In the U.S. you have a right to privacy and you simply want to exercise that right.
This one's the kicker, the default state should be that govt doesn't snoop unless it has to, and even then it asks the police to go through proper procedures of securing warrants etc before digging up info. It dismays me when I see people say they are happy to give up that right to privacy. What is legal now might not be legal once the govt has the right to snoop whereever & whenever it likes, without asking a judge for permission first.
I am blown away that with all of our current problems -- homelessness and crime on the home front, war fighting and terrorism abroad -- our government is seriously going to spend this much money on upgrading peoples' televisions
Why so surprised? Is it not obvious that television is one of the prime methods by which a govt can control & subdue its people? Here, watch Love Connection, and get fat & stupid. At the most basic level of keeping people occupied, it keeps a lid on mass protest. Plus, many of your TV networks are happy to parrot the president's line. Can't think of many more effective govt publicity machines. So in my view, this is a govt investment in the future.
Nice try! The live TV side of Myth might be flaky - probably due to hardware constraints as much as the program - but for playing downloaded video It Works, I've never had a problem like that which you mention. And I use an nfs diskless solution too, never has it not booted. And thanks to power cuts it has gracelessly shut down several times, but so far so good.
No, more hours can be good - just think, you can pass down your Family Photo Thumbdrive to your kids, who might be able to pass it onto their grandkids, if USB is still available...
So, by this token, its alright to shoplift something out of a store for personal consumption, but dammit! don't lump me in with the guy that hijacks a truck full of cigarettes to sell back in Joisey.
Why did you use a theft analogy to illustrate the issue of copyright infringement? And no doubt the truck hijacker would need some kind of weapon, and would have to threaten someone to get his booty, I know which I prefer...
So many sites put JS at the heart of their code that unblocking sites for NoScript quickly became a chore. So much so that I had to remove the extension. I'd rather run whatever risk NoScript is protecting me from and continue to observe safe browsing practices. I get the feeling that NS is for the ultra-paranoid.
So how do you explain all the pre-GUI stuff such as DOS? That seemed to do quite will in the mass market.
It didn't, did it? That's one of the reasons (along with price and easy net connection) why PCs didn't become true home appliances until the second half of the 1990s - the age of Windows 95. Which did its best to hide the Command Prompt from its users.
Love the bit about 'universe'. Yeah, just in case we conquer other solar systems. Although the idea of whether licence conditions set on Earth apply in other solar systems' legal jurisdictions is still going through the Galactic Supreme Court.
Indeed, I have to wonder what the hell they're thinking over there...? Are all Britons living in daily fear of ogres, such that they'll ask for these kinds of measures?
Question for you: do you ask your government for every change they impose?
you don't go through Microsoft Updates but instead go to their Security Search and manually download each patch? Since you've never activated WGA, does that mean you're invisible to Microsoft?
I hope so, it's the reason I use Autopatcher (because you can install or suppress any update you choose, such as WGA)
Don't believe that everything Jeremy Clarkson says is true, this is television. Don't even believe that the whole 'hicksville up in arms' thing wasn't a set-up. That piece wouldn't've been much cop if they'd just driven across the Gulf coast.
Now someone will tell me that all the great movers & shakers in Wall Street are signed up to the same Yahoogroups list. Excuse me if I don't believe that. Is this idle speculation masquerading as news?
For example, cameras in Chicago and Washington can detect gunshots and alert police. Baltimore installed cameras that can play a recorded message and snap pictures of graffiti sprayers or illegal dumpers.
Heh, and yet the USians harp on about the UK being a police state. Sounds like you have the same tech as us, guys. Big Brother is watching & listening!
In my country the handbrake requires the dual action of pressing a button and engaging the lever, I can't imagine that a child below the age of 9 would have the strength to disengage the brake. How do handbrakes in the US work, from what I've seen via Hollywood it's just another stick under the steering wheel, perhaps residents inthis country should be petitioning for safer mechanisms. I also don't know what a handbarke looks like in AU.
Google with its dark fibre network and mega-data centres ought to be offering ISPs fast mirrors as local and quick as possible for its two video sites. It's another argument against NN, if the biggest sites want to attract such bandwidth-hungry users to its ads they should make provisions for it and not clog up the network. They may do this already, of course. But it shifts the emphasis onto the company providing the popular service rather than the one just delivering it.
Yeah, cos that's a great use of the tag system. Can't wait for the moment a few months hence where I need to find all articles where the headline wasn't proof-read. Just like I want to look up all the stories where someone made a mistake (search 'doh'), find all the Steve Balmer articles (search 'chairthrowing') or all the stories about problems for trad Slashdot villains (search: 'haha')
The tag system is broken, but there's nothing wrong with the implementation. People can't tag correctly. Look below, all real tags.
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Nice try! The live TV side of Myth might be flaky - probably due to hardware constraints as much as the program - but for playing downloaded video It Works, I've never had a problem like that which you mention. And I use an nfs diskless solution too, never has it not booted. And thanks to power cuts it has gracelessly shut down several times, but so far so good.
Broadcast TV is dead, by the way.
And given what's happening to privacy and protest in some Western countries. soon the same reasons may apply there too.
We could call it the New Television Show Coding system
No, more hours can be good - just think, you can pass down your Family Photo Thumbdrive to your kids, who might be able to pass it onto their grandkids, if USB is still available...
So many sites put JS at the heart of their code that unblocking sites for NoScript quickly became a chore. So much so that I had to remove the extension. I'd rather run whatever risk NoScript is protecting me from and continue to observe safe browsing practices. I get the feeling that NS is for the ultra-paranoid.
Heheh, you need the Duplicate Tab extension, which can create a new window from an existing tab.
Love the bit about 'universe'. Yeah, just in case we conquer other solar systems. Although the idea of whether licence conditions set on Earth apply in other solar systems' legal jurisdictions is still going through the Galactic Supreme Court.
Hehe, next year when I get some mod points, you're getting one.
Sounds like the same effect as the washed-out crosshairs on Apollo pictures that some claim to be evidence of fakery.
Don't believe that everything Jeremy Clarkson says is true, this is television. Don't even believe that the whole 'hicksville up in arms' thing wasn't a set-up. That piece wouldn't've been much cop if they'd just driven across the Gulf coast.
Now someone will tell me that all the great movers & shakers in Wall Street are signed up to the same Yahoogroups list. Excuse me if I don't believe that. Is this idle speculation masquerading as news?
In my country the handbrake requires the dual action of pressing a button and engaging the lever, I can't imagine that a child below the age of 9 would have the strength to disengage the brake. How do handbrakes in the US work, from what I've seen via Hollywood it's just another stick under the steering wheel, perhaps residents inthis country should be petitioning for safer mechanisms. I also don't know what a handbarke looks like in AU.
Google with its dark fibre network and mega-data centres ought to be offering ISPs fast mirrors as local and quick as possible for its two video sites. It's another argument against NN, if the biggest sites want to attract such bandwidth-hungry users to its ads they should make provisions for it and not clog up the network. They may do this already, of course. But it shifts the emphasis onto the company providing the popular service rather than the one just delivering it.
Yeah, cos that's a great use of the tag system. Can't wait for the moment a few months hence where I need to find all articles where the headline wasn't proof-read. Just like I want to look up all the stories where someone made a mistake (search 'doh'), find all the Steve Balmer articles (search 'chairthrowing') or all the stories about problems for trad Slashdot villains (search: 'haha')
The tag system is broken, but there's nothing wrong with the implementation. People can't tag correctly. Look below, all real tags.