While Gui's are great at presenting information, manipulation is usually a mixture of mouse and keyboard to a greater or lesser extent. The mouse is usually good for doing things once but for things you do repeatedly you will often use the keyboard for speed. Copying and pasting is usually a combination of ctrl c ctrl x ctrl v , ctrl a to select all. Alt tab for switching between apps on a single desktop. ctrl alt arrow to shift between screens. Usually if i'm mostly using a browser and a spreadsheet they will get separate screens lesser used applications like the image viewer, ftp and instant messenger will generally be left on a pile on a third
Even something like the gimp tasks are made easier with the keyboard take for example a rectangular select sure you can do it with a mouse but if your wanting to select a particular pixel using the coordinates box to shift to a particular position or moving the selection via the boxes for x or y using the arrows and then using the width and height boxes is a lot easier than flapping about with a mouse.
for example I bought a little 3d camera for a bit of fun it saves 2 images as a single jpg along with guides to allow for printing side by side. however to make an anaglyph i need to cut the 2 images out stack them on top of each other and apply cyan and red to the 2 layers. so rectangular select 247 496 597 448 (yes its low res) for the first image ctrl x ctrl shift v change 247 to 1042 and the rectangle select now is over the second image ctrl x and then paste as new layer over the first and use the scriptfu plugin i found to add the filters and set the transparency and save. Actually I could do all of this from the command line but would mean learning and figuring out how to script it but then I could batch process a 1000 images in less time than it would take to do just one. I could probably do a fair few thou in the time it would take to figure out how to do that. although somebody has probably done a rectangular select script which i could use twice an add file as layer script and a process scriptfu script to do the filtering. so then it becomes a batch command to construct and then execute.
can't you just tell i am going to google a few things now to pull together that script:) Think i am a dinosaur for using a command line and a few prepared scripts?
The primary purpose of a computer is to do the tedious jobs so we don't have to. Obviously a one off job do what ever is easiest, if your repeatedly doing the same things find a smarter way to do it. Sometimes you might spend 30 hours learning something new but if that pays back by saving months of tedious work, then it makes sense to invest the time.
In normal circumstances, it is wise to proceed with caution before accusing somebody and generally the evidence isn't presented to be viewed by the general public.
However in this case i am confident that the identification by one of the women robbed, the dead girls blood on his clothing the shell casings left at the murder scene that matched the gun found in his apartment along with the disposable phones he used for contacting the women...
The evidence is solid enough to be sure that he did in fact commit the crimes he was accused of. Plus there is no chance of being sued for deformation what with the guy having committed suicide while awaiting trial.
There were a few interesting points made, while he used disposable phones to contact the women he also had his regular phone with him which tied him to the same cells used by the disposable phones at the same times which was useful in identifying him as a suspect. He also made the email account he used to contact the girl he murdered from his home ip address.
The police nearly made a mess of things when they brought him in as after interviewing him there wasn't enough evidence to charge him, but luckily while he was in custody being questioned one of the women who was robbed identified him with absolute certainty which enabled the police to search his apartment and find the physical evidence. Without her identification of him they almost certainly would have had to let him go and give him the opportunity of disposing of the physical evidence.
The facebook stuff is interesting in that it shows what information facebook holds about someone even after that information has been "deleted". However in this case nothing facebook released gave any evidence towards the criminal case.
The guy was a medical student so it is reasonable to assume he was highly intelligent, he also seems to have had a gambling problem.
His choice of who to rob was probably made on the basis he thought that the services these women offered was likely to mean they would have money from earlier clients and less likely to report a robbery. The article also mentioned he had a collection of women's underwear under his mattress so maybe it was more than just getting money to pay his debts.
Did he rob other women who didn't report the crime?
slipped up there but as a brand the piratebay is well known to millions and releasing music and other digital goods via the piratebay would be an excellent promotional tool for independent artists and authors.
Tried that and it doesn't work, of course there are "probably" other methods that do,and they do not need spelling out as that could be seen as evidence that Eircom isn't obeying the order of the court and further measures might be enforced and I'd hate to be used as a proxy for the music industry.
For most if not all Internet users in Ireland the block is effective. The terms of the order are interesting though. If the promotional material was on a separate domain name such as piratebaypromo.org or similar then it wouldn't be arguably part of an infringing site and the court ordered block should be able to be successfully reconsidered and narrowed in scope. Especially if Irish independent artists wanted to use the site to promote their work. As a brand the pirateba
I would quite like to look at this site however, my isp says access is blocked by court order so i can't access these independent artists legally...
On the 24 July 2009, an Order was made by the High Court requiring eircom to block or otherwise disable access by its subscribers to the website thePirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs. The Court was satisfied that on the basis of the evidence presented by the record companies that the PirateBay website is a website that facilitates the exchange of copyrighted sound recordings without the consent of the copyright owners.
eircom recognises the legitimate rights of the owners of copyrighted material and believes that individuals who share or download copyrighted material without the authorisation or the permission of the copyright owner are acting illegally.
The Order further provides that should the PirateBay website content be legitimatised in the future, then eircom has liberty to apply to the Court to have the Order vacated and access to the PirateBay website enabled.
eircom in compliance with the Order has agreed that access to the website the PirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs from the eircom network will be blocked indefinitely from the 1st September 2009.
I have a sneaking suspicion that somebody just got here and think this site is digg. even those juvenile enough wanting to watch stuff blend doesn't come to slashdot for that.
The readership of slashdot are not morons least ways not the ones that post the good stuff.
