QMC (University of:London) used to have a small nuclear reactor in Stratford E15. That's right where the London 2012 Olympic Park has been built. We had a visit there in 1981. They used to heat up a bit of water from the local stream and pour warm water back (kept the frogs happy). We asked "What happens if it melts down?" and the nuclear physicist who was showing us round said, "It's OK, not many folks live nearby.".
The reactor closed in 1982 and was de-commissioned shortly after that.So Usain Bolt won't be nuclear powered when he runs the 100m.
I live in a town of 14k people and we have just moved to 8Mb broadband speeds, the closest City, of around 250k people moved to 20Mb a year or so ago. There is no estimated date for my town to get access to BT's fibre network or Virgin's Cable network even if it ever comes to the City 13 miles away. I would not consider myself rural, im an hour's drive from the capital and 10 minutes drive from one of the major oil ports in the north sea. I'm in Scotland BTW, and the busy side, not the mountains, blue ocean, and unhappy crofters side.
Luxury. I live in a town of 140K and the best we can get is 4Mb.
Part of the problem is lack of investment by BT because they're a private company who have to feed their shareholders rather than giving the best possible service to their customers. Cameron and the ConDem Gov't can bleat on about superfast broadband for everyone including the folks in the Outer Hebrides but unless BT can turn that into a profit for their shareholders it ain't gonna happen.
I suspect most of the traffic is folks testing whether their ISP is imposing the censorship and if it is doing that testing whether proxies and/or VPN and/or OpenDNS/GoogleDNS or other methods circumvents that censorship.
If this stops one Abdul the Knicker Bomber from flyiing and taking his explosive laden body to hell along with the other 200+ folks on his flight then it's done what's needed.
The US DHS get my details and my fingerprints when I go through immigration so what's wrong with them getting that stuff 10 hours earlier?
...and some smaller ISPs don't use it. Major ones do use it because of some "gentleman's agreement"- so screw them. I'm a happy customer of AAISP- they have usage limits which annoy me, but other than that service has been great so far. It looks like an ISP run by IT guys for IT guys.
I have a fantastic ISP in Aberdeen they're exactly like that - they're a bunch of network guys running a stable network with 99.9+% availability. If I get any problem it's brilliant getting a nice Scottish voice on the phone who isn't a clueless drone in a call centre.
I don't want my gov't doing deep packet inspection.
I don't want my ISP doing DNS filtering.
I don't want my free and open Internet controlled that way.
I don't want a Great British Firewall
Because all of that shit is going to make my ISP want to charge me more money for the same services.
If I don't want my kids to see porn then I'll either a) sit behind them when they're using the computer, b) ban them from using it or c) install some shitty net nanny software and let them figure out how to crack it or how to bypass it.
Hyphenation is your friend. The title is extremely misleading. "Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store".
Real writers re-write to avoid the problem: "Feds shut down narcotics store that had been a TOR user". But you're right the standard of English grammar used today leaves a lot to be desired. Samuel Johnson, the Merriams and Noah Webster can be heard spinning at very high revolutions.
In the UK all STOP signs are yeild signs, and you can fail your driving test for stopping unnecessarily.
UK red lights are the other extreme (there is no 'right on red' allowance), if it's red, you shouldn't pass it except in an emergency.
WTF. That's not true. STOP means stop in the UK. GIVE WAY means yeild.
We'd never have "right on red", we drive on the wrong side of the street over here. Some lights have a left turn filter light (green left arrow that comes on while the main lights are still red).
There's a large number of businesses failing in this way in the UK right now (Peacocks went bust about 3mths ago). GAME have gone under with debts of £180M. They claim it's due to the rise of the online retailers (as if they didn't see that coming).
It's going to have a massive effect on unemployment in Basingstoke. The only good thing is that my daughter didn't get a job at GAME when she went for an interview there about 18mths ago.
might be smart matched with:
Robert Smith +1 1234 123456
Even without a hash you're going to struggle to match those two.There's too much difference even with stuff like soundex() unless you get the geo info so you can turn the "01234 123456" phone number into an international one.
