if you take a digital camera (even a simple phonecam will do) and look at the front of a tv remote when you press one of the buttons, you'll see a bright light flashing that's invisible to the naked eye. It's a great way to see if you need to replace the batteries or if the remote has not survived that drop from the table... Or you could just point it at the TV and press a button;)
How would they know if you swapped your disk? Just buy a cheap 40GB disk, install the OS and a couple of programs, then stick it in a cupboard 'just in case'.
Since the Republican Congress "defeated spam" with their CAN-SPAM Act, I've noticed my incoming spam double every month for years
CAN-SPAM took effect on 1 January 2004, so assuming you got 1 spam that month and it's doubled every month since, that means you're getting about 564 million spam emails a day now. I wouldn't want to be your ISP:)
It was a recording industry survey that came up with the 'UK public supports extending copyright' statistic. I imagine it was worded along the lines of, 'should copyright be extended beyond 50 years or should pre-school children be forced to work down mines?
It's nothing like the manufacturer of a CD burner. A CD burner can be used for numerous legal purposes, whereas gaia could only be used if you break the Google license agreement.
I work on a major UK commercial website (and no, it's not the one in my profile:)); it's completely non-IT related and has a very wide demographic, although geographically 95% of visitors are from the UK. The August browser usage stats were:
Firefox was up slightly from 5.22% in July. It surprised me how low it was, considering I keep reading stories of how FF is up to nearly 15%. Yes, some of this could be down to people spoofing the User-agent to show as IE, but how many people really do that? It still has a lot of catching up to do.
I haven't RTFA so it might mention it in there, but it was Drudge who broke the Clinton - Lewinsky 'scandal', the first time internet-based media had trumped the traditional players on a story of this size.
In particular, MS's tool doesn't show a list of all the WAPs in range
I don't know which MS OS your university uses, but XP certainly does. If you connect to one of the WAPs then the next time you boot it will try to automatically reconnect to the same one, but you can still get the list from the MS util. I agree with you about the 'WAP nearby' message, that is annoying if you've got no intention of connecting to one - it even pops up when you've already got a wired connection, which seems pretty dumb.
Bandwidth and cost wise, you'd be better off streaming/uploading your phone camera images to a conventional web server.
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...he's made himself vulnerable to a libel suit. Being in Britain, even if everything he says is true, that's not a defense. He held the seller up to public ridicule, and that's all that matters there.
No, truth is an absolute defence in defamation or libel cases in the UK. However, the defendant has to prove it's the truth, it's not up to the claimant to prove it's not.
You're still assuming that either the artists would get paid direct or that the record companies would pass on royalties from something they consider to be illegal. A lack of a royalty cheque doesn't prove that allofmp3.com aren't paying out. I'm not saying they are, but your argument is weak.
Wow, that was a nice sweeping statement, care to cite any backup for it? Since when do the distributors pay the royalties cheques direct to the artist? It would be just as likely that the record companies haven't been passing on royalties to the artists because that would legitimize it.
ZX81 for me too. Not only was it my first computer, it was the first time I'd seen a keyboard of any type. I was very disappointed when I pressed Space that I didn't get stars and planets on the screen.
...is a new technology that becomes hugely popular in Japan & Europe, but that is banned in the US because of some law introduced at the request of the *AA. Maybe then people will wake up to how these things really effect them.
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How would they know if you swapped your disk? Just buy a cheap 40GB disk, install the OS and a couple of programs, then stick it in a cupboard 'just in case'.
I hope they're not planning to cache the whole of the www on a reciever, I haven't finished reading my copy from a couple of years ago yet.
Love the +1 Informative moderation :) Is that for people who have are browsing with Lynx?
The lawsuits where they used IP addresses for evidence were for uploading, not downloading.
Don't forget cufflinks, often worn by the same people who wear the expensive suits and ties.
Since the Republican Congress "defeated spam" with their CAN-SPAM Act, I've noticed my incoming spam double every month for years
:)
CAN-SPAM took effect on 1 January 2004, so assuming you got 1 spam that month and it's doubled every month since, that means you're getting about 564 million spam emails a day now. I wouldn't want to be your ISP
It was a recording industry survey that came up with the 'UK public supports extending copyright' statistic. I imagine it was worded along the lines of, 'should copyright be extended beyond 50 years or should pre-school children be forced to work down mines?
Death of the creator of the work plus dependant children until they're 18 would seem fair.
It's nothing like the manufacturer of a CD burner. A CD burner can be used for numerous legal purposes, whereas gaia could only be used if you break the Google license agreement.
I think the MPAA won.
...it should be hard to understand.
No, these are for an internet-facing site only. Employees wouldn't use it any more than the public.
I work on a major UK commercial website (and no, it's not the one in my profile:)); it's completely non-IT related and has a very wide demographic, although geographically 95% of visitors are from the UK. The August browser usage stats were:
IE6.x - 89.06%
Firefox 1.x - 5.29%
IE5.x - 2.05%
IE7.x - 1.51%
Safari 4.x - 0.92%
Safari 3.x - 0.37%
Mozilla 1.x - 0.12%
Opera 9.x - 0.12%
Firefox was up slightly from 5.22% in July. It surprised me how low it was, considering I keep reading stories of how FF is up to nearly 15%. Yes, some of this could be down to people spoofing the User-agent to show as IE, but how many people really do that? It still has a lot of catching up to do.
I haven't RTFA so it might mention it in there, but it was Drudge who broke the Clinton - Lewinsky 'scandal', the first time internet-based media had trumped the traditional players on a story of this size.
So every passenger has to mix the liquid they're carrying with that of all the others?
In particular, MS's tool doesn't show a list of all the WAPs in range
I don't know which MS OS your university uses, but XP certainly does. If you connect to one of the WAPs then the next time you boot it will try to automatically reconnect to the same one, but you can still get the list from the MS util. I agree with you about the 'WAP nearby' message, that is annoying if you've got no intention of connecting to one - it even pops up when you've already got a wired connection, which seems pretty dumb.
Bandwidth and cost wise, you'd be better off streaming/uploading your phone camera images to a conventional web server.
...he's made himself vulnerable to a libel suit. Being in Britain, even if everything he says is true, that's not a defense. He held the seller up to public ridicule, and that's all that matters there.
No, truth is an absolute defence in defamation or libel cases in the UK. However, the defendant has to prove it's the truth, it's not up to the claimant to prove it's not.
I pirate my software and spend the money I save on CDs. I'll let the RIAA and BSA fight it out between themselves.
You're still assuming that either the artists would get paid direct or that the record companies would pass on royalties from something they consider to be illegal. A lack of a royalty cheque doesn't prove that allofmp3.com aren't paying out. I'm not saying they are, but your argument is weak.
Wow, that was a nice sweeping statement, care to cite any backup for it? Since when do the distributors pay the royalties cheques direct to the artist? It would be just as likely that the record companies haven't been passing on royalties to the artists because that would legitimize it.
Didn't you think Teabing was a weird name
Yep, and through the whole book I read it as Teabag.
ZX81 for me too. Not only was it my first computer, it was the first time I'd seen a keyboard of any type. I was very disappointed when I pressed Space that I didn't get stars and planets on the screen.
...is a new technology that becomes hugely popular in Japan & Europe, but that is banned in the US because of some law introduced at the request of the *AA. Maybe then people will wake up to how these things really effect them.