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I don't know of a single ISP that offers truly unlimited access. They all introduce throttling once you've downloaded a certain (often unspecified) amount in a month. Although to be fair, the metering only usually applies during peak hours.
Why aren't Amazon terminating the accounts of offenders, and blacklisting whatever payment method they're using? It's a paid service, it's not like spammers can register for new accounts as much as they like, they're going to run out of credit card numbers (well, assuming their activities aren't more nefarious than mere spam).
It's not in Amazon's interests to have EC2 blacklisted.
There was a proposal for a Scottish.sco TLD a while back, and there was some debate about whether it should be intended for sites based in Scotland or sites written in Scots.
Wikipedia is divided up by language as opposed to country, and it doesn't really work in English, because of the differences in spelling and grammar between English-speaking countries. I personally have had someone go through an article I wrote and convert all the UK spelling to US spelling (in breach of Wikipedia's guidelines). Of course, Wikipedia is probably the worst example of this - most sites in a.en domain wouldn't see edit wars.
Well the iPhone 3G is thicker than the old one, though rounded at the back. And there were no improvements to the camera, which is something a lot of people were asking for (autofocus takes up space, for example).
I disagree, it's quite useful on a weather report to be able to communicate easily what side of freezing the temperature is. It's not arbitrary when it means potentially hazardous road conditions, or the need to leave the heating on low to prevent the pipes from freezing.
Emphasis on "soft drinks in a pub". It's still a requirement that beer be sold by the pint.
For most other items, I don't think the law prevents you from selling in any unit you damn well please, but it has to be accompanied by the metric measurement with equal prominence.
Am I right in thinking that MM/DD/YYYY came about because Americans tend to say "June 20th" rather than "20th of June"? It's the only semi-logical reason I can think of.
Those headlines are easy to filter out. If you don't know what FISA stands for, who McCain is or what Netflix is, then chances are it's not that interesting to you.
This article is about trees, so unless you live on the moon, Orkney, Shetland or in the Sahara, chances are it's relevant. The title even says "All Over The World".
I'm wondering whether the courts are involved in this, and whether a conviction is necessary for disconnection.
It's fair enough to say that internet connectivity can be revoked for offenders, just as a driving licence can be revoked. But revoking a driving licence always involved a conviction in court, to my knowledge.
That's aside from the problems with making this law workable - burden of proof, enforcing, etc.
Being allowed to murder at random is not freedom. Being allowed to meet on the street corner is freedom. See the difference?
No. Murder being illegal is a limit on one person's 'freedom to curtail' another person's freedom. Nowhere in the definition of freedom does it say that you cannot make someone else worse off, but in society we set limits on freedom so that people aren't at so much liberty to act out of gross self-interest. Legislating against an act limits your freedom, it does not change the definition of freedom.
Self-interest motivates us all, in all case, not just on Slashdot.
What I mean is that some people will argue until they're blue in the face about freedom of speech, and then argue in the opposite direction when the issue then becomes privacy, without any attempt to construct a grand unifying argument.
The way that freedom and privacy are both highly valued on Slashdot bemuses me, as they can come into direct conflict. Take, for instance, right to roamlegislation, which guarantees ordinary Scots access to the countryside, under certain conditions. This, of course, can be seen to impinge on the privacy of landowners.
Privacy also theoretically limits free speech (another highly valued concept on Slashdot). If I tell the world that person X is cheating on his wife, am I invading his privacy or defending my free speech?
The Slashdot obsession with defending all of these concepts leads me to believe that self-interest, not any altruistic concept of fairness, is the motivating factor behind most contributors' opinions.
Yeah. Real Unix geeks would do all that from Firefox extensions these days.
Seriously though, iPod/iPhone syncing needs to be decoupled from iTunes. Much of the data it syncs is loaded from different applications anyway. Why it's not done from iSync I have no idea.
The first thing that came to my mind was that it shares a name with the island where 1984 was (partly) written...
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Of course, what the law says, and what a sensible person would expect the law to say are often two completely different things.
I understand why copyright infringement is illegal. What I don't understand is why facilitating copyright infringement is illegal. It's conceivable that somebody is coming to harm when copyright infringement occurs, but nobody necessarily comes to harm when facilitation occurs. If I'm not mistaken, mod chips potentially fall under the
I say potentially because mod chips can be used to play import games, which is a legal activity (the fact that Sony somehow managed to shut down Lik-Sang notwithstanding). I've long held the (totally unsubstantiated) belief that games console manufacturers deliberately tie together their region encoding and copy protection functions, where disabling one disables both, so that they can cry copyright infringement whenever somebody mods their console for the purpose of playing imports.
3.7854118 litres per US gallon according to my unit converter (not to be confused with the UK gallon, which is 4.54609 l). £1 is $1.947 right now, and petrol here was £1.169 the last time I looked.
