Easy, kettles, toasters, ovens...... oh, you didn't mean that kind of power;)
Either way though, those devices don't contain (non-safety) mechanisms that are designed to stop the machine from doing the job the customer bought it for.
A kettle with only 2 switches was more computationally useful than a PS3 with its x million switches a couple of days ago!
But seriously, stop apologising for the games industry. WRT consoles, they have very static platforms to publish on, and even though it might be quite new tech, it is their business decisions that lead to these scenarios, not some inherent property of technology.
Unfortunately the police, with the help of politicians, have thrown away any respect I may have once had for them. If the police came to my house, doing door to door enquiries, then I would not talk to them at all, and I most definitely would not invite them into my home.
The police have become servants of themselves, through the target systems that exist to gauge their performance. They do not respect the communities they police any more, and I think most police would actually laugh at you if you told them they are pubic servants.
ACAB.
At this point, if you are nasty fucking pig or a pig apologist, you set the box below to troll, overrated, offtopic, flamebait, or redundant.
In my area of North London it's weeks maybe even months between sightings.
It looks like my sibling posts have seen your anecdote, and raised you an anecdote to demonstrate how you are wrong.
It boils down to anecdote not being the singular of data.
But either way, I agree - there just aren't the police doing the beat like there used to be. I find that if you do see the police, it will be in places like town centres, or at public gatherings.... they are playing the PR game. Someone has probably worked out that more people will see the police working if the police appear in public in the same places where people appear in public, than if the police spend their time all over the place.
Oh, I do feel that if the police do go round the local area, it'll be in a car rather than on foot. At about the same rate that the beat done on foot seems to have dried up, the rate of Astras and Corsas crawling around, with glaring coppers inside, seems to have gone up!
Speeding is easy to police, and has lots of case law behind it, so is easy to get a conviction for. As the conviction is generally a fine, policing speed becomes self funding.
There are plenty of other things that occur on the roads, a lot more dangerous than speeding, that routinely gets over looked.
Like the enforcement of suitable distances between vehicles. Every single tail-ending that has ever occurred has happened because the car behind was too close. Whiplash accidents are routine in crashes like this (and nowadays so is just claiming whiplash, no matter what - meaning more expensive insurance all round. So you would be stupid not to claim whiplash if tail-ended, but I digress...).
If maintaining an appropriate gap between vehicles was enforced, then lane discipline would have to be too. But of course, this is starting to sound complicated and expensive. Best just stick to picking on people doing 65 in a 60, etc.!
A small proportion of installed cameras in the UK are monitored. Most of them are owned privately (in shops etc), and the recording is only looked at if something happens.
And a large segment of private cameras out there are connected to automatic numberplate recognition, and are networked into the state's numberplate tracking databases.
His point wasn't a gripe with the system of magistrates courts, it was that magistrates can basically make up rules, and if you break them, you go to prison (do not pass go, do not collect 200UKP).
Oh, and the evidence requirements for ASBOs are much lower than for traditional crimes. Hearsay is allowed in court for ASBO trials!
WTF is wrong with people? I can only find one catapult reference in this whole discussion, so far!
I for one will be popping into a fishing stuff shop and getting a catapult or 2 - I remember from being a kid that even the cheap ones are pretty effective. A catapult and a bag of ball bearings, stones, marbles, or nuts, will be pretty effective against these flying pieces of shit. (BBs and marbles are very effective against mounted police on the streets, too).
And failing that, an old microwave oven, modified, could probably make above my home into a no-fly-zone for these things. Or at least stop remote control, and leave the thing to just have to fly away autonomously.
Actually, I saved a the details of how to make a GPS jammer not so long ago, on the off chance it would come in useful in the future. I never thought that future would be so soon:(
The oversimplification of the complexities of politics down to "being a liberal" or "being a conservative" plays into the hands of the ruling class.
It isn't that simple, and never can be. And by debating within those terms, it wastes time that could be used to discuss alternatives. Those alternatives are generally a threat to the status quo.
Damn, I've been shovelling my own version of insight onto this discussion, so I can't give you any slashdot insightrons. Someone mod the parent up, stat!
I like your analogy, "security theatre heckler". I wonder how well that'd go down printed on a t-shirt whilst at an airport? Bonus points for the writing in Arabic;)
I just boils down to the fact that a one dimensional, or even binary, way of measuring political points of view does doesn't work.
Well, it works for one group: the American ruling class.
