Re:This is news? (Score:4, Interesting)
by Fulcrum of Evil (560260) Alter Relationship on Tuesday September 23, @12:58AM (#25115937)
Hey, if I had a sister, I'd be okay with kissing her - closed mouth, though (I'm not a perv).
You got the evidence to back up your claims of crime in England dropping?[sic]
He's actually right on this matter. "Does he got the evidence?" No, but the Home Office do. I've provided instructions for finding the dox below, as well as an executive summary. All incidents of violent crime are dropping, and the only category of crime which has shown an increase is "Drug offences" which showed an 18% increase between 06/07 and 07/08.
Police recorded crime down 9% to 5.0 million crimes
BCS Violent Crime down 12%
Police recorded "Violence against the person" down 8%
Police recorded "Most serious violence against the person" down 12%
Police recorded robbery down 16%
Police recorded Domestic burglary down 4%
Page 20:
Graphs showing number of incidents, as measured by the British Crime Survey, lowest they've ever been since the introduction of the BCS in 1981.
Still on page 20, the percentage change in offences 1995-2007:
Vandalism: Down 20%
Domestic Burglary: Down 59%
Vehicle-related theft: Down 66%
Other household theft: Down 53%
Bicycle theft: Down 34%
Theft from the person: Down 15%
Other theft of personal property: Down 53%
All BCS violence: Down 48%
All BCS Crime: Down 48%
Page 23:
Weapons were used in a quarter (24%) of BCS violent crimes (this figure has been stable over the past decade); hitting implements were used in 7%, knives in 6%, glasses/bottles in 4% and firearms in 1% of incidents.
As for Obama's voting record on gun-control issues, I have no interest in discussing it, but this appears to be a useful link for anyone who wants to know more:
Senator Barack Hussein Obama Jr. (IL)'s track record.
Maybe because some of us aren't fucking retards. And compared to learning a musical instrument or making fine cabinetry with hand tools, not at all difficult.
"Why learn a new GUI?" when did Slashdot become Yahoo groups... *mumbles* damn kids on my lawn again.
There, fixed that for you. Doesn't pay to be diplomatic in this situation old-timer;) Evidently he didn't mind making the transition from Yahoo groups to Slashdot. EVEN THOUGH HE HAD TO LEARN A WHOLE NEW WEBSITE!
AC sucketh at logic. Every day thousands die in Africa from malnutrition, so should solving the problem of poverty in the US be abandoned?
The cost of text messaging is vastly disproportionate to the actual data transfer that takes place. VASTLY. If you paid the same amount for data transfer on your internet connection you would be shitting blood and blowing steam out of your ears instead of saying "Who cares.[sic]".
Solving the problem of over-priced text-messaging is as simple as changing a variable or a few in the billing systems of the main carriers, no doubt.
Even during an economic downturn, there are people who text-message. Lowering the cost of that text-messaging means they have more money to put into buying clothes or butter or cars or computer games or any actual goods that drive the economy rather than spending arbitrarily inflated amounts to the major mobile carriers.
Repeat after me: "THIS IS NOT A ZERO-SUM GAME!". Just because one Senator writes a letter on the subject of cell-phone company gouging, doesn't mean he can't also fight on any of those issues that you deem more important. It also doesn't mean that other Senators can't fight for those other issues. Or are you implying that all Senators are in collusion and fighting only for lower text-messaging costs?
No wonder America is eating itself if they allow people like the parent to vote...
When they say Ten Meeellion Dollars(tm), what they really mean is One Meeellion Dollars, if they didn't hire Highly Paid Consultants.
And when it comes down to it, it's normally money that they should have spent IN THE FIRST PLACE!
If I secured my front door with string and someone came along and cut it to get in and stole all my stuff...what should I do? Call the insurance company and say I'd like the cost of all my stolen goods PLUS someone to come in and tidy up at a rate 10 times what I pay my regular cleaner PLUS the cost of installing new locks throughout my house PLUS an alarm system with PIR detectors? And should the media report my extremely ridiculous perspective instead of ridiculing my lack of security?
Because a single British nutjob ex-sys-admin who believed in UFOs had the where-with-all to outfox the security systems and, by extension, the sys-admins of 97 US Armed Forces/Defence computers? It's funny because our fruitcakes are more competent than their best-and-brightest;)
Of course, it's also funny that this British nutjob was completely pwned by a crack team of US lawyers who will probably send him to a Federal PMITA Prison. I just hope they have the decency to dress up as little grey men for the probing...
Right idea, but you're doin' it wrong. Bravo for the car analogy though:)
You should have said:
If you secure your car doors with duct tape and string and someone steals your car without your knowledge, runs someone down, leaves no evidence in or on the car and parks it back outside your house, you're not liable.Why should it be different in this case?
