But then again, I'm the one that pays attention at ATM's and see _any_ indication of Microsoft figure I'm better off to just walk away. WITH MY MONEY. Suckers...
That reminds me of the ATM I saw with a Windows NT DNS error message on the screen. It was there for over a week before someone fixed it. I have never used an ATM by the same company again.
What about Faraday cages - The main Electronics and Computer Science building at my Uni acts like one, and so you get no reception inside. This is an easy way to enforce the no mobile phones rule (they're not allowed due to interference with sensitive electronic equiment).
when you are talking to someone in the car, you can break off the conversation if you get to a tricky bit of driving and need to concentrate more. you cannot do that so easily with someone on a cell phone as they don't know you've got to concentrate. Music, at a sensible level, isn't distracting. As for eating in the car, however, just like talking on a cell phone, not only are you distracted, you also lose the use of one hand. You may not need both hands on the wheel all the time, but if you need to grab the wheel/change gear in a hurry, you need that other hand available.
As for the use of cell phones in restaurants and theatres, what ever happened to common courtesy? Everyone knows how annoying it is when other people's phones go off in such places, so surely people must realise how annoyed other people will be if their phone rings. Set your phone to vibrate, and if someone really needs to get in touch with you, they can leave voicemail or send a text message.
you can get some really good cars cheap if you shop around - mine cost GB£1000 (roughly US$1600) last year, with full service history, and is good for several years yet.
We believe that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema's actions are in fact hate speech. The movie is intentionally being named The Two Towers in order to capitalize on the tragedy of September 11. Clearly, you cannot deny the fact that this falls under hate speech. We believe that if they will not willingly change the name, the government should step in to stop the movie's production or to force a name change.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the second book named 'The Two Towers' - Therefore, the movie is intentionally being named 'The Two Towers' because that was the name of the book its based on. That has nothing to do with capitalising on the tragedy. Are they going to try and get the name of the book changed as well?
The prosecution in the trial of Jon Lech Johansen, known as "DVD-Jon" due to his connection with a computer program to decrypt DVD copy protection codes, presented amended charges in court on Friday.
The changes largely reflect Økokrim - Norway's special force for economic crime - wanting to include charges that Johansen also cracked code that revealed a repository of protection keys. According to the prosecution, this made it possible for the decryption program DeCSS to work on a wide range of films.
Johansen's defense counsel, Halvor Manshaus, opposed this new development, saying he felt it changed the very nature of the indictment, which the prosecution is not allowed to do while the trial is in progress.
Prosecutor Inger Marie Sunde argues that the changes only make the original indictment more precise, and so do not represent new charges.
After consideration Manshaus withdrew his objection to the changes, not waiting for a ruling from the judge.
"I have objections to how this is done - that changes come now, so late in the trial. I have now formal objections against the changes themselves, rather that we now, after the presentation of evidence is over, get this change - which in my opinion comes without sufficient supporting evidence," Manshaus said.
"Such a formal objection would mean that we would have to present new evidence and this would in practice lead to a deferment of the trial and we have no interest in that," Manshaus said.
Throughout the proceeding Manshaus has been extremely brief, trying to get the prosecution to concentrate on what he feels are the actual charges and presenting his counter-arguments far more quickly.
The trial was originally scheduled to conclude with closing arguments on Friday. This will now take place on Monday, primarily to allow the defense to adjust arguments to reflect the newly worded indictment. Judgment will not fall until after New Year.
This was the third time the charges against Johansen change. This spring Økokrim amended the indictment to complicity with cracking DVD codes, which means that they do not have to prove that Johansen acted alone. Just before the start of the trial Johansen's defense counsel had the wording of the charges slightly adjusted.
The trial this week has been dominated by the prosecution's painstaking attempts to argue that Johansen deliberately contributed to the removal of copy protection of DVD films leading to their free distribution on the Internet.
DVDs have a reserve of 408 encrypted keys, where at least one must correspond to a key in the DVD-player in order to access the data. According to Johansen himself, the original DeCSS contained only one key, but this was later expanded thanks to the efforts of friends on the Internet.
Johansen's defense argues that he and his friends only cracked the code in order to play films legally purchased on a computer using the Linux operating system.
Much of Friday morning's trial time was spent documenting online conversations between Johansen and his friends.
DeCSS, was published in 1999 and widely associated with Johansen via reports in the media. Specialist circles have debated Johansen's level of involvement with the actual codebreaking. Johansen also made the program freely available for download via the Internet.
