There is typically a major earthquake, of the sort strong enough to for example demolish Canterbury Cathedral once every 100 years. We also usually have a tsunami about once every 100 years, though we haven't had one now for 300 years. While it is undoubtedly much more stable than most countries, it isn't completely risk free. If for example the volcano on Gran Canaria were to erupt, we would have a 10 meter tsunami flooding most of the west coast of Britain.
I got a similar email, and my certificate is due to expire on the date they said it would. It is for my personal exchange server running on a home adsl connection in my basement, and I use them rather than a self-signed certificate because it saves the hassle of having to install it on every web browser I check email from.
Attacking cia.gov is a criminal offence in English law (and Scottish etc law), and the English police can arrest him for that. He can then be handed over to the US to be tried for the US equivalent of the English law he broke.
In the countries that make up the UK, the police will generally want to raid the place while he is in the act of doing a hacking attack, as that is good evidence that it wasn't a trojan or a neighbour using his wifi.
The UK re-instated those laws in the 1990s to stop businesses funding the IRA by paying ransom demands, and they have been tightened up since with the new money laundering regulations that are in place across Europe and other signatories to the Financial Action Task Force.
It's worth bearing in mind that while Slashdot doesn't filter naughty words, people might be browsing this site from places that have their own filtering.
They have to distinguish between a copy of the song that you ripped from your own CD, and a copy of the song that a Piratebay uploader ripped from their CD. The source material is the same in both cases, so you are going to end up with fundamentally the same mp3. The differences are going to come from subtle differences in the settings used and the specific version of the software and associated libraries, and you just need to transcode it enough to change these.
I think you will find it is illegal to pay extortion money to criminal groups in most parts of the world. Your friend's employer will also now be on a sucker's list of people they will try to get increasingly larger amounts of money out of, so no, this is not supporting the stockholders.
There is however a way to connect dollar transactions to people, and if the EFF receives dollars in exchange for bitcoins, it is possible to trace where those dollars came from.
The problem is that they could be left open to future legal claims from the people they sold these worthless magic numbers to; and to all sorts of criminal charges.
It is a dig at stupid internet naughty words filters. I do the same for Sc**thorpe (missing letters are "un"). Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_girl
1. Someone attacks senate.gov "for teh lulz" 2. FBI investigates and discovers it is coming from an English IP address 3. They ask Scotland Yard for help, and trace it to someone in Ess*x 4. Ess*x Police get the appropriate wiretap warrants, and move in while he is in the middle of attacking soca.gov.uk, again "for teh lulz"
Right, and if the licence is unenforceable, you go back to the position where you don't have a licence. And if you don't have a licence, you have fair dealing / fair use rights only.
I would respond to that with "The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999" http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2083/schedule/2/made SCHEDULE 2 INDICATIVE AND NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF TERMS WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS UNFAIR [...] (c)making an agreement binding on the consumer whereas provision of services by the seller or supplier is subject to a condition whose realisation depends on his own will alone;
(d)permitting the seller or supplier to retain sums paid by the consumer where the latter decides not to conclude or perform the contract, without providing for the consumer to receive compensation of an equivalent amount from the seller or supplier where the latter is the party cancelling the contract;
Gift cards are, round my way anyway, backed by an EU registered electronic money issuer, usually Clydesdale Bank, Newcastle Building Society or Raphaels Bank. iTunes credits are backed by the second largest company in the world. Bitcoins are backed by some guy on an IRC channel who may or may not live in Japan, but nobody is really sure, and he doesn't promise to continue backing them in the future anyway.
No, this is not how it works. Fractional reserve banking is greatly misunderstood.
You deposit $10 in a bank. The bank keeps 1$ in reserve and lends out 9$. The borrower spends this $9 and it is deposited back in the banking system. The bank keeps 90c in reserve and lends out $8.10. It keeps going round in circles like this until there is $100 on deposit, $10 kept in reserve and $90 lent out.
That assumes a 10% reserve ratio. In practice the reserve ratio is more like 6%, but it depends on the type of deposit and the type of lending undertaken.
You go to a bank, deposit $10,000 The bank lends out that $10,000 to someone to buy a car The car dealer deposits that $10,000 back in the bank meaning there is now $20,000 of cash deposited in the bank out of the original $10,000 M0 cash.
The $10,000 of M0 money is backed by the federal reserve. The additional $10,000 of bank created M3 money is backed by the bank, which in turn is backed by the $10,000 auto loan.
Yes, it is exactly the same as the tax inspectors who look through classified ads in local newspapers for traders who haven't registered to pay tax.
If you are using ebay to get rid of unwanted stuff, you are covered by the chattels exemption, the wasting assets exemption, or by the fact that you are selling the stuff for less than what you paid for it.
The only possible difference between the Canadian iPhone and the AT&T iphone is the language and locale settings. In all other respects, every iPhone except the Verizon one is the same hardware all over the world.
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There is typically a major earthquake, of the sort strong enough to for example demolish Canterbury Cathedral once every 100 years. We also usually have a tsunami about once every 100 years, though we haven't had one now for 300 years. While it is undoubtedly much more stable than most countries, it isn't completely risk free. If for example the volcano on Gran Canaria were to erupt, we would have a 10 meter tsunami flooding most of the west coast of Britain.
