Copying plates is already a growth crime here, because there's already CCTV with plate recognition software all over the place.
If you sell a car you cover the plate for the photographs. Especially if you're putting the pictures on the internet. If you don't, you'll have a stack of parking and speeding fines from all over the country.
I saw an interview with one of their staff last night on the BBC TV news. They were in what looked like a operations centre of some sort. In the background all the desktop systems seemed to be Sun workstations.
Is there anyone here with more details about what they are actaully using, and where?
Absolutely. Small studios can't afford to release in all regions, so they have no choice to pick the largest - the US. So to see locally made cinema you have no choice but to break the coding.
The only place that is really suffering from region locking is the US. Over here it's not something that hits the news, it's something that everyone does every day.
Over here almost all DVD players can bypass region encoding, and a many can bypass macrovision.
There are dozens of websites with details of how to disable region codes. Most just need a particular sequence of keypresses on the remote. You would have to try very hard to buy a player that couldn't be made multi-region.
We are region-2, but I would say that 50% to 75% of the DVD's in most peoples collections here are region-1. Even British-made films are released as region-1 only because region-2 is too small a market to make it worthwhile.
Region-2 is shrivelling to nothing, and I'd be suprised if the other regions were different.
But to get the cable for UKP25 deal you have to have cable TV service as well, so it's actually more like UKP35 to 40 depending on what options you have - and you're going to take some options because the basic service is the same as you'd get through the arial, plus some shopping channels.
It happened in the UK just after the total eclipse a couple of years ago - just after the event the cell phone systems collapsed as thousands tried to call their friends.
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Quite. I've had this hotmail address since it's early days. I used to be carefull about munging it but these days there's just no point. I don't know how many junk messages I get in a day, but when I look at the first page of 100 messages, they all, always, are dated 'today'. Needless to say it's not a very usefull account anymore - my spam filter consists of me only looking at it when I'm expecting something.
It would be better the way my ISP does it: Daytime calls are charged per minute but the bill accumulates until it reaches £10, then they debit my credit card.
I'm using an old laptop for exactly this. I solved the heat problem by taking the keyboard off. It might not survive the summer without at least a small fan. Maybe I'll just leave it in the draught from the power supply fan on my desktop.
The battery is almost finished; it lasts about 10 minutes at a time, which is fine as a UPS.
Laptops have some compromises in the name of portability, so I don't think it's worth the effort of going out and getting one just for this purpose. If you happen to have one ready to retire, it will do the job.
There was a TV program in the UK a few months ago where someone home-brewed a turbojet engine from a truck turbocharger and strapped it to the back of his bicycle. It was about the size and shape of a 2-litre soda bottle, and pushed the bike quietly and smoothly at about 20-30 mph. Sadly not street-legal.
They are only targetting ISP's (and only British ISP's) because they are an ISP themselves, and it's part of their monopoloy maintainance.
Witness: call gapping (only 1 in 4 calls to rival isp's allowed to connect at peak times, all calls to their own ISP connect OK); Surftime2 (the cheapest option for customers, cripplingly expensive for ISP's that implement it); FRIACO (open access to BT exchanges to rivals, never intended to be implemented); etc etc
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They probably used the RIPA law.
Copying plates is already a growth crime here, because there's already CCTV with plate recognition software all over the place.
If you sell a car you cover the plate for the photographs. Especially if you're putting the pictures on the internet. If you don't, you'll have a stack of parking and speeding fines from all over the country.
High quality prefab houses in Germany: http://www.huf-haus.de/de/
Grocery deliveries are one of the big internet successes here in the UK - most of the food supermarkets do it.
Is there anyone here with more details about what they are actaully using, and where?
maxShort+1 of them in, say, a coke can.
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Absolutely. Small studios can't afford to release in all regions, so they have no choice to pick the largest - the US. So to see locally made cinema you have no choice but to break the coding.
Over here almost all DVD players can bypass region encoding, and a many can bypass macrovision.
There are dozens of websites with details of how to disable region codes. Most just need a particular sequence of keypresses on the remote. You would have to try very hard to buy a player that couldn't be made multi-region.
We are region-2, but I would say that 50% to 75% of the DVD's in most peoples collections here are region-1. Even British-made films are released as region-1 only because region-2 is too small a market to make it worthwhile.
Region-2 is shrivelling to nothing, and I'd be suprised if the other regions were different.
But to get the cable for UKP25 deal you have to have cable TV service as well, so it's actually more like UKP35 to 40 depending on what options you have - and you're going to take some options because the basic service is the same as you'd get through the arial, plus some shopping channels.
Don Box discusses it in his book 'Essential Com'. It's a very nice system. It's saved my employer many hours of developer time over the years.
It happened in the UK just after the total eclipse a couple of years ago - just after the event the cell phone systems collapsed as thousands tried to call their friends.
In America it's Legos, in Europe it's Lego.
Quite. I've had this hotmail address since it's early days. I used to be carefull about munging it but these days there's just no point. I don't know how many junk messages I get in a day, but when I look at the first page of 100 messages, they all, always, are dated 'today'. Needless to say it's not a very usefull account anymore - my spam filter consists of me only looking at it when I'm expecting something.
It would be better the way my ISP does it: Daytime calls are charged per minute but the bill accumulates until it reaches £10, then they debit my credit card.
Add to your list 'And dig through my system afterwards to find (sometimes multiple instances of) spyware'
I'm using an old laptop for exactly this. I solved the heat problem by taking the keyboard off. It might not survive the summer without at least a small fan. Maybe I'll just leave it in the draught from the power supply fan on my desktop.
The battery is almost finished; it lasts about 10 minutes at a time, which is fine as a UPS.
Laptops have some compromises in the name of portability, so I don't think it's worth the effort of going out and getting one just for this purpose. If you happen to have one ready to retire, it will do the job.
There was a TV program in the UK a few months ago where someone home-brewed a turbojet engine from a truck turbocharger and strapped it to the back of his bicycle. It was about the size and shape of a 2-litre soda bottle, and pushed the bike quietly and smoothly at about 20-30 mph. Sadly not street-legal.
They are only targetting ISP's (and only British ISP's) because they are an ISP themselves, and it's part of their monopoloy maintainance.
Witness: call gapping (only 1 in 4 calls to rival isp's allowed to connect at peak times, all calls to their own ISP connect OK); Surftime2 (the cheapest option for customers, cripplingly expensive for ISP's that implement it); FRIACO (open access to BT exchanges to rivals, never intended to be implemented); etc etc