I can see the edges of the UV spectrum and I'm male. It makes nightclubs very wierd places to be, but is quite helpful as it means I can actually see what people look like under the blacklight.
Of course that hasn't stopped me making some awful mistakes, but I blame that on the alcohol...
I heard that the army way was to chop the drives up, grind them into dust then put the dust through an incinerator. but your way sounds a lot more fun.
My method is lift the lid on the HDD, then spin it up and wave one of the insanely powerful magnets from the head mechanism of another HDD over the surface. Hey presto, no readable data. Though I do wonder how much mileage you'd get from drilling a hole in the corner and pouring in some sand while it's running.
Wedges have a thin end. How long does it take something to make the transition from Optional, through Reccommended to Mandatory?
Maybe I am being paranoid, but history has shown that M$ has a great love of doing exactly this kind of thing. so we should be vigilant for the first signs of this.
In my job, being charged with any criminal act is grounds for an immediate disciplinary hearing. That's fine - it's basically the company covering its ass. Finding out that I've been passed up for opportunities because I like to party hard at the weekend wouldn't be.
If you post it on a publically accessible site then it's basically out in the public domain. Don't post what you don't want people to see.
IMHO if a potential emplyer read my profile and took exception to "Had an awesome weekend. Went to Fran's 21st which got a "little" out of hand, enjoyed a great day with my wife on sat and kicked ass @ LARP on sunday" then I _really_ don't want to work there.
"(especially since, IIRC, women have to do the female pat downs, and men have to do the males)"
FYI, there's this new thing that's been recently discovered called Homosexuality. It turns out that some people prefer members of their own gender. Hell there's even talk of something called Bisexuality where it seems that they don't even care - it seems their partner discrimination stops at "Oooh, cute".
OTOH maybe we should be looking at avoiding having even more dead tree clogging up storage units because someone's welded to 20 year old technology.
One department here uses a fax machine as a scanner. They fax a server that then converts the fax to an email and sends it to them. Despite the fact that we now have network scanning capabilities that are far higher resolution and don't involve the charge of a phone call they insist on using this system because they're used to it. Another department transfers documents by printing them, then faxing them to another department that then scans them back in. To keep them them both on the same network server. I've explained till I'm blue in the face that they can just set up a shared area to transfer documents but they keep this system... because they're used to it.
Never underestimate human inertia. If something works, people will keep using it despite how awkward it might be. Bitching and whining all the time about its problems of course. But you try to change something and suddenly you may as well have driven over their puppy for all the reaction you get...
It takes less than 30 seconds for another driver to pull their constitutionally-protected "Original point-and-click interface" and register their disapproval in the form of high-velocity lead...
Give me a big sandbox game like Oblivion anyday. A central quest that you can ignore for as long as you like and a huge world to explore with handles to bolt on other extra bits if you want to buy the DLC. That way everyone gets what they want.
Unless you've been convicted of using Facebook to incite a riot that never happened... http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/17/facebook-cases-criticism-riot-sentences
In theory you can submit a FOI request for footage of an incident, or of a certain time. In practice the footage is "unavailable" or "destroyed" just before you made the request.
Mark Thomas did a series of programs on this - he'd take a Morris dancing team and get them to dance up and down in front of a building with CCTV for an hour, then put in a FOI request a week or so later. The number of cases where they "couldn't find the particular piece of footage" was shocking.
Oh, I totally agree. The law has to cut both ways, and with public confidence in the police (up until the riots) at an all-time low something had to be done. Unfortunately this is all part of the backlash of 9/11 and 7/7 - in the wake of those events the security forces launched a huge grab for power that was given to them by a frightened populace and is only now being questioned.
The biggest repercussion of the riots? Personally I believe it is this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14459127 - the Police were handed a mandate to use rubber bullets on the mainland for the first time. Although they weren't actually used that barrier has been breached and it's now easier for the subject to be raised next time.
It's very easy to hand power over to authorities, much harder to roll it back. Beware the trap of legislation passed in fear or anger that would be unacceptable to cooler heads.
TBH if my protesting days weren't behind me this is exatly what I'd do. That way if anything happened I would have footage of everything without running into the police's lovely habit of grabbing cameras. Do you think Simon Harwood would have ever been brought to book if private individuals hadn't been filming it?
