In Need for Speed: Kill the Cops edition, you could drive on top of a building at the petrol station. The dumb cops would then drive round and round repeatedly bumping into the building.
If you've got no imagination then yes, I suppose you'd find it disappointing. Me, I found it awe-inspiring, to think that this is a craft with up to six people on it, shooting across the sky at an incredible rate (30 minutes before it was on the other side of the world). Seeing the Shuttle just ahead of it, moving at the same speed on the same plane was the icing on the cake.
What were you expecting, dancing girls and a cool laser show?
Rapidshare's entirely different matter, but even then it's not that bad if you need just one file as all you have to deal with is a captcha.
Unless you happen to use an ISP that has transparent proxies, then you can never download a file because someone else in your region of about 2 million people used it in the last four hours. If I see Rapidshare, I stop immediately.
I would say yes because the visible ISS passes are at dawn or dusk. I live in a similarly dense environment and had no problem seeing ISS and the Shuttle the last time it was there (in fact I saw the two orbiting just after disconnection, the Shuttle slightly ahead of the ISS and that was a pretty impressive sight). Just look up which part of the sky the pass will be for you and move away from any local bright lights that might obscure the view.
When was the last time you saw a TV show end without some form of cliff-hanger?
The first series of 'Sledge Hammer' ended with a nuclear explosion destroying LA. And it STILL came back for another series! So writers should not be afraid to end stories if they wish - you can always explain your way out of it if you get another chance.
Conficker/Downadup? B? B++? Is it time we had a proper naming scheme for these things? For this instance we've seen several companies getting together to coordinate a response - that's good. But even better, if everyone were to agree on the same name, WE could coordinate our response too.
And what kind of scheme? Well, how about following the convention of the hurricane trackers? 26 names assigned to each major piece of malware that appears throughout the year. This is a double bonus, as ending the practice of using the authors' chosen names might take away some of that bragging aspect. "Oh, you wrote Malware Julie did you?? Bwahaha"
I associate a monopoly with crappy service/no communication with customers, overpriced products and a lack of innovation or change. So I'm finding Google's version of a monopoly quite refreshing.
That's not a wise civilisation which broadcasts messages to the universe using a very advanced technology. I hope that if one day we were to set up a permanent beacon marking our presence we would use only the most basic transmission method, to aim for the highest audience.
If a civilisation only wanted to 'contact' other similarly advanced worlds then I suppose it could still hold true. But I like to think that every sentient being out there is just as curious and fascinated about the possibility as we are, and that the notion of Earth-destroying aliens can never be true.
Presumably Apple don't like you changing carriers as that makes them look foolish in front of AT&T. Not that I support it but you can see their reasoning perhaps.
No doubt The Next Big Thing. Find an OS that loads just enough to give network & browser/app platform. The thing is, people in the *nix world should be well placed to help in the effort. There's already plenty of examples of such. Of course as you say it's old news anyway, we were promised this even before the dotcom bubble.
However, as long as we power users can defend the general-purpose computer, I see no harm in allowing the general public to migrate to restricted devices. Could that turn out to be an unexpected benefit? The key is keeping hold of the hardware - should we start collecting good examples of everyday general-purpose hardware today, in case it suddenly becomes scarce in 10-20 years?
Depends on how you are dressed. If you have the temerity to wear a hoodie, a baseball cap, or the wrong colour skin, you are VERY wary around the police.
And this is different to, say, the 1970s, in what way? Police have always held prejudiced views of certain parts of society, just like their fellow citizens might. To use this as proof of a "police (run) state" is frankly laughable.
The right is to "bear arms" , does it include "to shoot people"? Would there really be no consequences if they used their guns to overthrow the government? if so, why don't presidential assassins get away with it?
Mod up. In fact the word 'Canada' is only mentioned in relation to the law professor, so I had to read (skim) the paragraph several times before I knew which country this story was about. Another bad, bad summary.
