No one's allowed to have a gun to defend themselves
Nor does anyone have a gun to commit armed robbery or murder. Florida has more murders per year than the whole civilized world combined. I know where I'd rather my children were.
self-defense is so frowned upon that the most common type of burglary is to lurk in wait for the owner to come home.
Source please? I live in the UK and I've never even hear of that. Actually, IIRC the most common now is to steal car keys, as cars are too hard to steal now.
Yet there are four million surveillence cameras?
Yep, mostly privately owned and not monitored at all. Video is stored and accessed only if there was a crime.
Rest assured, when the US gets a similar system (which is clearly on the cards given all the other liberty trashing legislation of late), yours will be OCR'ed to the max, all fed into the Total Awareness Database. If you bitch about Bush or Ashcroft on/., your IP will be traced to your ISP, who will furnish your name & address & your drivers license photo, then the police in the street will know to treat you as a terrorist. You will also undergo more scrutiny at the airport for exercising your political freedom of opinion. Yay USA.
It pains me to see American trash other (western) countries for things like this. You guys are watching all of your freedom erode right now, and very few are complaining. Instead, you slag off others for the same thing. Take heed, it's your country that is being destroyed right now.
I think the arguments around speed camera's say it all. Most of the people against seem to reason that they prevent them from driving above the speed limit. Well fucking DUH.
You missing something important about the speed camera debate; speeding does not cause accidents in any great way. The vast majority of accidents are caused by bad or agressive driving, driver error or road conditions.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing agaisnt 30-limit cameras, as speed matters when hitting a pedestrian. But on the motorway and main roads, it's a revenue generator.
It's also counter-productive. I'd rather have less cameras and more police cars (marked and unmarked), as the humans can pull drivers over for the afore mentioned bad driving, which a camera cannot. So you drive like a bitch provided you know where to slow down for the cameras.
PS I have nothing against them at accident hotspots. The only thing cameras do is slow drivers down for 100 meters. In the right place, that can be useful.
Nothing new there; I had the same 10 years ago at Uni. What may be different now is that the cards have RFID and can be used as door keys. But I don't see anything actually forcing people to wear them as ID cards.
Universities loose a fortune each year in thefts. As many campuses here are open city campuses, identification is essential to stop anyone off the street simply walking in empty handed and leaving with a laptop or LCD projector.
The best bit of it is that Florida alone has more gun deaths than the rest of the civilised world combined. And as other crime levels in the US are mostly the same as the rest of the world, who exactly are all these guns "protecting"?
Guns aren't about freedom. Well, they are really. You point your gun at me; I have no freedom.
forgot you don't have a written Constitution that prevents such invasions of privacy and self-incrimination.
Oh, piss off. Stop acting like the US constitution actually means anything anymore. I don't think there's a single part of it still valid nowadays anyway.
A written constitution has no bearing on a countries status. It means squat. I honestly don't believe the American delusion over this. What, do you think we don't have laws, rights and personal freedom just because there isn't a UK constitution?
Actually, I can say your phone is actually a PDA with phone functions.
Definately. Hell, it's running Micro$oft Smartphone, which is binary compatible with WinCE. Some apps even work on both. However, the UI is 100% mobile, no taskbar etc. It's basically a PDA in a mobile front end. Has all the usual mobile stuff, and I have to say the integration is excelent. It's nice to have a contact system that doesn't differentiate between e-mail etc. For example, you can get a missed call (callerID is standard here) and click it to send an e-mail, text message, or return the call to any one of the numbers you have for the contact. It just works; I'm pretty happy with it, despite the occasional MS bug.
Not for everyone tho...you have to be happy with hacking the registry and general messing about to get the most. I knew someone non-PC literate who had one and he hated it, because as a basic phone it's not as good as some of the other ones. I think he had Nokia-syndrome, where the person can only use Nokias and any other UI is completely throws them.
I've always said integration is good for mobile devices; simply it's less to carry. I'm against it generally tho...I shudder when I see TV/DVD/VHS combo boxes...and if one of them breaks? Exactly.
Well, just for contrast, here are the features I use daily on my Smartphone:
Diary/Scheduler
Task List
E-mail (imap)
mp3 playback (always have at least 200 mins of music in my pocket)
DivX playback (episodes of Family Guy/Futurama etc)
Password storage (CodeWallet)
Solitaire (feed the addiction)
Currency Conversion
Occassionally (every 2-3 days), I use it for
Weather forecasts
Web browsing (usually map sites)
Bus route information
The odd photograph (not messaging, just for me)
Playing games
Change the wav format ringtones to something wacky
The phone also fully syncs to the PC, so if either were to die or be lost, I'd have a backup on the other device. It's always in my pocket; always ready to do whatever.