If you get bob.smith@example.com from both as an email address that matches easily.And when you've captured that data item it's only a small step to find that in Google.You can use that matching data item as a tag for all the other stuff you've stolen from the user who has jsut done the click through on the EULA.
The EU has some much stronger laws on privacy which we have in the UK. I'd love to see what the UK's Info Commision make of the class action against Google, Instagram, Gowalla and others.
Make sure you know what you're going to do when your VPN or phone line or cell phone fails. It doesn't happen to me too often (thankfully I've got two different ways of connecting to my companies VPN) but when it does it's a PITA. You need a plan for whether you phone in and take the rest of the day off or drive in to the local branch office and use the backbone network there.
You also need a very reliable ISP. My lovely ISP in Aberdeen, Scotland are fantastic, when BT make my ADSL break Internet for Business are straight on to them. I get a nice warm body to speak to that speaks English and addresses me by first name - I don't get some random call centre in the Sub-Continent.
Please don't post links to the Daily Mail website, you're not helping our colonial friends in any way by posting links to their bland, lying, untrue, overblown, one-sided shite.
We should point out that the Daily Mail is to good printed journalism as Fox News is to good television journalism. I wouldn't wipe my arse with torn up copies of the daily mail, the ink comes off the paper too easily.
Indeed it can be argued that Lady DIana Spencer would not have died were it not for the Paparazzi's actions.
Er no. Diana Spencer may have been able to survive the road accident by doing two things 1) not getting in a car when the driver was THREE times over the French drink drive limit of 0.5mg and 2) wearing the three point seatbelt fitted to the rear seats of the car.
So you didn't bother to RTFA before posting that. They're trying to show that the easier to remember password may be easier to crack with a dictionary attack.
It's common sense for the police to treat the man as if he's lying. If the police assume he's telling the truth they risk putting a child in danger (and failing in their duty to protect the innocent) but if they assume he's lying then they can take measures.
There's more too it. The UK had a case (Baby P) where the authorities and social services failed dismally. So now they're shit scared of being tarred by that brush. This poor sap who is clueless about computers and the internet is a victim of the overweening and overzealous UK authorities who now don't want to be caught with their pants down.
If the pupetrator was caught with his pants down then he should be castrated and thown in jail for the rest of his natural.
If you are talking/texting you can always put down the phone it you encounter a difficult situation.
If you are drunk, you can't just stop being drunk just because you want to.
RTFA. You are the cause of the "difficult situation" you're not trying to avoid someone else who's texting while driving.
Can't folks find the OFF switch or AIRCRAFT MODE or just lock the damned phone in the boot (aka trunk) of the car. You can update FB when you get to a rest area and not while you're driving.
I don't have this problem for two reasons: 1. I'm that stupid fella on the bicycle that you're just about to attempt to kill and 2. I don't have or need a smartphone.
On Linked-In you are guaranteed to get your details peer-reviewed. Unless your peers want to support your lies you're going to have to write something that's close to the truth. So this appears to be another piece of pointless research and hardly news worthy enough for SlashDot.
Facebook statuses (like married, in a relationship, etc) are sticky.
What happens when the earthquake is done, the tsunami hasn't arrived yet and your status says "I'm safe".
Next thing the tidal wave hits, wiping out your house, your phone line, your computer and the local cell phone mast, your status is still showing "I'm safe" when you're anything but safe.
When will Facebook automagically reset your status to something neutral? Is that going to happen at midnight UTC, midnight PST or midnight local (JST if you're in Japan)? How is braindead Facebook going to handle that? (BTW my answer to that is badly.) How is Facebook going to work with daylight saving time (which may or may not be in effect)?
I cancelled my Facebook membership on 9th Dec 2011 (because I got bored with all the changes they kept making and all the over commercialisation), I have to say I've not missed getting 20 new photos of my brother's cats posted everyday.
Slashdot Mirror
Gwent Police explain texting while driving kills
The reactor closed in 1982 and was de-commissioned shortly after that.So Usain Bolt won't be nuclear powered when he runs the 100m.
