You echo my sentiments exactly, as I said above. You'd think they would put a little effort into thinking about just how this will work in practise. Imagine you have
- telephone null - water bill - electricity bill - council tax bill - bank statements
and so and and so one and each of them want you to login, navigate around, be entertained by them over and over each month. What a nightmare! It's enough hassle dealing with spam, this is like the new spam.
I hate that. But only because they get it wrong. O2 do that with the iphone accounts and you cannot get them to change it. I used my iphone for business and have to save the bills so I left them. I wouldn't have a problem if they simply gave you the option to receive the bills as pdf's via email, so the amount of work I have to save them is to just push a button. That would then be preferable to paper bills, however, forcing you to login and navigate their website and download them and if you forget one month do more work is just too much trouble to stay with the provider, so I left them for a provider which did provide paper bills.
Why can't they just get it right? It's not rocket science.
Telenet is another rubbish company. They block all the ports 1024 as a matter ofd course. These people should be sued to high hell for missleading sales as they are not selling internet rather only http service.
Funny how one rubbish company is interested in another rubbish one. The willingness of UPC to screw with their client base is no doubt one of the contributing factors as to why telenet were interested in buying them.
UPC were always rubbish. They block loads of ports as well. From one day to the next I had a working voip solution which broken when they blocked the H.323 connection service.
I remember reading articles on the woman's magazine Cosmopolitan where one of the tips for spicing up your sex life was to have sex outdoors. It's been that way for years, now it's a crime that can have bigger implications on your life than murder.
Why oh why are the laws in this modern world being made by people who have mental sexual problems. Clearly it is mentally defective to view sex as more devastating than murder.
Thanks for the explanation. If Brein succeed, then the government really needs to be pressured to cut the tax on cd media. Personally, I never download music, but I do buy cds for video and photographic storage and take objection to my money being fed to thieves. Christ, as a software developer, why is the government not taking part of that money and feeding it back to programmers.
I was under the impressioni that downloading music was perfectly legal in the Netherlands because all the people who buy cdroms have a portion of it taxed and given to the music industry thieves by the politician thieves.
I side with pirate bay because corruption is an even bigger crime than copyright violation and the music industry has shown just how rife corruption is and is encouraging much more of it.
You are right that software patents are the bigger evil. However, I think a lot of the injustice that people feel about what's happening in the copyright world is that it spells out so obviously the corruption that has come to play to achieve what is happening. Corruption that has little to do with benefitting the full range of society, but only those who already have a lot of power.
A lot of the people that read this list probably quite like the idea of the potential of running some small software business and all forms of corruption that increase the ability to large companies to oppress upcoming small companies is abhorrent to them.
I once had a company that someone wrongly used the DCMA law, claiming my software was theirs, to take the software out of circulation for a year. After a debilitating year of legal costs and no income the court found that the copyright was my own, but the company was destroyed in the meantime. Where's the justice in that? These sort of laws become tools for large players to wipe out small, pesky upstarts.
If you are a small software company with a great idea, you better get bigger and amass enough capital to sustain a court battle very quickly, or sooner or later someone will try and eliminate you from the race via these laws and it won't matter much if you are right or not, it's just a tool.
In the Netherlands a tax is applied to all cd sales and given directly to the media maffia on the assumption that you will steal from them. So when I buy cdroms for my photographs I'm paying this organised crime racket that the government is in on.
PS. I've never downloaded any illegal media in my life, but I still pay the racketeers. Dirty smelly corrupt politicians.
Which is where a company like Google that appears to take very little account of actual experience over geeky quizzes looses out. They can't package up a standard procedure to evaluating experience so they tend to largely leave it out of their recruitment process.
Those little rats ("The children") in the fastest time are adults and then no one cares. This is just like little puppy dogs, everyone loves them when they are little and then when they are adults they are often quickly forgotten.
It may surprise some to know then most of a human's life is spent as an adult. Adults whose needs and wishes are quickly forgotten. Like the wish to be view their world uncensored.
And I don't know where people get the idea that pornography harms children anyway. If you have no access to any pornography as a kid you better be one of the cool crowd that is getting some or your fast be suffering some big time frustrations:-) Frankly I think that more psychological harm is done by being completely shielded from sexuality as a child. Put your hands up all those who never ever saw any pornography as a child and I'll see if I can arrange for some therapy for you.
I was hit by an uninsured driver that did an illegal U turn in front of my motorcycle in South London. After flying over the vehicle the driver took off around the corner and disappeared. The police were called immediately. There was a camera looking right at the place of the accident. The police could have followed where the driver went to, they didn't. Not that that was important anyway as before the driver got around the corner, I got the license plate number and called it in.
Some 4 weeks later I received a letter from the criminal investigation unit saying that they had written the address concerned and received a letter back stating that the person concerned didn't live there any more and so they were going to drop the case. I called the person from the criminal investigation unit and asked if they sent someone around to the place where the vechicle was registered. She said they didn't and said that they "never would" for a hit and run investigation unless someone was seriously injured. Then she repeated:
"And I mean seriously injured..."
