The Government should foot the bill for all the additional storage needed. Afterall it serves little benefit for ISPs to do this.
Wonder how quickly this idea would be shelved when they realise how much it would cost to store detailed info on browsing and digital comunication...
I assume the email tax only applies to emails sent throught the mobile network...
However when you consider how many ugly phone masts have been dotted around the country, even in beauty spots, this just seems like governments getting compensation over the fact they subtract from the attractiveness of their surroundings.
Given that, other than the spectrum licencing, little money goes to the government for mobile masts (it goes to the landowners), this seems like a good way for the phone companies to pay for their effect. However the cost would no doubt be passed onto the consumers...
I note the digital connections council is headed by someone from IBM and features a number of companies from pro-open source companies and institutions such as universities and Nokia as well as lots of companies that would benefit from open source.
If a report came and featured a council comprosed of the equilivant anti-OSS people (ie headed by a microsoft spokesperson) people here would be screaming bloody murder.
FFTA did have one thing going for it
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Only game I can think of where you actively play a bad guy without it ever being made clear to you that you're evil (SPOILER ALERT)
Everyone is happier in the new world yet you have to change it back to the one where most people are unhappy. You even kill one of your 'friend's' mother in front of him.
there are other potential countermeasures. Thick smoke or a substance made out of tiny reflective particles streamed out front of the missile to defract the beam and obsorb some of it's energy, missiles covered with ceramic tiles that are resistant up to 3000F ( with an insulating layer underneath).
From what little is known about the system, targeting is so hard that it's hard to get a lock on for extended periods.
The US created the internet communication protocols, the EU created the world wide web. Learn your facts.
Infact domain names are far more relevant to the EU created side of what's collective known as the internet which begs the question : why did they US get 100% control over TLDs in the first place?
.com grew too big too fast to regulate and really had little reason to be regulated (it's a pretty all emcompasing TLD).
There have been examples where TLDs have been actively regulated, especially for country specific ones. If it's regulated from the start it's not difficult, you simply force the ISPs who provide.xxx to agree to a licence which allows them to inspect sites they provide to see they meet the standards. Yes this would cost more money for site owners but ultimately they wouldn't have to pay significantly more and for the majority of sites the domain name is one of the cheapest parts.
porn sites garenteed to be safe and malware free? I'm sure most male (and probably most female too) would love the prospect of the ability to get porn *legally* without the risk of infecting their PC. Vetting the domains could stop underage people both visiting and appearing in.xxx sites too.
Of course no politition wants to actively promote porn so they'll stamp on it to promote 'christian values'
Can someone actually tell me for sure if rebates on physical goods are illegal in the UK? I've heard rumours that they are but we can still get 'cash back' on subscription services like mobile phone contracts or credit cards/loans...
Sorry this is all about UK consumer law. The sale of goods act (1971) gives us extremely good protection against purchased goods and this petition/inquirey is all about making sure these rights remain as more and more purchases are electronic in nature. Most EULAs for instance are already illegal in the UK purely because they ask you to sign away rights they can't ask you to give up. Especially considering you can't read a EULA on the box before purchasing (and the fact that they never usually ask for someone over 18 to agree to the contract)
From what I've read of US consumer law, you get very little protection comparitively and it's more designed to protect businesses than it is customers. Sorry but this would be far too huge a jump to be implemented in the US
God how about some quality control? the original article is plain wrong.
1: GPH are not responsible for the source code of the version of linux used by the device. It is subcontracted to these guys : http://www.dignsys.com/eng/ .
2: you can get the source code at http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=226 50
3: read the GPL at somepoint. It only says companies must make the source code available on request, not the time scale in which it has to be provided (as long as they make reasonable efforts to provide it)
Can we get the original post either deleted or modified to reflect that the writer getting hysterical about the supposed GPL violations just didn't check the facts?
Why are fake plates not an issue with this system?
1: if a plate isn't registered/taxed, it'll flag it up on the system and the car will be tracked.
2: if a plate is stolen, most people would replace their plates within a day and/or use their front plate on the back (where it's more important). The system will then notice that it's spotted the same plate twice within a short time, 20 miles apart.
