"More important still, the government's draconian antiterrorism laws have already been used by the police last month to arrest 144 people protesting against an arms fair in London. The civil rights group Liberty has challenged the use of emergency powers contained in sections 44 (1) and 44 (2) of the Terrorism Act 2000 as illegal. Liberty's court action has revealed that on two occasions--from August 13 for 28 days and from September 11 for 28 days--the Metropolitan Police had unrestrained power to treat everyone in London as a terrorist, and stop, search and hold them without cause or reasonable suspicion. The Met. has already declared that the provisions of the legislation could be used against those demonstrating against President Bush's November 19 state visit to Britain, which will be policed by up to 250 armed officers under the leadership of London's head of antiterrorist and security operations, David Veness."
"Why does everything always have to be some Orwellian plot against the masses?"
Because this allows a few people to control a much larger population by force without any oversight, checks or balances... and we know a bit about the motivations and ethics of the group currently in charge?
"There's an app called image capture in your applications folder: open it, open the preferences, set the desired behaviour. If I recall correctly, iPhoto asked you the first time."
Considering that cars / drivers kill more people than terrorism, then surely it's one of the most important things to look at...
e.g. if those cameras help to catch people driving whilst banned, or people wanted for road traffic offenses, then it could be much more successul at reducing violent deaths than any of the terorism-related projects
"Surely that would make it equally as ridiculous that somebody would complain that Microsoft would use "Open" and "Office" in a file format that they're marketing as open and for Office?"
Trying to make sure nobody confuses it with the Open Office XML format by calling it Office Open XML format?
Surely trademark law stops you from doing things like that: deliberately trying to confuse a customer by using a variation of your competitor's product name?
And for as long as other companies take the 'Windows or nothing' approach, EmperorLinux will continue to be the exclusive distributor for the entire linux/laptop market sector.
Actually, it's more like the choice between getting a 2007 BMW M5 for free, or paying £180000 for a Ferrari that's provably much better, but only if you're a racing driver.
Sure, some people might need the extra engineering, and you certainly wouldn't want to skimp if you were entering an F1 race. But for most people, they'll take the combination of high power and good value.
By that argument, a black and white monitor is capable of millions of colours, since each pixel can be black or white, so if you look at the whole screen through a blurry filter, you can adjust the apparent greyness of the entire screen by turning pixels on or off.
That would never work though, people would just say "yeah it has more colours, but you only have one effective pixel therefore your pixel count in the brochure is misleading"
Same thing here. If you need more than one pixel to display the advertised number of colours, then the advertised number of pixels is false.
Yes, I find their £1 fare for 1/4-mile bus trip fascinating.
However, having just one city with buses available doesn't negate the point that buses are useless generally. Try doing the same trick in any rural location, town, or small city, and see how fast you get to work on the bus.
You'd hope that in something as critical as a nuclear power plant the answer would be, very quickly, "no, it didn't come from an external source because that's impossible
trains maybe, if you're going a very long way and want to drink, sleep, or use a laptop on the journey. but really, no! train tickets here cost about 4x the cost of driving, even if you amortize the cost of your car over the journeys.
And busses... don't take them if you want to arrive at your destination. Just too unreliable. They might turn up, they might not...
"The occupancy of the buses is about 50% during most of the day."
In Britain, it's about 0-5% during the day (i.e. the driver and maybe 1-2 passengers max)
"These countries are treading on a slippery slope. At what point is it OK now to not pay for the hard work of other people, or to begin to directly steal from them?"
Maybe they could ask other countries who steal patent licenses from inventors, using the excuse that they're the government.
"If a person cannot walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm, then that person is living in a fear society, not a free society. We cannot rest until every person living in a "fear society" has finally won their freedom."
Where are you getting this idea that Iran's leadership is insane?
Well, let's start with hosting an international symposium on "The Holocaust myth is a vast historical conspiracy perpetrated by Jews who want everybody to feel sorry for them so they can take over the world without anyone noticing".
In the land of free speech, you find it unacceptable to host a debate where one side is not legally barred from arguing?
Hold it in the USA or Europe, where we can send to jail anyone who questions the conclusions!
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However, we have lots of issues to clean-up "back at home", if we want to preach to Malaysia about such issues.
For example in the UK
"More important still, the government's draconian antiterrorism laws have already been used by the police last month to arrest 144 people protesting against an arms fair in London. The civil rights group Liberty has challenged the use of emergency powers contained in sections 44 (1) and 44 (2) of the Terrorism Act 2000 as illegal. Liberty's court action has revealed that on two occasions--from August 13 for 28 days and from September 11 for 28 days--the Metropolitan Police had unrestrained power to treat everyone in London as a terrorist, and stop, search and hold them without cause or reasonable suspicion. The Met. has already declared that the provisions of the legislation could be used against those demonstrating against President Bush's November 19 state visit to Britain, which will be policed by up to 250 armed officers under the leadership of London's head of antiterrorist and security operations, David Veness."
NPOV link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSEi#Protests
"Why does everything always have to be some Orwellian plot against the masses?"
Because this allows a few people to control a much larger population by force without any oversight, checks or balances... and we know a bit about the motivations and ethics of the group currently in charge?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/03/smeatonato r_honoured/
"There's an app called image capture in your applications folder: open it, open the preferences, set the desired behaviour. If I recall correctly, iPhoto asked you the first time."