So the cameras were not even consulted. But more to the point, the police wouldn't even investigate if they did, however I have been sent many a ticket in the post for trivial offences (Riding in a bus lane, after a radio advertising campaign started to encourage this for motorcycles).
On another occasion whilst travelling on the eurostar I accidentally left a camera bag will cameras and lens at the security scanners. I realised this within 20 minutes and from the train called and confirmed that they had it and were holding it for me. When I got the bag back a 300 pound lens was missing. I reported this to the railways police and was called back by a friendly railways police man confirming that he was investigating and would review the tapes. I described very carefully what I was wearing and I was easily identifyable as I had a motorcycle topbox with me. I thought maybe he would have difficulty identifying the lens so I described it carefully. I provided a time frame within a 10 minute period of when I passed through the security scanner. I was stunned that he closed the case saying that he could not identify me on the cameras, forget about the lens!
People who believe these cameras will help them out and reduce crime are deluding themselves, however they can be fairly sure they will be sent tickets for minor traffic offences (Not major ones) based on these cameras. Hey, I guess that's the crime they meant when they said that these cameras would help combat crime.
Frankly I'm perhaps glad that they don't follow up on all crime they see on these cameras or everyone would be receiving multiple tickets a week for trival crime and society would be horrible to live in, but it does make a complete mockery of the excuse for why they are there. It's the camera equivalent of weapons of mass destruction.
They are definately able to find a link between pornography and paediatricians!!
Funny that, violence on TV (Big business) and in games doesn't lead to crimes but porn does. Who would have thought...
Recently when I went to download Fedora Core 10, I had to use bittorrent for the first time (Never bothered in the past) as all of the official servers I tried timed out at some stage or other.
Anyone know any famous actresses/actors?
There are loads of IT people contributing for free to the open source community, here's an opportunity for actors and actresses to jump on the bandwagon and become part of the open source/acting movement and get some kudos of a different sort.
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You echo my sentiments exactly, as I said above. You'd think they would put a little effort into thinking about just how this will work in practise. Imagine you have
- telephone null
- water bill
- electricity bill
- council tax bill
- bank statements
and so and and so one and each of them want you to login, navigate around, be entertained by them over and over each month. What a nightmare! It's enough hassle dealing with spam, this is like the new spam.
I hate that. But only because they get it wrong. O2 do that with the iphone accounts and you cannot get them to change it. I used my iphone for business and have to save the bills so I left them. I wouldn't have a problem if they simply gave you the option to receive the bills as pdf's via email, so the amount of work I have to save them is to just push a button. That would then be preferable to paper bills, however, forcing you to login and navigate their website and download them and if you forget one month do more work is just too much trouble to stay with the provider, so I left them for a provider which did provide paper bills.
Why can't they just get it right? It's not rocket science.
Glad someone took the bait. It would have been boring otherwise :-)
Have you ever heard an Australian say "ten"? Then it all becomes clear.
LIberty global? What an ironic name for a companies that provide just the opposite in their internet service.
Telenet is another rubbish company. They block all the ports 1024 as a matter ofd course. These people should be sued to high hell for missleading sales as they are not selling internet rather only http service.
Funny how one rubbish company is interested in another rubbish one. The willingness of UPC to screw with their client base is no doubt one of the contributing factors as to why telenet were interested in buying them.
UPC were always rubbish. They block loads of ports as well. From one day to the next I had a working voip solution which broken when they blocked the H.323 connection service.
I remember reading articles on the woman's magazine Cosmopolitan where one of the tips for spicing up your sex life was to have sex outdoors. It's been that way for years, now it's a crime that can have bigger implications on your life than murder.
Why oh why are the laws in this modern world being made by people who have mental sexual problems. Clearly it is mentally defective to view sex as more devastating than murder.
Thanks for the explanation. If Brein succeed, then the government really needs to be pressured to cut the tax on cd media. Personally, I never download music, but I do buy cds for video and photographic storage and take objection to my money being fed to thieves. Christ, as a software developer, why is the government not taking part of that money and feeding it back to programmers.
I was under the impressioni that downloading music was perfectly legal in the Netherlands because all the people who buy cdroms have a portion of it taxed and given to the music industry thieves by the politician thieves.
I side with pirate bay because corruption is an even bigger crime than copyright violation and the music industry has shown just how rife corruption is and is encouraging much more of it.
You are right that software patents are the bigger evil. However, I think a lot of the injustice that people feel about what's happening in the copyright world is that it spells out so obviously the corruption that has come to play to achieve what is happening. Corruption that has little to do with benefitting the full range of society, but only those who already have a lot of power.