I remember hearing years ago a similar story about murdoch doing something similar to canal+ Apparently a lab in israel was used to peel back the masks and investigate the canal+ cards the crypto was reverse engineered and cams released and keys released. Which meant it was very easy to access canal+ with softcams for a good few years. I think that it was traced back and it allegedly was down to murdoch trying to bankrupt canal+ who didn't want to use sky's encryption methods.
That law is ridiculous, i've had several locked cars broken into and the damage due to breaking in has always cost more than anything stolen. Generally the only thing of value is a couple of euro and the radio which although it has bluetooth, mp3 cd cost 56 euro a new door or window costs a lot more to fix than replacing the radio.
The engine immobiliser still works you need a proper coded key for the ignition to work, you might still steal the car but the door locks are not going to be much of a barrier honestly.
Sure sometimes i might be carrying something of value when it makes the cost of repairing the car less than the cost of the stolen goods but then i would lock it.
however in practical terms the cost of a break in is my insurance excess (500 euro) + the loss of noclaims discount which is around 75% a loss of (750 euro).
A friend of mine had his lorry fuel tank syphoned in a locked patrolled yard no less, the police said he should have a locking cap on the tank. well that is all well and good until you realise the tank would still have been broke into and the tank damaged in the process and his lorry would have been off the road making him unable to meet his contracts. While annoying and expensive to lose fuel that way the alternative could cost him a lot more maybe even his business.
Security is a trade off and it makes no sense to ensure the cost of flimsy security measures costs more than the things stolen in the first place.
Actually it makes sense to pay for good apps on android. My mobile operator three.ie (hutchinson telecom) gives me free unlimited data for 30 days when I top up by 20 euro (and an extra 10 euro credit), which is good but when that 30 days expires I then start to pay for data a couple of days ago I get a text telling me i've used 5 euro odd on data. That is pretty much down to ads being downloaded.
Wouldn't I have been better off to buy the ad free version of the app rather than paying for data I didn't want or need? That excess data charge could have paid for maybe 2 or more apps, most apps seem to be priced from 99 cent to 3 or 4 euro.
For some reason debit cards are not accepted for most online purchases, so i use prepaid credit cards which are fairly inexpensive but usually end up with 2 or 3 euro credit that gets eaten by the card provider transferring to a new card costs about 2.50 or a balance remaining costs 1.50 a month till it reaches 0 so again it is worth paying for an app with these useless bits of money.
not every app is worth buying but i have bought quite a few, and I intend to keep doing so especially as it costs me less to buy them than the ad supported versions.
Brochures are a little out dated these days, why would you want to keep a paper brochure , find it later as its tossed in the pile of other brochures from other suppliers, even the brochure from 2010 which isn't current but nobody can be bothered with sorting through and removing out dated info.
On the other hand , can you email me your latest brochure price list ect... sure 5 minutes later your working on the next order from that supplier, bonus points if you store supplier info together on your server so you can pull up the "brochure" even faster next time.
Keeping unnecessary paper is a waste of time and resources.
I have an archos 101 g9 recently updated to ICS cost about â280 it has HDMI and USB host mode a cheap adapter allows me to plug in a usb wireless keyboard and mouse dongle.
so 19 inch monitor full size keyboard and mouse reasonable audio it works.
The negative the archos 101 has a full size usb port currently archos are not letting it be used for anything other than their 3g stick. (maybe some mass storage device too).
The micro usb port is also the psu connector so it is currently a choice between running on battery power or using the touch screen or a bluetooth keyboard.
2 instances works as well (2 tabs) but your always going to have to wait longer than its possible to achieve. There is probably an api for google translate which would give you the option to create a more advanced page.
Still there is no real substitute to learning the 2nd language if you need it regularly.
Cue brain on android is pretty good for vocabulary building, lots of flash cards and with the right language plugin spoken words too. (asked one of the developers for the option to just speak the words, rather than having you read them and translating and it should be implemented in a new release before too long)
I know this is slightly off topic but why doesn't google translate have 4 boxes? if you are translating language a to language b then any reply is likely to be in language b and need to be translated to language a.
A bit of history would also be useful so you could scroll back up the conversation too.
Still google translate is pretty good as long as you avoid ambiguous phrasing.
I'm not sure if microsoft is achieving anything of use here. The intonation and tone of a sentence of one language maybe completely different to the target language. Even taking a simple example of british english and australian English. British English tends to finish a sentence on a downward tone while australian English tends to rise reproducing the British English tone would not result in an Australian sounding sentence.
What Microsoft may have achieved is a blocking move, if they can register patents changing the intonation of Speech in machine translation then a third party who achieves good or excellent machine translation, good enough to sound like a native speaker and who changes intonation to reflect the mood of the speaker will be forced into paying microsoft for their patents.
Strangely the USA seems to be geared up for such a system, with a surplus of people it would be a lot more profitable to get rid of the surplus of course you can't just shoot them, although getting the fittest of them to enlist so other people can shoot them is a fairly profitable option.
You can limit access to health care and avoid prolonged care of the sick and disabled and increase natural wastage that way too. You might need to engineer a few situations to increase the death rate of the surplus but by allowing food to be produced with dangerous additives without any oversight, the FDA seems to be powerless or reluctant to inform people about what they are eating...
Ever noticed that death and retirement tend to coincide, people are living longer which is probably why there is an upward trend to the age of retirement which reduces the burden on the productive members of society.
This has largely written in jest, it is unthinkable that there could be any policy to remove the unproductive from the food chain isn't it? However it is a problem that by automating production you need less people and if there are no jobs for them to switch too just what can be done to reduce the financial burden of carrying all these unproductive people?
