I live in London. On 7/7 I was about to leave home when I heard about the bombing. I didn't go to work that day, because the whole transport system was screwed. I did go play Ultimate Frisbee that evening.
On 21/7, I was at work when the shit hit the fan... again. I carried on as normal, and went to play ultimate as normal. The only difference was that I had to walk for 45 minutes to get home.
The whole point of terrorism is intimidation. I'm not intimidated. I don't care about their stupid little vendetta. They can't do enough damage to make me even consider not to go somewhere or do something.
On 7/7 50 or so people were killed. In a normal tube carriage during rush hour, there are about 100 people. 5/6 carriages per train. I like my chances. Even if I'm in the 'wrong' carriage, I have a 50/50 chance of living. That assumes I'm even on the 'wrong' train.
Terrorists are never going to be stopped by more stringent 'random' searching. They'll send in decoys, or go in too fast to be stopped, or whatever. Or even deliberately send in someone with explosives, have them stopped and searched, the station/whereever evacuated to right on top of the actual bomb...
I do not want some random policeman thinking they can search me without cause. I care less about terrorist attacks than I do my civil liberties.
Terrorist attacks will only be prevented by removing the causes for terrorism, and human intelligence infiltrating the terrorist groups while they exist. Anything else will only be a futile attempt to make the general public feel safer.
The cameras did not help identify the bombers on 7/7 at all. The fact that they were all deliberately carrying papers that identified themselves pretty much gave the whole identity game away. About half of the cameras on the tube worked. These allowed the police to trace the movements of the terrorists within London, not to identify them. They weren't from London, so their associates weren't identified from cameras either.
Suicide bombers are usually more than happy for people to know who they are. They do things like videoing themselves before the act, saying who they are, and what they're about to do. (There's also a psychological factor in this - people are less likely to back down from the atrocity if they've already said "Goodbye" to everyone they love and why they did it.)
FYI one of the failed bombers (the one at Shepherd's Bush) was tackled by THREE men as he tried to get off the tube and out of the station. Curiously for someone who was willing to be a suicide bomber, he was afraid of being caught...
I live in London. I dislike the sheer number of cameras we have here. The only effect the bombers have had on me is that I didn't go to work one day because of the disruption to the transport network, and on the 21st it took me a ridiculously long time to get into the centre and back out - partly because I wanted to take the tube through Stockwell... but the police were busy shooting someone there.
The only ways that terrorism can be stopped is through infiltrating the groups that commit the atrocities and finding out where, and when, they plan to attack. Or to stop everyone doing anything without a permit.
Everyone will eventually find that any DRM system, that *AA wants and accepts, will mean that they either lose access to their media or programs and have to buy it again, or they have to break it to be able to use things they have a legal right to.
You have just confessed to committing piracy both by recording the film Gattaca using your mind, and playing it back without consent of the copyright holder.
As a result, you are liable for a $300,000 fine.
Please make your check payable to the Motion Picture Association of America, as this will really help balance our books for the year.
I'm glad you're so righteously smug in your ethical beliefs regarding what can and can't be done with embryos, since that is almost certainly to what you're referring.
I support Stem Cell Research.
But only as a byproduct of my support for killing babies.
I'm sure you remember the story of the astrologist sueing NASA for $300 million for hurting that poor little comet that wasn't doing anything to hurt anyone. http://www.physorg.com/news4927.html
So, who's fault is it that all the astrology charts are wrong now?
I blame that stooopid scientist for saying that he found a new planet. What a dork. Jeeez.
I get some selected series' for a period of time (months) on a special on-demand channel. And some channels have a Repeat feature for some programs. For example I can watch TopGear when I want.
They also have films on-demand too, in a pay-per-view style, but without the porn. (At least, I've not found any yet. Then again, I have the internet, so I haven't looked too hard.) Films cost £3.50 for 24 hour hire, about the same as a video rental, but I don't have to go rent the video, watch trailers, or rewind the tape.
It all comes down the same wire as my 1Mbps DSL. And I have no idea how they cope with the bandwidth, or even what bandwidth they use for the TV side. But I like it.
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Where would you like the cheque sent?
