That's what he's inferring - that disassembling the offending code could leave him open to "hacking charges" not the G-Archiver developer. I know, I know.
1100mAh 3.7 V 3.7V / 2W = 1.85 A 1.1 Ah / 1.85 A = 0.59 Hours = approx. 36 Minutes
Em am I not right in thinking that power is equal to voltage by current, so should that not work out as P/V=I, 2/3.7=I=0.54 giving you 1.1/0.54=2.04 Hours?
It's also worth noting that Prince gave away copies of his last album in a paper, which was extremely unpopular with the music industry - so it's not as if he doesn't want his work distributed.
You're not alone in noticing this - I've also noticed recently that these submissions invariably appear around 10 to 15 minutes after the same story on Ars or Wired. Not saying right or wrong - just saying is all.
Lets not forget junior members of staff downloading entire databases onto unencrypted DVDs and dropping them down the sofa or the Navy losing laptops with the details of an entire years worth of potential recruits...
I know where you're coming from but that excuse doesn't fly with a large proportion of the populace after 30 years of republican terrorism and the government knows it.
Frequent cell phone users face a 50% greater risk of developing tumors of the parotid gland than those who don't use cell phones, according to a recently published study.
The parotid gland is the largest human salivary gland; it's located near the jaw and ear, where cell phones are typically held.
Does this simply mean we should use handsfree headsets or hold the phone away from our heads?
I happen to hold mine in front and use the loudspeaker but that's purely because I'm deaf in one ear and don't like not being able to hear anything else that's going on.
The idea is to prevent someone from printing $100 bills/IDs/etc on their printer.
Yes but that doesn't mean that it could not be used by, say an agency that wishes to monitor who is distributing political leaflets for example. Looking at the US from the outside, freedom of speech and the press are wonderful - it seems that your government is accessing more and more ways to check how you are using those freedoms.
Devolution's dictionary meaning is essentially the de-centralisation of government. What happened in Scotland in the 90's was more political manouvering than giving Scotland a voice. Scotland had far fewer seats in parliament than England, unsurprising given that Scotland has around 10% of the population of England. The north of England is in a similar situation to, with London having a large population and all government - it is also heavily out of touch with the opinion of the rest of the country.
At the time of Tony Blair's election, the Scottish National Party was gaining a lot of ground in Scotland on two platforms - a vote on independence and a proprortional representation system if we stayed in the union. Labour picked up on this and decided to offer a devolved Scottish government.
The Scottish parliament was re-opened and in an attempted show of reconciliation the Stone of Destiny was returned to Edinburgh. This has grown into an ongoing farce, with a new parliament building being built (even though the original is still there) at a ridiculous cost and the only real power is the ability to vary income tax by 1% of what Westminster sets as well as control over health, education, law and agriculture all of which were already administered differently from England.
There is an excellent history of the time of union written by an American author Arthur Herman.
So are the Scots, unfortunately the Darien Scheme completely bankrupted the country.
In fact there have been large periods of independence and frequent resurgances, even as recently as the 70's (after oil was found) and in the 90's (after devolution). However it hasn't seen a large scale violent uprising, which is probably a result of the now heavily entwined military in the UK and the gradual erosion of our identity within the UK.
On topic however, Scotland still has it's own legal system based on jurisprudence and is less influenced by corporate interest and more by common sense than in England. How long it stays that way is another subject all together.
IANAL but it's interesting that they are conducting this research in England, at the very least this would require a change in the EULA that MSFT could be deemed an "authorised user" of the computer, from the Computer Misuse Act 1990:
3 Unauthorised modification of computer material
(1) A person is guilty of an offence if--
(a) he does any act which causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of any computer; and
(b) at the time when he does the act he has the requisite intent and the requisite knowledge.
At the very least, this would suggest to me that I would be perfectly within my rights to opt out of such a system.
Hell, the Irish had to fight how many wars to gain independence from the UK?
Two or arguably three - The Easter rising in 1916, War of Independence in 1919 leading to civil war ending in 1923. What this has to do with anything I'm unsure.
I don't like to whinge but this is really starting to bug me, there are no British courts. There is English law based on precedent and Scots law based on jurisprudence.
It may seem like a semantic difference but it is in fact like saying North American law rather than Canadian and US. It is also important to Scots historically because it is one of the few things that were kept after the act of union with England.
On Monday 24th August 1998, at 4:00pm, Professor Kevin Warwick underwent an operation to surgically implant a silicon chip transponder in his foream. Dr. George Boulous carried out the operation at Tilehurst Surgery, using local anaesthetic only.
This experiment allowed a computer to monitor Kevin Warwick as he moved through halls and offices of the Department of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, using a unique identifying signal emitted by the implanted chip. He could operate doors, lights, heaters and other computers without lifting a finger.
I'm not pro any party - but anyone who has even been remotely acquainted with the UK knows how much bullshit bureaucracy there is in every facet of the public sector, one of the reasons that nothing ever gets done, that huge sums of money are wasted on reports and think tanks and because the civil service remains despite government change, nothing ever really changes.
