True, but you're dependent on good signal strength and/or WiFi availability in order to use a web app, particularly if it's an iPod Touch you're using instead of an iPhone where it's WiFi or nothing.
It also fails to mention that the final decision on whether a licence is awarded does not fall to the police, but to the local council.
We spoke to the Police and to Islington Council. The Council were clear that this was not their policy: they would look at individual licence applications in the light of representations made to the Licensing Committee and decide on a case by case basis.
But how many people die in both a car accident and a swimming pool? That's a more interesting statistic.
Comparing gun deaths with swimming pool drowning is a bad analogy anyway, since drowning people is not a swimming pool's primary purpose. You should be comparing gun deaths with moat drowning. Does the constitution say anything about a citizen's right to bear a moat?
I generally agree with you, now that I'm in full-time employment and can afford such luxuries as a decently-sized HDTV, sound system and furniture.
Back when I was a student though, I had a 14" 4:3 TV, some admittedly quite powerful PC speakers, a cheap DVD player that made a grinding sound when it span the disc (plus a retina-destroying LED on the front that required some blu-tacking over), and some awful student-flat furniture.
The alternative was the local Vue cinema, with huge comfy seats instead of the fold-down monstrosities most cinemas have, and a student discount to take the edge off the price. And no blu-tack required. Incidentally, I've never seen a £15 cinema ticket, although admittedly I haven't been in a while. The last one I paid for was around £6 without a discount.
But a satellite, at least if it is not very far from the atmosphere, is pretty slow and would fall at speeds close to or even lower than terminal velocity.
A satellite that is not very far from the atmosphere is going to be moving pretty fast relative to a fixed point on the Earth's surface, either because of the velocity it needs in order to maintain its orbit, or because it's fallen (and continuing to fall) from a much higher (e.g. geostationary) orbit.
Also, you have to take into account that the upper atmosphere is much thinner than here at ground level, so terminal velocity will be much, much higher.
Of course, it's possible that a head-on collision could bring some material to a relative stop, but put it this way - I'd love to see the Euro-NCAP rating of anything that could experience that kind of head-on collision and still be a threat to anything on the ground.
an additional third don't understand it (a surprisingly small part)
Not counting, I'm presuming, the proportion who think they understand it, but in fact don't. Or those who have a rudimentary understanding only (let's face it, not everybody can be an evolutionary biologist).
My opinion is largely based on a television appearance in which he argued with a member of the public about the existence of a god. I believe he went as far as to flat out tell that person that they were wrong to believe in such a thing. Both his opinions and his attitude to those with viewpoints differing to his own have dissuaded me from reading his material.
I happen not to believe in a god myself, and normally I'd align myself quite happily with Dawkins. But science has nothing to say on the existence, or otherwise, of a god, and I found it disingenuous of Dawkins to imply otherwise.
Richard Dawkins is (IMHO) just as much a nutjob as those he preaches against. He's just as guilty as ID proponents of straying beyond science and into belief, and unfortunately he is very vocal about it.
Creationists in England (perhaps the whole of the UK?) are, I would hope, a minority, and not a particularly vocal minority. I'm not sure that one group's inability to articulate its message constitutes a democratic deficiency.
My region has switched over already (I think we're the only region to have done so). I'm on a relay where I live, and before the switchover I received very poor analogue TV and no OTA digital whatsoever. Now that the switchover has happened, the picture I receive is great, I've never seen it break up yet. We don't get the full set of channels, but it's a vast improvement on the previous analogue service.
I think picture quality is still better on Freesat than on Freeview though - the compression artefacts aren't so pronounced.
Is it just Apple keyboards, or all standard keyboards that you have problems with? It surprises me that you could have crippling pain with one keyboard, but no problems with another with different construction but the same basic layout.
I actually find Mac keyboards more comfortable to use, but not because of the hardware. OS X's use of the Command key rather than Ctrl for shortcuts means that I use my thumb and index/middle fingers for most shortcuts, as opposed to twisting my hand round in Windows/Linux to hit the Ctrl key with my pinkie.
