Next you'll invade Aberdeen to get access to (what's left) of north sea oil in a bid to liberate the Scots from the yoke of Blair the dictator?
I know its a joke, but just out of interest...
As a slashdotter, you will have likely played one of the Civilisation series, probably Civ2. You will realise that under a democracy government, decisions like that will prove impossible to pass through your government. Britain, far more than North Korea or Iran, is a no-go area for the US 'democracy proces'. Not for any ethical, moral or strategic reasons, but simply because a war there would cost too much. Only in rare situations (like World War II) would any democratic country be able to enter such an apparently costly fight. Korea and Vietnam appeared cheap fights initially. Leaving aside the political absurdity of it, Britain is never a cheap fight. Britain has submarine based ICBMs, carrier groups, good intelligence and fantastic special forces. You will note that none of those were present in Iraq, even in their heyday when they had the 3rd or 4th largest army in the world.
TBH I thought the tattoo remark drew attention to the humour, but I suppose we could consider some aspects seriously.
The situation I was suggesting was a private company (trains) having access to a much wider array of information and abusing it under the false flag of security.
Fortunatly our governments have yet to display the coordination required to seriously abuse our rights with the data available to them.
I go to church to worship God, and I will continue to do so even should our society slide to the point where freedom of religious expression is no longer a protected right. Fortunately this does not seem to be happening yet - but you should never be complacent about your rights.
Completely off-topic, but you do know when the forehead tattoos come, it will be the church that gives them, right?
ah but which church? and will they sell the marketing rights to your choice of psuedo-democratic government/unethical corperation/secret new world order?
tin foil fallout shelters will not protect us should the demeritocracies of the world finally prove capeable of cohesive thought or desicive action.
as a side note, I am aware of the predictions in the book of revelation. Fortunately, I have a get-out clause - my Saviour is returning for me before the anti-christ comes to power, so I will have a rather better seat to watch this from. I would recommend anyone else who is worried about it to check out their options before its too late!
RFID is not bad anywhere. It's like cookies on a website - what's the big deal?
At the moment.
Fast forward two years:
As you board your train to work, a member of the trains company's private 'Homeland Security Force' stops you. "Excuse me sir. The RFID you are carrying does not match your VISA card. Step this way please..."
In two years we'll have National Identity cards in the UK too.
and probably tattoos on our foreheads./me goes off to church while he still can.
I ran into a problem recently with CR systems. It's a kind of reverse-spam problem. Some address-harvesting spammer has taken my domain name from his list of spam targets, and spammed ten million people from a list of random addresses at my domain. Suddenly, my catch-all inbox is recieving upwards of 2000 bounce messages of varying type per day - making it suddenly useless for me.
My brightmail amoured inbox is almost spam-proof, but defenceless against a DDOS attack from thousands of spam victims.
ok maybe i was a bit low guessing. i reckon buying the cheapest hardware possible, in bulk, you could get 1TB for $800 dollars. but that's still $800,000 dollars for basic hardware costs alone.
I think they are out on their storage predictions too though.
even if you allow 1GB per divx (most are under 700mb), then you have space for 1 million movies.
That is more titles than every DVD rental outfit on dvdtrials.co.uk added together!
"One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." Mark 12 28-31 (NIV)
If you're looking for a petabyte, it's 1000 terabytes (or possibly 1024, depending who you ask).
But you're right, that is some real hardware. I can't see any private individuals having that much at this point. At a minimum, that kind of storage is going to be costing in the region of $100,000 dollars.
A lawyer will not be like a mechanic until: - You require a mechanic to do anything with car, including opening the door and driving it. - It takes 3 months of study to understand opening a bonnet/hood. - Your mechanic bills you for answering the phone, taking a tea break, and billing you. - Your take a car with a flat tyre to garage, and pay the same regardless of whether the tyre is successfully changed. - Anyone born into the right family is automatically assured a life of ease and wealth as they attend mechanic school for many years and graduate into a position in a top garage which pays a salary that would support a small 3rd world country for 10 hours work per week. - I could go on.
The point is not that there should be all lawyers be executed and everyone else spend 10 years learning how to be lawyers, but that lawyers should not be necessary. Laws should be clear, simple and brief - otherwise how can the general population be expected not to break them to start with? These are good laws: - No murder - No stealing - No copying anything written in the last 10 years Laws like that are easy to understand.
... at the Doctors office without being able to take our pulse while they stall until there is a doctor available to see us? You've never used the UK's National Health Service. The nurses don't take your pulse while you wait for a doctor in our hospitals - after 4 hours of pulse taking, they would probably not have learnt a great deal more. And that's the emergancy patients.