3: it is possible to do simple recognition of cars : you can easily measure the size of the car and it's colour (although not at night). If someone nicks the plate off of a shogun and puts it on a micra for instance, even a 'dumb' compputer system could tell the change in size.
also why would terrorists take the risk of using fake plates? There are lots of police patrols which do random plate testing, there's a huge risk of them getting pulled over when they could just take public transport...
But then using the dreaded T word is being used to push through every law that robs citizens of it's rights at the moment...
They're using an extremely unusual way of representing the power but lets have a stab at working out how close this is to a battery.
100milliwatts/hrs per square centimetre. Assume a device has a surface area of 4cmx5cm where the stuff could be placed, thats 20cm^2 so that's 2watt hrs.
A rechargable NiMH AA is 1.2volts and can go up to 2500mah so 1.2volts * 2.5amps = 3watt hrs
So this currently provides 2/3 the power of an AA in a surface area roughly the size of a battery compartment for two AA's. Not a bad start but it needs to get at least twice as efficient for it to be able to compete with lithium- cells
I may just be browsing in a bad way, but I couldn't find any links showing the supposed articles that were 'copying' the blogs, all I could find was a quote of an article "suspiciouly similar". Is it so hard to post links to the articles or take screenshots so you can directly compare them?
One of the articles accused The Guardian of lifting the idea for using Vickey Pollard quotes when covering the election. Excuse me but Little Britain was the most popular show on TV at the time and you couldn't go 10 minutes without someone quoting it. It isn't too much of a stretch to assume that people would come up with using little britain quotes to talk about the election in a similar way.
Newspaper writers aren't stupid, they know that if they rip off something people will notice, they'll lose their well paid jobs and won't ever be employed in the newspaper business again
I could see Blizzard potentially being sued for promoting unhealthy addictive behaviour. The game is designed to take as long as possible while still keeping you hooked.
I'm glad I quit after I realised I was spending 3 hours at a time instance grinding for slightly improved items...
"Their only other hope would be for HDTV via cable or satellite. But in both cases, they have ended up utterly reliant on their commercial rivals for their distribution. Even if Sky start their own HDTV service, they've got every reason to cut the BBC out of it."
They're not allowed to. Their broadcasting licence requires them to provide the BBC channels and to give them the correct promenence on the EPG. Didn't you ever wonder why Sky list terrestrial TV above their own channels?
That article says that the bandwidth "could be all the spectrum we need for wireless broadband, new mobile services and maybe some more unlicensed spectrum for Wi-Fi like services" however the BBC have stated that at least some (probably most) of the spectrum will be used to provide HDTV. There just isn't enough bandwidth at the moment to broadcast HDTV signals in the alotted space for all the freeview channels.
Learn your history, The US was one of the countries that wanted repairations from Germany for a war they didn't start. That was one of the main causes of the rise of the Nazi party. The US was as guilty as any country in allowing Nazi Germany to re-arm as well, infact they let Nazi Germany tredge through Europe without caring about their treatment of jews until they personally were threatened.
I wish Americans would stop believing that they entered WW2 out of the goodness of their hearts. WW2 was used to repair the US' economy and it crippled Britain for decades with loan repayments(the 50's is known as the 'lost decade' here because it consisted pretty much only of recovering from WW2)
especially outside the US in places like the UK where they try and take away rights from the consumer rights act which are illegal to sign away.
Also they're 'legally binding' contracts that almost always never once ask for an adult to agree. Guess what, contracts aren't valid if only signed by a minor.
It's about time someone sued these companies for illegal EULAs
"The fuel, i.e. aluminium or magnesium, is neither inexpensive nor abundant, in fact Al and Mg are completely nonexistant in nature in their unbound form. Since pure Al and Mg are so reactive, they don't last long in nature, and must be produced by electrolysis in liquid-metal, power-intensive plants."
There are very few metals which are unreactive enough to exist in their pure form in nature, only noble metals like gold and platinum exist like this. Even "cheap" Iron has to be heated to incredibly high temperitures to extract it from Iron ore. Aluminium isn't one of the most expensive metals to make (they've been extracting it through electrolisis for what must be over a hundred years). It is extremely hard to work with though as it forms a layer of aluminium oxide almost strait away after cutting which makes it difficult for things like bikes which require lots of heavy duty welding
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Every Top gadgets of the future feature must have at least one flying car.
With MS already in trouble over abuse of market share, I can't see any anti-monopoly commission approving a buyout of this size.
