So, you buy Vista, and for FREE upgrade to Windows 7, dicover its Windows 7 Standard with a 3 app limit, hence forcing you to fork out $$ for Windows 7 Home?
This could fool lots of people into spending money on upgrades they dont need... Oh - that's how this industry works, i forgot.
Automated payment of bills has been the norm here in Denmark for at least 10 years or more. Nobody pays bills manually here anymore, and if they do it's online. Actually it will cost you an extra fee (~ $5) if you don't use automatic withdrawal. You are always warned in advance what will be withdrawn, so you can act on it before it happens - and I have never had any glitches in the system, that wasn't my own fault. I have only paid one or two bills in my life on paper in the bank, and I'm 30 now.
I guess that technology and business innovation in USA is severely hampered by the very small amount of trust that regular folks put in banks and companies...
New we had a troll when I bit his bait...
Well, I wasn't arguing that child porn is better/worse than other horrible movies (kiddie porn vs. Meet the Feebles anyone?).
I Was simply pointing out (like in many other comments on this page) that possesion of child porn is, in itself, illegal. It's illegal because it's use and commerce is known to promote sexaul assault of children (which is what happens when the material is produced, by definition). I don't really care if it's moral or not, point is, it's the law. If you don't like that it's illegal to have sex with children, then by all means go into politics and try and change it. Law has always partly been based on some sort of moral code. How else would you define "right" from "wrong"?
Where exactly to draw the line with age and appropriate pornography is a very complex discussion, best not done here.
So, what if your computer was broken? What if it was your friend's, and you don't know the password? Can they ask you to give out contact information to that friend, and does the friend have to provide the password, because you chose to cross a border with it? So, if you want to frame someone, take their laptop with you through an airport (and make sure to put a few pictures of nudist beach family photos on it), and just say: "Hey, isn't mine!"??
sorry, just have to respond, although it's flamebait...
Child porn IS an illegal act, not just loose morals. As is killing someone og stealing or raping or selling drugs to minors...
With the new terror-laws, every ISP here in Denmark is bound by law to monitor and log all and every connections made in the country (mainly IP adresses, but probably down to protocel level, ports, mails, IMs etc.).
I don't see how this is different...
Thanks for the tip. I did figure out how to just delete all the (15) unwanted dictionaries (swahili fx...). But OpenOffice si never going to be popular among average users if they have to muck around in internal system files for it to work properly.
I filed a bug-report on the issue now - hope they make some fix, eg. not to check every language for every specific word misspelled
soffice.bin: 267 MB...
And I even quit writer, so it's just the quickstart program using 267 MB... had the exact same problem with 2.3, can't believe they didn't fix something THAT obvious...
It's got to do with the non-english dictionary I use. When I write a word wrong, it loads ALL included dictionaries into memory (german, thai, engrish, etc.) before deciding that it can't find the word, giving up and underlining the word. The 200 MB hogged memory is never freed either. There was an old bug-report about it, but they marked it "fixed" which I really don't understand.
Anyone?
In the US, the government has to go around, manually counting people in the streets??? Aren't you people registered centrally with your citizenship at birth or something? I mean, counting people like that is what I heard they did in a very popular Christmas story 2008 years ago, but I honestly though technology and advances in governmental practices had made manual counting obsolete...
Instead of using magnets as storage units for "reppelant force", why not use a large, quality spring driving a generator? Same thing... There's nothing magical about magnets, they are just easier to work with and to use in mechanical contraptions with very low friction.
A magnet does not have any energy stored, just like a spring doesn't - untill it's tightened. To "tighten" a magnet, place two magnets together pole-to-pole. The repelling force (resembling the force you used to put them together) can drive something mechanical like a car. But the single magnet itself is just like an untightened spring. Or a stone if you lift it high in the air and plan to drop it to the ground - potential energy. The energy used to create magnets are required to counter entropy. Now, entropy is a little harder to understand. It's nature's drive to make everything "untidy". It takes a lot of energy to tidy thing up again after nature has had it's way with things - like stray atoms in iron. So if you want to straighten up the atoms in iron, you have to use a lot of energy, thus making a magnet. You also use energy to create a spring - but the spring doesn't store any of that energy.
I hope this cleared up a few of the misunderstadings about the non-magical nature of magnets...
