Very cool! (Very Ghost-In-The-Shell-ish / next-gen-hackerish) Can you point to a website or article that would show how to implement the kind of thing you describe?
So the links would have been relevant if the grandparent had written You didn't see our country piling innocent people into prisons after 9/11??? If Cat Stevens had been American the link would have been relevant? The attrocities in the third link are ok as the prisoners are not American?
My point remains: that imprisoning even criminals in this way is not acceptable, much less civilians whose guilt has not yet been proven (or do you not believe in "innocent until proven guilty"? Perhaps it only applies to Americans?)
(As to the link about Steven Hatfill, I apologise for the red herring -- I was out of the country at the time and only caught the beginning of the tale, not it's conclusion. Thank you for enlarging my knowledge in that area.)
Use a breeder reactor, which uses its own waste as fuel. Incidentally, this is what most of Europe has been doing for some time now. (In the far distance, I can see Hinkley Point. I'm rather proud all my electricity is being produced cleanly, not through fossil fuels.)
The price of eternal vigilance is half an hour of your time, a newspaper, and pen and paper. If you are British, please, please, write to your local MP. Do it now. Then write to MI5, and 10 Downing Street.
Use them from nearby a river which has overflown its banks in order to call in an ambulance when your friend is washed away by the force of the flood
Use it from the middle of a playground where you and your mates have just been attacked by yobs
Use them to arrange a meeting in a place you've never been too before or with a person you've never met or both
Take pictures with it.
Read books on it
(All of those I have had to do in the past month).
It's not hard, mate. If one or both of you is in a noisy room, go somewhere quiet (bet you can't do that with a "regular phone"!). If your connection keeps getting dropped, switch to a provider with more coverage. If you keep running low on minutes, get a contract phone (though I dont, for privacy reasons). As for washing or dropping... well try doing it to your landline, I doubt it will work after that either.
It's good to see that our canadian friend now has the +5 Insightful his post deserves.
Now I must disagree with you about the Guardian/Orange-County incidient -- I'd be pretty pissed off if the yanks told me to vote Conservative, for example. That said, the letters recieved by the Guardian were very funny.
Of course what pisses me off is that the GOP's website is blocked to all outbound routers. Because its not like American foreign policy affects the rest of the world at all.
Right, see I personally dont enjoy playing Civilisation. Actually I hate it. But I recognize it as a good game and would stand up for it if someone thought that, say, Leisure Suit Larry was a better game.
My point is I also don't like A Clockwork Orange, although I recognize it as a seminal piece of film. I similarly do not like Irreversible or Passion of the Christ, though I recognize them as awesome films.
Something doesn't have to be entertaining for it to be good. They are not logical equivilents.
Although I'd like to see more evidence that this can work myself, I'm instinctively inclined to agree with you. The UK has recently approved after- and before- school "clubs" for parents who are working from (I think) around 7:30 till 6:30 for working parents. I think this is absolute madness -- no primary school kid should have to spend 11 hours in school just because their parents can't be bothered to look after them.
I do, however, remember seeing a (?Panorama?) special on (?Norway's?) primary school education program. The first difference was that school only started when the child was 6, and even then, wasn't compulsory. From then until age 9, it is more of a day-care centre with field trips, finger painting, small groups, etc. and certainly no desks or textbooks in sight. By age 12 they were already exceeding British student's in most standardised tests despite having had a shorter school day.
I think the grandparent was joking, being sarcastic, or trolling -- which is a pity as your post is far more accurate. I work in Starbucks myself, and it's true that about half the people we have don't know the first thing about coffee. The other half, however -- including the store manager, assistant store manager, and most of the scenior (non-parttime staff), a very, very knowledgable. I'd like to stress, however, that they reflect how management wants everyone to be and it is *not* acceptable for someone who has worked full-time for over a year to not know what a robusta is. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen, though. In the past, a black apron was awarded to the partner who knew the most about coffee in the store but the new training initiatives are designed so that the staff have to help each other before they can progress to the next level. Hopefully around this time next year, most stores should be "black apron stores".
I started off with the 512/no cap like you but switched to the faster line because I though the extra speed outweighed the usage cap. I'm not that inconvenianced, though I am looking for a new ISP for even more speed:-D
Seconded. Like the parent, I was with Freeserve before they became Wannadoo. The tech support, while slightly clueless, are at least helpful and polite and, after being stuck for a week when the free USB modem broke, the tech even bended over backwards to get me a new one even though I was technically out of the warranty period.