It is an interesting and tragic story, largely of greed and incompetence on the part of a petro chemical company who overloaded the tanker, a tanker that was not designed for that load and the tank was weakened by stress corrosion cracking. The driver who was not trained in hazmat and apparently seems to have taken the route he did in order to avoid motorway tolls. It seems that the tanker had a tyre blow out possibly due to the overloading of the tanker who's weakened tank then struck the wall and leaked a huge cloud of highly inflammable gas which eventually ignited killing all those poor people.
The responsibility is largely the petroleum companies and the regulations which they operated under and compensation has been made to the victims and their families and presumably to the camp ground operators. Due to the tragedy regulations have been changed and safety procedures improved.
Probably the camp ground should have been bought out by the Petro Chemical ground and closed and left as a nature reserve and memorial to the people who died there. Even so as a destination for tourists it has been tainted and will be for the foreseeable future. It was a poor decision to rebuild the camp ground However it is clear that it's profitability is and always will be effected by the events that took place regardless of Google.
Knowing what took place there would that effect your decision to stay there? If the answer is yes and you wouldn't stay there because of the history of the place, how would you feel if once you arrived you found out about the history of the place?
I think if you try pulling the wool over peoples eyes they will be angry, if you have a family with young children how are they going to react once they find out they are staying in the death camp.
Now if you know the truth you may decide that doesn't bother me, it is in a great location and book anyway. It might even appeal to some people. http://enigmacatalunya.fantasyboard.net/t39-camping-de-los-alfaques-de-tarragona is in catalan but talks about ghosts seen at the site since 1980 (page 6 on the google results and About the first result which i thought might not be talking about the accident). The only place it seems it isn't mentioned is on the website for the campsite. Personally I think it is a mistake on their part not to mention it as it seems quite disrespectful to the victims of that fire.
You see if your going to make an informed choice of where to holiday then you can't just not mention the horrific deaths that took place there, and they are mentioned a lot in this case. just like lockerbie, heisel , flixborough, mousehole and the loss of the penlee lifeboat crew.
The village of mousehole turns off the christmas lights on the 19th of December in memory of the lifeboat crew who lost their lives that night in 1981. Honouring the dead, not ignoring them.
I don't think it is in anyway reasonable to pretend that the tragedy didn't happen it is disrespectful to the victims and their families.
It's still breaking and entering. Call it urban exploring or whatever, but tresspassing is still illegal.
If there was any breaking involved then it might be, but if they didn't break in then it generally isn't.
In London there are a large numbers of squatters occupying various empty buildings. While it is illegal to break in. it isn't illegal to enter and live there if the building isn't secure. They can even install their own locks. Yes an owner can apply to the court to remove squatters but until the court issues an order they can stay. I believe that if someone occupies a place for five years then they can even get ownership (take that with a pinch of salt).
Asbo's on the other hand do not need a law to be broken to be applied for and granted. Currently there are Asbo's being served on homeless people in order to be able to remove them from central london in time for the olympic games later this year, (this I know from a lawyer trying to represent one of said homeless people).
There are some pretty low cost tablets around that don't have contracts with them. But you did get me thinking about how I might be able to get some computer functionality to my tv without spending a load of cash.
I can hook up my archos 101 g9 via hdmi to my tv (it was bought originally for a monitor but has an analogue tunenr, dvi vga scart and composite inputs) but it means having a hdmi cable connected to my tablet and the damn drm insists I have to have a crappy screen resolution (on a tv with a 'compliant' hdmi port it is hi-res).
I have a few PC's around one next to the tv in fact that I haven't turned on for a few months because it is still a pain to use since I have to also setup a keyboard and mouse for it. However android devices are quite good at controlling other android devices and there is an x86 version of ics around in fact i already have a copy installed on a usb stick.
So probably I can boot the PC with that and then use my android phone or tablet to control the pc with dlna client servers a plenty on android i should be able to push a/v from my nas or use the browser running somewhere to get net content using my tablet as an input device without having to move my arse from the couch.
probably the best pc to use would be an old 7inch netbook i have. hmm now there is an idea for a sunday morning and this is why I like slashdot since every once in a while there is a post which inspires. One of the raspberry Pi boards would probably be better than the PC being small and low powered but it may be sometime before someone gets android on that device.
i'm in Ireland and Eircom is my main ISP, If I try to go to the piratebay directly i get a message that it is blocked.
However I can get to the Piratebay via an alternative ISP that hasn't got a block and grab a torrent use my bittorrent client to ask my peers about other torrents or just find a free proxy server that gives access.
I could go further and add tor into the mix but it is hardly worth while.
That Judge has no idea how easily circumvented his order is and besides even if piratebay was taken down completely there are alternatives and new sites will spring up. piratebay is popular only because it is easy, the torrents get commented on so fakes and poor quality torrents get weeded out. Is it so hard to duplicate? not even piratebay is immune from being pirated and I doubt the people running piratebay care if it was.
To be honest I can't be bothered with pirating anyway I do not pay for TV (there are loads of channels fta). I rarely buy DVD's the last one was a present for someone else (an independent film) and I don't buy CD's
Most of the software I use is free. I currently use Mint as my day to day operating system (yet another exubuntu user and contributor) and I do buy the occasional android app, and thats mainly due to my use of prepaid credit cards which make it hard to transfer the last 2 or 3 euro's to a new number (paypal doesn't accept debit cards). Of course iTunes is not an option to buy music since there seems to be no version that works in wine or on android.
I'm not a game player and although I might have bought a PS3 when other OS was removed I lost interest in that device.
Don't Pirate stuff and don't buy it either unless you honestly need it, and how rare it is that you really need need a commercial application.
