They do auction off the good ones, but the majority of the ones worth any money tend to get claimed back - they don;t crush them right away and give you an option to pay a huge fine and a storage and towing fee so you can take it back if you can also prove you now have valid insurance for it.
Most uninsured drivers who do it habitually tend to drive real beaters that aren't worth selling on.
Just from watching cop shows, there are only two types of car that get seized for no insurance: really shitty beaters or really, really expensive flashy cars. The former are driven by people who just don't care, and will probably have no licence either, the latter are driven by people with a huge sense of entitlement who think they can smooth talk their way out of the car being taken off them.
Did you just get out of a time machine from the 1980s?
ANPR systems linked to the insurance database and the PNC (police national computer) have been a reality for over 10 years in the UK.
If you drive past a cop car or a stationary camera with an ANPR link it will immediately ding you and check for valid insurance, tax, MOT and any outstanding markers on the car (eg, if it's been linked to a crime).
Driving on UK public roads with no insurance is an exercise in futility. It won't be long before a cop snags you (probably a couple of weeks before you trigger a camera, depending on where you drive) and they'll simply seize the car at the roadside and hit you with 6 points on your licence.
If I were standing in front of you, I'd snap your scrawny, pale body in half, little man.
Haha. Still following this thread eh, and still not smart enough to log in?
You're welcome to try snapping me in half. I suspect you'd end up with a broken arm. I assume you're highly trained in martial arts?
Were you trying to be intimidating? By posting a physical threat from a totally anonymous account? You just get more and more amusing kid. I'm not sure I've seen a more pathetic attempt to look macho.
They don't go out of their way to make the hardware incompatible - you're seeing an evil Machiavellian scheme where non exists - they simply design the hardware to fit the design brief they come up with: namely that it works with OS X.
All of the various pieces are pretty standard (especially with the switch to x86) so it doesn't take long for other operating systems to get it all working. For Windows they even include all the drivers you need when you install bootcamp.
Slashdot's entire raison d'etre was that post content belonged to the people who posted it and they would never delete a post - it might be moderated down to -1, but it will always be accessible if you want to view it.
The only case I can remember as noted where this was broken was in the face of continued legal attacks from scientology to the point where it simply made more sense to "break" the policy by changing (not deleting) the post in question with a string of anti-Co$ links.
If the AC has any actual proof of moderators deleting posts then I'd be interested to see it.
The sign of a true astroturfer: deny association. Just shut the fuck up, shill.
It's also a sign of someone being accused of something they are not guilty of. Truthfully asserting innocence. Funny that.
You're clearly following this thread, it would be much easier to do if you were man enough to log in, kid. Let's see who you are, eh?
It's amusing that you think that your brave anonymous orders for me to shut up carry any weight what so ever. If you were standing in front of me I don't think I'd be able to stop myself laughing right in your face, which is terribly rude but sometimes unavoidable.
Sure ya don't, Apple drone. Nobody is buying what you're pushing, so go fuck yourself.
What am I pushing, then, if no one is buying?
If it's Apple products then that's clearly not right - Apple's market share in computers has grown year on year for over 6 years in an industry that is stagnant or shrinking. In the smartphone space Apple holds an enormous share, vastly in disproportion to the number of phones it makes, and sells them as fast as it can make them. And the tablet space should really just be called the iPad space.
So, if "no one is buying what I'm selling", what exactly *is* it that I'm selling?
The obvious answer, of course, is that I'm not selling anything. Nor am I paid to post, nor do I have more than one account. I also never post AC, unless by accident (in which case I will log in and post a correction).
You've made the classic schoolboy error of confusing someone who has a different opinion to you with someone who is paid to promote something. You'll grow out of it eventually, probably.
Oh I know it won't be an overnight fade into insignificance, but it will put the brakes on everyone trying to butter them up.
The poster child for the long term future of medieval-era countries with modern ear cash through a natural resource that everyone wants is the city of Dubai. It's not a place you want to live in (especially if you're poor), have 'deviant' liberal ideas like women being equal to men, or as a service-level worker in the city.
It's starving itself to death after the financial crisis of 2008 and honestly, it can't die off quickly enough.
They have scrambled for something to drive their economy in the eventual absence of oil, but their religious laws, oppression of women and virtually-slave-labour underclass are a huge drag on that.
I would, if I had any idea what you're talking about. You'll have to enlighten me. What exactly is it that you're saying? I assume you have evidence, and a slashdot account?
Without either of those things, you are clearly just talking out of your arse.
It won't last much longer. When the oil runs out, or when we transition to an alternative energy source, they'll fade into insignificance and good fucking riddance. The sooner religion of all kinds is removed from humanity, the sooner we can get back to actually making progress without all the bullshit dragging us down like an anchor.
Design patents can even cite prior art as part of the application itself - for example, Apple's design patent for the Macbook Air references earlier "ultrabook" designs by Sony.
Flash videos almost always *are* H.264 inside - losing Flash just means the bloated, slow, crash-prone, battery-draining container format is gone. It's still the exact same H.264 video inside.
(Assuming we're talking about video streaming - Flash is/was used for other things too).