Technical stuff: dynamic IP (though I have a dyndns account so I'm not bothered), no blocked ports, and as far as I can tell, no blocked websites or blacklists either. The prices are competive, although their speeds could be higher and they have an annoying monthly limit on all their pricing plans. I'm on 30gig, which apparently I've been exceeding for the past three months. I don't use their POP3 servers though on the rare occaisions I have I've had issues. There has also been some unexpected downtime more than once in the past year, though from what I can tell this has been BT's problem at the local exchange. I'm using the free USB modem under Linux, works fine.
All in all, they're a good ISP. Like the parent, I'd rate them 8 out 10. I can only talk about the British branch of Wannadoo, though, and European slashdotter's mileage may vary.
free money for anyone who doesn't have their head stuck in Jesusland.
And even those who do, apparently. And the girl with the SG account doesn't get paid for it though because she's not a featured model. Although "It's fun" wasn't quite the kind of long, detailed, insightful answer I was anticipating, cheers anyway.
I've always wanted to know the answer to your second question as well, actually, hopefully someone else will be able to answer or at least give some interesting insights. Another question is "why do they do it?", and it's not something I've easily been able to work out. A friend of mine (one of those born-again Christian types) admitted in one of those email forward-things to posing nude, which I can't quite believe. Another friend's ex-girlfriend apparently has a suicidegirls.com account, which is why he never visits the site anymore. Unfortunately, going up to people and asking "Why do you pose nude?" isn't exactly the best way to make friends or influence people.
So yeah. How many have done it, and why do they do it?
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Been noticing it for a week or so now, or about the time the slashcode was upgraded to (amoung other things) use CAPTCHAs. Hmm, I now notice the CAPTCHAs have disapeared. Never liked 'em anyway.
No, no, not GAIM. I want this as an asterisk plugin, compatible with iChat, MSN, Y!Messenger, and the new VVoIP (Video/Voice over IP) hardware phones that are comming out.
I really want this -- when people start doing it I'll ditch my landline for sure.
Hopefully, this'll persuade the OSS community to come up with an equivilent. Thunderbirds-style video conferancing here we come!
What happens if a large corporation uses DRM to enforce copyright it *claims* to own but in fact does not?
They'll have the pants sued off them.
Well that's how it's supposed to work, anyway. A fiver says 95% of the public start thinking they do actually have the rights to it, the other 5% develop an obscure and very-hard-to-apply crack.
Hate to nitpick (and not to miss the humour in your post) but Hitler's Nazi party were quite pro-British -- they saw Britain as a valued trading partner for when the war was over. It was us who were anti-them.
I think that by banning Naza propaganda materials, they're more trying to stop these things from happening in the future. Alot of Europe has these rules as well, for example in France sale of Nazi materials is prohibited for the same reasons.
It depends on a) how old the system, b) what you want it to do, and c) what software you want to use.
If you want it to just be a video/music player/streamer install Linux, then use Samba for serving/streaming and your favorite Linux application for viewing/listening. If that's all you want it to do, I'd rather use Linux and Winamp with Milkdrop (the WORLD's best visualisation studio), or iTunes.
If you want to record or watch TV (as opposed to DVD-rips), you'll need to look into MythTV/VDR on Linux, or SageTV or its equivilents (there's a free one out there too that looks good) on Windows. You'll also need some pretty beefy hardware and a capture card.
The plus side of these setups of course is that since they are on 24/7 they can firewall/NAT your home network, and use Apache to serve your personal website.
My server right now runs NAT for my network, firewalls my network, streams music and dvd-rips to the Windows clients, and runs my Apache webserver. For this, anything over 300mhz is overkill. If that's all you want to do, look into OpenBSD as your OS -- so you can boast about your system not having a single remote exploit in over 8 years. In the not-so-distant future I want my setup to run MythTV to stream live tv to the other clients, and I'm also looking into an FM-transmitter so we can listen to it on the radios we have lying around the house.
As for connecting it to your TV and stereo, it's pretty simple: just run a sound wire from your soundcard to your stereo's external inputs. And your TV? You'll ussually need a graphics card with TV-Out, but I'm lucky -- my TV supports VGA and DVI inputs!
