiots who can't handle buttons that move positions can ask to turn the feature off for their cards. Unfortunately this is unlikely to ever happen becuase millions of shops have already bought new machines. Its not really that much of a big deal i guess, you really can just stick your hand over it and someone has to mug you anyway.
I can vouch for that, my school made the mistake of letting us work wherever we wanted during free periods, hours in the computer room on slashdot don't help with exams. At home, game addictions didn't help either but i think kids need to exposed to be able to get over things like this - if you can't handle game and net addictions to a reasonable degree when you become an adult you have failed life, simple as that.
Take a page from the BBC's book - when they wanted to show Jerry Springer the Opera uncut (gay Jesus, lots of swearing etc), the hardcore Christians went absolutely ape shit - 50,000 complaints before the program even aired and demonstrations outside "British Blasphemy Corporation". The BBC stuck through it and showed it because their job is to provide programs for everyones tastes at different times, not dumb down all progams into one PC mush of shit.
That gives me a cunning idea.. re-write a solitaire clone and distribute it on all your companies machines, have it produce such a statistic and send it to a server, keeping the employee's name tied to each statistic is optional depending on local privacy laws and how much fun you want to have..
It would be ironic, but the BBC is also free from government interference.. kinda. Please ignore David Kelly sitting in that tree over there.
Probably not, the way the BBC is funded is unlikely to happen in any other media organisation ever again and its hardly a big profit maker, but its definitely good that its there to provide a source free from sponsors and majority shareholders.
This is what gets me about the entire telemarketing industry -
If you get a phone call and someone tries to sell you something, you have absolutely no idea who they really are, what company they really represent and even if they are in the same country as you, why on earth would anyone give them credit card details to make a purchase?!?
Im surprised this hasn't been going on for decades:
1) Call random people
2) Offer them an amazing deal
3) Take credit card and address details
4) Fucking profit big-time
Add to that, find a country that has no extradition treaties with yours and only call people in that country, the long-distance charge will be worth it from all the money you rake in from total fucking idiots who are prepared to give you their credit card without any credentials.
The fact that there actually is a telemarketing industry proves that some people must be stupid enough. From now on I propose a special 'code word' which will be known among telemarketers and non-stupid people the conversation will go something like this:
A: Good morning sir, Im wondering if you would be interested in this special offer we..
B: Banana!
A: Oh terribly sorry to bother you sir, ill take you off all telemarketing lists immediately, thank you.
This code word has basically told the marketer that you are not a total retard and are not worth calling in the future so that they may remove you from their list and actually save themselves time and money! All the actuall idiots who would fall for this crap can then have more telemarketers calling them and everyone is happy..
When you are stoned to death or flogged until you collapse or your eyes are removed, taking the risk to run this sort of business means the price goes way up.
The Saudi royal family are sick pig-fucking dogs who fuck their own mothers and fathers anally - that's why they stink of shit when you go to their palace.
Had a few different (kde based) installations on a celeron 333 with 128mb, it ran like shit, took several minutes to login with kde and even opening file managers and browsers was worse than watching paint dry, it was absolutely unusable, had a fiddle around with the kdeinit with no success. Gave up and stuck Windows 2000 on the same machine: runs like a dream, boots fast, responsive, firefox, openoffice.
Anyone want to comment on KDE speed (out of the box for your favourite distro)? At the moment its totally un-usable on all but the fastest machine because of program loading time for one.. is it better now?
The absolute worse thing about Microsofts CSS support, is that its not even consistent between different versions of IE!! there are really irritating things that differ between 5 and 6 for example and IE for the Mac is just a totally different browser with Microsofts name tacked on the end. Firefox wins hands down - even tho its CSS isn't perfect it still works the same across all platforms (plus Mozilla ;) and version wise i've yet to see a problem - or even see wildly out of date versions in use.
I think I see where the movie industry is going for the next 20 years. We've already had half the films from the last century remade (badly), and half the books and comics and cartoons adapted into movies, the next stage is to re-re-make all these movies in the latest format - 3D, so basically the industry will be kept alive by satisfying peoples curiosities yet again, using the same story bases. The way this works is quite simple: people want to satisfy their curiosities, theres a certain novelty to seeing scooby doo or inspector gadget as a real life film, it may only last about 10 minutes but thats often just enough time to get you into the cinema. Films often don't need any real content as long as they have a hook. Personally I think its great, capitalism is teh r0x0r.
Either way, its fucking lame and i would support an act to withhold their free speech rights on this and bring back the death penalty, there is no excuse for dumping shit like this on mankind.
All i know is that if they team up with the makers of that annoying frog ring tone to give the bike an engine noise there are gonna be scores of drivers intentionally running them over and laughing manically.
Its called fire fox. There simply is no reason to use IE.