If they press the case now, he can't be tried again if they find the body and it turns out he did it.
Ah, yes, Double Jeopardy. I bet he's glad that he's not in England:
the Criminal Justice Act 2003 [5], introduced by then Home Secretary David Blunkett. Under the 2003 Act, retrials are now allowed if there is "new" and "compelling" evidence for crimes, including murder, but also manslaughter, kidnapping, rape, armed robbery, and serious drug crimes. All cases must be approved by the Director of Public Prosecutions, and the Court Of Appeal must agree to quash the original acquittal.
We have Chip & Pin here in the UK and it was touted as the latest, greatest way to stop fraudulent transactions. It's not. All it means is that now I can use my girlfriend's card directly at the supermarket without having to go to the ATM first and then pay cash.
"But don't they check the name on the card???"
Ha! In 99% of cases, it's the customer who puts the card into the chip and pin machine.
It also doesn't account for all those retards who keep their pin written on a piece of paper in their wallet, fools. I just use CowboyNeal's luggage combination.
I knew final year students who couldn't program their way out of a paper bag, and 1st year students who could break someone's arm from 6ft away with a regex. I know what you're trying to say though, however I don't see that it matters. Joe Blow, just joining an open source project probably wouldn't have commit access to the source code repository and would be submitting patches to someone already on the team surely? If the quality wasn't satisfactory, then they'd be given direction (hopefully) to improve it. If the quality was good enough then..score!
His point, as I understood it, was that, with exposure to Free and Open Source software during their school years, they would gain:
Familiarity with the problem domain through using the software
Familiarity with the open source development model e.g. submitting bug reports, mailing lists
Something the GP missed: even those students who don't grow up to be programmers will be able to submit bug reports, suggest improvements, interact with project members better than students whose only experiences are with proprietary software.
Yeah, how's that working out for us again?
So the handgun ban was introduced in 1997.
"The number of crimes in which a handgun was reported increased from 2,648 in 1997/98 to 3,685 in 1999/2000."
"Gun crime is contributing to a higher number of murders in key areas, even though the national rate of killings this year has fallen. The rate in Scotland has jumped by 20 per cent."
"There has been a 3% climb in gun crime, following a 2% rise the previous year, the figures show."
"GUN crime has almost trebled in London during the past year and is soaring in other British cities, according to Home Office figures"
Since 1998 number of people injured by firearms in England and Wales has more than doubled[24] from 2,378 in 1998/99 to 4,001 in 2005/06. "Injury" in this context means by being fired, used a blunt instrument, or as a threat. In 2005/06, 87% of such injuries were defined as "slight," which includes the use of firearms as a threat only. The number of homicides committed with firearms has remained between a range of 46 and 97 for the past decade, standing at 50 in 2005/06 (a fall from 75 the previous year). Between 1998/99 and 2005/06, there have been only two fatal shootings of police officers in England and Wales. Over the same period there were 107 non-fatal shootings of police officers - an average of just 9.7 per year.[25](PDF - Page 36)
Scotland Yard blamed the rise in gun crime not only on the fact that criminals, some as young as 16, are now more willing than ever to settle "trivial disputes" with a gun, but also on the belief that carrying firearms was fashionable..
So, much like the ban on fox hunting ban that Blair's government has rushed and pushed and forced upon us, it has been completely ineffectual. This comes from someone who has never really felt the desire to own a handgun or hunt foxes with dogs but who knows a colossal screw up when he sees it. I look forward to the abortion that is the NHS's new computer system and the complete and utter failure of the proposed ID card, I'm never really happy until my taxes are being spent on things that will never ever work!
Now Windows will have 200 distributions with subtle changes between them.
Errr.. Windows Vista Windows Vista Home Basic (and Home Basic N) - A simple version of Windows Vista that is aimed at single PC homes. Windows Vista Home Premium - Whole home entertainment and personal productivity throughout the home and on the go. Windows Vista Business (and Business N) - Previously Windows Vista Professional Edition, Windows Vista Business is roughly analogous to XP Pro today. Windows Vista Enterprise - Optimized for the enterprise, this version will be a true superset of Windows Vista Pro Edition. Windows Vista Ultimate - "The best operating system ever offered for a personal PC," optimized for the individual.
Ummm...no similar museum exists in Australia that I'm aware of.
That there is a market for this kind of "museum" is a consequence of American society/education surely?
(The Real WTF is that in a country that treats it's occupants as minors until they're 21, the watershed for adult admission fees to the museum is 13 :/)
Cost of RFID tags + Cost of multiple WAPs for triangulation + Cost of software to provide access to information + cost of salaried employee to watch over software
Talk about using a sledgehammer to crack a kitten..
This "sold-out" malarkey is alien to me, I pre-ordered mine in October, and picked it up 2/3 days after launch and have been enjoying it ever since (with a brief hiatus due to a bad back..:)
Are there any U.K.-ians who are having trouble getting hold of a Wii? Or is it just in the US? I know there were shortages here shortly after launch, but is it still a problem?
Now all we need is an AI to watch them while they play, an AI to walk them to school, an AI to clothe and feed them and we'll be home and dry!!
AI 1 - Tiresome Parenting 0 !
Webmail isn't particularly new, but the same benefits that applied back in the day, apply now. If I hadn't had access to Gmail last year when I travelled to New Zealand with my girlfriend I wouldn't have been able to respond to the offer for the job I'm now in. Nor would I have been able to use GDrive as a temporary store for all our photographs, thereby saving our skin when a dodgy digital -> CD service left us with a weeks worth of photos corrupted.
