You tend to see more rubber or PVC with the techno music
The leather is still more the fetish crowd or the metal/rock/punk clubs.
Not that there isn't a fair ammount of cross over.
I'd provide photos but cameras and camera phones are banned in most of the clubs - given what some people are (or aren't) wearing its understandable.
Its nothing to do with computers really - its all about your wardrobe and knowing where the clubs are. I've seen some fair evidence that in many cases a freak is a geek with fashion sense;)
(oh and I gave up on the blue swithcing between colours can make your hair melt, just black no. 1 right now)
True but bear in mind this is a drop off at the airport.
And the way they have their system they are not necessarily notified that a car will be arriving, nor do the cars necessarily go stright back to the original branch, and the airport opens odd hours which often vary depending on customer bookings while the normal branch do mon-sat 9-5
Add to this that I pick up a car in the morning and on that case had a late evening flight so I actually had the car contracted til the next morning - as I suspect would be common for airport drop offs.
Put all that together and you have a car that someone could easily steal and get to any location within the uk with relative impunity.
I recently hired a car from a well known car company (I won't name them as in general I find them to be a very good company)
I normally hire from one particular branch and drop it back off there and as a regular customer known each of the staff by name, however on this occasion I was dropping the car back at the airport.
After parking up a guy came from a car in another bay (for the same car company) and asked if was dropping off one of their cars which I confirmed and told him it had come from my usual branch and not the airport. He asked to see the paperwork and did a check over the car - not a problem. After he gave me the paperwork back he asked for the keys. Since I didn't know him and he wasn't even wearing a uniform I asked to see ID, he couldn't provide it and all he did have was a stack of paperwork with the company letterhead in a file.
Well I'm afraid that isn't really good enoguh proof of ID - I told him I'd drop the key off at their desk (which is opposite my check in desk) since I had no way to know if he was an employee or not.
After dropping the key off at the office of the car company in the airport it turns out he was a legitimate employee but the question of ID has never come up.
I saw some of the otehr cars there - they are always brand new and while I usually take something like an astra or a vectra this being the airport car park had several jags and a merc or two. Its seems it would be a VERY easy way to obtain a few cars... park up, inspect the car, ask for the key.
Even if you get pulled over by the police you would just have to say its a hire car - a check of the registration would confirm that - these companies really should be a little more careful of their security!!
Don't forget all those other lovely little toys that goverments shouldn't have but do - chemical and biological weapons - which have only been kept for "research purposes" - honest!
The US, UK, France and Russia are each more than capable of wiping out all life on this planet - several times over. Does it really matter that one country can score a 50x overkill bonus while the others combined might only get 20x?
If anyone really thinks their countries military is so impressive then I suggest they go down their local recruitment office and do the rest of the world a favour and die for their country
Fortunatly we don't have the fully blown DMCA over here in the UK - though I know we do have something in the same vein... either way might be interesting to send an anonymous complaint to the ASA to see what they do about the adverts....
Every time I see those adds I want to report them to the advertising standards agency for making false claim and accusations.
How I understand it making a private copy of a dvd, or downloading one (ie piracy by their definition) is breach of copywrite, which is a civil offense, not a criminal offense.
Since it is not a criminal offense then it cannot be described as a crime (by the definition of the word).
Since the advert says it is it is suggesting that people who may or may not be commitinga civil offense are criminals which seems to me is slander...
But then again IANAL, though I would find it ratehr amusing if the ASA banned their trailers in the uk til they changed them (same for the ones about TV licenses for those that don't have or want TV but thats a completely different rant)
I mean this in the literal sense as I can't find mention of what license they want to release it under on the main page - and the site is too slashdotted to access it other than via the mirrordot posted above
I'd like to donate - but first I'd like to know what license they plan to offer it under... if its the GPL then I'm interested - if its the GPL and an option for them to sell commercial licenses for the game engine and tools to smaller game developers then I am even more interested (as it would give smaller games companies the chance to hit the market as well as offering another revenue stream for a central game server network in addition to donations)
However if the GPL isn't going to come into it at all and its going to be some custom license of their own then I probably wont donate...
Its free but they accept donations and is several versions of the game behind (ie lots of the new content is not there) but I prefer that. The storyline for the world has also been largely rewritten - its not the same game at all - just using a lot of the same engine and zones.
