The [lack of health benefits] claim is based on the fact that most of the risk reductions in the latter two tables are not statistically significant, except for women aged 65 and over. But there is a simple reason for this which some cynical people would call a trick. A relatively small sample has been taken and then split into different age groups, sexes and consumption levels to create dozens of even smaller samples. This, combined with the fact that there are relatively few never-drinkers to use as a reference, makes it very difficult to generate statistically significant results from any individual group.
If you combined the age groups, the reduction in mortality would reach significance. If you combined the genders, it would reach significance. If you combined the various different drinking levels and simply compared those who drank moderately with those who never drank, it would reach significance.
Sorta - if your favorite/memory-muscle way of searching for stuff on websites is specifying the website first, then I'm fairly certain that searching for (e.g.) site:slashdot.org firefox will not give you what you'd get in the search bar in 29 - I'm seem to recall getting bitten by it in 29 way back when I couldn't figure out how to get the search bar to be visible (reset the UI was the solution) - it's certainly still broken in 31.
Since the government provides their health insurance....
Actually the taxpayers pay for the NHS - where do you think the government steals the money from (when they're not running the country in deficit that is)? Ostensibly the item marked "National Insurance" on our payslips pays for (among other things) this.
Not that it actually gets ring-fenced, and most people recognise it for what it is - another form of income tax.
... normal office computers, not running data-centric applications, access just 9.58GB of unique data per day.
Round up to 10GB. So in 2 weeks (10 working days) that's an additional 100GB stored locally.
In 20 weeks you've filled up a 1TB drive.
What kind of office (aside from video production) works like that? The ones I know of, most of the machines are used to check email, do data entry on one or two database apps, surf, maybe create some documents or spreadsheets which are then stored on the file server. Other than the database apps, that's less than a couple of megabytes per person per day. And other than temp files, NONE of it should be stored on the local machine.
And if your average user is caching 10GB of temp files then you have a problem with your apps.
I rather suspect that "data" includes stuff like the binaries that make up the operating system and programs that are being used, and simply isn't just documents, temp files etc. that those programs are working with.
In the UK all BBC programmes are freeview and contain no commercials.
Of course all UK BBC channels have commercials. Just to other BBC content - most people consider this 'not advertising' for some reason however.
And I'm not just counting the adverts between the programmes advertising either other programmes on the same channel or stuff on other channels/media. 'Terrestrial' BBC News, for example is notorious for cross-advertising stuff.
Except that's an advert for an event on the 18th Feb. TFA is dated 14th Feb, 4 days before the advertised event - is it not possible that the one attended by Mr Hindi was in fact a live shoot even before the 14th?
Not that I particularly agree with his attempts at what appear to be trespass/annoy on private property (is flying remote controlled aircraft like this over private property trespass?)
"...and their Internet allies simultaneously turn black with anti-censorship warnings that ask users to contact politicians about a vote in the U.S. Congress the next day on SOPA."
Are they going to geo-locate IP addresses so those of us that don't have a congress-critter to talk to don't see what, to us, is a pointless message?
Instead I contacted my credit card, told them what happened, and they reversed the charge on the basis of the merchant not fulfilling contractual obligations (selling the product advertised).
Can you tell us who the credit card issuer was, because I'd like to research switching a card to them.
Any credit card issuer is obligated to refund under these circumstances for purchases between £100 and £30,000 in the UK.
I don't recall telling banks in the UK any government-issued ID numbers, but I haven't opened a bank account there recently.
Money laundering requirements in the UK generally take the form of 2 or more pieces of documentation that prove both who you are, and where you live. (Drivers licence or passport for who you are, tax notices, benefits letters, utility bills for address.) Used in conjunction with data held by Experian/Equifax (which includes electoral information as backup for where you live.)
The closest you'll get to explicitly handing over a government issued ID number to a bank is if you open an ISA (Individual Savings Account - limited tax free savings,) and they ask you for your National Insurance number.
Because "Driving without care or attention" has two possible problems.
1 - It is easier for a cop to say "I am fining you because you are talking on your cell while driving" as opposed to "I am fining you for driving without care or attention because you are talking on your cellphone while driving" and to make the point without wasting both parties time.
And by the power of "Slippery Slope," that could be argued (and is, hence the ridiculous state of affairs I allude to;) to apply to absolutely anything that could cause anyone to drive without "due care or attention," like drinking, smoking, talking to passengers...
Why have 100's of individual laws to cover every eventuality, when a carefully worded single law to cover them all would suffice? (Yes, I realise there's a problem with laws in other areas that are too general - I don't believe this to be the case with this one)
2 - "Driving without care or attention" leaves too much room for subjective argumentation - "But I can drive just as well while on the cell as when I am not!" and in (1) above it can become really problematic.