If something in my contry in censored, will I not have the right and duty to know what exactly it is, so I can avoid unintended affiliation with the content?
If so, where should I search for information about ongoing internet censorship? I live in Denmark, and one (positive) example of censorship is country-wide block of access to certain child-pornography sites. Statistics are collected about failed attempts to access those sites, and probably IP-adresses as well. The same would probably be the case for terrorist-associated sites, and sites with the feared "Anarchist Cookbook".
Should I feel entitled to a list of blocked and/or monitored sites, so I can avoid accessing them unintentionally?
hehe, hope you can read this then:
Here in Denmark, (young) people use SMS extensibly, and change carriers as underwear. Most people go directly for the carrier with the lowest SMS prices, and competition has driven price pr. SMS down to around 3-4 cent (.16-.20 DKK). That's still much too much for a small snippet of text, but instant messaging has become part of social culture, and you can't really live without it once you're used to it.
Recently the carriers have been pushing Microsoft Messenger for mobile, and then you think "hey, free messages, because that's just raw data on the GPRS". But no, they STILL charge 3-4 cent pr. message, AND you have to have the app running on your phone...
Push mail would be another alternative, but only few devices and carriers support it. Half-hour e-mail checks will cost you beacuse of insane prices on traffic (also a huge problem!)...
What we want to pay is what the price will be, end of story...
On a sidenote: everyone with a cellphone should get together and ban the use of SMS untill the carriers lowered prices to at least 1/10. But that's never gonna happen. I wonder what SMS/MMS will cost in 10 years?:-)
I agree. Missing a sponge in counting, or missing to scan a sponge at start, is the same problem. Adding barcodes doesn't remove that problem (and I'm sure that they have a fix for that anyway).
I think that they actually DO open packs of tens, and then count the used sponges before closing up the patient (at least that's what they did the times I observed surgery). There are always two different nurses counting. And counting with a barcode scanner would remove one source of error...
But, adding RFID tags to the sponges would resolve the problem - just scan the guy and you know if you forgot something!
Nice info - thanks for clearing that up! In my own country (Denmark), I don't think there's ever been a case involving cartoons, but the law here clearly includes any visual depiction involving children. Let's hope the first case turns out in favor of free speech...
Well, as I understand it, the bill states that "if you LEARN of"... That implies that you are not required to be looking for the material, or indeed monitor the connection.
On the other hand - if you ARE actively monitoring the connection for child-porn, and you happen to find some, you are required to archive the images. That means that I can now set up a WIFI, and monitor everyone using it for child-porn, keep the images for myself and report it to the authorites, granting me immunity:-)
This law is actually a GOOD thing for pedophiles, granting immunity to the one who reports the other...
Law isn't universal constants, and law is not ethics either. You can define anything you like as illegal. And yes, there can be an illegal sound, and there most certainly is illegal thoughts and ideas (if you audibly express a thought or idea to bomb a buildning...).
So yes, there are indeed illegal images. Some images are even illegal, even if the act they depict is not. Cartoons depict non-real acts that can't be described as legal or illegal (as they didn't happen), yet these images themselves can be illegal (anime).
How long until this guy gets the attention of the government and is brought down as a terrorist collaborator? And if people actually start using this kind of software to make private conversations, how long until the presence of it on ones HD can be used against you? Wasn't there a case where the presence of an "Eraser" program on the defendants hard drive was used against him, because then he "Must have had something to hide"?
The thing is, that they aren't excactly sure if it will lock up or not, and until they have had a talk with Apple (or something), they just recommended against updating. And as a costumer, you shouldn't need to hack your purchase for it to work...
It's funny how little people care about costumer service, if the Product is just fancy enough... They'll pay thousands to get screwed over again and again - that's branding for ya!
Here in Denmark they tell us NOT TO UPDATE FIRMWARE!
Because it might lock the phone to AT&T, and the local phone company has to reset the phone back to 1.0.x firmware...
So basically, you buy a half-finished product, stuck at launch firmware... SUCKS!
If so, I think it's time to rent a few Jessica Alba movies. actually, yes - that would be entirely possible! Altough you'd have to choose scenes with her in the same stance, wearing the same clothes, not moving a muscle. Wether ot not that is possible, is pretty much up to your opinion of her acting abilities:-D
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So, you buy Vista, and for FREE upgrade to Windows 7, dicover its Windows 7 Standard with a 3 app limit, hence forcing you to fork out $$ for Windows 7 Home?
