Actually I believe it wasn't "when the police had a lot of evidence of wrongdoing, but were not yet prepared to lay formal charges", but rather when they had "insufficient evidence to charge" the suspect. There's a big difference.
I don't like the man. he was previously in charge of identity card legislation and was also a big supporter of the right of the state to detain 'terrorist suspects' for 42 days without any evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever.
1) The iPhone is the biggest selling single phone on the market, hell they've a 1/3 of the whole market with one device
Bullshit! They're nowhere close to 1/3 of the market. In 2007, over 1 billion cellphones were sold. Assuming a similar rate over the last year, we can compare that to Apple's iPhone sales (roughly 4 million) and it becomes evident that Apple has 0.4% of the market.
Even in the U.S, they only have around 5% of the market.
I think it's the U.S. touchscreen smartphone they've got 1/3 of the market of.
I'm writing this on an MSI Wind netbook running Windows XP. It has an 80Gb Hard drive, 1Gb of memory and a 1.6Ghz processor. When XP was released that would have been a top-of-the-range computer. For a long time I ran XP on a much lower-specced computer and it ran fine.
If you read the article, you'll see that they did. They've been working with Cisco for the last five years on it, but according to the FSF never became fully compliant:
As we always do in violation cases, we began a process of working with Cisco to help them understand their obligations under our licenses, and how they could come into compliance. Early on it seemed likely that we could resolve the issues without any fuss.
While we were working on that case, though, new reports came in. Other Cisco products were not in full compliance either. We started talking to the company about those as wellâ"and that's how a five-years-running game of Whack-a-Mole began. New issues were regularly discovered before we could finish addressing the old ones.
During this entire time, Cisco has never been in full compliance with our licenses. At first glance, the situation might look good. It's not difficult to find "source code" on the Linksys site. But you only have to dig a little deeper to find the problems. Those source code downloads are often incomplete or out-of-date. Cisco also provides written offers for source, but we regularly hear about requests going unfulfilled.
Despite our best efforts, Cisco seems unwilling to take the steps that are necessary to come into compliance and stay in compliance. We asked them to notify customers about previous violations and inform them about how they can now obtain complete source code; they have refused to do this, along with the other reasonable demands we have made to consider this case settled. The FSF has put in too many hours helping the company fix the numerous mistakes it's made over the years. Cisco needs to take responsibility for its own license compliance.
I can't remember the details, but I seem to remember you can basically get a 20GB hard drive for £12.99 or something like that.
But yeah - it is weird that they're still selling the Arcade pack. My guess is that it's useful for them to have that £130 pricepoint. Also I guess there will be people who don't even have their Xbox networked and the Arcade version would suit them.
Unless you're one of the poor sods living nearby who was hired to clean up the radioactive debris without anyone actually mentioning that the debris might be hazardous...
The idea is that Obama has stated he wants to raise taxes on you if you make 250k or more. The 'upper' tax bracket. If you do not see the correlation I am sorry I can not help you from here.
Thanks. As a non-American I hadn't known that that was one of his policies.
Here in the UK we get TV ads encouraging us to visit the United States. Oddly enough the tagline doesn't read "Visit America! We can do anything we want to you because you have no rights at all!".
In her speech Jacqui Smith made it quite clear that they do not intend to store the contents of the emails, just the who, when and where. It sounded to me like they'd store the envelope.
PGP won't help you at all in this situation. It only encrypts the contents of the message, but who it is sent to, when it was sent, and the subject line of the message are still easily available.
Now, I'm not suggesting that this turd of a bill might not later lead to even worse surveillance, with the contents being stored as well, but in its currently proposed form PGP won't help you at all.
Do the figures for carbon usage for the car, bus, train and aeroplane include all the carbon emissions used for the food consumed by the passengers, the food consumed by the petrol station attendants, etc, or is it just the emissions released by the vehicle while in motion?
It's disingenuous to try and compare complete cycle emissions for human-powered transport and then ignore them more motor/engine driven transport.
But you're already sharing it with those with Windows Mobile (and presumably Symbian) smartphones who can share their internet connections with their computers. Hell, you're sharing it with those who have the O2 USB 3G modem. It's not as if iPhone users have their own special 3G network...