You want to blame Thatcher then fine, but consider this - how much has Blair done to repair it?
There is no British law - Scotland has its own system, which I haven't seen made mention of yet as to how this proposal affects us.
You need to appreciate the sheer volume of ludicrous laws that have been implemented in the UK since Tony Blair's New Labour were voted into power. There are a lot of things that have been made illegal that people don't even know about. This looks to be another of those scenarios where someone has been lobbying the government who have been in discussion with industry members without any public transparency or debate and are about to introduce some sweeping, ill-conceived and ill informed draconian law.
People in the UK need to wake the fuck up and stop paying so much attention to all the bullshit that the news tries to make us focus on and face up to the real issues. Look at the effect of islamic terrorism post media coverage - the UK was subjected to terrorist attacks from Irish Republicans for over 30 years which people accepted and lived with effectively, now the media has created a focussed paranoia which is impacting settled British families of Asian decent.
This may sound extreme but there are parralels as to how many dictators have drawn attention from there real interests by blaming a group of people. In this cas the recession is the issue but we can just blame p2p users.
Funnily enough I've been wondering something similar. How much money does MSFT actually make from the sale of the operating system? OEM copies are much less than shop bought copies and I would assume the OEM value must at least cover their costs, so would it be viable to give (or as near as possible) away copies then recover that lost revenue from the increase in sales of their other products?
Quite apart from anything else it would mean no longer wasting money developing security measures and marketing campaigns on preventing Windows being copied. It would also further increase MSFT's spread into emerging markets and further their belief in promoting a de facto computing experience.
Me, I'll stay with Linux because I like it but I was just wondering...
A study in Holland disagrees about the savings from obesity reduction:
Conclusions
Although effective obesity prevention leads to a decrease in costs of obesity-related diseases, this decrease is offset by cost increases due to diseases unrelated to obesity in life-years gained. Obesity prevention may be an important and cost-effective way of improving public health, but it is not a cure for increasing health expenditures.
Surprised they didn't mention on-line gaming really, maybe it's my age but I remember people queing up to play Street Fighter II. People still enjoy the challenge of another person, its just that they are doing it at home.
The problem with this type of system is that in order to protect the data you are asking the user to go through much more of a rigmarole than entering a password. Here in lies the problem, users will hate this, I mean good security practice is a balance of securing against likely threats and practicality.
I can't see what this does that a fingerprint scanner doesn't. I could be wrong but I can't think of a way to use a keylogger to capture it and it certainly stops someone looking over your shoulder.
The site also has an archive of their incoming hate mail on this subject, some of which is quite funny.
None of which is half as funny as this gem from the "Pleased" section:
i live in Vietnam. a free country in south east asia. i fell frightened of muslim coutries as Iran. Afghanistan.etc... why they have many terrible laws and orders. I can't understand and i can't stand of them. I vomit over my floor when i heard about muslim people and their "prophet".
We use the Toughbook in the military for aircraft technical documentation, they are damn near indestructable.
On the downside, the trackpads are terrible - they seem to have a film over them that eventually starts to move seperately to the trackpad. Other than that they are great. Oh there is one more thing - the hard drive connections are weirdly flimsy, they don't break but get disconnected very easily. It's not the end of the world but it is annoying.
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Not to mention the rampant arrests and huge police resources that Halloween would require...
That's what he's inferring - that disassembling the offending code could leave him open to "hacking charges" not the G-Archiver developer. I know, I know.
Em am I not right in thinking that power is equal to voltage by current, so should that not work out as P/V=I, 2/3.7=I=0.54 giving you 1.1/0.54=2.04 Hours?
They have an initiative already with StopBadware, there's a quick article here.
It's also worth noting that Prince gave away copies of his last album in a paper, which was extremely unpopular with the music industry - so it's not as if he doesn't want his work distributed.
You're not alone in noticing this - I've also noticed recently that these submissions invariably appear around 10 to 15 minutes after the same story on Ars or Wired. Not saying right or wrong - just saying is all.
Lets not forget junior members of staff downloading entire databases onto unencrypted DVDs and dropping them down the sofa or the Navy losing laptops with the details of an entire years worth of potential recruits...
I know where you're coming from but that excuse doesn't fly with a large proportion of the populace after 30 years of republican terrorism and the government knows it.
From the article:
Does this simply mean we should use handsfree headsets or hold the phone away from our heads?
I happen to hold mine in front and use the loudspeaker but that's purely because I'm deaf in one ear and don't like not being able to hear anything else that's going on.
Yes but that doesn't mean that it could not be used by, say an agency that wishes to monitor who is distributing political leaflets for example. Looking at the US from the outside, freedom of speech and the press are wonderful - it seems that your government is accessing more and more ways to check how you are using those freedoms.
Devolution's dictionary meaning is essentially the de-centralisation of government. What happened in Scotland in the 90's was more political manouvering than giving Scotland a voice. Scotland had far fewer seats in parliament than England, unsurprising given that Scotland has around 10% of the population of England. The north of England is in a similar situation to, with London having a large population and all government - it is also heavily out of touch with the opinion of the rest of the country.
