Yep, indirectly. Change your user agent. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Hey Mozilla - fuck off !/2.0.0.16 (Firefox 2.0.0.16)
what you mean like ethernet, or DVI/HDMI, or svideo, or firewire, or serial, or parallel, or IDE, or sata, or even earthed mains ? Christ, even a simple CD needs to be put in the right way up. Not everything can be practically wired to a "stereo" jack plug, and even if it were practical, how many times will you jam the wrong thing in the wrong socket, sending +5v the wrong way into an expensive bit of kit ? Even nature uses specific "sockets" to ensure the correct usage. Sure you can stick food up your ass, but you won't be able to chew it, and it'll just drop out anyway. And as for sex, well there is only one socket that really works as intended. BTW, you never "inserted a USB cable incorrectly" because, surprise surprise, it wouldn't go in, thereby ensuring that you got it right on the next attempt. You may have "tried" to insert it, but you can do that with any socket arrangement. I'm interested to hear your alternatives for an idiot proof connector layout. One that doesn't involve "keying" the plug to the socket.
How is this insightful ? You have to be really really really careful not to believe that someone you call on the phone isn't in Africa ? Do us all a favour. I get scam emails that appear to come from my own email address - good job I've got a brain otherwise I would send off the cash today ! Number 1 rule - when something unsolicited is regarding money, then there is something fishy going on. Especially if you haven't ordered any goods, made any transactions, or offered any assistance. Never in the whole time I've been on the net have I ever received an email offering me money, from anybody I normally deal with, whether that be a bank, a friend, or an employer. Sorry, if you send money to a foreign country on the basis of a poorly worded email, then you deserve everything you get. (or not get). BTW, stupid is as stupid does. So saying you don't have to be stupid to get fooled is oxymoronic. This isn't the highest level of magic, where you have no idea how something's done. They are asking for money, and only a fool does what they are asked without considering the possible outcomes. Everybody does something stupid at one time or another, but if you have any sense at all, you don't get fooled again. You learn. And what you learn can be applied in many other areas of your life. Congenitally stupid people never learn. Blame it on the levis.
You're wrong. They have at least entered into a conspiracy, otherwise they wouldn't be "victims". So by definition, a "victim" has already committed an illegal act.
Two situations come to mind. Here in the UK (don't know about anywhere else) when a woman accuses a man of rape, her name is withheld from reporting, but the (often innocent) mans name is open to the world. Now that is wrong, and is used in malicious accusations again and again, especially when the accused is famous/rich. This needs to change - either both the names are published or neither. When the court has decided then the guilty party has their name published whoever that is. At present the womans name is withheld, even after a failed prosecution. Also, there was a story the other day about a wealthy executive who was murdered in her home. The story mentioned that she was married and her husband (47) was a car dealer. The story later mentioned that the police were holding a 47 year old man for questioning !!! What is the point of withholding the names if you give so many blatant clues that a child could figure it out ?
Of COURSE content authors have to put trust in somebody else.
The key word there is "trust". Basically, you have on one hand some people trying to extract as much money out of their "creation" as possible for the least cost. And on the other hand you have somebody that says they can help you do that, for a price. There is no honour amongst thieves. OK, maybe thieves is a bit strong, but the music industry isn't exactly "a fair days work for a fair days pay" is it. There is no DRM at live concerts, but that's too much like hard work, they want to record a song, let someone else sell it and then sit back and rake in the royalties for the rest of their descendants lives. Now that is being a thief.
Now if the band were to get mugged as they were leaving a concert and all their takings were stolen, I would have some sympathy, but complaining because they "might" be losing out on an extra $1M somewhere due to filesharing is just plain greed, and deserves no respect.