For 50 quid more, you get an Acer Actually, soon for £50 less you'll be able to get an Acer. Acer are about to release their 'Acer Aspire One' netbook range.
According to amazon.co.uk, they'll be released early next month, and for £220, you'll get: 1,6Ghz Atom CPU, 8.9" screen, 512Mb RAM, and 8GB SSD. It has Wi-Fi as you'd expect, a multi-card reader and a special extra SDHC slot which you can use to expand the SSD space. There are other models that add extra RAM, a hard drive or XP (although that'll set you back an extra £50).
I was taught to ride in the 70's but to be honest some of what was taught back then was at best useless but often dangerous.
The idea that many people have that a bike should always be within two feet of the side of the road is dangerous, especially so on a busy street or when passing parked cars.
I think the problem is the number of people who have no cycle training or ignore it completely.
In general I try to ride as described in Cyclecraft, which is now the basis of the new (UK) national cycle training scheme, Bikeability
To be honest, most of the bad driving and most of the bad cycling that I see seems to come down to simple impatience. Cyclists who aren't prepared to wait a few seconds behind a car until there's adequate room to get past and vice versa. Cyclists and drivers who aren't prepared to wait at red signals.
Passwords stored in the browser do not require an attacker to break SSL
You face exactly the same problem if you store your password in a standalone email client. It's not something specific to webmail. I don't store my password in either my browser or mail client.
and SSL can certainly be broken, especially if you're on wifi.
In which case how are you safer with a standalone email client?
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Actually I believe it wasn't "when the police had a lot of evidence of wrongdoing, but were not yet prepared to lay formal charges", but rather when they had "insufficient evidence to charge" the suspect. There's a big difference.
I don't like the man. he was previously in charge of identity card legislation and was also a big supporter of the right of the state to detain 'terrorist suspects' for 42 days without any evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever.
1) The iPhone is the biggest selling single phone on the market, hell they've a 1/3 of the whole market with one device
Bullshit! They're nowhere close to 1/3 of the market. In 2007, over 1 billion cellphones were sold. Assuming a similar rate over the last year, we can compare that to Apple's iPhone sales (roughly 4 million) and it becomes evident that Apple has 0.4% of the market.
Even in the U.S, they only have around 5% of the market.
I think it's the U.S. touchscreen smartphone they've got 1/3 of the market of.
I think having 2 Gigs is awesome enough. It's four thousand times as much as my first computer.
Only four thousand? It's two million more than my first computer...
I'm writing this on an MSI Wind netbook running Windows XP. It has an 80Gb Hard drive, 1Gb of memory and a 1.6Ghz processor. When XP was released that would have been a top-of-the-range computer. For a long time I ran XP on a much lower-specced computer and it ran fine.
If you read the article, you'll see that they did. They've been working with Cisco for the last five years on it, but according to the FSF never became fully compliant:
As we always do in violation cases, we began a process of working with Cisco to help them understand their obligations under our licenses, and how they could come into compliance. Early on it seemed likely that we could resolve the issues without any fuss.
While we were working on that case, though, new reports came in. Other Cisco products were not in full compliance either. We started talking to the company about those as wellâ"and that's how a five-years-running game of Whack-a-Mole began. New issues were regularly discovered before we could finish addressing the old ones.
During this entire time, Cisco has never been in full compliance with our licenses. At first glance, the situation might look good. It's not difficult to find "source code" on the Linksys site. But you only have to dig a little deeper to find the problems. Those source code downloads are often incomplete or out-of-date. Cisco also provides written offers for source, but we regularly hear about requests going unfulfilled.
Despite our best efforts, Cisco seems unwilling to take the steps that are necessary to come into compliance and stay in compliance. We asked them to notify customers about previous violations and inform them about how they can now obtain complete source code; they have refused to do this, along with the other reasonable demands we have made to consider this case settled. The FSF has put in too many hours helping the company fix the numerous mistakes it's made over the years. Cisco needs to take responsibility for its own license compliance.
You can get a very low cost reconditioned hard drive from Microsoft:
http://www.xboxstorageupgrade.com/
I can't remember the details, but I seem to remember you can basically get a 20GB hard drive for £12.99 or something like that.
But yeah - it is weird that they're still selling the Arcade pack. My guess is that it's useful for them to have that £130 pricepoint. Also I guess there will be people who don't even have their Xbox networked and the Arcade version would suit them.