You're being an agent provocateur here but it has to be said that this is a trend in the UK security services - they want the right to monitor everything you do but a notoriously camera-shy themselves. I guess it's similar to how nobody is more paranoid about their posessions being taken than a thief.
Personally I think that an always-on camera wirelessly streaming to a backup server should be standard equipment for the police. It would eliminate a level of "He said,she said" in coourt cases. But I guess the police don't like the idea because at the moment if it's your word against an officer the officer's word has precedence so they feel they don't need it.
Why do you think they took out the passwall spell? Most of the staff dungeons had a wall you could just zip through, short-cutting 80-90% of the dungeon.
Arena - was Teh Awesomes. Right up until I got a copy of it a couple of years ago and found out the hard way that nostalgia ages worse than white wine.
Daggerfall - hugest map ever. and the dungeons were a joy... up until I realised how thay were built from blocks and learned to navigate each block with my eyes closed (J-shaped green stone corridor? There'll be a secret door on the outside of the curve.)
Morrowind was a revalation at the time, but I soon got tired of how linear the plot dungeons were.
Oblivion. Shiny, new. Lots of things I abused in previous games taken out. I hate auto-level balance with a passion.
Each new game brought a whole slew of changes - mostly good (I've only gotten stuck on the scenery half-a-dozen times in Oblivion. But no levitate to get out quickly...) and some not so good. But at least Bethesda have listened to the fans and kept the open sandbox which is the reason we all play Elder Scrolls. Well, they have after the debacle that was Battlespire. (Which I still completed, I'm that badly addicted)
Plus, Skyrim comes out a week before my wife's birthday. So that's an easy present choice...
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I can see the edges of the UV spectrum and I'm male. It makes nightclubs very wierd places to be, but is quite helpful as it means I can actually see what people look like under the blacklight.
Of course that hasn't stopped me making some awful mistakes, but I blame that on the alcohol...
I heard that the army way was to chop the drives up, grind them into dust then put the dust through an incinerator. but your way sounds a lot more fun.
My method is lift the lid on the HDD, then spin it up and wave one of the insanely powerful magnets from the head mechanism of another HDD over the surface. Hey presto, no readable data. Though I do wonder how much mileage you'd get from drilling a hole in the corner and pouring in some sand while it's running.
Wedges have a thin end. How long does it take something to make the transition from Optional, through Reccommended to Mandatory?
Maybe I am being paranoid, but history has shown that M$ has a great love of doing exactly this kind of thing. so we should be vigilant for the first signs of this.
Circumventing a protection system? I'm glad nobody passed a law boneheaded enough to make that illegal even if you're not breaching any copyright .
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/2130245/canadian-government-says-drm-circumvention-not-related-to-copyright
Slowly the pieces are coming together...
>desire to replace worn body parts with artificial ones--> An Age of Steel sweeping the planet --> The Doctor coming back to sort our shit out...
There - FTFY
In my job, being charged with any criminal act is grounds for an immediate disciplinary hearing. That's fine - it's basically the company covering its ass. Finding out that I've been passed up for opportunities because I like to party hard at the weekend wouldn't be.
If you post it on a publically accessible site then it's basically out in the public domain. Don't post what you don't want people to see.
IMHO if a potential emplyer read my profile and took exception to "Had an awesome weekend. Went to Fran's 21st which got a "little" out of hand, enjoyed a great day with my wife on sat and kicked ass @ LARP on sunday" then I _really_ don't want to work there.
Entirety of /b/ decamping in 5...4...3...
HP Scan Director software is fundimentally incompatible with IE7. That one took me about a week to diagnose...
"(especially since, IIRC, women have to do the female pat downs, and men have to do the males)"
FYI, there's this new thing that's been recently discovered called Homosexuality. It turns out that some people prefer members of their own gender. Hell there's even talk of something called Bisexuality where it seems that they don't even care - it seems their partner discrimination stops at "Oooh, cute".
Because the TSA agents get the pick of anything that's gone in the bins after all the mugs^h^h^h Passengers have gone home?
OTOH maybe we should be looking at avoiding having even more dead tree clogging up storage units because someone's welded to 20 year old technology. ... because they're used to it.
