Really? Several states in the US apparently (Wikipedia) use the Torrens Title registration scheme and indefeasibility of title for registered proprietors is the central feature of such a system. The fact that victims of fraud such as the man in this article have the law against them is an unfortunate necessity in order to protect innocent purchasers who follow the thorough process in order to gain registration.
I was going to post a rather trolling post about the misuse of "it's" instead of "its", but then thought that the submitter probably didn't have English as their first language and thus doesn't deserve my trolling. CmdrTaco has no such excuse, though. Anyway, please fix the mistake.
And don't forget, one of the cross-benchers holding the balance of power in the Senate is a Creationist nut-job, "Family First" Senator Steve Fielding.
The US imperial units aren't based on metric, but as the GP and GGGP were saying, they're officially defined in metric in US legislation because metric is internationally standardized and reproducible whereas imperial units are largely arbitrary.
Does 112 work? I guess that's only a solution if you know about the problem/figure out why the problem is happening, but it's probably a good idea to be in the habit of using 112 instead of local emergency numbers anyway.
According to this there are two networks using band IV, T-Mobile and Wind Mobile in Canada. There are plenty of other countries with networks on band V too.
They probably treat it how it's supposed to be treated, because periods and commas in numbers aren't followed by spaces. I guess there could be a problem translating text where there's a typo omitting the space after the full stop.
How can this be modded as informative? It's nonsensical and informs nothing without the context. I guess you could assume that the poster is in an English speaking country and thus uses decimal points and commas to separate unit groupings, but there are plenty of Europeans here posting in English, especially given that this article is about an Italian incident. How about:
You mean 11 500 Euro as 11.500 Euro.
I think that's what you mean, but I can't be sure. Using anything other than a space (or half space) to separate groups of (three) digits — that's a comma or a period — is stupid and is the reason this bug occurred. Why can't everybody just follow the SI standard and use a comma or a period for the decimal point and no mark for unit grouping?
There is also the most sensible option: the hybrid of those two. One where it keeps the time stored internally but has an option to change the time with the network's time. The problem is that the network can get it wrong and if you don't have the option to set the correct time then you don't have a useful clock.
They actually only tested the challengers on one platform; they used WinMo but they're just saying those browsers are also available on non-WinMo platforms. The reason they only tested on WinMo is because the iPhone doesn't allow alternative browsers and Blackberry doesn't have any (smartphone browsers, not Opera Mini). And they say Android tests will be coming soon:
Opera looks set to release a version of its Opera Mobile browser for Android soon -- when that happens we'll be taking Android competitors into the ring, so stay tuned.
UAC is good in Windows 7; it's all the virus protection an intelligent user needs. In Vista, however, it popped up for retarded things and you couldn't customise the level of warnings enough; I got messages when deleting files from my data partition and for changing settings in Control Panel.
I haven't read into the Winter Babies phenomenon, however a number of the possible causes of differences listed in the article are not strictly seasonal changes but societal differences related to the season, for example the school attendance laws, which are likely to vary greatly in countries other than the US, especially ones in the Southern Hemisphere.
You're right and I agree; I was just emphasizing that government regulation is what created the problem in the beginning so it's illogical to claim they should leave it be now that it's entrenched.
None of your three examples are crimes, they are examples of the Federal Government's power to impose taxes before passing the supporting Bill that is required to be passed within 12 months, and really isn't such a big deal.
It's true that there is no constitutional bar to retroactive legislation, but that doesn't mean that the Government can or does pass it all the time. A constitutional proscription isn't required because the government is answerable to the electorate; a government passing an unjustified retrospective law, especially one criminalising an act, would be swiftly voted out of office. While the Rule of Law poses a strong argument against retroactive legislation, it's possible to imagine situations where it could be desirable. In any case, there have been very few retroactive laws passed in Australia.
Something else worth mentioning is that the ATO can't pass legislation, only the legislature can. It can create regulations within the scope granted by the supporting Acts of Parliament, however.
I believe that Telstra could be cheaper in some places, though I've never seen it here, but I think the bigger cause of their continued dominance is their reputation. Young people know that there's no difference in quality of service on wired services (their mobile network is better) and there's a very slim chance of one of the smaller companies going bust and leaving you without a connection, but for older generations, Telstra is a trusted and familiar brand and they've never heard of the smaller ISPs.
