The ITN network has considerable control over the non-BBC broadcasters Actually, OfCom (the Office for Communication) is ultimately in charge of television channels. It can censure stations, and has the power to order them to broadcast an apology - presumably it can also revoke a station's license to broadcast.
As for television licenses, they are issued by TV Licensing, "a trading name used by entities contracted by the Licensing Authority (the BBC) to administer the collection of television licence fees and enforcement of the television licensing system" - not OfCom as another poster says.
I don't know what you mean by Hyde Park - are you suggesting they'll be giving a concert to 80,000 people? Or perhaps they'll be cruising for some man-love.
IANAL but I seriously doubt any criminal action could be taken against this company - perhaps a civil action, but even then I don't know what grounds you'd have. You'd have more luck against YouTube for not performing sufficient action to check whether the copyright holder is represented by the party issuing the takedown notice - but again, I believe they're behaving according to the law in taking it down before checking this info - less time to (potentially) continue infringing copyright!
Why not limit each IP address to 10 (or other arbitrary limit) incorrect activations in a row, then lock out that IP until customer services unlocks it...
Or increase the reply time exponentially after an incorrect activation attempt.
Unless I'm mistaken, this is far from a vulnerability, just an annoyance. People have protected client-server password systems from bruteforce attacks in the ways mentioned above (and more!) for a heck of a long time...
What noone seems to have pointed out yet is that if they are caught breaking this proposed law by the police, they can be punished - without having to prove intent to molest etc.
This is like making it illegal for convicted murderers to buy a knife - catch them doing it - receipts, CCTV, standard surveillance, and you can send them away without needing to prove they were going to try to stab someone.
(OK, OK, flawed analogy, but it serves its purpose).
We have documented proof that Americans have gotten taller for instance. I believe (no sources) that that is most likely down to better nutrition (in the US? Hah! etc), rather than evolution.
... there wasn't widespread belief of a flat Earth at the time of Christopher Columbus. This misconception is generally attributed to Washington Irving.
MORRIS: The American car company General Motors have today announced a cut in their workforce at their plant in Detroit. Our economics correspondent, Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan is there at the moment. Peter, what's going on?
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: Chris, it's a mass redundancy measure, it's the biggest layoff in American industrial history. 35,000 jobs in one fell swoop. Gone!
MORRIS: 35 *thousand*?
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: Yes.
MORRIS: Peter, there's only 25,000 people at the plant!
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: That's right Chris, mass redundancy on an unprecedented scale.
MORRIS: Would you mind telling me how the plant can function on minus 10,000 workers?
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: I don't know Chris, you tell me.
MORRIS: I'll tell you what, Peter, you mean 35 *hundred* workers have been sacked.
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: No, 35,000, it's all here. [He holds up his notes]
MORRIS: Let me see what you've got down there!
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: Er, 35 hundred, you were right, I made a mistake.
MORRIS: Peter, I want to see it. I don't want to hear anything more out of your mouth, I don't believe it. Now show me your notes.
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: No.
MORRIS: Yes!
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: It's 35 hundred.
MORRIS: Show me, I don't believe what you're saying. I just want to see the numbers.
[O'Hanraha-hanrahan brings his notes in view of the camera for a moment.]
MORRIS: Hold them up and keep them up!
[The back of the notes appear.]
MORRIS: And rotate them 180 degrees in my favour! Do it!
[O'Hanraha-hanrahan shame-facedly does so. The notes are scruffy and covered with doodles.]
MORRIS: What's that?
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: I don't have a monitor, Chris, I can't see-
MORRIS: You know what I'm talking about, it's just above your right eye. Yes.
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: A cobweb.
MORRIS: And how's a cobweb going to dig you out of your numerical mess?
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: I don't know.
MORRIS: Peter, you're lying in a news grave. Do you know what's written on your headstone?
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: News.
MORRIS: Peter, thank you. [Morris turns back to the camera and smiles] Peter O'Hanraha- hanrahan, live in Detroit.
Oddly, Ryan McBride is from Glasgow... as is Gordon Ramsay, the TV chef in the top left of the picture. I spotted the guy in the ad, and did wonder, but Ryan's pointed out as the guy who saved him from a ruptured spleen by giving blood.
Could it be that this is just coincidence and that the ad is real? In other words, the guy gave blood in Glasgow and Mr. Ramsay got it? It would make sense...
Funny, a lot of people say/said that about MP3... And does the RIAA listen? No.
Not that I think MIDI is particularly worrying to music publishers... Presumably it's in the same legal area as guitar tabs (eg OLGA) and other music transcriptions? What about transcribing lyrics?
