I'm guessing, despite the lack of OTA TV service, the UK still requires folks in those areas to pay the TV licensing fee.
It doesn't matter how you receive your broadcast signal if you have "broadcast receiving equipment" you are required to pay the licence fee aka "BBC Tax".
extreme? a set top box costs the same as a DVD disc these days.
And how does that solve the problem?
We don't have nationwide cable TV. In my town (100,000 folks live here) the northern half of the town has cable, the southern half (where I live) doesn't, my POTS circuit is aluminium cable from the BT distribution cabinet (it's now using fibre to the cabinet). We're still relying on ground based DVB-T signals to get the free-to-air public service broadcasting TV. If we choose to pay our hard earned to Rupert Murdoch's sleazy SKY/Fox/News International empire we can have a satellite dish and his pay-TV services. There are some free-to-air services on Freesat.
Maybe they can borrow the BBC's television detector vans to help find them.
You may think TV Detector Vans a) exist and b) can detect TVs but I don't. I'm 100% convinced that TV Detector Vans are a carefully constructed Gov't hoax. The threat of the TV Detector Van is enough to pursuade most citizens to cough up the £142.50 TV Licence Fee (aka tax). The folks who don't pay that tax are now discovered by simple address matching. The TV Licensing Auth assumes a coverage of 100% of houses have TVs (and need to pay the tax). So they visit the ones that don't pay and occasionally visit the ones who claim to only have a B&W set. I've never seen a TV Detector Van in my forty nine years in the UK. I also think they're going to have a harder time spotting TVs that don't have CRTs.
Note: This is horribly alien to the Americans who don't have a tax on TV.
The Gov't in the guise of GCHQ and the UK based Americans do have some massive RF listening stations dotted around the UK (a hang over from the cold war with the Soviets), so they would be able to triangulate a gound based transmitter sending a false/tainted GPS signal. But it won't be done with a mythical detector van. Menwith Hill being the most famous station.
Read the source code - love the licence.txt
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I don't care if they store all of my email, they're going to get fucking bored reading them.
What I care more about is the amount of tax pounds my lovely Con-Dem Gov't is going to pay to Crapita or HP/EDS to build some half baked IT system to store this stuff. The record of big IT projects in the UK is piss poor. They've wasted £11bn (£11,000,000,000) on the National Health Service project for IT and currently don't have anything to show for that wastage.
What you have written states that there is only one game that has no point, rather than giving an example of one of a range of such games.
You should use "for example" not "e g (exempli gratia)" and "for instance" or "that is" instead of "i e (id est)", that makes your writing clear to everybody including the folks who don't have English (or Latin) as their first language.
In Britain every police car has ANPR (auto number plate recognition). They also have access to the insurance companies and DoT databases. Their system can tell a) if it's stolen, b) if it's insured and c) if it has a valid roadworthiness certificate (MOT certificate).
Anyone of those can trigger the boys in blue to give you a tug.
Maximum sentence 70 years, so no, not necessarily.
The UK has a reciprocal agreement with the USA. He could be convicted in the US but then be deported to serve time in a UK prison.
The fact that the NSA, CIA, FBI and DoD had open modems connected to the PSTN doesn't seem to bear any significance in this. Why aren't there some US folks being proscecuted for leaving the door wide open? Why aren't there any courts martial for the DoD folks who didn't stop this security breach?
Some poor kid with a computer and a modem and a random dialer gets the blame for all the ills of this US national security breach is a travesty. That's before we consider the desperately bad unilateral extradition agreement that my lovely Labour Gov't (Bliar and that clown Brown) signed up to (for "anti-terrorist reasons).
To be fair, the ZX81 was more important than some random beige box, as it was many people in the UK's first computer back in the early 80s, and has significance because of that. (But we already had that discussion four days ago- the thread is still live(!)- so probably not worth repeating it here!)
You're forgetting the Sinclair ZX80 (Z80 processor, 1K RAM expandable to 4K). If you made a lego model of that you'd need to include a model milk carton. That puppy would overheat if you didn't add extra cooling to the rubbish heatsink (in the form of a frozen milk carton).
