You know you're gonna get in trouble for sticking duct take on the power line to make it disconnect just so you can watch the driver have to put it back on...
It's even worse than that. My son-in-law is quite clear that as long as a black-hat doesn't prevent him from doing what he wants with his computer, he doesn't care what use said black hat puts his machine to without his knowledge or consent.
Bugs me when people don't care about this. I ask if they will mind when the cops turn up on the doorstep asking about child porn on their computer. OK probably ain't gonna happen but mentioning either that or terrorism can get people's attention.
Yes I know I'm lowering myself to the same standards as the government
Please define 'child porn'. I'm an unmarried, childless guy who has pictures of kids on his hard drive. How would that be viewed?
These are people I know, parties I've been to and I've taken pictures. I took pictures of my GFs sisters new baby for example. Again nothing dodgy at all. Every single child I have in a photo, their parents are aware (and in most cases have copies of the pictures). But what's to say the government couldn't turn around and arrest me and report to the press that pictures of children had been found on my hard drive. The press would skin me alive!
That is the problem, that people believe whatever the media tells them. If in Germany they say TOR was used to help child pornography, most people would let the government make it illegal. Look at the UK where filming your kid in a play at school is illegal now because of paedophiles (ok probably can't spell it but I'm not googling to spell check the word!)
I would bet that almost _everyone_ would have something on their computer that could be considered 'bad' in some way. They don't care about any good aspects coming out of TOR, they just care about the bad things./rant
My GF had 2 PS2s. DVD appears to have died in both of them. First it stops playing PS2 games, then PS1 games. Now with the Sony CD fiasco she despises them and won't buy a PS2 (or anything else Sony).
The 360 is too 'mature' for her son, so basically if she gets anything it will be the Wii. TBH I'm looking forward to that too!
If other people are agreement then the PS3 will tank big time.
Well hell the encryption erm... DHA.. erm.. shit I'm drunk and the memory is going.. but the three letter acronym from the three surnames of the guys who invented it in the US that handled the first encryption on the net. That was done by GCHQ a few years before but hushed up as it was top secret.
There was also the thing about the russians reusing one time pads that we (the UK) cracked during the cold war. The UK was always in the forefront of cracking stuff. Unfortunately nowadays we seem useless.../me pines for the days when the whole map was 75% pink!
Can you do that if it was electronic? I don't just mean the GP, but can you actually spoil a ballot on an electronic voting system?
Failing that I guess you don't vote if you don't want to pick one. I know in Oz they have mandatory voting, and according to several Aussies I spoke to the political parties do a shock campaign - vote the other guy in and the world will explode - and so the idiots (who wouldn't vote if they didn't have to) vote for the party with the worst shock campaign.
Should point out this was just the Aussies I talked politics with (which wasn't many) so feel free to correct me:P
I thought it was called something like UK lab, although I think they had most of the Tommorow's World presenters on it. As they said, more work needs to be done on it. And I used to love Tommorow's World. Even if nothing ever worked right on it (oh just read the wiki for an explanation)
I don't know, I don't think it's beyong the realm of reality that subliminal messages could work, but I'm not 100% convinced.
And if anyone does remember the name of the program let me know as it's bugging me now lol. It was... oh a long time ago... 10... 15 years maybe, on BBC. They did it once a year for a few years and tested things like colour-blindness and left / right handedness and all manner of weird things.
Depending which dictionary you happen to be reading. English (that is ENGLISH English, not American*) changes every year as more words are added and definitions are expanded.
For example 'dice' which used to mean plural, 1 die, 2 dice. Now dice is both plural and singular, and die can also be used.
So given that almost everyone uses irony incorrectly, the new meaning is correct.
* Pet hate of mine. I'm English and I speak English. I don't speak 'British' English. It should be called English and American as the two versions. Do Welsh people speak 'British' then? I think you will find they speak Welsh and English most likely.
There was a BBC thing where they had a science lab (I think was the phrase, or maybe UK lab or something) where they showed a program and asked people to phone in to see how they responded. They showed a face with a neutral expression and asked you to phone in saying if you thought she was happy or sad.
What they didn't tell you (until the phones had closed) was that they did a subliminal flash of the same woman looking happy south of the country and looking sad in the north.
The results actually suggested that it had worked... kinda. The flash of the smiling woman made you think she was unhappy and vice versa. I can't remember the figures but it was something like a 70/30 split which suggested there was something in it. But they did say it was an interesting result but more testing needed to be done to confirm.
