As I've said elsewhere in this thread IANAL. However, I am British and my understanding is that the UK constitution is unwritten and can therefore be overturned by Act of Parliament. I'm not aware of any Act which enshrines the right not to incriminate oneself so I presume that an Act which obliges one to incriminate oneself would be quite legal.
IANAL and I'm not bothered with reading all the legal jargon on a Friday night but I believe its the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act which gives them that power
My credit card (Egg) has a chip on it and I have a PIN for it yet when I phoned Egg they told me it's not a chip-and-pin card, hence, I have to sign. No idea what makes a card a chip-and-pin card if its not the presence of a chip and the existence of a PIN.
Personally I get a warm feeling every time the geeks at Groklaw find another piece of evidence that sticks it to SCO. They're alpha geeks. All hail PJ!
Government surveys always remind me of this exchange from Yes, Prime Minister
Sir Humphrey: "You know what happens: nice young lady comes up to you. Obviously you want to create a good impression, you don't want to look a fool, do you? So she starts asking you some questions: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the number of young people without jobs?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think there is a lack of discipline in our Comprehensive schools?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think young people welcome some authority and leadership in their lives?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think they respond to a challenge?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Would you be in favour of reintroducing National Service?"
Bernard Woolley: "Oh...well, I suppose I might be."
Sir Humphrey: "Yes or no?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Of course you would, Bernard. After all you told you can't say no to that. So they don't mention the first five questions and they publish the last one."
Bernard Woolley: "Is that really what they do?"
Sir Humphrey: "Well, not the reputable ones no, but there aren't many of those. So alternatively the young lady can get the opposite result."
Bernard Woolley: "How?"
Sir Humphrey: "Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Are you worried about the growth of armaments?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think there is a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think it is wrong to force people to take up arms against their will?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Would you oppose the reintroduction of National Service?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "There you are, you see Bernard. The perfect balanced sample."
According to Mr. Blunkett on Breakfast with Frost this morning, the proposal is they they will be as with driving licenses - you don't have to carry them all the time, but you can be given a 'producer' and have to report with valid ID to a police station within 7 days.
Which, of course, renders the whole scheme utterly pointless. Law abiding citizens will turn up at the police station with their ID; criminals, terrorists, paedophiles or whoever this week's bogeyman is will do a runner never to be seen again.
"When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that it was a one in a million chance there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all and the site of the explosion would make for a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all. "
Douglas Adams, Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
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Here in the UK they thought we'd be convinced that Sellafield wasn't the same nuclear power station which went bang when it was called Windscale. Good article here on re-branding a PR disaster away.
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In my experience RH gets better the more point releases it goes through - hence, I'm running 7.3 cause of various problems I had with 8.0. I'm looking forward to 8.1, 8.2 whatever so I can get the new features without losing some of the existing ones (like my adsl modem driver not compiling).
"Carrots go over acute accents, carrots go over acute accents, carrots go over acute accents" - that's all I'm getting. Then again, since I was sad enough to try listening I suppose I deserve no better.
If there's a technology that stops the govt doing what they like with the data you can be sure they'll just ban it or make it an offence not to hand over the decryption keys.
What Linux needs is to win the damn desktop before Microsoft has a digital rights management utility and owns every instant message, email, song, and paper you ever create. Sound scary? It is, but watch it happen if we don't act now.
I disagree entirely. When MS does that, that is the moment at which Linux starts to win. Sooner or later Joe Q. Public is going to start questioning why his own computer that he bought with his own money won't play the CD he paid out for and then he's going to start looking for alternatives. MS are doing a far better PR campaign for Linux and Apple than they could do themselves
- Swap files. They work. People don't have a lot of RAM (well, geeks do, but most home owners have 64 or 128 MB). But they like pictures and video, so let's swap out some of their 20GB hard drives.
Huh? So what's this swap partition I got on my Linux box then?
- Some blue screen type of application to let them know when their video drivers are corrupted or something bad happens.
See this is the point at which you start to sound like a troll. It's the bluescreens that send people screaming off in search of an alternative to start with.
- 24 hour free tech support via phone or on-site service for $0.99/minute. People need to learn Linux. Most aren't born with command line powers gifted from God.
Buy a distro. Oh look tech support! Don't buy one, just download it. Ooh look, Google! What do you want? Linux hackers put out a freephone number in the man pages? Get a grip!
Have you ever heard of a little thing called DNA? Exercise as much as you like but if your double helix says you're gonna spend your autumn years in a wheelchair that's where you're gonna be.
How much are Gateway paying to lease 10gig of HD space from each of their customers? Nothing? OK then : rm -rf drm_shite - or whatever the windows equivalent is.