Regulation of a free market is generally a bad thing, but regulation of a government created monopoly is necessary and desirable. Besides, I don't think it's sensible or accurate to claim that everybody on/. is economically far right wing.
1.5 x 0.8 == 0.8 + 0.4 2.5 x 0.8 == 0.8 + 0.8 + 0.4
I think he means that. I've no idea what the second one is for though. The only problem is that Delwin fails to comprehend that there is multiplication or division implicit in the 0.4
Thank you. Those links should've been in the summary. If editors are reading, please update the summary to make it useful for the (I'd guess) large number of people here who only know PCI as a bus.
Making guns illegal doesn't simply change the name of their status, it also makes them much more difficult to get, a point which you conveniently ignore. I'd agree that if guns were made for the most part illegal in the US tomorrow, it may not be successful in immediately lowering the violent crime rates, but experience in countries with gun control regulations shows that criminals have guns far less often. Obviously this depends on other factors relating to the country, and I'm biased because I live in Australia where we have gun control and are also fairly isolated and probably a rather unattractive market to gun smugglers; but I'd wager that the situation is not dissimilar in other countries with gun control.
Where is this magical place where you find self-generated free news that is of a worthwhile standard and provides coverage of global events? I hear about it all the time but I've never seen it.
I'd honestly like to know, can you provide a link to a site that has (non-tech) news that isn't created by a newspaper or television, etc company. That obviously doesn't include a blog that includes links to sporadic articles that happen to appeal to the author on real news sites; I mean a site where you can go and get a large selection of current news in full. I don't believe it exists.
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Really? Several states in the US apparently (Wikipedia) use the Torrens Title registration scheme and indefeasibility of title for registered proprietors is the central feature of such a system. The fact that victims of fraud such as the man in this article have the law against them is an unfortunate necessity in order to protect innocent purchasers who follow the thorough process in order to gain registration.
I was going to post a rather trolling post about the misuse of "it's" instead of "its", but then thought that the submitter probably didn't have English as their first language and thus doesn't deserve my trolling. CmdrTaco has no such excuse, though. Anyway, please fix the mistake.
And don't forget, one of the cross-benchers holding the balance of power in the Senate is a Creationist nut-job, "Family First" Senator Steve Fielding.
The US imperial units aren't based on metric, but as the GP and GGGP were saying, they're officially defined in metric in US legislation because metric is internationally standardized and reproducible whereas imperial units are largely arbitrary.
Does 112 work? I guess that's only a solution if you know about the problem/figure out why the problem is happening, but it's probably a good idea to be in the habit of using 112 instead of local emergency numbers anyway.
if anything, firefox has mighe have been closing the feature gap with opera, which had absolute majority of the features first.
Exactlly. I was going to say the same thing. The article is trolling a bit there.
Ok so how to get one in Australia? The ones on eBay are rather overpriced :-(. It'd be nice if Google would just ship them here.
According to this there are two networks using band IV, T-Mobile and Wind Mobile in Canada. There are plenty of other countries with networks on band V too.
They probably treat it how it's supposed to be treated, because periods and commas in numbers aren't followed by spaces. I guess there could be a problem translating text where there's a typo omitting the space after the full stop.
How can this be modded as informative? It's nonsensical and informs nothing without the context. I guess you could assume that the poster is in an English speaking country and thus uses decimal points and commas to separate unit groupings, but there are plenty of Europeans here posting in English, especially given that this article is about an Italian incident. How about:
You mean 11 500 Euro as 11.500 Euro.
I think that's what you mean, but I can't be sure. Using anything other than a space (or half space) to separate groups of (three) digits — that's a comma or a period — is stupid and is the reason this bug occurred.
Why can't everybody just follow the SI standard and use a comma or a period for the decimal point and no mark for unit grouping?
There is also the most sensible option: the hybrid of those two. One where it keeps the time stored internally but has an option to change the time with the network's time. The problem is that the network can get it wrong and if you don't have the option to set the correct time then you don't have a useful clock.