Thanks, that fixes it.
"aren't cars the least of the trouble?"
Considering that cars / drivers kill more people than terrorism, then surely it's one of the most important things to look at...
e.g. if those cameras help to catch people driving whilst banned, or people wanted for road traffic offenses, then it could be much more successul at reducing violent deaths than any of the terorism-related projects
"Not that things are much better on the Mac"
Indeed. Imagine having to download third-party software just to disable the startup noise...
(And if anyone knows how to stop iPhoto popping up whenever it thinks you've attached a camera, I'd like to hear how...)
"Surely that would make it equally as ridiculous that somebody would complain that Microsoft would use "Open" and "Office" in a file format that they're marketing as open and for Office?"
Trying to make sure nobody confuses it with the Open Office XML format by calling it Office Open XML format?
Surely trademark law stops you from doing things like that: deliberately trying to confuse a customer by using a variation of your competitor's product name?
"Except if you're looking for FOSS OS laptop, where do you take it? Even most custom build places push Windows to every system"
Well http://emperorlinux.com/ of course...
And for as long as other companies take the 'Windows or nothing' approach, EmperorLinux will continue to be the exclusive distributor for the entire linux/laptop market sector.
Actually, it's more like the choice between getting a 2007 BMW M5 for free, or paying £180000 for a Ferrari that's provably much better, but only if you're a racing driver.
Sure, some people might need the extra engineering, and you certainly wouldn't want to skimp if you were entering an F1 race. But for most people, they'll take the combination of high power and good value.
By that argument, a black and white monitor is capable of millions of colours, since each pixel can be black or white, so if you look at the whole screen through a blurry filter, you can adjust the apparent greyness of the entire screen by turning pixels on or off.
That would never work though, people would just say "yeah it has more colours, but you only have one effective pixel therefore your pixel count in the brochure is misleading"
Same thing here. If you need more than one pixel to display the advertised number of colours, then the advertised number of pixels is false.
"Never been to London?"
Yes, I find their £1 fare for 1/4-mile bus trip fascinating.
However, having just one city with buses available doesn't negate the point that buses are useless generally. Try doing the same trick in any rural location, town, or small city, and see how fast you get to work on the bus.
You'd hope that in something as critical as a nuclear power plant the answer would be, very quickly, "no, it didn't come from an external source because that's impossible
Indeed.
Unfortunately, sometimes our favorite software supplier is involved...
"many Europeans use public transportation"
trains maybe, if you're going a very long way and want to drink, sleep, or use a laptop on the journey. but really, no! train tickets here cost about 4x the cost of driving, even if you amortize the cost of your car over the journeys.
And busses... don't take them if you want to arrive at your destination. Just too unreliable. They might turn up, they might not...
"The occupancy of the buses is about 50% during most of the day."
In Britain, it's about 0-5% during the day (i.e. the driver and maybe 1-2 passengers max)
IIS 5.0 buffer overflow exploited systems which were never intended to be web servers'
Ah, well there's your security problem... an operating system which runs webservers without its users' knowledge.
"making money by selling a solution to a problem that it created (or that it intentionally allows to continue to exist)"
;)
Haha, 0wned, microsoft...
actually that text sounds like it was word-for-word designed to apply to microsoft's security practises
"These countries are treading on a slippery slope. At what point is it OK now to not pay for the hard work of other people, or to begin to directly steal from them?"
Maybe they could ask other countries who steal patent licenses from inventors, using the excuse that they're the government.
Such as for example, the United States of America
"Read about the trusted industry names behind AACS."
"Trusted" means "capable of breaching your security", which might explain why intel, microsoft and sony are on the list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_system
"If a person cannot walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm, then that person is living in a fear society, not a free society. We cannot rest until every person living in a "fear society" has finally won their freedom."
Condoleezza Rice, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outposts_of_tyranny
"Basically it's to gear-up the public to be accepting to fingerprint scanning as part of everyday life."
d _card_voting/ suggesting that ID cards should be a requirement for voting...
n gerprints_students/ where children are being taught to "get used to" having their fingerprints taken daily.
And it's a very wide range of methods they're using to force this issue. See for example http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/30/younger_i
For a slightly more scary example, see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/29/school_fi
Where are you getting this idea that Iran's leadership is insane?
Well, let's start with hosting an international symposium on "The Holocaust myth is a vast historical conspiracy perpetrated by Jews who want everybody to feel sorry for them so they can take over the world without anyone noticing".
In the land of free speech, you find it unacceptable to host a debate where one side is not legally barred from arguing?
Hold it in the USA or Europe, where we can send to jail anyone who questions the conclusions!
"Downside is a highly religiously motivated nation with nukes"
Another one.
(I assume you weren't already referring to the US)
"One nutcase and we then have potentially a few million lives at risk"
Sure you're not talking about the US?
"What do you want?"
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"Information..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_(window_manage
Next thing, we'll hear they got a copy of Tron...
"Okay, OS+Software for $3. But the school has to provide free PCs to the schools using the deal. Sooooo...where does the PC come from?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant
On Apple machines you have no ... games
http://www.macgames.co.uk/browse.html