None of these features cost anything, except data charges for the web resources. The phone cost me 20 UKP in Jan 2003. If you are happy in the past with limited devices, then stay there. But you are missing out. The only thing I miss is the battery life of simpler devices, and the size. But my phone is a year old, and the current ones are both smaller and longer lasting.
I was just saying that you need to watch many groups, including the FBI. They over-inflate risks etc in order to get budget. Every interest group does this, from environmentalists to industrialists.
Anyway, recently there was an article that summarized that according to the FBI, quite a lot of viruses, worms, and spam can supposedly be traced to organized crime. Apparently Eastern Europe seems to be a hub for this activity, according to that report.
Then we should give the FBI all the funding they request!! It's what they would have wanted...
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For the past 4 versions of Windows Microsoft has refused to remove a huge security hole called file extension hiding.
Bollocks. The people commonly infected with viruses wouldn't even know what a file extension was, let alone the difference between an exe and a txt file.
"The one with the W is a word file, the portrait is a graphic file etc". Give a file "virus.exe" the same icon graphic as a word file, and most users wouldn't know the difference.
On the other hand, if you don't hide the extension, then each of us here would be constantly dealing with dumb users who have renamed "Document1.doc" to "Report" (no extension). For 99% of users, hiding extensions is a good idea.
Does anyone know a video chat program that should automatically work with a NAT?
You need to run a gateway, H-232 IIRC. This runs on your firewall (assuming linux, this is/.) and acts as the port listener. Regular port numbers not the infuriatingly random IM ones, so you could host behind a NAT.
You both connect to it, most apps talk this protocol. Except MSN Messenger, hmmm typical. Allows IM & voice between you, and anyone else using it. I think this is essentially what the chat websites do, with an HTML front end. Now, this ain't something I've done, but I read something about it several years ago, when trying to do the same. I gave up, it was to chat with mainly local friends and not really neccessary.
An optional ($749) accessory Data Verification Kit DVK-E2 will permit verification of original untampered image data, allowing the EOS-1D Mark II to be used in legal proceedings and other applications where the ability to confirm that images haven't been altered in any way is crucial
Sounds like the reviewer rehashed some product marketing info there. I doubt he's a legal authority on the subject. His "expert testomy" wouldn't hold up in a court of law either!;-)
In seriousness, I'd like to see fashion and pop culture take this up. I'm tired of seeing photoshopped beauty, but I doubt the relevant industries might ever do that!
In addition to the other replies, they also sell scarfs over the internet made in these remote villages. Here's where your cash goes:
The villagers for Robib are deeply appreciative of your support. Local salaries are paid to the weavers and spinners of silk items. The equipment are building where they work was donated (see Generous Supporters). Profits from sales go into a fund that is establishing a modest agriculture project in Robib, pig and chicken raising, to provide more employment for villagers. The final proceeds of this go into a community fund to support the aged and sick in the area. Please see Telemedicine for more details.
This is a fucking brilliant project all in and all involved get my full respect. It's even technologically brilliant, remember the old IT saying about the bandwidth of a truck carrying backup tapes. They don't need up-to-the-second stock quotes from the internet, the lag isn't that bad compared to the zero access they had in the past, including the lack of traditional postal mail. Access to doctors, farming info, family members, government. There are two technologies that changed our society forever; books and communication. They just got the latter over the hardest "last-mile" on the planet, instantly giving them acces to all the worlds knowledge. Cool.
They paint an admirable image of their culture, whereas you hardly do the same for yours. RTFA, tosser.
When they come to you and say "you have been abusing your 'unlimited' download quota"? Do you ask them to define what 'unlimited' means? Or do you simply pack up and get another ISP?
When my ISP/telco announced this to the public (i.e. someone spotted the change to the ToC and it got onto The Register), I immediately emailed their support saying that if I ever got a warning, I would close all my accounts (inc. cable) with them immediately.
I breach the 1gig limit on most days, never had a warning yet.
I took a similar approach. The XBox does the playback, but instead of PVR backend, I just let someone else record it and put it on eMule, from where I download it.
It's not like it's easy to hit Ctrl-D by accident.
I used to think that when I worked for a company that had Ctrl-D disabled in it's default shell. However, after re-enabling it I noticed I did do it by accident now and then, for example when exiting from a FTP shell or a sub-shell, you could do it twice and get logged out. Or, the app you want to send the ctrl-d to might close itself just before you do it.
