The UK government isn't censoring the internet. Some ISP's are.
Would you accept that your comment was full of shit if you happened to know that all ISPs in the UK were implementing this blocklist, and some of them have mentioned their "obligation" to do so (without describing that obligation further)
Once you start censoring internet things it tends to snowball until it gets in the way of agtually getting information.
Actually, it seems once you start censoring the Internet, it starts getting harder to censor the Internet.
For instance, my ISP, which did get involved in the wikpedia censorship fiasco, seems to have stayed clear of this one.
They just respond at different rates to updates in IWF censorlist.
e.g. remember BT being 3 days late in blocking wikipedia after the others had done it?
Last I checked, something was returning suspicious 404 errors for all search results at archive.org except the archives of demon.net (whose management was responsible for founding the IWF -- see their wikipedia article, if they permit you to view it)
He already did that â" that's why OS X 10.3 took about 40 seconds to boot, and 10.4/10.5 take about 4 seconds.
Nice try. After 4 seconds, a Mac with OS X 10.4 won't even have turned on its video output. After 2 minutes you might see the boot screen, but good luck getting any programs to run within the first 3-4 minutes.
It's simply not comparable to something like the asus eee, and the difference is noticable.
(being able to resume from sleep however, makes OS X 10.4 a world of difference better than Windows)
What about the portion of murders by people who can't reconcile the idea of physically getting close to their victim and doing great violence? Do they require firearms more than the average murder?
I mean, it's not like he didn't have Halo 3 to practise his headshots:)
As a Halo player, I wonder why he didn't try to use the pistol from a kilometre away and wonder why, in the real world, a pistol *isn't* second only to a sniper rifle...
For the most part, LSD doesn't cause true hallucinations -- it distorts things. You'll see the wood grain on your desk flowing, or the tree waving at you... but you won't see a pink unicorn in the room
Most of the replies so far show a glaring lack of knowledge of what USB3 really is. Honestly, it only bears a passing resemblance to its predecessors, and is a closer relative to PCIe. If you want more technical information, Denali has a good whitepaper (registration required):
weirdly, wikipedia doesn't seem to include any of that stuff about upgrade to our standard or your company will die - you might need to turn to an industry-funded news source for the full story;)
No really. The definitive solution : me move all palestinian to say, the south pole. We move all Israelien to the north Pole. We let them cool down there. Then while everybody is gone, we double check no living being are left in the "holy" shitty land. Then we put atom bomb at regular space, to transform the whole shebang in a giant parking lot. Once this is done, we SALT the earth. In depth. Once this is done, we put all kind of traps, mine, bomb, automated gun sentries. Anybody trying to go back on their shitty holy land get blasted to smithern. Problem solved.
probably the easiest way to evaluate this suggestion, is to imagine an Israeli suggesting that this solution be applied to the USA.
"Turn your whole shitty holy land into a glass parking lot, problem solved"
would you vote for it if the citizens of Los Angeles had to camp in the ice-sheets for fear of being killed by a nuclear war? I hope so, since you're proposing this method for certain other people.
Twitter: insanely useless or just a huge waste of time?
Put it this way: the USA supplied cluster bombs to Israel which used them against civilian targets (as anticipated by the US suppliers). Therefore the people of the USA are all terrorists and should all be tortured by the navy in Guantanamo Bay.
Israel left Gaza three and a half years ago. Other than providing them with fuel, water, and electricity (for FREE) Israel has had no involvement with Gaza, other than retaliating for rocket strikes.
So Gaza were free to trade with forign countries, since Israel supposedly had no involvement in that?
Or do you mean Israel "left" the country while imposing economic nuclear war on the place?
one of the most shameful issues here is our UK or USA governments supporting that state.
In fact, weren't the US air force recently caught in Glasgow airport, supplying anti-civillian cluster-bombs to the Israelis, even after the official ceasefire there?
Are you really suggesting creating or decoding them on a computer you don't trust? There is no security in that.