This could fool lots of people into spending money on upgrades they dont need... Oh - that's how this industry works, i forgot.
Automated payment of bills has been the norm here in Denmark for at least 10 years or more. Nobody pays bills manually here anymore, and if they do it's online. Actually it will cost you an extra fee (~ $5) if you don't use automatic withdrawal. You are always warned in advance what will be withdrawn, so you can act on it before it happens - and I have never had any glitches in the system, that wasn't my own fault. I have only paid one or two bills in my life on paper in the bank, and I'm 30 now.
I guess that technology and business innovation in USA is severely hampered by the very small amount of trust that regular folks put in banks and companies...
You must be new here.
Lol, not really - hence the "best not" part...New we had a troll when I bit his bait... Well, I wasn't arguing that child porn is better/worse than other horrible movies (kiddie porn vs. Meet the Feebles anyone?). I Was simply pointing out (like in many other comments on this page) that possesion of child porn is, in itself, illegal. It's illegal because it's use and commerce is known to promote sexaul assault of children (which is what happens when the material is produced, by definition). I don't really care if it's moral or not, point is, it's the law. If you don't like that it's illegal to have sex with children, then by all means go into politics and try and change it. Law has always partly been based on some sort of moral code. How else would you define "right" from "wrong"? Where exactly to draw the line with age and appropriate pornography is a very complex discussion, best not done here.
So, what if your computer was broken? What if it was your friend's, and you don't know the password? Can they ask you to give out contact information to that friend, and does the friend have to provide the password, because you chose to cross a border with it? So, if you want to frame someone, take their laptop with you through an airport (and make sure to put a few pictures of nudist beach family photos on it), and just say: "Hey, isn't mine!"??
I'm happy I don't live in that country...
sorry, just have to respond, although it's flamebait... Child porn IS an illegal act, not just loose morals. As is killing someone og stealing or raping or selling drugs to minors...
With the new terror-laws, every ISP here in Denmark is bound by law to monitor and log all and every connections made in the country (mainly IP adresses, but probably down to protocel level, ports, mails, IMs etc.). I don't see how this is different...
Thanks for the tip. I did figure out how to just delete all the (15) unwanted dictionaries (swahili fx...). But OpenOffice si never going to be popular among average users if they have to muck around in internal system files for it to work properly.
I filed a bug-report on the issue now - hope they make some fix, eg. not to check every language for every specific word misspelled
soffice.bin: 267 MB... And I even quit writer, so it's just the quickstart program using 267 MB... had the exact same problem with 2.3, can't believe they didn't fix something THAT obvious... It's got to do with the non-english dictionary I use. When I write a word wrong, it loads ALL included dictionaries into memory (german, thai, engrish, etc.) before deciding that it can't find the word, giving up and underlining the word. The 200 MB hogged memory is never freed either. There was an old bug-report about it, but they marked it "fixed" which I really don't understand. Anyone?
ok, thanks for clearing that up :-)
In the US, the government has to go around, manually counting people in the streets??? Aren't you people registered centrally with your citizenship at birth or something? I mean, counting people like that is what I heard they did in a very popular Christmas story 2008 years ago, but I honestly though technology and advances in governmental practices had made manual counting obsolete...
Instead of using magnets as storage units for "reppelant force", why not use a large, quality spring driving a generator? Same thing... There's nothing magical about magnets, they are just easier to work with and to use in mechanical contraptions with very low friction.
A magnet does not have any energy stored, just like a spring doesn't - untill it's tightened. To "tighten" a magnet, place two magnets together pole-to-pole. The repelling force (resembling the force you used to put them together) can drive something mechanical like a car. But the single magnet itself is just like an untightened spring. Or a stone if you lift it high in the air and plan to drop it to the ground - potential energy. The energy used to create magnets are required to counter entropy. Now, entropy is a little harder to understand. It's nature's drive to make everything "untidy". It takes a lot of energy to tidy thing up again after nature has had it's way with things - like stray atoms in iron. So if you want to straighten up the atoms in iron, you have to use a lot of energy, thus making a magnet. You also use energy to create a spring - but the spring doesn't store any of that energy.
