What's more, if you're going to have three seperate villans, the sensible order to have them in is the robot first, then the sinister count who is behind the robot, and then finally an actual honest-to-goodness Dark Lord of the Sith, leaving a vacancy for Annie when the heros finally beat him.
Having a padawan take out a Dark Lord at the beginning doesn't really build the Sith up that much.
I should point out that, while withdrawing all their notes sounds a bit excessive, they were robbed of about £26.5 million, and so it actually makes sense.
Time for my usual pedantic pointing out that legal tender is nothing to do with buying something in a shop.
Legal tender defines forms of payment that, when used to pay off a debt, the creditor cannot refuse. This rule prevents an evil creditor from bankrupting you by not accepting anything you offer as payment.
In a shop, however, you are negotiating a contract, and so the shop can demand, as a term in that contract, that you pay in any way they want. If you don't like it, don't agree to the contract.
Scotish bank notes are indeed not legal tender anywhere, including Scotland, and for that matter English notes aren't legal tender in Scotland.
Really? The last time I read about a revolutionary chip that would forever change the world and the company was so great they even had the Linux creator as a board member was just last week, here on Slashdot.
Intel make it perfectly clear in the article what the reason for this change is.
Centrino is a brand name that Intel let you put on laptops you sell if they meet a list of requirements.
Linux, with kernel 2.6.8, has changed so it is no longer incompatible with those requirements, so Intel will now let you brand a Linux Laptop as Centrino.
In defense of the PDA, I will mention full text search, alarms, backup, e-books.
However, despite this, despite being a PDA fanatic myself, I must admit that I have, in a secret drawer, a beautiful notebook and fountain pen, that every so often I take out and look at regretfully.
Hey, be fair, if samzenpus is going to reach his ambition of being the poster of every story on the front page, then we have to accept that a proportion of them are going to be a bit shit, such as "Fantastic Four trailer not available here". He's only human.
Yeah, remember this doohickey was made for people like me; I'd love to get a good go on OSX, but I ain't got the spare cash and haven't thought of a way to bullshit work into buying me one yet.
What I do have, though, is PC hardware coming out of my arse (although the cream is helping....) so the cost of me getting a Mac just went from £1000 to £350. Well, a little more, since I'd need a bigger HDD than standard. Mind you, it's probably a standard 2.5" disk, as no doubt we'll see as soon as someone breaks one open.
Ah, a moment's googling reveals a product called Metamessage that includes a feature that automatically archives PIN-PIN communications. So it;s a deliberate feature choice.
Woah there everybody, I should point out that these people are not quite as daft as you all seem to think.
They were using something called PINing which is some sort of direct Blackberry-Blackberry messaging method that *does not use the company's server*. Perhaps a friendly BlackBerry admin can explain more.
They will have assumed that since these messages went direct from blackberry to blackberry without using any company resources, they were not liable to interception. And indeed it appears they weren't actually intercepted; the BBs were uploading copies of the PIN messages whenever they were connected to the server for regular e-mail use. (Backing up the sent items, maybe? Or perhaps a deliberate feature to allow the employer to track usage).
Of course they're not being clever anyhow, for various reasons. For one thing, PIN messages are sent without any encryption. I thik that if I were doing something like this, I'd try to be at least as smart as a crack dealer and buy some disposable pay-as-you-go mobile phones with cash.
We have these things called computers now, I think there was a slashdot post about them a while back.
It's not that hard for them to do. After all, if Echelon was real (which it isn't, of course) then they'd be doing a much harder process to listen to that for terrorist chat (which is of course all they would use Echelon for if it existed, not to give US companies advantages in trade negotiations, oh no they wouldn't do that).
Like the Superman reference, BTW. I for one welcome our Kryptonian overlords.
I am aware that there is an invention called touch-typing, yes.
However, like all sysadmins, I take a perverse pride in not using such methods, but instead being able to two-finger type as fast as most touch-typists. Not as elegant as a lightsaber, a clumsy weapon for a more random time...
Actually, I knew a sysadmin once who could touch-type, and it used to scare the bejeesus out of the rest of us when she did.
But what if those genes read: Copyright (c) -4000 YHWH All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
To be precise, the relevant portion of the relevant conventions states that the following are to be treated as POWs:
1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:
(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
(c) That of carrying arms openly;
(d) That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
3. Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
4. Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
5. Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.
6. Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
Slashdot Mirror
Actual answer: this is the first year of these awards, so they couldn't give it to him any earlier.
What's more, if you're going to have three seperate villans, the sensible order to have them in is the robot first, then the sinister count who is behind the robot, and then finally an actual honest-to-goodness Dark Lord of the Sith, leaving a vacancy for Annie when the heros finally beat him.
Having a padawan take out a Dark Lord at the beginning doesn't really build the Sith up that much.
All I'm tryin' to find out is what's the guy's name on first base.
I should point out that, while withdrawing all their notes sounds a bit excessive, they were robbed of about £26.5 million, and so it actually makes sense.
Time for my usual pedantic pointing out that legal tender is nothing to do with buying something in a shop.