I got a similar email, and my certificate is due to expire on the date they said it would. It is for my personal exchange server running on a home adsl connection in my basement, and I use them rather than a self-signed certificate because it saves the hassle of having to install it on every web browser I check email from.
It emits CO2 and possibly methane, and you want to get those as low as possible.
The car isn't road-legal anyway because the tyre tread is less than 1.6mm
Attacking cia.gov is a criminal offence in English law (and Scottish etc law), and the English police can arrest him for that. He can then be handed over to the US to be tried for the US equivalent of the English law he broke.
In the countries that make up the UK, the police will generally want to raid the place while he is in the act of doing a hacking attack, as that is good evidence that it wasn't a trojan or a neighbour using his wifi.
The UK re-instated those laws in the 1990s to stop businesses funding the IRA by paying ransom demands, and they have been tightened up since with the new money laundering regulations that are in place across Europe and other signatories to the Financial Action Task Force.
It's worth bearing in mind that while Slashdot doesn't filter naughty words, people might be browsing this site from places that have their own filtering.
You don't need to worry about quality, as you get the iTunes 256k aac file from Apple in return whatever you send up.
They have to distinguish between a copy of the song that you ripped from your own CD, and a copy of the song that a Piratebay uploader ripped from their CD. The source material is the same in both cases, so you are going to end up with fundamentally the same mp3. The differences are going to come from subtle differences in the settings used and the specific version of the software and associated libraries, and you just need to transcode it enough to change these.
I think you will find it is illegal to pay extortion money to criminal groups in most parts of the world. Your friend's employer will also now be on a sucker's list of people they will try to get increasingly larger amounts of money out of, so no, this is not supporting the stockholders.
There is however a way to connect dollar transactions to people, and if the EFF receives dollars in exchange for bitcoins, it is possible to trace where those dollars came from.
The problem is that they could be left open to future legal claims from the people they sold these worthless magic numbers to; and to all sorts of criminal charges.
It is a dig at stupid internet naughty words filters. I do the same for Sc**thorpe (missing letters are "un"). Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_girl
1. Someone attacks senate.gov "for teh lulz"
2. FBI investigates and discovers it is coming from an English IP address
3. They ask Scotland Yard for help, and trace it to someone in Ess*x
4. Ess*x Police get the appropriate wiretap warrants, and move in while he is in the middle of attacking soca.gov.uk, again "for teh lulz"
Pretty normal cross-border crime investigation
Given that the FBI were involved, it is more likely in response to one of their earlier US attacks, such as senate.gov
Right, and if the licence is unenforceable, you go back to the position where you don't have a licence. And if you don't have a licence, you have fair dealing / fair use rights only.
I would respond to that with "The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999"
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2083/schedule/2/made
SCHEDULE 2
INDICATIVE AND NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF TERMS WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS UNFAIR
[...]
(c)making an agreement binding on the consumer whereas provision of services by the seller or supplier is subject to a condition whose realisation depends on his own will alone;
(d)permitting the seller or supplier to retain sums paid by the consumer where the latter decides not to conclude or perform the contract, without providing for the consumer to receive compensation of an equivalent amount from the seller or supplier where the latter is the party cancelling the contract;
Not much use if you have a password protected .zip or .doc file as you aren't using WinZip or MS Word to check the password.
Gift cards are, round my way anyway, backed by an EU registered electronic money issuer, usually Clydesdale Bank, Newcastle Building Society or Raphaels Bank. iTunes credits are backed by the second largest company in the world. Bitcoins are backed by some guy on an IRC channel who may or may not live in Japan, but nobody is really sure, and he doesn't promise to continue backing them in the future anyway.
No, this is not how it works. Fractional reserve banking is greatly misunderstood.
You deposit $10 in a bank. The bank keeps 1$ in reserve and lends out 9$. The borrower spends this $9 and it is deposited back in the banking system. The bank keeps 90c in reserve and lends out $8.10. It keeps going round in circles like this until there is $100 on deposit, $10 kept in reserve and $90 lent out.
That assumes a 10% reserve ratio. In practice the reserve ratio is more like 6%, but it depends on the type of deposit and the type of lending undertaken.
M3 money is bank created money.
It happens as follows:
You go to a bank, deposit $10,000
The bank lends out that $10,000 to someone to buy a car
The car dealer deposits that $10,000 back in the bank meaning there is now $20,000 of cash deposited in the bank out of the original $10,000 M0 cash.
The $10,000 of M0 money is backed by the federal reserve. The additional $10,000 of bank created M3 money is backed by the bank, which in turn is backed by the $10,000 auto loan.
But M3 money is secured on real estate, cars, business equipment and so on, where as Bitcoins are not secured on anything.
Yes, eBay does pass private information to HMRC.
Yes, it is exactly the same as the tax inspectors who look through classified ads in local newspapers for traders who haven't registered to pay tax.
If you are using ebay to get rid of unwanted stuff, you are covered by the chattels exemption, the wasting assets exemption, or by the fact that you are selling the stuff for less than what you paid for it.
The only possible difference between the Canadian iPhone and the AT&T iphone is the language and locale settings. In all other respects, every iPhone except the Verizon one is the same hardware all over the world.