Most days all the spam I get (one perhaps, or two on a bad day) looks sufficiently like genuine email (invitations to training courses, conferences etc) that it's got the real postal address of the spammer, which is a genuine (if somewhat misguided!) UK company.
So, in accordance with the policy stated on my web site for years now, I invoice them £100 a time for the trouble I take to... er... write the invoices. Of course they don't all pay up - most email to say they won't spam again, and don't - but enough pay up to pay the postage many times over.
Yes I'm sure my ISP throws away hundreds a day. But I never see them so I don't care - so far as what I have to pull down the wire is concerned it's solved.
A lawyer who represents some of them says his clients often suspect that it was the IT guy who just left -- and was responsible for the maintaining the licenses -- who ratted them out for a big BSA reward.
(1) BOFH tells bosses they really should pay up for legal licences.
(2) Bosses tell BOFH to make illegal copies.
(3) Repeat a few times.
(4) BOFH gives up and finds another job.
(5) BOFH shops former bosses.
If this is a surprise to bosses who instruct BOFHs to make illegal copies of things then really it's amazing how they're bright enough to stay in business!
(1) What sort of pilot's licence do you need to operate one of these?
(2) Given that the pilot is sitting safely on the ground, and doesn't have the same incentive that other airborne pilots have to not fly into me, what happens when one of these jokers kills me with one of their toys? They just file a report, and go home to their families, and fly again tomorrow?
"Is it a cowboys and indians story, or a soap opera?"
If so it's not sci-fi, no matter that it uses spaceships instead of horses and rayguns instead of bows and arrows. Just a different colour wallpaper, that's all.
The network can ask the phone for the IMEI as well if it likes, and can use this for various purposes such as looking up the phone in a register of stolen phones and denying it service if found.
But the network doesn't have to know the identity of the phone if it can't be bothered to ask (which costs airtime, of course on the signalling channels, and to what profitable purpose?), it only needs to know the identity of the SIM.
They can't have had anyone on the team with experience of coding for Swing in Java then - you get these all the time, sometimes hanging tens of megabytes of unwanted GUI objects off a single listener registration, and learn how to spot and fix them.
Something that's any good at flying is going to be a crap car, because it's not going to carry the weight of the bits and pieces you need to be a decent car, such as decent wheels, brakes, steering, silencer, gearbox, all the stuff planes normally manage without.
If you stick all that weight onto it to make a decent car it'll be a crap plane. Simple laws of physics.
Plus, there's enough people flying around up there already thanks very much. On a nice summer day it's already hard enough work making sure you don't fly into anybody else - please don't encourage more people to take to the skies!
I can't see this making any difference. You spend so may hours standing in queues being stared at by men with guns[#] looking like they're just itching to use them that all the baggage has been put out looooong before you get to the baggage hall.
But perhaps it makes a difference to USA internal flights? Do you not bother with all those security delays on internal flights then?
[#] Not something Brits are used to, of course, so just seeing a gun is a threat.
Complete audit trail, recounts take from a few minutes to a few hours, depending on the election. Yes, if there are several votes taking place at the same time, it's a little more complicated to separate out the different coloured ballots, some of which are always put in the wrong boxes, but hardly a big deal.
I have already decided that I'm not going to visit the USA any more because it's just too much hassle. So if it's made more hassle then that won't have any effect on me.
Of course, the exact meanings of these codes vary from one BIOS to another, and only some vendors document them. Luckily, the open source vendors are very good about documenting them.
Wow!! - Who are these open source people who are "very good about documenting" beep codes?? Any chance of deploying them to all the other open source projects out there?? - they could sure do with the help!
I've know this for decades, for far longer than the open source movement has existed (and the main difference there is simply that they don't mind people seeing that their code is crap).
Someone asked me just this week for a copy of the code for my web site, so that they could set up something similar. I refused, because it is crap code and I don't want anyone else to see it. But at least I explained this reason honestly!
You haven't seen the ink shelves in my local Staples. Loads of HP, loads of Epson... er, the odd token cartrigde from anyone else, not a lot of choice really.