But "Twitter phishing scam" is too clumsy a phrase. We need a new portmanteau. Twishing? Twitphishing? Something like that. Because this is far from the last we will see of this scam.
With other accounts I have online, I generally keep myself logged in using cookies. Being presented with a login prompt is such a rare thing that it can sometimes be an indication in itself of a phishing site.
Twitter seems to delete my cookie every time I log in from a different browser, and I'm so used to typing in my Twitter username and password without really thinking. I wouldn't be surprised if I got caught out.
True, but IIRC the location request on the iPhone Google Maps app times out long before a non-assisted GPS fix can be achieved.
And the point is moot anyway, until an application comes along with maps stored on the device, as opposed to being downloaded on the fly (the Google Maps app does cache its maps, but I wouldn't trust that caching with live-saving information).
Not necessarily. You're basing that argument on the idea that, if criminals have guns, then victims are going to need guns too. Turn that on its head - if victims don't have guns, then criminals don't need guns. Unlike in America, where if you're going to break into a house you absolutely need to be able to blow the occupants to hell before they do the same to you.
Sure, gun crime still happens, but it's usually criminals shooting at each other.
To be honest, I find the difference in picture quality between SD Freeview (DVB-T) and SD Freesat (DVB-S) to be greater than that between SD Freesat and HD Freesat.
That's comparing a Freeview tuner built into the TV, and a Freesat set-top box connected to the same TV via HDMI. The compression that is applied to Freeview makes a huge negative impact on the picture quality.
Any inmate caught with one gets n weeks/months added to their sentence... problem solved.
This is being proposed as a solution to the same problem in Scotland, from and article today. They're also looking at prison sentences for anybody caught smuggling in a phone or SIM card.
I think the best approach is to detect when a call is taking place, or even to detect the phones themselves. GCHQ operate this type of technology at their headquarters already, there's no reason why it couldn't be rolled out.
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True, but you're dependent on good signal strength and/or WiFi availability in order to use a web app, particularly if it's an iPod Touch you're using instead of an iPhone where it's WiFi or nothing.
It also fails to mention that the final decision on whether a licence is awarded does not fall to the police, but to the local council.
But how many people die in both a car accident and a swimming pool? That's a more interesting statistic.
Comparing gun deaths with swimming pool drowning is a bad analogy anyway, since drowning people is not a swimming pool's primary purpose. You should be comparing gun deaths with moat drowning. Does the constitution say anything about a citizen's right to bear a moat?
I generally agree with you, now that I'm in full-time employment and can afford such luxuries as a decently-sized HDTV, sound system and furniture.
Back when I was a student though, I had a 14" 4:3 TV, some admittedly quite powerful PC speakers, a cheap DVD player that made a grinding sound when it span the disc (plus a retina-destroying LED on the front that required some blu-tacking over), and some awful student-flat furniture.
The alternative was the local Vue cinema, with huge comfy seats instead of the fold-down monstrosities most cinemas have, and a student discount to take the edge off the price. And no blu-tack required. Incidentally, I've never seen a £15 cinema ticket, although admittedly I haven't been in a while. The last one I paid for was around £6 without a discount.
I take it what he meant was, "I have more friends on Facebook than some of these ISPs have customers".
A satellite that is not very far from the atmosphere is going to be moving pretty fast relative to a fixed point on the Earth's surface, either because of the velocity it needs in order to maintain its orbit, or because it's fallen (and continuing to fall) from a much higher (e.g. geostationary) orbit.
Also, you have to take into account that the upper atmosphere is much thinner than here at ground level, so terminal velocity will be much, much higher.
Of course, it's possible that a head-on collision could bring some material to a relative stop, but put it this way - I'd love to see the Euro-NCAP rating of anything that could experience that kind of head-on collision and still be a threat to anything on the ground.
India.
Along the lines of the European Working Time Directive?