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Very cool! (Very Ghost-In-The-Shell-ish / next-gen-hackerish) Can you point to a website or article that would show how to implement the kind of thing you describe?
Anyway, good hack!
So the links would have been relevant if the grandparent had written You didn't see our country piling innocent people into prisons after 9/11??? If Cat Stevens had been American the link would have been relevant? The attrocities in the third link are ok as the prisoners are not American?
My point remains: that imprisoning even criminals in this way is not acceptable, much less civilians whose guilt has not yet been proven (or do you not believe in "innocent until proven guilty"? Perhaps it only applies to Americans?)
(As to the link about Steven Hatfill, I apologise for the red herring -- I was out of the country at the time and only caught the beginning of the tale, not it's conclusion. Thank you for enlarging my knowledge in that area.)
Use a breeder reactor, which uses its own waste as fuel. Incidentally, this is what most of Europe has been doing for some time now. (In the far distance, I can see Hinkley Point. I'm rather proud all my electricity is being produced cleanly, not through fossil fuels.)
The price of eternal vigilance is half an hour of your time, a newspaper, and pen and paper. If you are British, please, please, write to your local MP. Do it now. Then write to MI5, and 10 Downing Street.
You didn't see our country piling innocent arab-americans into prisons after 9/11??
Erm, yes I did.
In short, no, we don't go after commies anymore.
Oh, and yes , you do.
- Use them from nearby a river which has overflown its banks in order to call in an ambulance when your friend is washed away by the force of the flood
- Use it from the middle of a playground where you and your mates have just been attacked by yobs
- Use them to arrange a meeting in a place you've never been too before or with a person you've never met or both
- Take pictures with it.
- Read books on it
(All of those I have had to do in the past month).It's not hard, mate. If one or both of you is in a noisy room, go somewhere quiet (bet you can't do that with a "regular phone"!). If your connection keeps getting dropped, switch to a provider with more coverage. If you keep running low on minutes, get a contract phone (though I dont, for privacy reasons). As for washing or dropping... well try doing it to your landline, I doubt it will work after that either.
Any questions? Just hit reply...
Now I must disagree with you about the Guardian/Orange-County incidient -- I'd be pretty pissed off if the yanks told me to vote Conservative, for example. That said, the letters recieved by the Guardian were very funny.
Of course what pisses me off is that the GOP's website is blocked to all outbound routers. Because its not like American foreign policy affects the rest of the world at all.
GITS RULE but show her Spirited Away first, instead. Course, I don't know your girlfriend...
Right, see I personally dont enjoy playing Civilisation. Actually I hate it. But I recognize it as a good game and would stand up for it if someone thought that, say, Leisure Suit Larry was a better game.
My point is I also don't like A Clockwork Orange, although I recognize it as a seminal piece of film. I similarly do not like Irreversible or Passion of the Christ, though I recognize them as awesome films.
Something doesn't have to be entertaining for it to be good. They are not logical equivilents.
I do, however, remember seeing a (?Panorama?) special on (?Norway's?) primary school education program. The first difference was that school only started when the child was 6, and even then, wasn't compulsory. From then until age 9, it is more of a day-care centre with field trips, finger painting, small groups, etc. and certainly no desks or textbooks in sight. By age 12 they were already exceeding British student's in most standardised tests despite having had a shorter school day.
I think the grandparent was joking, being sarcastic, or trolling -- which is a pity as your post is far more accurate. I work in Starbucks myself, and it's true that about half the people we have don't know the first thing about coffee. The other half, however -- including the store manager, assistant store manager, and most of the scenior (non-parttime staff), a very, very knowledgable. I'd like to stress, however, that they reflect how management wants everyone to be and it is *not* acceptable for someone who has worked full-time for over a year to not know what a robusta is. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen, though. In the past, a black apron was awarded to the partner who knew the most about coffee in the store but the new training initiatives are designed so that the staff have to help each other before they can progress to the next level. Hopefully around this time next year, most stores should be "black apron stores".
