Also this just reinforces the sad fact that it doesn't matter how much you check something in advance or check information on a website, it comes down to the officers on the day processing you. It really can be the luck of the draw, which sucks.
Related to liquids and airports, I love how in most airports in Australia once you're inside the 'secure' zone you can usually buy drinks from cafes / bars while waiting for your plane.
Including drinks served in glass bottles. Which would be trivial to then take onto the plane, smash and use as a weapon.
This from the same airline whose hostesses ask me to turn my phone off while in flight "even though it's probably in flight mode". Now they're going to encourage you to use your laptop and WiFi? About time.
If phones were really that dangerous in flight, they'd lock them up in the cargo area with your bags.
It may as well be an infra-red style connection. Anyone used the infra-red port on your laptop to connect to a mobile phone or printer? Pretty damn finnicky.
As others have mentioned this could possibly be used to connect a TV to a DVD player (and other such scenarios), but if it needs line of sight to connect, that kind of restricts what kind of TV cabinet you need and where / how to position these devices.
The headline is misleading (this is/. after all). Hologram on the Vista DVD helps thwart piracy, said hologram just happens to contain a collage of photos and one of these photos just happens to be three grinning nerds. Move along, nothing to see here.
Yeah I know exactly what you mean, these are insane. I've cut myself badly while trying to open something in one of these crazy impenetrable packets. At least it makes whatever is stored inside as safe as a house. Why wouldn't you package your product in such wonderful stuff? As if the customer would ever want to open it...
" AFAIK, Australia is still reeling from the effects of gun control laws. "
Then clearly, you don't know shit about Australia. It's a shame, the rest of your comment was quite sensible;-)
It just goes to show that unfortunately we're not immune from having conservative politicians who believe it is their duty to save our souls and raise the lowest common denominator. (Or is that lower, the lowest common denominator?)
As many others have already duly pointed out, this whole concept is:
* Too big and hard (hey, this is sounding a bit like some of that pornography stuff I've been warned about!)
* Too error-prone
* Too expensive
* Open to exploitation and corruption
Whatever happened to parents taking responsibility for raising their damn offspring the right way and teaching them right from wrong. Also, what makes it OK for someone who is 18 to consume pornography, but not somebody who is 17 years, 11 months and 29 days? OK so we're trying to protect younger children... then filter your own damn private internet connection or supervise them. If you're worried about what your kids are going to get up on the computer and can't trust them, you've got bigger problems to worry about. What happens when they leave the house?
Gah the whole thing just angries up my blood. Better go have a lie down.
Come on, I've seen them decrypt files and hard drives in a matter of minutes on 24. What are the pommy police up to, maybe they need to start watching it for tips.
I'm connected through Telstra and I get redirected to the same Net Authority lame arse web site. Oh the intrigue / suspense! This story should end up being a case of Your Rights Online. The right to see fat women!
Hhhmmm, a giant floating thing out in the ocean, in windy spots. What stops it being blown away? Does it have some kind of motor to position itself? And what about ocean currents for the same matter. I suppose I'd better RTFA.
I spent 9 months travelling Canada and the US in 2004, and this was one of the most interesting things we saw in our time. Pretty unique, well worth a visit if you're in the area!
This British version sounds massive in comparison, the Diefenbunker was only 4 stories underground I think, it wasn't what you'd call a city.
If I could block ads in other forms of media I would just as easily do that too. I don't go to great lengths to do it, I just have the AdBlock extension for Firefox. If I have to use Internet Explorer occasionally I notice how many ads I have been missing out on.
I usually block annoying, blinking, flashing ads whether they be Flash based or animated GIFs. Switching between browsers like that really rams home how much more I enjoy reading a web page without having all these crazy flashing things all over the shop trying to distract me.
I use Google & Gmail quite frequently and don't have a problem with the unobtrusive text based ads there. They can sit there off the side and let me get on with the job of reading what I am trying to read. My eyes do occasionally wander and I see these ads, so they are not totally inneffective.
If anything, Google's "Don't be evil" motto requires them to actively try to subvert Chinese censorship.
Ah but what better way to do that than to pretend to cooperate with China, lull them into a false sense of security, then WHAM! Hit 'em with uncensored info! Now that's some subversion.
As an Aussie who spent 9 months last year travelling all over Canada and the US (most of it by car), I have to agree with your assessment of US radio.
PBS was the only station I could stand to listen to in the US, the sheer crapness of music on any of the commercial stations we stumbled across was infuriating. We travelled across 37 US states so we got a fairly wide ranging sample;-)
We found CBC in Canada to be pretty darn good, so I don't think it was just the "culture shock" of being in North America and missing home. I can't defend any Australian commerical radio stations either after being converted to JJJ a few years ago.
The choices in US commercial radio stations just seemed so limited to:
Country <shudder>
Christian <shudder again>
Country Christian <turn it off, turn it off!>
That's all part of the fun of travelling another country and experiencing someone else's culture I guess!
Visual Basic.Net and C# are both free. You can download the.Net SDK at http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/ (see the link on the bottom right of the screen under "Top.Net Framework Downloads").
You pay to use Visual Studio.Net to develop with these languages, but VS.Net is not required. You can download the SDK, use an editor of your choice (Notepad if you wanted to), and then compile using the command line compiler (vbc for VB, csc for C#).
Of course it's a whole lot easier with Visual Studio.Net because it lets you just drag and drop objects onto your forms. It also includes "templates" for different styles of projects so you don't have to know all the fiddly "getting started" stuff straight away which is handy if you're picking up a new language.
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I had to check the comments to validate that I wasn't having a stroke or had left my brain at home. I couldn't work out why it was a story either.
Also this just reinforces the sad fact that it doesn't matter how much you check something in advance or check information on a website, it comes down to the officers on the day processing you. It really can be the luck of the draw, which sucks.