This man has no pulse! I've been giving him CPR since I called you guys and I can't get a signal If they are so drunk they don't react in any noticable way to 10 minutes of CPR then they need the ambulance (probably just to cart of the body.)
There is an effective firewall out there to block this. It's known as 'atmosphere'. If you have one of these sheilding your system, beagle.mars will be sandboxed before it can execute.
Not everything space-related is NASA you insensitive clod!:) You can tell NASA's attempts from UK Universities with this simple test. Did space object in question: a. Crash and burn due to problems with the metric system or b. Vanish without trace
If a then object is of NASA origin, if b, then non-NASA. Hope this helps clear up any confusion.
Give us a chance, we're just updating the project page. I was going to upload it but the other l33t h4xorz say there's some gentlemen wearing black suits at the door...
It's all about the local politians getting back handers for these 'new ideas'.
Buses are more practical. Providing you don't spend over 30,000,000 GBP on new 'guided' bus systems like Crawley's Daft Monorail idea (Warning: Propaganda Site). Not only is the project over budget and behind schedule, but the disasterous effect on the remaining 'normal' buses has resulted in a negative overall improvement to date. At it's peak, the service will support just 5000 of Crawley's residents, while costing over 300 per year in delays to each of the 78,000 car drivers. And those are the conservative estimates taken from the offical fastway propaganda site. For more accurate information on the problem, see Crawley Fastway and RAGBUS, a protest site against a similar problem.
Needless to say, a few people in the right places took some _huge_ back handers for that one.
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Next you'll invade Aberdeen to get access to (what's left) of north sea oil in a bid to liberate the Scots from the yoke of Blair the dictator?
I know its a joke, but just out of interest...
As a slashdotter, you will have likely played one of the Civilisation series, probably Civ2.
You will realise that under a democracy government, decisions like that will prove impossible to pass through your government.
Britain, far more than North Korea or Iran, is a no-go area for the US 'democracy proces'. Not for any ethical, moral or strategic reasons, but simply because a war there would cost too much. Only in rare situations (like World War II) would any democratic country be able to enter such an apparently costly fight.
Korea and Vietnam appeared cheap fights initially. Leaving aside the political absurdity of it, Britain is never a cheap fight. Britain has submarine based ICBMs, carrier groups, good intelligence and fantastic special forces. You will note that none of those were present in Iraq, even in their heyday when they had the 3rd or 4th largest army in the world.
TBH I thought the tattoo remark drew attention to the humour, but I suppose we could consider some aspects seriously.
The situation I was suggesting was a private company (trains) having access to a much wider array of information and abusing it under the false flag of security.
Fortunatly our governments have yet to display the coordination required to seriously abuse our rights with the data available to them.
I go to church to worship God, and I will continue to do so even should our society slide to the point where freedom of religious expression is no longer a protected right. Fortunately this does not seem to be happening yet - but you should never be complacent about your rights.
Completely off-topic, but you do know when the forehead tattoos come, it will be the church that gives them, right?
ah but which church? and will they sell the marketing rights to your choice of psuedo-democratic government/unethical corperation/secret new world order?
tin foil fallout shelters will not protect us should the demeritocracies of the world finally prove capeable of cohesive thought or desicive action.
as a side note, I am aware of the predictions in the book of revelation. Fortunately, I have a get-out clause - my Saviour is returning for me before the anti-christ comes to power, so I will have a rather better seat to watch this from. I would recommend anyone else who is worried about it to check out their options before its too late!
RFID is not bad anywhere. It's like cookies on a website - what's the big deal?
/me goes off to church while he still can.
At the moment.
Fast forward two years:
As you board your train to work, a member of the trains company's private 'Homeland Security Force' stops you.
"Excuse me sir. The RFID you are carrying does not match your VISA card. Step this way please..."
In two years we'll have National Identity cards in the UK too.
and probably tattoos on our foreheads.
It's like a real life version of Roller Coaster Tycoon - except you can't pick people up with tongs and drown them in a lake.
yet...
remember, the future is but an quickly granted patent away.
I ran into a problem recently with CR systems. It's a kind of reverse-spam problem. Some address-harvesting spammer has taken my domain name from his list of spam targets, and spammed ten million people from a list of random addresses at my domain. Suddenly, my catch-all inbox is recieving upwards of 2000 bounce messages of varying type per day - making it suddenly useless for me.
My brightmail amoured inbox is almost spam-proof, but defenceless against a DDOS attack from thousands of spam victims.
an unintended side effect I feel.
I can add another apocryphal story - my 1400 Thunderbird used to run at 60-70, while my 2500 Barton runs comfortably sub 40.
