In 1985 Margaret Thatcher gave a speech to the American Bar Association in which she said "we must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend". This led to a ban on broadcast of utterances by republican politicians supportive of the Provisional IRA, which in turn led to the absurd situation of news programmes showing video of politicians such as Gerry Adams speaking but with the audio replaced by an actor's voice.
It only drew attention to the extremist's cause, as will be the case here.
As it stands, are there any ISPs who don't subscribe to the IWF list? How hard would it be for one of us to start our own that doesn't subscribe to some unsupervised qango's blocklist?
I know it's fun to claim that the National Health Service is being privatised - but that doesn't make it true and it's not.
There is currently a strong focus in cancer care in the UK on early detection, which saves lives as well as money, though in some cases aggressive screening programmes have been found to do neither.
You can put "c:\Documents and Settings" in another folder name on a different partition but it's tricky for non-corporate users. You need to burn a copy of your installation CD with a custom OEMINFO.INI and partition your drive first.
I went to the trouble of doing this for my current Windows box and it works beautifully. Now I can reinstall the OS (on the C partition) to a clean state by dd'ing a tar.gz of it from a Live CD without clobbering my user data, and at the same time my backups are more focussed as I'm not bothering with C partition (think \windows and \program files), which I would be reinstalling from installers (and dd'ing, as above) in the event of a disaster.
TrueCrypt encrypted containers can be formatted as NTFS or FAT file systems.
I haven't tried other file systems.
I can add ext3 to the list of filesystems known to work with TrueCrypt, useful for apps such as Nautilus and TightVNC that create files with colons in their name.
Also, although this is slightly off-topic, you can easily store a Linux home directory and mount it in place, i.e. just one big volume in/home/username which you can mount with
$ truecrypt -t volume.tc ~
and the full home directory replaces the previously empty directory.
The OP is asking for something similar on Windows but that's much trickier on NTFS and Windows for a variety of reasons - TrueCrypt still doesn't allow mounting at a junction point, and a directory used for this purpose must be empty, and by the time you've logged in, you've already got a lot of files open (e.g. your registry hive).
The critical non-selling point for me with Vista was the blatant market segmentation. Vista Home, Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, Vista IE-free, Vista Lite, Vista Media Center, Vista This, Vista That. The only version you could count on to have the features you needed was Vista Ultimate, the most expensive by far. It was just a con, and I walked away from it because of that.
If Microsoft wants to avoid insulting its users, it should stick to one version, or if its bean-counters say it must, a normal version and a cheapo crippled version.
Assuming you are in the UK, then yes, you would go to jail for doing that. Even forgetting the key is illegal, so deliberately destroying it would probably get you an increased sentence.
No, genuinely forgetting a key is legal, but you have to convince the court that you really forgot it and aren't just saying so. (Could be tricky...)
Out of curiosity, why is it that people get bent out of shape about this 'religion'?
I got to witness an anonymous rally in San Diego about a year or so ago and it was just silly. Yes, you and I may know the whole thing is a crock, but isn't there supposed to be freedom of religion?
Not looking to start a pissing contest, I'm just wondering where people get their priorities.
punching in a few keys such as '#1' to submit information to Trapster's database, should comply with laws banning talking on cell phones.
You wouldn't get away with it in the UK or anywhere with similarly worded laws. In the UK it is the "use" of mobile phones while driving that is banned.
Once I learned to solve the Cube, I would amuse myself from time to time by taking it apart and reassembling it in a random configuration, and then trying to solve the resulting mess.
With a little group theory you can show that you will be able to solve a randomly reassembled Cube 1/12 of the time.
I believe that Canon has explicitly stated that the feature has to be manually turned on, and that there is a non-trivial setup process to get it working. In other words, the privacy implications of the feature are essentially nonexistant.
Not true. I can "spy" on you by secretly turning on the feature on your camera. Because the setup is nontrivial, you're unlikely to spot that it's suddenly become active. I leave it as an exercise to come up with a scenario where this would be useful.
Leave a Knoppix CD in the CD drive. When asked to boot up comes a clean Linux system. Officer nods at it and waves you on.
Two partitions. TrueCrypt. Nuff said.
Full disk encryption with TrueCrypt 5.0 with a keyfile as well as a pass phrase. Don't bring the keyfile with you - pick it up from gmail or wherever in a cyber cafe when you arrive. Perhaps even have it put there by a cron job after you should have arrived. When asked to boot machine tell the officer - honestly - that you cannot, because for security you are travellling with a locked machine that even you can't open. Although this might cost you your laptop in an extreme case, you can't get done for lying or misleading a customs officer, and they can wedge you hard on that charge alone.