Sure I could buy mail order in advance of need. But my personal experience is that that doesn't actually work in real life - an ink cartridge that's been in my cupboard for a year doesn't actually work when I put it on the printer. So I buy when the little red light starts flashing, so I want something that I can pick up within a couple of miles of home on a Sunday.
Trouble is you quite soon run out of things to buy - I personally will never buy another HP, because of their crap software, so I'm currently using Epson... but if I give up on Epson what's left?
"Rights" are not laws of physics, inherent in the universe.
They are simply what a given society decides that they are in a particular place at a particular time.
Your idea of what you want as a "right" might not be the same as someone else's, after all. For example, your "right" to chastise your child might conflict with your child's "right" not to be assaulted. There's no law of natture which says which "right" is right.
If nobody was allowed to drive without being trained and tested to the same safety standards as pilots then you wouldn't have those bad drivers. But anyone who tried to introduce such a law would get instantly voted out of office by the vast numbers of bad drivers who would lose their licences under the new regime.
... is how to arrange that one of these things doesn't fly into me??
I'm not worried about police choppers, because they're big enough to see, and they have a pilot on board who is just as keen on staying alive as I am (and on a really good day ATC will tell me where they are, although one doesn't want to rely on that).
But toy planes, being flown around by someone safely on the ground who probably doesn't even have a pilot's licence?? Have they even passed the Air Law exam??
They might not have done round your way, but they do round here. We lose votes every time we don't install enough new cameras fast enough in my council.
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Free to use for those who have actually paid for it.
Couple of years late, but never mind.
... er ... write the invoices. Of course they don't all pay up - most email to say they won't spam again, and don't - but enough pay up to pay the postage many times over.
Most days all the spam I get (one perhaps, or two on a bad day) looks sufficiently like genuine email (invitations to training courses, conferences etc) that it's got the real postal address of the spammer, which is a genuine (if somewhat misguided!) UK company.
So, in accordance with the policy stated on my web site for years now, I invoice them £100 a time for the trouble I take to
Yes I'm sure my ISP throws away hundreds a day. But I never see them so I don't care - so far as what I have to pull down the wire is concerned it's solved.
Don't be ridiculous. If I fly into one of those then my aircraft is going to be seriously broken and fall out of the sky and crash and burn.
A lawyer who represents some of them says his clients often suspect that it was the IT guy who just left -- and was responsible for the maintaining the licenses -- who ratted them out for a big BSA reward.
(1) BOFH tells bosses they really should pay up for legal licences.
(2) Bosses tell BOFH to make illegal copies.
(3) Repeat a few times.
(4) BOFH gives up and finds another job.
(5) BOFH shops former bosses.
If this is a surprise to bosses who instruct BOFHs to make illegal copies of things then really it's amazing how they're bright enough to stay in business!
(1) What sort of pilot's licence do you need to operate one of these?
(2) Given that the pilot is sitting safely on the ground, and doesn't have the same incentive that other airborne pilots have to not fly into me, what happens when one of these jokers kills me with one of their toys? They just file a report, and go home to their families, and fly again tomorrow?
Are a few traffic tickets really worth that?
"Is it a cowboys and indians story, or a soap opera?"
If so it's not sci-fi, no matter that it uses spaceships instead of horses and rayguns instead of bows and arrows. Just a different colour wallpaper, that's all.
The correct term is "space opera".
Only if they bother to ask.
To connect a call only the IMSI is needed.
The network can ask the phone for the IMEI as well if it likes, and can use this for various purposes such as looking up the phone in a register of stolen phones and denying it service if found.
But the network doesn't have to know the identity of the phone if it can't be bothered to ask (which costs airtime, of course on the signalling channels, and to what profitable purpose?), it only needs to know the identity of the SIM.
They can't have had anyone on the team with experience of coding for Swing in Java then - you get these all the time, sometimes hanging tens of megabytes of unwanted GUI objects off a single listener registration, and learn how to spot and fix them.
The reasons are clear.