If you plan on going anywhere by late at night, you might wanna try to get hold of some sorta firearm or at least a decent blade both of which are highly illegal here in the UK. just don't go around on your own at night, same as in any other city (AFAIK, London is far safer than most US cities.
Then go and experience London Transport itself, and wonder to yourself "Did this bunch really run a friggin empire? They did, quite well in the 50s-60s, then things got split off, nationalised, privatised etc, and now TfL are in charge, and things have gone massivly downhill.
On the whole, London is a very good city, with lots of good museums and sights, and is well worth a visit.
p.s. if you Americans plan on seeing Shakespeare's town (a very popular pastime among American tourists here), it's Stratford-upon-Avon, not Stratford, which is a grotty east London suburb!
BMW launched the MINI brand
Minis have been around since the '60s - BMW bought them along with Rover (another UK manufacturer) who owned the brand before, redesigned the car, which had been the same design for nearly 40 years, and started selling them in the US - I guess they were probably not sold there before as a small, efficient car does not fit into the image we have over here of the sort of vehicle Americans drive. To see what a real Mini looks like, watch "The Italian Job".
But we get the BBC with no adverts, whereas you pay twice as much and get ads forced as well. of course, the ITV still has ads, but we don't pay them, so the ads are their main source of cash.
All he needs to do is suggest that terrorists are using linux...
Of course, if we could persuade GWB that the terrorists are using windows to plan their attacks...
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But then again, I'm the one that pays attention at ATM's and see _any_ indication of Microsoft figure I'm better off to just walk away. WITH MY MONEY. Suckers...
That reminds me of the ATM I saw with a Windows NT DNS error message on the screen. It was there for over a week before someone fixed it. I have never used an ATM by the same company again.
Here in Minnesota, I count on the onboard computer to keep me out of the ditch.
Really. I prefer to count on the steering wheel and brakes.
There are flying cars - look here
Not flying very far, admittedly, but still flying!
What about Faraday cages - The main Electronics and Computer Science building at my Uni acts like one, and so you get no reception inside. This is an easy way to enforce the no mobile phones rule (they're not allowed due to interference with sensitive electronic equiment).
when you are talking to someone in the car, you can break off the conversation if you get to a tricky bit of driving and need to concentrate more. you cannot do that so easily with someone on a cell phone as they don't know you've got to concentrate. Music, at a sensible level, isn't distracting. As for eating in the car, however, just like talking on a cell phone, not only are you distracted, you also lose the use of one hand. You may not need both hands on the wheel all the time, but if you need to grab the wheel/change gear in a hurry, you need that other hand available.
As for the use of cell phones in restaurants and theatres, what ever happened to common courtesy? Everyone knows how annoying it is when other people's phones go off in such places, so surely people must realise how annoyed other people will be if their phone rings. Set your phone to vibrate, and if someone really needs to get in touch with you, they can leave voicemail or send a text message.
This one must be most worrying for slashdotters:
San Francisco, California:
Persons classified as "ugly" may not walk down any street
are you the head of personnel or public relations by any chance!!!
you can get some really good cars cheap if you shop around - mine cost GB£1000 (roughly US$1600) last year, with full service history, and is good for several years yet.
> But 1% is still quite a bit.
2 709.stm
not when you look at the area of the ring compared to the area of the rest of the galaxy.
See the picture in the bbc article on the same subject:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/263
from the FAQ:
We believe that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema's actions are in fact hate speech. The movie is intentionally being named The Two Towers in order to capitalize on the tragedy of September 11. Clearly, you cannot deny the fact that this falls under hate speech. We believe that if they will not willingly change the name, the government should step in to stop the movie's production or to force a name change.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the second book named 'The Two Towers' - Therefore, the movie is intentionally being named 'The Two Towers' because that was the name of the book its based on. That has nothing to do with capitalising on the tragedy. Are they going to try and get the name of the book changed as well?
...before it gets slashdotted:
Prosecution changes charges against "DVD-Jon"
The prosecution in the trial of Jon Lech Johansen, known as "DVD-Jon" due to his connection with a computer program to decrypt DVD copy protection codes, presented amended charges in court on Friday.
The changes largely reflect Økokrim - Norway's special force for economic crime - wanting to include charges that Johansen also cracked code that revealed a repository of protection keys. According to the prosecution, this made it possible for the decryption program DeCSS to work on a wide range of films.