Take it to a judge then. The roadside is not the place for these sorts of arguments, in much the same way it isn't the place to argue whether you were driving 35 in a 30 zone or not.
Do none of these places have an offense of "driving without due care or attention" which would suffice, rather than continuously create bespoke laws to legislate against every new device that comes out that could cause drivers to, erm, drive without due care or attention?
(And, yes, the UK does have the first offense, but they still felt the need to create a special law for mobile phone usage.)
"Do you actually have the slightest idea what you just said? I understand that America-bashing is fashionable these days..."
It would help if we didn't make it so easy. Like it or not, America is the gold-standard for 'sex is bad' (and 'skin = sex', therefore 'skin = bad'). Of course we inherited a goodly part of the from our English cousins, which brings us to:
"Ask Alan Turing about how tolerant Europeans can be about sexual orientation."
Alan lived and died in England, where his sexuality was illegal.
I think you'll find that Alan lived and died in Englan when his sexuality was illegal. It is no longer illegal.
Yes, you're right, no one elected Gordon Brown to power... Oh wait, yes they did:
(Results for the 2005 Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath parliamentry elections)
I do believe those are the results for electing him to his constituency, not voting for him to be Prime Minister (which is what the GP was alluding to.)
Technically, no UK prime minister is elected by the electorate to be prime minister - it's other members of his party who do that, however the closest to the public voting for them tends to be a general election where the whole of the country votes, of which Mr Brown has yet to endure. He had a chance late 2007 when rumours were rife that one would be held but he/his advisors backed out of that one.
If his party retains a majority in the election in May(? latest it can be held is June 3rd), it could (tentatively) be said that he had been elected by the general populace, but not until then.
Another measure of 'popularity' could be certain No. 10 e-petitions.
Of course, these tend to be self-selecting, but they're just as valid (i.e. not very) than saying that Mr Brown has been elected by the whole of the UK, when the only reason he's there is because he was elected in his constituancy, and a group of his mates who were likewise elected 3-4 years put him there.
looks like the data (ssn) needs a little metadata (issuing authority, distinguished name) in order to make it work.
Or, as I've questioned previously on here, WTF are the credit rating agencies in the US using non-unique identifiers (and identifiers that shouldn't be used outside a social security scenario) when (usually the exact same) credit agencies in other countries can manage using other (available) data? (Name, DOB, (Previous and current) Address?)
For example in the UK, the equivalent to the SSN is the National Insurance (NI) number - this is never used by the CRAs - only by HMRC (tax office.)
Anyway, sure, they still get false positives using these details (the most common seems to be when they use the name only), but not quite on this sort of scale.
According to wireshark some of those are reserved to actual hardware vendors.
grep ^02:/usr/share/wireshark/manuf | wc -l 19
Assuming that those aren't specifically cited as locally administered addresses, I'm sure there are some duplicates in there as well, something else vendors shouldn't be doing. OUI's shouldn't really be starting with 02.
A locally administered address is assigned to a device by a network administrator, overriding the burned-in address. Locally administered addresses do not contain OUIs.
Universally administered and locally administered addresses are distinguished by setting the second least significant bit of the most significant byte of the address. If the bit is 0, the address is universally administered. If it is 1, the address is locally administered. In the example address 02-00-00-00-00-01 the most significant byte is 02 (hex). The binary is 00000010 and the second least significant bit is 1. Therefore, it is a locally administered address.[3] The bit is 0 in all OUIs.
Take great care not to use any MAC addresses that are already in use. One would probably need to purchase/register entire blocks of MAC addresses just as a manufacturer of network adapters must do. Or...
Or simply use the private/local range of MAC addresses (02:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx) (The MAC address equivalent of,say, 10/8)?
Student posts flame about hometown on MySpace, subsequently removes it.
Ex-princicple saw it while it was up, posted it to local rag with her name and address attached.
She gets threats, her father has to close his business.
Laywers, when asked identical questions, disagree on certain aspects of copyright and agree on others when using copyright as a possible way of getting money out of the local rag.
Sure, but how many of those breaks cease being "mini"?
There are other ways to do during mini break. For example those that don't require you to continue sitting in the chair and staring at the screen (you should get up, move a little and look at something else once in a while)
I've flown to around 14 different countries from South America, Africa to the Middle and Far East
You don't hear about terrorists wanting to declare Jihad on any of those countries do you?
Ignoring the fact that you seem to think that the 4 places I named are the only places I implied I'd been to, um, yes. In fact not only have 'terrorists' wanted to declare Jihad on them, they already have.
All from the same site because it appears to be useful source of such stuff, and thus probably biased in your eyes anyway:
Slashdot Mirror
http://velvetgloveironfist.blo...
How do I mount a Bitlocker volume in Linux?
Dislocker?
You can search in the address bar.
