If we ask "where are they?", could it not be possible that NO advanced civilisation could make it to interstellar travel, given how difficult it would be to maintain a survivable environment, enough resources for the trip, and so on? After all, we can look in out neighbourhood and conclude that life is not abundant in the vastness of space, so it must need some kind of special environment to develop and grow. No matter what type of environment a civilisation may develop under, it's unlikely to be one easily recreated on a spacecraft.
Oh, now I read the wiki I see this has already been considered. Well, there's no evidence that our TV signals and such would be powerful enough to reach beyond the solar system. All our deep-space communication is done to a very precise point. Same goes for the Arecibo message, and that has many years to travel before it reaches its destination. These other civilisations would have to be millions of years ahead of us for us to hear them now.
I'm not going to edit out your face or license plate, because it's going to make my carefully composed photo look like shit.
If your carefully-composed photograph has randoms floating round in the background, close enough to be identifiable, it's already shit.
Like it or not, privacy is enshrined in legislation in many countries. I'm not sure how the Data Protection Act in my country would deal with Facebook photos, it's probably not been tested yet. Only a matter of time, I suppose. I would agree that the beef is with the photographer rather than Facebook, but unfortunately one can't just dismiss claims like this. Somebody has a responsibility to maintain privacy, if the uncovered person so chooses.
On other reports (even the BBC), the British man is described as hailing from Bleys Bolton. So why does this place not turn up one hit on Google? All 41 hits I saw when I just tried a quoted search related to these indictment reports. We are sure these people exist, aren't we? Has anyone in the UK heard of Bleys Bolton? I sure haven't. Neither has Google Maps.
(in fact as I recall you are not allowed to fiddle with the radio while driving in Britain),
It's not quite illegal but such actions can be taken into consideration when facing eg a dangerous driving charge and can increase the sentence. Smoking at the wheel & eating food are also mentioned as aggravating factors. So the tip is, fiddle all you want, just don't crash.
Friends Reutd had two things against it: 1. All you could do is the find friends thing, nothing akin to Scrabulous and its ilk, and b) they charged you five pounds to get full use of the service - inc. the ability to contact people, a bit of a deal-breaker on a social networking site (as it wasn't called then). The two are really not comparable.
One of the first things I do on a new XP install is set reg key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CabinetState\Use Search Asst to "no". I can't stand that CPU-hogging mutt.
I still watch nearly all my TV on my xbox. TVRSS with rtorrent, samba, and XBMC has made broadcast TV obsolete.
A bit noisy, no? Or was the 1st gen Xbox quieter than today's? I achieve the same Az+RSS+Winshares+Samba coverage of old and new TV with a diskless NFS header running mythtv on a mini-ITX board. Didn't bother with broadcast TV but like you say, with BT coverage you don't miss out.
Good analysis, though if Gates is really intending to start a new career handing out money to charities and good causes, one wonders why he feels the need to 'rehabilitate' his image. Plenty of people will love him enough. And his image as a philanthropist is already favourable.
Sigh, why does Preview take up to 20 seconds to complete?
Exactly. These companies impose these ridiculous terms because they can get away with it. If someone took them to court, this unfair contact would soon be struck down. But no-one ever seems to think it's worth the effort. So on they go, imposing unfair and probably illegal terms.
Insightful?? A company would issue an update to probably their most famous, revenue-generating product, that would DELIBERATELY crash a rival's operating system? In the hope that people don't point the finger of blame at Apple? Absolutely utterly completely insane. Mods, hang your heads.
Well, i think there would be a bit more/. rage going around, eh?
If Wikia charged money to allow access to their site, you might have a point. Breaking copyrights is one thing but breaking them for personal profit is another.
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I don't even seem to have any cookies that are set 'encrypted connection only', a major banking site has all cookies sent for any type of connection.
If I understand the problem correctly, it seems a simple workaround is to delete all cookies related to a vulnerable site as soon as you've finished, that would soon stop my browser sending them to nefarious sorts with invisible proxies.
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If we ask "where are they?", could it not be possible that NO advanced civilisation could make it to interstellar travel, given how difficult it would be to maintain a survivable environment, enough resources for the trip, and so on? After all, we can look in out neighbourhood and conclude that life is not abundant in the vastness of space, so it must need some kind of special environment to develop and grow. No matter what type of environment a civilisation may develop under, it's unlikely to be one easily recreated on a spacecraft.