I think the main thing that maintains the imbalance is patent and copyright law. People in third world countries can produce things for the same prices as we can - or even cheaper, market them in much the same way and can attain similar standards of education (the privileged few initially).
What keeps them "down in the hole" is the constant flow of money back to the aforementioned "lucky countries" who hold the patents.
You are aware that one of the reasons behind Americas ecconomic success of the past hundred years was due to it's complete lack of respect for foreign patents and intellectual property?
He's thinking about his peers. Most Americans are unaware that 10 million of their population live in utter poverty. Just watch Cops and you'll see them (and make entertainment out of them while you are at it).
Proctor: All right, here's your last question. What was the cause of the Civil War?
Apu: Actually, there were numerous causes. Aside from the obvious schism between the abolitionists and the anti-abolitionists, there were economic factors, both domestic and inter--
Proctor: Wait, wait... just say slavery.
Apu: Slavery it is, sir.
I've always loved that attitude to the political-correct "it was all about slavery" teachings. Ever noticed how those who write the history also do it to make themselves look righteous?
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Nor does anyone have a gun to commit armed robbery or murder. Florida has more murders per year than the whole civilized world combined. I know where I'd rather my children were.
self-defense is so frowned upon that the most common type of burglary is to lurk in wait for the owner to come home.
Source please? I live in the UK and I've never even hear of that. Actually, IIRC the most common now is to steal car keys, as cars are too hard to steal now.
Yet there are four million surveillence cameras?
Yep, mostly privately owned and not monitored at all. Video is stored and accessed only if there was a crime.
Rest assured, when the US gets a similar system (which is clearly on the cards given all the other liberty trashing legislation of late), yours will be OCR'ed to the max, all fed into the Total Awareness Database. If you bitch about Bush or Ashcroft on /., your IP will be traced to your ISP, who will furnish your name & address & your drivers license photo, then the police in the street will know to treat you as a terrorist. You will also undergo more scrutiny at the airport for exercising your political freedom of opinion. Yay USA.
It pains me to see American trash other (western) countries for things like this. You guys are watching all of your freedom erode right now, and very few are complaining. Instead, you slag off others for the same thing. Take heed, it's your country that is being destroyed right now.
You missing something important about the speed camera debate; speeding does not cause accidents in any great way. The vast majority of accidents are caused by bad or agressive driving, driver error or road conditions.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing agaisnt 30-limit cameras, as speed matters when hitting a pedestrian. But on the motorway and main roads, it's a revenue generator.
It's also counter-productive. I'd rather have less cameras and more police cars (marked and unmarked), as the humans can pull drivers over for the afore mentioned bad driving, which a camera cannot. So you drive like a bitch provided you know where to slow down for the cameras.
PS I have nothing against them at accident hotspots. The only thing cameras do is slow drivers down for 100 meters. In the right place, that can be useful.
Nothing new there; I had the same 10 years ago at Uni. What may be different now is that the cards have RFID and can be used as door keys. But I don't see anything actually forcing people to wear them as ID cards.
Universities loose a fortune each year in thefts. As many campuses here are open city campuses, identification is essential to stop anyone off the street simply walking in empty handed and leaving with a laptop or LCD projector.
Guns aren't about freedom. Well, they are really. You point your gun at me; I have no freedom.
Oh, piss off. Stop acting like the US constitution actually means anything anymore. I don't think there's a single part of it still valid nowadays anyway.
A written constitution has no bearing on a countries status. It means squat. I honestly don't believe the American delusion over this. What, do you think we don't have laws, rights and personal freedom just because there isn't a UK constitution?
Definately. Hell, it's running Micro$oft Smartphone, which is binary compatible with WinCE. Some apps even work on both. However, the UI is 100% mobile, no taskbar etc. It's basically a PDA in a mobile front end. Has all the usual mobile stuff, and I have to say the integration is excelent. It's nice to have a contact system that doesn't differentiate between e-mail etc. For example, you can get a missed call (callerID is standard here) and click it to send an e-mail, text message, or return the call to any one of the numbers you have for the contact. It just works; I'm pretty happy with it, despite the occasional MS bug.
Not for everyone tho...you have to be happy with hacking the registry and general messing about to get the most. I knew someone non-PC literate who had one and he hated it, because as a basic phone it's not as good as some of the other ones. I think he had Nokia-syndrome, where the person can only use Nokias and any other UI is completely throws them.