I hope this cleared up a few of the misunderstadings about the non-magical nature of magnets...
If something in my contry in censored, will I not have the right and duty to know what exactly it is, so I can avoid unintended affiliation with the content?
If so, where should I search for information about ongoing internet censorship? I live in Denmark, and one (positive) example of censorship is country-wide block of access to certain child-pornography sites. Statistics are collected about failed attempts to access those sites, and probably IP-adresses as well. The same would probably be the case for terrorist-associated sites, and sites with the feared "Anarchist Cookbook".
Should I feel entitled to a list of blocked and/or monitored sites, so I can avoid accessing them unintentionally?
Sounds legit to me. But what about this non-invasive infra-red hat: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=510172&in_page_id=1774 Same thing without all the blood? If infrared diodes boosts my momory, I want em implanted permanently under my skin!
hehe, hope you can read this then: Here in Denmark, (young) people use SMS extensibly, and change carriers as underwear. Most people go directly for the carrier with the lowest SMS prices, and competition has driven price pr. SMS down to around 3-4 cent (.16-.20 DKK). That's still much too much for a small snippet of text, but instant messaging has become part of social culture, and you can't really live without it once you're used to it. Recently the carriers have been pushing Microsoft Messenger for mobile, and then you think "hey, free messages, because that's just raw data on the GPRS". But no, they STILL charge 3-4 cent pr. message, AND you have to have the app running on your phone... Push mail would be another alternative, but only few devices and carriers support it. Half-hour e-mail checks will cost you beacuse of insane prices on traffic (also a huge problem!)...
What we want to pay is what the price will be, end of story... On a sidenote: everyone with a cellphone should get together and ban the use of SMS untill the carriers lowered prices to at least 1/10. But that's never gonna happen. I wonder what SMS/MMS will cost in 10 years? :-)
I agree. Missing a sponge in counting, or missing to scan a sponge at start, is the same problem. Adding barcodes doesn't remove that problem (and I'm sure that they have a fix for that anyway).
I think that they actually DO open packs of tens, and then count the used sponges before closing up the patient (at least that's what they did the times I observed surgery). There are always two different nurses counting. And counting with a barcode scanner would remove one source of error...
But, adding RFID tags to the sponges would resolve the problem - just scan the guy and you know if you forgot something!
Nice info - thanks for clearing that up! In my own country (Denmark), I don't think there's ever been a case involving cartoons, but the law here clearly includes any visual depiction involving children. Let's hope the first case turns out in favor of free speech...
Well, as I understand it, the bill states that "if you LEARN of"... That implies that you are not required to be looking for the material, or indeed monitor the connection.
:-)
On the other hand - if you ARE actively monitoring the connection for child-porn, and you happen to find some, you are required to archive the images. That means that I can now set up a WIFI, and monitor everyone using it for child-porn, keep the images for myself and report it to the authorites, granting me immunity
This law is actually a GOOD thing for pedophiles, granting immunity to the one who reports the other...
yeah, I just have to reply to that...
Law isn't universal constants, and law is not ethics either. You can define anything you like as illegal. And yes, there can be an illegal sound, and there most certainly is illegal thoughts and ideas (if you audibly express a thought or idea to bomb a buildning...).
So yes, there are indeed illegal images. Some images are even illegal, even if the act they depict is not. Cartoons depict non-real acts that can't be described as legal or illegal (as they didn't happen), yet these images themselves can be illegal (anime).
How long until this guy gets the attention of the government and is brought down as a terrorist collaborator? And if people actually start using this kind of software to make private conversations, how long until the presence of it on ones HD can be used against you? Wasn't there a case where the presence of an "Eraser" program on the defendants hard drive was used against him, because then he "Must have had something to hide"?
The thing is, that they aren't excactly sure if it will lock up or not, and until they have had a talk with Apple (or something), they just recommended against updating. And as a costumer, you shouldn't need to hack your purchase for it to work...
It's funny how little people care about costumer service, if the Product is just fancy enough... They'll pay thousands to get screwed over again and again - that's branding for ya!
Here in Denmark they tell us NOT TO UPDATE FIRMWARE! Because it might lock the phone to AT&T, and the local phone company has to reset the phone back to 1.0.x firmware... So basically, you buy a half-finished product, stuck at launch firmware... SUCKS!