These Corporations only stay in business by people buying their crap, reduce the bottom line one customer at a time. If profitability falls then there will be less money available for lobbying once the shareholders and board directors take their cut. Support the independents who don't take a dump on you. Then you will get change for the better.
Just a thought but if I want to use my printer through android my print job goes to google then sent to my lan to my netbook then to my nas which then prints with one of the two attached printers.
Chances are Google knows pretty much everything about that printjob where it was uploaded from downloaded to and almost certainly the content, i'd be an idiot to use this for anything compromising but there are a lot of idiots around. I think dots on a print job are a minor issue these days.
Who cares about the price, really. If you want a new phone you go to a cell phone provider pick a phone and sign up to a contract. The actual price of the phone doesn't matter a deal since its buried in the contract.
Of course the cell phone companies will not be happy about the phones costing more but if they want the contracts they will have to suck it up.
where Sony are saying it was all a mistake by some guy in England.
Your suggestion that we can't do anything is false, public opinion matters, from a few tweets Sony's stirred up the ant nest and now has to back pedal furiously.
Another example Apple is having to do something to protect its sales due to bad publicity about the working conditions of the people producing its products.
Then there are the various civil wars that are taking place, last summers riots in the UK even the back pedalling on ACTA in Europe. All pretty much a case of a lot of little david's going up against goliaths and kicking arse.
The UK riots were an interesting one social media helped fan the flames but it also helped mobilise people to fight back and clean up with huge numbers of people taking to the streets with brooms to reclaim their communities.
The situation has changed where once the Goliaths could pretty much get away with anything and david pretty much muttered under his breath and was ignored. Now David tweets and posts on facebook and pretty quickly the discontent spreads and Goliath is having to back down.
David probably has more power to change things than ever before and governments and corporations are becoming uncomfortably aware that this is the case and having to act accordingly.
To be fair people don't buy iPhones as such. Most iPhones come on a contract and is over paid for by a large margin. The increase in cost would be largely paid by the cell phone companies who will be reluctant to charge more than the other cell companies, for the sake of what $40 is the sum banded around.
The Itouch and wifi only tablets would be more expensive but they could still be produced in china or people can go for the contract option and 3g
The only losers as such would be the cellphone carriers and they will make it back somewhere.
you assume that people buy iPhones and iPads based on cost. That isn't true, if cost was the deciding factor then logically people would buy an android phone or tablet, since they effectively do the same thing and are cheaper.
If Apple manufactured in the USA you might find sales increase due to Americans having a sense of national pride supporting American jobs. McDonalds in the UK and Ireland advertise that they only use British and Irish beef in their burgers, Supermarkets similarly promote locally produced products.
You may find sales improve due to buyer ethics, "fair trade" products sell at higher prices, than non fair trade precisely because the buyer chooses an ethical product over one which exploits the producer.
Nike a company which has previously had consumer pressure applied sells it's shoes at a premium price which more than offsets the cost of making people feel good about buying Nike.
Consumer pressure helps improve conditions for the people who produce the products that they buy. Almost predictably the one class of consumer which is almost always price aware is the corporation who looks for the lowest cost for it's infrastructure.
One type of consumer that I've largely ignored are the ones barely getting by lowest price is what matters above all else as they are making choices between eating and heating paying for rent or mortgage for these people buying Apple products isn't an option so price of an iPad really doesn't matter, they can't afford a new one at any price.
There is another group that is slightly ahead of the really poor folk who also get screwed over and that is the people who buy iPads and iPhones through a contract with a service provider, they get a low up front cost but pay way more over the life of the contract for the device than the device is worth. To them there is no real difference in price between a phone built in china or the usa they still pay the same regardless. It's the service providers profits which get reduced a little per user but they also can be the only provider carrying the phone so get more users and more profit that way.
I'm being screwed as well and i have a cheap android phone i bought outright and i pay as i go. I get free skype calls i get 3000 texts a month i get free calls at weekends i get free data i even get 10 euro free credit a month if i buy 20 euro a month worth of credit. if i buy 10 euro i get no free calls, no skype and no free texts. It sounds a lot but i don't actually use more than a small percentage of the "freebies". So essentially i'm on a call plan which is at least 20 euro a month, cheaper than a contract, just. If I had a contract I would have a better phone and i would be paying it off over the contract period. The contract would be maybe 7 euro upwards a month more and i'd have a lump sum to pay towards the phone cost.
of course i have the option in pay as I go of not topping up till my freebies run out. Which means i only need pay my minimum 20 euros and i can always email or text or skype with my phone and receive calls when i run out of call credit (which doesnt take long). On a contract i would be in a similar situation but i would be paying for calls at the end of the month as i'd have gone through my included minutes on a cheap contract. last contract i had i never used all my minutes but national calls international and freephone calls all were charged for outside of my included minutes.
So while starting with the ethical and national pride reasons for why we might pay more for iPhones it comes down to mostly we don't buy iPhones directly our service providers do and sell them to us at a huge markup so it makes no difference to us as consumers how much they cost, it's the corporation we are contracted with that would feel the pinch and if they won't bare it then another corporation will and we will switch as soon as the sentence ^^^H contract is up.