Oh, if that were true. Last nights viewing consisted of:
BBC1
EastEnders
Rogue Restaurants
Traffic Cops
BBC News
Spotlight(news); Weather
BBC Weather
On a Clear Day (film 2004)
BBC2
Would Like to Meet Again
Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young
Mock the Week
Lab Rats
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Newsnight
The Edinburgh Festival Show
BBC3
The Real Hustle Las Vegas
The Real Hustle Las Vegas
Britain's Really Disgusting Foods
EastEnders
Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor
Family Guy
Family Guy
Britain's Really Disgusting Foods
BBC4
Proms on Four 2008: Barenboim and West-Eastern Divan
Maestro
BBC Four Sessions: John Cale
Pretty much all of those apart from the news, the Proms and the Edinburgh Festival show, were crap or repeats of crap. Not to say the independent channels were much better, but at least there were things like House, Numb3rs, Without a trace, The Unit, My Name Is Earl, Top Gear, Futurama, and The Daily Show. While the BBC occasionally has some good programming, it is mostly shite. I find myself relying on my media server more and more these days, to watch old episodes of Horizon, Earth Story, Planet Earth, Star Trek TNG, Spooks and The Blue Planet. I also have an issue with the BBCs news web site, in that whenever they display a video larger than 240 pixels wide in line with text, the video jumps down and covers the text. It doesn't happen with the smaller videos. I did contact them about it and they replied that it was probably my fault. Yeah right. Why is it only the larger videos that do it then ? Tossers.
What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road?
"In a prediction of the open-source future, InfoWeek speculates on What Linux Will Look Like In 2012." Mathematics ?
So how does the "meta material" know where to route the traffic ? Surely the information is in the stream and to read it you have to convert it first. It's not the speed that's the problem, it's getting the routing information from the stream. If you can read the data directly from the stream, why slow it down at all ?
Download data ? This is the 21st century - these are active trackers not passive receivers. And I would imagine that they recover the devices when they arrest the person they're tracking.
This isn't China, where people disappear and even the police have been fucked over by the government (wages row) so I don't think they'll last too long if they start to really turn the screws.
What I meant to say was: This isn't China, where people disappear. Even the police have been fucked over by the government (wages row) so I don't think the government would last too long if they start to really turn the screws.
I don't see it as having something to hide. To me, (a natural stubborn bastard), I don't just do things because somebody "says so". You want to read my email, fuck you. I don't care that it's just meaningless chatter between mates, or reveals my whereabouts next weekend, I just don't react well to "authority". I have a brain and I do use it, thanks for asking. Reading my email is the same to me as "papers please". An unwarranted intrusion into my affairs. And while I may not stop using email, hold a demonstration against the government, or encrypt my email, you can bet your life that there is a simmering resentment growing inside, and one day (every opportunity actually) I will do something deliberately to fuck them up. Civil disobedience is the only way left but it happens to be the best way. This isn't China, where people disappear and even the police have been fucked over by the government (wages row) so I don't think they'll last too long if they start to really turn the screws. I just had a thought - is it ironic that the only group offering radical change are the terrorists ? It's not good change but it is radical. What we've got isn't working, but the "legitimate" alternatives are more of the same. I really hope that some forward thinking government sets up a system where we all get a say on important issues. Should we attack a country ? Let's ask our people. How much should we spend on health, let's find out. The back room stuff can be taken care of without asking everybody all the time, but the principles will have been chosen by the people. This could be done relatively simply and cheaply using the net, public keys, VPNs and government servers. You could vote from the command line if you wanted. Your private key is your voting slip, and the database doesn't show which key went with which vote. Then we might not see any radical changes, but at least we would know who was making the decisions - us. Of course this will never happen because the people in government don't want to give up their power, so the resentment grows. The government cracks down, more resentment. It won't be pretty.
it could mean that as our solar system is quite young, the large gas giants have yet to sweep inwards towards the sun. Plenty of time yet, but I doubt I'll see it happen.
Yeah right. Democracy is where the winner usually has less than half the popular vote. But they still get the power to make everybody jump in the lake. I thought this was about science, where 1 point of view may very well turn out to be correct - despite popular opinion.
My dad was telling me about his trip to Tunisia back in the 80's. Apparently, it's the same there. As soon as the lights change, everybody hits their horns. So one day he was sat at the lights behind a small moped type thing. Just for an experiment he hit his horn, and the moped shot off into the still crossing traffic ! HA HA HA.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep, indirectly.