Any word on how your data will get back to the place you are visiting? Are these frequencies suitable for low-power transmission by consumers? Should be expect yet another cellular radio network? Is that a good thing, given that health concerns have not been laid to rest completely?
test it with the "Temporarily allow..." option for all the relevant parts of the site,
This is the problem I found - if I have to test it, what is the point of blocking it in the first place? OK, it can stop cross-site attacks in their tracks, but if the bad code is hosted on the server I chose to visit, it's game over anyway. I suppose there is more protection offered by NoScript around what can be run but ultimately if I can't sandbox the code that is about to fire, why am I bothering at all? I can take care by other means - most malware is still of the "Would you like to install this virus?" ilk. It's useful in specific situations like going to visit some known dodgy sites (but maybe do that in a VM anyway...) For everyday usage it quickly becomes tiresome.
Yup, and from no lesser court than the European Court of Human Rights. In fact one would hope that uncharged people will indeed be removed soon. But like the man said, what happened here was function creep. Suddenly one in 12 of the population is registered for ever.
Why, taking pictures, of course! Maybe the clandestine snappers should just use a camera, clearly no-one has so far pulled one of these people aside to ask why they are taking photos, they've just run to the lawmakers instead. What next, a bill which forces camera manufacturers to make units that actually look like a camera? Madness.
Maybe the way forward is to keep the main Wikipedia as the lawless land it's always painted to be, but work more on spin-off encyclopaedias targeted to a specific audience or area of knowledge. I'm thinking for example of the SOS Schools Wiki project, which delivers a fully-checked general set of articles covering all areas taught in the UK's National Curriculum (the govt-mandated list of subjects that should be taught in all schools). The subjects and knowledge are so general and broad that it'll only ever need minor revisions, and is of course useful for anyone wanting to acquire a 'baseline' level of knowledge, no matter where in the world they live.
Leave WP to concentrate on disputes over whether episode lists should be in scope and instead grab all the brilliant general knowledge that has already been created and do something wonderful with it. What would have cost a school hundreds or thousands, in the form of twenty heavy, expensive books that can only be used by one person at a time can now be used by an infinite number of people, all on one DVD-ROM.
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yeah, cos it worked for TPB didn't it...
Closed source? Supported by those who signed a deal with the content industries? No ta.
In Need for Speed: Kill the Cops edition, you could drive on top of a building at the petrol station. The dumb cops would then drive round and round repeatedly bumping into the building.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1C2hieHKgA
If you've got no imagination then yes, I suppose you'd find it disappointing. Me, I found it awe-inspiring, to think that this is a craft with up to six people on it, shooting across the sky at an incredible rate (30 minutes before it was on the other side of the world). Seeing the Shuttle just ahead of it, moving at the same speed on the same plane was the icing on the cake.
What were you expecting, dancing girls and a cool laser show?
So MS did with encyclopaedias what they did with software - buy up others' products to sell, instead of generating their own.
Unless you happen to use an ISP that has transparent proxies, then you can never download a file because someone else in your region of about 2 million people used it in the last four hours. If I see Rapidshare, I stop immediately.
I would say yes because the visible ISS passes are at dawn or dusk. I live in a similarly dense environment and had no problem seeing ISS and the Shuttle the last time it was there (in fact I saw the two orbiting just after disconnection, the Shuttle slightly ahead of the ISS and that was a pretty impressive sight). Just look up which part of the sky the pass will be for you and move away from any local bright lights that might obscure the view.
The first series of 'Sledge Hammer' ended with a nuclear explosion destroying LA. And it STILL came back for another series! So writers should not be afraid to end stories if they wish - you can always explain your way out of it if you get another chance.
Dvorak user!
Conficker/Downadup? B? B++? Is it time we had a proper naming scheme for these things? For this instance we've seen several companies getting together to coordinate a response - that's good. But even better, if everyone were to agree on the same name, WE could coordinate our response too.
And what kind of scheme? Well, how about following the convention of the hurricane trackers? 26 names assigned to each major piece of malware that appears throughout the year. This is a double bonus, as ending the practice of using the authors' chosen names might take away some of that bragging aspect. "Oh, you wrote Malware Julie did you?? Bwahaha"
Genuine statement, joke: one is a genuine statement, the other a joke. Which is which? If you can't tell, you MUST be new here.