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While Gui's are great at presenting information, manipulation is usually a mixture of mouse and keyboard to a greater or lesser extent. The mouse is usually good for doing things once but for things you do repeatedly you will often use the keyboard for speed. Copying and pasting is usually a combination of ctrl c ctrl x ctrl v , ctrl a to select all. Alt tab for switching between apps on a single desktop. ctrl alt arrow to shift between screens. Usually if i'm mostly using a browser and a spreadsheet they will get separate screens lesser used applications like the image viewer, ftp and instant messenger will generally be left on a pile on a third
Even something like the gimp tasks are made easier with the keyboard take for example a rectangular select sure you can do it with a mouse but if your wanting to select a particular pixel using the coordinates box to shift to a particular position or moving the selection via the boxes for x or y using the arrows and then using the width and height boxes is a lot easier than flapping about with a mouse.
for example I bought a little 3d camera for a bit of fun it saves 2 images as a single jpg along with guides to allow for printing side by side. however to make an anaglyph i need to cut the 2 images out stack them on top of each other and apply cyan and red to the 2 layers.
so rectangular select 247 496 597 448 (yes its low res) for the first image ctrl x ctrl shift v change 247 to 1042 and the rectangle select now is over the second image ctrl x and then paste as new layer over the first and use the scriptfu plugin i found to add the filters and set the transparency and save.
Actually I could do all of this from the command line but would mean learning and figuring out how to script it but then I could batch process a 1000 images in less time than it would take to do just one. I could probably do a fair few thou in the time it would take to figure out how to do that.
although somebody has probably done a rectangular select script which i could use twice an add file as layer script and a process scriptfu script to do the filtering. so then it becomes a batch command to construct and then execute.
can't you just tell i am going to google a few things now to pull together that script :)
Think i am a dinosaur for using a command line and a few prepared scripts?
The primary purpose of a computer is to do the tedious jobs so we don't have to. Obviously a one off job do what ever is easiest, if your repeatedly doing the same things find a smarter way to do it. Sometimes you might spend 30 hours learning something new but if that pays back by saving months of tedious work, then it makes sense to invest the time.
In normal circumstances, it is wise to proceed with caution before accusing somebody and generally the evidence isn't presented to be viewed by the general public.
However in this case i am confident that the identification by one of the women robbed, the dead girls blood on his clothing the shell casings left at the murder scene that matched the gun found in his apartment along with the disposable phones he used for contacting the women ...
The evidence is solid enough to be sure that he did in fact commit the crimes he was accused of. Plus there is no chance of being sued for deformation what with the guy having committed suicide while awaiting trial.
There were a few interesting points made, while he used disposable phones to contact the women he also had his regular phone with him which tied him to the same cells used by the disposable phones at the same times which was useful in identifying him as a suspect. He also made the email account he used to contact the girl he murdered from his home ip address.
The police nearly made a mess of things when they brought him in as after interviewing him there wasn't enough evidence to charge him, but luckily while he was in custody being questioned one of the women who was robbed identified him with absolute certainty which enabled the police to search his apartment and find the physical evidence. Without her identification of him they almost certainly would have had to let him go and give him the opportunity of disposing of the physical evidence.
The facebook stuff is interesting in that it shows what information facebook holds about someone even after that information has been "deleted". However in this case nothing facebook released gave any evidence towards the criminal case.
The guy was a medical student so it is reasonable to assume he was highly intelligent, he also seems to have had a gambling problem.
His choice of who to rob was probably made on the basis he thought that the services these women offered was likely to mean they would have money from earlier clients and less likely to report a robbery. The article also mentioned he had a collection of women's underwear under his mattress so maybe it was more than just getting money to pay his debts.
Did he rob other women who didn't report the crime?
slipped up there but as a brand the piratebay is well known to millions and releasing music and other digital goods via the piratebay would be an excellent promotional tool for independent artists and authors.
Tried that and it doesn't work, of course there are "probably" other methods that do ,and they do not need spelling out as that could be seen as evidence that Eircom isn't obeying the order of the court and further measures might be enforced and I'd hate to be used as a proxy for the music industry.
For most if not all Internet users in Ireland the block is effective. The terms of the order are interesting though. If the promotional material was on a separate domain name such as piratebaypromo.org or similar then it wouldn't be arguably part of an infringing site and the court ordered block should be able to be successfully reconsidered and narrowed in scope. Especially if Irish independent artists wanted to use the site to promote their work. As a brand the pirateba
I would quite like to look at this site however, my isp says access is blocked by court order
so i can't access these independent artists legally...
On the 24 July 2009, an Order was made by the High Court requiring eircom to block or otherwise disable access by its subscribers to the website thePirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs. The Court was satisfied that on the basis of the evidence presented by the record companies that the PirateBay website is a website that facilitates the exchange of copyrighted sound recordings without the consent of the copyright owners.
eircom recognises the legitimate rights of the owners of copyrighted material and believes that individuals who share or download copyrighted material without the authorisation or the permission of the copyright owner are acting illegally.
The Order further provides that should the PirateBay website content be legitimatised in the future, then eircom has liberty to apply to the Court to have the Order vacated and access to the PirateBay website enabled.
eircom in compliance with the Order has agreed that access to the website the PirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs from the eircom network will be blocked indefinitely from the 1st September 2009.
is the content hosted at http://thepiratebay.se/promo enough to change anything?
I have a sneaking suspicion that somebody just got here and think this site is digg.
even those juvenile enough wanting to watch stuff blend doesn't come to slashdot for that.
The readership of slashdot are not morons least ways not the ones that post the good stuff.
I remember hearing years ago a similar story about murdoch doing something similar to canal+
Apparently a lab in israel was used to peel back the masks and investigate the canal+ cards the crypto was reverse engineered and cams released and keys released. Which meant it was very easy to access canal+ with softcams for a good few years. I think that it was traced back and it allegedly was down to murdoch trying to bankrupt canal+ who didn't want to use sky's encryption methods.
ho hum,
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/03/27/news-corp-nds-bbc-itv-digital-ondigital-murdoch_n_1381735.html
Well colour me surprised sounds like it is the same case after all, resurrected after all these years
no wonder it sounded so familiar.
