I'm not American and I understand that although these are part of the same overarching conflict they didn't occur simultaneously. My point was that the GP suggested Europe as some warless utopia, it had a long running civil war in the Balkans in recent years. One noted for war crimes.
In Europe, police would be able to get this information without any judicial oversight, without anybody being informed, and without anybody being able to object.
Bollocks.
Europe is not a nation state, European Law is a collection of treaties at best and despite claims in Luxemburg, not all member states recognise its supremacy. National judicial systems vary greatly too. There is no single "police" either (Europol is an intelligence agency), so there would be no need for oversight.
As for "beating up on America", thats going to get an MP here nowhere, given the current climate of massive tax increases and political corruption scandal people are too busy with their own politicians
Modded insightful indeed - your first paragraph seems sensible but given that you opened your mouth and let your belly rumble on the last but one paragraph calls your entire argument into question.
There are several European nations in Afghanistan (UK, Danish, French and Estonians among others) not to mention damn near every nation in Europe was in Iraq!
In the UK (as with most of Europe) pedestrians always have right of way on a public road over wheeled vehicles.
You may well be correct about Europe but that's not strictly true in the UK. While the Highway Code makes provision for pedestrians, it is not criminal law but can be the basis for civil law. Section 38 of the Road Traffic Act 1988:
A failure on the part of a person to observe a provision of the Highway Code shall not of itself render that person liable to criminal proceedings of any kind but any such failure may in any proceedings (whether civil or criminal, and including proceedings for an offence under the Traffic Acts, the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 or sections 18 to 23 of the Transport Act 1985) be relied upon by any party to the proceedings as tending to establish or negative any liability which is in question in those proceedings.
IANAL but I think this confusion comes from rule 170 in the highway code:
Watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way.
Some places yes but I wouldn't say its "the norm" - certainly none of the supermarkets does it and that's where it pisses me off. Stand for 15 minutes in a queue only for someone to open a new till for someone who's hasn't waited at all.
I think as a nation, Britain has a real etiquette about queuing and I know I feel a real injustice when someone gets to skip it.
the government does follow this route, the real bonus would be better transparency. Procurement in general in the public sector is poor - those of us working in defence often seriously question the choices that are made, not to mention the massive overspends and delays.
That said, the average person in the UK is more interested in what celebrities are doing than how their government spends their taxes.
See this is the problem with Wikipedia references.
I haven't seen the show, I'm in the UK, but I know the reason Italian-American interest groups are offended is because of a recent incident where "Snooki" was punched by a man who fits the stereotype they object to.
The interesting thing is MTV's hypocrisy over dealing with the issue, they blacked out the assault when shown on TV and offered a link to a support line after the show but showed a male being assaulted during another show about teen pregnancy.
Must be all about the memory, I had it running on a DX33 with 8Mb. It was fine but I remeber having a terrible time with a driver for the Avance Logic graphics card that it had fitted. Things like the clock (when you double clicked the time) as the hand swept round the screen wasn't redrawn.
Strangest thing was that the card worked fine in Slackware.
Perhaps a concern in future presentations but FTA:
Deploying a game for an entire cohort to play at the same time requires more problem-solving than you might expect. We ultimately decided that hardware, installation, and licensing issues were complex enough to dissuade us from teaching Portal in all sections of the course this year; so I and a group of eager colleagues will play the game in our sections to work out the kinks. I don't want our first college-wide experience with a game to be plagued with problems.
I'm sure when the issue of accessibility will be identified.
I'm not blaming Sony and I didn't say I was. I said that if PSN was subscriber funded it would encourage Sony to put pressure on developers to fix bugs IF PSN started losing subscribers.
You can only mute in game, not in the waiting areas.
What I find with PSN is that a lot of games, big titles too (Call of Duty 4 and 5 for example) have some horrendous bugs that ruin online play - such as the (now patched) CoD5 Castle level where you could get under the play area and kill but not be killed.
If Sony pays the bills with content providers and not from its customers subscriptions then there isn't the direct incentive to put pressure on developers to fix games quickly that there would be if the customer base withdrew funding.
They also seem to care less about there customers online experience - PSN really needs the ability to kick some players - I'm all for freedom of speech but I'm sure it doesn't include the right to whistle in your headset or sit right in front of the TV creating the feedback loop from hell. I'd pay for that.
Can you clarify why (3)(2) gives them wiggle room:
"A person is guilty of an offence if at the time when he does the act he has the requisite intent and the requisite knowledge to cause a modification of the contents of any computer and by so doing impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of any such data."
IANAL but that seems pretty watertight and section 17 paragraph 18 is also pretty succinct:
"(8) Such a modification is unauthorised if--
(a) the person whose act causes it is not himself entitled to determine whether the modification should be made; and
(b) he does not have consent to the modification from any person who is so entitled. "
That as a customer their server up time is not as big a factor as poor delivery. I'd go further to say that I wish their service was as good as their uptime. I would have thought the post was pretty straight forward.
I take your point about the choice but in the UK site at least its easier to find Ubuntu (its on both the desktop and laptop drop down menus) than XP which is currently blank and recommending Vista.
If I was an Amazon customer I would be happy with their explanation and apology even if obviously the downtime is still an issue.
Since their drive towards Amazon Prime, their deliveries have been appalling (at least in the area of the UK I'm in), YMMV. As much as I appreciate their candour, the delivery and delay problems are what is driving me away at the moment.
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I'm not American and I understand that although these are part of the same overarching conflict they didn't occur simultaneously. My point was that the GP suggested Europe as some warless utopia, it had a long running civil war in the Balkans in recent years. One noted for war crimes.