I've always said integration is good for mobile devices; simply it's less to carry. I'm against it generally tho...I shudder when I see TV/DVD/VHS combo boxes...and if one of them breaks? Exactly.
Occassionally (every 2-3 days), I use it for
The phone also fully syncs to the PC, so if either were to die or be lost, I'd have a backup on the other device. It's always in my pocket; always ready to do whatever.
None of these features cost anything, except data charges for the web resources. The phone cost me 20 UKP in Jan 2003. If you are happy in the past with limited devices, then stay there. But you are missing out. The only thing I miss is the battery life of simpler devices, and the size. But my phone is a year old, and the current ones are both smaller and longer lasting.
Well, it's that's all you want out of technology, then I think you are on the wrong site. ;-)
No big conspiracy...
Then we should give the FBI all the funding they request!! It's what they would have wanted...
Bollocks. The people commonly infected with viruses wouldn't even know what a file extension was, let alone the difference between an exe and a txt file.
"The one with the W is a word file, the portrait is a graphic file etc". Give a file "virus.exe" the same icon graphic as a word file, and most users wouldn't know the difference.
On the other hand, if you don't hide the extension, then each of us here would be constantly dealing with dumb users who have renamed "Document1.doc" to "Report" (no extension). For 99% of users, hiding extensions is a good idea.
Ah, Nestle. The company that gives African mothers free powdered milk for several months. Just enough to make sure they stop lactating and are essentially "addicted" to the product.
The good old "free samples to get the kids hooked" technique. Boycot Nestle!! They are literally killing children from malutrition right now.
You need to run a gateway, H-232 IIRC. This runs on your firewall (assuming linux, this is /.) and acts as the port listener. Regular port numbers not the infuriatingly random IM ones, so you could host behind a NAT.
You both connect to it, most apps talk this protocol. Except MSN Messenger, hmmm typical. Allows IM & voice between you, and anyone else using it. I think this is essentially what the chat websites do, with an HTML front end. Now, this ain't something I've done, but I read something about it several years ago, when trying to do the same. I gave up, it was to chat with mainly local friends and not really neccessary.
Sounds like the reviewer rehashed some product marketing info there. I doubt he's a legal authority on the subject. His "expert testomy" wouldn't hold up in a court of law either! ;-)
In seriousness, I'd like to see fashion and pop culture take this up. I'm tired of seeing photoshopped beauty, but I doubt the relevant industries might ever do that!
This is a fucking brilliant project all in and all involved get my full respect. It's even technologically brilliant, remember the old IT saying about the bandwidth of a truck carrying backup tapes. They don't need up-to-the-second stock quotes from the internet, the lag isn't that bad compared to the zero access they had in the past, including the lack of traditional postal mail. Access to doctors, farming info, family members, government. There are two technologies that changed our society forever; books and communication. They just got the latter over the hardest "last-mile" on the planet, instantly giving them acces to all the worlds knowledge. Cool.
They paint an admirable image of their culture, whereas you hardly do the same for yours. RTFA, tosser.
When my ISP/telco announced this to the public (i.e. someone spotted the change to the ToC and it got onto The Register), I immediately emailed their support saying that if I ever got a warning, I would close all my accounts (inc. cable) with them immediately.
I breach the 1gig limit on most days, never had a warning yet.
I took a similar approach. The XBox does the playback, but instead of PVR backend, I just let someone else record it and put it on eMule, from where I download it.
You can use ctrl-shift-esc to go straight to the Task Manager on W2k and NT.
I used to think that when I worked for a company that had Ctrl-D disabled in it's default shell. However, after re-enabling it I noticed I did do it by accident now and then, for example when exiting from a FTP shell or a sub-shell, you could do it twice and get logged out. Or, the app you want to send the ctrl-d to might close itself just before you do it.
Have you not woken up yet this morning? Re-read your parent post... ;-)
You are aware that one of the reasons behind Americas ecconomic success of the past hundred years was due to it's complete lack of respect for foreign patents and intellectual property?
He's thinking about his peers. Most Americans are unaware that 10 million of their population live in utter poverty. Just watch Cops and you'll see them (and make entertainment out of them while you are at it).
We have always been at war with Syria. Come along commrade brother, repeat after me:
We have always been at war with Syria.
We have always been at war with Syria.
We have always been at war with Syria.
Not quite. More criminals were sent to North America from Great Britain than were sent to Australia.
I've always loved that attitude to the political-correct "it was all about slavery" teachings. Ever noticed how those who write the history also do it to make themselves look righteous?