Oh, now I read the wiki I see this has already been considered. Well, there's no evidence that our TV signals and such would be powerful enough to reach beyond the solar system. All our deep-space communication is done to a very precise point. Same goes for the Arecibo message, and that has many years to travel before it reaches its destination. These other civilisations would have to be millions of years ahead of us for us to hear them now.
I added a USB breathalyser to my machine just to avoid this situation. 50mg of alcohol in my breath, and it logs me off.
Of course if they'd used gold cables, none of this would have happened...
What are these "users" doing posting on Slashdot? BBC Weather is that way --> :)
If your carefully-composed photograph has randoms floating round in the background, close enough to be identifiable, it's already shit.
Like it or not, privacy is enshrined in legislation in many countries. I'm not sure how the Data Protection Act in my country would deal with Facebook photos, it's probably not been tested yet. Only a matter of time, I suppose. I would agree that the beef is with the photographer rather than Facebook, but unfortunately one can't just dismiss claims like this. Somebody has a responsibility to maintain privacy, if the uncovered person so chooses.
Dammit, you people just don't give up on your quest to copy every bit of Intellectual Property you can find!
On other reports (even the BBC), the British man is described as hailing from Bleys Bolton. So why does this place not turn up one hit on Google? All 41 hits I saw when I just tried a quoted search related to these indictment reports. We are sure these people exist, aren't we? Has anyone in the UK heard of Bleys Bolton? I sure haven't. Neither has Google Maps.
Inflation?
It's not quite illegal but such actions can be taken into consideration when facing eg a dangerous driving charge and can increase the sentence. Smoking at the wheel & eating food are also mentioned as aggravating factors. So the tip is, fiddle all you want, just don't crash.
Friends Reutd had two things against it: 1. All you could do is the find friends thing, nothing akin to Scrabulous and its ilk, and b) they charged you five pounds to get full use of the service - inc. the ability to contact people, a bit of a deal-breaker on a social networking site (as it wasn't called then). The two are really not comparable.
Did you forget to tick the AC box?
Its ability to offer instant updates to maps, both satellite and traditional kinds, is surely a plus.
And yet this "bank" has no branches, pays no interest and arbitrarily closes down accounts! I don't even get a free pen!
One of the first things I do on a new XP install is set reg key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CabinetState\Use Search Asst to "no". I can't stand that CPU-hogging mutt.
I still watch nearly all my TV on my xbox. TVRSS with rtorrent, samba, and XBMC has made broadcast TV obsolete.
A bit noisy, no? Or was the 1st gen Xbox quieter than today's? I achieve the same Az+RSS+Winshares+Samba coverage of old and new TV with a diskless NFS header running mythtv on a mini-ITX board. Didn't bother with broadcast TV but like you say, with BT coverage you don't miss out.
Not to mention banging your head on the top of the plane's hatch when you start your jump just a little too excitedly. Come on, we've all been there!
Good analysis, though if Gates is really intending to start a new career handing out money to charities and good causes, one wonders why he feels the need to 'rehabilitate' his image. Plenty of people will love him enough. And his image as a philanthropist is already favourable.
Sigh, why does Preview take up to 20 seconds to complete?
They don't, they just use Excel.
"Nothing" apart from having all your losses reimbursed, of course. Because the theft of your identity was a criminal act.
Exactly. These companies impose these ridiculous terms because they can get away with it. If someone took them to court, this unfair contact would soon be struck down. But no-one ever seems to think it's worth the effort. So on they go, imposing unfair and probably illegal terms.
Insightful?? A company would issue an update to probably their most famous, revenue-generating product, that would DELIBERATELY crash a rival's operating system? In the hope that people don't point the finger of blame at Apple? Absolutely utterly completely insane. Mods, hang your heads.
If Wikia charged money to allow access to their site, you might have a point. Breaking copyrights is one thing but breaking them for personal profit is another.
Sorry, you must live in the wrong country.
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I don't even seem to have any cookies that are set 'encrypted connection only', a major banking site has all cookies sent for any type of connection.
If I understand the problem correctly, it seems a simple workaround is to delete all cookies related to a vulnerable site as soon as you've finished, that would soon stop my browser sending them to nefarious sorts with invisible proxies.
They'd die of old age?