That law is ridiculous, i've had several locked cars broken into and the damage due to breaking in has always cost more than anything stolen. Generally the only thing of value is a couple of euro and the radio which although it has bluetooth, mp3 cd cost 56 euro a new door or window costs a lot more to fix than replacing the radio.
The engine immobiliser still works you need a proper coded key for the ignition to work, you might still steal the car but the door locks are not going to be much of a barrier honestly.
Sure sometimes i might be carrying something of value when it makes the cost of repairing the car less than the cost of the stolen goods but then i would lock it.
however in practical terms the cost of a break in is my insurance excess (500 euro) + the loss of noclaims discount which is around 75% a loss of (750 euro).
A friend of mine had his lorry fuel tank syphoned in a locked patrolled yard no less, the police said he should have a locking cap on the tank. well that is all well and good until you realise the tank would still have been broke into and the tank damaged in the process and his lorry would have been off the road making him unable to meet his contracts. While annoying and expensive to lose fuel that way the alternative could cost him a lot more maybe even his business.
Security is a trade off and it makes no sense to ensure the cost of flimsy security measures costs more than the things stolen in the first place.
Actually it makes sense to pay for good apps on android. My mobile operator three.ie (hutchinson telecom) gives me free unlimited data for 30 days when I top up by 20 euro (and an extra 10 euro credit), which is good but when that 30 days expires I then start to pay for data a couple of days ago I get a text telling me i've used 5 euro odd on data. That is pretty much down to ads being downloaded.
Wouldn't I have been better off to buy the ad free version of the app rather than paying for data I didn't want or need? That excess data charge could have paid for maybe 2 or more apps, most apps seem to be priced from 99 cent to 3 or 4 euro.
For some reason debit cards are not accepted for most online purchases, so i use prepaid credit cards which are fairly inexpensive but usually end up with 2 or 3 euro credit that gets eaten by the card provider transferring to a new card costs about 2.50 or a balance remaining costs 1.50 a month till it reaches 0 so again it is worth paying for an app with these useless bits of money.
not every app is worth buying but i have bought quite a few, and I intend to keep doing so especially as it costs me less to buy them than the ad supported versions.
nah, just another will weaton sausage fest...
Brochures are a little out dated these days, why would you want to keep a paper brochure , find it later as its tossed in the pile of other brochures from other suppliers, even the brochure from 2010 which isn't current but nobody can be bothered with sorting through and removing out dated info.
On the other hand , can you email me your latest brochure price list ect... sure 5 minutes later your working on the next order from that supplier, bonus points if you store supplier info together on your server so you can pull up the "brochure" even faster next time.
Keeping unnecessary paper is a waste of time and resources.
I have an archos 101 g9 recently updated to ICS cost about â280 it has HDMI and USB host mode
a cheap adapter allows me to plug in a usb wireless keyboard and mouse dongle.
so 19 inch monitor full size keyboard and mouse reasonable audio it works.
The negative the archos 101 has a full size usb port currently archos are not letting it be used for anything other than their 3g stick. (maybe some mass storage device too).
The micro usb port is also the psu connector so it is currently a choice between running on battery power or using the touch screen or a bluetooth keyboard.
The hdd version doesnt have this problem.
2 instances works as well (2 tabs) but your always going to have to wait longer than its possible to achieve. There is probably an api for google translate which would give you the option to create a more advanced page.
Still there is no real substitute to learning the 2nd language if you need it regularly.
Cue brain on android is pretty good for vocabulary building, lots of flash cards and with the right language plugin spoken words too.
(asked one of the developers for the option to just speak the words, rather than having you read them and translating and it should be implemented in a new release before too long)
I know this is slightly off topic but why doesn't google translate have 4 boxes?
if you are translating language a to language b then any reply is likely to be in language b and need to be translated to language a.
A bit of history would also be useful so you could scroll back up the conversation too.
Still google translate is pretty good as long as you avoid ambiguous phrasing.
I'm not sure if microsoft is achieving anything of use here. The intonation and tone of a sentence of one language maybe completely different to the target language. Even taking a simple example of british english and australian English. British English tends to finish a sentence on a downward tone while australian English tends to rise reproducing the British English tone would not result in an Australian sounding sentence.
What Microsoft may have achieved is a blocking move, if they can register patents changing the intonation of Speech in machine translation then a third party who achieves good or excellent machine translation, good enough to sound like a native speaker and who changes intonation to reflect the mood of the speaker will be forced into paying microsoft for their patents.
Strangely the USA seems to be geared up for such a system, with a surplus of people it would be a lot more profitable to get rid of the surplus of course you can't just shoot them, although getting the fittest of them to enlist so other people can shoot them is a fairly profitable option.
You can limit access to health care and avoid prolonged care of the sick and disabled and increase natural wastage that way too. You might need to engineer a few situations to increase the death rate of the surplus but by allowing food to be produced with dangerous additives without any oversight, the FDA seems to be powerless or reluctant to inform people about what they are eating...
Ever noticed that death and retirement tend to coincide, people are living longer which is probably why there is an upward trend to the age of retirement which reduces the burden on the productive members of society.
This has largely written in jest, it is unthinkable that there could be any policy to remove the unproductive from the food chain isn't it? However it is a problem that by automating production you need less people and if there are no jobs for them to switch too just what can be done to reduce the financial burden of carrying all these unproductive people?