On 21/7, I was at work when the shit hit the fan... again. I carried on as normal, and went to play ultimate as normal. The only difference was that I had to walk for 45 minutes to get home.
The whole point of terrorism is intimidation. I'm not intimidated. I don't care about their stupid little vendetta. They can't do enough damage to make me even consider not to go somewhere or do something.
On 7/7 50 or so people were killed. In a normal tube carriage during rush hour, there are about 100 people. 5/6 carriages per train. I like my chances. Even if I'm in the 'wrong' carriage, I have a 50/50 chance of living. That assumes I'm even on the 'wrong' train.
Terrorists are never going to be stopped by more stringent 'random' searching. They'll send in decoys, or go in too fast to be stopped, or whatever. Or even deliberately send in someone with explosives, have them stopped and searched, the station/whereever evacuated to right on top of the actual bomb...
I do not want some random policeman thinking they can search me without cause. I care less about terrorist attacks than I do my civil liberties.
Terrorist attacks will only be prevented by removing the causes for terrorism, and human intelligence infiltrating the terrorist groups while they exist. Anything else will only be a futile attempt to make the general public feel safer.
The cameras did not help identify the bombers on 7/7 at all. The fact that they were all deliberately carrying papers that identified themselves pretty much gave the whole identity game away. About half of the cameras on the tube worked. These allowed the police to trace the movements of the terrorists within London, not to identify them. They weren't from London, so their associates weren't identified from cameras either.
Suicide bombers are usually more than happy for people to know who they are. They do things like videoing themselves before the act, saying who they are, and what they're about to do. (There's also a psychological factor in this - people are less likely to back down from the atrocity if they've already said "Goodbye" to everyone they love and why they did it.)
FYI one of the failed bombers (the one at Shepherd's Bush) was tackled by THREE men as he tried to get off the tube and out of the station. Curiously for someone who was willing to be a suicide bomber, he was afraid of being caught...
I live in London. I dislike the sheer number of cameras we have here. The only effect the bombers have had on me is that I didn't go to work one day because of the disruption to the transport network, and on the 21st it took me a ridiculously long time to get into the centre and back out - partly because I wanted to take the tube through Stockwell... but the police were busy shooting someone there.
The only ways that terrorism can be stopped is through infiltrating the groups that commit the atrocities and finding out where, and when, they plan to attack. Or to stop everyone doing anything without a permit.
Open source DRM means one of two things:
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(Michael Gartenberg and his wonderful time with DRM.)
Either
i) It will deliberately be disabled.
Or
ii) It will be impossible to disable.
Everyone will eventually find that any DRM system, that *AA wants and accepts, will mean that they either lose access to their media or programs and have to buy it again, or they have to break it to be able to use things they have a legal right to.
As an example I point you to a previous Slashdot story: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/15/2
Dear Sir,
I represent the MPAA.
You have just confessed to committing piracy both by recording the film Gattaca using your mind, and playing it back without consent of the copyright holder.
As a result, you are liable for a $300,000 fine.
Please make your check payable to the Motion Picture Association of America, as this will really help balance our books for the year.
Many thanks,
Dave
Head of Accounting
MPAA
I'm glad you're so righteously smug in your ethical beliefs regarding what can and can't be done with embryos, since that is almost certainly to what you're referring.
I support Stem Cell Research.
But only as a byproduct of my support for killing babies.
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Ah, TshirtHell. What a fount of great quotes.
So, who's fault is it that all the astrology charts are wrong now?
I blame that stooopid scientist for saying that he found a new planet. What a dork. Jeeez.
I get some selected series' for a period of time (months) on a special on-demand channel. And some channels have a Repeat feature for some programs. For example I can watch TopGear when I want.
They also have films on-demand too, in a pay-per-view style, but without the porn. (At least, I've not found any yet. Then again, I have the internet, so I haven't looked too hard.) Films cost £3.50 for 24 hour hire, about the same as a video rental, but I don't have to go rent the video, watch trailers, or rewind the tape.
It all comes down the same wire as my 1Mbps DSL. And I have no idea how they cope with the bandwidth, or even what bandwidth they use for the TV side. But I like it.