AFAIK, in Australia (which is where I am) leaving my door unlocked does not invalidate my contents insurance.
Unfortunately, this is not the case in the UK - policies usually come with riders like "all doors & windows must be locked to a particular standard when you are out, keys not visible on the inside". If you get robbed and have left the door unlocked, then you are technically not a victim of crime, but have instead "misplaced" your belongings and you'll have an interesting time trying to get the insurance company to pay out - I had this problem around 15 years ago, (maybe the law has changed, but the insurance wording sure as hell hasn't).
CSOs are "not-quite coppers" that help out around the place. From here, they are:
CSOs are police authority support staff. They are intended to be used on high-visibility foot patrol, providing a strong anti-crime presence, and reassuring the communities they serve.
They complement the work of police officers by focusing predominantly on lower level crime, disorder and anti social behaviour. As such, they are an important weapon in the Government's drive to crack down on anti-social behaviour.
The Police Reform Act allows chiefs of police to designate CSOs with sufficient enforcement powers to enable them to perform their duties effectively. Having a strong CSO unit capable of dealing with minor nuisance crimes can free up regular police officers to concentrate on more serious crimes.
Why on earth would I mind someone asking to use my garden tap?
Maybe you're not on a water meter, like any new house in the UK is (unless you don't mind paying for the volume of your water supply that Joe Public might use on your garden tap, in which case, good on yer):-)
I doubt there's any really good analogy that can be made to squatting on someones open wireless router - typically, UK broadband is capped at a monthly download maximum, but it will depend on your supplier. Under *most* non-geek circumstances (i.e. home use is purely web browsing and email, no downloading of "linux ISOs" via bittorrent) the home user will get nowhere near their bandwidth cap, so IMHO this person may not have been depriving the owner of anything. Would be interesting if the owner of the router in question came forward and said "it's open because I like sharing" - although then the think-of-the-children-brigade may behead them when someone d/ls kiddie-porn via their router.
99.9% of lottery players don't win, but do you think they would play if there was no prize?
Wahey - I'm going out and buying 1000 different lottery tickets if this is the case! Well worth the investment (assuming by "win", you meant to get the top prize).
In the UK, allegedly 98ish% of people don't win on the National Lottery (although the smallest prize is £10 so that 50:1 shot gets you a 10:1 return). But 99.99999%ish of people don't win the top prize (I think the odds are around 14,000,000:1 to get all the numbers - and given that the top prize is "only" a few million quid, and that your stake is £1, that means you're more likely to win on a longshot accumulator. Still, I've always contended that it's an "idiot tax")
Of course not, this is/. - we don't read the content. We just try and make an "all your XXX are belong to us", "in soviet russia..." or "1.2.3.Profit!!" jokes from whatever post there is, or just invent a stupid position and arbitrarily quote wiki to justify it.
Shit, I've got a doctorate in maths and didn't notice until reading your post
Depth is a vertical measure, so yes, if looking from vertically above the deepest point, you will need to look through at most 10,911m (or thereabouts) of seawater. Looking at that point (or any other, for that matter) at an angle will alter that value.
Not saying I agree that he's not a kook, just saying that there (probably) exists at least one straight line in the oceans that is 16km long and only intersects with water and has an end point at the surface.
but how many discs are going to include more than eight hours of HD content
a) Lord of The Rings remastered re-release
b) Star Wars remastered (yet again)
No-one would ever need any more than 640KB...
There's bound to be another "next big blockbuster series" that'll get stuck on this format in all it's glory, with oodles of side footage that only the most tenacious of fans would sit through.
Can't you turn that on its head too? The time used in selecting a good candidate for the job will result in time savings in whatever it is you do, as you don't have to hand-hold them through the early stages of employment so much (i.e. they become productive that much quicker)
Don't necessarily volounteer, maybe, but at least point out the rationale...
Ok, name one single instance in which the current UK government has attempted to have "evil" music genres banned, or one single instance in which the current UK government has attempted to have music critical of it banned
But if the car doesn't even come with an emergency brake as a standard part and you have to go to a 3rd party supplier to obtain one (e.g. AV, Firewall, disabling certain services) - who's liable then? The car manufacturer?