It is handy when working out how much a mole of M&M's cost though, given the average weight of a single M&M and the cost per giant bag that you can buy in bulk.
My iPhone interfaces with a few other devices. None of them, except the iMac, are made by Apple, or do you mean that if you go with an iOS device you are going to end up with third party devices that all have the 30 pin dock connector? That is a valid complaint, especially with the suggestion that Apple is dropping that connector with the new generation (albeit with an adapter available, but that won't work with all devices).
Amusing, given the post he replied to, especially since it is an actual on-topic and accurate response to a question posed by the original (apparently non-shilling-for-google) post.
What normal stuff was on TV in the UK during the olympics?
Everyone I know was glued to it - to the point of watching events by mobile streaming of iPlayer on the bus or during lunch breaks. Offices were streaming it over the web. Every lab on my floor had one machine with the main feed running, and everyone was talking about it.
No one in the UK was "watching it out the corner of their eye" - at least in my experience, and clearly in the experience of the broadcaster providing the coverage.
Yeah, that sounds totally believable. Apple has a long history after all of undercutting the competition and selling their devices cheaper than the competition.
Bwahahahahahahahaha....
You joke, but the iPad is pretty price competitive in its market.
Why not just support human life extension research? Or at least human reversible hibernation... Time travel is not possible.
Of course it's possible, but only forward, and only at the rate of 1 second per second.
Well, you can go forwards as much as you like, up to a limit since your craft can never reach light speed since it has mass. Just accelerate in an arc away from the earth at a constant 1 or 2 G on a trajectory that will eventually bring you back to the start for 10 years. When you land you've travelled much more than 10 years into the future.
An account means nothing. Stop looking for excuses to dismiss opinions.
A posting history means everything - at least it seemed to be *allllllllllll important* when the AC trolls were accusing people of being paid shills left right and centre.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If they want to put so much emphasis on past posting history then so be it. No account, no opinion.
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They do auction off the good ones, but the majority of the ones worth any money tend to get claimed back - they don;t crush them right away and give you an option to pay a huge fine and a storage and towing fee so you can take it back if you can also prove you now have valid insurance for it.
Most uninsured drivers who do it habitually tend to drive real beaters that aren't worth selling on.
Just from watching cop shows, there are only two types of car that get seized for no insurance: really shitty beaters or really, really expensive flashy cars. The former are driven by people who just don't care, and will probably have no licence either, the latter are driven by people with a huge sense of entitlement who think they can smooth talk their way out of the car being taken off them.
Did you just get out of a time machine from the 1980s?
ANPR systems linked to the insurance database and the PNC (police national computer) have been a reality for over 10 years in the UK.
If you drive past a cop car or a stationary camera with an ANPR link it will immediately ding you and check for valid insurance, tax, MOT and any outstanding markers on the car (eg, if it's been linked to a crime).
Driving on UK public roads with no insurance is an exercise in futility. It won't be long before a cop snags you (probably a couple of weeks before you trigger a camera, depending on where you drive) and they'll simply seize the car at the roadside and hit you with 6 points on your licence.
If I were standing in front of you, I'd snap your scrawny, pale body in half, little man.
Haha. Still following this thread eh, and still not smart enough to log in?
You're welcome to try snapping me in half. I suspect you'd end up with a broken arm. I assume you're highly trained in martial arts?
Were you trying to be intimidating? By posting a physical threat from a totally anonymous account? You just get more and more amusing kid. I'm not sure I've seen a more pathetic attempt to look macho.
They don't go out of their way to make the hardware incompatible - you're seeing an evil Machiavellian scheme where non exists - they simply design the hardware to fit the design brief they come up with: namely that it works with OS X.
All of the various pieces are pretty standard (especially with the switch to x86) so it doesn't take long for other operating systems to get it all working. For Windows they even include all the drivers you need when you install bootcamp.
I would talk more about it, but I've got to get to a Semertian Poetry reading. Not that I expect you to know what Semertian Poetry is.
"Oh, now that you've heard of its existence it's too mainstream for me now, so this is the last time I'm going".
Oh boy, you did it now.
If I don't see you in a few days, I'll send a search party out to look for your karma.
You think he'll get modded down on slashdot for being critical of something Apple does?!
Oh that's funny. Oh wait, you were serious, let me laugh even harder.
On topic, I run Ubuntu on a Powerbook G4. Works pretty well, despite the PPC build of Ubuntu not being officially supported.
Mod parent up.
Slashdot's entire raison d'etre was that post content belonged to the people who posted it and they would never delete a post - it might be moderated down to -1, but it will always be accessible if you want to view it.
The only case I can remember as noted where this was broken was in the face of continued legal attacks from scientology to the point where it simply made more sense to "break" the policy by changing (not deleting) the post in question with a string of anti-Co$ links.
If the AC has any actual proof of moderators deleting posts then I'd be interested to see it.
The sign of a true astroturfer: deny association. Just shut the fuck up, shill.
It's also a sign of someone being accused of something they are not guilty of. Truthfully asserting innocence. Funny that.
You're clearly following this thread, it would be much easier to do if you were man enough to log in, kid. Let's see who you are, eh?