Change your user agent.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Hey Mozilla - fuck off !/2.0.0.16 (Firefox 2.0.0.16)
nah, they can't ban it, how would they patent software then ?
The other mode, whose title I've forgotten, checks everything.
? strict ?
what you mean like ethernet, or DVI/HDMI, or svideo, or firewire, or serial, or parallel, or IDE, or sata, or even earthed mains ? Christ, even a simple CD needs to be put in the right way up.
Not everything can be practically wired to a "stereo" jack plug, and even if it were practical, how many times will you jam the wrong thing in the wrong socket, sending +5v the wrong way into an expensive bit of kit ?
Even nature uses specific "sockets" to ensure the correct usage. Sure you can stick food up your ass, but you won't be able to chew it, and it'll just drop out anyway. And as for sex, well there is only one socket that really works as intended.
BTW, you never "inserted a USB cable incorrectly" because, surprise surprise, it wouldn't go in, thereby ensuring that you got it right on the next attempt. You may have "tried" to insert it, but you can do that with any socket arrangement.
I'm interested to hear your alternatives for an idiot proof connector layout. One that doesn't involve "keying" the plug to the socket.
just follow the pope into the woods ...
How is this insightful ?
You have to be really really really careful not to believe that someone you call on the phone isn't in Africa ? Do us all a favour. I get scam emails that appear to come from my own email address - good job I've got a brain otherwise I would send off the cash today !
Number 1 rule - when something unsolicited is regarding money, then there is something fishy going on. Especially if you haven't ordered any goods, made any transactions, or offered any assistance. Never in the whole time I've been on the net have I ever received an email offering me money, from anybody I normally deal with, whether that be a bank, a friend, or an employer.
Sorry, if you send money to a foreign country on the basis of a poorly worded email, then you deserve everything you get. (or not get).
BTW, stupid is as stupid does. So saying you don't have to be stupid to get fooled is oxymoronic. This isn't the highest level of magic, where you have no idea how something's done. They are asking for money, and only a fool does what they are asked without considering the possible outcomes.
Everybody does something stupid at one time or another, but if you have any sense at all, you don't get fooled again. You learn. And what you learn can be applied in many other areas of your life. Congenitally stupid people never learn. Blame it on the levis.
You're wrong.
They have at least entered into a conspiracy, otherwise they wouldn't be "victims". So by definition, a "victim" has already committed an illegal act.
Two situations come to mind. Here in the UK (don't know about anywhere else) when a woman accuses a man of rape, her name is withheld from reporting, but the (often innocent) mans name is open to the world. Now that is wrong, and is used in malicious accusations again and again, especially when the accused is famous/rich. This needs to change - either both the names are published or neither. When the court has decided then the guilty party has their name published whoever that is. At present the womans name is withheld, even after a failed prosecution.
Also, there was a story the other day about a wealthy executive who was murdered in her home. The story mentioned that she was married and her husband (47) was a car dealer. The story later mentioned that the police were holding a 47 year old man for questioning !!!
What is the point of withholding the names if you give so many blatant clues that a child could figure it out ?
Call me when that works for RSS feeds.
Gmail manager is fine.
Of COURSE content authors have to put trust in somebody else.
The key word there is "trust".
Basically, you have on one hand some people trying to extract as much money out of their "creation" as possible for the least cost. And on the other hand you have somebody that says they can help you do that, for a price.
There is no honour amongst thieves.
OK, maybe thieves is a bit strong, but the music industry isn't exactly "a fair days work for a fair days pay" is it. There is no DRM at live concerts, but that's too much like hard work, they want to record a song, let someone else sell it and then sit back and rake in the royalties for the rest of their descendants lives.
Now that is being a thief.
Now if the band were to get mugged as they were leaving a concert and all their takings were stolen, I would have some sympathy, but complaining because they "might" be losing out on an extra $1M somewhere due to filesharing is just plain greed, and deserves no respect.
And 640k should be enough for anyone.
Last nights viewing consisted of
BBC1
BBC2
BBC3
BBC4
Pretty much all of those apart from the news, the Proms and the Edinburgh Festival show, were crap or repeats of crap.
