Yeah they have CCTV all over the town centre here. But thats not exactly prevasive surveillance in the sense that wiretapping anyone you feel like is. I personally dont see what is bad about having CCTV covering public shopping areas. Its no different than having a police patrol. And lets not forget policemen are also useful for stopping muggings, assaults and burglaries, as well as subjugating the masses (which doesnt happen much here on the isle of wight).
well its kind of fundamental to pretty much every aspect of liberty that the populace are prepared to question and resist the government. without that you're just on an inevitable downward slide into totalitarianism.
As for bias, this isn't a "my country's freer than yours" pissing competition. i'm merely trying to provoke a clarification of this assertion that britain is somehow more under the thumb of its government than america is. because from reading and watching news and politcal commentary from america it certainly doesnt seem the case, if you actually know what living in britain is like.
I have no special predispostion either way - if britian is a police state i certainly wont apologise for it. its just i havent seen much to suggest it is.
cool, i'll have to have a listen. Do the other US TV networks voice outright criticism of Bush's foreign policy? It would be nice to know if there was a balance to Fox.
Can you rephrase that less histrionically? I pretty sure you're allowed to suggest those things. There are even books published saying just the very thing in the UK so i dont think there are laws against criticising religions. Just inciting reliogious hatred. so for instance if you say "islam is based on a hatred of other religions" to a room full of people no problem. but if you say "islam is based on hatred of other religions so we should kill all muslims" to room full of people, that is not ok by law.
I'm pretty certain the punishment is not being flayed alive and thrown in the thames though.
The UK has pervasive surveillance, and they also have a nasty habit of prosecuting anyone who attempts to defend himself from a criminal attack. So, you get neither privacy nor the safety that was offered for giving up the privacy.
Can you give me some examples of prosecuting people who defend themselves? If it's just that bloke that shot a burglar in the back as he was leaving thats just one freak example. And he was shooting someone in the back as they left, so that at least raises ambiguity. Or do you know of more examples, its just i dont see much of that in the news, and its just the kind of thing the british media would love to jump all over.
As for pervasive surveillance, CCTV cameras in public areas of town centres doesnt seem very pervasive to me. Wiretapping anyone you feel like sounds WAY more pervasive.
I dont live in america, so no i havent, but i have seen fox news a few times and that seems to be their attitude. I mean bill o reilly actually said that that supreme court justice woman who ruled the wiretaps illegal wants americans to die.
And apparently John Kerry "looks french". I'm sure nothing can be read into that.
The trouble is people actually ingest that kind of poisonous filth day after day until it becomes truth. If you stack Fox up against the BBC the difference is quite frankly, chilling. I dont know what the other american networks are like, but if they are even 50% as biased and agenda-based as Fox, then I would be really scared.
You honestly believe the UK is as bad as the US? At least in the UK it is socially acceptable to criticise the government. If you do that in the US you're commie terrorist traitor that wants americans to die. In the UK everyone sees the government for what it is and tells it so regularly in the mainstream media. (Pity Tony Blair never listened)
I'm curious to know exactly how the megahertz race "came back to bite the industry".
It was just a necessary stage in the development of the CPU. Now that avenue has been exhausted, they've moved on to multi-cores. How have they been bitten? What should they have learnt?
What is it about the lens on this camera that makes you think it isnt good enough to back up the CCD? oh wait i just read your subject - you think they've made a $36,000 camera phone! hahahahahaha
what a lot of bollocks. who the fuck has even heard of richard stallman that isnt a total geek already? none of the casual computer users that i have encouraged to use firefox would even be aware of the FSF let alone deterred by its overtly political overtones.
i end up doing everything with my right hand so i am pretty clumsy and lacking in dexterity for most things i do.
i HAVE to write with left hand,and i use scissors and knives with my left hand, which means i can never cut anything straight. scissors are really uncomfortable to use, and no one realises that most knives are sharp only on one side of the blade and are set up to compensation for the natural curved movement of the wrist when cutting. this means in the left hand they exacerbate the curve and all my bread comes out like bloody wedge, and i cant peel potatoes for shit. i only figured this out recently, up till that point i just assumed i was a total spaz.
FOSS is about scratching an itch or becoming popular.
that was true 10 years ago. i dont think IBM, MySQL or Google are trying to demonstrate their 1337 skillz or just killing time in their parent's basement.
the only way specialised software would cost $100 is if it only took less than a day to write. if it were GPL'd or not would be irrelevant.
i'm sure there's a hell of a lot of money invested in FOSS so far, as you say, but to say it hasnt made much difference is just wrong. Thanks to investment from companies like IBM, Linux is capable of scaling to hundreds and thousands of processor SMP systems in the server market, and investment from people like Canonical are bringing the integration and polish of systems based on Gnome and KDE near to the critical tipping point where windows users are comfortable using them.