I think the answer is, "There is no difference". You're not "liable" in either case, but you'll have to try pretty hard to make anyone but your mother believe you.
On Slashdot, I can mention cocks and cunts or even fucking assholes, why can't I do it on Facebook?
Total shit-eating-pigfuckers, I say.
There, fixed that for you.
On Tue, 13 May 2008 ******* wrote:
I try to live a good clean life by learning all I can and nurturing my body and spirit. I'm afraid that I will not be able to become part of your community as I find it sick. Sick in mind body and soul. Why your people deem it necessary to use the language that they do I can never understand. Women, children and people of faith will never be able to learn what you have to impart because of the filth you are tending in this rank garden. Please stop sending me email.
How awesome! I actually noticed the other day while over at the FSF website that a "Stephen Fry" was a major contributor/patron and had my suspicions it was him. Not long ago I watched an engaging speech he delivered on the BBC Parliament channel where one of the topics he discussed was technology and the media. To paraphrase: "If I can view something on my computer I can rip it, encode it and bittorrent it". It was the kind of talk that I imagine has Mark Thompson waking in cold sweats..
All fawning and starry-eyed admiration aside, as an advocate for the cause of software Freedom, you could not wish for a more amenable or erudite man. Legend.
Perhaps this was meant to be modded funny, but...there's no reason why a POS system shouldn't run on Windows. Insecure programming you say? Because that never happens on GNU/Linux systems? Hah!
The problem is, what the article suggests, that business owners are able to circumvent the security on the POS terminals THAT THEY OWN, is in no way OS specific. If you have physical access to the system, you can fudge numbers however you like. This is no different to a restaurant owner having two physical paper ledgers, keeping one legit for the Revenue, and one for his own records. Or swapping out receipt rolls, or having two dumb, hardware only tills that are separate...or...or...
Maybe the windows angle is relevant because an Access or SQL Server DB is that much easier to open up in a visual editor...whereas a Pick/D3/Reality database on GNU/Linux or Unix requires a certain degree of masochism to manipulate...:)
Windows has recently come to the fore, as it's what people know I guess. I've seen EPOS terminals running Windows, Linux and also XTerms pointed at Unix back-ends and I only worked in the EPOS world for about a year, and not that long ago. When I was in school, I worked at a major chain of chemists in the UK that was recently subject to a private takeover. When I worked there, they had a Unix backend and dumb IBM POS terminals. They still have the same UNIX backend, even though most POS terminals are running some variation of Windows as far as I can work out from my GF who still works there:)
- An intro to the game = not cutscene
- An intro-warning about how much time you should spend outside = not cutscene
- A necessary pause in play while loading takes place (e.g. opening door in Res. Evil) = not cutscene.
When Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield take time out from killing zombies to rehash their pasts, or to explain in extremely earnest tones that they must press on and find the jade mannequin so they can escape the rhododendron maze and capture the sequined badger...NOW THAT = CUTSCENE!
Cutscenes yes, but never un-skippable cutscenes, never. Better hope I never find out where you live if you're the man who rubber-stamps an un-skippable cutscene in a game I play. Case in point...Resident Evil. I've played several of the games in the series more than once. In fact all of them reward you with enhanced gear for your next play-through when you beat certain time-limits or what have you. So, on the second or third time through a game, when all I'm trying to do is waste zombies and solve puzzles in the most efficient manner possible, if I'd been forced to sit through cutscene after cutscene, then I would have been plucking eyeballs.
Cutscenes are great and they can be awesome, but unless there's something in there that is absolutely essential to my progress, there is no way I should be forced to watch it. The one time I could forgive an un-skippable cutscene would be if it was only un-skippable on the first run through, and then allowed skipping on subsequent attempts/runs through...
Banks, as a semi-preemptive attempt to protect your funds will use information gathered about your previous transactions and if some transaction is extremely anomalous, they will put a block on the card. This happened to my brother when he went to Hong Kong. HSBC stopped his card because it was unusual for cash withdrawals to be made from his card in Hong Kong. I've heard stories of other false positives but I've also spoken to people who've had their bank call them to check whether a transaction is legitimate which has turned out to be fraudulent...
My bank allows downloading of CSV files containing transaction data for my accounts, so stuffing it in a database is trivial. Does anyone know of a project that does something like this, learning what's normal over a period of time, then flagging transactions that may be suspect?
France... Generally speaking, they are hard to work with, arrogant, very very arrogant people.
This is just another datapoint, but my experience has been the exact opposite. The French guys , Parisians, I've worked with within the global company I work for, have been, to a man, great to work with. They all speak English, most are damn near fluent, and were not arrogant at all. Perhaps I've been spoiled though.. Also, I don't know whether this is common or not within France, but at least within my company, they get 40 days a year holiday.