It is an interesting and tragic story, largely of greed and incompetence on the part of a petro chemical company who overloaded the tanker, a tanker that was not designed for that load and the tank was weakened by stress corrosion cracking. The driver who was not trained in hazmat and apparently seems to have taken the route he did in order to avoid motorway tolls. It seems that the tanker had a tyre blow out possibly due to the overloading of the tanker who's weakened tank then struck the wall and leaked a huge cloud of highly inflammable gas which eventually ignited killing all those poor people.
The responsibility is largely the petroleum companies and the regulations which they operated under and compensation has been made to the victims and their families and presumably to the camp ground operators. Due to the tragedy regulations have been changed and safety procedures improved.
Probably the camp ground should have been bought out by the Petro Chemical ground and closed and left as a nature reserve and memorial to the people who died there. Even so as a destination for tourists it has been tainted and will be for the foreseeable future. It was a poor decision to rebuild the camp ground However it is clear that it's profitability is and always will be effected by the events that took place regardless of Google.
Knowing what took place there would that effect your decision to stay there? If the answer is yes and you wouldn't stay there because of the history of the place, how would you feel if once you arrived you found out about the history of the place?
I think if you try pulling the wool over peoples eyes they will be angry, if you have a family with young children how are they going to react once they find out they are staying in the death camp.
Now if you know the truth you may decide that doesn't bother me, it is in a great location and book anyway. It might even appeal to some people. http://enigmacatalunya.fantasyboard.net/t39-camping-de-los-alfaques-de-tarragona is in catalan but talks about ghosts seen at the site since 1980 (page 6 on the google results and About the first result which i thought might not be talking about the accident). The only place it seems it isn't mentioned is on the website for the campsite. Personally I think it is a mistake on their part not to mention it as it seems quite disrespectful to the victims of that fire.
You see if your going to make an informed choice of where to holiday then you can't just not mention the horrific deaths that took place there, and they are mentioned a lot in this case. just like lockerbie, heisel , flixborough, mousehole and the loss of the penlee lifeboat crew.
The village of mousehole turns off the christmas lights on the 19th of December in memory of the lifeboat crew who lost their lives that night in 1981. Honouring the dead, not ignoring them.
I don't think it is in anyway reasonable to pretend that the tragedy didn't happen it is disrespectful to the victims and their families.
It's still breaking and entering. Call it urban exploring or whatever, but tresspassing is still illegal.
If there was any breaking involved then it might be, but if they didn't break in then it generally isn't.
In London there are a large numbers of squatters occupying various empty buildings. While it is illegal to break in. it isn't illegal to enter and live there if the building isn't secure. They can even install their own locks. Yes an owner can apply to the court to remove squatters but until the court issues an order they can stay. I believe that if someone occupies a place for five years then they can even get ownership (take that with a pinch of salt).
Asbo's on the other hand do not need a law to be broken to be applied for and granted. Currently there are Asbo's being served on homeless people in order to be able to remove them from central london in time for the olympic games later this year, (this I know from a lawyer trying to represent one of said homeless people).
There are some pretty low cost tablets around that don't have contracts with them.
But you did get me thinking about how I might be able to get some computer functionality to my tv without spending a load of cash.
I can hook up my archos 101 g9 via hdmi to my tv (it was bought originally for a monitor but has an analogue tunenr, dvi vga scart and composite inputs) but it means having a hdmi cable connected to my tablet and the damn drm insists I have to have a crappy screen resolution (on a tv with a 'compliant' hdmi port it is hi-res).
I have a few PC's around one next to the tv in fact that I haven't turned on for a few months because it is still a pain to use since I have to also setup a keyboard and mouse for it. However android devices are quite good at controlling other android devices and there is an x86 version of ics around in fact i already have a copy installed on a usb stick.
So probably I can boot the PC with that and then use my android phone or tablet to control the pc with dlna client servers a plenty on android i should be able to push a/v from my nas or use the browser running somewhere to get net content using my tablet as an input device without having to move my arse from the couch.
probably the best pc to use would be an old 7inch netbook i have. hmm now there is an idea for a sunday morning and this is why I like slashdot since every once in a while there is a post which inspires. One of the raspberry Pi boards would probably be better than the PC being small and low powered but it may be sometime before someone gets android on that device.
i'm in Ireland and Eircom is my main ISP, If I try to go to the piratebay directly i get a message that it is blocked.
However I can get to the Piratebay via an alternative ISP that hasn't got a block and grab a torrent use my bittorrent client to ask my peers about other torrents or just find a free proxy server that gives access.
I could go further and add tor into the mix but it is hardly worth while.
That Judge has no idea how easily circumvented his order is and besides even if piratebay was taken down completely there are alternatives and new sites will spring up. piratebay is popular only because it is easy, the torrents get commented on so fakes and poor quality torrents get weeded out. Is it so hard to duplicate? not even piratebay is immune from being pirated and I doubt the people running piratebay care if it was.
To be honest I can't be bothered with pirating anyway I do not pay for TV (there are loads of channels fta). I rarely buy DVD's the last one was a present for someone else (an independent film) and I don't buy CD's
Most of the software I use is free. I currently use Mint as my day to day operating system (yet another exubuntu user and contributor) and I do buy the occasional android app, and thats mainly due to my use of prepaid credit cards which make it hard to transfer the last 2 or 3 euro's to a new number (paypal doesn't accept debit cards). Of course iTunes is not an option to buy music since there seems to be no version that works in wine or on android.
I'm not a game player and although I might have bought a PS3 when other OS was removed I lost interest in that device.
Don't Pirate stuff and don't buy it either unless you honestly need it, and how rare it is that you really need need a commercial application.
