Now the secret hard-disk virus, hidden in the code on level 2, will be deployed. Only Pirates will have their machines trashed. Only legal purchasers will be protected!
Mostly good advice there, sir. But let me throw in a quick nugget on top of that.
Do not go asleep if you can help it.
Way way too many cops (and UK police too) seem to believe this urban legend about how only guilty people can sleep after being arrested. Because they know the worst has already happened to them. They think the innocent ones are constantly pacing and in fear, because they KNOW they don't belong there.
Do you really want to set the cop to thinking "Well, this guy is clearly guilty" ?
Our American readers need to know that the UK does not have the same Miranda rights as in the US, when you are being arrested.
Specifically, a number of years ago the warnings were changed. Note the difference carefully, and see if you can see how clamming up until a lawyer gets there, might be directly harmful to your freedom.
"You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence."
Now, you might think "surely that wouldn't apply to questions they asked you before your lawyer arrived". And that would make sense. But this is the UK we're talking about.
If this failure to mention something occurs at an authorised place of detention (e.g. a police station), the common law stated that no inferences could be drawn from any failure occurring before the accused is allowed an opportunity to consult a legal advisor. But Section 34 of the 1994 Act reverses the common law position that such failures could not be relied upon.
the police, the government, the powers that be in the UK have proven themselves time and time again to be completely untrustworthy.
Equally unfortunate is the British propensity to grit their teeth and bear it, (because they love to complain about something) rather than do something constructive to change their situation while they still can.
But that IS jargon! To the non-initiated, that is jargon. It's just so commonplace to you that you no longer recognise it as jargon.
I remember the first time I attended a computer lecture (as a maths student, it was in year 3) and the lecturer mentioned an RS232 cable. Blank looks from the math students. Laughs from the computer students with whom we shared the class.
They couldn't understand our ignorance of such a basic term.
Of course, we had the tables turned in our favour when the computer students tried their hand at linear algebra.
It's true, and the people on slashdot are not immune to this. We just frequently disagree about what constitutes a *fake* scare. For one crowd, it's Muslim terrorists/Islam etc. and for another crowd it's global warming, etc...
Either way, repugnant laws get passed, no matter which of the two main parties is in charge of the US.
The nicer approach was to just wait for his term as a president to finally run out.
Right. Because the new guy was going to repeal all those horrible decisions. Oh wait, he didn't. Well at least he wasn't going to make the same types of horrible decisions going forward. Oh wait, he did.
I can't wait for THIS guy's term to run out, so we can deal with the next guy. I just bet he'll be different...
I read an article about chatroulette and decided to try it out for myself. I'd say 75% of people were not interested in conversation of any kind. And maybe 10% were interested in trying to shock you in some way. The system is open for scamming from people who will beam your webcams output back at you, or pics of goatse.cx or shock pages from encyclopedia dramatica. It might have been a fun conversing tool when there was less than 5000 people on it. But once the crowd from 4chan heard of it, it's too polluted to be fun. (Think Usenet before and after AOL came online)
Indeed. And when they get a taste for real games, unencumbered by DRM, they'll never go back.
It's like, when I tasted good beer for the first time (Belgian, German, whatever) I realised what beer was supposed to taste like. I'd never go back to drinking something like Bud/Heineken/Coors etc...
(I'd have a car analogy, except that I now have a borderline drinking problem and hence don't drive.:) )
There are plenty of games that I can only play online. Granted, they are usually Flash games, and are little more than frivolous time sinks. But they're free, and I can play most of them even on a low-end machine.
This looks like an expensive version of one of these games. Not interested.
Yeah, same thing applied to the Lisbon treaty. The politicians kept insisting that x,y,z, wasn't in the treaty. They ignored the part that said the Treaty could be modified IN ANY WAY in the future without the need for re-ratification.
Don't make us come over there and liberate the shit out of you.
Funnily enough, I've seen a porno clip which had this attitude. The guy was really pounding this girls ass, doggy style, saying things like "I'm gonna liberate you soooo hard!" She's crying and getting slapped and what not.