Oh, come on. The source code is not going to tell you a whole lot, it would be only comprehensible to experts and it says nothing about the little hardware bits.
Perhaps she wants to make her own backup pacemaker using the Arduino she's just bought from Sparkfun.
I use Password Safe it stores my passwords behind a single master password. It stores URLs and user names and it can generate nice strong passwords. It's fugly but functional. There's one password needed to break everything, but that's what the original poster defined as his requirement.
Call me when drizzle runs on something besides Linux.
You may be right. I'd been messing with Drizzle for a few weeks (it was the lack of PHPMyAdmin that was stopping me). Today I switched from MySQL to MariaDB in less than an hour and PMA V3.4 works with no trouble.
This is the most ludicrous UK internet-related prosecution since the constructed misunderstanding over the Nottingham airport tweeter. And it's another example of the exciting possibilities the securitat have found recently in the concept that (allegedly) hurting people's feelings is illegal.
I don't think it's as silly as the Nottingham airport tweet.
This character was simply a nasty piece of work and got what he deserved - aspergers or not is no excuse for behaving in that way to the friends and family of someone who has just died.
The Nottingham airport tweeter was an idiot who said something in frustration at his flight being cancelled that was blown [sic] out of all proportion by the police and magistrates. His case is entirely absurd.
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I'm guessing, despite the lack of OTA TV service, the UK still requires folks in those areas to pay the TV licensing fee.
It doesn't matter how you receive your broadcast signal if you have "broadcast receiving equipment" you are required to pay the licence fee aka "BBC Tax".
So the correct thing to say would the "RSVP promptly".
It's probably more correct to stick to French and use "RSVP rapidement" (Respondez S'il Vous Plait rapidement).
extreme? a set top box costs the same as a DVD disc these days.
And how does that solve the problem?
We don't have nationwide cable TV. In my town (100,000 folks live here) the northern half of the town has cable, the southern half (where I live) doesn't, my POTS circuit is aluminium cable from the BT distribution cabinet (it's now using fibre to the cabinet). We're still relying on ground based DVB-T signals to get the free-to-air public service broadcasting TV. If we choose to pay our hard earned to Rupert Murdoch's sleazy SKY/Fox/News International empire we can have a satellite dish and his pay-TV services. There are some free-to-air services on Freesat.
Maybe they can borrow the BBC's television detector vans to help find them.
You may think TV Detector Vans a) exist and b) can detect TVs but I don't. I'm 100% convinced that TV Detector Vans are a carefully constructed Gov't hoax. The threat of the TV Detector Van is enough to pursuade most citizens to cough up the £142.50 TV Licence Fee (aka tax). The folks who don't pay that tax are now discovered by simple address matching. The TV Licensing Auth assumes a coverage of 100% of houses have TVs (and need to pay the tax). So they visit the ones that don't pay and occasionally visit the ones who claim to only have a B&W set. I've never seen a TV Detector Van in my forty nine years in the UK. I also think they're going to have a harder time spotting TVs that don't have CRTs.
Note: This is horribly alien to the Americans who don't have a tax on TV.
TV Detector Secrets
The Gov't in the guise of GCHQ and the UK based Americans do have some massive RF listening stations dotted around the UK (a hang over from the cold war with the Soviets), so they would be able to triangulate a gound based transmitter sending a false/tainted GPS signal. But it won't be done with a mythical detector van. Menwith Hill being the most famous station.
You'll love the non-restrictive EULA.
What I care more about is the amount of tax pounds my lovely Con-Dem Gov't is going to pay to Crapita or HP/EDS to build some half baked IT system to store this stuff. The record of big IT projects in the UK is piss poor. They've wasted £11bn (£11,000,000,000) on the National Health Service project for IT and currently don't have anything to show for that wastage.
Speaking as an American, I want the European version of privacy and the American version of Free Speech.
Speaking as a European. I 100% agree with you.