There's not going to be any big change resulting from this case. Say he gets off because, indeed, he only "made available" and didn't actually "distribute" anything.
They'll just change the law.
C'mon! He would be getting off on a technicality, guys! The higher-level intent is that people (in general) should not be allowed to obtain copyrighted material without paying for it (or otherwise obeying the terms of the copyright). If the present defense works against file sharing, you can bet it will be made to stop working as soon as possible, because the intent of the law is to protect copyrights. Happens in tax law all the time.
Anyway, existing law might be strong enough. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a conspiracy charge lurking here.
After XP was released Bill Gates publicly stated they the next version of Windows wouldn't be an OS but instead it would be a Digital Rights Management Platform.
Can you provide a reference for this? Even for Microsoft, that's a pretty extreme comment...
Count me in with the people who don't use AV bloatware on Windows and get along just fine. This is the guidance I give to friends who are competent enough to understand it:
Don't run day to day as an administrator
Use the firewall in your router
Take regular backups
Keep Windows and Office automatically updated
Don't click the attachments, duh!
Be cautious about what you access on the net and use a quarantine account if necessary
Those are in rough order of importance except maybe #5.
My Casio fx-3600P is still in active service, which I must have got over 25 years ago. Awesome machine - light and slim, comes in a little wallet-type thing (from which the calculator may easily be removed). 10-digit display plus exponent. Full compliment of sin, cosh, factorial and all the rest of it, plus stats, integrals, fractions, and programmable (in a primitive but still useful way). Ahh, they don't make em like they used to...
Bonus: despite heavy use over the years, I've never had to change the battery.
I also know a person who had pretty severe bends when he ran out of air at 40m or so.
Is it feasible in such a situation to get to the surface, grab another tank, and get back down -- whether you're able to by yourself or with assistance? Or are you already screwed by the time you make it to the surface and going back down wouldn't help?
I can tell you from personal experience that you're screwed. I (foolishly) did a down-up-down profile to about 18m with only a few minutes at the first stay down and a normal ascent on the second: I get bent. Augment that to 40m plus sufficient bottom time to actually run out of air and you're talking very serious consequences.
If you run out of air at 40m there are better things to try, like sharing your buddy's air and coming up as slowly as you can both do safely.
Dude should have been paying attention to his air supply in the first place!
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In 1985 Margaret Thatcher gave a speech to the American Bar Association in which she said "we must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend". This led to a ban on broadcast of utterances by republican politicians supportive of the Provisional IRA, which in turn led to the absurd situation of news programmes showing video of politicians such as Gerry Adams speaking but with the audio replaced by an actor's voice.
It only drew attention to the extremist's cause, as will be the case here.
As it stands, are there any ISPs who don't subscribe to the IWF list? How hard would it be for one of us to start our own that doesn't subscribe to some unsupervised qango's blocklist?
Yes: my ISP, Andrews and Arnold Ltd. See http://www.aaisp.com/news-censorship.html. Getting fantastic 35Mbps (as measured by those speed test sites) FTTC as well!
I know it's fun to claim that the National Health Service is being privatised - but that doesn't make it true and it's not.
There is currently a strong focus in cancer care in the UK on early detection, which saves lives as well as money, though in some cases aggressive screening programmes have been found to do neither.
Best feature of doom 2, was being able to do IDFA - full ammo, but no keys, so you still had to actually go through the level, and explore and stuff.
OMG! And I always thought KFA stood for something else entirely!
On my monitor, the unzoomed images are about 3cm across. This corresponds to a magnification factor of around 100 million! Awesome!
You can put "c:\Documents and Settings" in another folder name on a different partition but it's tricky for non-corporate users. You need to burn a copy of your installation CD with a custom OEMINFO.INI and partition your drive first.
I went to the trouble of doing this for my current Windows box and it works beautifully. Now I can reinstall the OS (on the C partition) to a clean state by dd'ing a tar.gz of it from a Live CD without clobbering my user data, and at the same time my backups are more focussed as I'm not bothering with C partition (think \windows and \program files), which I would be reinstalling from installers (and dd'ing, as above) in the event of a disaster.
Full disk crypto will encrypt your hibernation and swap files for you, so you're ok if you hibernate at the end of the day.
TrueCrypt encrypted containers can be formatted as NTFS or FAT file systems. I haven't tried other file systems.
I can add ext3 to the list of filesystems known to work with TrueCrypt, useful for apps such as Nautilus and TightVNC that create files with colons in their name.