Something that's any good at flying is going to be a crap car, because it's not going to carry the weight of the bits and pieces you need to be a decent car, such as decent wheels, brakes, steering, silencer, gearbox, all the stuff planes normally manage without.
If you stick all that weight onto it to make a decent car it'll be a crap plane. Simple laws of physics.
Plus, there's enough people flying around up there already thanks very much. On a nice summer day it's already hard enough work making sure you don't fly into anybody else - please don't encourage more people to take to the skies!
Is that legal in the US? - it's unlikely to be in the UK.
I can't see this making any difference. You spend so may hours standing in queues being stared at by men with guns[#] looking like they're just itching to use them that all the baggage has been put out looooong before you get to the baggage hall.
But perhaps it makes a difference to USA internal flights? Do you not bother with all those security delays on internal flights then?
[#] Not something Brits are used to, of course, so just seeing a gun is a threat.
Sigh. More climate change deniers.
Look kids, it's time to grow out of willy-waving contests about how long you can keep it up, and turn the ****ing thing off when you're not using it.
Same in the UK.
Pencil and paper.
It Just Works.
Complete audit trail, recounts take from a few minutes to a few hours, depending on the election. Yes, if there are several votes taking place at the same time, it's a little more complicated to separate out the different coloured ballots, some of which are always put in the wrong boxes, but hardly a big deal.
I have already decided that I'm not going to visit the USA any more because it's just too much hassle. So if it's made more hassle then that won't have any effect on me.
From TFA:
Of course, the exact meanings of these codes vary from one BIOS to another, and only some vendors document them. Luckily, the open source vendors are very good about documenting them.
Wow!! - Who are these open source people who are "very good about documenting" beep codes?? Any chance of deploying them to all the other open source projects out there?? - they could sure do with the help!
I've know this for decades, for far longer than the open source movement has existed (and the main difference there is simply that they don't mind people seeing that their code is crap).
Someone asked me just this week for a copy of the code for my web site, so that they could set up something similar. I refused, because it is crap code and I don't want anyone else to see it. But at least I explained this reason honestly!
don't worry about stuff you have no control over
Usually when I fly I'm in the pilot's seat. Is this:
(1) good because I have control, or:
(2) bad because having control means I should worry?
Cannon, Xerox, IBM, Kodak,...
... er, the odd token cartrigde from anyone else, not a lot of choice really.
You haven't seen the ink shelves in my local Staples. Loads of HP, loads of Epson
Sure I could buy mail order in advance of need. But my personal experience is that that doesn't actually work in real life - an ink cartridge that's been in my cupboard for a year doesn't actually work when I put it on the printer. So I buy when the little red light starts flashing, so I want something that I can pick up within a couple of miles of home on a Sunday.
Trouble is you quite soon run out of things to buy - I personally will never buy another HP, because of their crap software, so I'm currently using Epson ... but if I give up on Epson what's left?
... believe your teachers.
They might, just might, see their job as giving you training that will best enable you to earn a living.
"Rights" are not laws of physics, inherent in the universe.
They are simply what a given society decides that they are in a particular place at a particular time.
Your idea of what you want as a "right" might not be the same as someone else's, after all. For example, your "right" to chastise your child might conflict with your child's "right" not to be assaulted. There's no law of natture which says which "right" is right.
Simple as that.
If nobody was allowed to drive without being trained and tested to the same safety standards as pilots then you wouldn't have those bad drivers. But anyone who tried to introduce such a law would get instantly voted out of office by the vast numbers of bad drivers who would lose their licences under the new regime.
... is how to arrange that one of these things doesn't fly into me??
I'm not worried about police choppers, because they're big enough to see, and they have a pilot on board who is just as keen on staying alive as I am (and on a really good day ATC will tell me where they are, although one doesn't want to rely on that).
But toy planes, being flown around by someone safely on the ground who probably doesn't even have a pilot's licence?? Have they even passed the Air Law exam??
We never voted for those cameras in the UK
They might not have done round your way, but they do round here. We lose votes every time we don't install enough new cameras fast enough in my council.