Unfortunately it doesn't, on a Mac at least. I cannot remove the extra volume, it appears to be hardwired, and it mounts every time on my Mac. There was nothing on the packaging to warn about this and when I took it back to the shop to complain they said it could not be removed and made out that it was a feature, not a bug. U3 is so annoying that I've stopped using the stick.
Before 1998 there had been a number of cases of Britain being taken to the European Court of Human Rights. The Human Rights Act* was meant to bring British law into line with European law and avoid this embarrasment. If Blair strays too far he will risk more cases in Europe. But I agree that we have to keep an eye on him - he is due to step down before the next election to make way for Gordon Brown. Without the need to seek reelection he is free to push unpleasant legislation without consequence, and once in power Brown can blame everything on him.
I hope that in the US you do avoid the proliferation of CCTV, but as I said - if it's going to happen you will need legislation to protect privacy.
And no, surveillance cameras used to track down criminals after the fact do not an oppressive police state make. Ask any Londoner how oppressed they feel.
I work as a CCTV operator here in London, we do traffic enforcement, which is what most of the cameras are for. Everything we do is tightly regulated by the Human Rights Act (1988) and the Data Protection Act (1998) and a comprehensive Code of Practice. We have to respect privacy (or be sacked!). For example, our traffic cameras cannot linger on people, we look only at vehicles, the video tapes have to be stored securely and confidentially and they must be destroyed (degaussed) when no longer useful.
Any CCTV images of people you have seen, from the UK, will have been taken under special exemptions provided for the police under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000) - the same act that governs phone tapping etc. They can only track an individual on CCTV if they suspect them of criminal activity. They don't just track people at random.
As part of our training we have to know all this privacy legislation and are tested on it.
There is no comperable Data Protection law in the US. If you are going to increase the amount of CCTV you use then perhaps you need also to consider legislation that will protect your privacy?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4693855.stm Dr Thomas Crowley warns about the direction Mr Barton's detailed requests could lead: "For example, requests could be made to palaeontologists and molecular biologists for all data and files supporting evolution".
Transport for London, the umbrella group for the capital's public transport services, was only able to comment on immediate security plans following Thursday's attacks.
But a spokesman insisted there were "no plans" to introduce at some London Underground stations body scanners which can see through clothing, as reported by the Times newspaper.
But the issue is interesting, do you really believe Tony Blair when he says that "he does NOT intend to bring in a raft of draconian laws and new surveillance powers"
If you found this interesting you might want to read John Hersey's account of the Hiroshima bomb. Published in 1946 and still in print, it's pretty much the definitive version.
It's written in an extraordinarily calm style, almost without emotion, but is strangly fascinating and moving.
Of the twenty jobs I have applied for recently only two employers provided forms in PDF format, all the rest sent me documents in.doc format. But I don't use Word. When I asked for RTF or PDF documents they didn't understand what I meant and either send the documents in the post or did nothing.
If people won't use the open formats already available to them, will they use this new one?
For the price of one PowerMac dual G5 you could buy six Mac minis. 256Mb is plenty if you strip out OS X and replace it with Linux or Darwin. Ethernet is already there.
If you have huge data to process it might even be the sensible option, wouldn't it?
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Unfortunately it doesn't, on a Mac at least. I cannot remove the extra volume, it appears to be hardwired, and it mounts every time on my Mac. There was nothing on the packaging to warn about this and when I took it back to the shop to complain they said it could not be removed and made out that it was a feature, not a bug. U3 is so annoying that I've stopped using the stick.
Before 1998 there had been a number of cases of Britain being taken to the European Court of Human Rights. The Human Rights Act* was meant to bring British law into line with European law and avoid this embarrasment. If Blair strays too far he will risk more cases in Europe. But I agree that we have to keep an eye on him - he is due to step down before the next election to make way for Gordon Brown. Without the need to seek reelection he is free to push unpleasant legislation without consequence, and once in power Brown can blame everything on him.
I hope that in the US you do avoid the proliferation of CCTV, but as I said - if it's going to happen you will need legislation to protect privacy.
http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/cctv13.htm
http://www.yourrights.org.uk/
And no, surveillance cameras used to track down criminals after the fact do not an oppressive police state make. Ask any Londoner how oppressed they feel.
I work as a CCTV operator here in London, we do traffic enforcement, which is what most of the cameras are for. Everything we do is tightly regulated by the Human Rights Act (1988) and the Data Protection Act (1998) and a comprehensive Code of Practice. We have to respect privacy (or be sacked!). For example, our traffic cameras cannot linger on people, we look only at vehicles, the video tapes have to be stored securely and confidentially and they must be destroyed (degaussed) when no longer useful.
Any CCTV images of people you have seen, from the UK, will have been taken under special exemptions provided for the police under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000) - the same act that governs phone tapping etc. They can only track an individual on CCTV if they suspect them of criminal activity. They don't just track people at random.
As part of our training we have to know all this privacy legislation and are tested on it.
There is no comperable Data Protection law in the US. If you are going to increase the amount of CCTV you use then perhaps you need also to consider legislation that will protect your privacy?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4693855.stm Dr Thomas Crowley warns about the direction Mr Barton's detailed requests could lead: "For example, requests could be made to palaeontologists and molecular biologists for all data and files supporting evolution".
Looks like the Times has got it wrong. According to this report http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4665195.stm at the BBC:
Transport for London, the umbrella group for the capital's public transport services, was only able to comment on immediate security plans following Thursday's attacks.
But a spokesman insisted there were "no plans" to introduce at some London Underground stations body scanners which can see through clothing, as reported by the Times newspaper.
But the issue is interesting, do you really believe Tony Blair when he says that "he does NOT intend to bring in a raft of draconian laws and new surveillance powers"
If you found this interesting you might want to read John Hersey's account of the Hiroshima bomb. Published in 1946 and still in print, it's pretty much the definitive version.
It's written in an extraordinarily calm style, almost without emotion, but is strangly fascinating and moving.
Try a search for 'Hiroshima John Hersey'.
Of the twenty jobs I have applied for recently only two employers provided forms in PDF format, all the rest sent me documents in .doc format. But I don't use Word. When I asked for RTF or PDF documents they didn't understand what I meant and either send the documents in the post or did nothing.
If people won't use the open formats already available to them, will they use this new one?
For the price of one PowerMac dual G5 you could buy six Mac minis. 256Mb is plenty if you strip out OS X and replace it with Linux or Darwin. Ethernet is already there. If you have huge data to process it might even be the sensible option, wouldn't it?