A lot of the people that read this list probably quite like the idea of the potential of running some small software business and all forms of corruption that increase the ability to large companies to oppress upcoming small companies is abhorrent to them.
I once had a company that someone wrongly used the DCMA law, claiming my software was theirs, to take the software out of circulation for a year. After a debilitating year of legal costs and no income the court found that the copyright was my own, but the company was destroyed in the meantime. Where's the justice in that? These sort of laws become tools for large players to wipe out small, pesky upstarts.
If you are a small software company with a great idea, you better get bigger and amass enough capital to sustain a court battle very quickly, or sooner or later someone will try and eliminate you from the race via these laws and it won't matter much if you are right or not, it's just a tool.
I wondered if someone might think of that. I've never downloaded any illegal media.
In the Netherlands a tax is applied to all cd sales and given directly to the media maffia on the assumption that you will steal from them. So when I buy cdroms for my photographs I'm paying this organised crime racket that the government is in on.
PS. I've never downloaded any illegal media in my life, but I still pay the racketeers. Dirty smelly corrupt politicians.
You can do this job one handed he said.
Microsoft could try Sarkozy's approach and offer to pay them one Euro in compensation. That's what the biggest hippocrates do.
Which is where a company like Google that appears to take very little account of actual experience over geeky quizzes looses out. They can't package up a standard procedure to evaluating experience so they tend to largely leave it out of their recruitment process.
Those little rats ("The children") in the fastest time are adults and then no one cares. This is just like little puppy dogs, everyone loves them when they are little and then when they are adults they are often quickly forgotten.
It may surprise some to know then most of a human's life is spent as an adult. Adults whose needs and wishes are quickly forgotten. Like the wish to be view their world uncensored.
And I don't know where people get the idea that pornography harms children anyway. If you have no access to any pornography as a kid you better be one of the cool crowd that is getting some or your fast be suffering some big time frustrations :-) Frankly I think that more psychological harm is done by being completely shielded from sexuality as a child. Put your hands up all those who never ever saw any pornography as a child and I'll see if I can arrange for some therapy for you.
I think I didn't look Brazillian enough so they never even saw me.
I was hit by an uninsured driver that did an illegal U turn in front of my motorcycle in South London. After flying over the vehicle the driver took off around the corner and disappeared. The police were called immediately. There was a camera looking right at the place of the accident. The police could have followed where the driver went to, they didn't. Not that that was important anyway as before the driver got around the corner, I got the license plate number and called it in.
Some 4 weeks later I received a letter from the criminal investigation unit saying that they had written the address concerned and received a letter back stating that the person concerned didn't live there any more and so they were going to drop the case. I called the person from the criminal investigation unit and asked if they sent someone around to the place where the vechicle was registered. She said they didn't and said that they "never would" for a hit and run investigation unless someone was seriously injured. Then she repeated:
"And I mean seriously injured..."
So the cameras were not even consulted. But more to the point, the police wouldn't even investigate if they did, however I have been sent many a ticket in the post for trivial offences (Riding in a bus lane, after a radio advertising campaign started to encourage this for motorcycles).
On another occasion whilst travelling on the eurostar I accidentally left a camera bag will cameras and lens at the security scanners. I realised this within 20 minutes and from the train called and confirmed that they had it and were holding it for me. When I got the bag back a 300 pound lens was missing. I reported this to the railways police and was called back by a friendly railways police man confirming that he was investigating and would review the tapes. I described very carefully what I was wearing and I was easily identifyable as I had a motorcycle topbox with me. I thought maybe he would have difficulty identifying the lens so I described it carefully. I provided a time frame within a 10 minute period of when I passed through the security scanner. I was stunned that he closed the case saying that he could not identify me on the cameras, forget about the lens!
People who believe these cameras will help them out and reduce crime are deluding themselves, however they can be fairly sure they will be sent tickets for minor traffic offences (Not major ones) based on these cameras. Hey, I guess that's the crime they meant when they said that these cameras would help combat crime.
Frankly I'm perhaps glad that they don't follow up on all crime they see on these cameras or everyone would be receiving multiple tickets a week for trival crime and society would be horrible to live in, but it does make a complete mockery of the excuse for why they are there. It's the camera equivalent of weapons of mass destruction.
Ridiculous cold? We can't even keep cold enough for an 11 cities skate anymore.
I don't understand why the above posting is marked as a troll?? I haven't checked facts on what he is posting, but I doubt the moderator did either.
They are definately able to find a link between pornography and paediatricians!! Funny that, violence on TV (Big business) and in games doesn't lead to crimes but porn does. Who would have thought...
Recently when I went to download Fedora Core 10, I had to use bittorrent for the first time (Never bothered in the past) as all of the official servers I tried timed out at some stage or other.
Anyone know any famous actresses/actors? There are loads of IT people contributing for free to the open source community, here's an opportunity for actors and actresses to jump on the bandwagon and become part of the open source/acting movement and get some kudos of a different sort.