So the root cause of this problem is newspapers then? I agree, the sooner we're rid of them the sooner we can all get on with our business.
Don't forget about our hovercraft!
When this particular feature is used it shows up in Outlook. 'Sent by PHB-Assistant on behalf of PHB'
Related to liquids and airports, I love how in most airports in Australia once you're inside the 'secure' zone you can usually buy drinks from cafes / bars while waiting for your plane.
Including drinks served in glass bottles. Which would be trivial to then take onto the plane, smash and use as a weapon.
Why waste beer? Oh the humanity!
This from the same airline whose hostesses ask me to turn my phone off while in flight "even though it's probably in flight mode". Now they're going to encourage you to use your laptop and WiFi? About time.
If phones were really that dangerous in flight, they'd lock them up in the cargo area with your bags.
It may as well be an infra-red style connection. Anyone used the infra-red port on your laptop to connect to a mobile phone or printer? Pretty damn finnicky.
As others have mentioned this could possibly be used to connect a TV to a DVD player (and other such scenarios), but if it needs line of sight to connect, that kind of restricts what kind of TV cabinet you need and where / how to position these devices.
The headline is misleading (this is /. after all). Hologram on the Vista DVD helps thwart piracy, said hologram just happens to contain a collage of photos and one of these photos just happens to be three grinning nerds. Move along, nothing to see here.
Yeah I know exactly what you mean, these are insane. I've cut myself badly while trying to open something in one of these crazy impenetrable packets. At least it makes whatever is stored inside as safe as a house. Why wouldn't you package your product in such wonderful stuff? As if the customer would ever want to open it...
What do you mean *think*? Of course we run the country...
Then clearly, you don't know shit about Australia. It's a shame, the rest of your comment was quite sensible
It just goes to show that unfortunately we're not immune from having conservative politicians who believe it is their duty to save our souls and raise the lowest common denominator. (Or is that lower, the lowest common denominator?)
As many others have already duly pointed out, this whole concept is:
* Too big and hard (hey, this is sounding a bit like some of that pornography stuff I've been warned about!)
* Too error-prone
* Too expensive
* Open to exploitation and corruption
Whatever happened to parents taking responsibility for raising their damn offspring the right way and teaching them right from wrong. Also, what makes it OK for someone who is 18 to consume pornography, but not somebody who is 17 years, 11 months and 29 days? OK so we're trying to protect younger children... then filter your own damn private internet connection or supervise them. If you're worried about what your kids are going to get up on the computer and can't trust them, you've got bigger problems to worry about. What happens when they leave the house?
Gah the whole thing just angries up my blood. Better go have a lie down.
Come on, I've seen them decrypt files and hard drives in a matter of minutes on 24. What are the pommy police up to, maybe they need to start watching it for tips.
I'm connected through Telstra and I get redirected to the same Net Authority lame arse web site. Oh the intrigue / suspense! This story should end up being a case of Your Rights Online. The right to see fat women!
Hhhmmm, a giant floating thing out in the ocean, in windy spots. What stops it being blown away? Does it have some kind of motor to position itself? And what about ocean currents for the same matter. I suppose I'd better RTFA.
No I believe that the 8pm rule would apply to telemarketers going about their normal business and calling people who aren't on this list.
People on the list can't be called any time of the day
I spent 9 months travelling Canada and the US in 2004, and this was one of the most interesting things we saw in our time. Pretty unique, well worth a visit if you're in the area!
This British version sounds massive in comparison, the Diefenbunker was only 4 stories underground I think, it wasn't what you'd call a city.
Simply - I block ads because I can.
If I could block ads in other forms of media I would just as easily do that too. I don't go to great lengths to do it, I just have the AdBlock extension for Firefox. If I have to use Internet Explorer occasionally I notice how many ads I have been missing out on.
I usually block annoying, blinking, flashing ads whether they be Flash based or animated GIFs. Switching between browsers like that really rams home how much more I enjoy reading a web page without having all these crazy flashing things all over the shop trying to distract me.
I use Google & Gmail quite frequently and don't have a problem with the unobtrusive text based ads there. They can sit there off the side and let me get on with the job of reading what I am trying to read. My eyes do occasionally wander and I see these ads, so they are not totally inneffective.
Damn straight, what a pain in the arse. How hard is it to put "(PDF)" in the description or something.
Nah we're in the middle of a drought, we don't have enough water to submerge a cat.
Ah but what better way to do that than to pretend to cooperate with China, lull them into a false sense of security, then WHAM! Hit 'em with uncensored info! Now that's some subversion.
Or maybe not...
D'oh, I meant NPR, not PBS. My bad.
PBS was the only station I could stand to listen to in the US, the sheer crapness of music on any of the commercial stations we stumbled across was infuriating. We travelled across 37 US states so we got a fairly wide ranging sample ;-)
We found CBC in Canada to be pretty darn good, so I don't think it was just the "culture shock" of being in North America and missing home. I can't defend any Australian commerical radio stations either after being converted to JJJ a few years ago.
The choices in US commercial radio stations just seemed so limited to:
Country <shudder>
Christian <shudder again>
Country Christian <turn it off, turn it off!>
That's all part of the fun of travelling another country and experiencing someone else's culture I guess!
Harv.
You pay to use Visual Studio.Net to develop with these languages, but VS.Net is not required. You can download the SDK, use an editor of your choice (Notepad if you wanted to), and then compile using the command line compiler (vbc for VB, csc for C#).
Of course it's a whole lot easier with Visual Studio.Net because it lets you just drag and drop objects onto your forms. It also includes "templates" for different styles of projects so you don't have to know all the fiddly "getting started" stuff straight away which is handy if you're picking up a new language.
Harv.