Not to say the independent channels were much better, but at least there were things like House, Numb3rs, Without a trace, The Unit, My Name Is Earl, Top Gear, Futurama, and The Daily Show.
While the BBC occasionally has some good programming, it is mostly shite. I find myself relying on my media server more and more these days, to watch old episodes of Horizon, Earth Story, Planet Earth, Star Trek TNG, Spooks and The Blue Planet.
I also have an issue with the BBCs news web site, in that whenever they display a video larger than 240 pixels wide in line with text, the video jumps down and covers the text. It doesn't happen with the smaller videos. I did contact them about it and they replied that it was probably my fault. Yeah right. Why is it only the larger videos that do it then ?
Tossers.
Examples here
Bad
Good
(Not to mention that as a linux user, I have no access to iPlayer AT ALL ! I pay the licence fee, why should I have to give £100 to MS as well ?
What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road?
"In a prediction of the open-source future, InfoWeek speculates on What Linux Will Look Like In 2012."
Mathematics ?
I think they have computers to do that now.
The Photosynth technology preview runs only on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista. nuff said.
So how does the "meta material" know where to route the traffic ? Surely the information is in the stream and to read it you have to convert it first. It's not the speed that's the problem, it's getting the routing information from the stream. If you can read the data directly from the stream, why slow it down at all ?
Download data ?
This is the 21st century - these are active trackers not passive receivers. And I would imagine that they recover the devices when they arrest the person they're tracking.
This isn't China, where people disappear and even the police have been fucked over by the government (wages row) so I don't think they'll last too long if they start to really turn the screws.
What I meant to say was :
This isn't China, where people disappear. Even the police have been fucked over by the government (wages row) so I don't think the government would last too long if they start to really turn the screws.
I don't see it as having something to hide.
To me, (a natural stubborn bastard), I don't just do things because somebody "says so". You want to read my email, fuck you. I don't care that it's just meaningless chatter between mates, or reveals my whereabouts next weekend, I just don't react well to "authority". I have a brain and I do use it, thanks for asking.
Reading my email is the same to me as "papers please". An unwarranted intrusion into my affairs. And while I may not stop using email, hold a demonstration against the government, or encrypt my email, you can bet your life that there is a simmering resentment growing inside, and one day (every opportunity actually) I will do something deliberately to fuck them up.
Civil disobedience is the only way left but it happens to be the best way. This isn't China, where people disappear and even the police have been fucked over by the government (wages row) so I don't think they'll last too long if they start to really turn the screws.
I just had a thought - is it ironic that the only group offering radical change are the terrorists ? It's not good change but it is radical. What we've got isn't working, but the "legitimate" alternatives are more of the same. I really hope that some forward thinking government sets up a system where we all get a say on important issues. Should we attack a country ? Let's ask our people. How much should we spend on health, let's find out. The back room stuff can be taken care of without asking everybody all the time, but the principles will have been chosen by the people.
This could be done relatively simply and cheaply using the net, public keys, VPNs and government servers. You could vote from the command line if you wanted. Your private key is your voting slip, and the database doesn't show which key went with which vote. Then we might not see any radical changes, but at least we would know who was making the decisions - us.
Of course this will never happen because the people in government don't want to give up their power, so the resentment grows. The government cracks down, more resentment. It won't be pretty.
Pronounced "Redding" if you ever need to speak the name aloud. In the same vein as Leicester is pronounced Lester, not Ly-sester.
it could mean that as our solar system is quite young, the large gas giants have yet to sweep inwards towards the sun. Plenty of time yet, but I doubt I'll see it happen.
No, you are wrong. the summary starts by asking a question, then finishes by answering it. And you are considered insightful ?
Yeah right.
Democracy is where the winner usually has less than half the popular vote. But they still get the power to make everybody jump in the lake.
I thought this was about science, where 1 point of view may very well turn out to be correct - despite popular opinion.
My dad was telling me about his trip to Tunisia back in the 80's. Apparently, it's the same there. As soon as the lights change, everybody hits their horns. So one day he was sat at the lights behind a small moped type thing. Just for an experiment he hit his horn, and the moped shot off into the still crossing traffic ! HA HA HA.