The Government should foot the bill for all the additional storage needed. Afterall it serves little benefit for ISPs to do this. Wonder how quickly this idea would be shelved when they realise how much it would cost to store detailed info on browsing and digital comunication...
I assume the email tax only applies to emails sent throught the mobile network... However when you consider how many ugly phone masts have been dotted around the country, even in beauty spots, this just seems like governments getting compensation over the fact they subtract from the attractiveness of their surroundings. Given that, other than the spectrum licencing, little money goes to the government for mobile masts (it goes to the landowners), this seems like a good way for the phone companies to pay for their effect. However the cost would no doubt be passed onto the consumers...
I note the digital connections council is headed by someone from IBM and features a number of companies from pro-open source companies and institutions such as universities and Nokia as well as lots of companies that would benefit from open source. If a report came and featured a council comprosed of the equilivant anti-OSS people (ie headed by a microsoft spokesperson) people here would be screaming bloody murder.
Only game I can think of where you actively play a bad guy without it ever being made clear to you that you're evil (SPOILER ALERT) Everyone is happier in the new world yet you have to change it back to the one where most people are unhappy. You even kill one of your 'friend's' mother in front of him.
there are other potential countermeasures. Thick smoke or a substance made out of tiny reflective particles streamed out front of the missile to defract the beam and obsorb some of it's energy, missiles covered with ceramic tiles that are resistant up to 3000F ( with an insulating layer underneath). From what little is known about the system, targeting is so hard that it's hard to get a lock on for extended periods.
At CERN which iirc is funded by the EU
The US created the internet communication protocols, the EU created the world wide web. Learn your facts. Infact domain names are far more relevant to the EU created side of what's collective known as the internet which begs the question : why did they US get 100% control over TLDs in the first place?
.com grew too big too fast to regulate and really had little reason to be regulated (it's a pretty all emcompasing TLD). There have been examples where TLDs have been actively regulated, especially for country specific ones. If it's regulated from the start it's not difficult, you simply force the ISPs who provide .xxx to agree to a licence which allows them to inspect sites they provide to see they meet the standards. Yes this would cost more money for site owners but ultimately they wouldn't have to pay significantly more and for the majority of sites the domain name is one of the cheapest parts.
porn sites garenteed to be safe and malware free? I'm sure most male (and probably most female too) would love the prospect of the ability to get porn *legally* without the risk of infecting their PC. Vetting the domains could stop underage people both visiting and appearing in .xxx sites too.
Of course no politition wants to actively promote porn so they'll stamp on it to promote 'christian values'
Can someone actually tell me for sure if rebates on physical goods are illegal in the UK? I've heard rumours that they are but we can still get 'cash back' on subscription services like mobile phone contracts or credit cards/loans...
Sorry this is all about UK consumer law. The sale of goods act (1971) gives us extremely good protection against purchased goods and this petition/inquirey is all about making sure these rights remain as more and more purchases are electronic in nature. Most EULAs for instance are already illegal in the UK purely because they ask you to sign away rights they can't ask you to give up. Especially considering you can't read a EULA on the box before purchasing (and the fact that they never usually ask for someone over 18 to agree to the contract) From what I've read of US consumer law, you get very little protection comparitively and it's more designed to protect businesses than it is customers. Sorry but this would be far too huge a jump to be implemented in the US
God how about some quality control? the original article is plain wrong. 1: GPH are not responsible for the source code of the version of linux used by the device. It is subcontracted to these guys : http://www.dignsys.com/eng/ . 2: you can get the source code at http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=226 50
3: read the GPL at somepoint. It only says companies must make the source code available on request, not the time scale in which it has to be provided (as long as they make reasonable efforts to provide it)
Can we get the original post either deleted or modified to reflect that the writer getting hysterical about the supposed GPL violations just didn't check the facts?
Why are fake plates not an issue with this system? 1: if a plate isn't registered/taxed, it'll flag it up on the system and the car will be tracked. 2: if a plate is stolen, most people would replace their plates within a day and/or use their front plate on the back (where it's more important). The system will then notice that it's spotted the same plate twice within a short time, 20 miles apart. 3: it is possible to do simple recognition of cars : you can easily measure the size of the car and it's colour (although not at night). If someone nicks the plate off of a shogun and puts it on a micra for instance, even a 'dumb' compputer system could tell the change in size. also why would terrorists take the risk of using fake plates? There are lots of police patrols which do random plate testing, there's a huge risk of them getting pulled over when they could just take public transport... But then using the dreaded T word is being used to push through every law that robs citizens of it's rights at the moment...
