A whole bunch of companies make split keyboards that can answer your question.
The 'B' key is as close to centred as makes no difference, and I always use my right index finger to press it. I could never get to grips with split keyboards for this reason.
But no one will care, because, despite all of the horror stories of their friends' favorite storage sites going under and losing all their data, people will think, "It won't happen to me!".
Hard drives are failure-prone too. In many ways they're more failure-prone than a web service (you can't drop a web service down the stairs, or run a magnet over it). Fact is, backups are an absolute must for businesses, rarely if ever performed by consumers, and I don't expect that to change in a thin client world.
I'd say that the vast majority of your post doesn't apply to the London transport system. I've visited a couple of times this year and was amazed by how efficient and useful it was. Everything seemed to be within walking distance of a Tube or DLR station.
Compare with Glasgow where the subway has never, ever been expanded from the single circle line, which doesn't really go anywhere now that the shipbuilding areas have collapsed. They've been talking about extending it for a while now but nothing seems to be happening. And then there's Edinburgh... they're building a tram line, but whether there'll be the money or enthusiasm to build beyond the initial plans I don't know.
Station staff who could once help you have been sacked and replaced with machines and ticket barriers.
This made me chuckle. Those ticket machines are a godsend, it used to be that a lot of stations didn't have them, and the ticket office was closed 24 hours a day (Fife Circle I'm looking at you). Sometimes the ticket inspector would fail to make an appearance on the train too. In Edinburgh Waverley they have a ticket office on the train side of the barriers, so that you could buy a ticket just to pass the barriers.
If you're at all concerned about the Feds being able to locate you while you're using your phone, then a landline is probably not what you should be using.
It's a very, very small part of the modern notion of what privacy means, and it doesn't actually address the current topic. Is your current location considered a piece of private information? The fourth amendment makes no such claim.
From actually reading the text, you could make the case that the intent of the amendment was to prevent undue inconvenience, harassment, and the general inability of a person to go about their business due to searches and seizures, which at the time of writing would have been manual and laborious, and in the case of documents would have required seizure, where today copying would be sufficient. This is a far cry from modern surveillance, where the target may not even be aware of such activity.
And anyway, if I'm not mistaken, the US constitution only covers government activity. You need separate laws to cover the actions of private entities. I don't know if these exist (I'm neither American nor a lawyer).
The summary says 'video-capable cellphone'. Sounds like a good time to buy a nice video-incapable iPhone. Well, it would be if he didn't have a $1.5k fine to pay.
That's fine, but what about when you reach the end of the process and the atoms/molecules start to cool down? Unless you separate them out, they're going to start to react.
The Netherlands aren't build on coral. If what I remember about the experiences on Tuvalu during the king tide are true, the high water doesn't just lap at the shore, it seeps through the coral and saturates the entire island.
Any wall you build would have to be deep enough to reach the bottom of the coral, unless you plan on the wall itself being the only thing above sea level.
I'd love it if the Sony Ericsson watches actually showed text messages rather than just notifying you when one had arrived. They could be really cool devices but as it is they look like a bit of a missed opportunity.
Back when I was with T-Mobile (UK), they would send you a text message whenever you received a voicemail, telling you who had left it. Of course, you had to pay to phone up and find out if there was actually any content to the message, or if it was just 1 second of silence.
I'm pretty sure I would love visual voicemail if anybody actually used (non-business) voicemail any more.
I'd hope someone from Ireland would be capable of making that distinction.
With the disclaimer "I'm both Irish and work for the EU Commission," reader VShael writes
Although it's entirely possible that VShael has been watching too much American TV. I believe that probable cause, even if it exists elsewhere, is only actually called 'probable cause' in the US.
I once heard a quote that sums this up; 'Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom is an armed sheep contesting the issue'
It's a stupid quote. If the sheep is armed then it's logical to assume that the wolves are too, which does nothing but address the issue of how the meal is killed before it is eaten.
That is unless you have a suicide sheep, willing to attempt to drive into an airport in a Jeep full of explosives, to try and kill innocent wolves leaving on holiday.
I'd be a little annoyed if that 'invitation to participate' turned into a giant 'fuck you' if my vote was changed from one side to the other by my winner-takes-all state.
I'm not American, so I can complain as much as I want;) But I have the same issue with the use of first-past-the-post elections in the UK, to the point where I'm not sure it's worth my while voting come 2010.
As with the removal of the alt.binary newsgroups, this is being promoted under the guise of preventing child porn. The privacy implications of this tool are staggering.
Aren't both sides using the same argument here? "[Newsgroups|new tool] can be used for [child porn|privacy invasion], therefore it should be banned."
It only makes sense to choose a Flash-capable phone over a non-Flash-capable phone if you plan to use Flash-based websites.
Abilene Uni seem to be using iPhones primarily as a front-end to their internal web-based systems, and it's pretty safe to assume that they're not writing those in Flash.
With that in mind, choosing the iPhone's Safari browser over the N95's WebKit browser is a no-brainer, from a usability standpoint.
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A whole bunch of companies make split keyboards that can answer your question.
The 'B' key is as close to centred as makes no difference, and I always use my right index finger to press it. I could never get to grips with split keyboards for this reason.
