This is fine if you're an island thousands of miles from other large population centers. The problem with Europe is that you're never more than a few hours drive from the next country. So even if every carrier in the UK agreed to block stolen phones, I can be in France within 120 minutes of leaving my house and I can sell them there.
This would need to be Europe wide to have any effect here.
Actually there is an world wide database (http://www.gsmworld.com/our-work/programmes-and-initiatives/fraud-and-security/imei_database.htm) with an blacklist.
But as long as there are carriers in neighbourging countries, who would rather sell airtime than block their customers, its is not going to be effective.
What about a new streaming protocol where only the stations original content is streamed to all listeners ? RIAA song are then only send as a playlist entry. The player can the play the local copy or request it from the station if its not buffered locally. This should cut down on the broadcasted song per listener count;-)
The application could even be expanded to automagicaly substitutes songs you dont want to hear or to play your own local hi-res version.
Contrast this to real oppressive regimes where people disappear, are executed, the media is censored and comments like yours would get you imprisoned, sent to a gulag, tortured and/or killed.
You mean regimes where people are just shipped off to camps like Guantalamo, out of any countrys jurisdiction ?
Actually you were right, even if you did not know it;-)
Nikkor IS Nikons range of better lenses.
They also have (or had) an entry line only named Nikon, typically only used to sell bundled with a camerahouse.
From their site: GCompris is an educational software which proposes miscellaneous activities to kids from 2 to 10
Some activities are game oriented, but always educational. You will find activities in the following topics:
* computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture,...
* algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image,...
* science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine,...
* geography: place the country on the map
* games: chess, memory,...
* reading: reading practice
* other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing,...
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This is fine if you're an island thousands of miles from other large population centers. The problem with Europe is that you're never more than a few hours drive from the next country. So even if every carrier in the UK agreed to block stolen phones, I can be in France within 120 minutes of leaving my house and I can sell them there.
This would need to be Europe wide to have any effect here.
Actually there is an world wide database (http://www.gsmworld.com/our-work/programmes-and-initiatives/fraud-and-security/imei_database.htm) with an blacklist. But as long as there are carriers in neighbourging countries, who would rather sell airtime than block their customers, its is not going to be effective.
What about a new streaming protocol where only the stations original content is streamed to all listeners ? ;-)
RIAA song are then only send as a playlist entry. The player can the play the local copy or request it from the station if its not buffered locally.
This should cut down on the broadcasted song per listener count
The application could even be expanded to automagicaly substitutes songs you dont want to hear or to play your own local hi-res version.
Contrast this to real oppressive regimes where people disappear, are executed, the media is censored and comments like yours would get you imprisoned, sent to a gulag, tortured and/or killed.
You mean regimes where people are just shipped off to camps like Guantalamo, out of any countrys jurisdiction ?
Actually you were right, even if you did not know it ;-)
Nikkor IS Nikons range of better lenses.
They also have (or had) an entry line only named Nikon, typically only used to sell bundled with a camerahouse.
My 6 year old daugther really likes GCompris.
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http://www.ofset.org/gcompris/
From their site:
GCompris is an educational software which proposes miscellaneous activities to kids from 2 to 10
Some activities are game oriented, but always educational. You will find activities in the following topics:
* computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture,
* algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image,
* science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine,
* geography: place the country on the map
* games: chess, memory,
* reading: reading practice
* other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing,