Except tax money wasn't used to build the Millennium Dome. It was built with commercial sponsership and funding from the National Lottery. And it was a very good day out.
No no no no no!!! You are supposed to hate the Millennium Dome. Haven't you been reading the newspapers?
Any attempt to have individual thoughts must be squashed. You must conform! Hate it! Even when you know nothing about it and have never been!
The UK isn't in Europe apparently. In the news and media, it's always "over in Europe" not "elsewhere in Europe". It's almost seen to be a different place; disconnected from us.
Your mention of the DEA reminded me that this is not an unprecidented action. There are many chemicals used in the manufacture of illegal recreational drugs that will draw a lot of attention similar to this.
Of course, there are other legal uses for most of these chemicals, but it has been known for warrants to be issued using this as one of the reasons for it. The same is true of explosives and nuclear material. If you start ordering some suspect materials, the it's fair to say that it may bring you under an element of suspicion yourself.
the constitution protects my right to own a weapon, for militaristic use, to defend the country against enemies, domestic or foreign, that threaten the freedom of the country. It's a democratic failsafe against government.
OK then, so how did these weapons protect you from the corrupt and freedom bashing stuff going on in Washington? I'm not trolling, I genuinely believe that that part of the constitution is completely outdated. Owning a gun may have protected your freedom in the old west, but nowadays you'll just end up like the people in Waco should you decide to take up arms.
Most successful revolts/revolutions and protests have been non-violent, certainally in recent times anyway.
Am I really going to have to run XP to get this working, or will the drivers support two monitors on 2k?
Possibly. I had the problem with an IBM Thinkpad and I looked into it a little. Most of the information I found on the web suggested that it was because of a limitation in 2000 Pro, that only affected laptop style displays, and not just IBM machines. I successfully tried split screen under 98SE and XP on the same system.
You machine may be an exception though. If not, just use XP and revert back to the classic desktop. It's just 2000 Pro with a few extra things in it anyway.;-)
Personally, if I was running a tech start up, being slashdotted could be the best thing to ever happen. Lot's of free publicity in your target market is a Good Thing (tm). Hell, you can even read the comments for some of the best feedback you will ever get, from people who generally know what they are talking about.
As long as you don't run Win2k, that's fine. For some reason, MS completely broke laptop dual-heading under that OS. Works fine with two discreet graphics cards in a desktop apparently.
Ah well, X2VNC is much better anyway, sure you need two machines, but one can be *nix and you get shared keyboard/mouse between the two displays and even better; cut & paste between them.
And it's free. Highly recommended if you work with several machines and find yourself using the wrong mouse now and again...
Hmm...If you create such a web site, and all you have is my password, may it be the same as my online banking password, what can you extract from that?
Perhaps a bad example that. A better one would be the online retail sites where your password is your e-mail address. From entering your email and password on the dodgy site, you have potentially given them access to all number of places. Amazon, Hotmail are the obvious places to start to see if you have used the same passwords.
So, if a user signs up as john_doe@hotmail.com, then you could use the same password to get in there. From there, you could read the mail to see where they shop, from which you'd probably get their user name for each site. If the same password doesn't work there, you could use the "forgotten password" procedure to have them e-mail the password to the address. Then, note the password and delete the mail.
Which is why you should be very careful with access to your e-mail accounts!!
What I do is have different passwords depending on the site e.g. have one used for online shops I trust, like Amazon etc. Have a low importance one for e.g. disscussion boards, and a completely different one for webmail.
Not perfect, but remembering a unique password for each is impractical.
We have some level of security due to the fact that the people watching us have large but finite resources to mine the data that they have.
Historically, that's been privacy's saving grace, the resources required for total covereage prevented it becoming a problem.
However, what is being put together now is a system that automatically trawls the net looking for suspisious activity. Anything out-of-step with "party" thinking would flag you for a higher level of monitoring. Perhaps this post has just gained me a few points already!
A relevant quote from 1984 itself:
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
All PCs with ISA & PCI capability have a PCI to ISA bridge. The PCI bus is pretty much the main bus in these and modern PCs and just about everything hangs off it, e.g. some storeage devices, I/O & soundcards. You can see this in Windows with the "view devices by connection" in the System Properties/Device Manager dialog, and expand Plug and Play Bios/PCI bus.