Attacks on ID are not on ID per se, but on its advocates insisting on it being science. It is not science - it is not testable, nor is it falsifiable. If ID deserves a place in the laboratory, apart from passing reference (eg. "Before the theory of evolution became prominent, most people believed that there was a Creator"), then so should "You don't get pregnant if you have unprotected sex as a virgin" and "If you float in water, you're a witch."
And yes, you can get IE6 to operate in STRICT mode (box type, etc.) if you supply the correct DOCTYPE. Further complicating things is the fact that Mozilla, Safari and Opera have an "almost standard" mode, which you can read about on the site I just linked
Why should we webdevs have to tell the browser to do things right? Surely, if we're to have such a choice, we should choose to break the functionality, rather than switch it into "standards compliant mode"? What if we want to use a custom DOCTYPE but retain the CSS formatting as we so desire?
Furthermore, to the poster who asks about coding for 5% of browsers before the other 95% (a little closer to 10%/90% now, but hey) - it's easier to allow for IE's faults than to retrofit CSS for Mozilla / Opera / Safari. Most tricks involve fooling the CSS parser in IE (the inline comment "hack"), which supercedes CSS before it (eg. start off setting margin to 5px, then//margin: 10px for IE.) Sure, you can sniff the browser and serve up a different CSS (or make use of IE's conditional Javascript compilation etc to apply a different CSS) but the fact of the matter is, doing the job correctly first and then allowing for the "quirks" is a hell of a lot less stressful.
Preferatbly 'informative'. Anyone who's seen the article in question would realise he has a point! I'd mod the AC up, but I'm afraid any moderation would be seen as incorrect and I wanted to point this out.
The picture is of Battelle sticking up his middle finger at the camera.
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I take 14 posts before the first fully-formed In Soviet Russia joke...
... because then I wouldn't have a birthday.
Which means no new gadgets for me.
Which means no more joy for me.
*Aw*
Did I mention I've got a kidney stone?
Is there a Mod +1 Needs Sympathy?
As for television licenses, they are issued by TV Licensing, "a trading name used by entities contracted by the Licensing Authority (the BBC) to administer the collection of television licence fees and enforcement of the television licensing system" - not OfCom as another poster says.
I don't know what you mean by Hyde Park - are you suggesting they'll be giving a concert to 80,000 people? Or perhaps they'll be cruising for some man-love.
IANAL but I seriously doubt any criminal action could be taken against this company - perhaps a civil action, but even then I don't know what grounds you'd have. You'd have more luck against YouTube for not performing sufficient action to check whether the copyright holder is represented by the party issuing the takedown notice - but again, I believe they're behaving according to the law in taking it down before checking this info - less time to (potentially) continue infringing copyright!
Maybe they dictated it to boyfaceddog?
... but you can get sued for libel if you're wrong.
Why not limit each IP address to 10 (or other arbitrary limit) incorrect activations in a row, then lock out that IP until customer services unlocks it...
Or increase the reply time exponentially after an incorrect activation attempt.
Unless I'm mistaken, this is far from a vulnerability, just an annoyance. People have protected client-server password systems from bruteforce attacks in the ways mentioned above (and more!) for a heck of a long time...
I call it "Hawking's Law"...
What noone seems to have pointed out yet is that if they are caught breaking this proposed law by the police, they can be punished - without having to prove intent to molest etc.
This is like making it illegal for convicted murderers to buy a knife - catch them doing it - receipts, CCTV, standard surveillance, and you can send them away without needing to prove they were going to try to stab someone.
(OK, OK, flawed analogy, but it serves its purpose).
Not RTFA to be honest, but can I claim prior art?
I mage_Retrieval__A_Words_and_Pictures_Approach.pdf
http://www.relle.co.uk/papers/2003-Content_Based_
We didn't have enough time to train the system properly, but itstarted off well...
... there wasn't widespread belief of a flat Earth at the time of Christopher Columbus. This misconception is generally attributed to Washington Irving.
[Source: The Day Today, Episode 6]
MORRIS: The American car company General Motors have today announced a cut in their workforce at their plant in Detroit. Our economics correspondent, Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan is there at the moment. Peter, what's going on?
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: Chris, it's a mass redundancy measure, it's the biggest layoff in American industrial history. 35,000 jobs in one fell swoop. Gone!
MORRIS: 35 *thousand*?
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: Yes.
MORRIS: Peter, there's only 25,000 people at the plant!
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: That's right Chris, mass redundancy on an unprecedented scale.
MORRIS: Would you mind telling me how the plant can function on minus 10,000 workers?
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: I don't know Chris, you tell me.
MORRIS: I'll tell you what, Peter, you mean 35 *hundred* workers have been sacked.