Whether or not it causes more problems than it solves is debatable. The problems that it causes certainly get a lot of publicity.
Not counting, I'm presuming, the proportion who think they understand it, but in fact don't. Or those who have a rudimentary understanding only (let's face it, not everybody can be an evolutionary biologist).
My opinion is largely based on a television appearance in which he argued with a member of the public about the existence of a god. I believe he went as far as to flat out tell that person that they were wrong to believe in such a thing. Both his opinions and his attitude to those with viewpoints differing to his own have dissuaded me from reading his material.
I happen not to believe in a god myself, and normally I'd align myself quite happily with Dawkins. But science has nothing to say on the existence, or otherwise, of a god, and I found it disingenuous of Dawkins to imply otherwise.
Richard Dawkins is (IMHO) just as much a nutjob as those he preaches against. He's just as guilty as ID proponents of straying beyond science and into belief, and unfortunately he is very vocal about it.
Creationists in England (perhaps the whole of the UK?) are, I would hope, a minority, and not a particularly vocal minority. I'm not sure that one group's inability to articulate its message constitutes a democratic deficiency.
My region has switched over already (I think we're the only region to have done so). I'm on a relay where I live, and before the switchover I received very poor analogue TV and no OTA digital whatsoever. Now that the switchover has happened, the picture I receive is great, I've never seen it break up yet. We don't get the full set of channels, but it's a vast improvement on the previous analogue service.
I think picture quality is still better on Freesat than on Freeview though - the compression artefacts aren't so pronounced.
It's a good point actually. If the car had been a manual rather than an automatic, the kid would never have made it out of the driveway.
Thank god you still have your hair!
(...what on earth's that thing you're wearing?)
Is it just Apple keyboards, or all standard keyboards that you have problems with? It surprises me that you could have crippling pain with one keyboard, but no problems with another with different construction but the same basic layout.
I actually find Mac keyboards more comfortable to use, but not because of the hardware. OS X's use of the Command key rather than Ctrl for shortcuts means that I use my thumb and index/middle fingers for most shortcuts, as opposed to twisting my hand round in Windows/Linux to hit the Ctrl key with my pinkie.
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I vote for 'whaling', or possibly 'phailwhaling'.
With other accounts I have online, I generally keep myself logged in using cookies. Being presented with a login prompt is such a rare thing that it can sometimes be an indication in itself of a phishing site.
Twitter seems to delete my cookie every time I log in from a different browser, and I'm so used to typing in my Twitter username and password without really thinking. I wouldn't be surprised if I got caught out.
No, you don't.
Is that how Gordon Brown did it, by turning off his PC?
Old news, this has already been fixed.
True, but IIRC the location request on the iPhone Google Maps app times out long before a non-assisted GPS fix can be achieved.
And the point is moot anyway, until an application comes along with maps stored on the device, as opposed to being downloaded on the fly (the Google Maps app does cache its maps, but I wouldn't trust that caching with live-saving information).
Not necessarily. You're basing that argument on the idea that, if criminals have guns, then victims are going to need guns too. Turn that on its head - if victims don't have guns, then criminals don't need guns. Unlike in America, where if you're going to break into a house you absolutely need to be able to blow the occupants to hell before they do the same to you.
Sure, gun crime still happens, but it's usually criminals shooting at each other.
To be honest, I find the difference in picture quality between SD Freeview (DVB-T) and SD Freesat (DVB-S) to be greater than that between SD Freesat and HD Freesat.
That's comparing a Freeview tuner built into the TV, and a Freesat set-top box connected to the same TV via HDMI. The compression that is applied to Freeview makes a huge negative impact on the picture quality.
This is being proposed as a solution to the same problem in Scotland, from and article today. They're also looking at prison sentences for anybody caught smuggling in a phone or SIM card.
I think the best approach is to detect when a call is taking place, or even to detect the phones themselves. GCHQ operate this type of technology at their headquarters already, there's no reason why it couldn't be rolled out.
Not to mention making for some great TV.