WRT the card fitting in the case; good luck! Time for a bit of ascii:
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These show how the cards look side on, as if you are looking at the end that sticks out in the slot
Note that the cards contacts on the right are at exactly the same point on the motherboard, but the card is flipped between the two. This allowed you to have either an ISA or a PCI card in some of the slots, as they had both contacts.
Any device to retro-fit an ISA card into a non-ISA motherboard wouldn't work as an attachment to the existing metal slots, simply due to the physical shape of them. You'd need something off-board to do that, and have the boards mounted elsewhere in the case. Bit of a pain if you'd want to use a device with I/O through the slot.
This difficulty probably leads to the rareity and therefore the price of the solutions. The only reason some may exist is to support legacy equiptment that might not be available in a PCI card.
But complaining about how it removes rights of foreigners is a bit absurd.
Sure, you can't remove a right I don't have in the US.
However, is it not fair to suggest that any country should extend their freedoms to other nationality? You can't say it is right for a country to breach the liberty of the someone else, just because they are foreign. And the lack of any written law or article on the subject doesn't make it "alright" either.
How does the US tracking/spying/whatever of a UK (just to pick a country) citizen living in the UK limit my ability to partake in a representative democracy?
That wasn't my original point in my first post here. Frankly, I wouldn't be too bothered to be not allowed into the US. It would harm my career opertunities, and I'd miss out on some nice things, but it's a pretty big world and there are other places I would prefer to go.
Now, this surveilence will not just be used on foreigners. If it was, terrorist sleeper cells would just seek citizenship to drop out of its radar. Common sense dictates that your actions on the net are just as likely as mine to be tracked.
I already assume that everything I say or do on the net is logged and tracked. Why do you think I use my real name on Slashdot?
Well, I personally don't think it's a good idea. OK, it's a given that government agencies probably have access to your details, but by using your real name, you give everyone who knows about google.com the same ability.
There's privacy from the government, and then there's privacy from psychopthic ex-girlfriends etc. At least we can go half-way there.;-)
Seriously though, each of us has a worrying amount of data available to anyone who knows where to look. That only works if we used our real names all the time.
As for G. W., I doubt that he's going to get voted in during the 2004 elections, since it's doubtless by now that he's going to have half the country nuked by screwing with Iraq.
You don't know much about wartime politics...if something bad does happen in the next few years, his line will be "see! you need me to protect you."
At a time of war, a leaders popularity soars. Prior to 9/11, the whole world and much of the US was hating Bush and all that he stood for. The tragedy bought him a lot of political currency, but his administration seems to be squandering it. If he can pull of this war in Iraq, he'll win the next election.
Well.. I'd write something critical of the plan here... BUT THEY MIGHT BE LISTENING
Funny, but also very insightful. Internet snooping completely destroys freedom of speech and democracy. Here's why:
Imagine I don't like something that the government is doing. Our democratic and free society is supposed to allow me the right to criticise it. That's how democracy works, if the people have no say, then it's not democratic.
Now, say that everything you say or do on the net is logged and tracked. Would you be so forward in voicing your opinion if you know it will single you out and appear on your permanent record? Of course not!
What if that information was to prevent you getting a job or a visa at some point in the future? For example, I could criticise this drive for a war in Iraq. However, I now risk those thoughts becoming a part of my electronic persona. They could prevent me getting a Visa for the US, working for a US company, or working in any area of national security for my own country. They would single me out for special attention at airports as well as special attention being paid to my internet usage.
All because I believe that starting this war is wrong? I'm sorry, but that's not the kind of world I want to live in. Sounds strangely like Orwell's vision to me...
There are two connection types, Primary and Secondary. I think Kazza is the same.
Primary is a hog, I agree. It uses about 10k/s upstream, and my own limit is not far from that. So, I run it as a secondary, and don't have this problem.
I just hope everyone else doesn't realise this, or there will be no primaries for us to log into!
One thing to note, though, is that if the *sender* had to pay, you probably wouldn't have these free services like the Yahoo and MSN alerts.