Johansen's defense counsel, Halvor Manshaus, opposed this new development, saying he felt it changed the very nature of the indictment, which the prosecution is not allowed to do while the trial is in progress.
Prosecutor Inger Marie Sunde argues that the changes only make the original indictment more precise, and so do not represent new charges.
After consideration Manshaus withdrew his objection to the changes, not waiting for a ruling from the judge.
"I have objections to how this is done - that changes come now, so late in the trial. I have now formal objections against the changes themselves, rather that we now, after the presentation of evidence is over, get this change - which in my opinion comes without sufficient supporting evidence," Manshaus said.
"Such a formal objection would mean that we would have to present new evidence and this would in practice lead to a deferment of the trial and we have no interest in that," Manshaus said.
Throughout the proceeding Manshaus has been extremely brief, trying to get the prosecution to concentrate on what he feels are the actual charges and presenting his counter-arguments far more quickly.
The trial was originally scheduled to conclude with closing arguments on Friday. This will now take place on Monday, primarily to allow the defense to adjust arguments to reflect the newly worded indictment. Judgment will not fall until after New Year.
This was the third time the charges against Johansen change. This spring Økokrim amended the indictment to complicity with cracking DVD codes, which means that they do not have to prove that Johansen acted alone. Just before the start of the trial Johansen's defense counsel had the wording of the charges slightly adjusted.
The trial this week has been dominated by the prosecution's painstaking attempts to argue that Johansen deliberately contributed to the removal of copy protection of DVD films leading to their free distribution on the Internet.
DVDs have a reserve of 408 encrypted keys, where at least one must correspond to a key in the DVD-player in order to access the data. According to Johansen himself, the original DeCSS contained only one key, but this was later expanded thanks to the efforts of friends on the Internet.
Johansen's defense argues that he and his friends only cracked the code in order to play films legally purchased on a computer using the Linux operating system.
Much of Friday morning's trial time was spent documenting online conversations between Johansen and his friends.
DeCSS, was published in 1999 and widely associated with Johansen via reports in the media. Specialist circles have debated Johansen's level of involvement with the actual codebreaking. Johansen also made the program freely available for download via the Internet.
Just go the Microsoft way:
"Well, it complies with our standards"
If you plan on going anywhere by late at night, you might wanna try to get hold of some sorta firearm or at least a decent blade
both of which are highly illegal here in the UK. just don't go around on your own at night, same as in any other city (AFAIK, London is far safer than most US cities.
Then go and experience London Transport itself, and wonder to yourself "Did this bunch really run a friggin empire?
They did, quite well in the 50s-60s, then things got split off, nationalised, privatised etc, and now TfL are in charge, and things have gone massivly downhill.
On the whole, London is a very good city, with lots of good museums and sights, and is well worth a visit.
p.s. if you Americans plan on seeing Shakespeare's town (a very popular pastime among American tourists here), it's Stratford-upon-Avon, not Stratford, which is a grotty east London suburb!
just play RIAA protected songs, and you'll soon have a roof over your head...
then you'd register as a motorbike - do a wheely over one on a bike and see what they make of a one-wheeled vehicle!
The fact that there is an estimated 30 years supply of Crude oil left in the world, perhaps?
BMW launched the MINI brand
Minis have been around since the '60s - BMW bought them along with Rover (another UK manufacturer) who owned the brand before, redesigned the car, which had been the same design for nearly 40 years, and started selling them in the US - I guess they were probably not sold there before as a small, efficient car does not fit into the image we have over here of the sort of vehicle Americans drive. To see what a real Mini looks like, watch "The Italian Job".
I've read various interviews on how she saw Ursula "Honey Rider" Andress in a Bond film and wanted to be a Bond girl ever since
and how many of those were from BEFORE she got the part in DAD?
Grapefruit Commuincations anyone...
they have them at Gatwick (LGW), and as far as I can tell, they literally are flat escalators
But we get the BBC with no adverts, whereas you pay twice as much and get ads forced as well. of course, the ITV still has ads, but we don't pay them, so the ads are their main source of cash.
Then get his personal e-mail address and opt that in.
Find out which OS is better by seeing which takes longer (on average) to get slashdotted!
All he needs to do is suggest that terrorists are using linux... Of course, if we could persuade GWB that the terrorists are using windows to plan their attacks...
That'll be because you cant afford one!