The motto of MGM is ars gratia artis, or art for art's sake - sometimes I wonder when this became "art for the sa[k]e of money" (ars gratia divitis, anyone?).
[pedant]I assume you're referring to the "Born Free" snippet at the start of the Youtube clip. Shame it didn't appear in PotC, but was instead in Madagascar - by Dreamworks - so copyright is probably owned by Paramount although the origins are in 1966[/pedant].
Because everyone knows that the USofA is the entire world:-)
MSISDN is mandatory for 2G (not sure about roaming) but it becomes an optional field in the HLR in LTE/4G
I read the linked article and scratched my head, too - it seems that their attack vector requires access to the HLR for a start, and I can't see that being trivial. Maybe I should go look for the other, more informed articles.
Actually, the only ads the BBC is allowed to show consist of trailers for their other shows (both radio and tv based). Commercial advertising of products is strictly verboten, although there is a certain amount of wiggle-room when it comes to sponsorship deals...
Problem is just that this is kinda an achivement that locks up some others forever. I dunno a single person that won a Razzie AND an Oscar. And I guess we agree that the Oscar is the achivement most want, unlike the Razzie.
The Beeb is being told to cut back on a lot of commercial activities (e.g. merchandising), which means a loss of revenue, which means cut-backs are inevitable. It would be nice if a start point was to stop paying rich folks quite so much in salaries, but that's only going to be a drop in the ocean for this, and there's a risk that they'll do a BA.
Oh, I agree. Just citing an example where the police deliberately cast the net hugely with the primary purpose of catching someone rather nasty, but with the secondary effect of profiling a large part of the city - despite a large proportion of those being questioned not being anywhere near under suspicion.
Saying that, looking at the data(source), there doesn't seem to be that much of a spike in the merseyside data, so I guess not that many folks complied
I seem to remember there was a case of some sort in Liverpool a while back (possibly a particularly vicious rape) when the police went door-to-door around large parts of the town asking for DNA samples from young men to "eliminate them from enquiries". Denial was probably usually met with increased suspicion.
Anyway, the city of Hoofddorp, where I live, forbids the placement of cellular base station antennas on top of residential buildings. I support this policy; better safe than sorry.
Sticking them on top is probably the safest place for them as it is unlikely that any of the signal is directed downwards due to the beam-form produced by the antennas (unless they are pointing downwards, which somewhat limits the coverage achievable).
GSM & UMTS antennas typically output 20W, and handsets peak at 2W (maybe 5W for older ones), but you will get the highest dose directly in front of the antenna
Indeed - ACTA is not a law. Quote from the UK IPO:
The goal of the ACTA negotiations is to provide an international framework that improves the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) laws. It does not intend to create new intellectual property rights or laws, but to create improved international standards on how to take action against large-scale infringement of IPR
On my nearly 2 year old BMW you can edit those fields yourself - it's basically a "time to next service" and "miles to next service" pair, and whichever trips first generates a "needs a service" light. Twiddling the various sticks & knobs will find the place to adjust them. On Audi's you have to do particular button press combinations that aren't documented in the user manual, IIRC, too
A bit naughty of your friend to artificially over-ride that to disguise the fact that the car needs a service - even though on a 2nd hand sale it's entirely caveat emptor
Natural gas, is heavy, and a large leak would cause a huge explosion. ( that is why nobody is willing to build a tanker to transport Liquified natural gas).
I suspect that the gloves have to come off sooner or later, and if we value our rights (instead of getting scanned, or having the arse reamed everytime we fly), rather sooner.
I envisage the following procedure:
a) Terrorists commit their act, killing x 'unbelievers' in a western country with conventional weapons.
b) All western countries collaborate to find where the attack came from (Jemen, Afghanistan etc) using secret services.
c) The west sets a ten-day ultimatum for the population to unconditionally hand over the terrorists.
d) If this does not happen, the west hits that country with a carpet bombing, remniscent of WW2, causing maximum civilian losses without regards to any conventions the terrorists haven't signed neither.
Hmm - methings I'm feeding a troll, but you forgot steps (e) and (f):
e) indiscriminate killing of civilians lead to more civilians signing up with $EXTREMIST_ORG
f) GOTO (a)
Not the best solution I've ever heard. The terrorists may not have signed up to any conventions, but the remaining civilians probably care very much. Also, why do you think the terrorists give a rats ass about the civilians (or anyone) in *any* country? Hell, in Iraq they're bombing their own citizens - so much for national boundaries.
I think they're both supposed to be the same stuff - Pyrex (another brand). However, in the US, I think they changed the manufacturing process of it and that introduced the shattering/exploding tendencies which has led to some investigation - although no conclusions were reached, according to the wiki. I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Pyrex used in the US is different to that used on the other side of the pond, though, and that it is particularly vulnerable from being removed from a freezer to be put straight in the oven (tendency to violently explode). Certainly the (UK) Pyrex dishes I have have never shattered - I managed to get one to chip, though. Have not tried sticking a frozen one into a hot oven, and it's not something I'd care to experiment with.....
