It is unclear to me why people consider it ok for stuff to be stored indefinitely in a live policeman's brain but not on his HDD.
When there is a manual effort involved in collecting and storing data, it will be more likely to be targeted towards serious criminal activity. When data is collected automatically in bulk, there is no such targeting and lots of data is collected and stored about people with no criminal connections. This can be used against them (e.g. corrupt policemen selling info about 'celebs', policeman targeting his 'love rival' etc.)
Skips can often be turned into much less annoying clicks by 'scratching out' the skip with a pin. Just scratch gently along the groove and repeat until it no longer skips. I've done this successfully on several occasions.
I think you're wrong. Having freely distributed a piece of software under the GPL, you can't turn round and sue people for using it because you effectively gave them an implied free time-unlimited patent license. Legally speaking, I believe it's estoppel.
It's like giving a gift (clearly stating it's a gift) and then later saying you want it back or you want money for it.
When you say "you don't think that's enough. So you want to hack in and inflict damage. Nice...Judge Jury and executioner even after they have been judged, found guilty and are serving time." I think you're confusing me with one of the higher level posters (mcgrew?) who might have justified such acts. Maybe you should go back and check who posted what.
Don't know about US equivalents (domestic air flights I guess) but in the UK internal business travel is often by first class rail - with power sockets. That means in a UK business-meeting type day you might spend 3hrs on trains with sockets, 4 hours in offices with sockets and 3hrs in various in between places (taxis, waitng rooms, lobbies) on battery power. In this sort of setup, battery life is much less important than (if you really need to) being able to power/charge a useful peripheral. And of course if you're driving, you can charge the device off the cigar lighter socket. It would be pretty unusual here to go more than an hour or two without a handy mains socket.
Yes, you did. Some NoW employees have already been tried, convicted and served time for some of the phone hacking.
As for the rest, News International has effectively confessed to wide scale phone hacking (i.e. handing evidence to police saying 'here's whose phones were hacked'). Any trials will be more about police corruption, and possibly exactly *who* knew about/authorized hacking. The statement "The hacks are proven" is true.
The shitty and hacked-up Linux 'distros' which appeared on the first netbooks certainly didn't help.
Yes, like the Xandros install which came with my eeePC 1000. Hopeless in so many ways, but above all virtually useless because the Wireless connection was constantly dropping out. If I'd been an 'ordinary consumer' I would have taken it back. Instead I put Ubuntu Netbook edition on it and it was rock solid and still is. My wife loves it.
If you get 100 books to a box, then you either have very large boxes or very small books.
80% of the 15,000 are smallish paperback novels, and yes we do use large boxes for moving. My crude calculation is very roughly 12 layers of 9 books, i.e. 108 per box.
Now every time I go to a party or generally hang out with my old friends I get to spend an hour of people chastising me... I've had five people all gang up on me... It gets worse when these people show up places, since then I have to listen to them guilt trip me as well.
You stand there for an *hour* "getting chastised"? By your *friends*? And you *have* to listen to them guilt trip you? That's virtually unbelievable.
See, you're a grown-up now. You're not in front of the school principal. You don't have to take 2 minutes of this, let alone an hour.
How about (polite) "I'm not 'friending' this person. I've stated my reasons. Please do not ask again" (less polite) "What part of 'no' don't you understand?" (finally) "Just fuck off with this shit will you" (leaves room).
Or just be spineless for the rest of your life. It's up to you.
I've got about 500 'pressed' CDs, bought between 1987 and 2010 and all but four of them ripped perfectly (with grip/cdparanoia) last year, two had minor glitches despite error correction, and two were totally unreadable past a particular point (with pin-point holes visible in the metal layer). I think that's pretty impressive really.
Its the UK, a different culture. There they believe its the governments right to totally control how you live... death is just the endgame, and not surprisingly, the govt wants to stay in charge right till the end.
Don't know why this has got an insightful mod, given that in the particular case of assisted suicide, although technically still illegal, there are now official guidelines as to how to avoid being prosecuted as an 'assistant' - i.e. a de-facto partial legalisation has occurred recently.