Sorta - if your favorite/memory-muscle way of searching for stuff on websites is specifying the website first, then I'm fairly certain that searching for (e.g.) site:slashdot.org firefox will not give you what you'd get in the search bar in 29 - I'm seem to recall getting bitten by it in 29 way back when I couldn't figure out how to get the search bar to be visible (reset the UI was the solution) - it's certainly still broken in 31.
Since the government provides their health insurance....
Actually the taxpayers pay for the NHS - where do you think the government steals the money from (when they're not running the country in deficit that is)? Ostensibly the item marked "National Insurance" on our payslips pays for (among other things) this.
Not that it actually gets ring-fenced, and most people recognise it for what it is - another form of income tax.
Round up to 10GB. So in 2 weeks (10 working days) that's an additional 100GB stored locally.
In 20 weeks you've filled up a 1TB drive.
What kind of office (aside from video production) works like that? The ones I know of, most of the machines are used to check email, do data entry on one or two database apps, surf, maybe create some documents or spreadsheets which are then stored on the file server. Other than the database apps, that's less than a couple of megabytes per person per day. And other than temp files, NONE of it should be stored on the local machine.
And if your average user is caching 10GB of temp files then you have a problem with your apps.
I rather suspect that "data" includes stuff like the binaries that make up the operating system and programs that are being used, and simply isn't just documents, temp files etc. that those programs are working with.
Of course all UK BBC channels have commercials. Just to other BBC content - most people consider this 'not advertising' for some reason however.
And I'm not just counting the adverts between the programmes advertising either other programmes on the same channel or stuff on other channels/media. 'Terrestrial' BBC News, for example is notorious for cross-advertising stuff.
Hilarious! Where does the stupidity end?
http://www.connect.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150417882782746&set=a.362494502745.165721.340808377745&type=1&ref=nf
Except that's an advert for an event on the 18th Feb. TFA is dated 14th Feb, 4 days before the advertised event - is it not possible that the one attended by Mr Hindi was in fact a live shoot even before the 14th?
Not that I particularly agree with his attempts at what appear to be trespass/annoy on private property (is flying remote controlled aircraft like this over private property trespass?)
"...and their Internet allies simultaneously turn black with anti-censorship warnings that ask users to contact politicians about a vote in the U.S. Congress the next day on SOPA."
Are they going to geo-locate IP addresses so those of us that don't have a congress-critter to talk to don't see what, to us, is a pointless message?
There's been a few deleted/suspended:
Australia for instance: http://www.local12.com/news/state/story/Facebook-Deletes-Kate-Middleton-Accounts/vWblzM2WX067VE-7OC9Osg.cspx?rss=31
Another one in the UK (I think): http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/25/facebook-bans-kate-middleton-%E2%80%94-no-not-the-famous-one-the-other-one/?xid=rss-topstories
So then, does this mean your stalkers will know where you are, and your local burglar will know where you aren't?
Can you tell us who the credit card issuer was, because I'd like to research switching a card to them.
Any credit card issuer is obligated to refund under these circumstances for purchases between £100 and £30,000 in the UK.
Who are the customers of a site such as this; the users, or the advertisers?
Silly question. As with the likes of Y!Groups, the users are the product. The advertisers are the customers.
It's the only model that makes sense when the adverts are being relied upon to generate cash that is required to keep the site going.
I don't recall telling banks in the UK any government-issued ID numbers, but I haven't opened a bank account there recently.
Money laundering requirements in the UK generally take the form of 2 or more pieces of documentation that prove both who you are, and where you live. (Drivers licence or passport for who you are, tax notices, benefits letters, utility bills for address.) Used in conjunction with data held by Experian/Equifax (which includes electoral information as backup for where you live.)
The closest you'll get to explicitly handing over a government issued ID number to a bank is if you open an ISA (Individual Savings Account - limited tax free savings,) and they ask you for your National Insurance number.
Because "Driving without care or attention" has two possible problems.
1 - It is easier for a cop to say "I am fining you because you are talking on your cell while driving" as opposed to "I am fining you for driving without care or attention because you are talking on your cellphone while driving" and to make the point without wasting both parties time.
And by the power of "Slippery Slope," that could be argued (and is, hence the ridiculous state of affairs I allude to;) to apply to absolutely anything that could cause anyone to drive without "due care or attention," like drinking, smoking, talking to passengers...
Why have 100's of individual laws to cover every eventuality, when a carefully worded single law to cover them all would suffice? (Yes, I realise there's a problem with laws in other areas that are too general - I don't believe this to be the case with this one)
2 - "Driving without care or attention" leaves too much room for subjective argumentation - "But I can drive just as well while on the cell as when I am not!" and in (1) above it can become really problematic.
