In the UK Broadband is mostly DSL, so you need a regular phoneline anyway, and I assume BT keep it connected for emergencys even if you dont pay them for a phone service through it. Might help during a power cut.
So they go after VOIP outfits, make sure the US.gov can tap them and everyone can dial 911. Most people will accept this and move on, those who dont will use a proxied voip connection outside the US to phone regular phones/people on regulated US VOIP connections.
Its when they take it one step further and decide to regulate other sorts of traffic you should be scared.
It also meant they could use NASA's Mars Global Surveyor to help look for Beagle right after it crashed.
Wont be long now before we get the mars area wifi up...
I just tried to install BOINC, and after being prompted for a proxy server I dont use, and finding all of 4 lines of documentation I gave up and uninstalled it.
(Unless it thinks it needs a proxy server because slashdot just brought down all their servers)...
I suppose I have a 'UK' gmail address, but both @gmail and @googlemail work so I am happy.
I cant see how this one company can force google to hand over gmail.com (given how the US runs the internet and all *grin*), and blocking it in the UK only would be a logistical nightmare (how do you tell if an account is a UK one? The last IP it was accessed from? The IP it was created on?)
-Ralph
Dispite the DRM/IE only, if this works as advertised I can see it being very useful. For 99% of people who only want to use it to get a show/series they missed it sounds perfect.
It SHOULD have a smaller memory footprint, right now its taking 38 Mb of my ram AND 42 Mb of my pagefile!! This is for an application whoes sole purpous is to maintain an internet session and pop up a menu when I click...
I would rather we waited until IE does everything its supposed to do before moving any further, just yesterday I spent the best part of an hour trying to wrok out why the google maps API was causing my page not to load in IE.
Coming from the UK, when I heard about the hot coffee, I has a quick laugh to myself, thought thats pretty funny and got on with my life. I am having a very hard time understanding why you dont question the violence in these games at all, but the moment someone gets their tits out for half a second you are all over it.
I suppose its because for historical/cultual reasons that any protection from violence most people would associsate with 'family values' is ignored over there.
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Except the Dells in the UK that come with firefox preinstalled...
Maybe you should run the linux version of firefox and openoffice?
No? Oh well..
Cool, I might have to try this, my brother played it for a while last year, but I cant be bothered to pay..
In the UK Broadband is mostly DSL, so you need a regular phoneline anyway, and I assume BT keep it connected for emergencys even if you dont pay them for a phone service through it. Might help during a power cut.
In any sensible operating system: Are you sure you want do this? (Y/N) But I get the point...
So they go after VOIP outfits, make sure the US.gov can tap them and everyone can dial 911. Most people will accept this and move on, those who dont will use a proxied voip connection outside the US to phone regular phones/people on regulated US VOIP connections. Its when they take it one step further and decide to regulate other sorts of traffic you should be scared.
It also meant they could use NASA's Mars Global Surveyor to help look for Beagle right after it crashed. Wont be long now before we get the mars area wifi up...
There must be some evil world domination plan reason for this. But the less I.E. the better..
You really think I give a darn about the hotmail address I use for messenger?
I might try this once, it sounds like its going to be one of those love/hater relationships though..
Maybe...
So how much jail time would you get for proxying the porn port to 80? Its things like this that make the world scared of a US gov controlled internet.
I just tried to install BOINC, and after being prompted for a proxy server I dont use, and finding all of 4 lines of documentation I gave up and uninstalled it. (Unless it thinks it needs a proxy server because slashdot just brought down all their servers)...
Go one better, you cnat watch it unless you are the only RFID in the room 8-p
I suppose I have a 'UK' gmail address, but both @gmail and @googlemail work so I am happy. I cant see how this one company can force google to hand over gmail.com (given how the US runs the internet and all *grin*), and blocking it in the UK only would be a logistical nightmare (how do you tell if an account is a UK one? The last IP it was accessed from? The IP it was created on?) -Ralph
Me too, it does not look right this way
Dispite the DRM/IE only, if this works as advertised I can see it being very useful. For 99% of people who only want to use it to get a show/series they missed it sounds perfect.
Ripping CDs to mp3 is one of the many uses of my knoppix disk...
I am getting the latin text when I zoon in on I.E, but not with firefox, In both cases the counters are now on 0.
A few books you just want to own, cherish, use every day and fill with page markers. For everything else, google would be wonderful..
It SHOULD have a smaller memory footprint, right now its taking 38 Mb of my ram AND 42 Mb of my pagefile!! This is for an application whoes sole purpous is to maintain an internet session and pop up a menu when I click...
Well said Jug, I never got more then, hmm, 10 hours? into DS I before falling asleep and just not bothering to carry on.
I would rather we waited until IE does everything its supposed to do before moving any further, just yesterday I spent the best part of an hour trying to wrok out why the google maps API was causing my page not to load in IE.
Coming from the UK, when I heard about the hot coffee, I has a quick laugh to myself, thought thats pretty funny and got on with my life. I am having a very hard time understanding why you dont question the violence in these games at all, but the moment someone gets their tits out for half a second you are all over it. I suppose its because for historical/cultual reasons that any protection from violence most people would associsate with 'family values' is ignored over there.
This looks like it could be very neat, though I usually just use the folder tree view at the side when I want lots of folders open at the same time.