Whilst the electorate are busy slagging off the other side, the ruling class pretty much get all they want. They might have to bring things in slowly, or policies might need a few attempts at bringing in (lip service to democracy), but sooner or later they'll get their way.
Frankly this is no different to making a threat against someone's life or any other kind of threat that would entail crime.
But he didn't threaten anyone, unless you have the reading comprehension of a child and cannot see a joke when one is presented to you.... oh yeah, this is the same police that recently had to lower their testing pass mark as they weren't getting enough recruits. Looks like that policy's working!
The guy from TFA made the mistake of saying something that allowed the pigs to use powers that if they don't use, they might lose!
"Can't have that training be wasted" said police PR spokesman H. Himmler.
My car tyres are flat and I have go to the garage to blow them up. what should i do ?
Could be worse, for me it's just the left hand rear tire, aka LHR. Could you imagine how lazy pigs fishing for leads (on twitter, FFS[1]) would react to "I need to blow up the LHR"?
[1] "Yeah sarge, just found out about 'da bomb'. It's going down at chelle97's mum's flat this weekend. It was on that Al-Taliban site, myspace".
The ratio of immature e-mail addresses has dropped over the years, but the clueless still abound. I especially loved the one who gave me a link to his homepage which detailed how he was an ongoing target of the mkultra project, thanks for the heads up man.
Shit man, I was just trying to get a fuckin' job!:(
If the shop is so busy that customers are getting pissed off with the queues, then the shop should put on more staff. You attacking other customers for something that is a consequence of decisions the shop has made is misguided.
And besides, even if she has an expired coupon, they might still accept it. She won't know if she doesn't ask! Also bear in mind that for most of the life of your old shopper, the person taking the money could authorise things like taking a coupon, so it is quite reasonable that they ask. What they don't understand is all the modern nuances of working for a big corporation, i.e. the cover-your-ass that has to be played constantly, or stuff will get pinned on you so that the pinner can look good at their performance review.
Some shops are also flexible with coupons, so it is not unreasonable to expect people to knowingly try and use technically invalid coupons. Supermarkets will take money off coupons for a product even if you don't buy the product, so just collecting coupons can give you a discount even if you aren't a consumer a specific product.
I agree. Inch by inch, Britain sinks into the muck of totalitarianism. All for the common good.
I've found a method that shuts up those closet fascists who are willing to give away everyone's privacy etc. is to remind them that millions of people gave up their lives in the last century to protect the freedoms we have in the UK, and that what they are advocating is an insult to their memory.
It is utterly emotionally loaded, and even has a sub-text of war is good, meaning that authoritarians simply don't know what to say.
The most closed minded will still stick to their guns of censorship, submitting to authority, prohibition, etc., but it could work to change the views of a few.
Have a google for tips on how to speed things up. The latency will always be pretty huge, but you can do things like increase the number of connections your browser will make at once to a proxy and/or website, and pipelining can help too.
I Google via TOR, and those fucking "sorry, you look like a bot" pages are a real pain. The captcha never works for me, I think because I block cookies, scripts and referers, and one or more of them is needed for the captcha/search to work.
In the end I changed to using Scroogle SSL over TOR. If you are even slightly old skool when it comes to the internet, you will have used a modem. TOR is generally about as fast as a modem connection in the mid 90s. It works, you just gotta have a little patience. And be able to recognise when it's best to redial/rebuild the TOR circuit.
Wrong, the whole UI freezes up with this issue. This issue happens with both tabs and windows. It's been in FF for ages too, and was in Mozilla before that too, IIRC.
He's right about FF being great but having issues. I would go as far as saying it is great, but also shit at the same time.
It has some ongoing issues, but all the Mozilla Foundation seem to be doing is focussing on dumbing the browser down to attract IE users. I think this can be attributed to Google being the major funder of Mozilla (90% or so, IIRC).
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Easy, kettles, toasters, ovens...... oh, you didn't mean that kind of power ;)
Either way though, those devices don't contain (non-safety) mechanisms that are designed to stop the machine from doing the job the customer bought it for.
A kettle with only 2 switches was more computationally useful than a PS3 with its x million switches a couple of days ago!
But seriously, stop apologising for the games industry. WRT consoles, they have very static platforms to publish on, and even though it might be quite new tech, it is their business decisions that lead to these scenarios, not some inherent property of technology.
Seriously?
That was exactly the kind of thing I thought!