Well, on #1, my daughter won't ever be allowed to date, so that problem is eliminated right off.:) It's easy to say right now, since she's a toddler, and the only man she loves is daddy. It's a concept I refuse to accept, at least for the next decade.:)
Mine too!
I do see your point though. Things would be shifted from physical items, to more intellectual ones. I'd love to see humanity released from the need of things to live, to pursue more intellectual tasks. Oh, what we could do if money was not a restriction. People could go with their passions, and do what they really wanted. Right now, we could visit other planets, or explore deep into the oceans, or pursue arts or science. How many starving artists could rival the works of the "masters" if they weren't limited by their current needs for food, clothing, and shelter?
How much of what we might term "high art" has been driven by the artist's suffering from poverty? I'm not saying it all is, but a lot of "good" art has been created by some rather traumatised folks which might not be the case in the scenario where all physical goods are nigh-on-free.
Not that this would be a bad thing, I agree
We could do what we love, because we love it, not work loveless jobs because we need money to survive. Those are simple examples. People could find so many new ways to do what they love. I'm sure animal lovers would absolutely love to help sick and injured animals.
It does bring up a problem though. I know most doctors would love to be able to save every patient, but so many can't be saved because simple things like donor organs aren't available. What if they were on an unlimited basis. We'd quickly overpopulate our planet, and many others. I'm sure wars would start though, that would take care of that problem pretty quickly.:( There's always someone with enough hate to ruin a good thing.
Dr Malthus would have his day in court when we overpopulate - either that or we go the China route, or folks just stop breeding so rapidly as there is so much more time to do that sort of thing courtesy of the increased life expectancy due to easy to replace parts
But, how accurate would the scanners be? If you're creating replicated hearts with the same DNA structure to prevent organ rejection, what happens when someone with a large device jumps under the scanning gizmo? Then does that a lot and makes a cloned army? Maybe a "clone war"? Holy shit, George really was a visionary....
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The motto of MGM is ars gratia artis, or art for art's sake - sometimes I wonder when this became "art for the sa[k]e of money" (ars gratia divitis, anyone?).
This article might give a hint :-)
I agree with all your points, though - we have a sucky system that gave us this Act (and probably many others) without proper scrutiny
ah - my bad. Guess I didn't pay all that much attention to PotC
[pedant]I assume you're referring to the "Born Free" snippet at the start of the Youtube clip. Shame it didn't appear in PotC, but was instead in Madagascar - by Dreamworks - so copyright is probably owned by Paramount although the origins are in 1966[/pedant].
I agree that they probably didn't ask, though :-)
Because everyone knows that the USofA is the entire world :-)
MSISDN is mandatory for 2G (not sure about roaming) but it becomes an optional field in the HLR in LTE/4G
I read the linked article and scratched my head, too - it seems that their attack vector requires access to the HLR for a start, and I can't see that being trivial. Maybe I should go look for the other, more informed articles.
Not always. Govmts obviously won't suffer from this sort of setback, though
You can even be fooled you're going into space - they used that technique (on top of having selected a bunch of gullible fools).
Possibly a better ratio than considering the number of real cars in the world vs number of highly skilled racing drivers :-)
But then you wouldn't be able to have a snazzy Press Release stating that professional hackers couldn't get into it.
You are probably not practised enough in the art
Actually, the only ads the BBC is allowed to show consist of trailers for their other shows (both radio and tv based). Commercial advertising of products is strictly verboten, although there is a certain amount of wiggle-room when it comes to sponsorship deals...
Problem is just that this is kinda an achivement that locks up some others forever. I dunno a single person that won a Razzie AND an Oscar. And I guess we agree that the Oscar is the achivement most want, unlike the Razzie.
Sandra Bullock: Oscar and Razzie
There's quite a bit of pressure from competitors feeling the pinch.
Not that they have their own agenda in applying such pressure, of course, and this is all part of the same posturing in the media
Mark Thomas (who does do publicity stunts) is not Mark Thompson, the DG@BBC.
The Beeb is being told to cut back on a lot of commercial activities (e.g. merchandising), which means a loss of revenue, which means cut-backs are inevitable. It would be nice if a start point was to stop paying rich folks quite so much in salaries, but that's only going to be a drop in the ocean for this, and there's a risk that they'll do a BA.
Oh, I agree. Just citing an example where the police deliberately cast the net hugely with the primary purpose of catching someone rather nasty, but with the secondary effect of profiling a large part of the city - despite a large proportion of those being questioned not being anywhere near under suspicion.
Saying that, looking at the data(source), there doesn't seem to be that much of a spike in the merseyside data, so I guess not that many folks complied
I seem to remember there was a case of some sort in Liverpool a while back (possibly a particularly vicious rape) when the police went door-to-door around large parts of the town asking for DNA samples from young men to "eliminate them from enquiries". Denial was probably usually met with increased suspicion.
