and there is a similar story today in The Observer about a plan by the UK government to monitor traffic flow by license plate recognition. (In the UK, we call them 'number plates', if you wonder what the article is going on about).
Exactly. The fact is that the data is not anonymous, so it will end up being usable to track people. Not a problem in most societies... but when you can get a visit from the Secret Service for making an anti-Bush poster then I think anyone's correct to be asking questions...
>>For those interested the BBC radio version is available on various p2p systems. Pretty good I think.
Um, yes. Probably because the BBC radio version is the original script (in the main). The book came later.
(Unless you're talking about the new radio scripts, of course...)
>It would be far more effective to simply drop any SMTP connections from networks in Brazil or China
Indeed, which is why SpamCop's mail allows you to do that if you wish.
>I gave up in favor of SpamAssassin...you probably won't know that SpamCop mail has SpamAssassin built-in to it these days. It works well, too.
All my mail goes through SpamCop; sure, it's been damn annoying over the last day not being able to see my mail, but it's a lot less annoying than not being able to read my real e-mail because of all the spam.
No. Wrong. Linux and Mac support counts for less than 10% of website traffic - in the UK, it counts for less than 1% of website traffic. I'd rather hunt the 99% of users who use Windows, not the 1% who use Apple or Linux, thanks.
Phoenix doesn't have much chance of making it if it's difficult to install. So far to install it, I've had to work out how to unzip a.gz file, then work out what to do with a tarball, and I now have a lot of files on my machine but still haven't got particularly far.
So, I'm a Linux newbie. But I know what to do with an RPM, and I've downloaded and installed Opera perfectly fine...
If you have bought something to watch pay-TV for free, it's pretty difficult to argue anything other than theft. The difference is that it's meant for one-on-one use.
War-chalking is different. It's within my control, if I operate a wireless network, whether I want to make it available to non-corporate users.
I know of a few people who have war-chalked THEIR OWN network, because they don't mind sharing their bandwidth. If my Bluetooth network reached anywhere public, I'd war-chalk it, too. (It doesn't, and I don't really want people in my garden - where it does reach.)
I'm not saying "come and steal from me", but if people want to use my bandwidth in a sensible way, I'm quite happy for them to do that.
As someone who started with a Pilot 1000, and worked my way up through Pilots and Palms to the m505, I bought an IPAQ a few weeks ago, principally for the AV capabilities.
My first thought when I started playing with it was "Wow. This is pretty neat". I like the fact that I can listen to the radio station I work for through its Bluetooth connection, browse websites that look vaguely similar to what I'm used to on the PC, and read and reply to my e-mail (though the IMAP support doesn't seen to work for me properly). Colleagues of mine have some of those funky Nokia 7650s with the built-in camera, and the IPAQ does a good job of getting pictures from those those onto the office network.
The one caveat with the IPAQ is that if you, like me, like downloading the odd bit of software for your PDA, you'll find much less is available for the IPAQ than Palm OS - and what is available is generally not freeware but shareware or paid-for. I miss Keyring.
With the lack of fun dowloadable software, it's almost as if PDAs have grown up. They're cleverer, better, but somehow less fun.
Interesting. Let's take this one step further.
To broadcast "broadcast-quality" radio, you need 128k bitrate. Assuming there are 10,000 radio stations in the US, that's 1.2 Gig. Assuming there are 100,000 radio stations in the world, that's 12Gig.
Broadcast quality television is about, oooh, 5Meg? The UK has, including pay-per-view, around 500 stations, so let's assume there's 50,000 stations in the world: 250 Gig....it's really rather difficult to fill this space...
Slashdot Mirror
and there is a similar story today in The Observer about a plan by the UK government to monitor traffic flow by license plate recognition. (In the UK, we call them 'number plates', if you wonder what the article is going on about).
a Wired article appears...
Exactly. The fact is that the data is not anonymous, so it will end up being usable to track people. Not a problem in most societies... but when you can get a visit from the Secret Service for making an anti-Bush poster then I think anyone's correct to be asking questions...
>>For those interested the BBC radio version is available on various p2p systems. Pretty good I think. Um, yes. Probably because the BBC radio version is the original script (in the main). The book came later. (Unless you're talking about the new radio scripts, of course...)
...which WAS a complete bastardisation of Adams's work. Even Adams agreed.
Us too. But we're interested in AACPlus as well; it seems worthwhile looking into.
James (who works at Virgin Radio)
>It would be far more effective to simply drop any SMTP connections from networks in Brazil or China Indeed, which is why SpamCop's mail allows you to do that if you wish.
>I gave up in favor of SpamAssassin ...you probably won't know that SpamCop mail has SpamAssassin built-in to it these days. It works well, too.
All my mail goes through SpamCop; sure, it's been damn annoying over the last day not being able to see my mail, but it's a lot less annoying than not being able to read my real e-mail because of all the spam.
No. Wrong. Linux and Mac support counts for less than 10% of website traffic - in the UK, it counts for less than 1% of website traffic. I'd rather hunt the 99% of users who use Windows, not the 1% who use Apple or Linux, thanks.
Phoenix doesn't have much chance of making it if it's difficult to install. So far to install it, I've had to work out how to unzip a .gz file, then work out what to do with a tarball, and I now have a lot of files on my machine but still haven't got particularly far.
So, I'm a Linux newbie. But I know what to do with an RPM, and I've downloaded and installed Opera perfectly fine...
If you have bought something to watch pay-TV for free, it's pretty difficult to argue anything other than theft. The difference is that it's meant for one-on-one use. War-chalking is different. It's within my control, if I operate a wireless network, whether I want to make it available to non-corporate users. I know of a few people who have war-chalked THEIR OWN network, because they don't mind sharing their bandwidth. If my Bluetooth network reached anywhere public, I'd war-chalk it, too. (It doesn't, and I don't really want people in my garden - where it does reach.) I'm not saying "come and steal from me", but if people want to use my bandwidth in a sensible way, I'm quite happy for them to do that.
As someone who started with a Pilot 1000, and worked my way up through Pilots and Palms to the m505, I bought an IPAQ a few weeks ago, principally for the AV capabilities. My first thought when I started playing with it was "Wow. This is pretty neat". I like the fact that I can listen to the radio station I work for through its Bluetooth connection, browse websites that look vaguely similar to what I'm used to on the PC, and read and reply to my e-mail (though the IMAP support doesn't seen to work for me properly). Colleagues of mine have some of those funky Nokia 7650s with the built-in camera, and the IPAQ does a good job of getting pictures from those those onto the office network. The one caveat with the IPAQ is that if you, like me, like downloading the odd bit of software for your PDA, you'll find much less is available for the IPAQ than Palm OS - and what is available is generally not freeware but shareware or paid-for. I miss Keyring. With the lack of fun dowloadable software, it's almost as if PDAs have grown up. They're cleverer, better, but somehow less fun.
The link to the survey points to a news story (at the time of writing) which, um, is about a sexually frustrated dolphin.
Interesting. Let's take this one step further. To broadcast "broadcast-quality" radio, you need 128k bitrate. Assuming there are 10,000 radio stations in the US, that's 1.2 Gig. Assuming there are 100,000 radio stations in the world, that's 12Gig. Broadcast quality television is about, oooh, 5Meg? The UK has, including pay-per-view, around 500 stations, so let's assume there's 50,000 stations in the world: 250 Gig. ...it's really rather difficult to fill this space...