For those people who only ever work/access e-mail from the same computer, you're right, but I don't think these people make up as large a majority as you think.
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We have Chip & Pin here in the UK and it was touted as the latest, greatest way to stop fraudulent transactions. It's not. All it means is that now I can use my girlfriend's card directly at the supermarket without having to go to the ATM first and then pay cash.
"But don't they check the name on the card???"
Ha! In 99% of cases, it's the customer who puts the card into the chip and pin machine.
It also doesn't account for all those retards who keep their pin written on a piece of paper in their wallet, fools. I just use CowboyNeal's luggage combination.
Duh...he just said bandwidth was expensive.
His point, as I understood it, was that, with exposure to Free and Open Source software during their school years, they would gain:
- Familiarity with the problem domain through using the software
- Familiarity with the open source development model e.g. submitting bug reports, mailing lists
Something the GP missed: even those students who don't grow up to be programmers will be able to submit bug reports, suggest improvements, interact with project members better than students whose only experiences are with proprietary software.So the handgun ban was introduced in 1997.
"The number of crimes in which a handgun was reported increased from 2,648 in 1997/98 to 3,685 in 1999/2000."
"Gun crime is contributing to a higher number of murders in key areas, even though the national rate of killings this year has fallen. The rate in Scotland has jumped by 20 per cent."
"There has been a 3% climb in gun crime, following a 2% rise the previous year, the figures show."
"GUN crime has almost trebled in London during the past year and is soaring in other British cities, according to Home Office figures"
Source: Wikipedia
Scotland Yard blamed the rise in gun crime not only on the fact that criminals, some as young as 16, are now more willing than ever to settle "trivial disputes" with a gun, but also on the belief that carrying firearms was fashionable..
So, much like the ban on fox hunting ban that Blair's government has rushed and pushed and forced upon us, it has been completely ineffectual. This comes from someone who has never really felt the desire to own a handgun or hunt foxes with dogs but who knows a colossal screw up when he sees it. I look forward to the abortion that is the NHS's new computer system and the complete and utter failure of the proposed ID card, I'm never really happy until my taxes are being spent on things that will never ever work!
Windows Vista
Windows Vista Home Basic (and Home Basic N) - A simple version of Windows Vista that is aimed at single PC homes.
Windows Vista Home Premium - Whole home entertainment and personal productivity throughout the home and on the go.
Windows Vista Business (and Business N) - Previously Windows Vista Professional Edition, Windows Vista Business is roughly analogous to XP Pro today.
Windows Vista Enterprise - Optimized for the enterprise, this version will be a true superset of Windows Vista Pro Edition.
Windows Vista Ultimate - "The best operating system ever offered for a personal PC," optimized for the individual.
Ummm...no similar museum exists in Australia that I'm aware of.
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That there is a market for this kind of "museum" is a consequence of American society/education surely?
(The Real WTF is that in a country that treats it's occupants as minors until they're 21, the watershed for adult admission fees to the museum is 13 :
God: I was looking at those! : /
Why not just put a lock on utility closets?
(forgot to use < in place of < )
Cost of RFID tags + Cost of multiple WAPs for triangulation + Cost of software to provide access to information + cost of salaried employee to watch over software
Talk about using a sledgehammer to crack a kitten..
No sarcasm here. What operating system do you use that wasn't written in C?
IHBT
Hell, I can get you a pair of eye balls by 3 o'clock this afternoon. With nail polish.
In this case, "infrastructure technology" doesn't seem so assinine. Services like BIND, Sendmail, httpd, IIS are pretty much What the Web Runs On(tm).
Your post is modded as funny, but I wasn't sure whether your question was serious or not...
Oral...ETYMOLOGY: 17c: from Latin oralis, from os, oris mouth
You wrote emacs? ;)
This "sold-out" malarkey is alien to me, I pre-ordered mine in October, and picked it up 2/3 days after launch and have been enjoying it ever since (with a brief hiatus due to a bad back..:)
Are there any U.K.-ians who are having trouble getting hold of a Wii? Or is it just in the US? I know there were shortages here shortly after launch, but is it still a problem?
adamofgreyskull's corollary to Arthur C. Clarke's 3rd Law of Prediction:
Any significantly advanced perl regexp is indistinguishable from AI.
- pick the locks
- plug the machine in
- hack the bios password
- boot up LiveCD
- open browser
- negate filtering software/firewall rules
- Do the wild thing with Madame Palm and her Five lovely daughters
- pull his pants/trousers up
- close the browser
- power down the machine
- remove the power cable
- lock the machine back up
is longer than the time he is left alone in the house, problem solved!You lost us when you suggested we *shouldn't* be afraid of sex.
Oh, wait. They are.
Now all we need is an AI to watch them while they play, an AI to walk them to school, an AI to clothe and feed them and we'll be home and dry!!
AI 1 - Tiresome Parenting 0 !
Webmail isn't particularly new, but the same benefits that applied back in the day, apply now. If I hadn't had access to Gmail last year when I travelled to New Zealand with my girlfriend I wouldn't have been able to respond to the offer for the job I'm now in. Nor would I have been able to use GDrive as a temporary store for all our photographs, thereby saving our skin when a dodgy digital -> CD service left us with a weeks worth of photos corrupted.
For those people who only ever work/access e-mail from the same computer, you're right, but I don't think these people make up as large a majority as you think.
It's pronounce nukular. Nukular.