You're absolutely right, there isnt a FOSS solution for everything, but $1bn dollars invested in a focussed and targeted manner could generate a hell of lot more of the missing solutions.
dont forget that gasoline/diesel engines require energy to construct as well. and then they NEVER EVER redress that deficit, they only make it worse and worse.
it bugs me when someone suggests a method for improving a bad situation, only to have the idea shot down because it isnt an absolute solution. so what if it takes energy to make a solar panel? you are still eliminating some waste, so there is a net gain. unless you are suggesting that the amount of energy it takes to construct a solar panel exceeds the amount of energy it takes to smelt enough steel to make a combustion engine block plus the energy expended by the fuel that that engine then burns during its functional lifespan.
so the experimental prototype costs $556,000, that isnt really a realistic indication of what this kind of technology would cost once the economies of scale come into effect.
Frankly, I'm amazed at all the bad reactions here.
havent you yet noticed the trend that no matter what is posted to slashdot, it is immediately subjected to a torrential deluge of bitching, nit picking and outright sour grapes?
The guy who runs linspire said on lugradio that you could give away free money and someone on slashdot would criticise it.
thats very true. also i think the war has just become totally irrelevant from the consumer's perspective. if all HD/BD films come out with a DVD layer, and dual standard HD+BD players are widely available the format of the movie will be irrelevant to the buyer, since the disc will work in any player. it would just be the poor suckers who bought a HD only or BD only player that would have to be careful what discs they buy.
i wasnt arguing, i was just making sure people didnt get the impression that there was no graphical firewall config available for ubuntu, because there is.
i wasnt saying it was superior, i was just pointing out that a simple to use graphical firewall config system is available to use under ubuntu, which the parent to my post seemed to overlook. i qualified it by saying it was a seperate application, and that it isnt installed by default. i never claimed it was a product of the ubuntu project, just that it was availabe with ubuntu, in case people got the impression there was nothing at all.
people are so suspicious and aggressive on this bloody forum.
i own a delorean and it does just over 100mph. the stock speedo only goes up to 85 due to some asinine american law from the early 80's that tried to discourage people from speeding by not allowing speedos that go any higher. that's probably where this meme orginates that it can only go 85.
do you actually know all that stuff for sure? dont get me wrong win2k is my favourite windows version and the only i use personally. but i find that getting to the desktop in win2k and immediately opening the taskmanager, winlogon.exe is still thrashing and chugging away using ~40% of a 1ghz cpu, usually takes about a minute to die down to 0% usage.
i havent tried the same test on xp, but i havent noticed a long delay from getting the desktop to being able to use apps. certainly not longer than 2k.
but on another front win2k is infinately better than XP purely becuase it lacks product activation and WGA, and is usable on 128MBs of RAM. although the lack of a built in firewall (no matter how crap) means you need a firewall on cd lest you risk the minutes it takes to download it with a naked system. as for security i havent had a virus or had to reinstall 2k in 5 years. i simply apply the same security precuations i use on XP (patches, firewall, antivirus, antispyware, firefox, thunderbird, adblock plus, noscript, opendns, common sense) and incidentally i login in exclusively as adminstrator and this has never posed a security problem, becuase i'm not a cretin.
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Yeah they have CCTV all over the town centre here. But thats not exactly prevasive surveillance in the sense that wiretapping anyone you feel like is. I personally dont see what is bad about having CCTV covering public shopping areas. Its no different than having a police patrol. And lets not forget policemen are also useful for stopping muggings, assaults and burglaries, as well as subjugating the masses (which doesnt happen much here on the isle of wight).
well its kind of fundamental to pretty much every aspect of liberty that the populace are prepared to question and resist the government. without that you're just on an inevitable downward slide into totalitarianism.
As for bias, this isn't a "my country's freer than yours" pissing competition. i'm merely trying to provoke a clarification of this assertion that britain is somehow more under the thumb of its government than america is. because from reading and watching news and politcal commentary from america it certainly doesnt seem the case, if you actually know what living in britain is like.
I have no special predispostion either way - if britian is a police state i certainly wont apologise for it. its just i havent seen much to suggest it is.
cool, i'll have to have a listen. Do the other US TV networks voice outright criticism of Bush's foreign policy? It would be nice to know if there was a balance to Fox.
Can you rephrase that less histrionically? I pretty sure you're allowed to suggest those things. There are even books published saying just the very thing in the UK so i dont think there are laws against criticising religions. Just inciting reliogious hatred. so for instance if you say "islam is based on a hatred of other religions" to a room full of people no problem. but if you say "islam is based on hatred of other religions so we should kill all muslims" to room full of people, that is not ok by law.
I'm pretty certain the punishment is not being flayed alive and thrown in the thames though.
I think it was more about the security guards telling him he had no rights.
The UK has pervasive surveillance, and they also have a nasty habit of prosecuting anyone who attempts to defend himself from a criminal attack. So, you get neither privacy nor the safety that was offered for giving up the privacy.
Can you give me some examples of prosecuting people who defend themselves? If it's just that bloke that shot a burglar in the back as he was leaving thats just one freak example. And he was shooting someone in the back as they left, so that at least raises ambiguity. Or do you know of more examples, its just i dont see much of that in the news, and its just the kind of thing the british media would love to jump all over.
As for pervasive surveillance, CCTV cameras in public areas of town centres doesnt seem very pervasive to me. Wiretapping anyone you feel like sounds WAY more pervasive.