Another non-UK resident making simplistic generalized assumptions about the UK.
And if you read the license, you're not permitted to run it on non-apple hardware.
And the license clause may or may not be valid according to your local laws (consumer, contract etc.). In some jurisdictions post-sale conditions are not necessarily enforcable, and the license would only be valid if you were required to read and sign it before/at time of purchase. In other jurisdictions your right to use something you have bought** however you wish*** may take precedence. As Apple has shown no inclination to take individual purchasers**** to court for running OS X on non-Apple hardware, it may well be that even they have doubts about this clause's enforceability.
**This includes something which is conducted as if it was a sale even if Apple claims you didn't really buy but licensed. ***However you wish - subject to basic copyright law etc. (but not necessarily subject to Apple's additional license conditions). ****Apple vs Psystar raised some different issues and does not directly bear upon an indivdual purchaser's rights to use OS X on their own hardware.
To summarize: Just because Apple says something is so this does not make it the law.
If the idea of a mileage tax was the goal, they would talk about doing periodic odometer readings. I have yet to hear anyone who is proposing a mileage tax suggest basing it on odometer readings.
The point is that odometer readings are too crude. If you are going to do mileage based charging you probably want to do it variably based on where and when. For example, you might want to charge 0.1c per mile on a lightly used road in the middle of the night and 5c per mile on a congested road in the rush hour. I'm not saying this is a good idea necessarily (especially with the sinister tracking potential) but it does give some rational justification for GPS tracking rather than odometer readings.
Who cares? This is no one's business but the person who committed the adultery and the parties involved.
What about Fred Goodwin? His (unreported to the board) affair with a colleague at RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland, massive taxpayer bailout, investigations ongoing into FG's behaviour) and her two promotions are highly likely to be a breach of corporate rules and is of definite interest to the FSA (financial services authority, a statutory body in the UK). His 'privacy' injunction (now partly overturned so we can refer to the affair but not to who she is) was preventing another part of the UK legal system from investigating his possible wrong doing. It's also of legitimate public interest due to the taxpayer bailout.
Also, when it comes to celebrities having affairs it's of legitimate interest to the public and where applicable their sponsors if they are fraudulently trading on their 'family man' image.
More likely as it has no UK 'presence' (AFAIK) he will want the courts to order UK ISPs to block/. They already have the mechanism for CP use (google 'clean feed').
The 'great firewall' - coming to your country soon (including the US - see latest copyright infringement proposals).
Right, I should have said 'The Provisional IRA', not just the 'the IRA', but most people would take IRA=PIRA in a recent context unless otherwise indicated. The original statement about is still wrong. PIRA effectively quit before 9/11 and RIRA never quit at all. Nobody quit due to 9/11.
Which general purpose OS will stop the user from DOWNLOADING a piece of malware?
Pretty much any repository based (typically but I suppose not necessarily *nix) operating system, particularly if you use one with an extensive set of packages, will effectively stop you donwloading most malware.
No, it's not 100%, it's theoretically possible to get malware into the OS's own repositories and I believe it maybe happened once or twice. In practice the risk is effectively zero. And yes, sometimes you need to step outside the official repositories. But most home users will get at least 95% of their needs from the official repos (in my case it's currently >99%, i.e. all but one package).
Let's say it's 95% from official repos, and also that 1/14 of the non-repo software is malware for these systems, same as windows. That gives you a malware rate of 1/14=7% for non-repo systems and 5% of 1/14 = 0.4% for repo based systems.
A crude calculation and so the actual figure is disputable, but the basic principle is valid.
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It is unclear to me why people consider it ok for stuff to be stored indefinitely in a live policeman's brain but not on his HDD.
When there is a manual effort involved in collecting and storing data, it will be more likely to be targeted towards serious criminal activity.
When data is collected automatically in bulk, there is no such targeting and lots of data is collected and stored about people with no criminal connections. This can be used against them (e.g. corrupt policemen selling info about 'celebs', policeman targeting his 'love rival' etc.)
But 'Martha My Dear' has a skip on it.
