Oh, I'm all for pushing research £/$/â/Â¥/... into the problem of getting everyone off this planet should it look like the real-estate will become uninhabitable.
I won't be voting on American Idiot, or even the more local X-Factor. The last soap-opera wedding I saw was Charlene and Scott in Erinsborough (I didn't cry).
That's assuming we can build sufficient transport to offload folks faster than we breed - otherwise a large group of folks will be left to feel the heat....
I'm sure we'll develop something that can shift us around the universe - even if it's just building a generation-ship, but will it be big enough to take *everyone*?
He then added fresh content that would be visible to any police officer or security official who scanned the card, saying, "I am a terrorist - shoot on sight."
So, no, it is actually pretty bloody scary, as they successfully changed the biometrics of the copy.
I think this is a good idea and folks should be encouraged to make such modifications to MPs ID cards - in particular Wacky Jacqui and Alan Johnson, but this list could easily expand
Two things - firstly, I can't imagine the bed structure standing up to a whole lot of abuse of this nature. The vid claims he's used this for 3 years, but I wonder how many beds it's broken.
Secondly, and more significantly, that kind of vigorous bashing about is not good for brain cells. 3 years of this, 5 days a week at least, can't have done him much good.
Ho hum - mildly clever to put it all together, but a dumb idea overall
All fine if you can (a) descramble the packets into timeslots that the user is using (not sure if you also have to work out which packet is associated with which frequency and then determine the frequency hopping algorithm for that user, too, but that's probably reasonably simple given the max number of users on the cell), (b) reassemble same into voice frames and (c) decrypt the 128-bit A5/3 encrypted user-plane information (possible, but after the rest of the stuff is it still within the realms of the regular Joe Bloggs with Wireshark?
Depends on how promiscuous you are.....
On the other hand, you could probably sniff their IMSI and then clone their handset:-)
Now updated to We have 134039 pages of documents, of which 57403 are unreviewed., so it would seem another large chunk got uploaded in the last few hours
Supplement - the Guardian link in the/. article states "We have 91996 pages of documents, of which 25264 are unreviewed." so I have no idea how that translates to 700K documents.
I commend the idea and the effort. But there are 700,000 documents, each with how many pages each? It's an interesting idea but will the crowd's enthusiasm hold up?
Each doc is usually around 1-5 pages - but there's so much redaction it's almost worthless (have a peek here). As to the crowd's enthusiasm - I can't see it waning unless the govmt get another crisis to hide this behind. Most folks want to see a significant change in the way MPs are paid, and this really kicked the Labour party in the knackers at the recent local & European elections (admittedly it may have been more akin to kicking them while they were down, what with the current PM being as charismatic as month old roadkill, and the Iraq war being such a success).
I wouldn't dispute that this works for some folks - however there are other considerations that you may well be overlooking. In central London, house/flat prices/rents are rather high - so that means lower income folks have to live out in the 'burbs or in less desirable areas. These are frequently not where the jobs are, so that means you commute. Pretty much any commute in London is an hour minimum. If you live far enough out that you can get a fast train in to London - chances are you then need a tube (or two) to get to your workplace, and they're not the speediest of modes of transport. Alternatively, the slower trains stop pretty much everywhere, and so you're still looking at a messy commute. It's rare to have a short commute in London
Another thing to consider is a family life - if both folks work, then you have to balance disparate travel destinations in your choice of home, as well as the affordability factor. Or, you have to consider where you want to have your child schooled.
You might well say "hey, change job", but in these times there is not necessarily the variety choice of job there was available a few years ago, and almost certainly not the pay.
Saying all that - I still can't see this car working spectacularly well in London - there's the congestion charge to pay if you have to go to central London, plus parking fees which might make the train a more financially viable option
In theory, our motorways are the equivalents to the US interstate roads. Three lanes (sometimes 4, sometimes 2) @ 70mph speed limits (most times) - however we have too many cars, so particular junctions get snarled up in traffic and the motorways get turned into glorified car parks. It doesn't help that our trains are too expensive
USA is half as population dense as Europe, approximately, so yes, there will be an impact on what sort of public transport infrastructure there is. Canada is what skews the stats for N America as it's bigger than Europe on its own. But there there will be a different balance of public transport. That's all I was saying. I'm not trying to make out that train is king everywhere - just pointing out that car is not king everywhere.
nah - just doing 30-odd miles either in a boat going really quite slowly, or in a train going really quite fast (it takes 35mins in the train). Overall journey distance is ~300 miles.
Anyhoo - have also posted same-landmass comparisons that show the same thing - travel time on various modes of transport vary depending on what is available. All the Syracuse -> Boston person is saying is that there is no decent rail link between those two cities and extrapolating that this means trains are bad everywhere
It's quite possible - just for a portion of the journey your car is either on a train (with you in it, and probably going faster than you'd drive over the same distance) or on a ferry (with you wandering around, but meandering across the channel).
Alternatively, Paris -> Lyon by train is 2 hours, or 4 hours by car and probably a bit over an hour by plane (plus the required 2 hour shopping trip in the terminal).
Train still wins.
London to Scotland is even more fun:
Car: 7hrs plus (and I'd be surprised if that happened given the state of the main route to get there)
Plane: 4.5 hours (assuming you dodge all the main line repairs!)
Plane: 1.5 hours, plus check in times and transfers
All I was doing was illustrating that rail is mostly the best option for long distance if overall travel time (assuming everything runs to the timetable) was what you care about. It all depends on the journey you are making and what infrastructure is in place to enable that journey.