To OP: For an English-speaker, looking to see Europe, the UK is a very good base. My fiancee is from New Zealand and came here to save Sterling and travel around Europe. Of her friends that have come here, most gravitate toward London because it's cosmopolitan, close to major airports, relatively close to the south-coast and there's always a community of ex-pats to hook up with. My fiancee and I actually live in the town I grew up in, about 40-50 minutes, by train, south of London, which is great, because we've been able to afford to buy a place, but at the same time is convenient to get into the city. Living in London is very expensive, and there's so much going on that you may find yourself going out nearly every night of the week. Depending on your priorities, you may find living outside the city a better option...or not:)
Um, they speak English in India. At least, it's relatively common there compared to other parts of Asia (comes with the former-English-colony territory).
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+4 Interesting..hahahaha. Oh wow.
So we've established you're not subscribed to the LKML...
He's actually right on this matter. "Does he got the evidence?" No, but the Home Office do. I've provided instructions for finding the dox below, as well as an executive summary. All incidents of violent crime are dropping, and the only category of crime which has shown an increase is "Drug offences" which showed an 18% increase between 06/07 and 07/08.
Page 19, Comparison 2006/7 to 2007/8:
Page 20: Graphs showing number of incidents, as measured by the British Crime Survey, lowest they've ever been since the introduction of the BCS in 1981.
Still on page 20, the percentage change in offences 1995-2007:
Page 23:
As for Obama's voting record on gun-control issues, I have no interest in discussing it, but this appears to be a useful link for anyone who wants to know more: Senator Barack Hussein Obama Jr. (IL)'s track record.
- Goldie Lookin' Chain
Good. It's not just me then! MOAR please!
There, fixed that for you. Doesn't pay to be diplomatic in this situation old-timer ;) Evidently he didn't mind making the transition from Yahoo groups to Slashdot. EVEN THOUGH HE HAD TO LEARN A WHOLE NEW WEBSITE!
AC sucketh at logic. Every day thousands die in Africa from malnutrition, so should solving the problem of poverty in the US be abandoned?
The cost of text messaging is vastly disproportionate to the actual data transfer that takes place. VASTLY. If you paid the same amount for data transfer on your internet connection you would be shitting blood and blowing steam out of your ears instead of saying "Who cares.[sic]".
Solving the problem of over-priced text-messaging is as simple as changing a variable or a few in the billing systems of the main carriers, no doubt.
Even during an economic downturn, there are people who text-message. Lowering the cost of that text-messaging means they have more money to put into buying clothes or butter or cars or computer games or any actual goods that drive the economy rather than spending arbitrarily inflated amounts to the major mobile carriers.
Repeat after me: "THIS IS NOT A ZERO-SUM GAME!". Just because one Senator writes a letter on the subject of cell-phone company gouging, doesn't mean he can't also fight on any of those issues that you deem more important. It also doesn't mean that other Senators can't fight for those other issues. Or are you implying that all Senators are in collusion and fighting only for lower text-messaging costs?
No wonder America is eating itself if they allow people like the parent to vote...
When they say Ten Meeellion Dollars(tm), what they really mean is One Meeellion Dollars, if they didn't hire Highly Paid Consultants.
And when it comes down to it, it's normally money that they should have spent IN THE FIRST PLACE!
If I secured my front door with string and someone came along and cut it to get in and stole all my stuff...what should I do? Call the insurance company and say I'd like the cost of all my stolen goods PLUS someone to come in and tidy up at a rate 10 times what I pay my regular cleaner PLUS the cost of installing new locks throughout my house PLUS an alarm system with PIR detectors? And should the media report my extremely ridiculous perspective instead of ridiculing my lack of security?
The answer to both is no....
Prrfffft...I wrote the program that takes those files and submits them as articles to Slashdot ;)
That was bold. And exciting.
Because a single British nutjob ex-sys-admin who believed in UFOs had the where-with-all to outfox the security systems and, by extension, the sys-admins of 97 US Armed Forces/Defence computers? It's funny because our fruitcakes are more competent than their best-and-brightest ;)
Of course, it's also funny that this British nutjob was completely pwned by a crack team of US lawyers who will probably send him to a Federal PMITA Prison. I just hope they have the decency to dress up as little grey men for the probing...
Right idea, but you're doin' it wrong. Bravo for the car analogy though :)
You should have said:
If you secure your car doors with duct tape and string and someone steals your car without your knowledge, runs someone down, leaves no evidence in or on the car and parks it back outside your house, you're not liable.Why should it be different in this case?
I think the answer is, "There is no difference". You're not "liable" in either case, but you'll have to try pretty hard to make anyone but your mother believe you.