Skips can often be turned into much less annoying clicks by 'scratching out' the skip with a pin. Just scratch gently along the groove and repeat until it no longer skips.
I've done this successfully on several occasions.
I think you're wrong. Having freely distributed a piece of software under the GPL, you can't turn round and sue people for using it because you effectively gave them an implied free time-unlimited patent license.
Legally speaking, I believe it's estoppel.
It's like giving a gift (clearly stating it's a gift) and then later saying you want it back or you want money for it.
When you say "you don't think that's enough. So you want to hack in and inflict damage. Nice...Judge Jury and executioner even after they have been judged, found guilty and are serving time." I think you're confusing me with one of the higher level posters (mcgrew?) who might have justified such acts. Maybe you should go back and check who posted what.
Don't know about US equivalents (domestic air flights I guess) but in the UK internal business travel is often by first class rail - with power sockets. That means in a UK business-meeting type day you might spend 3hrs on trains with sockets, 4 hours in offices with sockets and 3hrs in various in between places (taxis, waitng rooms, lobbies) on battery power. In this sort of setup, battery life is much less important than (if you really need to) being able to power/charge a useful peripheral.
And of course if you're driving, you can charge the device off the cigar lighter socket.
It would be pretty unusual here to go more than an hour or two without a handy mains socket.
"Suspect? SUSPECT? The hacks were proven."
I must have missed the trial and the sentencing.
Yes, you did. Some NoW employees have already been tried, convicted and served time for some of the phone hacking.
As for the rest, News International has effectively confessed to wide scale phone hacking (i.e. handing evidence to police saying 'here's whose phones were hacked'). Any trials will be more about police corruption, and possibly exactly *who* knew about/authorized hacking.
The statement "The hacks are proven" is true.
One of these maybe?
http://www.cardiffaquabus.com/
Listen to the wise man!
(47,1963,1999)
It will be when cheques/checks are abolished (2018 is the date the UK banks are trying for).
The shitty and hacked-up Linux 'distros' which appeared on the first netbooks certainly didn't help.
Yes, like the Xandros install which came with my eeePC 1000. Hopeless in so many ways, but above all virtually useless because the Wireless connection was constantly dropping out. If I'd been an 'ordinary consumer' I would have taken it back. Instead I put Ubuntu Netbook edition on it and it was rock solid and still is. My wife loves it.
If you get 100 books to a box, then you either have very large boxes or very small books.
80% of the 15,000 are smallish paperback novels, and yes we do use large boxes for moving. My crude calculation is very roughly 12 layers of 9 books, i.e. 108 per box.
Now every time I go to a party or generally hang out with my old friends I get to spend an hour of people chastising me...
I've had five people all gang up on me...
It gets worse when these people show up places, since then I have to listen to them guilt trip me as well.
You stand there for an *hour* "getting chastised"? By your *friends*? And you *have* to listen to them guilt trip you? That's virtually unbelievable.
See, you're a grown-up now. You're not in front of the school principal. You don't have to take 2 minutes of this, let alone an hour.
How about (polite) "I'm not 'friending' this person. I've stated my reasons. Please do not ask again"
(less polite) "What part of 'no' don't you understand?"
(finally) "Just fuck off with this shit will you" (leaves room).
Or just be spineless for the rest of your life. It's up to you.
We've got a lot of cheap paperbacks dating back to the 1960's and they are all perfectly readable.
I've got about 500 'pressed' CDs, bought between 1987 and 2010 and all but four of them ripped perfectly (with grip/cdparanoia) last year, two had minor glitches despite error correction, and two were totally unreadable past a particular point (with pin-point holes visible in the metal layer). I think that's pretty impressive really.
1500? 15 boxes, 100 books each: an hour to pack at most (probably about 30 minutes).
We've got 15,000+
When we move, that *will* be a chore.
You could do it in a content-neutral way - charge for higher quality-of-service guarantees, regardless of what's in the packets.
It's illegal to fail to kill yourself,
Presuming we're talking about the UK (as this is Terry Pratchett) you're only 50 years out of date in this respect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Act_1961
It must really suck being you. You have no hope, no sense of decency or justice and apparently no belief in free will.