Train: 2hrs 25mins (plus check-in times: 30mins for regular punters, but can be as low as 10 mins)
Plane: 1hr 25mins (plus travel to the airport, plus a check-in delay of 2hrs, plus transfer time to centre of Paris (at least 40mins))
Car: 5hrs 17 mins plus traffic delays
It all depends on the trip you're making and the infrastructure that's in place to service that trip. The above is a moderately similar distance trip to yours.
So, it's alright for the CoS to forbid their followers from viewing certain websites but not alright for others to ban CoS from editing their sites? Hmm - somewhere in there I think there's a double standard (although I admit that the referenced article is rather unlikely to be unbiased, as is the wiki on the topic)
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Hmm - I sense a new reality show for the emigrants...... Maybe combine it with some Running Man scenarios for added fun
I won't be voting on American Idiot, or even the more local X-Factor. The last soap-opera wedding I saw was Charlene and Scott in Erinsborough (I didn't cry).
That's assuming we can build sufficient transport to offload folks faster than we breed - otherwise a large group of folks will be left to feel the heat....
I'm sure we'll develop something that can shift us around the universe - even if it's just building a generation-ship, but will it be big enough to take *everyone*?
So, no, it is actually pretty bloody scary, as they successfully changed the biometrics of the copy.
I think this is a good idea and folks should be encouraged to make such modifications to MPs ID cards - in particular Wacky Jacqui and Alan Johnson, but this list could easily expand
Secondly, and more significantly, that kind of vigorous bashing about is not good for brain cells. 3 years of this, 5 days a week at least, can't have done him much good.
Ho hum - mildly clever to put it all together, but a dumb idea overall
Depends on how promiscuous you are.....
On the other hand, you could probably sniff their IMSI and then clone their handset :-)
Not reviewed by the "crowdsource" - all docs are redacted by the govmt
In German "ei" is pronounced "aye", and "ie" is pronounced "ee" (or thereabouts, anyways)
As long as it's not 55378008
Now updated to We have 134039 pages of documents, of which 57403 are unreviewed., so it would seem another large chunk got uploaded in the last few hours
ah - that makes sense. All the furore is an interesting read, though, and possibly a handy distraction from more serious aspects of parliament...:-)
Supplement - the Guardian link in the /. article states "We have 91996 pages of documents, of which 25264 are unreviewed." so I have no idea how that translates to 700K documents.
I commend the idea and the effort. But there are 700,000 documents, each with how many pages each? It's an interesting idea but will the crowd's enthusiasm hold up?
Each doc is usually around 1-5 pages - but there's so much redaction it's almost worthless (have a peek here). As to the crowd's enthusiasm - I can't see it waning unless the govmt get another crisis to hide this behind. Most folks want to see a significant change in the way MPs are paid, and this really kicked the Labour party in the knackers at the recent local & European elections (admittedly it may have been more akin to kicking them while they were down, what with the current PM being as charismatic as month old roadkill, and the Iraq war being such a success).
Post that here, got modded +1 Insightful. Post that in South Korea, get modded +1 Funny.
Post that in N Korea, get arrested
It's the Right to Roam - also available outside of the UK
Another thing to consider is a family life - if both folks work, then you have to balance disparate travel destinations in your choice of home, as well as the affordability factor. Or, you have to consider where you want to have your child schooled.
You might well say "hey, change job", but in these times there is not necessarily the variety choice of job there was available a few years ago, and almost certainly not the pay.
Saying all that - I still can't see this car working spectacularly well in London - there's the congestion charge to pay if you have to go to central London, plus parking fees which might make the train a more financially viable option
You probably mean these fellas
In theory, our motorways are the equivalents to the US interstate roads. Three lanes (sometimes 4, sometimes 2) @ 70mph speed limits (most times) - however we have too many cars, so particular junctions get snarled up in traffic and the motorways get turned into glorified car parks. It doesn't help that our trains are too expensive
USA is half as population dense as Europe, approximately, so yes, there will be an impact on what sort of public transport infrastructure there is. Canada is what skews the stats for N America as it's bigger than Europe on its own. But there there will be a different balance of public transport. That's all I was saying. I'm not trying to make out that train is king everywhere - just pointing out that car is not king everywhere.
Anyhoo - have also posted same-landmass comparisons that show the same thing - travel time on various modes of transport vary depending on what is available. All the Syracuse -> Boston person is saying is that there is no decent rail link between those two cities and extrapolating that this means trains are bad everywhere
Alternatively, Paris -> Lyon by train is 2 hours, or 4 hours by car and probably a bit over an hour by plane (plus the required 2 hour shopping trip in the terminal).
Train still wins.
London to Scotland is even more fun:
Car: 7hrs plus (and I'd be surprised if that happened given the state of the main route to get there)
Plane: 4.5 hours (assuming you dodge all the main line repairs!)
Plane: 1.5 hours, plus check in times and transfers
All I was doing was illustrating that rail is mostly the best option for long distance if overall travel time (assuming everything runs to the timetable) was what you care about. It all depends on the journey you are making and what infrastructure is in place to enable that journey.
Train: 2hrs 25mins (plus check-in times: 30mins for regular punters, but can be as low as 10 mins)
Plane: 1hr 25mins (plus travel to the airport, plus a check-in delay of 2hrs, plus transfer time to centre of Paris (at least 40mins))
Car: 5hrs 17 mins plus traffic delays
It all depends on the trip you're making and the infrastructure that's in place to service that trip. The above is a moderately similar distance trip to yours.
50 good games for every crap game? Come on - we're not that gullible
The other way round, on the other hand......
So, it's alright for the CoS to forbid their followers from viewing certain websites but not alright for others to ban CoS from editing their sites? Hmm - somewhere in there I think there's a double standard (although I admit that the referenced article is rather unlikely to be unbiased, as is the wiki on the topic)