Most of Europe is sender-pay, and we do get these services. They are add-supported though, I'm not sure if you have to agree to getting adds messaged to you, but the web pages have the usual adverts on them.
There are also some free web->SMS gateways out there, so essentially you get 100% free messaging if you have a net connection. Subject to the old "reasonable use" clause of course...
It's the way it should be. Compared to a mobile phone call, the amount of data sent is tiny. To pay more per minute for text than phone is absurd, but that's the way the telcos like it!
My costs are 10p (~15c) per text message and 2p per min (~3c) for voice.
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No no no no no!!! You are supposed to hate the Millennium Dome. Haven't you been reading the newspapers?
Any attempt to have individual thoughts must be squashed. You must conform! Hate it! Even when you know nothing about it and have never been!
The island thing is probably a big part of it.
Of course, there are other legal uses for most of these chemicals, but it has been known for warrants to be issued using this as one of the reasons for it. The same is true of explosives and nuclear material. If you start ordering some suspect materials, the it's fair to say that it may bring you under an element of suspicion yourself.
That's hardly a substitute!
That original passage sounded straight out the Irvine Welsh book to me...very similar style, different words.
Preferably Japanese...!
OK then, so how did these weapons protect you from the corrupt and freedom bashing stuff going on in Washington? I'm not trolling, I genuinely believe that that part of the constitution is completely outdated. Owning a gun may have protected your freedom in the old west, but nowadays you'll just end up like the people in Waco should you decide to take up arms.
Most successful revolts/revolutions and protests have been non-violent, certainally in recent times anyway.
Possibly. I had the problem with an IBM Thinkpad and I looked into it a little. Most of the information I found on the web suggested that it was because of a limitation in 2000 Pro, that only affected laptop style displays, and not just IBM machines. I successfully tried split screen under 98SE and XP on the same system.
You machine may be an exception though. If not, just use XP and revert back to the classic desktop. It's just 2000 Pro with a few extra things in it anyway. ;-)
You can't buy a service like this anywhere!
Ah well, X2VNC is much better anyway, sure you need two machines, but one can be *nix and you get shared keyboard/mouse between the two displays and even better; cut & paste between them.
And it's free. Highly recommended if you work with several machines and find yourself using the wrong mouse now and again...
For example, veggies need to make sure they get enough iron in their diet. Normally you get this from meat, but no meat = no iron.
Without it, all sorts of bad things can happen.
Did the manufacturers have anything to do with the creation of this law? ;-)
Perhaps a bad example that. A better one would be the online retail sites where your password is your e-mail address. From entering your email and password on the dodgy site, you have potentially given them access to all number of places. Amazon, Hotmail are the obvious places to start to see if you have used the same passwords.
So, if a user signs up as john_doe@hotmail.com, then you could use the same password to get in there. From there, you could read the mail to see where they shop, from which you'd probably get their user name for each site. If the same password doesn't work there, you could use the "forgotten password" procedure to have them e-mail the password to the address. Then, note the password and delete the mail.
Which is why you should be very careful with access to your e-mail accounts!!
What I do is have different passwords depending on the site e.g. have one used for online shops I trust, like Amazon etc. Have a low importance one for e.g. disscussion boards, and a completely different one for webmail.
Not perfect, but remembering a unique password for each is impractical.
Historically, that's been privacy's saving grace, the resources required for total covereage prevented it becoming a problem.
However, what is being put together now is a system that automatically trawls the net looking for suspisious activity. Anything out-of-step with "party" thinking would flag you for a higher level of monitoring. Perhaps this post has just gained me a few points already!
A relevant quote from 1984 itself:
WRT the card fitting in the case; good luck! Time for a bit of ascii:
These show how the cards look side on, as if you are looking at the end that sticks out in the slot
Note that the cards contacts on the right are at exactly the same point on the motherboard, but the card is flipped between the two. This allowed you to have either an ISA or a PCI card in some of the slots, as they had both contacts.
Any device to retro-fit an ISA card into a non-ISA motherboard wouldn't work as an attachment to the existing metal slots, simply due to the physical shape of them. You'd need something off-board to do that, and have the boards mounted elsewhere in the case. Bit of a pain if you'd want to use a device with I/O through the slot.