Legal tender defines forms of payment that, when used to pay off a debt, the creditor cannot refuse. This rule prevents an evil creditor from bankrupting you by not accepting anything you offer as payment.
In a shop, however, you are negotiating a contract, and so the shop can demand, as a term in that contract, that you pay in any way they want. If you don't like it, don't agree to the contract.
Scotish bank notes are indeed not legal tender anywhere, including Scotland, and for that matter English notes aren't legal tender in Scotland.
... they're called laptops. I think that if size is a problem people prefer to go the whole hog and get something portable.
(Yes, I did RTFA, where they make this point, but who else reads the articles around here)
Because the UI to google is a web browser, so it might be slightly useful to them to have anither person on staff who knows browsers really well.
Really? The last time I read about a revolutionary chip that would forever change the world and the company was so great they even had the Linux creator as a board member was just last week, here on Slashdot.
(Sorry, had to be done.)
Fairly straightforward I would have thought; use lots of thick stone, big locks, and don't forget the bars on the window.
Intel make it perfectly clear in the article what the reason for this change is.
Centrino is a brand name that Intel let you put on laptops you sell if they meet a list of requirements.
Linux, with kernel 2.6.8, has changed so it is no longer incompatible with those requirements, so Intel will now let you brand a Linux Laptop as Centrino.
I would suggest to anyone moving to Firefox not to make any special effort to remove IE. Two reasons for this:
As they point out, sooner or later you'll want to visit an ActiveX site
It's not worth the hassle of uninstalling IE.
Feh, he already says he doesn't miss games.
In defense of the PDA, I will mention full text search, alarms, backup, e-books.
However, despite this, despite being a PDA fanatic myself, I must admit that I have, in a secret drawer, a beautiful notebook and fountain pen, that every so often I take out and look at regretfully.
Yeah, there's a mini problem with that theory, i.e. the Mini Cooper was launched in 1961.
"Action-heavy"? Oh fuck.
Still, at least they appear not to have cast a star as V, so there is a chance of them not "doing a Stallone" and showing his face.
Hey, be fair, if samzenpus is going to reach his ambition of being the poster of every story on the front page, then we have to accept that a proportion of them are going to be a bit shit, such as "Fantastic Four trailer not available here". He's only human.
Yeah, remember this doohickey was made for people like me; I'd love to get a good go on OSX, but I ain't got the spare cash and haven't thought of a way to bullshit work into buying me one yet.
What I do have, though, is PC hardware coming out of my arse (although the cream is helping....) so the cost of me getting a Mac just went from £1000 to £350. Well, a little more, since I'd need a bigger HDD than standard. Mind you, it's probably a standard 2.5" disk, as no doubt we'll see as soon as someone breaks one open.
Don't forget the upcoming Keanau as John Constantine.
I'm actually hoping they've messed with the story to make the character a yank, just so Mr. R does not attempt an english accent again.
An admin is to mutter the ancient rule:
"If they have physical access to the box, we're screwed".
Ah, a moment's googling reveals a product called Metamessage that includes a feature that automatically archives PIN-PIN communications. So it;s a deliberate feature choice.
Woah there everybody, I should point out that these people are not quite as daft as you all seem to think.
They were using something called PINing which is some sort of direct Blackberry-Blackberry messaging method that *does not use the company's server*. Perhaps a friendly BlackBerry admin can explain more.
They will have assumed that since these messages went direct from blackberry to blackberry without using any company resources, they were not liable to interception. And indeed it appears they weren't actually intercepted; the BBs were uploading copies of the PIN messages whenever they were connected to the server for regular e-mail use. (Backing up the sent items, maybe? Or perhaps a deliberate feature to allow the employer to track usage).
Of course they're not being clever anyhow, for various reasons. For one thing, PIN messages are sent without any encryption. I thik that if I were doing something like this, I'd try to be at least as smart as a crack dealer and buy some disposable pay-as-you-go mobile phones with cash.
Although the police aren't really allowed to sell heroin cut with rat poison in the hope of putting drug users off.
We have these things called computers now, I think there was a slashdot post about them a while back.
It's not that hard for them to do. After all, if Echelon was real (which it isn't, of course) then they'd be doing a much harder process to listen to that for terrorist chat (which is of course all they would use Echelon for if it existed, not to give US companies advantages in trade negotiations, oh no they wouldn't do that).
Like the Superman reference, BTW. I for one welcome our Kryptonian overlords.
I am aware that there is an invention called touch-typing, yes.
However, like all sysadmins, I take a perverse pride in not using such methods, but instead being able to two-finger type as fast as most touch-typists. Not as elegant as a lightsaber, a clumsy weapon for a more random time...
Actually, I knew a sysadmin once who could touch-type, and it used to scare the bejeesus out of the rest of us when she did.
But what if those genes read:
Copyright (c) -4000 YHWH
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
I mean, Stallman is going to be pissed.
To be precise, the relevant portion of the relevant conventions states that the following are to be treated as POWs:
1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:
(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
(c) That of carrying arms openly;
(d) That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
3. Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
4. Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
5. Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.
6. Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.