Unless you're one of the poor sods living nearby who was hired to clean up the radioactive debris without anyone actually mentioning that the debris might be hazardous...
But... yeah. Coulda been worse.
The idea is that Obama has stated he wants to raise taxes on you if you make 250k or more. The 'upper' tax bracket. If you do not see the correlation I am sorry I can not help you from here.
Thanks. As a non-American I hadn't known that that was one of his policies.
Nice story, but how does that relate to Obama?
Here in the UK we get TV ads encouraging us to visit the United States. Oddly enough the tagline doesn't read "Visit America! We can do anything we want to you because you have no rights at all!".
Who the hell modded that informative?
In her speech Jacqui Smith made it quite clear that they do not intend to store the contents of the emails, just the who, when and where. It sounded to me like they'd store the envelope.
PGP won't help you at all in this situation. It only encrypts the contents of the message, but who it is sent to, when it was sent, and the subject line of the message are still easily available.
Now, I'm not suggesting that this turd of a bill might not later lead to even worse surveillance, with the contents being stored as well, but in its currently proposed form PGP won't help you at all.
But when the Chip & Pin system came into force Patrick Stewart himself was assuring us on TV ads that there was 'Safety in Numbers'!
He was Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Gurney Halleck in Dune! HOW CAN HE BE WRONG?
I call shennanigans.
Do the figures for carbon usage for the car, bus, train and aeroplane include all the carbon emissions used for the food consumed by the passengers, the food consumed by the petrol station attendants, etc, or is it just the emissions released by the vehicle while in motion?
It's disingenuous to try and compare complete cycle emissions for human-powered transport and then ignore them more motor/engine driven transport.
I wonder if you would feel the same way if you had been blinded by the rock salt...
...and 3) Smaller roads.
Or at least, you'd think that. Doesn't seem to stop a lot of people driving Urban Assault Vehicles around the narrow streets of North London, though.
Out of interest, how long do you normally spend playing a game?
3 weeks? 4 weeks?
I can't really see that putting the sale price of a game down to $4 is going to make much sense for all but the smallest of games...
But you're already sharing it with those with Windows Mobile (and presumably Symbian) smartphones who can share their internet connections with their computers. Hell, you're sharing it with those who have the O2 USB 3G modem. It's not as if iPhone users have their own special 3G network...
You can already get them in the UK in PC World - they have just been rebadged as an 'Advent 4211'.
For 50 quid more, you get an Acer
Actually, soon for £50 less you'll be able to get an Acer. Acer are about to release their 'Acer Aspire One' netbook range.
According to amazon.co.uk, they'll be released early next month, and for £220, you'll get: 1,6Ghz Atom CPU, 8.9" screen, 512Mb RAM, and 8GB SSD. It has Wi-Fi as you'd expect, a multi-card reader and a special extra SDHC slot which you can use to expand the SSD space. There are other models that add extra RAM, a hard drive or XP (although that'll set you back an extra £50).
I'm quite tempted.
I was taught to ride in the 70's but to be honest some of what was taught back then was at best useless but often dangerous.
The idea that many people have that a bike should always be within two feet of the side of the road is dangerous, especially so on a busy street or when passing parked cars.
I think the problem is the number of people who have no cycle training or ignore it completely.
In general I try to ride as described in Cyclecraft, which is now the basis of the new (UK) national cycle training scheme, Bikeability
To be honest, most of the bad driving and most of the bad cycling that I see seems to come down to simple impatience. Cyclists who aren't prepared to wait a few seconds behind a car until there's adequate room to get past and vice versa. Cyclists and drivers who aren't prepared to wait at red signals.
So you'd be quite happy for the government to throw you in jail for no reason for six weeks while they look for things to charge you with?
Actually This is a better Wikipedia Link.
Passwords stored in the browser do not require an attacker to break SSL
You face exactly the same problem if you store your password in a standalone email client. It's not something specific to webmail. I don't store my password in either my browser or mail client.
and SSL can certainly be broken, especially if you're on wifi.
In which case how are you safer with a standalone email client?
It is trivial for a third party to see your password when you login from your browser, more so if you're a dunce who stores them in the browser.
Er... gmail logins are always done via SSL. You can't just sniff the login.
Please turn in your geek card on your way out.
After you.