The information is useful to people comparing platforms even if it's not useful to somebody who already owns an iPhone and has no alternatives.
They actually only tested the challengers on one platform; they used WinMo but they're just saying those browsers are also available on non-WinMo platforms.
The reason they only tested on WinMo is because the iPhone doesn't allow alternative browsers and Blackberry doesn't have any (smartphone browsers, not Opera Mini).
And they say Android tests will be coming soon:
Opera looks set to release a version of its Opera Mobile browser for Android soon -- when that happens we'll be taking Android competitors into the ring, so stay tuned.
UAC is good in Windows 7; it's all the virus protection an intelligent user needs. In Vista, however, it popped up for retarded things and you couldn't customise the level of warnings enough; I got messages when deleting files from my data partition and for changing settings in Control Panel.
It seems Switzerland beat Finland to it: http://www.intomobile.com/2009/10/14/finland-becomes-the-first-country-to-make-broadband-a-legal-right.html (scroll down to the update).
I haven't read into the Winter Babies phenomenon, however a number of the possible causes of differences listed in the article are not strictly seasonal changes but societal differences related to the season, for example the school attendance laws, which are likely to vary greatly in countries other than the US, especially ones in the Southern Hemisphere.
You're right and I agree; I was just emphasizing that government regulation is what created the problem in the beginning so it's illogical to claim they should leave it be now that it's entrenched.
None of your three examples are crimes, they are examples of the Federal Government's power to impose taxes before passing the supporting Bill that is required to be passed within 12 months, and really isn't such a big deal.
It's true that there is no constitutional bar to retroactive legislation, but that doesn't mean that the Government can or does pass it all the time. A constitutional proscription isn't required because the government is answerable to the electorate; a government passing an unjustified retrospective law, especially one criminalising an act, would be swiftly voted out of office. While the Rule of Law poses a strong argument against retroactive legislation, it's possible to imagine situations where it could be desirable.
In any case, there have been very few retroactive laws passed in Australia.
Something else worth mentioning is that the ATO can't pass legislation, only the legislature can. It can create regulations within the scope granted by the supporting Acts of Parliament, however.
Which is clearly a retarded metric, because assuming that the likelihood of visiting any two pages on the web is equal is obviously stupid.
I believe that Telstra could be cheaper in some places, though I've never seen it here, but I think the bigger cause of their continued dominance is their reputation. Young people know that there's no difference in quality of service on wired services (their mobile network is better) and there's a very slim chance of one of the smaller companies going bust and leaving you without a connection, but for older generations, Telstra is a trusted and familiar brand and they've never heard of the smaller ISPs.
Regulation of a free market is generally a bad thing, but regulation of a government created monopoly is necessary and desirable. Besides, I don't think it's sensible or accurate to claim that everybody on /. is economically far right wing.
1.5 x 0.8 == 0.8 + 0.4
2.5 x 0.8 == 0.8 + 0.8 + 0.4
I think he means that. I've no idea what the second one is for though. The only problem is that Delwin fails to comprehend that there is multiplication or division implicit in the 0.4
Thank you. Those links should've been in the summary. If editors are reading, please update the summary to make it useful for the (I'd guess) large number of people here who only know PCI as a bus.
Making guns illegal doesn't simply change the name of their status, it also makes them much more difficult to get, a point which you conveniently ignore. I'd agree that if guns were made for the most part illegal in the US tomorrow, it may not be successful in immediately lowering the violent crime rates, but experience in countries with gun control regulations shows that criminals have guns far less often.
Obviously this depends on other factors relating to the country, and I'm biased because I live in Australia where we have gun control and are also fairly isolated and probably a rather unattractive market to gun smugglers; but I'd wager that the situation is not dissimilar in other countries with gun control.
Where is this magical place where you find self-generated free news that is of a worthwhile standard and provides coverage of global events? I hear about it all the time but I've never seen it.
I'd honestly like to know, can you provide a link to a site that has (non-tech) news that isn't created by a newspaper or television, etc company. That obviously doesn't include a blog that includes links to sporadic articles that happen to appeal to the author on real news sites; I mean a site where you can go and get a large selection of current news in full. I don't believe it exists.