Also, although this is slightly off-topic, you can easily store a Linux home directory and mount it in place, i.e. just one big volume in /home/username which you can mount with
$ truecrypt -t volume.tc ~
and the full home directory replaces the previously empty directory.
The OP is asking for something similar on Windows but that's much trickier on NTFS and Windows for a variety of reasons - TrueCrypt still doesn't allow mounting at a junction point, and a directory used for this purpose must be empty, and by the time you've logged in, you've already got a lot of files open (e.g. your registry hive).
The critical non-selling point for me with Vista was the blatant market segmentation. Vista Home, Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, Vista IE-free, Vista Lite, Vista Media Center, Vista This, Vista That. The only version you could count on to have the features you needed was Vista Ultimate, the most expensive by far. It was just a con, and I walked away from it because of that.
If Microsoft wants to avoid insulting its users, it should stick to one version, or if its bean-counters say it must, a normal version and a cheapo crippled version.
Assuming you are in the UK, then yes, you would go to jail for doing that. Even forgetting the key is illegal, so deliberately destroying it would probably get you an increased sentence.
No, genuinely forgetting a key is legal, but you have to convince the court that you really forgot it and aren't just saying so. (Could be tricky...)
Sadly, it's no use as a wallpaper as it's a portrait image. They really should have thought more carefully about that one.
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Out of curiosity, why is it that people get bent out of shape about this 'religion'?
I got to witness an anonymous rally in San Diego about a year or so ago and it was just silly. Yes, you and I may know the whole thing is a crock, but isn't there supposed to be freedom of religion?
Not looking to start a pissing contest, I'm just wondering where people get their priorities.
Just go to http://www.xenu.net/ and all will become clear.
Wow. Just compare these two:
Ok, it's not terribly scientific but the difference is striking. Note also that Drupal is currently on version 6.2.
You wouldn't get away with it in the UK or anywhere with similarly worded laws. In the UK it is the "use" of mobile phones while driving that is banned.
So I guess the German guy using his phone as an ear-warmer wouldn't have got away with it here either...
Once I learned to solve the Cube, I would amuse myself from time to time by taking it apart and reassembling it in a random configuration, and then trying to solve the resulting mess.
With a little group theory you can show that you will be able to solve a randomly reassembled Cube 1/12 of the time.
Not true. I can "spy" on you by secretly turning on the feature on your camera. Because the setup is nontrivial, you're unlikely to spot that it's suddenly become active. I leave it as an exercise to come up with a scenario where this would be useful.
Also could be the thin end of the wedge...
Still no option to mount a TrueCrypt volume on an NTFS junction point, alas.
PGPdisk has had this for ages. Means you don't have to expose to all and sundry who can see your machine that another drive has just appeared.
Would very much like to see this in the next version.
'dupe' is useful, and by itself almost makes the whole thing worthwhile.
Jesus! These keyboards give me a headache just looking at them! I'll stick with my common-or-garden 105-key job, thankyouverymuch.
There's not going to be any big change resulting from this case. Say he gets off because, indeed, he only "made available" and didn't actually "distribute" anything.
They'll just change the law.
C'mon! He would be getting off on a technicality, guys! The higher-level intent is that people (in general) should not be allowed to obtain copyrighted material without paying for it (or otherwise obeying the terms of the copyright). If the present defense works against file sharing, you can bet it will be made to stop working as soon as possible, because the intent of the law is to protect copyrights. Happens in tax law all the time.
Anyway, existing law might be strong enough. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a conspiracy charge lurking here.
Count me in with the people who don't use AV bloatware on Windows and get along just fine. This is the guidance I give to friends who are competent enough to understand it:
Those are in rough order of importance except maybe #5.
Never had a virus; I occasionally give myself the once-over with Trend Micro's web-based scanner and Sysinternals' RootkitRevealer and all is well.
My Casio fx-3600P is still in active service, which I must have got over 25 years ago. Awesome machine - light and slim, comes in a little wallet-type thing (from which the calculator may easily be removed). 10-digit display plus exponent. Full compliment of sin, cosh, factorial and all the rest of it, plus stats, integrals, fractions, and programmable (in a primitive but still useful way). Ahh, they don't make em like they used to...
Bonus: despite heavy use over the years, I've never had to change the battery.
I can tell you from personal experience that you're screwed. I (foolishly) did a down-up-down profile to about 18m with only a few minutes at the first stay down and a normal ascent on the second: I get bent. Augment that to 40m plus sufficient bottom time to actually run out of air and you're talking very serious consequences.
If you run out of air at 40m there are better things to try, like sharing your buddy's air and coming up as slowly as you can both do safely.
Dude should have been paying attention to his air supply in the first place!