They also heavily enforce role play which was my main apeal in playing it. (and they enforce it consistantly and sensibly - e.g. they won't let you grief and say you were just playing your character - they will just ban you - probably the other advantage of being fre, they have no obligatino to keep you on the server)
About the only downside I found is neriak is gone and that was my favorite zone - and was proably the most unique of the home towns in the old world....
Alas I dont have the time to play it at the moment - but I'd definitely recomend it
I have several friends playing this game and do actually have it installed but only have internet in the office right now.
However this is one cause I think I will be getting out the cheque book for - from what I saw of it looks a rather nice game that I would certainly like to play!
Just a thought... but for the instant transmision of information then it isn't necessary that the transmission of data goes back in time...
All you need to do is send BOTH photons from the pair each down their own fibre optic wire, when you fix one of them by measuring it, you will be able to instantly measure the other one. The information would have passed instantly between the two - however if the fibre optic was in a stright line, each going oposite directions, after 50ms a signal would be instantly transmitted from one photon to the other - but it would take light 100ms to travel that same distance as the information....
Still violates Einsteins assertion that information cannot travel faster than light... (I seem to remember him conceeding that tachyons could exist but they could never hold information and would always be purely random)
If it works the possibilities are amazing.
Claiming that we would already have messages from the future is wrong as you could not send any information back further than the start of that experiment.
However take the lottery numbers.... Lets say you have available 1 light weeks lengt of fibre optic, or that you were doing it in space and 3.5 light days away you had a mirror that would bounce back a photo to its starting point without altering the quantum mechanical properties that makes this work.
You send out pairs of entangled photons, one in each pair you measure now, the other you measure when it bounces back/comes out the fibre optic, in a weeks time. In a weeks time you do the measure ment in such a way as to set the bits to read out the lottery numbers (each number in its own 8 bit byte)
Having decided how you are going to modify (by inspecting in the right plce) the photons in a weeks time (after you know the lottery numbers) you can now read off the bits from the other ide of the entangled pair....
Scale this up and you add a whole new parameter to a http GET request....
Without having to wade through several tonnes of legalese...
Are they being sued for X number of downloads or for X number of uploads? (the former being easy to prove, the latter a lot harder to prove or even quantify)
Or is it a general suit of you've downloaded this and we think you've also uploaded it - so $750 per song to cover both....?
One of the available options you can configure is the vmware ethernet bridge.
This bit of code was donated by the NSA (make of that what you will).
iirc the NSA were using vmware to run windows as a client OS with linux as the host OS for security reasons (the vmware network bridge itself being considered quite secure)
Ok I loathe windows and am forced to use it on a daily basis in the working world.
Right now I'm dual booting windows and linux on my laptop because I haven't gotten around to installing winex and getting my wireless card working (in some ways I prefer OSX to linux as a desktop OS, but then most of its advantages come down to a very limited hardware set it has to support and a single fixed GUI)
The main advantage of giving a clueless user a linux desktop is they are very limited in what they can mess up!! Remove their user from the sudo admin group, don't give them the root password and most of your problems are solved - or atleast prevented.
What most people fail to grasp is that you can infact do this on windows too. I repeat I'm not a windows advocate, I hate the damn thing, but just because you hate it doesn't mean that where it is used it shouldn't be used properly. Give the user's limited accounts!! Don't give them the admin password, to make logging in as an admin when you want too add an admin user (other than Administrator), root is a good name. If you want to give them restricted access to extra areas then use ACLs (easy on XP pro, a little harder on XP home, but still possible). Some people will never agree to using linux - just the name of it scares them, and if they know too much to be fooled by installing XPDE then you are stuck with either anoying them or giving them windows. If its the latter atleast make it secure. Suprise, suprise the first step of that is following the standard unix model for user logins and permissions.
Slashdot Mirror
Java
Java script
HTML
C++
Nice clean standards before MS - a jumbled mess with microsoft non standard rubbish stuck in the middle afterwards
Thats just off the top of my head - I'm sure others can think of far more
You tend to see more rubber or PVC with the techno music
;)
The leather is still more the fetish crowd or the metal/rock/punk clubs.
Not that there isn't a fair ammount of cross over.