That is true, but RIAA's lawyers are not suing people for downloading or sharing non-infringing files. They are going after users after verifying that one of their members' works is being copied. I'm not a supporter of RIAA by any means, and I also understand that some lawyers are better and/or more honest than others. But there are many mechanisms to block truly frivolous lawsuits in the early stages of litigation in the American system. See, e.g. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 11.
Another problem. If the GP tells me where he lives, I will kidnap his daughter and keep her safe and sound, he can pay me and I will return her. The next day I will do the same, and the next day, and the next...
Giving in to kidnappers / terrorists just makes more people want to do it because they see it as an easy way for cash. Not giving in and torturing their sorry asses for trying it would make most of them think twice.
DVDs vs VHS is no contest because you don't have to rewind DVDs...
Actually my GF hates DVD and prefers VHS, but I think that is because her DVD player is a little temperamental and skips too much. I have to buy her a region free one anyway (long story) so hopefully that should make her realise the difference.
Earlier this year I was in the states and trying to buy 'gas' (or petrol as I would call it). The pump was one of these auto pay things, stick the credit card in to pay which I did. Then it asked for a zip code. OK it's UK credit card so... that ain't going to work. Then I thought I'd go inside to pay.. oh wait I didn't bring my passport with me and my driving licence (or is that license.. always spell that wrong) is the paper style with no photo ID.
So in the end I got my friend to pay for me, but what do you bet it was recorded on CCTV as it looked 'suspicious'.
That said I'd rather be in the states then in the UK!
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You know you're gonna get in trouble for sticking duct take on the power line to make it disconnect just so you can watch the driver have to put it back on...
It's even worse than that. My son-in-law is quite clear that as long as a black-hat doesn't prevent him from doing what he wants with his computer, he doesn't care what use said black hat puts his machine to without his knowledge or consent.
Bugs me when people don't care about this. I ask if they will mind when the cops turn up on the doorstep asking about child porn on their computer. OK probably ain't gonna happen but mentioning either that or terrorism can get people's attention.
Yes I know I'm lowering myself to the same standards as the government
Yeah they should make something in the moderators FAQ... maybe something like 'concentrate more on promoting the demoting'...
(yes this is meant to be funny before someone points out the obvious)
We should instead be promoting one man one vote
They haven't decided which one though...
Please define 'child porn'. I'm an unmarried, childless guy who has pictures of kids on his hard drive. How would that be viewed?
/rant
These are people I know, parties I've been to and I've taken pictures. I took pictures of my GFs sisters new baby for example. Again nothing dodgy at all. Every single child I have in a photo, their parents are aware (and in most cases have copies of the pictures). But what's to say the government couldn't turn around and arrest me and report to the press that pictures of children had been found on my hard drive. The press would skin me alive!
That is the problem, that people believe whatever the media tells them. If in Germany they say TOR was used to help child pornography, most people would let the government make it illegal. Look at the UK where filming your kid in a play at school is illegal now because of paedophiles (ok probably can't spell it but I'm not googling to spell check the word!)
I would bet that almost _everyone_ would have something on their computer that could be considered 'bad' in some way. They don't care about any good aspects coming out of TOR, they just care about the bad things.
hmm... do I buy a PS3 and join the class action suit in 2008 then? ;)
That should have said sued AND LOST. Here it is
Of course they don't admit fault bla bla bla...
She is a clean freak so she'd beat you for suggesting dust :P
It's probably her son banging it to be honest, but I thought Sony actually got sued in a class action lawsuit over dodgy drives.
My GF had 2 PS2s. DVD appears to have died in both of them. First it stops playing PS2 games, then PS1 games. Now with the Sony CD fiasco she despises them and won't buy a PS2 (or anything else Sony).
The 360 is too 'mature' for her son, so basically if she gets anything it will be the Wii. TBH I'm looking forward to that too!
If other people are agreement then the PS3 will tank big time.
Well hell the encryption erm... DHA.. erm.. shit I'm drunk and the memory is going.. but the three letter acronym from the three surnames of the guys who invented it in the US that handled the first encryption on the net. That was done by GCHQ a few years before but hushed up as it was top secret.
/me pines for the days when the whole map was 75% pink!
There was also the thing about the russians reusing one time pads that we (the UK) cracked during the cold war. The UK was always in the forefront of cracking stuff. Unfortunately nowadays we seem useless...
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I'M ENGLISH YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
On a serious note, that is a problem. Something any American would get would probably be missed by a European, and vice versa.