One department here uses a fax machine as a scanner. They fax a server that then converts the fax to an email and sends it to them. Despite the fact that we now have network scanning capabilities that are far higher resolution and don't involve the charge of a phone call they insist on using this system because they're used to it. Another department transfers documents by printing them, then faxing them to another department that then scans them back in. To keep them them both on the same network server. I've explained till I'm blue in the face that they can just set up a shared area to transfer documents but they keep this system
Never underestimate human inertia. If something works, people will keep using it despite how awkward it might be. Bitching and whining all the time about its problems of course. But you try to change something and suddenly you may as well have driven over their puppy for all the reaction you get...
You find someone like that I'll happily transfer and work for him. He sounds cool.
It takes less than 30 seconds for another driver to pull their constitutionally-protected "Original point-and-click interface" and register their disapproval in the form of high-velocity lead...
Give me a big sandbox game like Oblivion anyday. A central quest that you can ignore for as long as you like and a huge world to explore with handles to bolt on other extra bits if you want to buy the DLC. That way everyone gets what they want.
Unless you've been convicted of using Facebook to incite a riot that never happened...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/17/facebook-cases-criticism-riot-sentences
In theory you can submit a FOI request for footage of an incident, or of a certain time. In practice the footage is "unavailable" or "destroyed" just before you made the request.
Mark Thomas did a series of programs on this - he'd take a Morris dancing team and get them to dance up and down in front of a building with CCTV for an hour, then put in a FOI request a week or so later. The number of cases where they "couldn't find the particular piece of footage" was shocking.
Oh, I totally agree. The law has to cut both ways, and with public confidence in the police (up until the riots) at an all-time low something had to be done. Unfortunately this is all part of the backlash of 9/11 and 7/7 - in the wake of those events the security forces launched a huge grab for power that was given to them by a frightened populace and is only now being questioned.
The biggest repercussion of the riots? Personally I believe it is this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14459127 - the Police were handed a mandate to use rubber bullets on the mainland for the first time. Although they weren't actually used that barrier has been breached and it's now easier for the subject to be raised next time.
It's very easy to hand power over to authorities, much harder to roll it back. Beware the trap of legislation passed in fear or anger that would be unacceptable to cooler heads.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/20/ian-tomlinson-death-officer-trial
Hopefully this won't be a whitewash.
TBH if my protesting days weren't behind me this is exatly what I'd do. That way if anything happened I would have footage of everything without running into the police's lovely habit of grabbing cameras. Do you think Simon Harwood would have ever been brought to book if private individuals hadn't been filming it?
You're being an agent provocateur here but it has to be said that this is a trend in the UK security services - they want the right to monitor everything you do but a notoriously camera-shy themselves. I guess it's similar to how nobody is more paranoid about their posessions being taken than a thief.
Personally I think that an always-on camera wirelessly streaming to a backup server should be standard equipment for the police. It would eliminate a level of "He said,she said" in coourt cases. But I guess the police don't like the idea because at the moment if it's your word against an officer the officer's word has precedence so they feel they don't need it.
>And if it gets to that point weapon possession isn't going to be 9/10th of the law, it is going to be the whole law.
There, FTFY.
And just cos' you've been AC for a long time doesn't make you any less of a douchebag...
Why do you think they took out the passwall spell? Most of the staff dungeons had a wall you could just zip through, short-cutting 80-90% of the dungeon.
Arena - was Teh Awesomes. Right up until I got a copy of it a couple of years ago and found out the hard way that nostalgia ages worse than white wine.
Daggerfall - hugest map ever. and the dungeons were a joy... up until I realised how thay were built from blocks and learned to navigate each block with my eyes closed (J-shaped green stone corridor? There'll be a secret door on the outside of the curve.)
Morrowind was a revalation at the time, but I soon got tired of how linear the plot dungeons were.
Oblivion. Shiny, new. Lots of things I abused in previous games taken out. I hate auto-level balance with a passion.
Each new game brought a whole slew of changes - mostly good (I've only gotten stuck on the scenery half-a-dozen times in Oblivion. But no levitate to get out quickly...) and some not so good. But at least Bethesda have listened to the fans and kept the open sandbox which is the reason we all play Elder Scrolls. Well, they have after the debacle that was Battlespire. (Which I still completed, I'm that badly addicted)
Plus, Skyrim comes out a week before my wife's birthday. So that's an easy present choice...