Then when he's done, he collapsed on her back and sighed "Mission Accomplished!" even though there was a second naked chick waiting in the sack beside them.
So I gotta wonder, when did porn get all liberal satirical and shit? Keep politics outta porn. (But not porn outta politics, cause that shit's hilarious.)
Why the next flight? The answer was in the article.
He had bought two seats places. He tried to reschedule to an earlier flight. He was put on standby. The earlier flight only had one seat free. He tried to take it. Too fat.
Well, if you'd read the article (I know, slashdot, why would you read the article?) you'd know that he did buy an additional seat. But when he asked to be flown out on an earlier flight, you go onto standby. And *that* flight only had one spare seat available, so he tried to take it.
So it's not that he thinks he's hideously obese and society should accept it. Look at his tweets. He's pissed that they waited until he was in the seat, to tell him "sorry, you need the second seat after all"
and now being kicked off a plane, what will take to convince that tubby bastard that it's time to slim down? A heart attack? People of his weight don't get a "warning" coronary event. The first one is the last one, and that's it.
If the legal system operated as intended, this would be true.
However, ample evidence has shown that the legal system is well and truly broken, and that if you have sufficient money/power/political weight behind you, there will be no penalty regardless of the crime.
3. But 2 of those are work phones, which were provided with heavy subsidy. Only one friend outright bought the iPhone, and he waited until the 3GS model.
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Now where's my natalie portman and hot grits?
Now the secret hard-disk virus, hidden in the code on level 2, will be deployed.
Only Pirates will have their machines trashed. Only legal purchasers will be protected!
I genuinely think it causes them pain(*). I'd be greatly interested in any study which looked into this, if there was one.
(* Like physical exercise to an underused muscle.)
Mostly good advice there, sir. But let me throw in a quick nugget on top of that.
Do not go asleep if you can help it.
Way way too many cops (and UK police too) seem to believe this urban legend about how only guilty people can sleep after being arrested.
Because they know the worst has already happened to them.
They think the innocent ones are constantly pacing and in fear, because they KNOW they don't belong there.
Do you really want to set the cop to thinking "Well, this guy is clearly guilty" ?
Our American readers need to know that the UK does not have the same Miranda rights as in the US, when you are being arrested.
Specifically, a number of years ago the warnings were changed. Note the difference carefully, and see if you can see how clamming up until a lawyer gets there, might be directly harmful to your freedom.
"You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence."
Now, you might think "surely that wouldn't apply to questions they asked you before your lawyer arrived". And that would make sense. But this is the UK we're talking about.
If this failure to mention something occurs at an authorised place of detention (e.g. a police station), the common law stated that no inferences could be drawn from any failure occurring before the accused is allowed an opportunity to consult a legal advisor.
But Section 34 of the 1994 Act reverses the common law position that such failures could not be relied upon.
the police, the government, the powers that be in the UK have proven themselves time and time again to be completely untrustworthy.
Equally unfortunate is the British propensity to grit their teeth and bear it, (because they love to complain about something) rather than do something constructive to change their situation while they still can.
But that IS jargon! To the non-initiated, that is jargon. It's just so commonplace to you that you no longer recognise it as jargon.
I remember the first time I attended a computer lecture (as a maths student, it was in year 3) and the lecturer mentioned an RS232 cable. Blank looks from the math students. Laughs from the computer students with whom we shared the class.
They couldn't understand our ignorance of such a basic term.
Of course, we had the tables turned in our favour when the computer students tried their hand at linear algebra.
In Italy, yes, the government would LOVE it if you had to get police permission to upload evidence of police brutality.
I'm just sayin'...
It's true, and the people on slashdot are not immune to this. We just frequently disagree about what constitutes a *fake* scare. For one crowd, it's Muslim terrorists/Islam etc. and for another crowd it's global warming, etc...
Either way, repugnant laws get passed, no matter which of the two main parties is in charge of the US.
The nicer approach was to just wait for his term as a president to finally run out.
Right. Because the new guy was going to repeal all those horrible decisions.
Oh wait, he didn't.
Well at least he wasn't going to make the same types of horrible decisions going forward.