Anyway, the city of Hoofddorp, where I live, forbids the placement of cellular base station antennas on top of residential buildings. I support this policy; better safe than sorry.
Sticking them on top is probably the safest place for them as it is unlikely that any of the signal is directed downwards due to the beam-form produced by the antennas (unless they are pointing downwards, which somewhat limits the coverage achievable).
GSM & UMTS antennas typically output 20W, and handsets peak at 2W (maybe 5W for older ones), but you will get the highest dose directly in front of the antenna
That link is a proposal from the USA - as reported on /. here with another link to the same document in the source article here
Still bad, nonetheless, but it's not been accepted.
Yet.
On my nearly 2 year old BMW you can edit those fields yourself - it's basically a "time to next service" and "miles to next service" pair, and whichever trips first generates a "needs a service" light. Twiddling the various sticks & knobs will find the place to adjust them. On Audi's you have to do particular button press combinations that aren't documented in the user manual, IIRC, too
A bit naughty of your friend to artificially over-ride that to disguise the fact that the car needs a service - even though on a 2nd hand sale it's entirely caveat emptor
Natural gas, is heavy, and a large leak would cause a huge explosion. ( that is why nobody is willing to build a tanker to transport Liquified natural gas).
err - nobody will build a LNG tanker?
Ditto Gatwick & Stansted
I suspect that the gloves have to come off sooner or later, and if we value our rights (instead of getting scanned, or having the arse reamed everytime we fly), rather sooner.
I envisage the following procedure:
a) Terrorists commit their act, killing x 'unbelievers' in a western country with conventional weapons.
b) All western countries collaborate to find where the attack came from (Jemen, Afghanistan etc) using secret services.
c) The west sets a ten-day ultimatum for the population to unconditionally hand over the terrorists.
d) If this does not happen, the west hits that country with a carpet bombing, remniscent of WW2, causing maximum civilian losses without regards to any conventions the terrorists haven't signed neither.
Hmm - methings I'm feeding a troll, but you forgot steps (e) and (f):
e) indiscriminate killing of civilians lead to more civilians signing up with $EXTREMIST_ORG
f) GOTO (a)
Not the best solution I've ever heard. The terrorists may not have signed up to any conventions, but the remaining civilians probably care very much. Also, why do you think the terrorists give a rats ass about the civilians (or anyone) in *any* country? Hell, in Iraq they're bombing their own citizens - so much for national boundaries.
I think they're both supposed to be the same stuff - Pyrex (another brand). However, in the US, I think they changed the manufacturing process of it and that introduced the shattering/exploding tendencies which has led to some investigation - although no conclusions were reached, according to the wiki. I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Pyrex used in the US is different to that used on the other side of the pond, though, and that it is particularly vulnerable from being removed from a freezer to be put straight in the oven (tendency to violently explode). Certainly the (UK) Pyrex dishes I have have never shattered - I managed to get one to chip, though. Have not tried sticking a frozen one into a hot oven, and it's not something I'd care to experiment with.....
Well, on #1, my daughter won't ever be allowed to date, so that problem is eliminated right off. :) It's easy to say right now, since she's a toddler, and the only man she loves is daddy. It's a concept I refuse to accept, at least for the next decade. :)
Mine too!
I do see your point though. Things would be shifted from physical items, to more intellectual ones. I'd love to see humanity released from the need of things to live, to pursue more intellectual tasks. Oh, what we could do if money was not a restriction. People could go with their passions, and do what they really wanted. Right now, we could visit other planets, or explore deep into the oceans, or pursue arts or science. How many starving artists could rival the works of the "masters" if they weren't limited by their current needs for food, clothing, and shelter?
How much of what we might term "high art" has been driven by the artist's suffering from poverty? I'm not saying it all is, but a lot of "good" art has been created by some rather traumatised folks which might not be the case in the scenario where all physical goods are nigh-on-free.
Not that this would be a bad thing, I agree
We could do what we love, because we love it, not work loveless jobs because we need money to survive. Those are simple examples. People could find so many new ways to do what they love. I'm sure animal lovers would absolutely love to help sick and injured animals.
It does bring up a problem though. I know most doctors would love to be able to save every patient, but so many can't be saved because simple things like donor organs aren't available. What if they were on an unlimited basis. We'd quickly overpopulate our planet, and many others. I'm sure wars would start though, that would take care of that problem pretty quickly. :( There's always someone with enough hate to ruin a good thing.
Dr Malthus would have his day in court when we overpopulate - either that or we go the China route, or folks just stop breeding so rapidly as there is so much more time to do that sort of thing courtesy of the increased life expectancy due to easy to replace parts
But, how accurate would the scanners be? If you're creating replicated hearts with the same DNA structure to prevent organ rejection, what happens when someone with a large device jumps under the scanning gizmo? Then does that a lot and makes a cloned army? Maybe a "clone war"? Holy shit, George really was a visionary....
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