So that's $8.62 per US gallon, to the nearest cent. $100 spent on petrol here wouldn't fill my tank.
There is a convention that the Lords does not block legislation in a winning party's election manifesto. But 42 days was not in Labour's manifesto for the 2005 election, which took place shortly before the 7/7 attacks.
Nowhere in that press release does it say that it's unsubsidised, and providers do sometimes offer subsidies on PAYG phones; remember, PAYG targets the bottom end of the market. These subsidies obviously mean that the phones are locked (again, no mention of locking or otherwise in the press release), as there is no contract tying the user to the network. I've never come across a UK PAYG mobile that wasn't locked to the provider.
I realise that it doesn't say anything that contradicts what you've said, but to be honest I'll believe it when I see it.
Drivers can be cyclists too. I pay annual road tax, insurance, and fuel tax on my car, and I'm also paying council tax which goes towards the upkeep of local roads.
But these days I'm choosing to cycle to work rather than take the car. I'm contributing less to air pollution, noise pollution, road wear and the depletion of fossil fuels.
Like it or not, I've got as much right as you to use the roads, as public rights of way, as you do, no matter what kind of vehicle I use.
When replying to text messages, I frequently have to refer to multiple points from the message that I'm replying to, which I can't necessarily remember (or I have to refer to the exact wording). So I have to re-read that message, often multiple times.
On my Samsung Z560, the process goes like this:
Press 'Back'.
Save to drafts? Press 'Yes'.
Wait two seconds for the 'Saved' dialogue to disappear, or press 'OK'. Because I replied directly to a message, I'm now at the inbox.
Press 'OK' to select the message, which is already highlighted. This is where I read the message.
Press 'Back' to go back to the inbox.
Press 'Back' to go back to the messaging menu.
Press down, and 'OK' to enter Drafts.
Press 'OK' to select the message I was typing.
This gets old really quickly.
On the iPhone, the iChat-style interface means I don't have to go anywhere, the most I'll ever need to do is scroll with my finger.
Yeah, I saw that this morning. I'm glad to see they've got a slightly cheaper tariff for those buying it for data usage, which would be good for users who are frequently in WiFi coverage and plan to use VoIP (which Jobs has said will be allowed over WiFi). It would make the price of the unlimited text bolt-on just that little bit more palatable too...
What I'd really have liked is something like T-Mobile's Flext, which I'm on right now, where you get an allowance and you can use it on calls and texts, to suit your usage.
Take a photo with the camera, for example, and iPhone can geotag it with GPS location information. That way, when you share photos online, friends and family can see where every snapshot was taken.
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Is it:
Or is it:
? I don't know of a single ISP that offers truly unlimited access. They all introduce throttling once you've downloaded a certain (often unspecified) amount in a month. Although to be fair, the metering only usually applies during peak hours.
Why aren't Amazon terminating the accounts of offenders, and blacklisting whatever payment method they're using? It's a paid service, it's not like spammers can register for new accounts as much as they like, they're going to run out of credit card numbers (well, assuming their activities aren't more nefarious than mere spam).
It's not in Amazon's interests to have EC2 blacklisted.
There was a proposal for a Scottish .sco TLD a while back, and there was some debate about whether it should be intended for sites based in Scotland or sites written in Scots.
Wikipedia is divided up by language as opposed to country, and it doesn't really work in English, because of the differences in spelling and grammar between English-speaking countries. I personally have had someone go through an article I wrote and convert all the UK spelling to US spelling (in breach of Wikipedia's guidelines). Of course, Wikipedia is probably the worst example of this - most sites in a .en domain wouldn't see edit wars.
When I last used Gentoo, yes. Although it would default to the Blackdown JDK, which didn't require such idiocy.
Well the iPhone 3G is thicker than the old one, though rounded at the back. And there were no improvements to the camera, which is something a lot of people were asking for (autofocus takes up space, for example).
Wish that was true here. Can't even jump off a bridge here.
Not that I particularly want to take the plunge myself, but I'm all in favour of people removing themselves from the gene pool if they so choose.
I disagree, it's quite useful on a weather report to be able to communicate easily what side of freezing the temperature is. It's not arbitrary when it means potentially hazardous road conditions, or the need to leave the heating on low to prevent the pipes from freezing.
Emphasis on "soft drinks in a pub". It's still a requirement that beer be sold by the pint.
For most other items, I don't think the law prevents you from selling in any unit you damn well please, but it has to be accompanied by the metric measurement with equal prominence.
Am I right in thinking that MM/DD/YYYY came about because Americans tend to say "June 20th" rather than "20th of June"? It's the only semi-logical reason I can think of.
Those headlines are easy to filter out. If you don't know what FISA stands for, who McCain is or what Netflix is, then chances are it's not that interesting to you.
This article is about trees, so unless you live on the moon, Orkney, Shetland or in the Sahara, chances are it's relevant. The title even says "All Over The World".