Is this the end then? Has the government cryptofascism got so bad that even normal geeks are designing terrorist plots just as response to the outrage of hearing the latest news criminalising anyone who disagrees with the policies?
Yep. The problem is that the government is (with a few exceptions) extremely bad at producing anything other than paperwork and hindrances.
Why oh why oh why do people keep modding thus utter bullshit as insightful. It isn't it's an ignorant meme repeatedly spread by people with a bizarre faith in business.
I seem to remember watching a show about little reactors put in out of the way places all over Russia to power navigation aids and stuff. The show I watched, one had been opened and guys were taking turns trying to get the radio active material into a container to get it moved. Some hunters had found it and got radiation poisoning.
At least do a search and link to the wikipedia article...
I was under the impression that the reason for child pornography laws was to protect children from exploitation.
rule 1: laws get abused
see: your problem (and that of everyone who gets information from newspapers or TV) is that you've believed what the government says the law will be about, not what the law is actually about.
And the problem with that is: that the people writing laws lie. Blatantly, constantly, and shamelessly.
The more you research proposed laws, the more you see just how outrageous the government's description of them was.
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The UK government isn't censoring the internet. Some ISP's are.
Would you accept that your comment was full of shit if you happened to know that all ISPs in the UK were implementing this blocklist, and some of them have mentioned their "obligation" to do so (without describing that obligation further)
Once you start censoring internet things it tends to snowball until it gets in the way of agtually getting information.
Actually, it seems once you start censoring the Internet, it starts getting harder to censor the Internet.
For instance, my ISP, which did get involved in the wikpedia censorship fiasco, seems to have stayed clear of this one.
They just respond at different rates to updates in IWF censorlist.
e.g. remember BT being 3 days late in blocking wikipedia after the others had done it?
Last I checked, something was returning suspicious 404 errors for all search results at archive.org except the archives of demon.net (whose management was responsible for founding the IWF -- see their wikipedia article, if they permit you to view it)
I eagerly await the update to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_positions
WTF...? this list is not exhaustive - I think you would be
We already have archive.org for anything out of copyright, or freely redistributable.
Not for long - The Internet Watch Foundation have just blocked archive.org to all UK population.
He already did that â" that's why OS X 10.3 took about 40 seconds to boot, and 10.4/10.5 take about 4 seconds.
Nice try. After 4 seconds, a Mac with OS X 10.4 won't even have turned on its video output. After 2 minutes you might see the boot screen, but good luck getting any programs to run within the first 3-4 minutes.
It's simply not comparable to something like the asus eee, and the difference is noticable.
(being able to resume from sleep however, makes OS X 10.4 a world of difference better than Windows)
lack of sleep will cause severe paranoia as well
When did the U.S. last sleep?
I don't have any need to own a handgun or rifle, but I support the right of people who do.
Uhh, if you are in America, then surely you do have a need, since you're expected to take up arms against any injust government?
About a third of murders don't involve firearms.
What about the portion of murders by people who can't reconcile the idea of physically getting close to their victim and doing great violence? Do they require firearms more than the average murder?
I mean, it's not like he didn't have Halo 3 to practise his headshots :)
As a Halo player, I wonder why he didn't try to use the pistol from a kilometre away and wonder why, in the real world, a pistol *isn't* second only to a sniper rifle...
How is it anything other than the parents fault?
Hang on, the parents said "no you can't have this game" to a 17yo (their son, fwim) who had a gun.
Would you say "no you can't" to a youth with a gun?
where is the office suite that beats OpenOffice.org?
Ironically, it's the office software in GNOME (AbiWord, Gnumeric, GNUCash, etc)
So how is that games, with all their attempts to imitate real life physics and interaction, can't get this simple thing right?
Halfway through the first level: "you died. therefore, this copy of the game will no longer run".
Sony would love it
For the most part, LSD doesn't cause true hallucinations -- it distorts things. You'll see the wood grain on your desk flowing, or the tree waving at you... but you won't see a pink unicorn in the room
That's because she's invisible!
