Ha Ha,
If He had been quick when the police had told him he couldn't use the word "cult" he could have said "OK I'll change it" and added two pen-strokes.
Because history shows that a negative public reaction will make them think twice. The whole point of this "leak" is to test that public opinion. Or to soften up for a reduced legislation. Its like when they wanted to be able to keep people without trial for 28 days, they asked for 90. 28 suddenly sounds like a "fair compromise". I wouldn't be surprised if they now announce that it won't be everyone, only those on a (secret) list of suspects.
In places that the Government wants to keep an eye on they are everywhere. Bradford already has a ring of cameras tracking every car going in and out
One of the reasons was the state-of-the-art CCTV system in Bradford. The so-called 'Big Fish' automatic number-plate recognition system allowed detectives to trace the movements of the convoy of cars involved in the robbery.
London's congestion charge cameras have the same secondary use. If you live in a small white conservative village there might just be a dummy camera in a store, but eventually everywhere will be reached.
By allowing entry into Britian to anyone with a British passport (which is to say anyone from any of current and former the British colonies) the British have lost control of their own land and country.
This is the story pushed by the government and the press.
"We need these laws to keep you safe from all those nasty Moslem terrorists and Eastern European Maffia types. Things are so bad now that we need to track anybody or this will soon be an Islamic state. If you complain about this you are supporting terrorists. If it we don't get this information half of London could be blown up"
Unfortunately a lot of people believe the FUD and think they have to accept it.
I found encasing the system in steel reinforced concrete made the system much harder. Similar attempts to place end users in the same situation were not as successful. I don't know, the Maffia found it very effective in dealing with "security leaks".
Except that the bug had been triggered many times before, seeing as how Samba had code in place to work around it. Which makes me wonder if there will be applications that will break when the bug is fixed. This would not surprise me in the slightest, I have seen really obscure bugs relied on. I worked on a Wordplex system that would hang if you gave the display instructions to roll zero lines of the display up zero lines starting at line zero. We fixed it to do nothing and someone complained that they used this to "lock the system" if someone entered the wrong code too many times!
Remember when the Internet was like that.
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The amount of dedicated hardware and personal attention required to get networks like Internet2 and DANTE working simply makes them uneconomical for most common uses.
Before the world wide web, when the internet was mainly news groups, uucp and email (with pling addresses, because there was no dns for routing. I used to think how great it would be if ordinary people could afford to connect, not just academic institutions and large technology companies. The cost ad difficulty of configuration was prohibitive.
This is where internet2 is currently. It doesn't mean it will be in a couple of decades.
The Hurd team are the ultimate tinkerers. Whenever it looks like its getting anywhere near complete (as in pre-alpha) they decide to switch the microkernal system, reinvent the shared memory architecture or something.
Having said that, some of the Pidgin developers are the most stubborn, inflexible, egotistical OSS developers I've ever had the misfortune to have to deal with. (Not all of them, though; some of them seem to be great people.) Hmmm, they said the same about Hans Reiser. Better not piss them off too much.
Yes, because clearly this whole nuclear weapons research thing is a smoke screen for studying the weather. Maybe, if we make that
Yes, because clearly this whole nuclear weapons research thing is a smoke screen for studying weather control.
This does not apply in the UK, where we no longer have a right to silence.
UK
You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
Or
You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so, but I must warn you that if you fail to mention any fact which you rely on in your defence in court, your failure to take this opportunity to mention it may be treated in court as supporting any relevant evidence against you. If you do wish to say anything, what you say may be given in evidence.
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Ha Ha,
If He had been quick when the police had told him he couldn't use the word "cult" he could have said "OK I'll change it" and added two pen-strokes.
ISO 8601 has a year 0 (or 0000), corresponding to the Gregorian 1BC. It then goes -0001, -0002 etc for prior years.
Yes, I would certainly bring up the Human Rights act in any court case.
My memory is very different 28 day detention, use of number-plate tracking, etc. was all justified by Islamic terrorism in recent years.
mod parent up - this is exactly what they are doing
I am beginning to wonder if Gordon Brown has been paid to sabotage the government by the Conservatives.
Also he was from Prussia. He was given refuge in London.
In places that the Government wants to keep an eye on they are everywhere. Bradford already has a ring of cameras tracking every car going in and out
One of the reasons was the state-of-the-art CCTV system in Bradford. The so-called 'Big Fish' automatic number-plate recognition system allowed detectives to trace the movements of the convoy of cars involved in the robbery.
London's congestion charge cameras have the same secondary use. If you live in a small white conservative village there might just be a dummy camera in a store, but eventually everywhere will be reached.
And how is it that there was no call for extra surveylance, suspension of rights etc. until after the 2005 events?
We managed in WW2 and against the IRA without this. We could easily manage against the few Islamic terrorists too.
Your post does one thing, it illustrates the mind-set that allows this to happen.
By allowing entry into Britian to anyone with a British passport (which is to say anyone from any of current and former the British colonies) the British have lost control of their own land and country.
This is the story pushed by the government and the press.
"We need these laws to keep you safe from all those nasty Moslem terrorists and Eastern European Maffia types. Things are so bad now that we need to track anybody or this will soon be an Islamic state. If you complain about this you are supporting terrorists. If it we don't get this information half of London could be blown up"
Unfortunately a lot of people believe the FUD and think they have to accept it.
As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power
Did he foresee their actions in Gaza and the West Bank when they did get power!
The amount of dedicated hardware and personal attention required to get networks like Internet2 and DANTE working simply makes them uneconomical for most common uses.
Before the world wide web, when the internet was mainly news groups, uucp and email (with pling addresses, because there was no dns for routing. I used to think how great it would be if ordinary people could afford to connect, not just academic institutions and large technology companies. The cost ad difficulty of configuration was prohibitive.
This is where internet2 is currently. It doesn't mean it will be in a couple of decades.
Yes, we all count 1,2,3, 8.1, 95, 2000, 2003
It has a built-in wash disk facility, which will hose down your old data but leave an inch of water.
That's what I thought before I came to love Big Brother. (If you're thinking the TV show you haven't got a clue)
Simple answer: NO.
The Hurd team are the ultimate tinkerers. Whenever it looks like its getting anywhere near complete (as in pre-alpha) they decide to switch the microkernal system, reinvent the shared memory architecture or something.
This does not apply in the UK, where we no longer have a right to silence.
UK You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
Or
You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so, but I must warn you that if you fail to mention any fact which you rely on in your defence in court, your failure to take this opportunity to mention it may be treated in court as supporting any relevant evidence against you. If you do wish to say anything, what you say may be given in evidence.
They're usually nicked from the person who brought them off ebay the last time.
There was some charm to the cardboard props, space ship walls that moved when the doors open, etc.