And apparently John Kerry "looks french". I'm sure nothing can be read into that.
The trouble is people actually ingest that kind of poisonous filth day after day until it becomes truth. If you stack Fox up against the BBC the difference is quite frankly, chilling. I dont know what the other american networks are like, but if they are even 50% as biased and agenda-based as Fox, then I would be really scared.
You honestly believe the UK is as bad as the US? At least in the UK it is socially acceptable to criticise the government. If you do that in the US you're commie terrorist traitor that wants americans to die. In the UK everyone sees the government for what it is and tells it so regularly in the mainstream media. (Pity Tony Blair never listened)
we dont have kool-aid in the UK so i'm not up to speed on the signifance of drinking it.
whatever happened to A and B size batteries? I've never seen them.
i dont think goodwill want broken monitors.
It was just a necessary stage in the development of the CPU. Now that avenue has been exhausted, they've moved on to multi-cores. How have they been bitten? What should they have learnt?
What is it about the lens on this camera that makes you think it isnt good enough to back up the CCD? oh wait i just read your subject - you think they've made a $36,000 camera phone! hahahahahaha
what a lot of bollocks. who the fuck has even heard of richard stallman that isnt a total geek already? none of the casual computer users that i have encouraged to use firefox would even be aware of the FSF let alone deterred by its overtly political overtones.
i think he means push down the licensing prices for low wattage transmitters. i dont imagine the fcc sell the transmitters.
i end up doing everything with my right hand so i am pretty clumsy and lacking in dexterity for most things i do. i HAVE to write with left hand,and i use scissors and knives with my left hand, which means i can never cut anything straight. scissors are really uncomfortable to use, and no one realises that most knives are sharp only on one side of the blade and are set up to compensation for the natural curved movement of the wrist when cutting. this means in the left hand they exacerbate the curve and all my bread comes out like bloody wedge, and i cant peel potatoes for shit. i only figured this out recently, up till that point i just assumed i was a total spaz.
FOSS is about scratching an itch or becoming popular.
that was true 10 years ago. i dont think IBM, MySQL or Google are trying to demonstrate their 1337 skillz or just killing time in their parent's basement.
the only way specialised software would cost $100 is if it only took less than a day to write. if it were GPL'd or not would be irrelevant.
i'm sure there's a hell of a lot of money invested in FOSS so far, as you say, but to say it hasnt made much difference is just wrong. Thanks to investment from companies like IBM, Linux is capable of scaling to hundreds and thousands of processor SMP systems in the server market, and investment from people like Canonical are bringing the integration and polish of systems based on Gnome and KDE near to the critical tipping point where windows users are comfortable using them.
You're absolutely right, there isnt a FOSS solution for everything, but $1bn dollars invested in a focussed and targeted manner could generate a hell of lot more of the missing solutions.
dont forget that gasoline/diesel engines require energy to construct as well. and then they NEVER EVER redress that deficit, they only make it worse and worse.
it bugs me when someone suggests a method for improving a bad situation, only to have the idea shot down because it isnt an absolute solution. so what if it takes energy to make a solar panel? you are still eliminating some waste, so there is a net gain. unless you are suggesting that the amount of energy it takes to construct a solar panel exceeds the amount of energy it takes to smelt enough steel to make a combustion engine block plus the energy expended by the fuel that that engine then burns during its functional lifespan.
so the experimental prototype costs $556,000, that isnt really a realistic indication of what this kind of technology would cost once the economies of scale come into effect.
Frankly, I'm amazed at all the bad reactions here.
havent you yet noticed the trend that no matter what is posted to slashdot, it is immediately subjected to a torrential deluge of bitching, nit picking and outright sour grapes?
The guy who runs linspire said on lugradio that you could give away free money and someone on slashdot would criticise it.
in that climate HD and BD could both co exist.
i wasnt arguing, i was just making sure people didnt get the impression that there was no graphical firewall config available for ubuntu, because there is.
people are so suspicious and aggressive on this bloody forum.
i own a delorean and it does just over 100mph. the stock speedo only goes up to 85 due to some asinine american law from the early 80's that tried to discourage people from speeding by not allowing speedos that go any higher. that's probably where this meme orginates that it can only go 85.
ubuntu has firestarter for configuring a firewall, although its a standalone application which isnt installed by default.
i havent tried the same test on xp, but i havent noticed a long delay from getting the desktop to being able to use apps. certainly not longer than 2k.
but on another front win2k is infinately better than XP purely becuase it lacks product activation and WGA, and is usable on 128MBs of RAM. although the lack of a built in firewall (no matter how crap) means you need a firewall on cd lest you risk the minutes it takes to download it with a naked system. as for security i havent had a virus or had to reinstall 2k in 5 years. i simply apply the same security precuations i use on XP (patches, firewall, antivirus, antispyware, firefox, thunderbird, adblock plus, noscript, opendns, common sense) and incidentally i login in exclusively as adminstrator and this has never posed a security problem, becuase i'm not a cretin.
it's for people who have a legit copy of windows, but don't want to install WGA.