That might be a reasonable price for a high-resolution high-bitrate version of the episode on DVD media, with attractive packaging, and no additional costs for downloading.
It is a completely unreasonable price for a low-resolution low-bitrate version of the episode on NO media, with NO packaging, and additional costs for downloading.
The media and packaging are a complete waste of space, IMHO. I admit that preferences vary, but note that the $1.50 you are paying is for a very old series #9 episode on DVD. Personally, I don't really rate the extras on any DVD (except maybe for blooper reels) - so from a content point of view there's not much difference.
In terms of high vs low bitrate - most stuff appearing on torrents are in HD. That's enough quality for me (as I don't have a HD TV). Cost of downloading is nil, for me, as I have a all-you-can-eat provider that lets me grab as much as I like. People still on a 56K modem might have a different cost, but then this product offering would not be aimed at that sort of folk
As I said, if a studio *did* offer high quality downloads of TV shows as they air to countries where the show is not airing, they would get revenue. Whether it's more than selling the broadcast rights to some company, or if it would dent the potential revenue from that source - I don't know. I do know that I, and others like me, would willingly pay for fresh, up to date episodes of TV shows. Preferably DRM and ad free, although I think that is a rather large pill to swallow.
according to certain sources, all/most commercial aircraft in the US had/have a system installed which allows the government to control a plane from the ground through a backdoor in the autopilot system
No showstopper? Can you cite references to this back-door into the autopilot system? I could see where a nasty individual on the plane could maybe program some GPS waypoints into the autopilot that takes them to downtown Manhattan, but injection of this from the ground? And without the pilot being able to do anything about it?
That leaves the "replacement planes" theory... Where are all the people that were on those flights? Surely this theory would dictate that the flights were switched and the passengers were spirited away somewhere and disappeared?
There seems to be 22 episodes per series of the Simpsons, and the current series is #18. Series #9 is retailing at $33 so that would suggest that $1.50 is a reasonable cost to own an episode. Hell, even the first series is still $30 at amazon. Series #9 (the latest available to buy) was aired 9 years ago, and series #1 was aired in 1989!!! (On a side note, UK consumers are still getting screwed by the infamous $1:£1 currency converter - #9 costs £30 (aka ~$60))
If a network put the series that weren't available up for pay-per-view on a server, they'd take a fortune and people would pay it. Whether they can make a larger fortune by buying^H^H^H^H^H^H lobbying legislation like DMCA, witholding the DVD releases and dribbling episodes to networks (foreign or domestic), is another question
In the UK you get told to leave if you bring your own food - it's a high markup item in the foyer and they dislike losing that revenue stream. Yes, it's quite simple to sneak stuff in, but that limits what you can eat & drink too. I also like to be able to pause the film so I can go for a pee/snack break.
In terms of the full on surround goodness - yes on stuff like Gladiator that uses it to full effect, it's great. I'd question its value on releases such as "The Queen". While I wouldn't watch a cam-copy, the DVD rips that come out at similar times to the cinema release are perfectly adequate.
I think the entire Virgin fleet run on that system - but it's been upgraded to hide Tux on reboot nowadays (unfortunately it still needs to reboot with disturbing regularity). Still, a very good system when it works (which is most of the time). My main gripe with it is that I don't use the hand-out headphones, and when an announcement is made I get deafened as it cuts in at high volume.
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I doubt there's any really good analogy that can be made to squatting on someones open wireless router - typically, UK broadband is capped at a monthly download maximum, but it will depend on your supplier. Under *most* non-geek circumstances (i.e. home use is purely web browsing and email, no downloading of "linux ISOs" via bittorrent) the home user will get nowhere near their bandwidth cap, so IMHO this person may not have been depriving the owner of anything. Would be interesting if the owner of the router in question came forward and said "it's open because I like sharing" - although then the think-of-the-children-brigade may behead them when someone d/ls kiddie-porn via their router.
Weeks? Hours, surely!