At the time of Tony Blair's election, the Scottish National Party was gaining a lot of ground in Scotland on two platforms - a vote on independence and a proprortional representation system if we stayed in the union. Labour picked up on this and decided to offer a devolved Scottish government.
The Scottish parliament was re-opened and in an attempted show of reconciliation the Stone of Destiny was returned to Edinburgh. This has grown into an ongoing farce, with a new parliament building being built (even though the original is still there) at a ridiculous cost and the only real power is the ability to vary income tax by 1% of what Westminster sets as well as control over health, education, law and agriculture all of which were already administered differently from England.
There is an excellent history of the time of union written by an American author Arthur Herman.
So are the Scots, unfortunately the Darien Scheme completely bankrupted the country.
In fact there have been large periods of independence and frequent resurgances, even as recently as the 70's (after oil was found) and in the 90's (after devolution). However it hasn't seen a large scale violent uprising, which is probably a result of the now heavily entwined military in the UK and the gradual erosion of our identity within the UK.
On topic however, Scotland still has it's own legal system based on jurisprudence and is less influenced by corporate interest and more by common sense than in England. How long it stays that way is another subject all together.
IANAL but it's interesting that they are conducting this research in England, at the very least this would require a change in the EULA that MSFT could be deemed an "authorised user" of the computer, from the Computer Misuse Act 1990:
At the very least, this would suggest to me that I would be perfectly within my rights to opt out of such a system.
Two or arguably three - The Easter rising in 1916, War of Independence in 1919 leading to civil war ending in 1923. What this has to do with anything I'm unsure.
I don't like to whinge but this is really starting to bug me, there are no British courts. There is English law based on precedent and Scots law based on jurisprudence.
It may seem like a semantic difference but it is in fact like saying North American law rather than Canadian and US. It is also important to Scots historically because it is one of the few things that were kept after the act of union with England.
Meh, it's been done before - 10 years ago:
Then you'd be incorrect, this report suggest as many as 54% more laws passed per annum by Blair's government than by Thatcher.
In fact at his peak - Blair's law passing average was one every three hours.
I'm not pro any party - but anyone who has even been remotely acquainted with the UK knows how much bullshit bureaucracy there is in every facet of the public sector, one of the reasons that nothing ever gets done, that huge sums of money are wasted on reports and think tanks and because the civil service remains despite government change, nothing ever really changes.
You want to blame Thatcher then fine, but consider this - how much has Blair done to repair it?
There is no British law - Scotland has its own system, which I haven't seen made mention of yet as to how this proposal affects us.
You need to appreciate the sheer volume of ludicrous laws that have been implemented in the UK since Tony Blair's New Labour were voted into power. There are a lot of things that have been made illegal that people don't even know about. This looks to be another of those scenarios where someone has been lobbying the government who have been in discussion with industry members without any public transparency or debate and are about to introduce some sweeping, ill-conceived and ill informed draconian law.
People in the UK need to wake the fuck up and stop paying so much attention to all the bullshit that the news tries to make us focus on and face up to the real issues. Look at the effect of islamic terrorism post media coverage - the UK was subjected to terrorist attacks from Irish Republicans for over 30 years which people accepted and lived with effectively, now the media has created a focussed paranoia which is impacting settled British families of Asian decent.
This may sound extreme but there are parralels as to how many dictators have drawn attention from there real interests by blaming a group of people. In this cas the recession is the issue but we can just blame p2p users.
Funnily enough I've been wondering something similar. How much money does MSFT actually make from the sale of the operating system? OEM copies are much less than shop bought copies and I would assume the OEM value must at least cover their costs, so would it be viable to give (or as near as possible) away copies then recover that lost revenue from the increase in sales of their other products?
Quite apart from anything else it would mean no longer wasting money developing security measures and marketing campaigns on preventing Windows being copied. It would also further increase MSFT's spread into emerging markets and further their belief in promoting a de facto computing experience.
Me, I'll stay with Linux because I like it but I was just wondering...
A study in Holland disagrees about the savings from obesity reduction:
Surprised they didn't mention on-line gaming really, maybe it's my age but I remember people queing up to play Street Fighter II. People still enjoy the challenge of another person, its just that they are doing it at home.
The problem with this type of system is that in order to protect the data you are asking the user to go through much more of a rigmarole than entering a password. Here in lies the problem, users will hate this, I mean good security practice is a balance of securing against likely threats and practicality.
I can't see what this does that a fingerprint scanner doesn't. I could be wrong but I can't think of a way to use a keylogger to capture it and it certainly stops someone looking over your shoulder.
User: Could you connect me to someone who can close my account then?
I don't know how many ISP's are available in each area in the US but in the UK people could just walk.
None of which is half as funny as this gem from the "Pleased" section:
We use the Toughbook in the military for aircraft technical documentation, they are damn near indestructable.
On the downside, the trackpads are terrible - they seem to have a film over them that eventually starts to move seperately to the trackpad. Other than that they are great. Oh there is one more thing - the hard drive connections are weirdly flimsy, they don't break but get disconnected very easily. It's not the end of the world but it is annoying.