They're using an extremely unusual way of representing the power but lets have a stab at working out how close this is to a battery. 100milliwatts/hrs per square centimetre. Assume a device has a surface area of 4cmx5cm where the stuff could be placed, thats 20cm^2 so that's 2watt hrs. A rechargable NiMH AA is 1.2volts and can go up to 2500mah so 1.2volts * 2.5amps = 3watt hrs So this currently provides 2/3 the power of an AA in a surface area roughly the size of a battery compartment for two AA's. Not a bad start but it needs to get at least twice as efficient for it to be able to compete with lithium- cells
I may just be browsing in a bad way, but I couldn't find any links showing the supposed articles that were 'copying' the blogs, all I could find was a quote of an article "suspiciouly similar". Is it so hard to post links to the articles or take screenshots so you can directly compare them? One of the articles accused The Guardian of lifting the idea for using Vickey Pollard quotes when covering the election. Excuse me but Little Britain was the most popular show on TV at the time and you couldn't go 10 minutes without someone quoting it. It isn't too much of a stretch to assume that people would come up with using little britain quotes to talk about the election in a similar way. Newspaper writers aren't stupid, they know that if they rip off something people will notice, they'll lose their well paid jobs and won't ever be employed in the newspaper business again
I could see Blizzard potentially being sued for promoting unhealthy addictive behaviour. The game is designed to take as long as possible while still keeping you hooked. I'm glad I quit after I realised I was spending 3 hours at a time instance grinding for slightly improved items...
I can safely say as a brit, I've never heard the word seppo in my life. Does it remove stubborn stains?
"Their only other hope would be for HDTV via cable or satellite. But in both cases, they have ended up utterly reliant on their commercial rivals for their distribution. Even if Sky start their own HDTV service, they've got every reason to cut the BBC out of it." They're not allowed to. Their broadcasting licence requires them to provide the BBC channels and to give them the correct promenence on the EPG. Didn't you ever wonder why Sky list terrestrial TV above their own channels?
That article says that the bandwidth "could be all the spectrum we need for wireless broadband, new mobile services and maybe some more unlicensed spectrum for Wi-Fi like services" however the BBC have stated that at least some (probably most) of the spectrum will be used to provide HDTV. There just isn't enough bandwidth at the moment to broadcast HDTV signals in the alotted space for all the freeview channels.
Learn your history, The US was one of the countries that wanted repairations from Germany for a war they didn't start. That was one of the main causes of the rise of the Nazi party. The US was as guilty as any country in allowing Nazi Germany to re-arm as well, infact they let Nazi Germany tredge through Europe without caring about their treatment of jews until they personally were threatened. I wish Americans would stop believing that they entered WW2 out of the goodness of their hearts. WW2 was used to repair the US' economy and it crippled Britain for decades with loan repayments(the 50's is known as the 'lost decade' here because it consisted pretty much only of recovering from WW2)
attempted suicide was punishable by hanging at one time in the UK
especially outside the US in places like the UK where they try and take away rights from the consumer rights act which are illegal to sign away. Also they're 'legally binding' contracts that almost always never once ask for an adult to agree. Guess what, contracts aren't valid if only signed by a minor. It's about time someone sued these companies for illegal EULAs
"The fuel, i.e. aluminium or magnesium, is neither inexpensive nor abundant, in fact Al and Mg are completely nonexistant in nature in their unbound form. Since pure Al and Mg are so reactive, they don't last long in nature, and must be produced by electrolysis in liquid-metal, power-intensive plants." There are very few metals which are unreactive enough to exist in their pure form in nature, only noble metals like gold and platinum exist like this. Even "cheap" Iron has to be heated to incredibly high temperitures to extract it from Iron ore. Aluminium isn't one of the most expensive metals to make (they've been extracting it through electrolisis for what must be over a hundred years). It is extremely hard to work with though as it forms a layer of aluminium oxide almost strait away after cutting which makes it difficult for things like bikes which require lots of heavy duty welding