This difficulty probably leads to the rareity and therefore the price of the solutions. The only reason some may exist is to support legacy equiptment that might not be available in a PCI card.
Sure, you can't remove a right I don't have in the US.
However, is it not fair to suggest that any country should extend their freedoms to other nationality? You can't say it is right for a country to breach the liberty of the someone else, just because they are foreign. And the lack of any written law or article on the subject doesn't make it "alright" either.
How does the US tracking/spying/whatever of a UK (just to pick a country) citizen living in the UK limit my ability to partake in a representative democracy?
That wasn't my original point in my first post here. Frankly, I wouldn't be too bothered to be not allowed into the US. It would harm my career opertunities, and I'd miss out on some nice things, but it's a pretty big world and there are other places I would prefer to go.
Now, this surveilence will not just be used on foreigners. If it was, terrorist sleeper cells would just seek citizenship to drop out of its radar. Common sense dictates that your actions on the net are just as likely as mine to be tracked.
And there lies your loss of freedom.
(Not in your real name of course!)
Well, I personally don't think it's a good idea. OK, it's a given that government agencies probably have access to your details, but by using your real name, you give everyone who knows about google.com the same ability.
There's privacy from the government, and then there's privacy from psychopthic ex-girlfriends etc. At least we can go half-way there. ;-)
Seriously though, each of us has a worrying amount of data available to anyone who knows where to look. That only works if we used our real names all the time.
What a great gift idea! If you were really cheap though, you could just mail them this link to an on-line version of the book.
Oh, come on; the two-party system makes a mockery of the word "democracy". Your vote is worthless, the "lesser of two evils" is not a choice.
Besides, every election is won by the party that spent the most of their campain. This is extremely consistent over the years.
You don't know much about wartime politics...if something bad does happen in the next few years, his line will be "see! you need me to protect you."
At a time of war, a leaders popularity soars. Prior to 9/11, the whole world and much of the US was hating Bush and all that he stood for. The tragedy bought him a lot of political currency, but his administration seems to be squandering it. If he can pull of this war in Iraq, he'll win the next election.
Funny, but also very insightful. Internet snooping completely destroys freedom of speech and democracy. Here's why:
Imagine I don't like something that the government is doing. Our democratic and free society is supposed to allow me the right to criticise it. That's how democracy works, if the people have no say, then it's not democratic.
Now, say that everything you say or do on the net is logged and tracked. Would you be so forward in voicing your opinion if you know it will single you out and appear on your permanent record? Of course not!
What if that information was to prevent you getting a job or a visa at some point in the future? For example, I could criticise this drive for a war in Iraq. However, I now risk those thoughts becoming a part of my electronic persona. They could prevent me getting a Visa for the US, working for a US company, or working in any area of national security for my own country. They would single me out for special attention at airports as well as special attention being paid to my internet usage.
All because I believe that starting this war is wrong? I'm sorry, but that's not the kind of world I want to live in. Sounds strangely like Orwell's vision to me...
Primary is a hog, I agree. It uses about 10k/s upstream, and my own limit is not far from that. So, I run it as a secondary, and don't have this problem.
I just hope everyone else doesn't realise this, or there will be no primaries for us to log into!
I don't have any Sorenson ones anyway, so I keep the QuickTime player installed for the occasional small .mov file that gets e-mailed around etc,
Most of Europe is sender-pay, and we do get these services. They are add-supported though, I'm not sure if you have to agree to getting adds messaged to you, but the web pages have the usual adverts on them.
There are also some free web->SMS gateways out there, so essentially you get 100% free messaging if you have a net connection. Subject to the old "reasonable use" clause of course...
It's the way it should be. Compared to a mobile phone call, the amount of data sent is tiny. To pay more per minute for text than phone is absurd, but that's the way the telcos like it!
My costs are 10p (~15c) per text message and 2p per min (~3c) for voice.
you pay to receive a text message? That's a bit lame, is it standard where you are? Over here, the sender pays, end of story.
Mind you, it would make it harder to resolve a case like this over here, without a provable monetry loss.