These Corporations only stay in business by people buying their crap, reduce the bottom line one customer at a time. If profitability falls then there will be less money available for lobbying once the shareholders and board directors take their cut. Support the independents who don't take a dump on you. Then you will get change for the better.
Just a thought but if I want to use my printer through android my print job goes to google then sent to my lan to my netbook then to my nas which then prints with one of the two attached printers.
Chances are Google knows pretty much everything about that printjob where it was uploaded from downloaded to and almost certainly the content, i'd be an idiot to use this for anything compromising but there are a lot of idiots around. I think dots on a print job are a minor issue these days.
http://www.snopes.com/business/secret/jagermeister.asp
The Elk Blood is a myth. Jagermeister is a really nice drink, certainly one to try , it has a cult following round here.
Who cares about the price, really.
If you want a new phone you go to a cell phone provider pick a phone and sign up to a contract.
The actual price of the phone doesn't matter a deal since its buried in the contract.
Of course the cell phone companies will not be happy about the phones costing more but if they want the contracts they will have to suck it up.
here is the original guardian article which helped kick up the stink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/13/whitney-houston-album-price
thou to be honest Twitter was where it was originally tweeted about, with people initially blaming Apple.
here is a more recent article
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57378242-501465/whitney-houston-itunes-prices-hiked-by-mistake-says-sony/
where Sony are saying it was all a mistake by some guy in England.
Your suggestion that we can't do anything is false, public opinion matters, from a few tweets Sony's stirred up the ant nest and now has to back pedal furiously.
Another example
Apple is having to do something to protect its sales due to bad publicity about the working conditions of the people producing its products.
Then there are the various civil wars that are taking place, last summers riots in the UK even the back pedalling on ACTA in Europe. All pretty much a case of a lot of little david's going up against goliaths and kicking arse.
The UK riots were an interesting one social media helped fan the flames but it also helped mobilise people to fight back and clean up with huge numbers of people taking to the streets with brooms to reclaim their communities.
The situation has changed where once the Goliaths could pretty much get away with anything and david pretty much muttered under his breath and was ignored. Now David tweets and posts on facebook and pretty quickly the discontent spreads and Goliath is having to back down.
David probably has more power to change things than ever before and governments and corporations are becoming uncomfortably aware that this is the case and having to act accordingly.
To be fair people don't buy iPhones as such. Most iPhones come on a contract and is over paid for by a large margin. The increase in cost would be largely paid by the cell phone companies who will be reluctant to charge more than the other cell companies, for the sake of what $40 is the sum banded around.
The Itouch and wifi only tablets would be more expensive but they could still be produced in china or people can go for the contract option and 3g
The only losers as such would be the cellphone carriers and they will make it back somewhere.
you assume that people buy iPhones and iPads based on cost. That isn't true, if cost was the deciding factor then logically people would buy an android phone or tablet, since they effectively do the same thing and are cheaper.
If Apple manufactured in the USA you might find sales increase due to Americans having a sense of national pride supporting American jobs.
McDonalds in the UK and Ireland advertise that they only use British and Irish beef in their burgers, Supermarkets similarly promote locally produced products.
You may find sales improve due to buyer ethics, "fair trade" products sell at higher prices, than non fair trade precisely because the buyer chooses an ethical product over one which exploits the producer.
Nike a company which has previously had consumer pressure applied sells it's shoes at a premium price which more than offsets the cost of making people feel good about buying Nike.
Consumer pressure helps improve conditions for the people who produce the products that they buy. Almost predictably the one class of consumer which is almost always price aware is the corporation who looks for the lowest cost for it's infrastructure.
One type of consumer that I've largely ignored are the ones barely getting by lowest price is what matters above all else as they are making choices between eating and heating paying for rent or mortgage for these people buying Apple products isn't an option so price of an iPad really doesn't matter, they can't afford a new one at any price.
There is another group that is slightly ahead of the really poor folk who also get screwed over and that is the people who buy iPads and iPhones through a contract with a service provider, they get a low up front cost but pay way more over the life of the contract for the device than the device is worth. To them there is no real difference in price between a phone built in china or the usa they still pay the same regardless. It's the service providers profits which get reduced a little per user but they also can be the only provider carrying the phone so get more users and more profit that way.
I'm being screwed as well and i have a cheap android phone i bought outright and i pay as i go.
I get free skype calls i get 3000 texts a month i get free calls at weekends i get free data i even get 10 euro free credit a month if i buy 20 euro a month worth of credit. if i buy 10 euro i get no free calls, no skype and no free texts. It sounds a lot but i don't actually use more than a small percentage of the "freebies". So essentially i'm on a call plan which is at least 20 euro a month, cheaper than a contract, just. If I had a contract I would have a better phone and i would be paying it off over the contract period. The contract would be maybe 7 euro upwards a month more and i'd have a lump sum to pay towards the phone cost.
of course i have the option in pay as I go of not topping up till my freebies run out. Which means i only need pay my minimum 20 euros and i can always email or text or skype with my phone and receive calls when i run out of call credit (which doesnt take long). On a contract i would be in a similar situation but i would be paying for calls at the end of the month as i'd have gone through my included minutes on a cheap contract. last contract i had i never used all my minutes but national calls international and freephone calls all were charged for outside of my included minutes.
So while starting with the ethical and national pride reasons for why we might pay more for iPhones it comes down to mostly we don't buy iPhones directly our service providers do and sell them to us at a huge markup so it makes no difference to us as consumers how much they cost, it's the corporation we are contracted with that would feel the pinch and if they won't bare it then another corporation will and we will switch as soon as the sentence ^^^H contract is up.