I guess God told you this, because there's certainly no reasonable way to extract this information from the post you replied to.
Its the UK, a different culture. There they believe its the governments right to totally control how you live... death is just the endgame, and not surprisingly, the govt wants to stay in charge right till the end.
Don't know why this has got an insightful mod, given that in the particular case of assisted suicide, although technically still illegal, there are now official guidelines as to how to avoid being prosecuted as an 'assistant' - i.e. a de-facto partial legalisation has occurred recently.
Another non-UK resident making simplistic generalized assumptions about the UK.
And if you read the license, you're not permitted to run it on non-apple hardware.
And the license clause may or may not be valid according to your local laws (consumer, contract etc.).
In some jurisdictions post-sale conditions are not necessarily enforcable, and the license would only be valid if you were required to read and sign it before/at time of purchase. In other jurisdictions your right to use something you have bought** however you wish*** may take precedence. As Apple has shown no inclination to take individual purchasers**** to court for running OS X on non-Apple hardware, it may well be that even they have doubts about this clause's enforceability.
**This includes something which is conducted as if it was a sale even if Apple claims you didn't really buy but licensed.
***However you wish - subject to basic copyright law etc. (but not necessarily subject to Apple's additional license conditions).
****Apple vs Psystar raised some different issues and does not directly bear upon an indivdual purchaser's rights to use OS X on their own hardware.
To summarize: Just because Apple says something is so this does not make it the law.
If the idea of a mileage tax was the goal, they would talk about doing periodic odometer readings. I have yet to hear anyone who is proposing a mileage tax suggest basing it on odometer readings.
The point is that odometer readings are too crude. If you are going to do mileage based charging you probably want to do it variably based on where and when. For example, you might want to charge 0.1c per mile on a lightly used road in the middle of the night and 5c per mile on a congested road in the rush hour.
I'm not saying this is a good idea necessarily (especially with the sinister tracking potential) but it does give some rational justification for GPS tracking rather than odometer readings.
Who cares? This is no one's business but the person who committed the adultery and the parties involved.
What about Fred Goodwin? His (unreported to the board) affair with a colleague at RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland, massive taxpayer bailout, investigations ongoing into FG's behaviour) and her two promotions are highly likely to be a breach of corporate rules and is of definite interest to the FSA (financial services authority, a statutory body in the UK). His 'privacy' injunction (now partly overturned so we can refer to the affair but not to who she is) was preventing another part of the UK legal system from investigating his possible wrong doing. It's also of legitimate public interest due to the taxpayer bailout.
Also, when it comes to celebrities having affairs it's of legitimate interest to the public and where applicable their sponsors if they are fraudulently trading on their 'family man' image.
Maybe now he will sue /. as well,
More likely as it has no UK 'presence' (AFAIK) he will want the courts to order UK ISPs to block /.
They already have the mechanism for CP use (google 'clean feed').
The 'great firewall' - coming to your country soon (including the US - see latest copyright infringement proposals).
Right, I should have said 'The Provisional IRA', not just the 'the IRA', but most people would take IRA=PIRA in a recent context unless otherwise indicated.
The original statement about is still wrong. PIRA effectively quit before 9/11 and RIRA never quit at all. Nobody quit due to 9/11.
Which general purpose OS will stop the user from DOWNLOADING a piece of malware?
Pretty much any repository based (typically but I suppose not necessarily *nix) operating system, particularly if you use one with an extensive set of packages, will effectively stop you donwloading most malware.
No, it's not 100%, it's theoretically possible to get malware into the OS's own repositories and I believe it maybe happened once or twice. In practice the risk is effectively zero.
And yes, sometimes you need to step outside the official repositories.
But most home users will get at least 95% of their needs from the official repos (in my case it's currently >99%, i.e. all but one package).
Let's say it's 95% from official repos, and also that 1/14 of the non-repo software is malware for these systems, same as windows. That gives you a malware rate of 1/14=7% for non-repo systems and 5% of 1/14 = 0.4% for repo based systems.
A crude calculation and so the actual figure is disputable, but the basic principle is valid.