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: No, 35,000, it's all here. [He holds up his notes]
MORRIS: Let me see what you've got down there!
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: Er, 35 hundred, you were right, I made a mistake.
MORRIS: Peter, I want to see it. I don't want to hear anything more out of your mouth, I don't believe it. Now show me your notes.
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: No.
MORRIS: Yes!
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: It's 35 hundred.
MORRIS: Show me, I don't believe what you're saying. I just want to see the numbers.
[O'Hanraha-hanrahan brings his notes in view of the camera for a moment.]
MORRIS: Hold them up and keep them up!
[The back of the notes appear.]
MORRIS: And rotate them 180 degrees in my favour! Do it!
[O'Hanraha-hanrahan shame-facedly does so. The notes are scruffy and covered with doodles.]
MORRIS: What's that?
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: I don't have a monitor, Chris, I can't see-
MORRIS: You know what I'm talking about, it's just above your right eye. Yes.
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: A cobweb.
MORRIS: And how's a cobweb going to dig you out of your numerical mess?
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: I don't know.
MORRIS: Peter, you're lying in a news grave. Do you know what's written on your headstone?
O'HANRAHA-HANRAHAN: News.
MORRIS: Peter, thank you. [Morris turns back to the camera and smiles] Peter O'Hanraha- hanrahan, live in Detroit.
It's not a virus! It doesn't replicate!
A Trojan, perhaps, malware definitely, but not a virus...
My new language uses less words and...
Fewer words! 'Less' is for analogue, 'fewer' for digital!
Ohhh the irony...
Oddly, Ryan McBride is from Glasgow... as is Gordon Ramsay, the TV chef in the top left of the picture. I spotted the guy in the ad, and did wonder, but Ryan's pointed out as the guy who saved him from a ruptured spleen by giving blood.
Could it be that this is just coincidence and that the ad is real? In other words, the guy gave blood in Glasgow and Mr. Ramsay got it? It would make sense...
Johnny Depp called, he wants his cannon back...
What? Too soon? Oh, of course, it's not been 22.3 years...
I'll get my coat.
I respectfully beg to differ. (See the mention of 'Avacado Danger').
3,000 UKP for cutting yourself in someone else's kitchen through your own stupidity. What is the world coming to?
I'm off to put my hand in the shredder - "Noone told me of the dangers of sticking my hand in a shredder!"
Funny, a lot of people say/said that about MP3... And does the RIAA listen? No.
Not that I think MIDI is particularly worrying to music publishers... Presumably it's in the same legal area as guitar tabs (eg OLGA) and other music transcriptions? What about transcribing lyrics?
Am I the only one who finds the words 'gynaecologists' and 'adhesion' in the same sentence mildly disturbing, yet strangely erotic?
Yes? Alright, I'll get my coat...
Attacks on ID are not on ID per se, but on its advocates insisting on it being science. It is not science - it is not testable, nor is it falsifiable. If ID deserves a place in the laboratory, apart from passing reference (eg. "Before the theory of evolution became prominent, most people believed that there was a Creator"), then so should "You don't get pregnant if you have unprotected sex as a virgin" and "If you float in water, you're a witch."
a group from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada set the height record at 12 metres
I knew it was too good to be true! Saskatchewan doesn't even exist! Nice try, New Scientist!
And yes, you can get IE6 to operate in STRICT mode (box type, etc.) if you supply the correct DOCTYPE. Further complicating things is the fact that Mozilla, Safari and Opera have an "almost standard" mode, which you can read about on the site I just linked
//margin: 10px for IE.) Sure, you can sniff the browser and serve up a different CSS (or make use of IE's conditional Javascript compilation etc to apply a different CSS) but the fact of the matter is, doing the job correctly first and then allowing for the "quirks" is a hell of a lot less stressful.
Why should we webdevs have to tell the browser to do things right? Surely, if we're to have such a choice, we should choose to break the functionality, rather than switch it into "standards compliant mode"? What if we want to use a custom DOCTYPE but retain the CSS formatting as we so desire?
Furthermore, to the poster who asks about coding for 5% of browsers before the other 95% (a little closer to 10%/90% now, but hey) - it's easier to allow for IE's faults than to retrofit CSS for Mozilla / Opera / Safari. Most tricks involve fooling the CSS parser in IE (the inline comment "hack"), which supercedes CSS before it (eg. start off setting margin to 5px, then
Why remove it when you can just change it to a "new adult pays tax" tag?
Preferatbly 'informative'. Anyone who's seen the article in question would realise he has a point! I'd mod the AC up, but I'm afraid any moderation would be seen as incorrect and I wanted to point this out.
The picture is of Battelle sticking up his middle finger at the camera.