So a quick Google turns up this Black-boxing the User: Internet Protocol over Xylophone Players (IPoXP)
I live in a town of 14k people and we have just moved to 8Mb broadband speeds, the closest City, of around 250k people moved to 20Mb a year or so ago. There is no estimated date for my town to get access to BT's fibre network or Virgin's Cable network even if it ever comes to the City 13 miles away. I would not consider myself rural, im an hour's drive from the capital and 10 minutes drive from one of the major oil ports in the north sea. I'm in Scotland BTW, and the busy side, not the mountains, blue ocean, and unhappy crofters side.
Luxury. I live in a town of 140K and the best we can get is 4Mb.
Part of the problem is lack of investment by BT because they're a private company who have to feed their shareholders rather than giving the best possible service to their customers. Cameron and the ConDem Gov't can bleat on about superfast broadband for everyone including the folks in the Outer Hebrides but unless BT can turn that into a profit for their shareholders it ain't gonna happen.
I suspect most of the traffic is folks testing whether their ISP is imposing the censorship and if it is doing that testing whether proxies and/or VPN and/or OpenDNS/GoogleDNS or other methods circumvents that censorship.
In the mean time hundreds of thousands of ££££s have been spent researching this. The price of beef has rocketed.
It's been a complete waste of money in my view.
The US DHS get my details and my fingerprints when I go through immigration so what's wrong with them getting that stuff 10 hours earlier?
...and some smaller ISPs don't use it. Major ones do use it because of some "gentleman's agreement"- so screw them. I'm a happy customer of AAISP- they have usage limits which annoy me, but other than that service has been great so far. It looks like an ISP run by IT guys for IT guys.
I have a fantastic ISP in Aberdeen they're exactly like that - they're a bunch of network guys running a stable network with 99.9+% availability. If I get any problem it's brilliant getting a nice Scottish voice on the phone who isn't a clueless drone in a call centre.
I don't want my ISP doing DNS filtering.
I don't want my free and open Internet controlled that way.
I don't want a Great British Firewall
Because all of that shit is going to make my ISP want to charge me more money for the same services.
If I don't want my kids to see porn then I'll either a) sit behind them when they're using the computer, b) ban them from using it or c) install some shitty net nanny software and let them figure out how to crack it or how to bypass it.
It's the parent's responsibility.
Hyphenation is your friend. The title is extremely misleading. "Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store".
Real writers re-write to avoid the problem: "Feds shut down narcotics store that had been a TOR user". But you're right the standard of English grammar used today leaves a lot to be desired. Samuel Johnson, the Merriams and Noah Webster can be heard spinning at very high revolutions.
In the UK all STOP signs are yeild signs, and you can fail your driving test for stopping unnecessarily. UK red lights are the other extreme (there is no 'right on red' allowance), if it's red, you shouldn't pass it except in an emergency.
WTF. That's not true. STOP means stop in the UK. GIVE WAY means yeild.
We'd never have "right on red", we drive on the wrong side of the street over here. Some lights have a left turn filter light (green left arrow that comes on while the main lights are still red).
If it's not an April Fool, it's not funny.
Whatever it is this Gov't won't be my Gov't after the next election.
It's going to have a massive effect on unemployment in Basingstoke. The only good thing is that my daughter didn't get a job at GAME when she went for an interview there about 18mths ago.
I can see how:
Uncle Bob 01234 123456
might be smart matched with:
Robert Smith +1 1234 123456
Even without a hash you're going to struggle to match those two.There's too much difference even with stuff like soundex() unless you get the geo info so you can turn the "01234 123456" phone number into an international one.
If you get bob.smith@example.com from both as an email address that matches easily.And when you've captured that data item it's only a small step to find that in Google.You can use that matching data item as a tag for all the other stuff you've stolen from the user who has jsut done the click through on the EULA.
The EU has some much stronger laws on privacy which we have in the UK. I'd love to see what the UK's Info Commision make of the class action against Google, Instagram, Gowalla and others.