Unfortunately the police, with the help of politicians, have thrown away any respect I may have once had for them. If the police came to my house, doing door to door enquiries, then I would not talk to them at all, and I most definitely would not invite them into my home.
The police have become servants of themselves, through the target systems that exist to gauge their performance. They do not respect the communities they police any more, and I think most police would actually laugh at you if you told them they are pubic servants.
ACAB.
At this point, if you are nasty fucking pig or a pig apologist, you set the box below to troll, overrated, offtopic, flamebait, or redundant.
To prove my point, this post will probably get modded down by someone who can't see the propaganda for what it is.
Starting Score: 1 point
Moderation -1
100% Overrated
Karma-Bonus Modifier +1 (Edit)
Total Score: 1
QED.
"not the average bobby on the beat"
And when was the last time you saw one of those?
In my area of North London it's weeks maybe even months between sightings.
It looks like my sibling posts have seen your anecdote, and raised you an anecdote to demonstrate how you are wrong.
It boils down to anecdote not being the singular of data.
But either way, I agree - there just aren't the police doing the beat like there used to be. I find that if you do see the police, it will be in places like town centres, or at public gatherings.... they are playing the PR game. Someone has probably worked out that more people will see the police working if the police appear in public in the same places where people appear in public, than if the police spend their time all over the place.
Oh, I do feel that if the police do go round the local area, it'll be in a car rather than on foot. At about the same rate that the beat done on foot seems to have dried up, the rate of Astras and Corsas crawling around, with glaring coppers inside, seems to have gone up!
Speeding is easy to police, and has lots of case law behind it, so is easy to get a conviction for. As the conviction is generally a fine, policing speed becomes self funding.
There are plenty of other things that occur on the roads, a lot more dangerous than speeding, that routinely gets over looked.
Like the enforcement of suitable distances between vehicles. Every single tail-ending that has ever occurred has happened because the car behind was too close. Whiplash accidents are routine in crashes like this (and nowadays so is just claiming whiplash, no matter what - meaning more expensive insurance all round. So you would be stupid not to claim whiplash if tail-ended, but I digress...).
If maintaining an appropriate gap between vehicles was enforced, then lane discipline would have to be too. But of course, this is starting to sound complicated and expensive. Best just stick to picking on people doing 65 in a 60, etc.!
If somehow a Scientology Party got into power in britain, then I'd start shitting myself about "1984"
Oh, they will be in, in May.
Cameron talks far too much about faith schools.
And prove my point that they'll be in and fucking the country up fast(er), this comment will probably get modded down!
A small proportion of installed cameras in the UK are monitored. Most of them are owned privately (in shops etc), and the recording is only looked at if something happens.
And a large segment of private cameras out there are connected to automatic numberplate recognition, and are networked into the state's numberplate tracking databases.
Petrol station forecourts, before you ask.
His point wasn't a gripe with the system of magistrates courts, it was that magistrates can basically make up rules, and if you break them, you go to prison (do not pass go, do not collect 200UKP).
Oh, and the evidence requirements for ASBOs are much lower than for traditional crimes. Hearsay is allowed in court for ASBO trials!
WTF is wrong with people? I can only find one catapult reference in this whole discussion, so far!
I for one will be popping into a fishing stuff shop and getting a catapult or 2 - I remember from being a kid that even the cheap ones are pretty effective. A catapult and a bag of ball bearings, stones, marbles, or nuts, will be pretty effective against these flying pieces of shit. (BBs and marbles are very effective against mounted police on the streets, too).
And failing that, an old microwave oven, modified, could probably make above my home into a no-fly-zone for these things. Or at least stop remote control, and leave the thing to just have to fly away autonomously.
Actually, I saved a the details of how to make a GPS jammer not so long ago, on the off chance it would come in useful in the future. I never thought that future would be so soon :(
There was a time when Astronauts were hailed as heros, now our generation views them as simple scientists in the ISS.
That was all propaganda.
Just like how soldiers who are killed in occupied Iraq and Afghanistan now are hailed as heroes today.
To prove my point, this post will probably get modded down by someone who can't see the propaganda for what it is.
Someone looking for food nicer than a maccys, most likely.
The oversimplification of the complexities of politics down to "being a liberal" or "being a conservative" plays into the hands of the ruling class.
It isn't that simple, and never can be. And by debating within those terms, it wastes time that could be used to discuss alternatives. Those alternatives are generally a threat to the status quo.