I started off with the 512/no cap like you but switched to the faster line because I though the extra speed outweighed the usage cap. I'm not that inconvenianced, though I am looking for a new ISP for even more speed :-D
Technical stuff: dynamic IP (though I have a dyndns account so I'm not bothered), no blocked ports, and as far as I can tell, no blocked websites or blacklists either. The prices are competive, although their speeds could be higher and they have an annoying monthly limit on all their pricing plans. I'm on 30gig, which apparently I've been exceeding for the past three months. I don't use their POP3 servers though on the rare occaisions I have I've had issues. There has also been some unexpected downtime more than once in the past year, though from what I can tell this has been BT's problem at the local exchange. I'm using the free USB modem under Linux, works fine.
All in all, they're a good ISP. Like the parent, I'd rate them 8 out 10. I can only talk about the British branch of Wannadoo, though, and European slashdotter's mileage may vary.
Eh? I'd have gone all the way the court after that treatment.
And even those who do, apparently. And the girl with the SG account doesn't get paid for it though because she's not a featured model. Although "It's fun" wasn't quite the kind of long, detailed, insightful answer I was anticipating, cheers anyway.
*Writes above factoid down* I love it!
I've always wanted to know the answer to your second question as well, actually, hopefully someone else will be able to answer or at least give some interesting insights. Another question is "why do they do it?", and it's not something I've easily been able to work out. A friend of mine (one of those born-again Christian types) admitted in one of those email forward-things to posing nude, which I can't quite believe. Another friend's ex-girlfriend apparently has a suicidegirls.com account, which is why he never visits the site anymore. Unfortunately, going up to people and asking "Why do you pose nude?" isn't exactly the best way to make friends or influence people.
So yeah. How many have done it, and why do they do it?
Been noticing it for a week or so now, or about the time the slashcode was upgraded to (amoung other things) use CAPTCHAs. Hmm, I now notice the CAPTCHAs have disapeared. Never liked 'em anyway.
No, no, not GAIM. I want this as an asterisk plugin, compatible with iChat, MSN, Y!Messenger, and the new VVoIP (Video/Voice over IP) hardware phones that are comming out.
I really want this -- when people start doing it I'll ditch my landline for sure.
Hopefully, this'll persuade the OSS community to come up with an equivilent. Thunderbirds-style video conferancing here we come!
What happens if a large corporation uses DRM to enforce copyright it *claims* to own but in fact does not?
They'll have the pants sued off them.
Well that's how it's supposed to work, anyway. A fiver says 95% of the public start thinking they do actually have the rights to it, the other 5% develop an obscure and very-hard-to-apply crack.
It really aint cool but its life.
Hate to nitpick (and not to miss the humour in your post) but Hitler's Nazi party were quite pro-British -- they saw Britain as a valued trading partner for when the war was over. It was us who were anti-them.
I think that by banning Naza propaganda materials, they're more trying to stop these things from happening in the future. Alot of Europe has these rules as well, for example in France sale of Nazi materials is prohibited for the same reasons.
But perhaps it is us, the rest of the world, who has lost touch with them. And that is the real shame, I think
I'm sure calling them losers is bound to help.
Don't worry...
I was really quite worried for a second there.
If you want it to just be a video/music player/streamer install Linux, then use Samba for serving/streaming and your favorite Linux application for viewing/listening. If that's all you want it to do, I'd rather use Linux and Winamp with Milkdrop (the WORLD's best visualisation studio), or iTunes.
If you want to record or watch TV (as opposed to DVD-rips), you'll need to look into MythTV/VDR on Linux, or SageTV or its equivilents (there's a free one out there too that looks good) on Windows. You'll also need some pretty beefy hardware and a capture card.
The plus side of these setups of course is that since they are on 24/7 they can firewall/NAT your home network, and use Apache to serve your personal website.
My server right now runs NAT for my network, firewalls my network, streams music and dvd-rips to the Windows clients, and runs my Apache webserver. For this, anything over 300mhz is overkill. If that's all you want to do, look into OpenBSD as your OS -- so you can boast about your system not having a single remote exploit in over 8 years. In the not-so-distant future I want my setup to run MythTV to stream live tv to the other clients, and I'm also looking into an FM-transmitter so we can listen to it on the radios we have lying around the house.
As for connecting it to your TV and stereo, it's pretty simple: just run a sound wire from your soundcard to your stereo's external inputs. And your TV? You'll ussually need a graphics card with TV-Out, but I'm lucky -- my TV supports VGA and DVI inputs!
Ahh, the joys of running a home server.