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The SANS guys have reverse engineered it and given it the thumbs up if that's any help to you : http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=999
As I've said elsewhere in this thread IANAL. However, I am British and my understanding is that the UK constitution is unwritten and can therefore be overturned by Act of Parliament. I'm not aware of any Act which enshrines the right not to incriminate oneself so I presume that an Act which obliges one to incriminate oneself would be quite legal.
IANAL and I'm not bothered with reading all the legal jargon on a Friday night but I believe its the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act which gives them that power
Read the text and tell me if I'm right
i think i'm gonna puke. mod parent up.
Don't remember the BBC covering it but here's The Reg's report
My credit card (Egg) has a chip on it and I have a PIN for it yet when I phoned Egg they told me it's not a chip-and-pin card, hence, I have to sign. No idea what makes a card a chip-and-pin card if its not the presence of a chip and the existence of a PIN.
Yes
The radio series predates the TV series. Geoff McGivern played Ford in the original radio series and also this adaptation.
Personally I get a warm feeling every time the geeks at Groklaw find another piece of evidence that sticks it to SCO. They're alpha geeks. All hail PJ!
Government surveys always remind me of this exchange from Yes, Prime Minister
Sir Humphrey: "You know what happens: nice young lady comes up to you. Obviously you want to create a good impression, you don't want to look a fool, do you? So she starts asking you some questions: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the number of young people without jobs?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think there is a lack of discipline in our Comprehensive schools?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think young people welcome some authority and leadership in their lives?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think they respond to a challenge?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Would you be in favour of reintroducing National Service?"
Bernard Woolley: "Oh...well, I suppose I might be."
Sir Humphrey: "Yes or no?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Of course you would, Bernard. After all you told you can't say no to that. So they don't mention the first five questions and they publish the last one."
Bernard Woolley: "Is that really what they do?"
Sir Humphrey: "Well, not the reputable ones no, but there aren't many of those. So alternatively the young lady can get the opposite result."
Bernard Woolley: "How?"
Sir Humphrey: "Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Are you worried about the growth of armaments?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think there is a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think it is wrong to force people to take up arms against their will?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Would you oppose the reintroduction of National Service?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "There you are, you see Bernard. The perfect balanced sample."
Which, of course, renders the whole scheme utterly pointless. Law abiding citizens will turn up at the police station with their ID; criminals, terrorists, paedophiles or whoever this week's bogeyman is will do a runner never to be seen again.
This may explain a bit.
Would that make more sense if NASA had anything to do with the ESA-launched and UK-funded Beagle 2 probe?
Amiga used 3.5" disks. Amstrad PCWs and Spectrum +3's used 3" disks.
Everyone has to get in on the act ...
"When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that it was a one in a million chance there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all and the site of the explosion would make for a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all. "
Douglas Adams, Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
Here in the UK they thought we'd be convinced that Sellafield wasn't the same nuclear power station which went bang when it was called Windscale. Good article here on re-branding a PR disaster away.
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I'm always a numbnut that never gets these things so can someone explain the connection from Psyche to Phoebe?
In my experience RH gets better the more point releases it goes through - hence, I'm running 7.3 cause of various problems I had with 8.0. I'm looking forward to 8.1, 8.2 whatever so I can get the new features without losing some of the existing ones (like my adsl modem driver not compiling).
"Carrots go over acute accents, carrots go over acute accents, carrots go over acute accents" - that's all I'm getting. Then again, since I was sad enough to try listening I suppose I deserve no better.
If there's a technology that stops the govt doing what they like with the data you can be sure they'll just ban it or make it an offence not to hand over the decryption keys.
I disagree entirely. When MS does that, that is the moment at which Linux starts to win. Sooner or later Joe Q. Public is going to start questioning why his own computer that he bought with his own money won't play the CD he paid out for and then he's going to start looking for alternatives. MS are doing a far better PR campaign for Linux and Apple than they could do themselves
Huh? So what's this swap partition I got on my Linux box then?
See this is the point at which you start to sound like a troll. It's the bluescreens that send people screaming off in search of an alternative to start with.
Buy a distro. Oh look tech support! Don't buy one, just download it. Ooh look, Google! What do you want? Linux hackers put out a freephone number in the man pages? Get a grip!
Have you ever heard of a little thing called DNA? Exercise as much as you like but if your double helix says you're gonna spend your autumn years in a wheelchair that's where you're gonna be.
You'll love this then. Except of course being a Linux guy you'll have read it years ago.
How much are Gateway paying to lease 10gig of HD space from each of their customers? Nothing? OK then : rm -rf drm_shite - or whatever the windows equivalent is.