Fortunately with the POP3 service they provide an efficient and open backup solution.
I associate a monopoly with crappy service/no communication with customers, overpriced products and a lack of innovation or change. So I'm finding Google's version of a monopoly quite refreshing.
That's not a wise civilisation which broadcasts messages to the universe using a very advanced technology. I hope that if one day we were to set up a permanent beacon marking our presence we would use only the most basic transmission method, to aim for the highest audience.
If a civilisation only wanted to 'contact' other similarly advanced worlds then I suppose it could still hold true. But I like to think that every sentient being out there is just as curious and fascinated about the possibility as we are, and that the notion of Earth-destroying aliens can never be true.
Presumably Apple don't like you changing carriers as that makes them look foolish in front of AT&T. Not that I support it but you can see their reasoning perhaps.
No doubt The Next Big Thing. Find an OS that loads just enough to give network & browser/app platform. The thing is, people in the *nix world should be well placed to help in the effort. There's already plenty of examples of such. Of course as you say it's old news anyway, we were promised this even before the dotcom bubble.
However, as long as we power users can defend the general-purpose computer, I see no harm in allowing the general public to migrate to restricted devices. Could that turn out to be an unexpected benefit? The key is keeping hold of the hardware - should we start collecting good examples of everyday general-purpose hardware today, in case it suddenly becomes scarce in 10-20 years?
And this is different to, say, the 1970s, in what way? Police have always held prejudiced views of certain parts of society, just like their fellow citizens might. To use this as proof of a "police (run) state" is frankly laughable.
The right is to "bear arms" , does it include "to shoot people"? Would there really be no consequences if they used their guns to overthrow the government? if so, why don't presidential assassins get away with it?
Mod up. In fact the word 'Canada' is only mentioned in relation to the law professor, so I had to read (skim) the paragraph several times before I knew which country this story was about. Another bad, bad summary.
Any word on how your data will get back to the place you are visiting? Are these frequencies suitable for low-power transmission by consumers? Should be expect yet another cellular radio network? Is that a good thing, given that health concerns have not been laid to rest completely?
This is the problem I found - if I have to test it, what is the point of blocking it in the first place? OK, it can stop cross-site attacks in their tracks, but if the bad code is hosted on the server I chose to visit, it's game over anyway. I suppose there is more protection offered by NoScript around what can be run but ultimately if I can't sandbox the code that is about to fire, why am I bothering at all? I can take care by other means - most malware is still of the "Would you like to install this virus?" ilk. It's useful in specific situations like going to visit some known dodgy sites (but maybe do that in a VM anyway...) For everyday usage it quickly becomes tiresome.
Yup, and from no lesser court than the European Court of Human Rights. In fact one would hope that uncharged people will indeed be removed soon. But like the man said, what happened here was function creep. Suddenly one in 12 of the population is registered for ever.
Why, taking pictures, of course! Maybe the clandestine snappers should just use a camera, clearly no-one has so far pulled one of these people aside to ask why they are taking photos, they've just run to the lawmakers instead. What next, a bill which forces camera manufacturers to make units that actually look like a camera? Madness.
Maybe the way forward is to keep the main Wikipedia as the lawless land it's always painted to be, but work more on spin-off encyclopaedias targeted to a specific audience or area of knowledge. I'm thinking for example of the SOS Schools Wiki project, which delivers a fully-checked general set of articles covering all areas taught in the UK's National Curriculum (the govt-mandated list of subjects that should be taught in all schools). The subjects and knowledge are so general and broad that it'll only ever need minor revisions, and is of course useful for anyone wanting to acquire a 'baseline' level of knowledge, no matter where in the world they live.
Leave WP to concentrate on disputes over whether episode lists should be in scope and instead grab all the brilliant general knowledge that has already been created and do something wonderful with it. What would have cost a school hundreds or thousands, in the form of twenty heavy, expensive books that can only be used by one person at a time can now be used by an infinite number of people, all on one DVD-ROM.