I'd provide photos but cameras and camera phones are banned in most of the clubs - given what some people are (or aren't) wearing its understandable.
Its nothing to do with computers really - its all about your wardrobe and knowing where the clubs are. I've seen some fair evidence that in many cases a freak is a geek with fashion sense
(oh and I gave up on the blue swithcing between colours can make your hair melt, just black no. 1 right now)
True but bear in mind this is a drop off at the airport.
And the way they have their system they are not necessarily notified that a car will be arriving, nor do the cars necessarily go stright back to the original branch, and the airport opens odd hours which often vary depending on customer bookings while the normal branch do mon-sat 9-5
Add to this that I pick up a car in the morning and on that case had a late evening flight so I actually had the car contracted til the next morning - as I suspect would be common for airport drop offs.
Put all that together and you have a car that someone could easily steal and get to any location within the uk with relative impunity.
I recently hired a car from a well known car company (I won't name them as in general I find them to be a very good company)
I normally hire from one particular branch and drop it back off there and as a regular customer known each of the staff by name, however on this occasion I was dropping the car back at the airport.
After parking up a guy came from a car in another bay (for the same car company) and asked if was dropping off one of their cars which I confirmed and told him it had come from my usual branch and not the airport. He asked to see the paperwork and did a check over the car - not a problem. After he gave me the paperwork back he asked for the keys. Since I didn't know him and he wasn't even wearing a uniform I asked to see ID, he couldn't provide it and all he did have was a stack of paperwork with the company letterhead in a file.
Well I'm afraid that isn't really good enoguh proof of ID - I told him I'd drop the key off at their desk (which is opposite my check in desk) since I had no way to know if he was an employee or not.
After dropping the key off at the office of the car company in the airport it turns out he was a legitimate employee but the question of ID has never come up.
I saw some of the otehr cars there - they are always brand new and while I usually take something like an astra or a vectra this being the airport car park had several jags and a merc or two. Its seems it would be a VERY easy way to obtain a few cars... park up, inspect the car, ask for the key.
Even if you get pulled over by the police you would just have to say its a hire car - a check of the registration would confirm that - these companies really should be a little more careful of their security!!
Didn't you know that penguins sing? (its because they all have a heart song - except those that tap dance)
Any those of you who are not parents to young children can be thankful they have no idea what this comment means!
Don't forget all those other lovely little toys that goverments shouldn't have but do - chemical and biological weapons - which have only been kept for "research purposes" - honest!
The US, UK, France and Russia are each more than capable of wiping out all life on this planet - several times over. Does it really matter that one country can score a 50x overkill bonus while the others combined might only get 20x?
If anyone really thinks their countries military is so impressive then I suggest they go down their local recruitment office and do the rest of the world a favour and die for their country
Fortunatly we don't have the fully blown DMCA over here in the UK - though I know we do have something in the same vein... either way might be interesting to send an anonymous complaint to the ASA to see what they do about the adverts....
Every time I see those adds I want to report them to the advertising standards agency for making false claim and accusations.
How I understand it making a private copy of a dvd, or downloading one (ie piracy by their definition) is breach of copywrite, which is a civil offense, not a criminal offense.
Since it is not a criminal offense then it cannot be described as a crime (by the definition of the word).
Since the advert says it is it is suggesting that people who may or may not be commitinga civil offense are criminals which seems to me is slander...
But then again IANAL, though I would find it ratehr amusing if the ASA banned their trailers in the uk til they changed them (same for the ones about TV licenses for those that don't have or want TV but thats a completely different rant)
I mean this in the literal sense as I can't find mention of what license they want to release it under on the main page - and the site is too slashdotted to access it other than via the mirrordot posted above
I'd like to donate - but first I'd like to know what license they plan to offer it under... if its the GPL then I'm interested - if its the GPL and an option for them to sell commercial licenses for the game engine and tools to smaller game developers then I am even more interested (as it would give smaller games companies the chance to hit the market as well as offering another revenue stream for a central game server network in addition to donations)
However if the GPL isn't going to come into it at all and its going to be some custom license of their own then I probably wont donate...