Oh wait, he did.
I can't wait for THIS guy's term to run out, so we can deal with the next guy.
I just bet he'll be different...
I read an article about chatroulette and decided to try it out for myself.
I'd say 75% of people were not interested in conversation of any kind. And maybe 10% were interested in trying to shock you in some way.
The system is open for scamming from people who will beam your webcams output back at you, or pics of goatse.cx or shock pages from encyclopedia dramatica. It might have been a fun conversing tool when there was less than 5000 people on it. But once the crowd from 4chan heard of it, it's too polluted to be fun. (Think Usenet before and after AOL came online)
If I give my phone to someone else, then sit at home with my webcam streaming to the web, and a gun....
Can I kill an intruder in legitimate self defence while it happens to be broadcasting to the web?
Indeed. And when they get a taste for real games, unencumbered by DRM, they'll never go back.
It's like, when I tasted good beer for the first time (Belgian, German, whatever) I realised what beer was supposed to taste like. I'd never go back to drinking something like Bud/Heineken/Coors etc...
(I'd have a car analogy, except that I now have a borderline drinking problem and hence don't drive. :) )
There are plenty of games that I can only play online.
Granted, they are usually Flash games, and are little more than frivolous time sinks.
But they're free, and I can play most of them even on a low-end machine.
This looks like an expensive version of one of these games. Not interested.
Yeah, same thing applied to the Lisbon treaty. The politicians kept insisting that x,y,z, wasn't in the treaty.
They ignored the part that said the Treaty could be modified IN ANY WAY in the future without the need for re-ratification.
through the medium of interstellar space.
I'm pretty sure I can't travel at 30,000 mph through the ocean either. Through space, not as big a problem.
Most SF geeks would agree that if we're ever going to exceed C, we won't be doing it in meatspace.
This is the IT equivalent of Bush's "We're going to Mars" announcement.
It will be followed by actions which will make it impossible. (The equivalent of cutting Nasa's budget and programs)
So my money is on...reducing competition, letting infrastructure fail, and killing net neutrality for the Trifecta.
Who'll give me Vegas odds on these?
Don't make us come over there and liberate the shit out of you.
Funnily enough, I've seen a porno clip which had this attitude. The guy was really pounding this girls ass, doggy style, saying things like "I'm gonna liberate you soooo hard!" She's crying and getting slapped and what not.
Then when he's done, he collapsed on her back and sighed "Mission Accomplished!" even though there was a second naked chick waiting in the sack beside them.
So I gotta wonder, when did porn get all liberal satirical and shit? Keep politics outta porn. (But not porn outta politics, cause that shit's hilarious.)
Why the next flight?
The answer was in the article.
He had bought two seats places. He tried to reschedule to an earlier flight. He was put on standby.
The earlier flight only had one seat free. He tried to take it. Too fat.
Next flight? He had his two seat places. Voila.
So why didn't he?
Well, if you'd read the article (I know, slashdot, why would you read the article?) you'd know that he did buy an additional seat. But when he asked to be flown out on an earlier flight, you go onto standby. And *that* flight only had one spare seat available, so he tried to take it.
So it's not that he thinks he's hideously obese and society should accept it.
Look at his tweets. He's pissed that they waited until he was in the seat, to tell him "sorry, you need the second seat after all"
There is no way that Kevin Smith is only 235lbs.
The guy would kill to be 235lbs.
I saw him live at a Q&A in October last year, and he was MASSIVE. He's over 300lbs, easily.
and now being kicked off a plane, what will take to convince that tubby bastard that it's time to slim down? A heart attack? People of his weight don't get a "warning" coronary event. The first one is the last one, and that's it.
If the legal system operated as intended, this would be true.
However, ample evidence has shown that the legal system is well and truly broken, and that if you have sufficient money/power/political weight behind you, there will be no penalty regardless of the crime.
a different set of laws. Your bank doesn't keep your account details private because of copyright law.
How may of those friends have an iPhone?
3. But 2 of those are work phones, which were provided with heavy subsidy.
Only one friend outright bought the iPhone, and he waited until the 3GS model.