There grammerz grate, to.
Fixed yours to match the title.
All your base belong to us.
All your base are belong to us.
FTFY, you're welcome.
You should have used "e.g." rather than "i.e."
What you have written states that there is only one game that has no point, rather than giving an example of one of a range of such games.
You should use "for example" not "e g (exempli gratia)" and "for instance" or "that is" instead of "i e (id est)", that makes your writing clear to everybody including the folks who don't have English (or Latin) as their first language.
Anyone of those can trigger the boys in blue to give you a tug.
Maximum sentence 70 years, so no, not necessarily.
The UK has a reciprocal agreement with the USA. He could be convicted in the US but then be deported to serve time in a UK prison.
The fact that the NSA, CIA, FBI and DoD had open modems connected to the PSTN doesn't seem to bear any significance in this. Why aren't there some US folks being proscecuted for leaving the door wide open? Why aren't there any courts martial for the DoD folks who didn't stop this security breach?
Some poor kid with a computer and a modem and a random dialer gets the blame for all the ills of this US national security breach is a travesty. That's before we consider the desperately bad unilateral extradition agreement that my lovely Labour Gov't (Bliar and that clown Brown) signed up to (for "anti-terrorist reasons).
To be fair, the ZX81 was more important than some random beige box, as it was many people in the UK's first computer back in the early 80s, and has significance because of that. (But we already had that discussion four days ago- the thread is still live(!)- so probably not worth repeating it here!)
You're forgetting the Sinclair ZX80 (Z80 processor, 1K RAM expandable to 4K). If you made a lego model of that you'd need to include a model milk carton. That puppy would overheat if you didn't add extra cooling to the rubbish heatsink (in the form of a frozen milk carton).
Let the Chinese have the next go. Or is America going to start a cold war with them to start the space race to get to Moonbase Alpha first?
Oh, come on. The source code is not going to tell you a whole lot, it would be only comprehensible to experts and it says nothing about the little hardware bits.
Perhaps she wants to make her own backup pacemaker using the Arduino she's just bought from Sparkfun.
I use Password Safe it stores my passwords behind a single master password. It stores URLs and user names and it can generate nice strong passwords. It's fugly but functional. There's one password needed to break everything, but that's what the original poster defined as his requirement.
Or ASCII... ever tried reading the binary values for ASCII codes? Thankfully almost every hex editor ever built can decode ASCII...
But I understand the confusion - you just assume that if it isn't encrypted that it will be in a format that can be easily read...
The youth of today. You've not lived until you've decoded EBCDIC or read the holes on a Hollerith card or five bit paper tape.
ASCII is trivial compared to those three.
Debug everywhere.
Can you point out to those folks on the other side of the Atlantic that software patents stiffle invention and innovation.
Thanks.
Most studies (such as http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7910075.stm) have shown that texting actually increases skills.
So in your version of newspeak "most" means just the one article I found on the BBC website. That's not the same as my definition of most.
Here in the UK all the news comes from hacking cell phone voicemail systems.
Call me when drizzle runs on something besides Linux.
You may be right. I'd been messing with Drizzle for a few weeks (it was the lack of PHPMyAdmin that was stopping me). Today I switched from MySQL to MariaDB in less than an hour and PMA V3.4 works with no trouble.
Lets hope Canonical stick it into Oneiric
Its already forked :)
http://mariadb.org/
And to http://www.drizzle.org/
This is the most ludicrous UK internet-related prosecution since the constructed misunderstanding over the Nottingham airport tweeter. And it's another example of the exciting possibilities the securitat have found recently in the concept that (allegedly) hurting people's feelings is illegal.
I don't think it's as silly as the Nottingham airport tweet.
This character was simply a nasty piece of work and got what he deserved - aspergers or not is no excuse for behaving in that way to the friends and family of someone who has just died.
The Nottingham airport tweeter was an idiot who said something in frustration at his flight being cancelled that was blown [sic] out of all proportion by the police and magistrates. His case is entirely absurd.