(https link for the paranoid)
Most of the replies so far show a glaring lack of knowledge of what USB3 really is. Honestly, it only bears a passing resemblance to its predecessors, and is a closer relative to PCIe. If you want more technical information, Denali has a good whitepaper (registration required):
And the real info can of course be found at https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Usb3#USB_3.0
weirdly, wikipedia doesn't seem to include any of that stuff about upgrade to our standard or your company will die - you might need to turn to an industry-funded news source for the full story ;)
Israel's right to exist is inherent in the same right to exist that most nations have. They have successfully defended their territory in three wars
so you accept that the current war in defence of palastine is a valid test of their right to exist?
and if so, other countries should not be involved (e.g. anyone shipping arms from the USA to Israel should be imprisoned)
No really. The definitive solution : me move all palestinian to say, the south pole. We move all Israelien to the north Pole. We let them cool down there. Then while everybody is gone, we double check no living being are left in the "holy" shitty land. Then we put atom bomb at regular space, to transform the whole shebang in a giant parking lot. Once this is done, we SALT the earth. In depth. Once this is done, we put all kind of traps, mine, bomb, automated gun sentries. Anybody trying to go back on their shitty holy land get blasted to smithern. Problem solved.
probably the easiest way to evaluate this suggestion, is to imagine an Israeli suggesting that this solution be applied to the USA.
"Turn your whole shitty holy land into a glass parking lot, problem solved"
would you vote for it if the citizens of Los Angeles had to camp in the ice-sheets for fear of being killed by a nuclear war? I hope so, since you're proposing this method for certain other people.
There can be no peace with people that don't even recognise Israel's right to exist.
By that measure, any country who doesn't recognise Sealand is game-on for genocide of their population...
What, how does this go?
Infidel!
Terrorist!
Am not.
Are so!
Twitter: insanely useless or just a huge waste of time?
Put it this way: the USA supplied cluster bombs to Israel which used them against civilian targets (as anticipated by the US suppliers). Therefore the people of the USA are all terrorists and should all be tortured by the navy in Guantanamo Bay.
Israel left Gaza three and a half years ago. Other than providing them with fuel, water, and electricity (for FREE) Israel has had no involvement with Gaza, other than retaliating for rocket strikes.
So Gaza were free to trade with forign countries, since Israel supposedly had no involvement in that?
Or do you mean Israel "left" the country while imposing economic nuclear war on the place?
Jewish = Supporter of Israeli Government.
one of the most shameful issues here is our UK or USA governments supporting that state.
In fact, weren't the US air force recently caught in Glasgow airport, supplying anti-civillian cluster-bombs to the Israelis, even after the official ceasefire there?
Or use steganographic messages.
Are you really suggesting creating or decoding them on a computer you don't trust? There is no security in that.
Is this the end then? Has the government cryptofascism got so bad that even normal geeks are designing terrorist plots just as response to the outrage of hearing the latest news criminalising anyone who disagrees with the policies?
Yep. The problem is that the government is (with a few exceptions) extremely bad at producing anything other than paperwork and hindrances.
Why oh why oh why do people keep modding thus utter bullshit as insightful. It isn't it's an ignorant meme repeatedly spread by people with a bizarre faith in business.
http://burningourmoney.blogspot.com/
Don't let the taxpayers keep that money -- they will never spend it on anything which requires work to create!
really, is that what government is thinking?
I seem to remember watching a show about little reactors put in out of the way places all over Russia to power navigation aids and stuff. The show I watched, one had been opened and guys were taking turns trying to get the radio active material into a container to get it moved. Some hunters had found it and got radiation poisoning.
At least do a search and link to the wikipedia article...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator#Use
I was under the impression that the reason for child pornography laws was to protect children from exploitation.
rule 1: laws get abused
see: your problem (and that of everyone who gets information from newspapers or TV) is that you've believed what the government says the law will be about, not what the law is actually about.
And the problem with that is: that the people writing laws lie. Blatantly, constantly, and shamelessly.
The more you research proposed laws, the more you see just how outrageous the government's description of them was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_The_Children_(politics)