Actually there are a couple of groups which provides such servers
One I played on for a while is http://www.shardsofdalaya.com/
Its free but they accept donations and is several versions of the game behind (ie lots of the new content is not there) but I prefer that. The storyline for the world has also been largely rewritten - its not the same game at all - just using a lot of the same engine and zones.
They also heavily enforce role play which was my main apeal in playing it. (and they enforce it consistantly and sensibly - e.g. they won't let you grief and say you were just playing your character - they will just ban you - probably the other advantage of being fre, they have no obligatino to keep you on the server)
About the only downside I found is neriak is gone and that was my favorite zone - and was proably the most unique of the home towns in the old world....
Alas I dont have the time to play it at the moment - but I'd definitely recomend it
I have several friends playing this game and do actually have it installed but only have internet in the office right now. However this is one cause I think I will be getting out the cheque book for - from what I saw of it looks a rather nice game that I would certainly like to play!
.... will be to issue a security advisory to everyone runnin IIS to block google's crawler - obviously just for security reason....
Boy: Dad... What does a word processor do???
Father: Well son, you've seen what a food processor does to food?
vi works perfectly fine as a word processor for me!! No stupid paper clips getting in the way!
Just a thought... but for the instant transmision of information then it isn't necessary that the transmission of data goes back in time...
All you need to do is send BOTH photons from the pair each down their own fibre optic wire, when you fix one of them by measuring it, you will be able to instantly measure the other one. The information would have passed instantly between the two - however if the fibre optic was in a stright line, each going oposite directions, after 50ms a signal would be instantly transmitted from one photon to the other - but it would take light 100ms to travel that same distance as the information....
Still violates Einsteins assertion that information cannot travel faster than light... (I seem to remember him conceeding that tachyons could exist but they could never hold information and would always be purely random)
I wonder what will happen!
If it works the possibilities are amazing. Claiming that we would already have messages from the future is wrong as you could not send any information back further than the start of that experiment. However take the lottery numbers.... Lets say you have available 1 light weeks lengt of fibre optic, or that you were doing it in space and 3.5 light days away you had a mirror that would bounce back a photo to its starting point without altering the quantum mechanical properties that makes this work. You send out pairs of entangled photons, one in each pair you measure now, the other you measure when it bounces back/comes out the fibre optic, in a weeks time. In a weeks time you do the measure ment in such a way as to set the bits to read out the lottery numbers (each number in its own 8 bit byte) Having decided how you are going to modify (by inspecting in the right plce) the photons in a weeks time (after you know the lottery numbers) you can now read off the bits from the other ide of the entangled pair.... Scale this up and you add a whole new parameter to a http GET request....
Without having to wade through several tonnes of legalese... Are they being sued for X number of downloads or for X number of uploads? (the former being easy to prove, the latter a lot harder to prove or even quantify) Or is it a general suit of you've downloaded this and we think you've also uploaded it - so $750 per song to cover both....?
One of the available options you can configure is the vmware ethernet bridge. This bit of code was donated by the NSA (make of that what you will). iirc the NSA were using vmware to run windows as a client OS with linux as the host OS for security reasons (the vmware network bridge itself being considered quite secure)
Ok I loathe windows and am forced to use it on a daily basis in the working world. Right now I'm dual booting windows and linux on my laptop because I haven't gotten around to installing winex and getting my wireless card working (in some ways I prefer OSX to linux as a desktop OS, but then most of its advantages come down to a very limited hardware set it has to support and a single fixed GUI) The main advantage of giving a clueless user a linux desktop is they are very limited in what they can mess up!! Remove their user from the sudo admin group, don't give them the root password and most of your problems are solved - or atleast prevented. What most people fail to grasp is that you can infact do this on windows too. I repeat I'm not a windows advocate, I hate the damn thing, but just because you hate it doesn't mean that where it is used it shouldn't be used properly. Give the user's limited accounts!! Don't give them the admin password, to make logging in as an admin when you want too add an admin user (other than Administrator), root is a good name. If you want to give them restricted access to extra areas then use ACLs (easy on XP pro, a little harder on XP home, but still possible). Some people will never agree to using linux - just the name of it scares them, and if they know too much to be fooled by installing XPDE then you are stuck with either anoying them or giving them windows. If its the latter atleast make it secure. Suprise, suprise the first step of that is following the standard unix model for user logins and permissions.