Damn, I've been shovelling my own version of insight onto this discussion, so I can't give you any slashdot insightrons. Someone mod the parent up, stat!
I like your analogy, "security theatre heckler". I wonder how well that'd go down printed on a t-shirt whilst at an airport? Bonus points for the writing in Arabic ;)
I just boils down to the fact that a one dimensional, or even binary, way of measuring political points of view does doesn't work.
Well, it works for one group: the American ruling class.
Whilst the electorate are busy slagging off the other side, the ruling class pretty much get all they want. They might have to bring things in slowly, or policies might need a few attempts at bringing in (lip service to democracy), but sooner or later they'll get their way.
Frankly this is no different to making a threat against someone's life or any other kind of threat that would entail crime.
But he didn't threaten anyone, unless you have the reading comprehension of a child and cannot see a joke when one is presented to you.... oh yeah, this is the same police that recently had to lower their testing pass mark as they weren't getting enough recruits. Looks like that policy's working!
The guy from TFA made the mistake of saying something that allowed the pigs to use powers that if they don't use, they might lose!
"Can't have that training be wasted" said police PR spokesman H. Himmler.
My car tyres are flat and I have go to the garage to blow them up. what should i do ?
Could be worse, for me it's just the left hand rear tire, aka LHR. Could you imagine how lazy pigs fishing for leads (on twitter, FFS[1]) would react to "I need to blow up the LHR"?
[1] "Yeah sarge, just found out about 'da bomb'. It's going down at chelle97's mum's flat this weekend. It was on that Al-Taliban site, myspace".
The ratio of immature e-mail addresses has dropped over the years, but the clueless still abound. I especially loved the one who gave me a link to his homepage which detailed how he was an ongoing target of the mkultra project, thanks for the heads up man.
Shit man, I was just trying to get a fuckin' job! :(
You should start smoking!
If the shop is so busy that customers are getting pissed off with the queues, then the shop should put on more staff. You attacking other customers for something that is a consequence of decisions the shop has made is misguided.
And besides, even if she has an expired coupon, they might still accept it. She won't know if she doesn't ask! Also bear in mind that for most of the life of your old shopper, the person taking the money could authorise things like taking a coupon, so it is quite reasonable that they ask. What they don't understand is all the modern nuances of working for a big corporation, i.e. the cover-your-ass that has to be played constantly, or stuff will get pinned on you so that the pinner can look good at their performance review.
Some shops are also flexible with coupons, so it is not unreasonable to expect people to knowingly try and use technically invalid coupons. Supermarkets will take money off coupons for a product even if you don't buy the product, so just collecting coupons can give you a discount even if you aren't a consumer a specific product.
Yeah, what a bitch. How dare she actually try and swing a deal to her favour?
In fact, she sounds like a McDonalds-burning anti-capitalist! Probably best if she's locked up.
I agree. Inch by inch, Britain sinks into the muck of totalitarianism. All for the common good.
I've found a method that shuts up those closet fascists who are willing to give away everyone's privacy etc. is to remind them that millions of people gave up their lives in the last century to protect the freedoms we have in the UK, and that what they are advocating is an insult to their memory.
It is utterly emotionally loaded, and even has a sub-text of war is good, meaning that authoritarians simply don't know what to say.
The most closed minded will still stick to their guns of censorship, submitting to authority, prohibition, etc., but it could work to change the views of a few.
Have a google for tips on how to speed things up. The latency will always be pretty huge, but you can do things like increase the number of connections your browser will make at once to a proxy and/or website, and pipelining can help too.
I Google via TOR, and those fucking "sorry, you look like a bot" pages are a real pain. The captcha never works for me, I think because I block cookies, scripts and referers, and one or more of them is needed for the captcha/search to work.
In the end I changed to using Scroogle SSL over TOR. If you are even slightly old skool when it comes to the internet, you will have used a modem. TOR is generally about as fast as a modem connection in the mid 90s. It works, you just gotta have a little patience. And be able to recognise when it's best to redial/rebuild the TOR circuit.
Wrong, the whole UI freezes up with this issue. This issue happens with both tabs and windows. It's been in FF for ages too, and was in Mozilla before that too, IIRC.
He's right about FF being great but having issues. I would go as far as saying it is great, but also shit at the same time.
It has some ongoing issues, but all the Mozilla Foundation seem to be doing is focussing on dumbing the browser down to attract IE users. I think this can be attributed to Google being the major funder of Mozilla (90% or so, IIRC).
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