In the UK, allegedly 98ish% of people don't win on the National Lottery (although the smallest prize is £10 so that 50:1 shot gets you a 10:1 return). But 99.99999%ish of people don't win the top prize (I think the odds are around 14,000,000:1 to get all the numbers - and given that the top prize is "only" a few million quid, and that your stake is £1, that means you're more likely to win on a longshot accumulator. Still, I've always contended that it's an "idiot tax")
Of course not, this is /. - we don't read the content. We just try and make an "all your XXX are belong to us", "in soviet russia..." or "1.2.3.Profit!!" jokes from whatever post there is, or just invent a stupid position and arbitrarily quote wiki to justify it.
Shit, I've got a doctorate in maths and didn't notice until reading your post
Depth is a vertical measure, so yes, if looking from vertically above the deepest point, you will need to look through at most 10,911m (or thereabouts) of seawater. Looking at that point (or any other, for that matter) at an angle will alter that value.
Not saying I agree that he's not a kook, just saying that there (probably) exists at least one straight line in the oceans that is 16km long and only intersects with water and has an end point at the surface.
a) Lord of The Rings remastered re-release
b) Star Wars remastered (yet again)
No-one would ever need any more than 640KB...
There's bound to be another "next big blockbuster series" that'll get stuck on this format in all it's glory, with oodles of side footage that only the most tenacious of fans would sit through.
You missed entropy, though. I got that, and now you're not allowed to have any
Also, the WTO was effectively initiated by the USA after WW2 (in the ITO/GATT form)
or as lazy as me in not spell checking "Wisconsonian" :-)
Don't necessarily volounteer, maybe, but at least point out the rationale...
While a lot of the above describe actions by individual radio stations or "content providers" like the BBC, governments always want to meddle too, and there's enough talk of ppl trying to get legislation to do just that...
The media and packaging are a complete waste of space, IMHO. I admit that preferences vary, but note that the $1.50 you are paying is for a very old series #9 episode on DVD. Personally, I don't really rate the extras on any DVD (except maybe for blooper reels) - so from a content point of view there's not much difference.
In terms of high vs low bitrate - most stuff appearing on torrents are in HD. That's enough quality for me (as I don't have a HD TV). Cost of downloading is nil, for me, as I have a all-you-can-eat provider that lets me grab as much as I like. People still on a 56K modem might have a different cost, but then this product offering would not be aimed at that sort of folk
As I said, if a studio *did* offer high quality downloads of TV shows as they air to countries where the show is not airing, they would get revenue. Whether it's more than selling the broadcast rights to some company, or if it would dent the potential revenue from that source - I don't know. I do know that I, and others like me, would willingly pay for fresh, up to date episodes of TV shows. Preferably DRM and ad free, although I think that is a rather large pill to swallow.
No showstopper? Can you cite references to this back-door into the autopilot system? I could see where a nasty individual on the plane could maybe program some GPS waypoints into the autopilot that takes them to downtown Manhattan, but injection of this from the ground? And without the pilot being able to do anything about it?
That leaves the "replacement planes" theory... Where are all the people that were on those flights? Surely this theory would dictate that the flights were switched and the passengers were spirited away somewhere and disappeared?
There seems to be 22 episodes per series of the Simpsons, and the current series is #18. Series #9 is retailing at $33 so that would suggest that $1.50 is a reasonable cost to own an episode. Hell, even the first series is still $30 at amazon. Series #9 (the latest available to buy) was aired 9 years ago, and series #1 was aired in 1989!!! (On a side note, UK consumers are still getting screwed by the infamous $1:£1 currency converter - #9 costs £30 (aka ~$60))
If a network put the series that weren't available up for pay-per-view on a server, they'd take a fortune and people would pay it. Whether they can make a larger fortune by buying^H^H^H^H^H^H lobbying legislation like DMCA, witholding the DVD releases and dribbling episodes to networks (foreign or domestic), is another question
In terms of the full on surround goodness - yes on stuff like Gladiator that uses it to full effect, it's great. I'd question its value on releases such as "The Queen". While I wouldn't watch a cam-copy, the DVD rips that come out at similar times to the cinema release are perfectly adequate.
I think the entire Virgin fleet run on that system - but it's been upgraded to hide Tux on reboot nowadays (unfortunately it still needs to reboot with disturbing regularity). Still, a very good system when it works (which is most of the time). My main gripe with it is that I don't use the hand-out headphones, and when an announcement is made I get deafened as it cuts in at high volume.