Take it to a judge then. The roadside is not the place for these sorts of arguments, in much the same way it isn't the place to argue whether you were driving 35 in a 30 zone or not.
On a related note...
Do none of these places have an offense of "driving without due care or attention" which would suffice, rather than continuously create bespoke laws to legislate against every new device that comes out that could cause drivers to, erm, drive without due care or attention?
(And, yes, the UK does have the first offense, but they still felt the need to create a special law for mobile phone usage.)
"Do you actually have the slightest idea what you just said? I understand that America-bashing is fashionable these days..."
It would help if we didn't make it so easy. Like it or not, America is the gold-standard for 'sex is bad' (and 'skin = sex', therefore 'skin = bad'). Of course we inherited a goodly part of the from our English cousins, which brings us to:
"Ask Alan Turing about how tolerant Europeans can be about sexual orientation."
Alan lived and died in England, where his sexuality was illegal.
I think you'll find that Alan lived and died in Englan when his sexuality was illegal. It is no longer illegal.
Yes, you're right, no one elected Gordon Brown to power... Oh wait, yes they did:
(Results for the 2005 Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath parliamentry elections)
I do believe those are the results for electing him to his constituency, not voting for him to be Prime Minister (which is what the GP was alluding to.)
Technically, no UK prime minister is elected by the electorate to be prime minister - it's other members of his party who do that, however the closest to the public voting for them tends to be a general election where the whole of the country votes, of which Mr Brown has yet to endure. He had a chance late 2007 when rumours were rife that one would be held but he/his advisors backed out of that one.
If his party retains a majority in the election in May(? latest it can be held is June 3rd), it could (tentatively) be said that he had been elected by the general populace, but not until then.
Another measure of 'popularity' could be certain No. 10 e-petitions.
One calling for him to resign:
An opposing one calling for him to stay:
Of course, these tend to be self-selecting, but they're just as valid (i.e. not very) than saying that Mr Brown has been elected by the whole of the UK, when the only reason he's there is because he was elected in his constituancy, and a group of his mates who were likewise elected 3-4 years put him there.
Um, and the benifits agency, of course - hence the equivalency.
looks like the data (ssn) needs a little metadata (issuing authority, distinguished name) in order to make it work.
Or, as I've questioned previously on here, WTF are the credit rating agencies in the US using non-unique identifiers (and identifiers that shouldn't be used outside a social security scenario) when (usually the exact same) credit agencies in other countries can manage using other (available) data? (Name, DOB, (Previous and current) Address?)
For example in the UK, the equivalent to the SSN is the National Insurance (NI) number - this is never used by the CRAs - only by HMRC (tax office.)
Anyway, sure, they still get false positives using these details (the most common seems to be when they use the name only), but not quite on this sort of scale.
According to wireshark some of those are reserved to actual hardware vendors.
Assuming that those aren't specifically cited as locally administered addresses, I'm sure there are some duplicates in there as well, something else vendors shouldn't be doing. OUI's shouldn't really be starting with 02.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address#Address_details
Take great care not to use any MAC addresses that are already in use. One would probably need to purchase/register entire blocks of MAC addresses just as a manufacturer of network adapters must do. Or...
Or simply use the private/local range of MAC addresses (02:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx) (The MAC address equivalent of ,say, 10/8)?
Student posts flame about hometown on MySpace, subsequently removes it.
Ex-princicple saw it while it was up, posted it to local rag with her name and address attached.
She gets threats, her father has to close his business.
Laywers, when asked identical questions, disagree on certain aspects of copyright and agree on others when using copyright as a possible way of getting money out of the local rag.
Sure, but how many of those breaks cease being "mini"?
There are other ways to do during mini break. For example those that don't require you to continue sitting in the chair and staring at the screen (you should get up, move a little and look at something else once in a while)
Take up smoking? ;)
It is not beyond the wit of the credit reference agencies to identify a US citizen from stuff other than the (it appears horribly abused) SSN?
I mean, if Experian can manage it in the UK (Name, Address, DOB is usually enough to identify you with the CRA,) why can't they do it in the US?
Or is this just simply laziness on the part of the CRAs?
I've flown to around 14 different countries from South America, Africa to the Middle and Far East
You don't hear about terrorists wanting to declare Jihad on any of those countries do you?
Ignoring the fact that you seem to think that the 4 places I named are the only places I implied I'd been to, um, yes. In fact not only have 'terrorists' wanted to declare Jihad on them, they already have.
All from the same site because it appears to be useful source of such stuff, and thus probably biased in your eyes anyway:
http://www.historyofjihad.org/canada.html
http://www.historyofjihad.org/britain.html
http://www.historyofjihad.org/germany.html
http://www.historyofjihad.org/malaysia.html
http://www.historyofjihad.org/australia.html
Which is not to imply that every country I've been to has had Jihad declared against it.