As Churchill said, democracy is the worst form of government we have, except for all those others we have tried.
Wonder if we could get an ask slashdot on a new form of government...
Can you do that if it was electronic? I don't just mean the GP, but can you actually spoil a ballot on an electronic voting system?
:P
Failing that I guess you don't vote if you don't want to pick one. I know in Oz they have mandatory voting, and according to several Aussies I spoke to the political parties do a shock campaign - vote the other guy in and the world will explode - and so the idiots (who wouldn't vote if they didn't have to) vote for the party with the worst shock campaign.
Should point out this was just the Aussies I talked politics with (which wasn't many) so feel free to correct me
I thought it was called something like UK lab, although I think they had most of the Tommorow's World presenters on it. As they said, more work needs to be done on it. And I used to love Tommorow's World. Even if nothing ever worked right on it (oh just read the wiki for an explanation)
I don't know, I don't think it's beyong the realm of reality that subliminal messages could work, but I'm not 100% convinced.
And if anyone does remember the name of the program let me know as it's bugging me now lol. It was... oh a long time ago... 10... 15 years maybe, on BBC. They did it once a year for a few years and tested things like colour-blindness and left / right handedness and all manner of weird things.
Depending which dictionary you happen to be reading. English (that is ENGLISH English, not American*) changes every year as more words are added and definitions are expanded.
For example 'dice' which used to mean plural, 1 die, 2 dice. Now dice is both plural and singular, and die can also be used.
So given that almost everyone uses irony incorrectly, the new meaning is correct.
* Pet hate of mine. I'm English and I speak English. I don't speak 'British' English. It should be called English and American as the two versions. Do Welsh people speak 'British' then? I think you will find they speak Welsh and English most likely.
There was a BBC thing where they had a science lab (I think was the phrase, or maybe UK lab or something) where they showed a program and asked people to phone in to see how they responded. They showed a face with a neutral expression and asked you to phone in saying if you thought she was happy or sad.
What they didn't tell you (until the phones had closed) was that they did a subliminal flash of the same woman looking happy south of the country and looking sad in the north.
The results actually suggested that it had worked... kinda. The flash of the smiling woman made you think she was unhappy and vice versa. I can't remember the figures but it was something like a 70/30 split which suggested there was something in it. But they did say it was an interesting result but more testing needed to be done to confirm.
Attacks on humans are a rarity - only one other person is known to have died in Australia from a stingray attack, at St Kilda, Melbourne in 1945.
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That is true, but RIAA's lawyers are not suing people for downloading or sharing non-infringing files. They are going after users after verifying that one of their members' works is being copied. I'm not a supporter of RIAA by any means, and I also understand that some lawyers are better and/or more honest than others. But there are many mechanisms to block truly frivolous lawsuits in the early stages of litigation in the American system. See, e.g. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 11.
So when they sued that grandmother who didn't own a computer or another one who never used a computer they had verified they had MP3s?
I don't mean to sound bitchy here, but they have gone for the wrong people in the past so I guess you need some more mechanisms there.
Another problem. If the GP tells me where he lives, I will kidnap his daughter and keep her safe and sound, he can pay me and I will return her. The next day I will do the same, and the next day, and the next...
Giving in to kidnappers / terrorists just makes more people want to do it because they see it as an easy way for cash.
Not giving in and torturing their sorry asses for trying it would make most of them think twice.
Didn't they do 'Walk this way' with Aerosmith...
Given the crap labour has done recently I don't think it will be very long until we lead the world in corruption and the like...
DVDs vs VHS is no contest because you don't have to rewind DVDs...
Actually my GF hates DVD and prefers VHS, but I think that is because her DVD player is a little temperamental and skips too much. I have to buy her a region free one anyway (long story) so hopefully that should make her realise the difference.
Earlier this year I was in the states and trying to buy 'gas' (or petrol as I would call it). The pump was one of these auto pay things, stick the credit card in to pay which I did. Then it asked for a zip code. OK it's UK credit card so... that ain't going to work. Then I thought I'd go inside to pay.. oh wait I didn't bring my passport with me and my driving licence (or is that license.. always spell that wrong) is the paper style with no photo ID.
So in the end I got my friend to pay for me, but what do you bet it was recorded on CCTV as it looked 'suspicious'.
That said I'd rather be in the states then in the UK!
I'm sure someone could come back and point out various people that have abused science to kill / murder.
Lets face it, some people are just assholes and like to hurt people, whether they are religious or scientific or whatever.
Don't you mean Blunkett authority? ;)