The Bosnian War was justified and humanitarian? Serbia attacked Bosnia - how is that justified? Ethnic cleansing - humanitarian?
The SFOR peace keeping mission was European but so were the protagonists.
You're saying the US started three seperate conflicts in Europe? Or are you letting us all off with invading Iraq?
In Europe, police would be able to get this information without any judicial oversight, without anybody being informed, and without anybody being able to object.
Bollocks.
Europe is not a nation state, European Law is a collection of treaties at best and despite claims in Luxemburg, not all member states recognise its supremacy. National judicial systems vary greatly too. There is no single "police" either (Europol is an intelligence agency), so there would be no need for oversight.
As for "beating up on America", thats going to get an MP here nowhere, given the current climate of massive tax increases and political corruption scandal people are too busy with their own politicians
Modded insightful indeed - your first paragraph seems sensible but given that you opened your mouth and let your belly rumble on the last but one paragraph calls your entire argument into question.
Uncommon? Apart from the Bosnia, Macedonia or Kosovo then?
There are several European nations in Afghanistan (UK, Danish, French and Estonians among others) not to mention damn near every nation in Europe was in Iraq!
In the UK (as with most of Europe) pedestrians always have right of way on a public road over wheeled vehicles.
You may well be correct about Europe but that's not strictly true in the UK. While the Highway Code makes provision for pedestrians, it is not criminal law but can be the basis for civil law. Section 38 of the Road Traffic Act 1988:
A failure on the part of a person to observe a provision of the Highway Code shall not of itself render that person liable to criminal proceedings of any kind but any such failure may in any proceedings (whether civil or criminal, and including proceedings for an offence under the Traffic Acts, the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 or sections 18 to 23 of the Transport Act 1985) be relied upon by any party to the proceedings as tending to establish or negative any liability which is in question in those proceedings.
IANAL but I think this confusion comes from rule 170 in the highway code:
Watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way.
Jaywalking isn't a crime in the UK, except on a Motorway (where pedestrians aren't allowed).
If I had to guess, I'd guess they were drink related - vandalism, fighting, etc.
Eset has a particularly interesting paper on Stuxnet which may interest you.
Some places yes but I wouldn't say its "the norm" - certainly none of the supermarkets does it and that's where it pisses me off. Stand for 15 minutes in a queue only for someone to open a new till for someone who's hasn't waited at all.
I think as a nation, Britain has a real etiquette about queuing and I know I feel a real injustice when someone gets to skip it.
the government does follow this route, the real bonus would be better transparency. Procurement in general in the public sector is poor - those of us working in defence often seriously question the choices that are made, not to mention the massive overspends and delays.
That said, the average person in the UK is more interested in what celebrities are doing than how their government spends their taxes.
Yes: Booble, NudeVista and the excellently named "Mr Stiff". You can Google them. ;-p
See this is the problem with Wikipedia references.
I haven't seen the show, I'm in the UK, but I know the reason Italian-American interest groups are offended is because of a recent incident where "Snooki" was punched by a man who fits the stereotype they object to.
The interesting thing is MTV's hypocrisy over dealing with the issue, they blacked out the assault when shown on TV and offered a link to a support line after the show but showed a male being assaulted during another show about teen pregnancy.
Must be all about the memory, I had it running on a DX33 with 8Mb. It was fine but I remeber having a terrible time with a driver for the Avance Logic graphics card that it had fitted. Things like the clock (when you double clicked the time) as the hand swept round the screen wasn't redrawn.
Strangest thing was that the card worked fine in Slackware.
This comes to mind...
I thought that was funny.
I'm sure when the issue of accessibility will be identified.
I'm not blaming Sony and I didn't say I was. I said that if PSN was subscriber funded it would encourage Sony to put pressure on developers to fix bugs IF PSN started losing subscribers.
You can only mute in game, not in the waiting areas.
Never thought I'd see that on Slashdot!
What I find with PSN is that a lot of games, big titles too (Call of Duty 4 and 5 for example) have some horrendous bugs that ruin online play - such as the (now patched) CoD5 Castle level where you could get under the play area and kill but not be killed.
If Sony pays the bills with content providers and not from its customers subscriptions then there isn't the direct incentive to put pressure on developers to fix games quickly that there would be if the customer base withdrew funding.
They also seem to care less about there customers online experience - PSN really needs the ability to kick some players - I'm all for freedom of speech but I'm sure it doesn't include the right to whistle in your headset or sit right in front of the TV creating the feedback loop from hell. I'd pay for that.
Not in the UK, garages cost a bloody fortune and the NHS is free.
Can you clarify why (3)(2) gives them wiggle room:
"A person is guilty of an offence if at the time when he does the act he has the requisite intent and the requisite knowledge to cause a modification of the contents of any computer and by so doing impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of any such data."
IANAL but that seems pretty watertight and section 17 paragraph 18 is also pretty succinct:
"(8) Such a modification is unauthorised if-- (a) the person whose act causes it is not himself entitled to determine whether the modification should be made; and (b) he does not have consent to the modification from any person who is so entitled. "
That as a customer their server up time is not as big a factor as poor delivery. I'd go further to say that I wish their service was as good as their uptime. I would have thought the post was pretty straight forward.
I take your point about the choice but in the UK site at least its easier to find Ubuntu (its on both the desktop and laptop drop down menus) than XP which is currently blank and recommending Vista.
That would be funny if it was true but Ubuntu installs from a Live CD system so its unlikely that situation would arise.
Since their drive towards Amazon Prime, their deliveries have been appalling (at least in the area of the UK I'm in), YMMV. As much as I appreciate their candour, the delivery and delay problems are what is driving me away at the moment.