It's amusing that you think that your brave anonymous orders for me to shut up carry any weight what so ever. If you were standing in front of me I don't think I'd be able to stop myself laughing right in your face, which is terribly rude but sometimes unavoidable.
Ah, there's your problem. You believed something written in the Daily Mail.
Might I suggest "Alice in Wonderland" for a similarly-accurate representation of reality?
Sure ya don't, Apple drone. Nobody is buying what you're pushing, so go fuck yourself.
What am I pushing, then, if no one is buying?
If it's Apple products then that's clearly not right - Apple's market share in computers has grown year on year for over 6 years in an industry that is stagnant or shrinking. In the smartphone space Apple holds an enormous share, vastly in disproportion to the number of phones it makes, and sells them as fast as it can make them. And the tablet space should really just be called the iPad space.
So, if "no one is buying what I'm selling", what exactly *is* it that I'm selling?
The obvious answer, of course, is that I'm not selling anything. Nor am I paid to post, nor do I have more than one account. I also never post AC, unless by accident (in which case I will log in and post a correction).
You've made the classic schoolboy error of confusing someone who has a different opinion to you with someone who is paid to promote something. You'll grow out of it eventually, probably.
Oh I know it won't be an overnight fade into insignificance, but it will put the brakes on everyone trying to butter them up.
The poster child for the long term future of medieval-era countries with modern ear cash through a natural resource that everyone wants is the city of Dubai. It's not a place you want to live in (especially if you're poor), have 'deviant' liberal ideas like women being equal to men, or as a service-level worker in the city.
It's starving itself to death after the financial crisis of 2008 and honestly, it can't die off quickly enough.
They have scrambled for something to drive their economy in the eventual absence of oil, but their religious laws, oppression of women and virtually-slave-labour underclass are a huge drag on that.
Why don't you tell me, shill.
I would, if I had any idea what you're talking about. You'll have to enlighten me. What exactly is it that you're saying? I assume you have evidence, and a slashdot account?
Without either of those things, you are clearly just talking out of your arse.
It won't last much longer. When the oil runs out, or when we transition to an alternative energy source, they'll fade into insignificance and good fucking riddance. The sooner religion of all kinds is removed from humanity, the sooner we can get back to actually making progress without all the bullshit dragging us down like an anchor.
How much are your corporate puppet-masters paying you to shill for them?
I have corporate puppet masters?
Where are they, and is the buffet free?
Design patents are not utility patents.
Design patents can even cite prior art as part of the application itself - for example, Apple's design patent for the Macbook Air references earlier "ultrabook" designs by Sony.
It doesn't on iOS - there's a dedicated app.
I've been using it for some time, moreso in the last couple of weeks with the Olympics. I assume they have an Android version too.
You seem to be confusing Flash with H.264.
Flash videos almost always *are* H.264 inside - losing Flash just means the bloated, slow, crash-prone, battery-draining container format is gone. It's still the exact same H.264 video inside.
(Assuming we're talking about video streaming - Flash is/was used for other things too).
It is handy when working out how much a mole of M&M's cost though, given the average weight of a single M&M and the cost per giant bag that you can buy in bulk.
It's a lot.
My iPhone interfaces with a few other devices. None of them, except the iMac, are made by Apple, or do you mean that if you go with an iOS device you are going to end up with third party devices that all have the 30 pin dock connector? That is a valid complaint, especially with the suggestion that Apple is dropping that connector with the new generation (albeit with an adapter available, but that won't work with all devices).
Shill harder, Macbot.
Amusing, given the post he replied to, especially since it is an actual on-topic and accurate response to a question posed by the original (apparently non-shilling-for-google) post.
What normal stuff was on TV in the UK during the olympics?
Everyone I know was glued to it - to the point of watching events by mobile streaming of iPlayer on the bus or during lunch breaks. Offices were streaming it over the web. Every lab on my floor had one machine with the main feed running, and everyone was talking about it.
No one in the UK was "watching it out the corner of their eye" - at least in my experience, and clearly in the experience of the broadcaster providing the coverage.
The iPad is a fucking joke. It's three times as expensive as a Nexus 7 and only half as powerful.
So the Nexus 7 has a high dpi retina screen 10" in size? You learn something new every day!
I'll buy one right away!
Yeah, that sounds totally believable. Apple has a long history after all of undercutting the competition and selling their devices cheaper than the competition.
Bwahahahahahahahaha....
You joke, but the iPad is pretty price competitive in its market.
Why not just support human life extension research? Or at least human reversible hibernation... Time travel is not possible.
Of course it's possible, but only forward, and only at the rate of 1 second per second.
Well, you can go forwards as much as you like, up to a limit since your craft can never reach light speed since it has mass. Just accelerate in an arc away from the earth at a constant 1 or 2 G on a trajectory that will eventually bring you back to the start for 10 years. When you land you've travelled much more than 10 years into the future.
An account means nothing. Stop looking for excuses to dismiss opinions.
A posting history means everything - at least it seemed to be *allllllllllll important* when the AC trolls were accusing people of being paid shills left right and centre.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If they want to put so much emphasis on past posting history then so be it. No account, no opinion.