So its true, they are getting cooler.
cool story. got any links?
cite your sources, man.
ok maybe i was a bit low guessing. i reckon buying the cheapest hardware possible, in bulk, you could get 1TB for $800 dollars. but that's still $800,000 dollars for basic hardware costs alone.
I think they are out on their storage predictions too though.
even if you allow 1GB per divx (most are under 700mb), then you have space for 1 million movies.
That is more titles than every DVD rental outfit on dvdtrials.co.uk added together!
"One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?"
"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." Mark 12 28-31 (NIV)
The difficult bit is enforcing them.
Come on.. who has a friggin PENTABYTE
er... no-one? unless you have?
If you're looking for a petabyte, it's 1000 terabytes (or possibly 1024, depending who you ask).
But you're right, that is some real hardware. I can't see any private individuals having that much at this point. At a minimum, that kind of storage is going to be costing in the region of $100,000 dollars.
Lawyers are like mechanics
(Not all mechanics are weasels)
A lawyer will not be like a mechanic until:
- You require a mechanic to do anything with car, including opening the door and driving it.
- It takes 3 months of study to understand opening a bonnet/hood.
- Your mechanic bills you for answering the phone, taking a tea break, and billing you.
- Your take a car with a flat tyre to garage, and pay the same regardless of whether the tyre is successfully changed.
- Anyone born into the right family is automatically assured a life of ease and wealth as they attend mechanic school for many years and graduate into a position in a top garage which pays a salary that would support a small 3rd world country for 10 hours work per week.
- I could go on.
The point is not that there should be all lawyers be executed and everyone else spend 10 years learning how to be lawyers, but that lawyers should not be necessary. Laws should be clear, simple and brief - otherwise how can the general population be expected not to break them to start with? These are good laws:
- No murder
- No stealing
- No copying anything written in the last 10 years
Laws like that are easy to understand.
With a FM radio on the other one.
In a few years time you will have a head shaped like a novelty condom.
... at the Doctors office without being able to take our pulse while they stall until there is a doctor available to see us?
You've never used the UK's National Health Service.
The nurses don't take your pulse while you wait for a doctor in our hospitals - after 4 hours of pulse taking, they would probably not have learnt a great deal more.
And that's the emergancy patients.
This man has no pulse! I've been giving him CPR since I called you guys and I can't get a signal
If they are so drunk they don't react in any noticable way to 10 minutes of CPR then they need the ambulance (probably just to cart of the body.)
There is an effective firewall out there to block this. It's known as 'atmosphere'. If you have one of these sheilding your system, beagle.mars will be sandboxed before it can execute.
Not everything space-related is NASA you insensitive clod! :)
You can tell NASA's attempts from UK Universities with this simple test.
Did space object in question:
a. Crash and burn due to problems with the metric system or
b. Vanish without trace
If a then object is of NASA origin, if b, then non-NASA.
Hope this helps clear up any confusion.
Give us a chance, we're just updating the project page. I was going to upload it but the other l33t h4xorz say there's some gentlemen wearing black suits at the door...
Not sure... but at least we know why they call it double dutch.
they can come to my house instead, if they'd like. well, half of them can.
the pretty ones or the young ones? or the ones that look like Orlando Bloom in LotR?
If you think any or all of those groups make up even close to half of people who use nude beaches you are in for a nasty surprise.
The MSN search engine is infected.
You can download the trojan from here:
http://search.msn.com/msits.exe
There is no file there
Maybe someone at MSN Search reads slashdot?
Hello? If you're reading this Mr MSN Search, you might like to check out this cool site.
It's all about the local politians getting back handers for these 'new ideas'.
Buses are more practical. Providing you don't spend over 30,000,000 GBP on new 'guided' bus systems like Crawley's Daft Monorail idea (Warning: Propaganda Site).
Not only is the project over budget and behind schedule, but the disasterous effect on the remaining 'normal' buses has resulted in a negative overall improvement to date.
At it's peak, the service will support just 5000 of Crawley's residents, while costing over 300 per year in delays to each of the 78,000 car drivers. And those are the conservative estimates taken from the offical fastway propaganda site. For more accurate information on the problem, see Crawley Fastway and RAGBUS, a protest site against a similar problem.
Needless to say, a few people in the right places took some _huge_ back handers for that one.
Looks like their webserver didn't make the top 500 list...
Either that or there is an enterprising student thinking 'hmm, I know how I can get a higher score at this SET@home game'...
Litigious Bastards
Bad OS for fast food
Just follow the FACT lead. UK Cinemas carry the following warnings amongst other junk before every film:
"Piracy funds Organized Crime"
"Piracy funds Terrorism"
"It is illegal to use any recording equipment in or near this building"
and other similar warnings - spoken and displayed as text. It's only going to get worse too.
I've heard people in the cinema laugh out loud at these warnings though.