I'm wondering whether the courts are involved in this, and whether a conviction is necessary for disconnection.
It's fair enough to say that internet connectivity can be revoked for offenders, just as a driving licence can be revoked. But revoking a driving licence always involved a conviction in court, to my knowledge.
That's aside from the problems with making this law workable - burden of proof, enforcing, etc.
But a rear-seat passenger without a seatbelt on is a danger to the person sitting in front.
No. Murder being illegal is a limit on one person's 'freedom to curtail' another person's freedom. Nowhere in the definition of freedom does it say that you cannot make someone else worse off, but in society we set limits on freedom so that people aren't at so much liberty to act out of gross self-interest. Legislating against an act limits your freedom, it does not change the definition of freedom.
What I mean is that some people will argue until they're blue in the face about freedom of speech, and then argue in the opposite direction when the issue then becomes privacy, without any attempt to construct a grand unifying argument.
Exactly.
The way that freedom and privacy are both highly valued on Slashdot bemuses me, as they can come into direct conflict. Take, for instance, right to roam legislation, which guarantees ordinary Scots access to the countryside, under certain conditions. This, of course, can be seen to impinge on the privacy of landowners.
Privacy also theoretically limits free speech (another highly valued concept on Slashdot). If I tell the world that person X is cheating on his wife, am I invading his privacy or defending my free speech?
The Slashdot obsession with defending all of these concepts leads me to believe that self-interest, not any altruistic concept of fairness, is the motivating factor behind most contributors' opinions.
Yeah. Real Unix geeks would do all that from Firefox extensions these days.
Seriously though, iPod/iPhone syncing needs to be decoupled from iTunes. Much of the data it syncs is loaded from different applications anyway. Why it's not done from iSync I have no idea.
Webcam?
The first thing that came to my mind was that it shares a name with the island where 1984 was (partly) written...
I understand why copyright infringement is illegal. What I don't understand is why facilitating copyright infringement is illegal. It's conceivable that somebody is coming to harm when copyright infringement occurs, but nobody necessarily comes to harm when facilitation occurs. If I'm not mistaken, mod chips potentially fall under the
I say potentially because mod chips can be used to play import games, which is a legal activity (the fact that Sony somehow managed to shut down Lik-Sang notwithstanding). I've long held the (totally unsubstantiated) belief that games console manufacturers deliberately tie together their region encoding and copy protection functions, where disabling one disables both, so that they can cry copyright infringement whenever somebody mods their console for the purpose of playing imports.
3.7854118 litres per US gallon according to my unit converter (not to be confused with the UK gallon, which is 4.54609 l). £1 is $1.947 right now, and petrol here was £1.169 the last time I looked.
So that's $8.62 per US gallon, to the nearest cent. $100 spent on petrol here wouldn't fill my tank.
This being the crucial difference between fox hunting and 42 days.
Nowhere in that press release does it say that it's unsubsidised, and providers do sometimes offer subsidies on PAYG phones; remember, PAYG targets the bottom end of the market. These subsidies obviously mean that the phones are locked (again, no mention of locking or otherwise in the press release), as there is no contract tying the user to the network. I've never come across a UK PAYG mobile that wasn't locked to the provider.
I realise that it doesn't say anything that contradicts what you've said, but to be honest I'll believe it when I see it.
Drivers can be cyclists too. I pay annual road tax, insurance, and fuel tax on my car, and I'm also paying council tax which goes towards the upkeep of local roads.
But these days I'm choosing to cycle to work rather than take the car. I'm contributing less to air pollution, noise pollution, road wear and the depletion of fossil fuels.
Like it or not, I've got as much right as you to use the roads, as public rights of way, as you do, no matter what kind of vehicle I use.
Okay, here's one.
When replying to text messages, I frequently have to refer to multiple points from the message that I'm replying to, which I can't necessarily remember (or I have to refer to the exact wording). So I have to re-read that message, often multiple times.
On my Samsung Z560, the process goes like this:
This gets old really quickly.
On the iPhone, the iChat-style interface means I don't have to go anywhere, the most I'll ever need to do is scroll with my finger.
The iPhone 3G won't be available to buy at:
I'd be interested to know what makes you think that they won't sign you up with a contract in an Apple Retail Store.
Interestingly, the UK website indicates that it won't even be available in Apple Retail Stores.
Yeah, I saw that this morning. I'm glad to see they've got a slightly cheaper tariff for those buying it for data usage, which would be good for users who are frequently in WiFi coverage and plan to use VoIP (which Jobs has said will be allowed over WiFi). It would make the price of the unlimited text bolt-on just that little bit more palatable too...
What I'd really have liked is something like T-Mobile's Flext, which I'm on right now, where you get an allowance and you can use it on calls and texts, to suit your usage.
I tell a lie, geotagging is in there.