Hard drives are failure-prone too. In many ways they're more failure-prone than a web service (you can't drop a web service down the stairs, or run a magnet over it). Fact is, backups are an absolute must for businesses, rarely if ever performed by consumers, and I don't expect that to change in a thin client world.
I'd say that the vast majority of your post doesn't apply to the London transport system. I've visited a couple of times this year and was amazed by how efficient and useful it was. Everything seemed to be within walking distance of a Tube or DLR station.
Compare with Glasgow where the subway has never, ever been expanded from the single circle line, which doesn't really go anywhere now that the shipbuilding areas have collapsed. They've been talking about extending it for a while now but nothing seems to be happening. And then there's Edinburgh... they're building a tram line, but whether there'll be the money or enthusiasm to build beyond the initial plans I don't know.
This made me chuckle. Those ticket machines are a godsend, it used to be that a lot of stations didn't have them, and the ticket office was closed 24 hours a day (Fife Circle I'm looking at you). Sometimes the ticket inspector would fail to make an appearance on the train too. In Edinburgh Waverley they have a ticket office on the train side of the barriers, so that you could buy a ticket just to pass the barriers.
I'd love to know how how long someone could carry an active chip frier on the tube before being shot by a policeman who thought it was a table leg.
If you're at all concerned about the Feds being able to locate you while you're using your phone, then a landline is probably not what you should be using.
And an outgoing incumbent who's already done it.
It's a very, very small part of the modern notion of what privacy means, and it doesn't actually address the current topic. Is your current location considered a piece of private information? The fourth amendment makes no such claim.
From actually reading the text, you could make the case that the intent of the amendment was to prevent undue inconvenience, harassment, and the general inability of a person to go about their business due to searches and seizures, which at the time of writing would have been manual and laborious, and in the case of documents would have required seizure, where today copying would be sufficient. This is a far cry from modern surveillance, where the target may not even be aware of such activity.
And anyway, if I'm not mistaken, the US constitution only covers government activity. You need separate laws to cover the actions of private entities. I don't know if these exist (I'm neither American nor a lawyer).
A couple of alternative solutions:
Not really. Where they're going, they don't need roads.
That's not what he's saying at all. From TFA:
The summary says 'video-capable cellphone'. Sounds like a good time to buy a nice video-incapable iPhone. Well, it would be if he didn't have a $1.5k fine to pay.
That's fine, but what about when you reach the end of the process and the atoms/molecules start to cool down? Unless you separate them out, they're going to start to react.
Not entirely true, water in the river might lead to the cancellation of the boat race.
The Netherlands aren't build on coral. If what I remember about the experiences on Tuvalu during the king tide are true, the high water doesn't just lap at the shore, it seeps through the coral and saturates the entire island.
Any wall you build would have to be deep enough to reach the bottom of the coral, unless you plan on the wall itself being the only thing above sea level.
I'd love it if the Sony Ericsson watches actually showed text messages rather than just notifying you when one had arrived. They could be really cool devices but as it is they look like a bit of a missed opportunity.
Back when I was with T-Mobile (UK), they would send you a text message whenever you received a voicemail, telling you who had left it. Of course, you had to pay to phone up and find out if there was actually any content to the message, or if it was just 1 second of silence.
I'm pretty sure I would love visual voicemail if anybody actually used (non-business) voicemail any more.
I'd hope someone from Ireland would be capable of making that distinction.
Although it's entirely possible that VShael has been watching too much American TV. I believe that probable cause, even if it exists elsewhere, is only actually called 'probable cause' in the US.
It's a stupid quote. If the sheep is armed then it's logical to assume that the wolves are too, which does nothing but address the issue of how the meal is killed before it is eaten.
That is unless you have a suicide sheep, willing to attempt to drive into an airport in a Jeep full of explosives, to try and kill innocent wolves leaving on holiday.
I think my point may be lost in this analogy.
There was a by-election yesterday. The Labour candidate won, unfortunately.
For one, 'Leslie' is the male spelling, 'Lesley' is the female spelling. Any girl called 'Leslie' has a boy's name.
Australians have a 'none of the above' box on their ballot papers. It's something I'd like to see more widely adopted.
I'd be a little annoyed if that 'invitation to participate' turned into a giant 'fuck you' if my vote was changed from one side to the other by my winner-takes-all state.
I'm not American, so I can complain as much as I want ;) But I have the same issue with the use of first-past-the-post elections in the UK, to the point where I'm not sure it's worth my while voting come 2010.
Closed-source software is swiss cheese as well, but you're forced to eat it with your eyes closed, and this means that you can't see the holes.
Cheese analogies are much more fun than car analogies!
Aren't both sides using the same argument here? "[Newsgroups|new tool] can be used for [child porn|privacy invasion], therefore it should be banned."
It only makes sense to choose a Flash-capable phone over a non-Flash-capable phone if you plan to use Flash-based websites.
Abilene Uni seem to be using iPhones primarily as a front-end to their internal web-based systems, and it's pretty safe to assume that they're not writing those in Flash.
With that in mind, choosing the iPhone's Safari browser over the N95's WebKit browser is a no-brainer, from a usability standpoint.