Make sure you know what you're going to do when your VPN or phone line or cell phone fails. It doesn't happen to me too often (thankfully I've got two different ways of connecting to my companies VPN) but when it does it's a PITA. You need a plan for whether you phone in and take the rest of the day off or drive in to the local branch office and use the backbone network there.
You also need a very reliable ISP. My lovely ISP in Aberdeen, Scotland are fantastic, when BT make my ADSL break Internet for Business are straight on to them. I get a nice warm body to speak to that speaks English and addresses me by first name - I don't get some random call centre in the Sub-Continent.
This guy is generally despised in the UK. In fact when he was caught making his obscene calls and the BBC was fined by Ofcom because of it he said "All I ever wanted to do was make people laugh".
Well Russell, start when you're ready.
Please don't post links to the Daily Mail website, you're not helping our colonial friends in any way by posting links to their bland, lying, untrue, overblown, one-sided shite.
We should point out that the Daily Mail is to good printed journalism as Fox News is to good television journalism. I wouldn't wipe my arse with torn up copies of the daily mail, the ink comes off the paper too easily.
Indeed it can be argued that Lady DIana Spencer would not have died were it not for the Paparazzi's actions.
Er no. Diana Spencer may have been able to survive the road accident by doing two things 1) not getting in a car when the driver was THREE times over the French drink drive limit of 0.5mg and 2) wearing the three point seatbelt fitted to the rear seats of the car.
Just scanned a £12 note with no problem!
And you're now as guilty of infringing the Bank of England's copyright as I was when I scanned that 9 bob note.
Seriously the tenner in my wallet does have "© the Governor and Company of the Bank of England 2000" printed on the back of it.
http://xkcd.com/936/
So you didn't bother to RTFA before posting that. They're trying to show that the easier to remember password may be easier to crack with a dictionary attack.
on sending pure text as a Word doc attachment?
Should be a one dollar tax on that.
Worse is sending screen shots as word documents rather than a simple jpeg attachment. Anyone doing that should be sent to Gitmo.
It's common sense for the police to treat the man as if he's lying. If the police assume he's telling the truth they risk putting a child in danger (and failing in their duty to protect the innocent) but if they assume he's lying then they can take measures.
There's more too it. The UK had a case (Baby P) where the authorities and social services failed dismally. So now they're shit scared of being tarred by that brush. This poor sap who is clueless about computers and the internet is a victim of the overweening and overzealous UK authorities who now don't want to be caught with their pants down.
If the pupetrator was caught with his pants down then he should be castrated and thown in jail for the rest of his natural.
If you are talking/texting you can always put down the phone it you encounter a difficult situation. If you are drunk, you can't just stop being drunk just because you want to.
RTFA. You are the cause of the "difficult situation" you're not trying to avoid someone else who's texting while driving.
Can't folks find the OFF switch or AIRCRAFT MODE or just lock the damned phone in the boot (aka trunk) of the car. You can update FB when you get to a rest area and not while you're driving.
I don't have this problem for two reasons: 1. I'm that stupid fella on the bicycle that you're just about to attempt to kill and 2. I don't have or need a smartphone.
On Linked-In you are guaranteed to get your details peer-reviewed. Unless your peers want to support your lies you're going to have to write something that's close to the truth. So this appears to be another piece of pointless research and hardly news worthy enough for SlashDot.
What happens when the earthquake is done, the tsunami hasn't arrived yet and your status says "I'm safe".
Next thing the tidal wave hits, wiping out your house, your phone line, your computer and the local cell phone mast, your status is still showing "I'm safe" when you're anything but safe.
When will Facebook automagically reset your status to something neutral? Is that going to happen at midnight UTC, midnight PST or midnight local (JST if you're in Japan)? How is braindead Facebook going to handle that? (BTW my answer to that is badly.) How is Facebook going to work with daylight saving time (which may or may not be in effect)?
I cancelled my Facebook membership on 9th Dec 2011 (because I got bored with all the changes they kept making and all the over commercialisation), I have to say I've not missed getting 20 new photos of my brother's cats posted everyday.