This is why we can't have nice things
How awesome! I actually noticed the other day while over at the FSF website that a "Stephen Fry" was a major contributor/patron and had my suspicions it was him. Not long ago I watched an engaging speech he delivered on the BBC Parliament channel where one of the topics he discussed was technology and the media. To paraphrase: "If I can view something on my computer I can rip it, encode it and bittorrent it". It was the kind of talk that I imagine has Mark Thompson waking in cold sweats..
All fawning and starry-eyed admiration aside, as an advocate for the cause of software Freedom, you could not wish for a more amenable or erudite man. Legend.
Perhaps this was meant to be modded funny, but...there's no reason why a POS system shouldn't run on Windows. Insecure programming you say? Because that never happens on GNU/Linux systems? Hah!
:)
The problem is, what the article suggests, that business owners are able to circumvent the security on the POS terminals THAT THEY OWN, is in no way OS specific. If you have physical access to the system, you can fudge numbers however you like. This is no different to a restaurant owner having two physical paper ledgers, keeping one legit for the Revenue, and one for his own records. Or swapping out receipt rolls, or having two dumb, hardware only tills that are separate...or...or...
Maybe the windows angle is relevant because an Access or SQL Server DB is that much easier to open up in a visual editor...whereas a Pick/D3/Reality database on GNU/Linux or Unix requires a certain degree of masochism to manipulate...
YOU SICK INDIVIDUAL!!
And don't call me Island!
Windows has recently come to the fore, as it's what people know I guess. I've seen EPOS terminals running Windows, Linux and also XTerms pointed at Unix back-ends and I only worked in the EPOS world for about a year, and not that long ago. When I was in school, I worked at a major chain of chemists in the UK that was recently subject to a private takeover. When I worked there, they had a Unix backend and dumb IBM POS terminals. They still have the same UNIX backend, even though most POS terminals are running some variation of Windows as far as I can work out from my GF who still works there :)
GP: What parent said, threefold, you nincompoop.
- An intro to the game = not cutscene
- An intro-warning about how much time you should spend outside = not cutscene
- A necessary pause in play while loading takes place (e.g. opening door in Res. Evil) = not cutscene.
When Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield take time out from killing zombies to rehash their pasts, or to explain in extremely earnest tones that they must press on and find the jade mannequin so they can escape the rhododendron maze and capture the sequined badger...NOW THAT = CUTSCENE!
Cutscenes yes, but never un-skippable cutscenes, never. Better hope I never find out where you live if you're the man who rubber-stamps an un-skippable cutscene in a game I play. Case in point...Resident Evil. I've played several of the games in the series more than once. In fact all of them reward you with enhanced gear for your next play-through when you beat certain time-limits or what have you. So, on the second or third time through a game, when all I'm trying to do is waste zombies and solve puzzles in the most efficient manner possible, if I'd been forced to sit through cutscene after cutscene, then I would have been plucking eyeballs.
Cutscenes are great and they can be awesome, but unless there's something in there that is absolutely essential to my progress, there is no way I should be forced to watch it. The one time I could forgive an un-skippable cutscene would be if it was only un-skippable on the first run through, and then allowed skipping on subsequent attempts/runs through...
Banks, as a semi-preemptive attempt to protect your funds will use information gathered about your previous transactions and if some transaction is extremely anomalous, they will put a block on the card. This happened to my brother when he went to Hong Kong. HSBC stopped his card because it was unusual for cash withdrawals to be made from his card in Hong Kong. I've heard stories of other false positives but I've also spoken to people who've had their bank call them to check whether a transaction is legitimate which has turned out to be fraudulent...
My bank allows downloading of CSV files containing transaction data for my accounts, so stuffing it in a database is trivial. Does anyone know of a project that does something like this, learning what's normal over a period of time, then flagging transactions that may be suspect?
This is just another datapoint, but my experience has been the exact opposite. The French guys , Parisians, I've worked with within the global company I work for, have been, to a man, great to work with. They all speak English, most are damn near fluent, and were not arrogant at all. Perhaps I've been spoiled though.. Also, I don't know whether this is common or not within France, but at least within my company, they get 40 days a year holiday.
:)
To OP: For an English-speaker, looking to see Europe, the UK is a very good base. My fiancee is from New Zealand and came here to save Sterling and travel around Europe. Of her friends that have come here, most gravitate toward London because it's cosmopolitan, close to major airports, relatively close to the south-coast and there's always a community of ex-pats to hook up with. My fiancee and I actually live in the town I grew up in, about 40-50 minutes, by train, south of London, which is great, because we've been able to afford to buy a place, but at the same time is convenient to get into the city. Living in London is very expensive, and there's so much going on that you may find yourself going out nearly every night of the week. Depending on your priorities, you may find living outside the city a better option...or not
So that was a Tier 3 post?
Pursuant to the Livingstone (abridged) annexation corollary:
Gospel Oak
So why can't Americans speak English? ;)